The first mystery I want to share has to do with the dingo. Yahoo News today is carrying the story about the death of a 9-week-old baby back in 1980. The parents claimed, at the time, that while they were camping in the out back, dingoes took the baby from their tent. Apparently, neither the authorities or anybody else was buying the dingo story and the mother was charged and convicted of murdering her baby. Then we are told, without any details, that the mother was cleared of these charges. The parents never stopped claiming that it was dingoes that killed their baby and at their insistence the court was convinced to reopen the investigation of dingoes attacking humans and hired an investigator who has now reported the following:

Although it (a dingo killing a child) may have been regarded as unlikely in 1980 … it shouldn’t be by 2011-12,” he said. “With the additional evidence in my submission, your honor should accept on the balance of probabilities that the dingo theory is the correct one.”

So, mystery solved? Maybe  and maybe not.  I think the real mystery here is  what were these imbeciles (the parents) doing camping in the out back with A 9-WEEK-OLD BABY! At the very least, these people should be charged with the wrongful death of their child. UNBELIEVABLE!

The second Aussie mystery I want to share has to do with their vry-to-the -left Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. In the last month or two I bookmarked an article from the You Decide blog. I owe somebody a hat tip but for the life of me I don’t remember who that is. Sorry! The following quotes are attributed to  the Australian Prime Minister back in September of last year:

‘IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT.. Take It Or Leave It.I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians. ‘

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We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society . Learn the language!’

Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.’

‘We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.’

‘This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, ‘THE RIGHT TO LEAVE’.’

‘If you aren’t happy here then LEAVE. We didn’t force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.’

WOW!

The mystery I am referring to in this case has two parts.  First, these words from the leftist Prime Minister must have made headlines around the world. Why do I not recall hearing about this back when the words were spoken? But, the more important mystery to me is this. How is it possible that the liberal Prime Minister of Australia had the courage to stand up to the culture destroying immigrants in her country but no other world leader seems to have the cojones to do the same?

Well, that’s what I’m thinking. What are your thoughts?

Those that have followed this blog for any time know that I am not a fan of Newt Gingrich. Be that as it may, I will take good ideas wherever I find them and the plan for America laid out by Newt in this video is the best I’ve heard from any candidate or for that matter any political figure, period.

I found the video at Maggie¡s Notebook last night. She borrowed the video from the Gulag Bound blog. Because the video is 28 minutes long, I doubt that many of you will have the time to listen to the entire speech. Fortunately, Maggie has  supplied us with a transcript of most of it, which I hope you will find time to read. Meanwhile, I’ll give you some of the highlights here:

Turns out, we may have more oil in the United States today, given new science and technology than we have actually PUMPED WORLD WIDE since 1870. We may, in fact, by one estimate, have three times as much oil in the United States as there is in Saudi Arabia.

Now Newt is prone to hyperbola but I from the reading I have done over the last year,  this statement is not hyperbola. Newt has evidently been doing a lot of homework and talking to experts. He talks at length about the  oil boom in North Dakota and the boom in natural gas production from gas shale. He explains the this has been possible because it is , so far, taking place on private lands where the government and the liberals weren’t able to stop private initiative.  Newt doesn’t base his plan for America to become energy independent only on the economic benefits, which are tremendous, but also  because it would be very beneficial to our national security.

First of all, since the 1970′s we’ve know that the Arab states and Iran combined have dominated oil production and have used their leverage to raise the cost of oil and to bring political pressure on Americans and Europeans. I want to get to a point where we produce so much oil in the U.S. that no American president will ever again bow to a Saudi King.

It’s time we tell the Saudis the truth. We know that they are the largest funders of schools called madrasses which teach hate. We know that they spend several Billions of dollars a year exporting a very, very extreme version of Islam called Wahabbism. We know that they are not straight with us, and up to now, our presidents have been too cautions…oh gee, I don’t want to offend the Saudis. I don’t want them to do something with their oil supply.

