Monday, June 30, 2014

Science vs. Doo Doo

This was a quote from a FB Friend of mine today, Dan Merrell, in a discussion about the relationship of fracking to earthquakes:

“The first day of a Power Plant Theory and Design class 1974, our assignment was take all the energy used in the world in 1973, turn it into heat and put it into Lake Superior, what is the temperature rise? [The human population has such a small impact on our world]. The temperature rise was only 1.2 degrees fahrenheit. Think about that; all the energy used by the whole population of the earth, what a small impact. Chicken Little needs a little real science then maybe he wouldn't be squealing like a pig under the gate.”


It is the blind arrogance of man to believe we are the cause of “global warming”, NOT science. We are insignificant! Get over it.

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Schumer May Be Correct

Actually, Schumer does NOT fail history. If one reads the letters of James Madison and George Mason with Jefferson, one will find that Jefferson was the "ghost writer" of the Bill of Rights and its greatest protagonist. Mason was given credit for most of the language, in collaboration with Jefferson and Madison was given credit for some of the language, also in collaboration with Jefferson, but more importantly, having the political muscle to get 'er done.

Schumer May Be Correct

Who Really Wrote the Bill of Rights?

George Mason was given most of the credit for the language in the Bill of Rights, while James Madison was given credit for some of the language and mostly, his political muscle in its passage. Jefferson was in France as the U.S. Ambassador; however, the letters exchanged between both Madison and Mason with Jefferson, clearly point to Jefferson as the "ghost writer". Jefferson was a fan of adding a bill of rights to the Constitution, telling Madison in a Dec. 20, 1787, letter that it was a glaring hole in the Constitution that emerged from the convention. “[A] bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse or rest on inference,” Jefferson wrote.

Original 17 Amendments

Art. 16. The powers delegated by the constitution to the government of the United States, shall be exercised as therein appropriated, so that the legislative shall never exercise the powers vested in the executive or judicial; nor the executive the powers vested in the legislative or judicial; nor the judicial the powers vested in the legislative or executive.

[Dropped in the second draft.] / While this was dropped, the sense of it is inclusive in the 10th Amendment. This was common to the original 17 Amendments. The 3rd became part of the 1st; the 4th became part of the 1st; the 6th became part of the 3rd; the 7th became part of the 4th; the 8th became part of the 5th; the 9th became part of the 6th; the 10th became parts of the 5th and 6th; the modified 11th became the 7th; the 12th became part of the 7th; the 13th was ratified as the 8th, Art. 14. [Dropped in the second draft. Modified version passed by Congress on June 13, 1866; ratified July 9, 1868 as part of the fourteenth Amendment]; the 15th was ratified as the 9th; the 17th [Modified version is Twelfth Amendment in second draft: ratified as the Tenth Amendment]. Thus, all of Madison's 17 Amendments were ratified in some form, only two of which, occurred after the adoption of the Bill of Rights--the 2nd and the 14th.

2nd Amendment

Art. 5. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service in person.

[Modified version is Fourth Amendment in the second draft: modified version ratified as the Second Amendment]

17th Amendment

Passed by Congress May 13, 1912, and ratified April 8, 1913, the 17th amendment modified Article I, section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. Prior to its passage, Senators were chosen by state legislatures. / Prior to this Amendment being ratified, Senators were beholden to the States. Now, they are beholden to no one. We shoulda left it at 10, or maybe 11.

27th Amendment

Did you know this: The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII) prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives. It is the most recent amendment to the United States Constitution. It was submitted to the states for ratification in September 1789 and became part of the United States Constitution in May 1992, a record setting period of 202 years, 7 months and 12 days. / It was, in fact, the 11th Amendment proposed for ratification by James Madison but was not ratified. In fact, Madison initially proposed 17 Amendments, later trimmed to 12 by the Senate. The 10 Amendments were ratified fairly quickly. The 11th was ratified two centuries later.

We the people...

What are the first three words in the Constitution?! There is NO mention in the Preamble or anywhere else in the Constitution that "we are a nation of laws", a phrase coined by a Harvard law professor more than 200 years later. It is stated clearly, "We the people...", by Gouverneur Morris, author of the Preamble.