"I may disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to my opinion."--Stuff Voltaire Tweeted on the Interwebs
*A century ago, churches were also shut during the Spanish Flu Pandemic. They were reopened and no one thought about it.
The difference is that today we have Democrats who want to shutter churches, pandemic or no pandemic, just as they already wanted to empty the jails long before the very first sneeze.
Neither of those were true a century ago.
The difference is that today we have Democrats who want to shutter churches, pandemic or no pandemic, just as they already wanted to empty the jails long before the very first sneeze.
Neither of those were true a century ago.
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| After much pleading, the President shares his HCQ with Anderson Cooper |
Has there been a National Wave of Fish-Tank Cleaner Poisonings–or is it still just the one Trump-hater trying to get a two-fer by murdering her husband and blaming the President at the same time?
That’s what I thought.
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| "There is Freedom of Speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech." --His Excellency, President-for-Life, Field Marshall, Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth, Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular |
*Breitbart: “SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A county judge has declared Oregon Gov. Kate Brown’s coronavirus restrictions “null and void” because she didn’t have her emergency orders approved by the Legislature. Baker County Circuit Judge Matthew Shirtcliff made the ruling Monday in a lawsuit brought by churches that had sued saying the social-distancing directives were unconstitutional. The suit had also argued that emergency powers only last for a month and after that Brown would have needed legislative approval. The judge agreed.
At a certain point, these are no longer Emergency Orders, but One-Man Rule-by-Decree Regimes.
Gov. Jared Polis had his Democrats keep the Colorado legislature closed so he could break his promise and spend $1.5 Billion all by himself.
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| The Governor Formerly Known as Pritzker "In May, while he imposed lock-downs on the people of Illinois, he had his wife and kids flown to Florida [with State Patrol bodyguards]. On Friday news broke that Governor Pritzker is sending Illinois construction workers to Wisconsin to work on one of his many mansions." |
The Emergency is over. Legislatures need to be open and vote yea or nay so the People have a voice and so officials are accountable. That is the “Republican Form of Government” we all agreed to.
Gov. DeWine's mini-me Public Health Enforcer was just slapped down by another judge:
"A measure currently under consideration in the Ohio Senate (and already passed by the House) would limit Acton’s shutdown orders to 14 days and require her to consult a joint legislative commission if she wishes to extend such an order. Ohio Governor DeWine, heady with power, has vowed to veto the bill if it lands on his desk. Judge Lucci seemed to disagree, saying that if he failed to issue an injunction, “There would be a diminishment of public morale, and a feeling that one unelected individual could exercise such unfettered power to force everyone to obey impermissibly oppressive, vague, arbitrary and unreasonable rules that the director devised and revised, and modified and reversed, whenever and as she pleases, without any legislative guidance. The public would be left with feelings that their government is not accountable to them."
In Michigan, yet another judge:
"Karl Manke, the 77-year-old folk-hero barber who stood up against the empress governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, has been vindicated in court. A judge ruled on Thursday that the health department failed to show that Manke’s business cutting hair was a specific threat to public health. Sheriff Brian BeGole also issued a statement Monday saying he would not enforce the Attorney General’s order to shut down the shop. “With limited resources, staffing and facilities, our priority focus will be on enforcing duly passed laws for the protection of Shiawassee County citizens,” BeGole wrote. “I have decided, within my authority, that our office cannot and will not divert our primary resources and efforts towards enforcement of Governor Whitmer’s executive orders.”"
Eyewitnesses to History in this Constitutional Crime Wave:
jaxnix: "She however is in Northern West Michigan at the family summer home. She conveniently opened that area a week before her 5/28 stay home deadline – go figure. Rumor has it a family get together to celebrate her daughter’s graduation. A radio station in the area reported a car registered to her husband was at the house yesterday. Gretchen the Terrible has requested to people not run up north for the holiday weekend – but she obviously can. There is video of her at a drive through ChiCom testing site today mask and all. But no one else in the car has one on. Chris Coumo extends so must she. People are just ignoring her as much as possible. Get-togethers are happening. She decreed retail could open – by appointment. You must know that is simply information gathering for the State."
J: "The 1976 law sets the limit to her emergency order to 30 days subject to review by the State legislature. After 30 days the legislature can extend the emergency or not. Whitless declared her emergency on March 10th. On April 7th the legislature extended until April 28th. On that date her emergency powers expired. Since then she has not only been violating the Constitution but also statute.
