Restore Our Colorado

Restore Our Colorado

Yippy Skip - Sick Sick Sick

Friends I woke up today with a feeling in my stomach that was much worse than the feeling I had last night when I went to bed…

Scott Brown won last night – we should be singing songs and feeling joyful right? I am not feeling that way. I had a strange feeling last night in my gut when he was giving his “I won – We won” speech. His statement, “I go to Washington as the representative of no faction or interest, answering only to my conscience and to the people”, did not sit right with me and last night I could not articulate why it did not sit right. Those I was with said I was just not happy because he was not as conservative as I would like him to be. It was more… I just could not put my finger on it.

This morning I put my finger on it – beside my bed sits my friend – my guard against tyranny – my guard against intruders who may hurt my family – my “mind at peace” guard. As I opened my eyes the sun was peeking in through the plantation shutters and casting a morning shadow over my friend. I reached out and put my hand on her and felt the trigger… SUDDENLY my finger was on it. I jumped up out of bed and went to my computer and began to do some research.

My sinking feelings were confirmed – ONCE AGAIN – frick – ONCE AGAIN – WeThePeople ran with an insider who claimed he was one of us – when really he was the lesser of 2 evils. I am scrambling this morning to find in any of his stumping – ANY thing he said that was in alignment with the Constitution – did he EVER say, – “I stand with the Constitution”, did he EVER say, “we need to protect our Constitution”. And his speech last night, “I go to Washington as the representative of no faction or interest, answering only to my conscience and to the people” – I wish he would have said, I will go to DC and answer to the Constitution – but he did not say that – not even once did he bring up that beautiful documents name – NOT ONCE.

So, I looked at his record on gun rights – he is NO friend to the 2nd amendment. Pure and simple – he is no friend. OnTheIssues shows:

Rep. Brown indicated he supports the following principles concerning gun issues:
• Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
• Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
• Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
• Require a license for gun possession.

The 2nd Amendment is pure – it is clear – and when it gets watered down – government takes away the purity of our rights and takes those rights for governments sake. The government then DOES NOT fear its people – the people begin to fear the government and that is when we have tyranny. And we have tyranny right now.

So while everyone is making lemonade out of lemons – I don’t really want to be the one to poop in that lemonade – but I guess I am.

My friends – we all must get very active in our states and in our communities – DC is a growing cesspool of corruption and lies – we cannot change that from our towns and neighborhoods. We must change that IN our towns and neighborhoods. No more candidates that are in office – they must go. We must get folks elected from our neighborhoods and towns who we know. We must get initiatives on the ballot that put some teeth in the State Sovereignty protections. We must give up some of our hobbies and make “taking back our government” a hobby. We must be nosey in the classrooms, the courtrooms, chamber meetings, city planning meetings – they work for us – and we are checking in on them. We cannot believe a word they say – we can only believe the actions they do.

Any person who tells us we must rebuild a party or a political brand is full of shit. They are part of the problem – they are uneducated or bought off or both – RUN – do not walk – RUN away from those people – We are AMERICANS – we will have open elections, open primaries, WE THE PEOPLE will vote our own conscious – NO MORE BLUBBERING TALK of splitting the vote – any person who wants to run should be able to run – we sort it out in our own states until we have 2 candidates and then we vote on that – NO MORE BLUBBERING TALK of 2 party rule and the 2 party’s have all the power and money –

That is the game they want us to believe and play – and we keep dodging the bullets (healthcare, cap&tax, on and on and on) but when we realize they are only shooting in our direction to intimidate us and we reach for our holster for some mental reassurance – some “peace of mind” – we will realize sadly – we were stripped of that holster a long time ago. We will look around and be thankful for our property and be reminded that we dont own that property and we will be suddenly very grateful for our job or our business and we will be shown that we dont control that either - the government requires it so we can be a strong and prosperous nation - protecting all.... the loss of ONE liberty is the same as the loss of ALL liberties!

