Love your country but don't trust your government?

Don't like Obamacare? Check it out...

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Three forms of nullification as allowed by the 9^th and 10^th amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

1. Legislation (example:http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/legislation/federal-health-care-nullification-act/)(click)
2. Litigation (example: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10894716839911389166&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr) (click)
3. Jury nullification (example: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/jury-nullification-in-action-montana-jury-pool-refuses-to-convict-for-marijuana-possession/) (click)

Blind Willie McTell with the Statesboro Blues...

There is a tie that binds us to our homes...

Pass them pasteboards for me to shuffle every time before you deal, and if it's anything wrong, I must see...

I have often used the comparison that merely to speak of love considering particularly the talking that goes on in the theosophical movement-is like standing in front of a stove and preaching that it shall grow hot, this being its duty as a stove. Even the best of sermons concerning its responsibilities as a stove will not make it grow hot. It will grow hot, however, if we put some wood in it and put a match to it. Basically that is how it is with all preaching of human love, and such preaching will prove hardly more successful when directed at men than a sermon directed at the stove, telling it to grow hot. Such preaching has been done at all times and the results can be seen. But anything that is not mere knowledge of the spiritual world, not mere idea, mere word, but is instead something alive, something active in the word, that is the wood we give to our soul, and it will burn if it is rightly taken in by the soul. This can be learned particularly from conflicts like the present one.

Black Friday? Charge – it!

IBM is running a cloud-based tracking service that indicates when and how consumers are ordering on-line. This year's trend is showing an all-day Thanksgiving buying spree, where last year, 2011 consumers began to rummage on-line “post pie” following the Thanksgiving feast.

It's important because the Black Friday sales day is actually starting in the middle of the day this year, rather than in the wee hours of the day following Turkey Day.

Early data from IBM Smarter Commerce show that as of noon EST, online sales for Thanksgiving are up 14.3 percent from last year, with just over a quarter that is – 25 percent - of consumers using a mobile device to visit a retailer's site, up from 15.8 percent in 2011.

According to IBM analysts, many shoppers are locating the items they want, going to stores and trying them on, then finding better deals on-line. Mature shoppers are using their laptops while watching games from their couches, while younger consumers are doing a two-screen search, using both laptops and phones simultaneously.

Welcome home, welcome, welcome to our town...

Behold: National Take an Indian to Lunch Day...

A nation of boat people in a wilderness

Dig this. The government hath founded a particular website that makes it easy to set forth upon this continent and navigate toward the promised land.

Some call it welfare, others call it orientation. Why does Uncle Sam do it?

Would you believe, because he can?

TheLegendary chooses to think of it that way, and go on from here.Considereth: WelcometoUSA.gov(click here for a dose of the light)

First Thanksgiving a study in grim attrition

'A typical English harvest feast' 

The 'first Thanksgiving' was hardly the first, according to historians on both sides of the Atlantic. The rivaled first observances were actually typical of an autumnal English custom - for boat people.

The thanks offered to Providence were held in observance of the withering attrition of previous winters. Disease, pestilence and outright exposure claimed the lives of nearly 50 percent.

A best guess of what Mayflower's 180-ton burthen was like

Of the original 102 emigrants who arrived at Plymouth on the Mayflower, 45 died during the first winter of 1620-1621. Only 4 adult women survived out of an original 18. At least one of them perished due to the perils of childbirth, according to the diarist Edward Winslow.

He remembered the 3-day feast in this way. “Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together.”

The annual arrival of migratory geese and ducks was so plentiful that within a few hours, they had harvested enough in the marshes and ponds of the area to feed the entire population for the long weekend party, Mr. Winslow remembered fondly.

It was nothing new. The English had for many centuries observed the successful harvests of September and October, and in the American colonies, the charter of the Berkeley Hundred – a commercial plantation of about 8,000 acres - required an observance of its foundation day in May of 1607. Located about 20 miles upstream of Jamestown on the north bank of the river, that colony recorded its first Thanksgiving feast in 1610.

Massachusetts Bay

But that was only after native Americans had massacred the biggest part of their numbers, and the colonists withdrew to more secure grounds near Jamestown, downstream.

