If the Iraq War is indeed being fought for oil as the hippies so jackassfully claim, then I propose NATO be damned, we launch an immediate two pronged assault on Ireland and Germany in order to prevent this from happening in the US. My bike gets 45 mpg so I dont mind paying $3.20 gal. but mess with the Donkey's hooch and we gots problems.
Monday, July 31, 2006
99 Cent 40's Or Fight
If the Iraq War is indeed being fought for oil as the hippies so jackassfully claim, then I propose NATO be damned, we launch an immediate two pronged assault on Ireland and Germany in order to prevent this from happening in the US. My bike gets 45 mpg so I dont mind paying $3.20 gal. but mess with the Donkey's hooch and we gots problems.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Promises Promises
On Sunday, John Kerry said of Israel's war against Hezbollah, "If I was president, this wouldn't have happened," adding, "we have to destroy Hezbollah." But wait a minute — Hezbollah didn't attack us on 9/11! Wouldn't fighting Hezbollah distract us from the urgent task of finding Osama bin Laden? Democrats can't come out and admit that they refuse to fight any war in defense of America, so they utter the "Where's Osama?" incantation to pretend that they'd be doing something. To wit: dedicating the entire resources of the U.S. military to locating Osama bin Laden. Thus, in the third presidential debate, Kerry complained about the cost of the war in Iraq, saying the war was "the result of this president taking his eye off of Osama bin Laden." After making the capture of Osama bin Laden their sole objective in the war on terrorism, now Democrats expect us to believe they would have been fighting every other Muslim jihadist on the planet like mad — just not one of the main sponsors of Islamic terrorism, Saddam Hussein. But they'd be merciless with every other mass-murdering, Islamic terror-sponsoring lunatic.
Read Coulter Here
Read Coulter Here
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Cirroc in '08
Thank you! Thank you very much, thank you! First of all, let me say how happy I am to be your nominee for the United States Senate! [ applause ] You know.. thank you.. I don't really understand your Congress, or your system of checks and balances.. because, as I said during the campaign - I'm just a caveman! I fell on some ice, and later got thawed out by scientists. But there is one thing I do know - we must do everything in our power to lower the Capitol Gains Tax. Thank you!
Cirroc
War and Peace (movements)
One of the many failings of our educational system is that it sends out into the world people who cannot tell rhetoric from reality. They have learned no systematic way to analyze ideas, derive their implications and test those implications against hard facts.
"Peace" movements are among those who take advantage of this widespread inability to see beyond rhetoric to realities. Few people even seem interested in the actual track record of so-called "peace" movements -- that is, whether such movements actually produce peace or war.
Read Thomas Sowell Here:
"Peace" movements are among those who take advantage of this widespread inability to see beyond rhetoric to realities. Few people even seem interested in the actual track record of so-called "peace" movements -- that is, whether such movements actually produce peace or war.
Read Thomas Sowell Here:
We Are The World....
Does anyone doubt that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization? Is anyone denying that the attacks and kidnappings on Israel were an act of war? Didn't the original attacks occur on the Israeli side of the border?
So where is the U.N. and the rest of the world community? This is there chance to show what they stand for. Right now there should be an army of 50-100 thousand soldiers from all over the world heading into Lebanon to shut down Hezbollah guerillas, but of course all they want to do is talk. They call for a cease fire, but that would mean that Israel would stop firing and their enemies would not, we know this because that is how it has always been.
Once again the U.N. shows it's true colors. Where are the "peace keepers"? Why don't we ever see the peace keepers in any areas where we need peace?
U.N. resolutions are meaningless, the security council has war criminals on it, the secretary general has been caught up in scandals, they have failed to stop the genocide in the Sudan, their"soldiers" have been caught up in underage prostitution rings, they have failed to help the civilian population in Iraq, they have failed to do ANYTHING in this most recent conflict between Israel and the terrorists of Hezbollah, they don't do anything but talk, and double park in front of the best restaurants in manhattan.
If it was up to me i would get rid of the whole organization, but here's an idea that i read somewhere a long time ago and i think i've suggested it here before. Make the U.N. headquarters mobile. When theres conflict somewhere in the world, where ever people are suffering move the headquarters there. So for example, right now the headquarters would be located in the Sudan, and then once that area is fixed they could move to the next hot spot. This would bring a different kind of people to the U.N. It would bring in people of action instead of diplomats who want to live for free on the east side of NY.
So where is the U.N. and the rest of the world community? This is there chance to show what they stand for. Right now there should be an army of 50-100 thousand soldiers from all over the world heading into Lebanon to shut down Hezbollah guerillas, but of course all they want to do is talk. They call for a cease fire, but that would mean that Israel would stop firing and their enemies would not, we know this because that is how it has always been.
Once again the U.N. shows it's true colors. Where are the "peace keepers"? Why don't we ever see the peace keepers in any areas where we need peace?
U.N. resolutions are meaningless, the security council has war criminals on it, the secretary general has been caught up in scandals, they have failed to stop the genocide in the Sudan, their"soldiers" have been caught up in underage prostitution rings, they have failed to help the civilian population in Iraq, they have failed to do ANYTHING in this most recent conflict between Israel and the terrorists of Hezbollah, they don't do anything but talk, and double park in front of the best restaurants in manhattan.
If it was up to me i would get rid of the whole organization, but here's an idea that i read somewhere a long time ago and i think i've suggested it here before. Make the U.N. headquarters mobile. When theres conflict somewhere in the world, where ever people are suffering move the headquarters there. So for example, right now the headquarters would be located in the Sudan, and then once that area is fixed they could move to the next hot spot. This would bring a different kind of people to the U.N. It would bring in people of action instead of diplomats who want to live for free on the east side of NY.
