It shouldn't end with impeachment

Posted by Stranded in Sonoma

Obama is guilty. That is a fact. Every anti-American, unconstitutional thing he has done is national news. First from the right-wing bloggers and now, reluctantly, from the liberal press. Even the liberal press will turn on a democrat when they smell blood in the water. And right now, all you have to do is wait a week for another Obama scandal to chum the waters again.

Many are calling for Obama to resign, or for congress to impeach him. While this is a laudable goal, we need to keep our eyes on the prize — the repeal of the 16th amendment. No, this is not impossible. Not now. However, we can't let the press dictate when the crisis is over. When Obama is impeached or he resigns, IT IS NOT OVER! We need to keep pushing and pushing on congress to get the 16th amendment repealed.

The reasoning is simple. The IRS is out of control. Then again, it has been since its inception. In the 1930s, FDR used to have Hoover and the FBI dig into the private lives of people FDR disliked. He would read all about their foibles, problems, and idiosyncrasies like it was some soap opera. We know he did this. If he used the FBI for these illegal purposes, you can bet he used the IRS for similar deeds. If you think he didn't, you're just naive enough to vote for Obama.

Richard Nixon had an enemies list and he routinely sent the IRS to harass his more vocal critics. When this information surfaced during the Watergate hearings, Hillary Rodham was a junior counsel. She admonished Nixon for using the IRS this way. Eventually, Nixon had to resign the presidency for these abuses, among others.

When Bill Clinton became president, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton would regularly order the IRS to audit and otherwise harass Bill's opponents. Which is even worse than you think because she wasn't even in the chain of command! This is all part of the Barrett Report (2002) that looked into the abuses of the Clinton Administration with emphasis on using the IRS to intimidate and harass citizens. The report was redacted for national security purposes since it did contain sensitive and secret information. However, the democrats in congress got an additional 100 pages redacted for purely political purposes. You see, those who have seen the unredacted report have said that Hillary's name is all over those extra 100 redacted pages. And since Hillary was the presumptive democrat nominee for president in 2008, they had to protect her. It seems Hillary learned well from Nixon.

Now, we have Barack Obama getting caught doing the same thing. The IRS was caught targeting conservative organizations like the Tea Party or other groups that used terms like patriot in their names. This illegal and unconstitutional harassment was done by subjecting these groups to a rigorous investigative process that requested unneeded and immaterial information through a draconian questionnaire with regard to getting tax exempt status. Let me repeat that: TAX EXEMPT STATUS. In other words, what they were doing did not constitute income within the meaning of the 16th amendment.

I am not going to bother to link to any of these stories. They are all over the web. Not so much on the sites of the liberal press but you can find them if you look.

What has Obama done? He claims he didn't know what the IRS was doing. He claims it was rogue agents in the Cincinnati office. He sends his horde of bundists out on the TV news shows to dispel any notion that he had anything to do with this. In other words, he is trying to throw someone under the bus. The IRS official in charge is resigning, but the right-wing blogs have their teeth into this are aren't letting go. The GOP members of congress are rightly angered and some of the democrats are as well. This isn't turning out well for The One. And no matter how he tries to deflect the inquiries, they all lead back to him. Obama OWNS this.

But what we must do is to repeal the 16th amendment and pass the FairTax. If we allow the liberal press to run the show, they'll let Obama off the hook. If he gets impeached or he resigns, they'll claim it's all over. NO! As long as the 16th amendment and the income tax exist, the possibility for this type of tyranny exists. If your child keeps getting into the cookie jar, you don't just keep moving the cookie jar around or move it higher or try to hide it. You empty the cookie jar and show your child there are no more cookies. YOU REMOVE WHAT THE PERSON WANTS AND THEIR DESIRE FOR MISCHIEF WILL CEASE! Remove the income tax because as long as the IRS has control over who is or is not tax exempt, the next scum-sucking socialist bastard that gets elected president will do the same thing if he is certain the people have fallen asleep. What the gov't wants is total control over your life. And they can do that because of the intrusive and mandatory nature of the income tax. Pass the FairTax, which is truly voluntary, and all of these problems go away.

During the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Roger Sherman from Connecticut was one of the framers of Article 1, Section 10.

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

Mr. Sherman knew the ravages of paper money and wanted the constitution to end it forever. So he said, "This is a favorable crisis for crushing paper money."

Well, this is a favorable crisis for crushing the income tax. We cannot let this slip away. If we do, we enslave our children to another round of the very thing we are fighting now. End this now. Rip out socialism's very heart — the income tax. Then we can finally live in the freedom, liberty, and opportunity the founders of our country intended.