In Michigan, yet another judge:
"Karl Manke, the 77-year-old folk-hero barber who stood up against the empress governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, has been vindicated in court. A judge ruled on Thursday that the health department failed to show that Manke’s business cutting hair was a specific threat to public health. Sheriff Brian BeGole also issued a statement Monday saying he would not enforce the Attorney General’s order to shut down the shop. “With limited resources, staffing and facilities, our priority focus will be on enforcing duly passed laws for the protection of Shiawassee County citizens,” BeGole wrote. “I have decided, within my authority, that our office cannot and will not divert our primary resources and efforts towards enforcement of Governor Whitmer’s executive orders.”"
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| "See what Comrade Whitmer is doing there? The objective that grants her unilateral control over the lives of all citizens, has morphed to “lowering the chance of a second wave” as the hot new justification legalizing her totalitarian dictates. Slick move." |
jaxnix: "She however is in Northern West Michigan at the family summer home. She conveniently opened that area a week before her 5/28 stay home deadline – go figure. Rumor has it a family get together to celebrate her daughter’s graduation. A radio station in the area reported a car registered to her husband was at the house yesterday. Gretchen the Terrible has requested to people not run up north for the holiday weekend – but she obviously can. There is video of her at a drive through ChiCom testing site today mask and all. But no one else in the car has one on. Chris Coumo extends so must she. People are just ignoring her as much as possible. Get-togethers are happening. She decreed retail could open – by appointment. You must know that is simply information gathering for the State."
J: "The 1976 law sets the limit to her emergency order to 30 days subject to review by the State legislature. After 30 days the legislature can extend the emergency or not. Whitless declared her emergency on March 10th. On April 7th the legislature extended until April 28th. On that date her emergency powers expired. Since then she has not only been violating the Constitution but also statute.
The legislature then took her to court for violating the 1976 law. They had video oral arguments and Michigan Court of Claims judge Cynthia Stevens ruled on May 21 in favor of Whitler. The judge did side with the Republicans’ legal argument that Whitmer overstepped her power when citing a 1976 law, the Emergency Management Act, to re-declare a state of emergency in late April without support from the Legislature. But Whitler went too far, the judge said, because the 1976 law has a 28-day limit on how long a governor can act independently from the Legislature. How the Judge could rule in favor with Whitless but agree with the legislature is mental gymnastics only a Demcom tyrant could muster. This will go to the Michigan Supreme Court. The make up of the Supreme Court is ostensibly 4-3 Republican. But we have non partisan Supreme Court elections in Michigan with the candidates being put forward by the parties, so the actual political leanings of the Court are anyones guess. Nevertheless, the 1976 law is clear and it is Constitutional. Whitmer is violating MI PA390.
The only evidence left that we are under lockdown is that some businesses remain closed and nearly everyone wears masks when they enter a store. Stores ignore her mandatory mask order though. I have only been stopped from entering a store without a mask at Menards in Wixom, MI and that only lasted a few days. I was there yesterday with no mask. They also ignore her 4 people/1000sf of floor space. She told us that northern lower Michigan and the UP were open for business but that we couldnt travel there unless we owned property. The highways were jammed yesterday with Memorial Day traffic, with alot of RVs seen on the road. I will bet the farm not all of those people own property up north. I see zero social distancing any longer.
Karl Mankes win in court will see a rush to open among barbers and salons. Churches are opening depending on the political bent of thier Pastors. The State no longer has the power to stop them. County Sheriffs and Prosecutors all over the State have refused to enforce the edicts but it is worrisome that the State Police seem to be on the side of Whitler. The militia is involved with the protests as is the former Tea Party under the guise of the Convention of States. The CoS is getting the protests more organized. There are 2 to 3 protests per week right now. The Militia was guarding the entrance to Karl Mankes barber shop. Michigan balances on the knifes edge. The People have had enough of this crap and are voicing their displeasure loudly. We will take our State back." …….
That's great news. It’s too bad we don’t have an entire federal department staffed with lawyers that could litigate on behalf of the people and their Constitution.
DOJ Finally Gets Off Their Asses--UPDATE: FOX:
* Democrats have the same policy as Islamists, Imperialists, Slavers and Soviets.
Islamists said once your nation was part of the Caliphate, your country was Islam’s always.
King George said once you were part of the Empire, you were the Empire’s forever.
Slave-owners said once you were a slave, you were property in perpetuity–and your children, too.
Soviets said once your country went Communist, you were permanently in the Communist Sphere.
And Democrats and their Uni-Party lackeys say once a Federal Inspector General-job is given to a Deep State Democrat, it is theirs forever.