Monday, July 24, 2006
Whose Life?
Jonathan Alter of Newsweek asks in his article this week "The question, as in all moral issues, is whose life?" And like most pro baby killers he chooses his own, not the life of the unborn. However it's a very revealing question, because he admits that it is a life. Isn't that the crux of the argument?
When is it ok to take a life? Is it ok to take an innocent life for the potential benfit of another life? Whose life is more valuable? Where does it end? If someone is retarded, or handicapped should we experiment on them? I mean if we want to cure Autism, maybe taking the life of autisic children and using their bodies for experiments could help with a cure? Would Alter be in favor of taking that life?
I think we've already gone down the slippery slope of playing God with abortion, i don't think we should go any further.
As Paul Ramsey once said, “the moral history of mankind is more important that it’s medical history.” (copied from A. Williams)
When is it ok to take a life? Is it ok to take an innocent life for the potential benfit of another life? Whose life is more valuable? Where does it end? If someone is retarded, or handicapped should we experiment on them? I mean if we want to cure Autism, maybe taking the life of autisic children and using their bodies for experiments could help with a cure? Would Alter be in favor of taking that life?
I think we've already gone down the slippery slope of playing God with abortion, i don't think we should go any further.
As Paul Ramsey once said, “the moral history of mankind is more important that it’s medical history.” (copied from A. Williams)
Friday, July 21, 2006
J To the IzzACK A To The IzzASS
It takes more than a license plate to make it at
Thunder Road. I know Ill be accused of drinking the hater-ade,
but come on vanity plates are for chicks.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Learn To Live Like An Animal
A cobra attacks a mongoose, its a coin flip. Somedays the snake will win and other times the mongoose. Both sides realize going into the fight that they have a punchers chance. All the animals in the jungle would be in agreement. Noone would any sooner begrudge the victor for their victory as they would show pity on the defeated's defeat.
The camel hates all non humped animals but the lion even more so. Being a camel sucks and the camel knows this to be true. The camel has never been to a Tony Robbins speech or ever read self help books such as Dale Carnegies "How To Win Friends and Influence People". The camel blames all the other animals for his problems. So he decides to strap on some TnT and walk into the lion's den, murders everyone within the vicinity of the lion his infidel mane even including tigers and bears.
Are we to urge the lion to show restraint because of the strength disparity tween the two. Should we condemn him for his use of disappropriate force as he snaps the camel's neck and rips him limb from limb. Do we give the camel a free pass for his crimes because of his weakness.
Does the lion not deserve retribution for the atrocities committed against him and his pride. The Law of the Jungle sayeth so and so sayeth the Donkey.
EE-Aw!!!
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Hallucinogens And Hot Dogs Hooray
Two of my favorite things. All I can say is if I was eating a hot dog and it told me he had a wife and seven children is that it looks like I would be eating nine hot dogs. Once again... Happy Hot Dog Month.
Monday, July 17, 2006
War What Is It Good For? Killing Terrorists
In the interest of saving time if and when the current situation in the Middle East escalates I will attempt to rebut and address the anticipated arguments from our liberal friends on the left.
The Iraq War did not cause more ideologically insane Islamofascist insurgents in the region. Like LL Cool JJ so eloquently said and I so ingeniously paraphrased...
theyve been here for years
bombing their peers
puttin innocent civilians in fear.
President Bush did not create The War on Terror. He just decided to fight it. I know that eight years of Clinton foreign policy has mushed the hippie mind to the harsh realities of the world. Case in point...the first WTC bombings, Somalia, USS Cole, the US embassies in Africa etc. But y'all keep your head in the sand chanting hippie see no evil peace sea chanties, and well see how that works out.
Spain withdrew from Iraq and yet still Madrid was hit, how bout Bali, what the F did they ever do to anybody. Terrorists dont give two shiites about us, why do liberals care so much for them and their Geneva "rights" How bout the rights of the terrorized.
Bush may not always conduct this War to my liking, but the fight was brought to us and the argument should not be how to withdraw surrender or appease our enemies but rather how to kill more of them before they us. Terrorists wont care if Hillary, Gore, or Kerry are in office as their resolve to eradicate us will not waver...but will ours?
Friday, July 14, 2006
Rhino Swims The Rio Grande
Sometimes in the realm of politics we are too close to the fire to feel the flame, and at other times although able to hear the cracklin acklin of the campfire we are too far away to welcome the warmth.
Take for instance the issue of immigration. I am born of immigrant parentage, was raised for the early years of my life in el barrio of LA (wats appenin ese), and today Id estimate that my daily business puts me in contact with a handful of "illegals" ordering takeout, massages, shoe shines, dry cleaning delivery, etcetera etc. These people bring value to me and increase my comfort of living.
That being said, I am still anti-immigration, legal or otherwise. Obviously the illegal invasion must be halted, and until the national unemployment rate is at 0% it is mathematically unnecessary for our country to import cheap labor and should only allow the bare minimum of skilled legal immigrants. It may benefit corp America, but that isnt always if ever the same as benefiting Americans.
Which brings me to the point of this post. It seems our esteemed colleague, Rhino was deported early this morn back to Mexico. Now I cant say for certain that he is Mexican, as his clever ruze of changing all the Z's in his name to S's in an effort to convey that euro trash vibe has befuddled us all. As he is so fond of saying himself "He's just a white guy from LI". Then show us your green card, traitor!
