From The In Box

From:  Uncle Fester

To: Curtis Lowe

Subj: 7 Day Cruise – I  Entered Your Name – Good Luck!!!

Date July 9, 2009

 

Dear Nephew Curtis:

I hope that you do not mind, but I entered your name in a drawing for a 7 day cruise.

I assure you that no sales people will call or bother you in any way.

This is completely on the up and up.

I’ve taken the liberty of putting your name into the drawing for a Seven day Six night Cruise on the fabulous new Gypsy Queen Cruise Line ship the ‘Dixie Belle’.

All airfares, transfers, food and drinks included with dinner at the captain’s table as his personal
guest!  Good luck, I hope you win!

The Flagship ‘ Dixie Belle’ is shown below…

 

Your first night’s meal promises to be scrumptious, featuring fillet of Catfish, Hush Puppies and Collards, with all you can eat Boiled Louisiana Rusty Crawfish!

 

Boy, I wish I was goin’ with ya’ll.  If’n ya’ll win, make sure to send pictures, especially of the Famous ‘Ole’ Muddy Midnight Skinny Dip, with your hostesses Eulla Bell and Krissie.

 

Since ya’ll may have the presidential suite, yu’in’s will have a balcony view and the finest facilities.

 

Fer Shore excursions, Cap’n Dan will take ya’ll ashore in the dingy.

 

Lots of great rides and games at stops along the way…

Ferris Wheels,

 

Horse Shoes,

 

Tractor pulls,

 

Hot tubs,

 

Local shopping is always great for souven suvin souveneirs!

 

Transportation to and from the airport is provided in the Dixie Bell Limo…They’ll even stop at the 7-11 for cold beer!

 

Don’t worry, they got baby-sitters if’n you need ‘em!

 

It’s so romantic, many couples have chosen this as their honeymoon getaway…

 

 

Hope you’ns win!

 

Wonder why he thought I would like that?

The U.S. Constitution – Void Where Prohibited

From ABC News:

US-Russian Arms Negotiators “Under the Gun,” Might Temporarily Bypass Senate Ratification for Treaty

With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects of a new deal on an executive levels and a “provisional basis” until the Senate ratifies the treaty.

“Until the Senate ratifies the treaty.”  What if they don’t ratify it?  Do we just ignore them?  Or do we rescind the treaty?  Or does it even matter any more?

“Bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role.”   Did you read that?  They aren’t even scared or embarrassed to say it right out loud now.

At least for the first six months of his presidency reign, Obama just ignored the whole “constitutionality” thing – like you ignore your ugly cousin at reunions – you just pretend it’s not even there.  But now, he is actually admitting that HE KNOWS what he is proposing is unconstitutional, but he just doesn’t give a shit.

He is out and out telling the U.S. populace that he is knowingly and willingly going to violate the tenets of the very constitution that he swore an oath to uphold…

There is a word for that.

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The Declaration of Independence

From Today’s American Thinker:

Remembering What the Declaration of Independence is Not

An excerpt:

The brave men in Philadelphia were engaging in unconstitutional action. Britain had a constitution, albeit a largely unwritten one, and Jefferson knew that he was defying our equivalent of the Supreme Court. He and his colleagues defied the moral power of a system which no longer treasured liberty above advantage or caprice. Rulers making decisions which did not really affect them, living thousands of miles from their subjects, lacked the moral authority to wield law.

Moral authority was the heart of the Declaration as well. It lacked a separation of church and state and instead there was a unity of God and government. All men were created equal by God. That is the foundational point of the Declaration from which all else flows like the spring of liberty. If all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, politics is clear and simple. If that is true, then — of course! — protecting these inalienable rights is the only reason that governments are instituted among men. These were truths which, in the magical pen of Jefferson, the brave authors and signers held to be “self-evident.” There is a Creator. He made us. He made us, specifically, free in body and in conscience. We are not sheep or some sort of oddly self-domesticated animals. We are creatures in the image of a Creator, unique in reality, and given the power to choose.

The men who wrote and signed the Declaration are all dead, long, long, dead — they never expected otherwise. If we met their ghosts today, they would not ask about our technological marvels or our global economy or our medical breakthroughs or space travel. If we told them about our partisan debates or the new King in Washington, they might cringe like a father over an addled child.

But when speaking of what they wrote in 1776 — signing their own death warrants, in some respects — they might ask us this: “We did not mean to confuse you. That is why the words we chose were so clear. You are free creatures of God. Government is your creature, your chattel, your tool — nothing more. We studied history long before we wrote our brief statement of liberty. You own government or rather the spirit of free men owns government. You fret about ‘stuff.’ Why? We are all dead now, as we knew we would be. But we chose to die free, following our consciences – that is the only real choice in life. What confused you?” The principle of liberty is easy. All it requires is courage and honor.

Go read the whole thing.

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Where is George Today?

Hat tip: WireCutter

 

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Send In The Clowns

Hat Tip:  The Smallest Minority

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Why Liberals are Liars or Hypocrites, Part 1,546

From Michelle Malkin’s website:

President Barack Obama asked Congress on Tuesday to create a new agency to police the fine print on consumer products like credit cards and mortgages and determine what fees, penalties and interest rates are fair.

The Consumer Financial Protection Agency would be in charge of regulating those products in the same way other government agencies regulate the safety of drugs, food and toys.

Yup, ’cause that’s what we need in this country  – another “Protection Agency” and MORE government regulation of our everyday lives.  More people depending on the Nanny-state to hold their hand and tell them what is right and wrong, fair and unfair.

Obama said Americans are demanding it.

Demanding it?  What they are demanding is no tax increases to pay for your increasing deficit.  What they are demanding is no redistribution of wealth.  Remember all those tea parties?  Did you really think those people were standing around demanding that you decipher their mortgages for them?

“Those ridiculous contracts with pages of fine print that no one can figure out—those things will be a thing of the past,”

Kind of like that multi-hundred page “Stimulus Bill” (Ptewie!) that you rammed through congress and told us had to be passed immediately or the earth would spin off its axis?  You know, the one that members of congress have admitted to not reading or understanding?

How about this…Sign a contract – live with the consequences.

Whatever happened to individual accountability for (supposed) adults in this country?

Happy Hump Day 07-01-09!

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Unusual Grave Markers

 

And finally….My personal favorite…

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Where In The World Is Curtis Lowe?

Where am I hanging my hat this week?  Here’s a hint for you…

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No Blog For You! Two Weeks!

Last week and this week.

Out of the country and/or city – check back next Monday.

Thatisall.