David Moore Jr.

Today I ran 1.6 miles to the gym, then 1.6 miles back home.  At the gym this is what I did:

5 super-sets  of: Leg Extensions & Seated Leg Curls (24 Reps per exercise).

2 High rep low weight leg presses: 26 Reps both sets.

…As for the last post, it was really something I re-posted from a forum, where some agreed that 4th Amendment violations are something to be upset about rather than the “Public Option”.  I stated that the new Health care reform bill could be used as leverage to pry into people’s privacy all to ensure we have “government approved” coverage.

As long as I stay healthy, I guess I could avoid going to the doctor if we are forced into the government welfare system.  Running anyone?

The National Security Agency is building huge new storage facilities to store the unconstitutionally gained data on the American people’s telephone calls and Internet traffic permanently, including new buildings in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah, and San Antonio, Texas.

The NSA has been keeping permanent records of all American’s telephone call habits and Internet traffic since shortly after September 11, 2001, according to major news reports, without the constitutionally required warrants from a court.

Source: http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/constitution/2177-nsa-supercenters-to-store-americans-private-data-permanently

HCR 6 – AS INTRODUCED

2009 SESSION

09-0274

09/01

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 6

A RESOLUTION affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles.

SPONSORS: Rep. Itse, Rock 9; Rep. Ingbretson, Graf 5; Rep. Comerford, Rock 9; Sen. Denley, Dist 3

COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

ANALYSIS

This house concurrent resolution affirms States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles.

09-0274

09/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine

A RESOLUTION affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles.

Whereas the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire, Part 1, Article 7 declares that the people of this State have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, pertaining thereto, which is not, or may not hereafter be, by them expressly delegated to the United States of America in congress assembled; and

Whereas the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire, Part 2, Article 1 declares that the people inhabiting the territory formerly called the province of New Hampshire, do hereby solemnly and mutually agree with each other, to form themselves into a free, sovereign and independent body-politic, or State, by the name of The State of New Hampshire; and

Whereas the State of New Hampshire when ratifying the Constitution for the United States of America recommended as a change, “First That it be Explicitly declared that all Powers not expressly & particularly Delegated by the aforesaid are reserved to the several States to be, by them Exercised;” and

Whereas the other States that included recommendations, to wit Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Virginia, included an identical or similar recommended change; and

Whereas these recommended changes were incorporated as the ninth amendment, the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people, and the tenth amendment, the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people, to the Constitution for the United States of America; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special purposes, — delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force; that to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party: that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress; and

That the Constitution of the United States, having delegated to Congress a power to punish treason, counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States, piracies, and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations, slavery, and no other crimes whatsoever; and it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” therefore all acts of Congress which assume to create, define, or punish crimes, other than those so enumerated in the Constitution are altogether void, and of no force; and that the power to create, define, and punish such other crimes is reserved, and, of right, appertains solely and exclusively to the respective States, each within its own territory; and

That it is true as a general principle, and is also expressly declared by one of the amendments to the Constitution, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people;” and that no power over the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, or freedom of the press being delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, all lawful powers respecting the same did of right remain, and were reserved to the States or the people: that thus was manifested their determination to retain to themselves the right of judging how far the licentiousness of speech and of the press may be abridged without lessening their useful freedom, and how far those abuses which cannot be separated from their use should be tolerated, rather than the use be destroyed. And thus also they guarded against all abridgment by the United States of the freedom of religious opinions and exercises, and retained to themselves the right of protecting the same. And that in addition to this general principle and express declaration, another and more special provision has been made by one of the amendments to the Constitution, which expressly declares, that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press:” thereby guarding in the same sentence, and under the same words, the freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press: insomuch, that whatever violated either, throws down the sanctuary which covers the others, and that libels, falsehood, and defamation, equally with heresy and false religion, are withheld from the cognizance of federal tribunals. That, therefore, all acts of Congress of the United States which do abridge the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, are not law, but are altogether void, and of no force; and