Just the music on the radio...

Posted by Stranded in Sonoma

From the Summer of 1977 to the Summer of 1978. I can still remember having some of the most memorable times of my life. Just out of high school, working, making a little money, my first car, hanging out with friends, going to parties, dating the foxes (hot babes in the 1970s vernacular), and lucky to date one in particular. We used to listen to these on the radio. This list of songs reminds me of you. Thank you for the wonderful memories.

Billy Joel	Just The Way You Are
Fleetwood Mac	Dreams
Yvonne Elliman	If I Can't Have You
Bob Seger	Night Moves
Jackson Browne	Runnin' On Empty
Fleetwood Mac	You Make Loving Fun
Rod Stewart	You're In My Heart
Steven Bishop	On And On
Roberta Flack	The Closer I Get To You
Bee Gees	How Deep Is Your Love
Johnny Rivers	Swayin' To The Music

It's Always Earth Day in North Korea

Posted by Stranded in Sonoma

North Korea. Just saying it makes you think of cruelty, hate, starvation, inhumanity, barbarism, genocide...in other words, all of the most typical attributes of a socialist country.

And every year, the enviro-nazis want us to be more like North Korea. We are supposed to turn off our lights for an hour on Earth Day to...well, I'm not sure why. To be one with Mother Gaia? Except all it does is to make my house dark. Kind of like North Korea every frickin' night of the year! Look at the photograph. The distinction between freedom and socialism could not be more clear. The light of freedom versus the darkness of socialism. No wonder why the intelligent people say liberals have been seduced by the dark side. Look at the largest spot of light on the Korean peninsula, just below the national border on the left. That is the capital of South Korea, Seoul. Look at it! The light of civilization stretching for miles. Not to mention all of the other points of light in South Korea. Notice the contrast?

In the 19th century, Paris was called the City of Light. NOT the city of lights. What was meant by Light was all of the learning, knowledge, freedom, innovation, discovery, industry, commerce, and science. Many great things were discovered or built by the French in the late 19th century. Louis Pasteur saved millions of lives due to his study in the fields of Chemistry and Microbiology. Ferdinand de Lesseps was a capitalist of boundless optimism whose company built the Suez Canal. Just to name two. French was considered the language of second choice for the non-French. The French did, well...everything! And when electric lighting was installed all over Paris, there could be no mistaking it as the true City of Light.

In August of 1953, the Korean War ended. Both North and South Korea started at roughly the same spot economically. Both had been ravaged by three years of war. Both were heavily indebted to a much larger benefactor country. Both had to start from scratch. But that is were the similarity ends. South Korea had United States troops to protect it from any more incursions from the North. The government was free to concentrate on the economy. They held free elections and have had 11 presidents. Their current president is Park Geun-hye. She (yes, SHE!) was the chairwoman of the conservative Grand National Party. They got most of their help from the United States. Look at what 60 years of that help has done.

In North Korea, the government demagogued the U.S. troops as possible invaders. They built the military and police forces to the detriment of a sound economy. Their royal family, the Kim's, have been in power since the creation of the country in 1948. Yes, it is a monarchy. What do you call a family-based, bloodline oriented, non-elected national ruler? I call that a King. Which is strange because the entire reason Karl Marx wrote about communism and socialism was due to his distaste for monarchies. They got "help" from the Soviet Union and from Communist China. And look what 60 years of that "help" has done.

Do you own a Samsung TV or cell phone or even household appliance? What about a Hyundai car? Just those two companies account for 20% of the GDP of South Korea. Look at the 2010 GDP tables in this article. The province of Chungnam has the same per capita GDP as that of the United States! Its GDP growth was a whopping 12.4% in 2010! The national GDP of South Korea is $1.151 trillion! What is the GDP of North Korea? Well, no one is really sure. It is estimated to be around $40 billion. For all we know, it could be $1.98.

Think of all of the innovation, learning, knowledge, and commerce that takes place every day in South Korea. They don't turn their lights off to celebrate Earth Day.

Now look at North Korea. They "celebrate" Earth Day, every day.

What's Retro is New

Posted by Stranded in Sonoma

My wife and I went shopping the other night and she wanted to look at...blenders. So, we headed on over to JCPenny mostly because she had a 20% off coupon. There was lots of remodeling going on but finding the housewares section was pretty easy. I wanted to get some clothes and the housewares section was moved right to where men's clothes used to be!