How has this affected The Aurora's position on immigration you ask. Not uno iota. In fact we implore this administration to build that border wall asap, enough of this bullshite lip service you continue to pay American citizens truly concerned with national security and the socio-economic ramifications of the illegal invasion on our southern border, and for that matter I call for the immediate revoking of all Canadian comedians visas as well. Its time to get tough and close our borders, preferably before Rhino finishes his vacation next week.
Vaya con diaz Rinoceronte.
Thursday, July 13, 2006
True Story
True story, I was happy. My girlfriend and I had been dating for over a year, and so we decided to get married. My parents helped us in every way, my friends encouraged me, and my girlfriend? She was a dream! There was only one thing bothering me, very much indeed, and that one thing was her younger sister. My prospective sister-in-law was twenty years of age, wore tight mini skirts and low cut blouses. She would regularly bend down when near me and I got many a pleasant view of her underwear. It had to be deliberate. She never did it when she was near anyone else. One day little sister called and asked me to come over to check the wedding invitations. She was alone when I arrived. She whispered to me that soon I was to be married, and she had feelings and desires for me that she couldn't overcome and didn't really want to overcome. She told me that she wanted to make love to me just once before I got married and committed my life to her sister. I was in total shock and couldn't say a word. She said, "I'm going upstairs to my bedroom, and if you want to go ahead with it just come up and get me." I was stunned. I was frozen in shock as I watched her go up the stairs. When she reached the top she pulled down her panties and threw them down the stairs at me. I stood there for a moment, then turned and went straight to the front door. I opened the door and stepped out of the house. I walked straight towards my car. My future father-in-law was standing outside. With tears in his eyes he hugged me and said,
"We are very happy that you have passed our little test. We couldn't ask for a better man for our daughter. Welcome to the family.
....and the moral of this story is
Always keep your condoms in the car
stolen from a Warlike email
"Quotes"
“Patriotism is not chic in the circles of those who assume the role of citizens of theworld, whether they are discussing immigration or giving aid and comfort to the enemyin wartime.” —Thomas Sowell
“The real problem is that Guantanamo Bay, like Bush himself, has become a symbol of sorts. It is an easy scapegoat through which Europeans can vent their much larger love hate frustrations with their protector and rival,the hyperpowerAmerica.” —Victor Davis Hanson
“This isn’t about the privileges guaranteed by the First Amendment. It is about the agenda practiced by The Times and some other newspapers and media outlets that clearly want the administration to fail inIraq—and in everything else—so that Democrats will retake the reigns of government. The Times’ editorial board fears what one more Republican term could do to the left’s judicially imposed cultural realignment and wants to blunt the Bush administration’s counter offensive.” —Cal Thomas
“The U.S. Supreme Court has now blown a hole in the animating principle behind the Geneva Conventions by choosing to elevate an enemy that disdains the laws of war in order to facilitate the bombing of civilian targets and the beheading of individuals. The argument made by Justice John Paul Stevens is an Alice In Jihadland ruling that stands the Conventions on their head in order to give words the precise opposite of their plain meaning and intent.” —Mark Steyn
“The left regularly charges America’s conservative Christians with wanting to make America a ‘theocracy,’ being ‘fascists’ and/or being ‘antiSemites.’They are none of those things, and as a result, the battle against real theocrats (Muslim fundamentalists), real fascists and real antiSemites is compromised. The tragedy of all this is that when evils are defined down, good people are left verbally unarmed when the real evils present themselves.” —Dennis Prager
Reprinted without permission from Patriot Post
“The real problem is that Guantanamo Bay, like Bush himself, has become a symbol of sorts. It is an easy scapegoat through which Europeans can vent their much larger love hate frustrations with their protector and rival,the hyperpowerAmerica.” —Victor Davis Hanson
“This isn’t about the privileges guaranteed by the First Amendment. It is about the agenda practiced by The Times and some other newspapers and media outlets that clearly want the administration to fail inIraq—and in everything else—so that Democrats will retake the reigns of government. The Times’ editorial board fears what one more Republican term could do to the left’s judicially imposed cultural realignment and wants to blunt the Bush administration’s counter offensive.” —Cal Thomas
“The U.S. Supreme Court has now blown a hole in the animating principle behind the Geneva Conventions by choosing to elevate an enemy that disdains the laws of war in order to facilitate the bombing of civilian targets and the beheading of individuals. The argument made by Justice John Paul Stevens is an Alice In Jihadland ruling that stands the Conventions on their head in order to give words the precise opposite of their plain meaning and intent.” —Mark Steyn
“The left regularly charges America’s conservative Christians with wanting to make America a ‘theocracy,’ being ‘fascists’ and/or being ‘antiSemites.’They are none of those things, and as a result, the battle against real theocrats (Muslim fundamentalists), real fascists and real antiSemites is compromised. The tragedy of all this is that when evils are defined down, good people are left verbally unarmed when the real evils present themselves.” —Dennis Prager
Reprinted without permission from Patriot Post
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Perro Caliente - El Poste
In accordance with The Aurora's reverence of the hot dog and in continued celebration of Nat'l Hot Dog Month I would like to kindly direct any readers in the tri-state area to pick up todays edition of the NY Post ( I will post article when it becomes available online) I am slightly humbled and a tad bit embarrassed that being the connoisseur of coneys that I am, I actually learned of a few new dog creations I have yet to experience. The Latin Dog. On page 46 in the NYP Tempo (capturing the rhythm of Latin New York) section it lists seven local restaurants serving latino variations of America's greatest culinary creation. A few that stick about:
Mazorca
83-17 Northern Blvd
83rd St
Jackson Heights
The Perro Mixto
"jam packed with ham, bacon, melted cheeses and a topping they refer to as bread crumbs"
Cosita Ricas
79-19 Roosevelt Ave
80th St
Jackson Heights
The Perro Caliente
"contains potatoes, parmesan cheese, and Hawaiian cream, which translates to potato chip bits, cheese, mayo and pineapple sauce."