That the construction applied by the General Government (as is evidenced by sundry of their proceedings) to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate to Congress a power “to lay and collect taxes, duties, imports, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States,” and “to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers vested by the Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof,” goes to the destruction of all limits prescribed to their power by the Constitution: that words meant by the instrument to be subsidiary only to the execution of limited powers, ought not to be so construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument: that the proceedings of the General Government under color of these articles, will be a fit and necessary subject of revisal and correction; and

That a committee of conference and correspondence be appointed, which shall have as its charge to communicate the preceding resolutions to the Legislatures of the several States; to assure them that this State continues in the same esteem of their friendship and union which it has manifested from that moment at which a common danger first suggested a common union: that it considers union, for specified national purposes, and particularly to those specified in their federal compact, to be friendly to the peace, happiness and prosperity of all the States: that faithful to that compact, according to the plain intent and meaning in which it was understood and acceded to by the several parties, it is sincerely anxious for its preservation: that it does also believe, that to take from the States all the powers of self-government and transfer them to a general and consolidated government, without regard to the special delegations and reservations solemnly agreed to in that compact, is not for the peace, happiness or prosperity of these States; and that therefore this State is determined, as it doubts not its co-States are, to submit to undelegated, and consequently unlimited powers in no man, or body of men on earth: that in cases of an abuse of the delegated powers, the members of the General Government, being chosen by the people, a change by the people would be the constitutional remedy; but, where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy: that every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact, (casus non foederis), to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits: that without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them: that nevertheless, this State, from motives of regard and respect for its co-States, has wished to communicate with them on the subject: that with them alone it is proper to communicate, they alone being parties to the compact, and solely authorized to judge in the last resort of the powers exercised under it, Congress being not a party, but merely the creature of the compact, and subject as to its assumptions of power to the final judgment of those by whom, and for whose use itself and its powers were all created and modified: that if the acts before specified should stand, these conclusions would flow from them: that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism — free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power: that our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go. In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. That this State does therefore call on its co-States for an expression of their sentiments on acts not authorized by the federal compact. And it doubts not that their sense will be so announced as to prove their attachment unaltered to limited government, whether general or particular. And that the rights and liberties of their co-States will be exposed to no dangers by remaining embarked in a common bottom with their own. That they will concur with this State in considering acts as so palpably against the Constitution as to amount to an undisguised declaration that that compact is not meant to be the measure of the powers of the General Government, but that it will proceed in the exercise over these States, of all powers whatsoever: that they will view this as seizing the rights of the States, and consolidating them in the hands of the General Government, with a power assumed to bind the States, not merely as the cases made federal, (casus foederis,) but in all cases whatsoever, by laws made, not with their consent, but by others against their consent: that this would be to surrender the form of government we have chosen, and live under one deriving its powers from its own will, and not from our authority; and that the co-States, recurring to their natural right in cases not made federal, will concur in declaring these acts void, and of no force, and will each take measures of its own for providing that neither these acts, nor any others of the General Government not plainly and intentionally authorized by the Constitution, shall be exercised within their respective territories; and

That the said committee be authorized to communicate by writing or personal conferences, at any times or places whatever, with any person or person who may be appointed by any one or more co-States to correspond or confer with them; and that they lay their proceedings before the next session of the General Court; and

That any Act by the Congress of the United States, Executive Order of the President of the United States of America or Judicial Order by the Judicatories of the United States of America which assumes a power not delegated to the government of United States of America by the Constitution for the United States of America and which serves to diminish the liberty of the any of the several States or their citizens shall constitute a nullification of the Constitution for the United States of America by the government of the United States of America. Acts which would cause such a nullification include, but are not limited to:

I. Establishing martial law or a state of emergency within one of the States comprising the United States of America without the consent of the legislature of that State.

II. Requiring involuntary servitude, or governmental service other than a draft during a declared war, or pursuant to, or as an alternative to, incarceration after due process of law.

III. Requiring involuntary servitude or governmental service of persons under the age of 18 other than pursuant to, or as an alternative to, incarceration after due process of law.

IV. Surrendering any power delegated or not delegated to any corporation or foreign government.

V. Any act regarding religion; further limitations on freedom of political speech; or further limitations on freedom of the press.