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As a National Security matter, it allows us to say to the oil developing dictators, whether they are Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Iran…we will stand on our own two feet. The United States is not going to bow to anybody. We are not going to be blackmailed by anybody, and as we get to a balanced budget, we will start paying down our debt, paying off the Chinese-held bonds, so that we become truly, once again, independent – and not have to deal with the kind of pressure you might have to deal with because someone is holding on to your oil, or holding onto your U.S. Treasury Notes. Either one is a form of leverage over us, and weakens us…

He spends time in this video talking about Obama’s anti-energy policies and high gasoline prices. He also talks about all the federal land that is restricted form exploration and development and what he would do about that. But let’s cut to the chase. Here are Newt’s four goals and as you will see it is more than just becoming energy independent:

1) We can become energy independent for national security reasons,

2) Develop enough new energy here at home that will create well over a million jobs in the next few years, high-paying jobs, very useful jobs, jobs which by the way increase our manufacturing base, who’s much of energy production requires manufactured products in order to drill, to process, to transport,

3) By using Federal property and by allowing offshore development on federally controlled waters, we get paid a royalty. One of the leading experts on North Dakota has suggested that over the next generation, we might have $18 TRILLION, not Billion, $18 TRILLION in royalties, that we could gather for the federal government with no tax increases.

4) To accelerate that, I propose the following tax changes: We go to zero capital gains taxes so hundreds of Billions of dollars pour into the United States to enable us to have new investment, new factories, new exploration, new companies. I suggest a 12.5% corporate tax rate which will liberate about $700 BILLION overseas profits, to bring them back home to be reinvested, and to allow our companies to compete everywhere in the world. I propose that we abolish the death tax permanently, so that we are in a position where family businessess could focus on job creation, and on being successful and not on hiding from the IRS.

There is much more that I think you will find of interest in this video,

In spite of my being a Gloom and Doomer when it comes to America’s future, this is a plan that even I could get excited about and enthusiastically support. This the first plan I have seen that has the potential to save America from going over the cliff of economic collapse.  I do not like Newt Gingrich but I do like his plan for America.

Well, that’s what I’m thinking. What are your thoughts?

I was fired up when the Tea Party movement hit the scene. I was hopeful they might make some real change in the GOP. That hope is all but gone now. Even so-called conservatives are saying that America has changed; that the idea of a small central government bound by enumerated powers is too right-wing. I’m hearing that people like me are not being pragmatic.

Pragmatic? Hmmm… What do they mean that people like me need to  be more pragmatic? I thought about this question for much of the day, yesterday. I came to the conclusion  that what these people mean, whether they know it or not, is that America is too far down the road followed by Greece; that Americans will not accept the changes that are needed any more than the Greeks have. And, more than that; the people pushing pragmatism are saying that Americans will not or can not accept that America is heading for bankruptcy along with the rest of the Western nations. The sad thing is, after hours of pondering this question, I had no choice but to agree with the pragmatist. We Americans are living in denial.

This brings me to the title of today’s post. If our “any one but Obama” republican wins in November, then what? To be sure, our new heroes in Washington will be able to do many things that should help our economy to grow a little faster and produce more jobs. What they won’t be able to do for reasons of pragmatism is stop the deficit spending or reduce the size and cost of government.  Our national debt will continue to grow; all be it at a somewhat slower rate. More importantly, our cost to service that debt will continue to grow. Although Americans will be under the illusion that everything is getting better, the truth is  that the  debt crisis the world is in is not going to go away. What can’t continue, won’t.

How many Americans know that our government spends on social programs the equivalent of every cent their tax revenue; over two trillion dollars? That means that all the rest of the cost of government, including for our national defense and the interest on our debt, must be paid for by either borrowing money through the sale of bonds or by the Fed creating dollars out of thin air  to buy a large percentage of our bonds themselves. So, in meeting our obligations we are adding to our mountain of debt, debasing the dollar, and increasing our cost to service our debt.

The situation is even worse in Europe and Japan. The world’s debt bubble will burst one of these days and plunge us all into an economic depression. I truly believe what I just wrote. I also belive the pragmatist. Americans will not accept the changes that are needed any more than the Greeks are today. If the Republicans gain control of our government and try to implement the needed changes, they will be voted out of office at the first opportunity.

So, what are we, the believers that economic collapse is inevitable, to do? Should we fold up our tents and do what we can to protect our loved ones and wait for the inevitable to happen?  Well, I for one will not fold up my tent. I will continue doing what I have been doiing; sounding the alarm that the sky is falling.

I started this blog wanting to add my voice to those who hoped to stop the progressive Democrats and big government Republicans from leading us over the cliff. Now, I have reluctantly accepted that we are going over the cliff and there is no “pragmatic” way to stop it.

As i see it, the battle that we conservatives and libertarians must join in earnest is the battle for what will happen after the economic collapse. You can be sure that the progressives will do everything possible to convince the people that the crash was the fault of free market capitalism and those crazy right-wing conservatives.