La Perrado de Chalo
83-12 Northern Blvd
84th St
Jackson Heights (noticing a pattern? Jackson Heights? The Hot Dog captial of NYC???)
The Completo
"topped with creamed avocado, diced tomatoes and onion and a touch of mayo"
First landscaping, then baseball, now hot dogs. As much as I am for the globalization of dogs, we need to re-think our immigration policy. The revolucion will be televised, but you'll have to tune into Telemundo to watch it.
EE-Aw!
Mazorca
83-17 Northern Blvd
83rd St
Jackson Heights
The Perro Mixto
"jam packed with ham, bacon, melted cheeses and a topping they refer to as bread crumbs"
Cosita Ricas
79-19 Roosevelt Ave
80th St
Jackson Heights
The Perro Caliente
"contains potatoes, parmesan cheese, and Hawaiian cream, which translates to potato chip bits, cheese, mayo and pineapple sauce."
La Perrado de Chalo
83-12 Northern Blvd
84th St
Jackson Heights (noticing a pattern? Jackson Heights? The Hot Dog captial of NYC???)
The Completo
"topped with creamed avocado, diced tomatoes and onion and a touch of mayo"
First landscaping, then baseball, now hot dogs. As much as I am for the globalization of dogs, we need to re-think our immigration policy. The revolucion will be televised, but you'll have to tune into Telemundo to watch it.
EE-Aw!
Sounds Familiar
At least RFK was honest enough to admit that the protestors (kerry/fonda etc) were giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Of course he was wrong when he said he didn't think they were prolonging the war, and we know that for a fact now but again at least he admitted that they were giving "encouragement to the( enemy)"
With Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Gov. Ronald Reagan As Broadcast over the CBS Television Network and the CBS Radio Network Monday, May 15, 1967, 10:00 - 11:00 pm. EDT Charles Collingwood, Host
STEPHEN MARKS: Senator Kennedy, I'd like to ask you what you think of Dean Rusk's recent claim that the effect of anti-Vietnam war demonstrations in the States may actually be to prolong the war rather than to shorten it?
SENATOR ROBERT KENNEDY: The war is going on in Vietnam, being extended in Vietnam, really because of the determination of those who are our adversaries, the North Vietnamese, the Vietcong, National Liberation Front. I don't think a particular action takes place - military action takes place in South Vietnam because of the protests here in the United States. I think that if all the protests were ended, and even if all of the objections to the war came to an end here in this country, that the war in Vietnam would continue.
I'm sure to some extent the fact that there are some protests gives some encouragement to Ho Chi Minh and to others. But I don't - I certainly don't think that that's the reason the war is continuing, and why the casualties are going up.
GOVERNOR REAGAN: Well, I definitely think the demonstrations are prolonging the war in that they're giving the enemy, who I believe must face defeat on relative comparison of the power of the two nations, they are giving him encouragement to continue, to hold out in the hope that division here in America will bring about a peace without defeat for that enemy.
Many of the demonstrations now taking place in this country could not legally take place if there was a legal declaration of war, so we, I think, are faced with a choice here. But again, and I'm sure the Senator agrees with me, America will jealously guard this right of dissent, because I think the greatness of our country has been based on our thinking that everyone has a right even to be wrong.
And of course Reagan was right on the money as usual. He was absolutely correct that the enemy was holding out hoping that the traitors would force us to surrender, and therefore they prolonged the war. It's the same thing that's going on right now. Anyone who says that Bin Laden and his people aren't aware of our history and aren't counting on us doing the same thing again, but ARE aware of how we're tracking their banking transactions and phone calls is either stupid or they're lying or both (my vote is the latter).
So lets review, the protestors during the vietnam era (kerry and co.) prolonged the war and cost additional American lives. The protestors during the Iraqi war (kerry and co.) are prolonging the war, and costing additional American lives. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
With Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Gov. Ronald Reagan As Broadcast over the CBS Television Network and the CBS Radio Network Monday, May 15, 1967, 10:00 - 11:00 pm. EDT Charles Collingwood, Host
STEPHEN MARKS: Senator Kennedy, I'd like to ask you what you think of Dean Rusk's recent claim that the effect of anti-Vietnam war demonstrations in the States may actually be to prolong the war rather than to shorten it?
SENATOR ROBERT KENNEDY: The war is going on in Vietnam, being extended in Vietnam, really because of the determination of those who are our adversaries, the North Vietnamese, the Vietcong, National Liberation Front. I don't think a particular action takes place - military action takes place in South Vietnam because of the protests here in the United States. I think that if all the protests were ended, and even if all of the objections to the war came to an end here in this country, that the war in Vietnam would continue.
I'm sure to some extent the fact that there are some protests gives some encouragement to Ho Chi Minh and to others. But I don't - I certainly don't think that that's the reason the war is continuing, and why the casualties are going up.
GOVERNOR REAGAN: Well, I definitely think the demonstrations are prolonging the war in that they're giving the enemy, who I believe must face defeat on relative comparison of the power of the two nations, they are giving him encouragement to continue, to hold out in the hope that division here in America will bring about a peace without defeat for that enemy.
Many of the demonstrations now taking place in this country could not legally take place if there was a legal declaration of war, so we, I think, are faced with a choice here. But again, and I'm sure the Senator agrees with me, America will jealously guard this right of dissent, because I think the greatness of our country has been based on our thinking that everyone has a right even to be wrong.
