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    POSSE COMITATUS

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    SIRENS

    Precious: DADDY COME HERE, KISS KISS

    Daddy gets up and kiss kisses

    Precious: KISS KISS, okay go back where you were.

    Hahahahahah

    (A true story)

    THERE IS A RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS

    We live in a world of chaos.

    World wide we are a group of 7 billion people

    As Americans we are a group within that world group of 330 million? (Who really knows the true number anyway? I mean we have a ten year census and yet we are told that there are millions of 'undocumented' folks.)

    My son may, from time to time, follow the allure of his daughter's kisses to his detriment, but we all fall for the allure of other sirens; sirens who are really calling us to much more dire circumstances.

    But we as a people are not tied to the mast as Ulysses.

    Many sirens are about in our chaotic world:

    And this has the right wing very confused. A quick look around the Internet finds some perfunctory commentary supporting the group’s right to bear arms, but eventually people are pointing out the fact that one cannot be a “felon” and own guns. Finally they get down and dirty with assertions that the demonstrators must be bloods and crips and start whining that African-Americans are racist for mentioning that people of color are particularly at risk from police abuse. And then there are the hilarious jokes like this one: “If black people could get some marksmanship training it would really cut down on the number of innocents killed by stray bullets in certain neighborhoods.”

    http://www.salon.com/2014/08/25/fox_news_latest_phony_obsession_ferguson_gun_control_and_second_amendment_hypocrisy/

    How can I be safe in this chaotic world?

    Sirens from the NRA would inform us that the only manner in which we might be safe is with a personal weapon, or weapons.

    We need pistols and rifles and air to air missiles for chrissakes.

    HOW ELSE MIGHT WE BE 'SAFE'?

    But many sirens tell us that we must not let our perceived enemies have those weapons.

    How might the Bundy's of the world feel safe when 'minorities' might also have weapons?

    If the Black Panthers can have weapons, we are 'all' in trouble.

    https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0LEVxLR9_xTWZwAqJdXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0NTRvZ2trBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDI4MF8x?_adv_prop=image&fr=uh3_mail_srchcomp&va=reagan+and+the+black+panthers

    If gang members can have weapons, we are 'all' in trouble.

    If felons can have weapons, we are 'all' in trouble.

    If the Muslims can have weapons, we are 'all' in trouble.

    If socialists can have weapons, we are 'all' in trouble.

    If mentally ill people (who decides this diagnosis?) can have weapons, we are 'all' in trouble.

    If liberals can have weapons, we are 'all' in trouble.

    If 'bad people' can have weapons, we are 'all' in trouble.

    I guess we need a Constitutional Amendment stating that:

    All American Citizens are entitled to have weapons of mass destruction except.....

    (Enumeration OR elucidation might be difficult)

    HOW CAN WE CITIZENS OF A CITY BE SAFE?

    Well let us work with the Department of Defense and properly arm our Constabulary.

    The Posse Comitatus Act is the United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) that was passed on June 18, 1878, after the end of Reconstruction and was updated in 1981. Its intent (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) was to limit the powers of Federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce the state laws.

    The Act, as modified in 1981, refers to the Armed Forces of the United States. It does not apply to the National Guard under state authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within its home state or in an adjacent state if invited by that state's governor. The United States Coast Guard, which operates under the Department of Homeland Security, is also not covered by the Posse Comitatus Act, primarily because although the Coast Guard is an armed service, it also has both a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency mission.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

    POSSE COMITATUS

    Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

    - See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/67/1385#sthash.DSIn1q7s.dpuf

    http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/67/1385

    Catch this NYT take on posse comitatus:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/opinion/ferguson-shows-the-risks-of-militarized-policing.html?emc=edit_ty_20140815&nl=opinion&nlid=57476044&_r=0

    Okay, so the DOD is arming our cities with weapons of mass destruction.

    And that these weapons of mass destruction are pointed at the 'bad people' in our country.

    I know that tens of thousands of bad people commit terrible crimes in our country every year.

    I know that 12 million people in this country are arrested every year. (Five percent of our entire population, depending upon how you arrive at that number.)

    And then there was this book about 1984 and another book called Fahrenheit 451?

    I have no answers.

    I know that our country has just about the same population of weapons as we have people.

    I know that there are the dramas I watch every day are cop shows presenting the viewers with SWAT teams. And we are told that those SWAT teams are attempting to stop or kill the bad guys.

    WHO THE HELL ARE THE BAD GUYS ANYWAY AND WHO DECIDES?

    But I do know that there are sirens attempting to lure us all into oblivion with the calls to our fears and our loathings.

    I am depressed today.

    My only sister died within the last 24 hours.

    I am lost.

    THE END.

     

     

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    So very sorry to hear of the loss of your sister, DD.   My condolences.   I know my sister means a lot to me.  She is nearly four years my senior and is now the only person in the world that has known me my entire life.    Sending you comforting prayers and positive thoughts. 


    Oh she suffered from a father who was just a teen war 'hero' who hated her and a mother who did not care.

    Grandma somehow saved her for awhile.

    But she was a great teacher down in Florida for a time and then suffered a stroke that left her paralyzed when she was in her late forties.

    Except for a decade, somewhere in that life, she was lost.

    That  is all I got right now!


    DD,

    I am so sorry for the loss of your sister.  May you find comfort in her memories.

    Bruce


    Thank you Bruce.

    Thank you for taking the time to read me.

    She was a nice lady and a nice person who was severely injured by chance.


    I too am sorry to hear about your sister.  

    I hope you'll keep in mind the resurrection and that soon; you and your  loved ones will be reunited in paradise.

    Revelation 21:4

    hHe will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and ideath shall be no more, jneither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”


    I always feel like today is my last day.