Well, we started looking at all of the fancy, heavy plastic, computer-controlled blenders and none seemed right. Then I spotted the retro model in the photo to the left. Massive glass pitcher — check! Brushed metal base — check! Single three-place metal-post toggle switch — double check! Look at that beast! Flip the 1940's RadioShack high tech toggle switch up, and it locks in the on position. Back to the middle is off. Push to the bottom and it turns on, but letting go, springs the switch back to the middle off position. Geez! That "technology" is older than ME! I didn't know they even made these anymore. This blender is so retro, I felt like I was channeling Fred Waring. Unfortunately, we didn't buy it. Maybe 60 bux is a bit much for a glorified whisk.

The Information Superhighway to Nowhere, CA

Posted by Stranded in Sonoma

Remember when California was the technology leader in the United States? Remember when California was the technology leader in the WORLD? Remember when Silicon Valley was the place to be for your high-tech company, established or start-up? Remember when California would do all it could to attract high-tech innovators and leading edge technology?

Of course you remember it because none of the above is the case now and hasn't been for some time. Oh sure, Google is still there, along with Apple and Hewlett-Packard. But when was the last time you heard of major progress in the high-tech industry being exhibited in California? All we get now are liberal tax and spend boondoggles like the "high speed" rail that will just become another big hole in the ground into which tax money is poured.

Google's new innovation, Google Fiber, is a fiber optic network that allows 1 gigabit internet speeds into your home. If was first introduced in Kansas City and just recently in Austin, Texas. Now, most people are probably doing fine with what they have. They don't need that much speed and may not see major improvement over what they have now. But this is kind of like Highway 101 in Marin and Sonoma counties. For the longest time, U.S. 101 got little improvement over its original implementation. In 1973-74, it was moved east of Novato so you no longer had to drive through the city. Just before the Novato improvements, a new viaduct was built in San Rafael as an adjunct to the original one that only allowed 2 lanes of traffic per direction. Sonoma County got zero improvements until the mid to late 1990s. Unfortunately, as the population grew due to the migration from Marin to Sonoma, U.S. 101 stayed the same. Most of that migration happened in the 1980s. At one point, the section of 101 including Petaluma and the Cotati Grade was seeing over 90,000 vehicles an hour. It is now 2013 and most of the approved upgrades have finally been finished for Sonoma County. Those should have been done 20 years ago. Highway 101 south of Petaluma and north of Novato, where Marin and Sonoma counties meet, has changed just once when an overpass to the county dump was built due to the number of fatal accidents with cars and trucks trying to cross the north-bound lanes of traffic. That section is still just a divided highway and not a freeway.

Now picture that type of people/traffic backlog on the web. Eventually we will need to start upgrading all of our networking infrastructure. We need to do this now before the old infrastructure no longer meets the needs of the growing number of internet users. But not in California! Here is Google's reasoning why.

Many fine California city proposals for the Google Fiber project were ultimately passed over in part because of the regulatory complexity here brought about by CEQA [California Environmental Quality Act] and other rules. Other states have equivalent processes in place to protect the environment without causing such harm to business processes, and therefore create incentives for new services to be deployed there instead.

In other words, California is where technology, innovation, progress, and intelligence go to die. Do you have a great idea for some technological improvement that will benefit millions? Don't bother with California. All you'll get are rules and regulations designed to thwart progress, stifle business, and kill innovation. That is the socialist way in California.

1.21 Gigawatts!

Posted by Stranded in Sonoma

Well, I've finally gone solar. We decided to have Vivint Solar install the panels and get us setup to save some money. If you haven't heard of them, give them a call. At first I was a bit skeptical of their pitch and wanted nothing to do with a bunch of greenie meanies and their version of solar power. But Vivint Solar is far from that. Yes, it is a solar sales pitch, but with a surprisingly good twist. In the government approved version of solar power, you buy your solar panels from a government approved solar shop, they install the array, and the solar power is "free." Well, it's free as soon as your energy savings finishes paying off the price of the panels and installation; that could take years. You do get to write off the solar installation and all of the attendant paraphernalia on your taxes. As long as you keep the receipts and other paperwork the government will demand.