And of course Reagan was right on the money as usual. He was absolutely correct that the enemy was holding out hoping that the traitors would force us to surrender, and therefore they prolonged the war. It's the same thing that's going on right now. Anyone who says that Bin Laden and his people aren't aware of our history and aren't counting on us doing the same thing again, but ARE aware of how we're tracking their banking transactions and phone calls is either stupid or they're lying or both (my vote is the latter).
So lets review, the protestors during the vietnam era (kerry and co.) prolonged the war and cost additional American lives. The protestors during the Iraqi war (kerry and co.) are prolonging the war, and costing additional American lives. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Kill, Dont Capture
What Ive been saying all along. More killing less re-building. Democratization is for suckers.
EE-Aw!!
KILL, DON'T CAPTURE
HOW TO SOLVE OUR PRISONER PROBLEM
Ralph Peters
July 10, 2006 -- THE British military defines experience as the ability to recognize a mistake the second time you make it. By that standard, we should be very experienced in dealing with captured terrorists, since we've made the same mistake again and again.
Violent Islamist extremists must be killed on the battlefield. Only in the rarest cases should they be taken prisoner. Few have serious intelligence value. And, once captured, there's no way to dispose of them.
Killing terrorists during a conflict isn't barbaric or immoral - or even illegal. We've imposed rules upon ourselves that have no historical or judicial precedent. We haven't been stymied by others, but by ourselves.
The oft-cited, seldom-read Geneva and Hague Conventions define legal combatants as those who visibly identify themselves by wearing uniforms or distinguishing insignia (the latter provision covers honorable partisans - but no badges or armbands, no protection). Those who wear civilian clothes to ambush soldiers or collect intelligence are assassins and spies - beyond the pale of law.
Traditionally, those who masquerade as civilians in order to kill legal combatants have been executed promptly, without trial. Severity, not sloppy leftist pandering, kept warfare within some decent bounds at least part of the time. But we have reached a point at which the rules apply only to us, while our enemies are permitted unrestricted freedom.
cont'd
EE-Aw!!
KILL, DON'T CAPTURE
HOW TO SOLVE OUR PRISONER PROBLEM
Ralph Peters
July 10, 2006 -- THE British military defines experience as the ability to recognize a mistake the second time you make it. By that standard, we should be very experienced in dealing with captured terrorists, since we've made the same mistake again and again.
Violent Islamist extremists must be killed on the battlefield. Only in the rarest cases should they be taken prisoner. Few have serious intelligence value. And, once captured, there's no way to dispose of them.
Killing terrorists during a conflict isn't barbaric or immoral - or even illegal. We've imposed rules upon ourselves that have no historical or judicial precedent. We haven't been stymied by others, but by ourselves.
The oft-cited, seldom-read Geneva and Hague Conventions define legal combatants as those who visibly identify themselves by wearing uniforms or distinguishing insignia (the latter provision covers honorable partisans - but no badges or armbands, no protection). Those who wear civilian clothes to ambush soldiers or collect intelligence are assassins and spies - beyond the pale of law.
Traditionally, those who masquerade as civilians in order to kill legal combatants have been executed promptly, without trial. Severity, not sloppy leftist pandering, kept warfare within some decent bounds at least part of the time. But we have reached a point at which the rules apply only to us, while our enemies are permitted unrestricted freedom.
cont'd
Monday, July 10, 2006
Hot Dog - The Post
First off I would like to congratulate the Japanese Juggernaut Takeru Kobayashi on his sixth straight Nathan's World Championship. Yet another example of the successful foreign policy of "Peace Through Strength", as sixty years ago we nuked the sushi out of his country and now today he's sitting side by side in Coney with Joey Chestnut from Joisey throwing back some dogs.
So in accordance with The Aurora's new found policy of "Peace Through Gluttony" we suggest you do your part to promote World Peace by eating a few weiners. Im doing my mine as a client from "upstate" recently shipped me a thirty pack of Hoffman's Germans (donkey's favorite dogs) and Ive enjoyed one every day so far in July. So in closing I would like to quote Frank Zappa...
"I ate a hot dog
It tasted real good"
Happy National Hot Dog Month and God Bless America.
Friday, July 07, 2006
Goin Hollywood
It has been brought to The Aurora's attention that Cindy Sheehan (sponsored by those fun lovin' soccer moms Code Pink) is fast timing at ridgemont high until the war is over. Well good for her. I know a thing or two about hunger strikes, as the anniversary approaches of ten brave men in the Long Kesh prison put their political convictions over their own well being seeking political status and to protest the conditions of Catholic prisoners. They died for their cause, and it was an historic moment in the equal rights movement of Northern Ireland.
Does Cindy believe strong enough in hers to do the same? Or is this just another desperate act of a desperate woman to get back on the front pages. Good question, only time will tell.
The Hollywood loons are following suit in typical limousine liberal fashion. Penn, Sarandon, Glover et al are forming a Hunger Strike Relay Team. They are taking turns not eating...FOR A DAY. Thats not fasting, thats indigestion. Essentially they are doing nothing, well besides alleviating their own guilt and catching some free PR.
Here at The Aurora we have decided to start our own protest. Going forward until the likes of the above mentioned hollywood hippies grow a sack of onions, The Aurora will do our part to keep the American farmers and food producers afloat, contrary to the treacherous attempts of the thespiatic anti-foodites. We will not sit idly as The Peoples Republic Of Hollywood tries as they might to destroy the agroeconomics of this fine country.