The grim reality at Plymouth was that a despised minority of separatists who protested the religious customs and taxations practiced by the Crown and the nobility were hounded, and ultimately exiled into a wilderness where they faced a nearly certain death by starvation and exposure - had it not been for a single factor.

As carriers of every viral load that had for many centuries swept the European continent, they unintentionally wiped out the previously unexposed native population with such common diseases as measles and smallpox. There were only about 90 of the Wampanoag tribe, the “eastern people,” or the “people of the dawn,” left to help enjoy the harvest of a crop of squash, peas, and yams they and their neighbors had planted earlier in the year.

Similarly, the new tribesmen, the surviving English settlers, moved right in to take shelter in the newly vacated housing built by the natives before they perished from diseases for which they had no immunity.

There had simply been no time to build their own.

Their benefactor, a native American slave named Squanto who had learned their language while in captivity on the auld sod, taught them how to fish and to fertilize each seed planted with the bones, guts and skin of a sea bass or a cod.

A public domain engraving from "The Pilgrim's Progress"

The traditional images and feel-good themes of Turkey Day? Chalk all that up to a highly commercial press distributed by a non-profit postal service over highly subsidized railroads that advertised over three centuries the agricultural products of a brave new world.

And them came radio.

Thanksgiving is known among historians, biologists, agronomists, epidemiologists, and economists as that most typically American holiday, fostered and promoted by growers, shippers, grocers, advertising agents, publishers, and broadcasters.

The turkey?

A domesticated shadow of its wild species, bred and grown to serve as a loss leader in a market of trimmings that includes everything from the kerosene it takes to catch the sky chariot and get over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house, to the computers and big screen televisions importers air freight into big box distributorships so consumers can keep up with the game results of that most corporate form of ritual combat ever played by professionals and their farm teams, the land grant universities – football.

With apologies to Howard Zinn, et. al. - The Legendary

Lost causes and the right to know...

You're invisible now, you got no secrets...

AnonymousNovember 19, 2012 1:05 PM

Why is this story still being told,why? Is it against the law, then forget about it,the citizens do not care.

I disagree. What are you prepared to do about it? - The Legendary

Six Shooter Junction – Funny kind of place, Jerusalem on the Brazos.

You go after what is public information anywhere else in Texas, and you are told you have to fill out this form, pay a fee – and guess what? You still get nothing.

The lap dog press and the broadcasters get their fill of bleeds to lead dirty linen and all the lurid details about what happens on the other side of the tracks. No one else. Gotta run a merchandising medium for folks who have a line of credit and meet a payroll selling sundries, groceries, cars, refrigerators and televisions, you see. No one else need apply.

The Legendary Jim Parks

That's a dead tip-off, a sure sign that you're dealing with a closed city populated by people who don't believe in a free and open society. An ultra-law and order environment in which the folks have no respect for the law, and there is no order when it comes to public information. Ultra-Republican, ultra-conservative, to be sure, but resembling the worst of the worst of the bad old days of Democratic Party politics in the land of cotton. Hard to tell the difference. Company town. 

It kind of got going when the BATFE hit the Branch Davidian compound, got all shot up, and the FBI burned the place down after a long siege. Ask the veteran camera man they picked up every Friday afternoon for a quick trip downtown to see the secret police. Yeah. A little attitude check. Never charged him with a crime, but they made his bosses' insurance carrier settle out of court for multi-millions – and all they did was go out to cover a story. The owners of the newspaper hauled off and sold out to a conservative real estate operator. Same story.

Kind of medieval. Very like a whale, m'lord.

Asked if he thinks that's when the worm turned, the old boy nodded, said, yes. “There ain't no first amendment any more.” He's right. Just ask the evangelical Christians. They'll tell you.

What did Sinclair Lewis call it, Century City and Gophers Corners, all the prairie venues where Babbitry was in full swing?

A tight, dry, polite, cruel smile of a town. Yeah. The kind of place run by a clique of a half-dozen little old men from the board room of some bank.

If there is a patron saint of lost causes – and there is – he is looking down, laughing at the antics of The Legendary and his sidekick, R.S. Gates.

R.S. Gates has decided he wants to see reports generated by the Sheriff of McLennan County, Larry Lynch, regarding twice-monthly inspections of the privately-operated jails run by CEC, Inc. The Jack Harwell Detention Center is an economic development project. The old downtown lockup next door to the Courthouse has been closed two and a half years.