For the remainder of this year – this blog is dedicated to elections, their reform, who is giving money to who, organizing locally, ballot initiatives and the Constitutional questions we should all be knowing and asking.

Join me!

They are legislating WHAT with our guns?

http://www.statepress.com/node/9939

why - WHY… would only those who “traditionally” support gun banning laws be allowed to carry?

Any law abiding citizen should be able to carry – including the students

The student who states that, “This legislation is only about generating fear in the public’s mind by making us feel that we are unsafe in our own classrooms,” she said. “It is purely political and entirely unnecessary.” OBVIOUSLY does not understand anything about the 2nd amendment.

We should find out where this student went to school and cut that districts funding as they are obviously dumbing down and teaching something other than our Constitution

This... THIS pisses me off to NO end. The NRA and other guns rights organizations should double down on the money that we donate and quit living the high life and get out to all communities and do some CONSTITUTIONAL EDUCATION. Quit dumping money in the PACs. If they wont do it... we should quit giving them our money. If we dont start catching and educating the next generation... we are going to have no defenders left.

No White Flag Here,

Sex, Lies and Databases?

January 13, 2010 A scandal involving unauthorized use of a federal crime database that's been brewing in Colorado for four years may have abruptly ended the political careers of Gov. Bill Ritter and his longtime aide, who was nominated by the Obama administration for Denver U.S. attorney.

Last month, Stephanie Villafuerte unexpectedly withdrew her name after the Senate Judiciary Committee's top Republican member, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said he expected her to answer the FBI's questions about her role in the affair and under oath.

Democrat Ritter's announcement that he would not run for a second term sent shock waves through a Democratic Party already reeling from retirement announcements the same day by Sens. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and Chris Dodd, D-Conn.

It also focused renewed attention on Transportation Security Administration nominee Erroll Southers, who gave Congress conflicting reports over his personal use of the same crime database to run unauthorized background checks on his then-estranged wife's boyfriend.

Congressional Republicans are now demanding that Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano investigate the firing of former Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Cory Voorhis for pointing out Ritter's hypocrisy during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign.

As Denver district attorney, Ritter allowed 152 illegal immigrants accused of deportable felonies to plead guilty to lesser charges such as "agricultural trespass." Those pleas allowed them to remain in the country.

Angered that Ritter blamed ICE agents for not removing criminal aliens from the state when he had been releasing them himself, Voorhis then contacted a staff member for Republican Bob Beauprez, who was running against Ritter, and suggested he check Ritter's record on the issue.

Even though Voorhis did not pass on the information himself, he was blamed for a subsequent Beauprez attack ad based on information provided to the Republican's campaign by a private investigator in Texas.

The ad featured Honduran illegal immigrant and heroin dealer Walter Ramo (aka Eugene Estrada and Carlos Roberto Estrada-Medina) whose 2002 plea deal with Ritter allowed him to stay in the United States. Ramo was later arrested in California for sexual assault on a minor.

Only those with access to the National Crime Information Center database would have been able to link Ramo to the California crime. According to the Denver Post, an FBI investigation found that only three people accessed Ramo's record: Voorhis, Houston-based private investigator Kenny Rodgers, and First Assistant DA Chuck Lepley. A phone log belonging to DA spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough noted that Villafuerte, who was then working on the Ritter campaign before, had called her to ask about Estrada-Medina.

It took a federal jury less than two hours to find Voorhis not guilty of two misdemeanor charges of unauthorized access to the restricted NCIC database, but ICE fired him anyway. The Merit Systems Protection Board, which upholds federal civil service personnel standards, will hear his appeal later this month.

The Denver Post also reported that an April 2009 internal ICE memo said Tony Rouco, Voorhis' supervisor, perjured himself at the trial and made false statements to the FBI. Instead of being fired, Rouco was given a temporary promotion.