Henceforth I will be be eating two breakfasts, Rhino two lunches and Warlike two dinners on the first day, then I will eat two lunches the next, Rhino two dinners, and Warlike two breakfasts etcetera etc. We will continue our vigil of gluttony to combat the smugness* of the hybrid car driving private plane flying, famine on Tuesday feast on Thursday crowd. Ive had my eye on the enormous omelet sandwich for some time. Time to wake up with the King baby.
Does Cindy believe strong enough in hers to do the same? Or is this just another desperate act of a desperate woman to get back on the front pages. Good question, only time will tell.
The Hollywood loons are following suit in typical limousine liberal fashion. Penn, Sarandon, Glover et al are forming a Hunger Strike Relay Team. They are taking turns not eating...FOR A DAY. Thats not fasting, thats indigestion. Essentially they are doing nothing, well besides alleviating their own guilt and catching some free PR.
Here at The Aurora we have decided to start our own protest. Going forward until the likes of the above mentioned hollywood hippies grow a sack of onions, The Aurora will do our part to keep the American farmers and food producers afloat, contrary to the treacherous attempts of the thespiatic anti-foodites. We will not sit idly as The Peoples Republic Of Hollywood tries as they might to destroy the agroeconomics of this fine country.
Henceforth I will be be eating two breakfasts, Rhino two lunches and Warlike two dinners on the first day, then I will eat two lunches the next, Rhino two dinners, and Warlike two breakfasts etcetera etc. We will continue our vigil of gluttony to combat the smugness* of the hybrid car driving private plane flying, famine on Tuesday feast on Thursday crowd. Ive had my eye on the enormous omelet sandwich for some time. Time to wake up with the King baby.
*smug + hybrid concept copywright of South Park
Revisionist History
Reprinted From IBD
The Rotten Fruit Of Appeasement
Posted 7/6/2006
Diplomacy: Asked by TV interviewer Larry King about North Korea's launch of seven missiles, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had a ready answer: It's President Bush's fault. Gee, we remember it differently.
'Frankly, Larry, I think the problem here is that we are watching the failure of five years' worth of American diplomacy," Albright said Wednesday night. "I'm very worried about it, and I hope very much that we do have a review of our North Korean policy."
This is nothing new for Albright. Two weeks ago, she blamed North Korea's recent misbehavior and nuclear program on Bush's decision to go into Iraq — a patently absurd contention. But Albright's latest comment represents an outrageous distortion of reality and history. For it was the administration of President Clinton — and his secretary of state, Albright — that was in fact responsible for North Korea's acquisition of nuclear weapons, and its continued defiance of international law.
Indeed, a pattern of appeasement and blindness to the growing threats around us by the Clinton administration led us directly to where we are today. So, in light of Albright's comments, this would be a good time for a little review.
• 1993: North Korea threatens to leave the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. After conducting U.N. inspections there for a year and a half, former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Hans Blix warns he can't provide "any meaningful assurances" North Korea isn't making nuclear weapons.
• 1994: Under the "Agreed Framework" negotiated by the Clinton administration with help of ex-President Carter, North Korea agrees to stop building nuclear weapons. In exchange, it gets billions in aid, including food, oil and modern nuclear reactors.
By 2000, according to a congressional report, North Korea would become the "largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid" in Asia. North Korea immediately starts cheating on the deal, acquiring nuclear know-how and material from Pakistan and China.
• 1998: A U.S. government report finds at least 1 million North Koreans have died of starvation as aid is used to kick-start the nuclear weapons program.
• 1998: Clinton's military chief of staff tells Congress North Korea has no active ballistic missile program. A week later, North Korea shoots a Taepodong-1 missile over Japan and toward Alaska.
• 1999: Clinton eases sanctions against North Korea. U.S. signs a $5 billion deal to build two nuclear reactors. North Korea diverts aid to speed WMD program. Mass starvation reportedly continues.
• 2000: Despite continued breaches of the "agreed framework," Albright travels to Pyongyang, where she cheerfully clinks glasses with Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il. Media hail the meeting as a diplomatic masterstroke by Clinton.
• 2002: New York Times headline: "North Korea Says It Has A Program On Nuclear Arms."
That, essentially, brings us to where we are today. North Korea was conditioned in the '90s to believe that no matter how bad its behavior, or how egregious its human rights abuses, it would be rewarded and appeased. Any wonder it's acting as it is now?
Looking at this record, maybe Albright actually had it right. North Korea's acquisition of nuclear weapons and ever-more sophisticated ballistic missiles — including the Taepodong-2C launched this week — were indeed the result of five years of failed diplomacy.
It's just that the five failed years lasted from 1994 to 1999.
The Rotten Fruit Of Appeasement
Posted 7/6/2006
Diplomacy: Asked by TV interviewer Larry King about North Korea's launch of seven missiles, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had a ready answer: It's President Bush's fault. Gee, we remember it differently.
'Frankly, Larry, I think the problem here is that we are watching the failure of five years' worth of American diplomacy," Albright said Wednesday night. "I'm very worried about it, and I hope very much that we do have a review of our North Korean policy."
This is nothing new for Albright. Two weeks ago, she blamed North Korea's recent misbehavior and nuclear program on Bush's decision to go into Iraq — a patently absurd contention. But Albright's latest comment represents an outrageous distortion of reality and history. For it was the administration of President Clinton — and his secretary of state, Albright — that was in fact responsible for North Korea's acquisition of nuclear weapons, and its continued defiance of international law.
Indeed, a pattern of appeasement and blindness to the growing threats around us by the Clinton administration led us directly to where we are today. So, in light of Albright's comments, this would be a good time for a little review.