The thread of hope that I am hanging on to now is that if we keep sounding the alarm, maybe when the crash comes a bell will go off in the collective heads of Americans. Just maybe they will realize that we who have claimed the sky was falling were right. Maybe they will finally realize that the big government policies of both the Democrats and Republicans is  what brought our country to ruin. just maybe they will turn their backs on the progressives and their promises of utopia and let us rebuild America in the vision of our founders.

Well, that’s what I’m thinking. What are your thoughts?

Well, that’s what I’m thinking. What are your thoughts?

We also have the Democrat establishment and their propaganda arm the MSM telling us that Romney is the most electable. We are supposed to believe that Romney is the opponent the Democrats fear most. The truth is that there is no one they would rather run against than Romney. Axelrod & Company have planned their whole class warfare strategy around Romney since last summer. They believe they can make the presidential election about Romney, a 1 percenter, and not  about Obama and his record. I would bet that they have already invested a tonne off money in campaign ads about Romney.

Folks, if you still think Romney is the best choice to defeat Obama, please look at this video that I shamelessly borrowed stole from a recent post at Bunkerville.  If you’ve already saw it, I wouldn’t expect you to suffer through it again.

Seriously, can you see this guy going head-to-head with Obama and the Democrat machine? I mean really, “the trees in Michigan are the right height”?

Well, there is some evidence that the Good Ol’ Boy Club may be seeing the error of their ways. And, then maybe not.

ABC News ran this story last Friday: Top GOP Senator Says ‘If Romney Loses Michigan, We Need a New Candidate’. Here are some quotes from the unnamed GOP Senator:

“If Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a new candidate,” said the senator, who has not endorsed anyone and requested anonymity.

“We’d get killed,” the senator said if Romney manages to win the nomination after he failed to win the state in which he grew up.

When the Senator was asked about Santorum, he replied tha he believed that Santorum or Gingrich would lose 35 states. When asked who then, the Senator replied Jeb Bush.

Really? Jeb Bush? I don’t know much about Jeb Bush; but, what I know is his last name is BUSH! The Republicans might as well conceed the election now.  If the thinking of this so-called top GOP Senator is indicative of the way the GOP establishment thinks, I predict the Republican Party will soon be history.

Well, that’s what I’m thinking. What are your thoughts?

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The Dashless Wench

When peering down from on her bench,

The double-surname (dashless) wench

Employs the mirthless, tired scowl

Of one constrained by shackles foul.

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The foul shackles which constrain

The sour justice like a chain,

Were written in the distant past

By men whose time and age has passed.

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She much prefers the modern greats

Who hail from more progressive states,

Where charters are the latest trend,

And rights upon the state depend.

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For in the state the justice sees

A better form of guarantees,

And Bader Ginsburg thinks it odd

Our rights have been endowed by God.

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My goal is to produce poetical cartoons. I try to use metaphors and caricatures (or a politician’s own words) to address complex political and social situations. In this way, I sum up current events in humorous verse.

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FROM THE TSA TO YOUR HOUSE – RANDOM SEARCHES

