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Reply by Mangus Colorado, Moderator on December 8, 2012 at 3:56pm

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Permalink Reply by Mangus Colorado, Moderator on December 8, 2012 at 4:20pm

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Permalink Reply by Mangus Colorado, Moderator on December 11, 2012 at 9:47am

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Permalink Reply by Mangus Colorado, Moderator on December 8, 2012 at 8:20pm

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I just posted the portion of Jefferson's "writings" that includes a letter to the prosecutor of a case about to be heard in front of the judge who came up with the theory of judicial review. Here's a portion of the letter in which Jefferson asks the prosecutor to let the judge (and the public) know what Jefferson thought of judicial review.

(1807-1815) The Writings of Thomas Jefferson_Part1 Beginning on Pg 53.

"DEAR SIR, While Burr's case is depending before the court, I will trouble you, from time to time, with what occurs to me. I observe that the case of Marbury v. Madison has been cited, and I think it material to stop at the threshold the citing that case as authority, and to have it denied to be law."

"I have long wished for a proper occasion to have the gratuitous opinion in Marbury v. Madison brought before the public, & denounced as not law; &: I think the present a fortunate one. because it occupies such a place in the public attention. I should be glad therefore. if, in noticing that case.you could take occasion to express the determination of the executive, that the doctrines of that case were given extra judicially & against law, and that their reverse will be the rule of action with the executive."

If I understand this right, Jefferson's position was that he would not comply with any court decision that exceeded his understanding of the Constitution. That's pretty amazing when we today are told by the schools, media and politicians that the supreme court gets the final say on the Constitution.

What's even more amazing is that isn't what Chief Justice Roberts' wrote in his recent Obamacare ruling. Within he reminds us that the ultimate decisions rest with us.

"We (the Court) possess neither the expertise nor the prerogative to make policy judgments. Those decisions are entrusted to our nation's elected leaders, who can be thrown out of office if the people disagree with them. It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices."

As always, check it out for yourself; if your convinced then tell your kids about it.

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Permalink Reply by Mangus Colorado, Moderator on December 10, 2012 at 9:23am

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Permalink Reply by Mangus Colorado, Moderator on December 11, 2012 at 9:57am

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Writing in December of 1861 in a London weekly publication, the famous English author, Charles Dickens, who was a strong opponent of slavery, said these things about the war going on in America:

“The Northern onslaught upon slavery is no more than a piece of specious humbug disguised to conceal its desire for economic control of the United States.” “Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as many, many other evils. The quarrel between the North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.”

Karl Marx, like most European socialists of the time favored the North. In an 1861 article published in England, he articulated very well what the major British newspapers, the Times, the Economist, and Saturday Review, had been saying:

"The war between the North and South is a tariff war. The war, is further, not for any principle, does not touch the question of slavery, and in fact turns on the Northern lust for power."

A horrific example of the damage that protective tariffs can exact was also seen in later history. One of the causes of the Great Depression of 1930-1939 was the Hawley-Smoot Act, a high tariff passed in 1930 that Congress mistakenly thought would help the country. While attempting to protect domestic industry from foreign imports, the unanticipated effect was to reduce the nation’s exports and thereby help increase unemployment to the devastating figure of 25%. It is fairly well known by competent and honest economists now that protective tariffs usually do more harm than good, often considerably more harm than good. However, economic ignorance and political expediency often combine to overrule longer-term public good. As the Uncivil War of 1861-5 proves, the human and economic costs for such shortsighted political expediency and partisan greed can be enormous.

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Permalink Reply by Mangus Colorado, Moderator on December 11, 2012 at 10:11am

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Common sense -

For some time many of us have wondered just who is Jack Schitt?

    We find ourselves at a loss when someone says, 'You don't know Jack

Schitt!'

    Well, thanks to genealogy efforts, you can now respond in an

intellectual way.

    Jack Schitt is the only son of Awe Schitt.

    Awe Schitt was married to O. Schitt, the fertilizer magnate, and owner

of

Needeep N. Schitt, Inc. They had one son, Jack.

    In turn, Jack Schitt married Noe Schitt. The deeply religious couple

produced

six children: Holie Schitt, Giva Schitt, Fulla Schitt, Bull Schitt, and the

twins Deep Schitt and Dip Schitt.

    Against her parents' objections, Deep Schitt married Dumb Schitt, a high

school

dropout.

    After being married 15 years, Jack and Noe Schitt divorced. Noe Schitt

later

married Ted Sherlock, and because her kids were living with them, she wanted

to

keep her previous name. She was then known as Noe Schitt-Sherlock.

    Meanwhile, Dip Schitt married Loda Schitt, and they produced a

    son with a rather nervous disposition who was nick-named Chicken Schitt.

    Two of the other six children, Fulla Schitt and Giva Schitt, were

inseparable

throughout childhood and subsequently married the Happens brothers in a dual

ceremony.

    The wedding announcement in the newspaper announced the

    Schitt-Happens nuptials.

    The Schitt-Happens children were Dawg, Byrd, and Horse.

    Bull Schitt, the prodigal son, left home to tour the world.

    He recently returned from Italy with his new Italian bride,

    Pisa Schitt.

    Now when someone says, 'You don't know Jack Schitt,' you

    can correct them.

    Sincerely,

    Crock O. Schitt

    NOTE: PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE WHO NEEDS A LAUGH.

    REMEMBER: IF YOU DON'T THEN YOU MIGHT POSSIBLY BE RELATED TO FULLA

SCHITT