The Sheriff says there are no such reports. Can't fill the request.

R.S. Gates says the Sheriff gets $1,000 per month to make inspections, supervise these operations, and file reports. But as late as just the other day, there was no information available as to why prisoners can't be held in the old jail, no reports available as to why the Federal Bureau of Prisons took prisoners held for Immigration and Customs (ICE) cops.

So he appealed to the Criminal District Attorney, Abel Reyna, for a finding, for his opinion on the matter. Mr. Reyna has not responded. Come Wednesday, the statutory amount of time allotted to get the answer will have expired. Next stop for R.S. Gates, the Attorney General's office.

We will see.

This is what his complaint says:

To: The Honorable Abel Reyna

Criminal District Attorney

McLennan County

From: R.S. Gates

Re: Complaint filed under Texas Government Code Chapter 552.3215

Mr. Reyna,

On September 28 2012, R.S. Gates, hereafter complainant, filed a public information act request for public information related to the Sheriffs'contractual obligation to conduct inspections at the privately run jail facilities in McLennan County.

On October 12, 2012 complainant received a response from Sheriff Lynch indicating no information existed which was responsive to the request. (see attachment LL Response10-12-2012.pdf)

The contract for facilities operation reads the Sheriff or his designee shall conduct a thorough on-site inspection of the Facility no less than twice during each month.

The Sheriff receives compensation for his oversight responsibilities.

Complainant believes a reasonable person would believe some record would exist if the Sheriff or his designee were actually performing the duties for which the Sheriff is contractually obligated to perform and for which the Sheriff is personally compensated.

Complainant alleges Sheriff Larry Lynch violated the Texas Public Information Act by withholding public information responsive to the request.

Complainant alleges Sheriff Larry Lynch violated the Texas Public Information Act by failing to display the required sign. Complainant attached correspondence with the Sheriff's Office from 2010 (see attachment Sheriff PIA Notice 9-16-2010.pdf) where complainant advised the department

designee of the violation. See attachment "Sign.jpg"

Complainant acknowledges 552.3215 only provides for a determination based on the alleged violation of the Act.

Complainant acknowledges the section provides no obligation for the District Attorney to pursue criminal or civil action on behalf of the complainant and anything beyond a determination is the sole discretion of the District Attorney. Complaining is not requesting anything other than a determination if there was a violation of the Act.

Complainant asks the District Attorney to consider the following but acknowledges the District Attorney is under no obligation to even consider information unrelated to the alleged violation.

Larry Lynch has been contractually obligated to perform two inspections a month for almost 12 years. Not only was he obligated by the contract he signed, he was compensated $1,000.00 a month for his oversight

responsibility. The Jack Harwell facility has repeatedly failed jail inspections in spite of the required inspections.

Buddy Skeen was sentenced to jail for defrauding taxpayers of approx $1,400.00 while Larry has been paid more than $100,000.00 for the inspections for which he reports no records exist.

Johnny Pace has been in jail for 6 months. He was arrested by the Sheriff's Department for taking money to perform a service which he allegedly failed to perform.

PACE,JOHNNY WAYNE 46554 W/M

3/26/2012 THFT OF 50 OR MORE <500 11-3210="11-3210" font="font" m2011-0060.1-arnj="m2011-0060.1-arnj" mso="mso">

3/26/2012 THFT >1500 <20000 11-2900="11-2900" f2011-0080.1-arnj="f2011-0080.1-arnj" font="font" mso="mso">

3/26/2012 THFT OVER 50 BUT <500 11-1053="11-1053" font="font" m2011-0019.1-arnj="m2011-0019.1-arnj" mso="mso">

3/26/2012 THEFT >500 <1500 11-2609="11-2609" font="font" m2011-0050.1-arnj="m2011-0050.1-arnj" mso="mso">

3/26/2012 THFT BY DECEPT >500 <1500 11-2714="11-2714" font="font" m2011-0054.1-arnj="m2011-0054.1-arnj" mso="mso">

http://youtu.be/0MuoWgdER4o

http://youtu.be/LRBfto0feLw Relevant part starts at 2:44

Sincerely submitted,

R.S. Gates

Went back in the files and found this picture of old Anonymous: (see comments)