What is that saying… about those who would choose security over freedom, deserve neither?
What I hoped would be a productive and somewhat sublime time in my life has turned into an age of daily shocks to my freedom loving core.  Though I have watched the National and International news for years with great concern, I felt there were enough people in our country who understood the connection between security and freedom, that without freedom there is no security.  And I believed that the reason to secure our nation was to preserve freedom.  I have believed that the U.S. Constitution stood between me and tyrants.  It did.  And it should.
So what brings me to the appalling realization that #1. the U.S. Constitution is no longer guiding our leadership, and #2. I am no longer surrounded by people who believe in the same tenets in that founding document?   The first one there is easy.  Obviously we are subjected now to a dictator in the White House.  This dictator has set up a national politburo.  A Soviet model of governance has taken over our land.  But even so, I have had hopes that freedom loving, Constitutional believing, Americans would not stand for such destruction of freedom.
I’ve been hoping for something that I now believe has left the planet.  The Faith of Our Fathers has died with them.  We have people in this nation who hold zero understanding of freedom and zero respect for the U.S. Constitution.  And these people are not just in D.C.  as I had hoped.
We are down to the nubs, folks.  The “Code Enforcement” department in our fine small city has come up with an ordinance requiring RANDOM SEARCHES of people’s homes.   In studying the ordinance, I have discovered the section on random searches comes directly from the State of North Carolina, a statute that authorizes any City Council to direct random searches upon the residences and commercial buildings in the city.  Why random?  To avoid discrimination lawsuits.  Hmmmm….does that sound familiar?  Political correctness?  Heaven knows we cannot appear to be discriminating in our judgment of which areas of blight we target, so we will just subject the entire city to random searches.  Oh, did I remember to say these searches are without warrants?
This is not about terrorism, though we have some in our city who want the power for that reason, too.  No.  This is about cleaning up blighted poor areas where criminals live.  The police  department here is frustrated by getting complaints for the same houses over and over.  So instead of arresting and jailing the perpetrators of the disorderly conduct or crimes, the police department has gone to the City Council for help.  The “help” turns out to be:  a new program to teach landlords how to deal with disorderly tenants, random searches and seizures without warrants, fees placed on landlords (which are really fines, but the authors of the ordinance evidently don’t know the difference between a fee and a fine), and arbitrary judgment of City Council members to decide which areas shall be targeted.
Who in our NC State government has the audacity to write such an un-Constitutional legislative directive?  I don’t know, but I continually ask myself “who are these people and where in God’s name did they come from?”
The State statute is this:  § 160A‑424.  Periodic inspections.
Part of it reads as follows: In conducting inspections authorized under this section, the inspection department shall not      discriminate between single‑family and multifamily buildings. In exercising this power, members of the department shall have a right to enter on any premises within the jurisdiction of the department at all reasonable hours for the purposes of inspection or other enforcement action, upon presentation of proper credentials.
(b)        A city may require periodic inspections as part of a targeted effort within a geographic area that has been designated by the city council. The municipality shall not discriminate in its selection of areas or housing types to be targeted and shall (i) provide notice to all owners and residents of properties in the affected area about the periodic inspections plan and information regarding a public hearing regarding the plan; (ii) hold a public hearing regarding the plan; and (iii) establish a plan to address the ability of low‑income residential property owners to comply with minimum housing code standards
It does say something about “reasonable cause” such as “violations of safety hazard codes, unsanitary conditions, substandard conditions, etc.  But nowhere in the statute is the requirement for a warrant to enter someone’s privately owned property.  And is anyone concerned that a City Council should be given the power to order targeting of areas for unwarranted searches?  I don’t know about you, but I’ve known some City Council members who would target people for all sorts of untoward reasons, none of which have anything to do with safety hazards or blight.
So try to take a flight somewhere, you will be subjected to random searches.  Stay home and you could be subjected to random searches.  The State of North Carolina says that’s just fine with them.  Our City Council inadvertently passed this ordinance without knowing what was in it.  (Nancy Pelosi disease is evidently running rampant.)  Now the problem has been brought to their attention and the ordinance will be re-visited and re-done.  But were it not for some vigilant citizens bringing the problem to their attention, this would be the law of our fine city.
What’s the moral of this story?  The United States Constitution is being slashed and burned.  We have people in government in this country and in our State who are creating a system of government we don’t recognize and don’t want.  If they can sneak it by us, they will do it.  And they are.  While you are working your tail off to keep up with the price of the necessities of life, there are people among us who are working just as hard to destroy the nation…and the world.
That’s my little story today….wondering what you think of it.
The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures, along with requiring any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause.

Now by way of Frankenstein Government, Zero Hedge and ultimately via reszatonline  I bring you a remarkably clear lesson in economics and finance. I think you are going to enjoy this:

Helga is the proprietor of a bar.

She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar.

To solve this problem, she comes up with a new marketing plan that allows her customers to drink now, but pay later.

Helga keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers’ loans).

Word gets around about Helga’s “drink now, pay later” marketing strategy and, as a result, increasing numbers of customers flood into Helga’s bar. Soon she has the largest sales volume for any bar in town.

By providing her customers freedom from immediate payment demands, Helga gets no resistance when, at regular intervals, she substantially increases her prices for wine and beer, the most consumed beverages. Consequently, Helga’s gross sales volume increases massively.

A young and dynamic vice-president at the local bank recognizes that these customer debts constitute valuable future assets and increases Helga’s borrowing limit.

He sees no reason for any undue concern, since he has the debts of the unemployed alcoholics as collateral!!!

At the bank’s corporate headquarters, expert traders figure a way to make huge commissions, and transform these customer loans into DRINKBONDS.These “securities” then are bundled and traded on international securities markets.

Naive investors don’t really understand that the securities being sold to them as “AA” “Secured Bonds” really are debts of unemployed alcoholics.