However, with Vivint it is quite different. The government doesn't get involved. You are not buying anything, except buying into a long-term contract to buy the solar power from Vivint. Let me explain. Vivint sells you no hardware because they are a power company, just like Pacific Gas and Electric. When you buy power from PG&E you don't own the hardware. PG&E just transports the power from their generating stations to your house. Vivint does the same thing but they've just moved the generating station from some distant power plant to the solar array on the roof of your house. What you do is to agree to buy the power from Vivint over a 20 year term for the set rate of 15 cents per kilowatt hour. In CA that is a serious bargain. PG&E has a rate tier depending on how much electricity you use. It starts at 13 cents per kilowatt hour and tops out at 35 cents per kilowatt hour — for now; those will likely rise in the future. The 15 cents per kWh from Vivint is good for the life of the contract. Vivint still owns the array and all the attendant accessories installed on or in your house. If there is a problem with any hardware, Vivint will replace it for free. If you need to have a new roof installed, Vivint will remove, store, and replace the array for a $500 charge. If you sell your house, the contract transfers to the new owners. Simple and easy.

The photo to the right is a piece of equipment called the Envoy. It is connected to your home network (also a requirement) so Vivint can monitor their solar array. If you click on the photo, you will see that the array on my house is currently producing 1.21 kilowatts (not gigawatts!) of electricity. It has produced 180 kilowatt hours of electricity over it's life and there are 27 panels in the array. I have smudged out the IP address of the device which is just above the electrical information. If you want to see what the Envoy is doing, just enter its IP address into the browser on your computer. You will be taken to the Envoy's home screen. The administration link requires a password, so don't even bother.

The Envoy is placed as close as possible to the main electrical panel in your house. The reason for this is because it is connected to your network via IP over power. The photo to the left shows this connection. A second IP over power unit is placed near your home router and a short IP cable is connected from the unit to the router. If any part of the array, the Envoy, or the IP over power units stops working, Vivint will call you to setup a time to replace the faulty gear. Remember, the hardware belongs to them; you are just paying them for the power it produces. A second requirement is that the electrical bill must be paid electronically through automatic bill payment. This is quite a risk that Vivint is taking and they want to ensure that the bill is paid on time. You are notified of the due bill and given roughly two weeks before the money is removed from your account.

Naturally, the amount of electricity produced does vary with the amount of sun. The curve tends to start off slow in the morning but climbs to over 1 kilowatt by around 9 AM. By noon to 2 PM the amount of electricity is usually in the 3.5 kilowatt range. On a bright and sunny day after about 1 month of use, I saw total electrical output of 5.08 kilowatts at 1 PM! Not too bad for a solar array that has 27 panels with 15 on the east facing roof and 12 on the west facing roof. I don't have any real south facing roof space to speak of. I'm not sure how much electricity I use per hour but I'd be willing to bet it's not anywhere near 5.08 kilowatts.

The only "catch" to getting power from Vivint is that they are only allowed to provide no more than 80% of your electricity. In California, PG&E still has a type of monopoly and they want to be sure they get some money. Besides, when the array is not producing, you will still need power. The way this is setup is that when the array is producing, you use electricity from Vivint. Any excess is put into the grid and you are credited for that which you don't use. As the power from the array drops (obviously at night) you draw power from PG&E. California has also mandated that PG&E provide a specific amount of energy from solar. So this meets that requirement.

The nice part of this is that there is no government involvement. There are no tax credits or write-offs or receipts to keep until income tax season. This is done completely by private enterprise. Vivint has many investors that are in this for the long term. As more and more people have Vivint supply the majority of their electricity, they make money by making a profit, which in turn provides jobs. Instead of having the government intrude into your life so they can give you back some of the money they took from you in the first place, using solar power from Vivint starts your savings immediately because there is no cost to you up front and no waiting for the government to decide if you've filled out all of the tax forms properly. This may not be for everyone, but it's worth listening to the talk. It was for us. Many thanks to our sales representative, Max.

Loving, kind, friendly, inclusive democrat

Posted by Stranded in Sonoma

The woman you are looking at attacked a 63 year old grand-mother of 12 outside of a Planned Parenthood abortion mill in Wilmington, DE. The grandmother, Rae Stabosz, was outside the clinic filming an ambulance that had been called to take a botched abortion victim to a real medical facility. The woman pictured came outside, attacked Mrs. Stabosz and fled the scene. She is still at large.

If you have seen this woman or know of this woman's whereabouts, please do not approach her; she is a fleeing felon and has already attacked a defenseless 63 year old woman who was claiming and exercising her constitutional rights. Contact the police so they can blithely ignore this typical democrat violence against people that don't agree with their beliefs.

The full story with video is here.

How World War 3 Started

Posted by Stranded in Sonoma

BWAHAhahahahahahaha!