“We’ll see what happens."
Next week: : ...If a judge hires his own prosecutor, can a prosecutor hire his own judge?
If, not, why not?
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| Where the hell has this guy been? |
DOJ Finally Gets Off Their Asses--UPDATE: FOX:
"EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Justice on Friday intervened in an Illinois case that has the potential to invalidate the state’s stay-at-home order implemented by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker -- while also writing to the mayor of Los Angeles to warn that a lengthy lockdown could be "arbitrary and unlawful. The DOJ filed a statement of interest in support of a lawsuit by state lawmaker Rep. Darren Bailey, who has sought to challenge Pritzker’s stay-at-home restrictions -- challenging whether he can keep the restrictions in place longer than the 30 days allowed by state law. “The Governor of Illinois owes it to the people of Illinois to allow his state’s courts to adjudicate the question of whether Illinois law authorizes orders he issued to respond to COVID-19,” said Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband for the Civil Rights Division in a statement. “The United States Constitution and state constitutions established a system of divided and limited governmental power, and they did so to secure the blessings of liberty to all people in our country. Under our system, all public officials, including governors, must comply with the law, especially during times of crisis."
L.A. Mayor Garcetti and Health Director Barbara Ferrer have suggested restrictions could be in place for months, with Ferrer saying that stay-at-home restrictions will be in place “for the next three months” unless a vaccine is discovered. In the letter, the DOJ said that it “recognizes and appreciates the duty that you have to protect the health and safety of the residents of the Los Angeles area in the midst of a pandemic that is unprecedented in our lifetimes.”
“Governmental authority, however, is not limitless, and must be exercised reasonably. Even in times of emergency, when governments may impose reasonable and temporary restrictions, the Constitution and federal statutory law prohibit arbitrary, unreasonable actions. Simply put, there is no pandemic exception to the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights.” …….
It's about time. What took so long?
Islamists said once your nation was part of the Caliphate, your country was Islam’s always.
King George said once you were part of the Empire, you were the Empire’s forever.
Slave-owners said once you were a slave, you were property in perpetuity–and your children, too.
Soviets said once your country went Communist, you were permanently in the Communist Sphere.
And Democrats and their Uni-Party lackeys say once a Federal Inspector General-job is given to a Deep State Democrat, it is theirs forever.
“We’ll see what happens."
Next week: : ...If a judge hires his own prosecutor, can a prosecutor hire his own judge?
If, not, why not?
The Press Corpse says the President should concentrate on the ChinaVirus, not ObamaGate.
That assumes those are two different subjects.
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Seriously, I remember when editors would chew their other left arm off before they would allow FBI or CIA officials in their studios, let alone hire them to alibi their own crimes–-and call it “News”!
AG John Mitchell and Dir. L. Patrick Gray should have held out for their own MacNeill/Lehrer News Hour.
Taibbi is book-ended by VDH: The Left Is What It Once Loathed
"What is the Left, then? Mostly a Jacobin party that operates ad hoc, without principle, or consistency." By Victor Davis Hanson …….
*"If you refuse to be vaccinated the state has the power to literally take you to a doctor's office and plunge a needle into your arm."
You also have the Right to Squint--when I take that needle and jab you in the eyeball and go start the Next Revolutionary War.
Or as another Constitutional scholar put it, "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."--A. Lincoln
Well, it's Memorial Day Weekend again and I find that I need a new grill.
Since We're All In This Together(tm)!, I'd like to thank you
in advance for a new one. A Weber Deluxe will suffice.
So today put a smile on my face, as most of your know we install docks, store boats etc. This morning I was out working when the office called me, there was a gentleman on hold who wanted his boat in the water before the weekend. Being Memorial weekend and the fact that we started working 3 weeks late means there is no chance this is going to happen.
Well, our office personnel had explained this to the man and he replied: “I am the husband to the governor, will this make a difference?”
The employee (his name has been blacked out to protect his privacy) continued:
As you can imagine, that does make a difference, that would put you at the back of the line!!! Needless to say, our Governor and her husband will not be getting their boat for Memorial Day.
North Shore Dock, LLC put out a statement on Facebook a few hours ago, confirming that Governor Whitmer’s husband did call their business and ask to have his boat put in the water. According to the North Shore Dock Facebook post, he was told he would not be given preferential treatment and that he would have to wait in line like everyone else, adding, “ALL of our customers are valued, and we cannot place you in front of others who scheduled earlier.””...….