Nevertheless, the bond prices continuously climb!!!, and the securities soon become the hottest-selling items for some of the nation’s leading brokerage houses.

One day, even though the bond prices still are climbing, a risk manager at the original local bank decides that the time has come to demand payment on the debts incurred by the drinkers at Helga’s bar.

He so informs Helga.

Helga then demands payment from her alcoholic patrons, but being unemployed alcoholics they cannot pay back their drinking debts.

Since Helga cannot fulfil her loan obligations she is forced into bankruptcy.

The bar closes and Helga’s 11 employees lose their jobs.

Overnight, DRINKBOND prices drop by 90%. The collapsed bond asset value destroys the bank’s liquidity and prevents it from issuing new loans, thus freezing credit and economic activity in the community.

The suppliers of Helga’s bar had granted her generous payment extensions and had invested their firms’ pension funds in the BOND securities. They find they are now faced with having to write off her bad debt and with losing over 90% of the presumed value of the bonds.

Her wine supplier also claims bankruptcy, closing the doors on a family business that had endured for three generations, her beer supplier is taken over by a competitor, who immediately closes the local plant and lays off 150 workers. Fortunately though, the bank, the brokerage houses and their respective executives are saved and bailed out by a multibillion dollar no-strings attached cash infusion from the government.

The funds required for this bailout are obtained by new taxes levied on employed, middle-class, non-drinkers who have never been in Helga’s bar.

It doesn’t get much clearer than that, does it? Pass it on, my friends. Who knows maybe we can even educate the liberals with this story. Or maybe not.

Well, that’s what I’m thinking. What are your thoughts?

In  economic down turns it is not uncommon for Big Government goes into blame shifting mode and place the blame on free market capitalism, the big corporations and, of course, the evil rich. No one has been more adept at this blame shifting than the Obama administration.

In spite of the unscrupulous behavior of some of the Wall Streeters, we conservatives know that capitalist are responsible for making America the greatest country that has ever been.

Although I, as a life long believer that there is no better economic system than free market capitalism, reject the position of Obama out of hand, I have upon reflection of my own experience in the corporate world come to the conclusion that capitalist in general have not well understood the importance of their workforce.

For the sake of this discussion, let me replace the  word “capitalist” with “corporate management”.  Since my work experience was all in the mining industry, which is similar to manufacturing,  my comments will reflect that experience.

So let restate my concern. In my opinion, corporate management has failed to understand the importance of their workforce. It is my opinion that management should look upon their workforce as a capital investment in the same way they look upon the machinery in their factories. Management understands very well that they must take very good care of their machinery if they are to produce their products in the most efficient manner and maximize their profits or return on investment or maximize shareholder value or whatever other success scale you want to use. But, in far too many cases, management does not see the importance of taking care of their workers.

This current economic down turn we are in is a good example because there is something peculiar taking place. Although unemployment is horrible and companies are laying off workers and the housing market is still in the toilet and gas and food prices are skyrocketing, we see that our corporations are making record profits. From a capitalist point of view, that is a good thing.

What are our corporations doing with their record profits? Some of it is being held in reserve and in this particular economic environment that makes sense. Some of it is paid out in dividends to their shareholders and that makes sense. Some of it is used to reinvest in plants and machinery and that makes sense. and, some of it is used to reward management with bonuses and that too makes sense. But, management doesn’t seem to see any need to share a bit of those record profits with their non-management workers and  I think that is a mistake; but, it is nothing new. The hourly workers and middle manage are suffering. Many have seen the equity in their homes disappear. Their wages, in general have not kept up with the rise in their cost of living. These people are  angry people like Obama will play on that anger to  the detriment of the capitalist; the corporations. The decision not to share their profits  with the non-management workforce, in my opinion, is a failure to take care of a very important part of the corporation’s capital investment.

Okay. You can agree or disagree on whether corporations should share some of their profits with the workers. I believe it is in their best interest to do so. But, let me move on to a different point.

What is one of the greatest complaints that employers have about their employees or prospective employees?  I believe it is the lack of a decent education. They complain that their employees have abysmal reading comprehension, they can’t write a complete sentence, their math skills are almost non-existent and, worst of all they don’t know how to think for themselves.

Yes, the socialist infiltrated and took over our education system decades ago and are responsible for the poor quality of our graduates today. But, corporate managers (capitalist) are smart people on a whole. They saw what was happening long before the rest of us did. So, since they have a need for well educated employees, why didn’t they protect their interest and do something about it? They, for their own interest, should have been working in their local communities, with community leaders, with the schools and, using publicity to inform the parents. They should have been demanding in the media that the education must produce a better product if the employers were going to be able to continue employing. I believe there is much they could have done and should have done because it would have been in their best interest.