VI. Further infringements on the right to keep and bear arms including prohibitions of type or quantity of arms or ammunition; and

That should any such act of Congress become law or Executive Order or Judicial Order be put into force, all powers previously delegated to the United States of America by the Constitution for the United States shall revert to the several States individually. Any future government of the United States of America shall require ratification of three quarters of the States seeking to form a government of the United States of America and shall not be binding upon any State not seeking to form such a government; and

That copies of this resolution be transmitted by the house clerk to the President of the United States, each member of the United States Congress, and the presiding officers of each State’s legislature.

http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2009/HCR0006.html

I have since completed the previous workout schedule.

I will add a new one soon.

My 2010 goals:

1. To be able to swim (at least) one mile (without stopping) by May 2010.
2. Do complete the Lumberjack100 and not get last place.
3. Get (at least) three top 5 Tailwind USAC series finishes and 1 top 3 finish.
4. Top 10 in the 2010 Iceman (in my class).

Tonight Kristhal and I saw the movie called “Race Across the Sky”  its about the Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Race.  Without getting into to many details of the movie, I can say it sure motivated me to do the lumberjack 100 next summer and the Leadville 100 in 2011.  I will work towards it.

http://www.raceacrossthesky.com/

For the 2010 race season I hope to get more top 5 finishes.

To reach this goal I plan to continue my biking though the schedule over the winter will be scaled down.  I will also add in cross country skiing once a week and swimming (hopefully) once a week.  Also I just purchased new running shoes and have already started my running.   Weight lifting will also include high rep squats with as much weight as I can handle for 20+ repetitions.

Proposed schedule:

Monday:  Weights, 30+ spin on stationary bike and running.

Tuesday: Weights, 30+ spin on stationary bike and running.

Wednesday: 20 mile riding with little intensity.

Thursday: Swimming.

Friday: Riding back roads or road biking.

Saturday: Cross Country skiing (snow months only), weights**.

Sunday: Running, weights**.

** = one day (Sunday or Saturday) .

I hope to be able to supplement my bike racing with running races 10k and 1/2 marathons.  I also have a goal to be able to swim 1 mile.

http://patricksperry.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/the-sullivan-act-some-history-about-gun-control/

When last we saw Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee in action, she was pimping her Michael Jackson congressional resolution at his Staples Center memorial orgy.

The race-baiter from Texas met with constituents and demonstrated her responsiveness to the public by…interrupting the town hall to take a cell phone call.

HELLO?!?!

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/12/oh-sheila/

The U.S. Military is also sworn to protect the U.S. Constitution (including the bill of rights …all of them).  don’t think that this could not happen in this country if the (or any) President decided to all of a sudden erase the Constitution which is in place to limit the government NOT the people. We are after all a constitutional republic, and we (Americans) have at one time or another pledged allegiance to our republic.  And if anyone reading this doesn’t like it, they can move to England.

Mr Micheletti threatened to have Mr Zelaya arrested if he re-entered the country. He assumed the leadership following a military coup at the weekend after Mr Zelaya said he would call a referendum over a change to the constitution that would allow him to seek another term in office.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/honduras/5702279/Honduras-coup-President-Manuel-Zelaya-to-return-on-Thursday-to-reclaim-office.html

And the fact that the U.N. supports governments that are oppressive (like China), and ignores those that commit human right violations (like Sudan and Rwanda), makes them the biggest enablers of tyranny.

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday unanimously condemned the military coup in Honduras and demanded President Manuel Zelaya’s immediate return to power, a decision the ousted Honduran leader called “historic.”

The world body adopted a resolution by acclamation, calling on all 192 U.N. member states not to recognize any government in Honduras other than Zelaya’s.

Zelaya, who was forced into exile in Costa Rica after soldiers stormed his palace early Sunday, told reporters after the vote that he will return home on Thursday with the president of the U.N. General Assembly, the head of the Organization of American States and the presidents of Argentina and Ecuador.

On the day of his arrest, Zelaya had defied the country’s Supreme Court by calling a referendum on constitutional change that opponents worried would lead to a Venezuela-style socialist state. Under the constitution, he is allowed one four-year term.