"Three people accessed the federal database," Colorado blogger Ross Kaminsky (rossputin.com) told The Examiner. "Of the three, the only one whose access was for law enforcement purposes was Cory Voorhis. Two people passed on the information. ... The only one who didn't pass the information was Voorhis, and he was the only one prosecuted."

Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., has asked the Justice Department to investigate Villafuerte but he has not yet received a reply. Coffman sent another letter to Napolitano last week asking her to lift the "indefinite suspension" on the still-unemployed Voorhis' security clearance so he can get a job.

Last month, Sessions also asked Napolitano to reopen the investigation into Voorhis' dismissal. DHS agreed to do so. However, a Sessions aide says he has since heard nothing from DHS.

Meanwhile, Voorhis -- a decorated 15-year veteran who has suffered tremendous financial and personal hardship for exposing Ritter's duplicity -- is still twisting in the wind.

Barbara F. Hollingsworth is The Examiner's local opinion editor.



Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Sex_-lies-and-federal-databases-8756800-81278332.html#ixzz0cthVC1WE

Gun Salesman of the Decade by Tim Case

Gun Salesman of the Decade by Tim Case

Reporting for Duty at the Elysian Fields - Bob Howard

Walter Woodliff says:

January 7, 2010 at 1706

Salute. May he rest with all those Soldiers that have embraced a higher calling and duty. He is an inspiration and tribute to the United States of America, and all. It is a shame Our President has overlooked his passing. This President is a neophyte and still far from understanding his place.

This Congress and Government will soon pass and the NWO will be a leaf in the wind and tinder in the fire. For all their power, it is for nought. Who can kindle dust. Like Babylon and the Tower, they will be confused and dispersed. For what end did they work! Their end, which is in flight and comes like the Eagle from above. Swift destruction of which they cannot escape.

Defined and Limited Powers

The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation.

It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law: if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.

Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently, the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.

– Chief Justice Marshall, 1803

General Welfare Clause

Thomas Jefferson

"They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose. To consider the latter phrase not as describing the purpose of the first, but as giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless.

It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please...Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. It was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect".


Reference: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Memorial Edition), Lipscomb and Bergh, eds., 3:148.

The Year in FY 2010 Spending—in Review
Posted by Jim Harper, December 27, 2009 at 2:57 pm

While you were watching the big health care debate, the fiscal year 2010 spending process was going on underneath your radar. Congress allocated more than $20,000 per U.S. family in spending during the fall. Do you know where it went?

If you don’t, perhaps it’s because the annual spending process once again went off the rails. Here’s the tale of the 2010 fiscal year:
It started back in February, when President Obama failed to submit a budget by the first Monday in February. His focus was more on the “stimulus” bill.

When we checked in on March 11th, the Congressional Budget Office had yet to produce its analysis of the president’s tardy budget. The prospects of a well-run budget process were looking grim, but maybe they could still turn around.

And it seemed like they would when the House produced its budget plan on time! April 1st—no foolin’! The Senate did too, setting the stage for spending plans with sense.

But the dream of a timely process started to fade soon. By early April it was clear that the House and Senate would not produce their final budget plan on time. They completed the budget a couple of weeks late, at the end of the month—but still with plenty of time to introduce and pass bills by the end of the fiscal year September 30th. Hope was riding high that Congress would run the trains on time.

President Obama limped in with his budget at the beginning of May. And that set the tone for the rest of the budget year.

It wasn’t until mid-June that the House moved the first of the twelve spending bills—just two weeks before it was supposed to finish them all. The House started to move bills at a pretty good clip, though. By the end of July, the House had passed all twelve spending bills.

The Senate wasn’t so speedy. It passed a few bills each in July, August, and September, but when it came to combining House and Senate bills for final passage, that just basically never happened.

You should let your representatives know what you think about the obscurity of the process, so you can get a handle on where your money goes.

President Obama’s budget for fiscal year 2011 is due to Congress the first Monday in February.