• 1993: North Korea threatens to leave the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. After conducting U.N. inspections there for a year and a half, former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Hans Blix warns he can't provide "any meaningful assurances" North Korea isn't making nuclear weapons.
• 1994: Under the "Agreed Framework" negotiated by the Clinton administration with help of ex-President Carter, North Korea agrees to stop building nuclear weapons. In exchange, it gets billions in aid, including food, oil and modern nuclear reactors.
By 2000, according to a congressional report, North Korea would become the "largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid" in Asia. North Korea immediately starts cheating on the deal, acquiring nuclear know-how and material from Pakistan and China.
• 1998: A U.S. government report finds at least 1 million North Koreans have died of starvation as aid is used to kick-start the nuclear weapons program.
• 1998: Clinton's military chief of staff tells Congress North Korea has no active ballistic missile program. A week later, North Korea shoots a Taepodong-1 missile over Japan and toward Alaska.
• 1999: Clinton eases sanctions against North Korea. U.S. signs a $5 billion deal to build two nuclear reactors. North Korea diverts aid to speed WMD program. Mass starvation reportedly continues.
• 2000: Despite continued breaches of the "agreed framework," Albright travels to Pyongyang, where she cheerfully clinks glasses with Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il. Media hail the meeting as a diplomatic masterstroke by Clinton.
• 2002: New York Times headline: "North Korea Says It Has A Program On Nuclear Arms."
That, essentially, brings us to where we are today. North Korea was conditioned in the '90s to believe that no matter how bad its behavior, or how egregious its human rights abuses, it would be rewarded and appeased. Any wonder it's acting as it is now?
Looking at this record, maybe Albright actually had it right. North Korea's acquisition of nuclear weapons and ever-more sophisticated ballistic missiles — including the Taepodong-2C launched this week — were indeed the result of five years of failed diplomacy.
It's just that the five failed years lasted from 1994 to 1999.
Canandaigua Bacon
Someone asked me this evening why I hate Canadians and whether I was serious about it. Well its hard to explain. Ive wrote a few posts about it, and unequivocally can say yes and yes please. Its probably one of the reasons that I love South Park as much as I do, they took a very unpopular position against Canada early in their run. I mean for a comedy show to be anti-Canuck is ballsy. Thank God for Will Farrell, for if he didnt exist, the wrath of Jim Carrey would have sent Comedy Central back to the Man Show Ages..
It all starts in a small town of Central New York, the Finger Lakes region to be exact. I call it Upstate, for living in "The City" now New Yorkers can barely grasp the five boroughs and the transplants think you need a passport to go to New Jersey, and to others a six hour drive within New York boundaries means being stuck on the LIE for a ten hour jitney just to be able to throw their sleeping bag in the corner of a Hamptons share, well not exactly the Hamptons, closer to Sag Harbor, but close enough.
Im from America. Not the New York Times America or even the Fox News America. I knew everyones name and they knew mine. If my football team played well, we were congratulated. Well that part is a stretch considering we won three games in four years, so it was kind of a big event, but even in lacrosse, in which we excelled...kudos were given. There was a connection. It was a community. Hell even when I was brought before the judge he'd comment on my recent game before he issued the standard community service sentence of working on the Eire Canal Re-Beautification Project (thats right I paved those parking lots you pull your leafer Volvos into)
That sense of community has served me well in my life. I may be known as a curmudgeonly old Donkey and maybe its true that Ive been thrown out of a few pubs or even a country or two but if you have to know the the truth maybe I deserved it. I dont like people all that much, and I have a difficult time dealing with stupidity, especially my own.
but..
Most people that know me (warning: online boast) like me, they really really do. Hard to believe but its true, and if you got to know the truth I like most some of them back. I speak yiddish with my hatter, know how the wop's kid that I buy coffee from is doing in school, torment my Tai tailor that that tells me my suits can only be taken out so far, I read books that my ________ (?) doorman recos, take stock tips from my spick shoe shine and share the same tips to my cossack cobbler, and with the blacks I talk basketball. (ok I admit that last one was a blatant ploy to rile up Warlike) He's probably in Arkansas anyways (soon to be renamed Wal-Mart) They know my name and I know theirs. We get along, differences aside, get along well. Community. Liberals dont get it. They just dont, and thats a shame. Shame shim shimmmy sam sammi shim sham sand dance.*
Whats that got to do with anything?
My point?
I dont like Canadians
It all starts in a small town of Central New York, the Finger Lakes region to be exact. I call it Upstate, for living in "The City" now New Yorkers can barely grasp the five boroughs and the transplants think you need a passport to go to New Jersey, and to others a six hour drive within New York boundaries means being stuck on the LIE for a ten hour jitney just to be able to throw their sleeping bag in the corner of a Hamptons share, well not exactly the Hamptons, closer to Sag Harbor, but close enough.
Im from America. Not the New York Times America or even the Fox News America. I knew everyones name and they knew mine. If my football team played well, we were congratulated. Well that part is a stretch considering we won three games in four years, so it was kind of a big event, but even in lacrosse, in which we excelled...kudos were given. There was a connection. It was a community. Hell even when I was brought before the judge he'd comment on my recent game before he issued the standard community service sentence of working on the Eire Canal Re-Beautification Project (thats right I paved those parking lots you pull your leafer Volvos into)
That sense of community has served me well in my life. I may be known as a curmudgeonly old Donkey and maybe its true that Ive been thrown out of a few pubs or even a country or two but if you have to know the the truth maybe I deserved it. I dont like people all that much, and I have a difficult time dealing with stupidity, especially my own.
but..