“I am not going to convene a constitutional assembly, and if I was offered the possibility of remaining in power, I would not do it,” Zelaya said when queried about changing the constitution. “I am going to fulfill my four years. I am going to fight to have the four years respected because it’s part of our law.”

…yeah now he says that! The article continues:

When his term ends on Jan. 27, he said, he will return to his previous life as a rancher.

Zelaya, who has received wide international support, said he wasn’t afraid to return to Honduras despite a threat from the country’s new president, Roberto Micheletti, to arrest him on charges of treason.

Micheletti insists that Zelaya was legally removed by the courts and Congress for violating Honduras’ constitution - allegedly to extend his rule.

“I am going to return the same way as I’ve always returned, as a citizen and as the president,” Zelaya said. “I have always said that anyone who was afraid should not become a politician.”

He said his supporters and enemies will be there and the military will have to drop its opposition.

“When I come, the people are going to say … commander in chief we are at your orders - and the military will have to rectify. There is no other possibility,” Zelaya said.

He conceded, however, that the only “guarantee” against his arrest is that the new government sees “what they have provoked” - paralysis in the country and the withdrawal of ambassadors from Latin America and Europe as well as representatives of international lending institutions.

“There is no recognition by anyone. They are the only ones that recognize themselves,” Zelaya said. “They have been summarily rejected.”

“Now these people will have to change and respect,” he said.

In his 50-minute speech to the General Assembly, Zelaya described the military actions as “a brutal coup d’etat” and the work of “a small group of usurpers” that carried out “an act of aggression attacking the democratic will of the people.”

“The resolution that the United Nations has just adopted unanimously … expresses the indignation of the people of Honduras and of people worldwide,” Zelaya began.

“This resolution is historic. It is significant. And it will empower every last citizen of this world to continue with these great conquests of humankind,” he said.

General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, who has used many occasions to needle the U.S. and other Western powers, gaveled approval of the resolution and then led applause after noting that the U.S., Canada and other countries had signed on as co-sponsors.

The resolution condemns the coup “that has interrupted the democratic and constitutional order and the legitimate exercise of power in Honduras, and resulted in the removal of the democratically elected president.”

It demands “the immediate and unconditional restoration” of Zelaya’s government and calls on all 192 U.N. member states “to recognize no government other than that of the constitutional president.”

The resolution backs regional efforts to resolve the crisis.

It also expresses deep concern at “the acts of violence against diplomatic personnel” in Honduras and grave concern at security problems that endanger citizens and foreigners alike.

Unlike Security Council resolutions, General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding, but they do reflect the views of the international community.

It is rare for the General Assembly to hold a special session on a military coup in a member state. But D’Escoto, a leftist Nicaraguan priest and former foreign minister who will accompany Zelaya to Honduras, has used the yearlong post to address political issues more often the preserve of the Security Council. His presidency ends in September.
Associated Press Writer John Heilprin contributed to this report from the United Nations.
Source: http://www.thestate.com/nation/story/847122.html

Yep, I mentioned this before… and everyone I know thought I was crazy. Now Yahoo News writes about it.

Recession prompts fear of economic collapse, spurs breed of ’suburban survivalists’

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Six months ago, Jim Wiseman didn’t even have a spare nutrition bar in his kitchen cabinet.

Now, the 54-year-old businessman and father of five has a backup generator, a water filter, a grain mill and a 4-foot-tall pile of emergency food tucked in his home in the expensive San Diego suburb of La Jolla.

Wiseman isn’t alone. Emergency supply retailers and military surplus stores nationwide have seen business boom in the past few months as an increasing number of Americans spooked by the economy rush to stock up on gear that was once the domain of hardcore survivalists.

These people snapping up everything from water purification tablets to thermal blankets shatter the survivalist stereotype: they are mostly urban professionals with mortgages, SUVs, solid jobs and a twinge of embarrassment about their newfound hobby.

From teachers to real estate agents, these budding emergency gurus say the dismal economy has made them prepare for financial collapse as if it were an oncoming Category 5 hurricane. They worry about rampant inflation, runs on banks, bare grocery shelves and widespread power failures that could make taps run dry.