Oil companies need to pay more

Posted by Stranded in Sonoma

Check out the taxes on a gallon of gasoline in The People's Socialist Quagmire of California. Click on the photo to biggify. Below is a table with the information.

18.4 ¢	Federal
35.3 ¢	State & Local
53.7 ¢	Total

I took this photo while filling up today. Gas at a local ARCO station was $3.99 per gallon. Excise taxes make up 53.7 cents a gallon. By the way, the sales taxes are also included in the price. So if I subtract 7.5% city sales tax from the $3.99 and then 53.7 cents from that (yes, excise taxes are taxed again by the sales tax), that comes to gas being about $3.15 per gallon.

Just remember, when you see a license plate that says FBIGOIL (I did, it was on a Prius) or one of your knuckle-dragging liberal friends says that Big Oil (whatever that is) should pay more taxes because of their "windfall profits," remember who will be paying that tax. Yeah you. The schlub at the pump.

Separated at Birth #2

Now that Soledad O'Brien is no longer with CNN and is headed for the unemployment line (see the video below), I think she needs someone to console her. Someone to talk things out. Someone to be that grounding influence in place of her therapist and support group. I think it should be her long lost twin, now that they've been reunited.

One of these things is NOT like the others

Click on the photo to enlarge it. You have to choose which one of these things is not like the others. Give up? It's "C." You can't feed a family of four with a degree in Minority Women's Studies.

Separated at Birth?

I knew that I'd seen the wig that Mooshell was wearing somewhere before! It's the same hair as her twin sister!

One of these things is exactly like the other

Yes, I know that on the photo to the left, the one on the right is not Daryl Hannah but is instead, the Cat Woman that is addicted to plastic surgery. But you have to admit, together they do look like the before and after meth photos you can find all over the web.

Things that make you go Brrrrrrrr!

Throw a flag? I don't got to throw no stinkin' flag!

Well, Super Bowl 47 is over and the 49ers lost. I'm disappointed. I said before the game, that I hoped it wouldn't be decided by some official making a bad call. I needn't have worried. The 49ers lost because some official didn't make a call.

The 49ers had the ball, fourth and goal at the Ravens 5 yard line. Colin Kaepernick threw a fade pass to receiver Michael Crabtree in the corner of the end zone. The Ravens' defensive back was grabbing his jersey while they were in the end zone. That is past the 5 yard allowance for contact. The replay clearly showed Crabtree's jersey being stretched out. No penalty was called.

You can say what you want. Yes, the 49ers should not have gotten themselves into that position. Yes, they should not have let a kickoff be returned for a touchdown. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! BUT... they were in that position and they have a right to expect that if one of their players is fouled the officials will throw a flag. Didn't happen. If the 49ers were ahead and on defense in that situation, I'll bet the Ravens get the benefit of that call. I've seen less contact called pass interference. Hell, I've seen NO contact called pass interference! Oakland Raider safety Stuart Schweigert actually vaulted a receiver and batted a pass down. He never touched the receiver but got called for pass interference. But pulling a jersey isn't? Some may say this is just sour grapes. Hardly. As I said, the 49ers had the right to expect that a penalty should have been called, since that has been called a penalty ever since I've been watching football. And I've been watching the NFL since 1965.

And another thing, during the fracas that occurred during the game, Baltimore Ravens' cornerback Cary Williams, number 29, was feuding with the 49er players when he turned to his left, put both hands on an official, and pushed him enough for the official to be forced backward. Per league rules, that is a disqualification foul. A few Ravens' players also took punches at some 49er players; some hit, some didn't. By rule, those are 15 yard personal fouls. Second offense is disqualification. None of those was flagged. The talking heads said the officials didn't want to interject themselves into the middle of the game. Unless I'm mistaken, that is their job!

I hope Jim Harbaugh and Jed York write a letter to the commissioner and the head of officiating stating that it is nice to know that the pulling of a receiver’s jersey while the ball is in the air, and striking an official, are no longer penalties in the NFL.

I guess those penalties don't apply when you have a retiring player that needs to go out with another Super Bowl victory. The worst part was watching Ray Lewis bleat about winning when he had very little to do with the victory. Lewis should write a thank you letter to the head of NFL officiating. Good riddance to Ray Lewis.

Executive Odors

Ever since Joe Biden stated that he thinks Barack Obama should sign an executive order to confiscate whatever guns the government deems necessary, there has been a lot of talk about what to do.

