Women Can Vote!? The 19th Amendment

The Vote. White men had it, black men had it. Women didn’t. Not on a national scale. Until 1920 when the 19th Amendment was ratified.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

With that it was recognized that women could vote. It was pushed heavily by author Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton back in the 1878, two women who WOULD NOT get back in the kitchen. I love equality and activists. It just took about 40 years for the Federal Government to recognize it.

On a state level, many of the new states in the West let women vote in all elections.  It was Limited to None in the eastern US. After the ratification of the Constitution, the Founders let states decide, as the states were sovereign at one time. Now a lot of them are like whiny dependents.

Remember that just societies have a  check and balance system. Government makes laws which are enforced by the cops. Laws are just words on paper, you don’t have to follow them, which is why we have cops. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are the laws that keep the Federal Government in check BUT it’s just words on paper unless enforced by someone. Guess who that is? WE THE PEOPLE, and we are failing miserable due to apathy and complacency. A little monetary or physical security in exchange for freedom and liberty. Not for this wolf, I’m not one of the flock, I’m above it and have taken it upon myself to snap you from your slumber, remove your blindfolds and show you how IT IS!

Another essay to follow on the Twentieth Amendment. Stay tuned for it next week.

AFPArkansas/KARN Luncheon w/ John Fund

I was invited to to a Luncheon as a guest to see John Fund. Admittedly, I had to see who he was online. A Wall Street Journal writer. He made about a 20 minute speech and then 30 minutes of questions. I recorded it all on my IPhone, so the sound isn’t the greatest. Thanks for inviting me AFPArkansas, I enjoyed it.

The speech.

Now the Q&A.

Thoughts on Government and Society

I realized Twitter is a veritable ammo can of my rants/bullets.I like to call them Growls.  So here they are for your enjoyment or anger, complete with hashtags. A few did piss off people on Twitter which made it oh so much sweeter. If you have it, you can find me at http://twitter.com/crveman.

•  When I get to church I’m going to pray that stupidity becomes unbearingly painful #tiredofthiscrap

•  We don’t have debt ceilings, we have debt suggestions #idiots

•  Keep talking sheep, you’re just making our book thicker with every inane conversation #idiots #ideologues #sheeple #wolfmentality

•  You know you win a debate when your opponent changes the subject faster than a cheating husband jerks on his pants when caught.

•  Public Service Announcement: Don’t debate anyone with the Think For Yourself mentality if your best is character assassination, & chest thumping. We probably know your counter-points better than you do, due to our open minds and critical thinking #wolfmentality

•  Democrats don’t trust business, Republicans don’t trust government. I’m suspicious of all of them until I peer into their souls, or lack of

•  Society owes you NOTHING, it was here first. The only thing we owe society is not to bleed it like a leech, other than that, I owe society nothing, I didn’t sign a contract #leavemealone #Igotthis #donttreadonme

•  You get what you earn, and what you earn depends on skill and initiative. Today, society has more skill than initiative. Does this fit you?

•  People have a “I deserve this,” or “you owe me that” attitude. Guess what, unless you work for me, I owe you NOTHING, and you deserve NOTHING from me

•  If you get back more than you pay in taxes, NEWS FLASH you don’t pay taxes #freeloader #notfair

• A proposition for the #taxtherich crowd. Give all your money BUT 15,080$ to the IRS & stand on your principles & I’ll listen to your side.

•  Your welcome. My taxes just paid for your kids school. #taxes #notfair #wheresthejustice #idonthaveanykidswhyamIpaying

That one above is the one that ticked off some people.

• What would you do if a stranger run their hands all over your kid? What is the TSA? Strangers.

• Give a man a fish, feed him for a day, TEACH him to fish, feed him for the rest of his life. A lesson America needs to remember #freedom Which is better for someone in that quote. Dependence on another for their life, or self-reliance and independence? Its really that simple

• Gay people, what’s gay people? its always been people, or him, or her to me. Friend, acquaintance, brother, sister, equal

•  The only tax I don’t mind paying is the fire Dept. I have a need for that. When I have kids, then charge me for the school taxes #fair

• I hate the fact I pay taxes on a school that I have no kids in

• Off to assess my property so the government can charge me for the “privilege/rent” of something they haven’t  put a penny in #mafia #taxes #sucks

•  Bash Bush’s War and overlook Obama’s, it’s not humanitarian. If he believed that he’d be in the Congo or Darfur #whoprofits?

•  Let’s put Darwinism back into action. Cut off welfare, except Social Security and Medicare, government grants and subsidies to businesses, & let people grow strong on their own & businesses work with help or chains. There’s a reason a momma bird kicks the baby out of the nest

•  It’s WE THE PEOPLE, not kneel before the Federal Government begging for your monthly stipend. #hardcoretruth

•  #hardcoretruth If a gov slowdown(not a shutdown) creates the aftershocks the masters of fear(politicians and their talking heads) say it will, doesn’t that tell you the government is to big, and we who live under it are weak.

