I don't think it's an left or right thing, it's more of a politician thing, once elected they seem to think we don't matter anymore at least untill the next election, kind of like our Gov. Perdue and the alcohol on Sunday thing.

I yam what I yam...Popeye

for both parties

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"Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." --Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Nicholas, 1803. ME 10:419

Per the previous post "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is also big enough to take everything you’ve got."

I knew I had heard that spoken by somebody in the last few days and then I remembered, it's used by Fred Thompson in the speech announcing his Presidential campaign.

Talk is cheap at this point, but you may find some encouragement on health care reform if his ideas are incorporated into the body of the campaign issues.

Here's an interesting question posed by Jay Leno on The Tonight Show

I hear Fred's taking a lot of flack for going with Leno over the Republican debate. Hey, they are both comedy shows - the only difference is that Leno is actually funny.
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Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should,
therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense.
Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties
which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.
Thomas Jefferson on the court system

"metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure" -- Is that the same as "penumbras, formed by emanations"?

In 1965, Justice William O. Douglas adopted Harlan’s reasoning [Justice John Marshall Harlan’s dissent in Poe v. Ullman in 1961] in the majority opinion in the case of Griswold v. Connecticut, and the right to privacy became constitutional law. . . . In order to strike down the Connecticut law prohibiting the sale of contraceptives, Douglas wrote that “specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance.”

[Not much "substance" in a penumbra (an astronomical term describing the partial shadow in an eclipse or the edge of a sunspot — and it is another way to describe something unclear or uncertain).]

[“Emanation” is a scientific term for gas made from radioactive decay — it also means “an emission.” Not much "substance" or "common sense" here. Lawyers who think that they're scientists and ethicists and God, too. ]

Today, legalized abortion is the law of the land because the Supreme Court decided in 1973 that its recently created constitutional right to privacy also included a new constitutional right to abortion.

If you look in the Constitution, however, you will find no general “right to privacy” any more than you will find a right to abortion — and for good reason: It’s not there. The framers assumed no general right to privacy because, to state the obvious, criminal and evil acts can be committed in privacy. Criminal codes are full of such examples — from murder to incest to rape and other crimes.

["Fetuses" (Latin for "offspring" -- in humans, the unborn young from the end of the eighth week after conception to the moment of birth, as distinguished from the earlier embryo) don't need the Supreme Court to "give them life." Arrogantly, the Supreme Court pretended to be God, having the authority to grant permission to live or not to live to our unborn young, thereby defying the concept of "unalienable rights." Sadly, our unborn young now need legal protection from those who call them "nothing" and kill them "at pleasure."]

For the full article, see "Death by Privacy" from Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America (Excellent book!)

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ~ 1776 United States Declaration of Independence

The term inalienable rights (or unalienable rights), a term borrowed from English common law, refers to a set of human rights that are fundamental, are not awarded by human power, and cannot be surrendered.

Civil rights are given to the people by the government. Civil liberties are God-given rights.

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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ~ George Washington

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. ~ George Washington

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible. ~ George Washington

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. ~ Thomas Jefferson

It will be worse for us since we don’t have any other place to go the way the Canadians do. It’s already illegal in British Columbia to pay for private surgery and now they’re trying to think of ways to keep their own citizens from coming to the United States and paying for better care. Talk about trading freedom for “security”.

Hopefully Germany will be an option for us if we’re stupid enough to socialize since they are privatizing their hospitals and injecting some free market reforms into their health insurance industry. At least They've learned.

Maximus