For Wiseman, a fire protection contractor, that’s meant spending roughly $20,000 since September on survival gear — and trying to persuade others to do the same.

“The UPS guy drops things off and he sees my 4-by-8-by-6-foot pile of food and I say ‘What are you doing to prepare, buddy?’” he said. “Because there won’t be a thing left on any shelf of any supermarket in the country if people’s confidence wavers.”

The surge in interest in emergency stockpiling has been a bonanza for camping supply companies and military surplus vendors, some of whom report sales spikes of up to 50 percent. These companies usually cater to people preparing for earthquakes or hurricanes, but informal customer surveys now indicate the bump is from first-time shoppers who cite financial, not natural, disaster as their primary concern, they say.

Top sellers include 55-gallon water jugs, waterproof containers, freeze-dried foods, water filters, water purification tablets, glow sticks, lamp oil, thermal blankets, dust masks, first-aid kits and inexpensive tents.

Joe Branin, owner of the online emergency supply store Living Fresh, said he’s seen a 700 percent increase in orders for water purification tablets in the past month and a similar increase in orders for sterile water pouches.

He is shipping meals ready to eat and food bars by the case to residential addresses nationwide.

“You’re hearing from the people you will always hear from, who will build their own bunkers and stuff,” he said. “But then you’re hearing from people who usually wouldn’t think about this, but now it’s in their heads: ‘What if something comes to the worst?’”

Online interest in survivalism has increased too. The niche Web site SurvivalBlog.com has seen its page views triple in the past 14 months to nearly 137,000 unique visitors a week. Jim Rawles, a self-described survivalist who runs the site, calls the newcomers “11th hour believers.” He charges $100 an hour for phone consulting on emergency preparedness and says that business also has tripled.

“There’s so many people who are concerned about the economy that there’s a huge interest in preparedness, and it pretty much crosses all lines, social, economic, political and religious,” he said. “There’s a steep learning curve going on right now.”

Art Markman, a cognitive psychologist, said he’s not surprised by the reaction to the nation’s financial woes — even though it may seem irrational. In an increasingly global and automated society, most people are dependent on strangers and systems they don’t understand — and the human brain isn’t programmed to work that way.

“We have no real causal understanding of the way our world works at all,” said Markman, a professor at the University of Texas, Austin. “When times are good, you trust that things are working, but when times are bad you realize you don’t have a clue what you would do if the supermarket didn’t have goods on the shelves and that if the banks disappear, you have no idea where your money is.”

Those preparing for the worst echo those thoughts and say learning to be self sufficient makes them feel more in control amid mounting uncertainty — even if it seems crazy to their friends and families.

Chris Macera, a 29-year-old IT systems administrator, said he started buying extra food to take advantage of sales after he lost his job and he was rehired elsewhere for $30,000 less.

But Macera, who works in suburban Orange County, said that over several months his mentality began to shift from saving money to preparing for possible financial mayhem. He is motivated, too, by memories of the government paralysis that followed Hurricane Katrina.

He now buys 15 pounds of meat at a time and freezes it, and buys wheat in 50-pound bags, mills it into flour and uses it to bake bread. He checks survivalist Web sites for advice at least once a day and listens to survival podcasts.

“You kind of have to sift through the people with their hats on a little bit too tight,” said Macera, who said his colleagues tease him about the grain mill. “But I see a lot of things (on the Web) and they’re real common sense-type things.”

“I don’t want to be a slave to anybody,” he said. “The more systems you’re dependent on, the more likely things are going to go bad for you.”

That’s a philosophy shared by Vincent Springer, a newcomer to emergency preparedness from the Chicago area.

Springer, a high school social studies teacher, says he’s most worried about energy shortages and an economic breakdown that could paralyze the just-in-time supply chain that grocery stores rely on.

In the past few months, Springer has stockpiled enough freeze-dried food for three months and bought 72-hour emergency supply kits for himself, his wife and two young children. The 39-year-old is also teaching himself to can food.

“I’m not looking for a retreat in northern Idaho or any of that stuff, but I think there’s more people like me out there and I think those numbers are growing,” he said.

Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Crisis-spurs-spike-in-apf-15339847.html