Most people that know me (warning: online boast) like me, they really really do. Hard to believe but its true, and if you got to know the truth I like most some of them back. I speak yiddish with my hatter, know how the wop's kid that I buy coffee from is doing in school, torment my Tai tailor that that tells me my suits can only be taken out so far, I read books that my ________ (?) doorman recos, take stock tips from my spick shoe shine and share the same tips to my cossack cobbler, and with the blacks I talk basketball. (ok I admit that last one was a blatant ploy to rile up Warlike) He's probably in Arkansas anyways (soon to be renamed Wal-Mart) They know my name and I know theirs. We get along, differences aside, get along well. Community. Liberals dont get it. They just dont, and thats a shame. Shame shim shimmmy sam sammi shim sham sand dance.*
Whats that got to do with anything?
My point?
I dont like Canadians
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Random Thoughts (not mine)
Random thoughtsBy Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
When you have 90 percent of what you want, think twice before insisting on the other 10 percent.
The beauty of doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly. Only when you do something is it almost impossible to do it without mistakes. Therefore people who are contributing nothing to society except their constant criticisms can feel both intellectually and morally superior.
"We are a nation of immigrants," we are constantly reminded. We are also a nation of people with ten fingers and ten toes. Does that mean that anyone who has ten fingers and ten toes should be welcomed and given American citizenship?
Equal treatment of individuals does not mean equal treatment of behavior. That is why a polygamist is on the FBI's "most wanted" list. He is not allowed to redefine marriage to suit himself any more than the advocates of "gay marriage" are.
If politics were like baseball, the Republicans would be smart to trade Senator John McCain to the Democrats for Senator Joseph Lieberman, even if they had to throw in a future draft choice.
At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But transactions would not continue unless both sides gained, whether in international trade, employment, or renting an apartment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "If you wait till you see the whites of their eyes, you will never know what hit you." Similarly if you wait until you get "world opinion" on your side at the United Nations before preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
A headline in the San Francisco Chronicle offered this prescription for California's problems: "The Golden State needs big, bold ideas to solve the puzzle its future presents." But big bold ideas have been behind many -- if not most -- of California's problems, as well as disasters in countries around the world.
The idea that other people don't have the same rights that you do was once the mark of the ignorant. But today it is the mark of too many of our elite universities, where those who disagree with the prevailing political correctness are either silenced by speech codes or shouted down if they are speakers invited on campus to present a different viewpoint.
It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication.
More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct. But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
When you have 90 percent of what you want, think twice before insisting on the other 10 percent.
The beauty of doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly. Only when you do something is it almost impossible to do it without mistakes. Therefore people who are contributing nothing to society except their constant criticisms can feel both intellectually and morally superior.
"We are a nation of immigrants," we are constantly reminded. We are also a nation of people with ten fingers and ten toes. Does that mean that anyone who has ten fingers and ten toes should be welcomed and given American citizenship?
Equal treatment of individuals does not mean equal treatment of behavior. That is why a polygamist is on the FBI's "most wanted" list. He is not allowed to redefine marriage to suit himself any more than the advocates of "gay marriage" are.
If politics were like baseball, the Republicans would be smart to trade Senator John McCain to the Democrats for Senator Joseph Lieberman, even if they had to throw in a future draft choice.
At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But transactions would not continue unless both sides gained, whether in international trade, employment, or renting an apartment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "If you wait till you see the whites of their eyes, you will never know what hit you." Similarly if you wait until you get "world opinion" on your side at the United Nations before preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
A headline in the San Francisco Chronicle offered this prescription for California's problems: "The Golden State needs big, bold ideas to solve the puzzle its future presents." But big bold ideas have been behind many -- if not most -- of California's problems, as well as disasters in countries around the world.
The idea that other people don't have the same rights that you do was once the mark of the ignorant. But today it is the mark of too many of our elite universities, where those who disagree with the prevailing political correctness are either silenced by speech codes or shouted down if they are speakers invited on campus to present a different viewpoint.
It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication.
More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct. But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
LINEBACKER # 55: Anus Backus
There are very few sacred sacraments left in the world. The flag can still be burned. Unborn babies can be murdered in the millions. I can no longer expose my hog on subways for fear of amateur photo-journalists re-exposing said hog (and without zoom technology damn you) on Page 3 of the New York Post.
But I will not tolerate a woman budging ahead of me for the mens room. If a woman wants to tinkle where men sprinkle more power to her, but with penis comes privileges, numero uno...we dont wait in line to piss, and you certainly dont go first. Well not according to the TOURIST, who will forever be known as The ASSBACK Of McMenamins, who's brilliant philosophy was "If We Wait You Wait". Sorry sweetie it doesnt work that way. If you got a problem with the disproportion between mens and ladies restrooms then become an architect or a plumber... now get to the back of the line... and when finished go back to Germany or Jersey.
But I will not tolerate a woman budging ahead of me for the mens room. If a woman wants to tinkle where men sprinkle more power to her, but with penis comes privileges, numero uno...we dont wait in line to piss, and you certainly dont go first. Well not according to the TOURIST, who will forever be known as The ASSBACK Of McMenamins, who's brilliant philosophy was "If We Wait You Wait". Sorry sweetie it doesnt work that way. If you got a problem with the disproportion between mens and ladies restrooms then become an architect or a plumber... now get to the back of the line... and when finished go back to Germany or Jersey.
Monday, July 03, 2006
Happy Birthday America
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred. to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
— John Hancock
New Hampshire:Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred. to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
— John Hancock
New Hampshire:Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
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