•  Let’s cut the spin, the budget battle is because the #democrats failed to pass the budget when they were the majority #passthebuck #truth

• Gas is higher, milk is higher. Dollar weaker because of the Fed, Am I really supposed to believe their is no inflation #imnotaidiot

This is the Quotable Ronin. My thoughts in bite-sized, but hard to digest, mental snacks.

Who’s Sticking it to Who? Taxes & Entitlements

There’s the invasive “entitlement” mentality invading America. A parasite that bleeds those who work smart and work hard and succeed. It’s the “Tax the rich!” battle cry.

“They don’t pay their fair share.”

Got news for you, if you get back more than you pay in, it’s not the rich who isn’t paying their fair share. IT’S YOU! That’s right, I don’t sugar coat a turd to make it any better.

Money is being viewed as a natural resource, and you should feel blessed that the government doesn’t take all of it.

Continued in Growls Of A Wolf

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Mexico’s Sick Joke, A Frivolous Lawsuit and the BATFE

Mexico plans on suing American Gun Manufacturers because of all our guns going over the border. That story is here. How this is a joke is this. The Justice Dept/Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives catastrophic Project Gunrunner. You can learn more about that here.

Project Gunrunner was uncovered by David Codrea and Mike Vanderbeough and finally hit Mainstream media with CBS. A quote from this story here.

“Project Gunrunner” deployed new teams of agents to the southwest border. The idea: to stop the flow of weapons from the US to Mexico’s drug cartels. But in practice, sources tell CBS News, ATF‘s actions had the opposite result: they allegedly facilitated the delivery of thousands of guns into criminal hands.CBS News wanted to ask ATF officials about the case, but they wouldn’t agree to an interview. We were able to speak to six veteran ATF agents and executives involved. They don’t want to be quoted by name for fear of retaliation. These are their allegations.

In late 2009, ATF was alerted to suspicious buys at seven gun shops in the Phoenix area. Suspicious because the buyers paid cash, sometimes brought in paper bags. And they purchased classic “weapons of choice” used by Mexican drug traffickers – semi-automatic versions of military type rifles and pistols.

Sources tell CBS News several gun shops wanted to stop the questionable sales, but ATF encouraged them to continue.

Jaime Avila was one of the suspicious buyers. ATF put him in its suspect database in January of 2010. For the next year, ATF watched as Avila and other suspects bought huge quantities of weapons supposedly for “personal use.” They included 575 AK-47 type semi-automatic rifles.

ATF managers allegedly made a controversial decision: allow most of the weapons on the streets. The idea, they said, was to gather intelligence and see where the guns ended up. Insiders say it’s a dangerous tactic called letting the guns, “walk.”

One agent called the strategy “insane.” Another said: “We were fully aware the guns would probably be moved across the border to drug cartels where they could be used to kill.”

On the phone, one Project Gunrunner source (who didn’t want to be identified) told us just how many guns flooded the black market under ATF’s watchful eye. “The numbers are over 2,500 on that case by the way. That’s how many guns were sold – including some 50-calibers they let walk.”

50-caliber weapons are fearsome. For months, ATF agents followed 50-caliber Barrett rifles and other guns believed headed for the Mexican border, but were ordered to let them go. One distraught agent was often overheard on ATF radios begging and pleading to be allowed to intercept transports. The answer: “Negative. Stand down.”

CBS News has been told at least 11 ATF agents and senior managers voiced fierce opposition to the strategy. “It got ugly…” said one. There was “screaming and yelling” says another. A third warned: “this is crazy, somebody is gonna to get killed.”

Sure enough, the weapons soon began surfacing at crime scenes in Mexico – dozens of them sources say – including shootouts with government officials.

One agent argued with a superior asking, “are you prepared to go to the funeral of a federal officer killed with one of these guns?” Another said every time there was a shooting near the border, “we would all hold our breath hoping it wasn’t one of ‘our’ guns.”

Then, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered. The serial numbers on the two assault rifles found at the scene matched two rifles ATF watched Jaime Avila buy in Phoenix nearly a year before. Officials won’t answer whether the bullet that killed Terry came from one of those rifles. But the nightmare had come true: “walked” guns turned up at a federal agent’s murder.

Those guns the politicians are screaming are flowing over the border, sanctioned by the ATF, who answers to Attorney General Eric Holder, who answers to President Obama. Yeah, the ATF is an accessory to countless murders. Don’t look at the manufacturers, a gun is a tool used for good and bad, its neutral. Mexico’s trying to pass the buck on their narcostate status now because they won’t really fight the drug war. How about we sue Mexico because of our Junkies. The case will fail because of the law passed in 2005 that protects manufacturers from misuse of their products. If I hit you with my truck, are you going after Ford, or me?

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