Employers have been complaining for years that there is a shortage of skilled labor: machinist, pipe welders, electronics specialist and, etc. Since no one else is supplying this product they need, why haven’t they done something about it? Why haven’t they done more to work with the education system and/or private entities. In other words, why haven’t they invested in trade schools. It would have been in their best interest.

I could go on and on but I think you see where I am going. Capitalist are supposed to be very good a looking after their own self interest. But when it comes to their workforce, an element so key to the success of their businesses, the capitalist have failed for years to look after their self interest.

Well, that’s what I’m thinking. What are your thoughts?

Our Constitution is under constant attack.¹   One of the most pernicious attacks is being waged by those who seek to override the constitutional provisions under which The States, as political entities, elect the President; and to replace it with a national popular vote (NPV) under which inhabitants of major metropolitan areas will choose the President.  Pulius-Huldah

The idea that our presidents should be elected by popular raises its head with every presidential election. The talking heads always remind their listeners that it is not the popular vote that counts. They go on to give a brief description of the electoral college, which they invariably describe as an arcane process that probably should be changed so that THE PEOPLE can elect our president directly by popular vote. After all, we are reminded this is supposedly a democracy, right? This idea of electing our presidents by popular votes has had its supporters for a long time. But, to my knowledge, the idea has never gotten much traction. So, I was surprised when Plubius-Huldah sounded the alarm.

There  is indeed an organized movement to bring about the National Popular  Vote (NPV) for our presidents. They are not trying to promote a constitutional amendment. No, they are planning to use the constitution itself to bring about presidential popular voting. There now is an organization called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). We learn this from Wikipedia:

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among several U.S. states. States endorsing this interstate compact have agreed to replace their current rules regarding the apportionment of presidential electors with rules guaranteeing the election of the presidential candidate with the most popular votes nationwide. The agreement is to go into effect only when the states which have joined the compact have an absolute majority in the electoral college; they would then all vote for the national popular vote winner, who would as a result win the Electoral College and therefore the presidency. Until enough states join, all states will continue to award their electoral votes in their current manner.

Electing our presidents by popular vote is a very, very bad idea. Our Founders knew exactly what they were doing when they the power to elect our presidents to the states and not to the people. I encourage you to read the essay by Plubius Huldah. She explains and documents the arguments against  NPV much better than I ever could. Here are a few snips from her essay:

The “Federation” created by our Constitution is an alliance of independent and sovereign States associated together in a “confederation” with a national government to which is delegated authority over the States in specifically defined areas ONLY (national defense, international commerce & relations; and domestically, the creation of an uniform commercial system:  weights & measures, patents & copyrights, a monetary system based on gold & silver, bankruptcy laws, and mail delivery). Those enumerated powers are the only areas wherein the national government has lawful (constitutional) authority over The States.  In all other matters, the States retained supremacy, independence, and sovereignty.²

So that The States – The Members of the Federation – could maintain their independence and sovereignty, ³ our Framers wrote these provisions into our Constitution:

• State Legislatures were to choose the two U.S. Senators for their State (Art. I, Sec. 3, cl. 1); and,
• The States, as separate political entities, were to elect the President (Art. II, Sec. 1, cls. 2 & 3).

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Do you see?  Since Representatives to the House were chosen by popular vote of the People, and U.S. Senators were to be chosen by the State Legislatures, no law could get passed by Congress unless it was approved by the People (via their Representatives) andby The States (via the State appointed U.S. Senators).

This is what our Framers gave us to protect us from a usurpatious Congress.

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Our Framers never intended for the President to be elected by popular vote. While they recognize in Our Declaration of Independence (2^nd para) that The People are the source of political authority, ⁶  they knew that all history demonstrates that The People lack the knowledge, wisdom and judgment to make wise choices when voting for politicians.

Friends, if this compact among states is successful, it will mean the end of our republic. We will become a democracy in fact and the majority will trample the remaining rights of the minority and tyranny will reign. To all who read these words, I beg of you to find out if your state is already a part of this compact or if it is thinking of becoming a part of the compact and if so , sound the alarm and do everything in your power to stop this from happening. Remember, the powers that want to destroy our nation never ever rest.

Well, that’s what I’m thinking. What are your thoughts?