Well, the first thing to remember is that executive orders are binding only on the Executive Department. They are not binding on the Legislative Department and are not binding on the Judicial Department. Since they do not carry the force of law, they are not binding on the citizens either. Remember that Congress has the legislative power. Article 1, Section 1, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution spells it out clearly.

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

If the president can just sign an executive order with the full force and effect of a law, then why bother with a Legislative Department anyway? For that matter, why bother with the Judicial Department as well? A tyrannical president would just continue to sign executive orders in the face of a constitutional judiciary anyway. And doesn't that sound exactly like a monarchy? You remember monarchies, right? They are the reason we have a constitution in the first place! So be very clear on this: executive orders need not be followed by any citizen.

But what about Executive Order 9066? On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that authorized the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas of the country into military zones. In these zones, the EO allowed the government to exclude any or all persons. Though while it did not name a nationality or ethnicity, in effect, it allowed the government to intern citizens and resident aliens of Japanese Ancestry. Were the Americans of Japanese descent required to go to the internment camps? Absolutely not. 9066 was not binding on the people, only on the War Department. Did they go? Yes, at gunpoint. Was this illegal? No, the War Department was merely following EO 9066. Strangely, it was up to the citizens to NOT go and force the government to take them. Then they would be injured by the EO and have standing to fight it in court.

Well, a court battle did come about. In Korematsu v. United States (323 U.S. 214) Mr. Korematsu argued that Executive Order 9066 was unconstitutional. It wasn't. The reason for Mr. Korematsu's arrest was a federal law! From the decision: (italics mine)

In the instant case prosecution of the petitioner was begun by information charging violation of an Act of Congress, of March 21, 1942, 56 Stat. 173, 18 U.S.C.A. 97a, which provides that '... whoever shall enter, remain in, leave, or commit any act in any military area or military zone prescribed, under the authority of an Executive order of the President, by the Secretary of War, or by any military commander designated by the Secretary of War, contrary to the restrictions applicable to any such area or zone or contrary to the order of the Secretary of War or any such military commander, shall, if it appears that he knew or should have known of the existence and extent of the restrictions or order and that his act was in violation thereof, be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be liable to a fine of not to exceed $5,000 or to imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, for each offense.'

In other words, the Executive Order gave the Secretary of War authority to create military zones and then Congress passed a law which outlined penalties for anyone that violated those military zones. Three of the Associate Justices on the Supreme Court (Roberts, Murphy, and Jackson) dissented from the majority opinion. They found the entire process a violation of constitutional rights. Mr. Korematsu was born here and a citizen of the United States and they mostly based their opinions on that fact. In his dissenting opinion, Mr. Justice Jackson had this to say:

...if any fundamental assumption underlies our system, it is that guilt is personal and not inheritable.

However, the majority of the court found Mr. Korematsu to be guilty and upheld the conviction. Why? Because we were at war and as an exigency of war, they determined that national security was more important. And it was. But let's be clear on this: Mr. Korematsu was not found guilty of a violation of Executive Order 9066; he was found guilty of a law passed by Congress. And the majority of the Supreme Court found the law to be constitutional. Keep that in mind.

What is the difference between Executive Order 9066 and one that may be signed by Barack Obama? Nothing. They are just EO's that tell the Executive Department to do something. If Obama signs an EO but Congress does not pass a law, the Department of Justice may be told to confiscate your guns but you are under no compulsion to give up your guns. But what if the Republicans in the House go along and pass a law ordering the confiscation of guns? Well, that's were the Supreme Court comes in again. Here is a quote from the Supreme Court decision, Miranda v. Arizona (384 US 438).

Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule making or legislation which would abrogate them.

Remember that quote. The Supreme Court affirmed, in the two cases of District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago that the 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms means that every citizen in the United States has a right to own and possess a firearm. Does this mean that any law passed by Congress that allows for the confiscation of firearms is unconstitutional? You bet! If you want proof, just watch how liberals react when any state passes a law restricting abortions. The ACLU goes into full eugenics mode while bleating about Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose.

So, what all this means is that you, as a gun owner, are under no obligation to hand over your guns to the government just because Obama signs an executive order or even if Congress passes a law based on that executive order. Will the government try to confiscate your guns? Of course they will. They are under orders to do so. You are under no such order to comply. Could things get ugly? Most certainly. But I suspect this is what Obama and Jarrett and all of the socialists in the administration want anyway. They want open, armed, conflict so Obama can declare martial law and suspend all rights. At that point, it will become our second Civil War.

You can forget about Obama's phony birth certificate. If he signs an executive order to confiscate our guns, he may well be signing his own death certificate.