    I wish I could take advantage!

    We shall all die, at least I am told unless I view Cheney on the tellie.

    Thank you for your thoughts Resistance.

    You are a nice man.


    a


    Sorry for your loss. Our prayers and thoughts are with you.


    Thank you very much rmrd.

    Thank you for taking the time.

    69 aint that bad an age to end it.

    Especially when you are in pain.



    Okay now Flower, I can cry all night.

    Wonderful song. I do not recall ever hearing it.

    But it makes me cry.

    THANK YOU!

    Nice of you to come by, as always.

    Just a tougher day than I predicted.

     


    Oh I wished to ask you.

    I think this picture comes from Enya.

    Just a question Flower.

    Sail Away.


    I hope you can feel all the love around you tonight, dear friend. If we could make it better, we would... but since we can't, we'll just keep hugging you.


    Hi Missy!

    I am so so very sad right now.

    I wished to make some point but it was pointless.

    This poor woman had so much pain in her life and I know about some of it.

    In the end, happily ever after does not exist.

    We must strive to remember the GOOD TIMES!

    Thank you for being my friend!


    a


    DD, how are you doing today? 


    Oh I am having problems, but is it through empathy and sympathy and loss or is it the fact that lately I have been facing my own mortality.

    Nothing lasts forever.

    I don't know, mortality has been bothering me lately with no diagnosis or impending cancer or anything.


    I am so sorry.  {{{{{Hug}}}}   Life isn't always fair.  

    I wish I would have seen this sooner.  

    You are in my thought.  I try to always look for you first when I drop in here. 

    I hope you are feeling better tonight. 


    Oh hi Momo.

    I am having problems concentrating.

    What should I concentrate on?

    I do not know.


    Oh, Dick.

    So sorry.   (Hit me like a truck outta left field, after the body of the post...)


    Oh Jolly.

    For the most part you have always kept me Jolly.

    You will like this.

    My granddaughter does naughty things but Grandmama who tends to Precious twice a week has been tending to children over 50 years. hhahaha

    so at home, Precious will do something outrageous and then go to the nearest corner and yell:

    TIME OUT.

    And my son cannot stop laughing.

    Precious has been instilled by Loki.

    I always think of you as a product of Loki.

    hahahahahah

    I have heard stories about you.

    hahahah

    I dunno.

    Many tomes speak of three score and ten.

    My sister only missed that mark by 11 months.

    I think that  my real problem is facing mortality; nothing new for homo sapiens.


    A kid who imposes her own "time out" is a treasure indeed...

    Three score and ten as a full measure diminishes somewhat as one's perspective on it shortens, (trust me on this....).  

    On the brighter side, Kurzweil says if we can make it to 2035, immortality beckons (relatively grim math for you and me...but not totally out of reach.)


    I have heard stories about you.

    Speaking of LisB, is she ever coming back to us at Dag?


    I was thinking about 'this' the last couple of months.

    I mean somebody is selling me.

    Otherwise, how could I reach these number of 'hits'?

    Either Missy or Momo or Lisb or whoever, is 'selling' me?

    I never understood facebook. I attempted to 'reply' on many occasions in this medium, and really never was acknowledged?

    But something is happening here. Maybe it is just google? Maybe my titles attract folks.

    And I surely like it.

    With fifty thousand, I might have the opportunity to make a living. hahahahah

    But, no, Lisb has not contacted me in the last two years.

    I do know this.

    No one has ever accused Jolly of some sort of 'force' with regard to attempting some sort of sexual innuendo.

    Never.

    I have never heard one rotten thing about you.

    I was kind of making a joke; I meant no innuendo whatsoever.

    I have never heard one felonious slander about you whatsoever.

    Lisb has never told me about some act you attempted that was ever meant to name you as some assaulter.

    I wish to make this clear.

    Lisb and I found ourselves in this strange context where our inviter DIED of a heart attack just at the moment we were to meet him. I wrote about this event before and Mike keeps records.

    Lisb and I never had coitus or any type of sexual contact at that time.

    I do feel Lisb is present in some of these 'hits'. And I feel that these numbers relate back to my old TPM followers.

    I am seeing 'hits' at such a level that I have not seen in the last few years.

    So I feel that Lisb is present.

    And Lisb has never said one bad thing about you ever.

    Like I said before, You amaze me.

    When you say something or write something out of nowhere....

    You make me laugh and then think.

    You are a good man Jolly.

    I love to read you.


    Who said anything about slander?  But for an intervening snowstorm, LisB was spozed to come up to my farm in Connecticut for an extended visit, when I was still there and she had not yet moved from Pelham to Pa. and found domestic bliss--but I digress.  

     

    I did know, from her, however, about your joint visit to was it Rochester, or some other upstate venue, with the bizarre twist that accompanied it.


    Markos over at Kos has written about the increase in traffic on liberal political sites.  He has showed charts of his own site and compared it to Red State and National Review.  Far right sites have flat lined the past 2 years compared to liberal sites.  He doesn't have answer to why only that it has to do with social media promoting itself. We are all asking the question as to why the increase of hits?  

    We all love you, Richard. 


    Oh, DD, I am so sorry to hear that your sister died. I know you must have many memories of innocent times together that make the whole thing so painful. As are many in this day and age, I am somewhat estranged from 2 of 3 siblings, and I am aware that the day will come when it will be too late to reconnect. 

    You can only do what you can do. But I will say this:  you have made a difference, and you continue to do so. I have learned so much from you. 

    BTW:  You are wonderful. 


    Holy cow!!!

    I have never received such a wonderful homage in my life!

    Thank you!

    I loved my sister.

    I wish that I could have done more for her comfort.

    Her cognitive faculties had waned  over the years since her stroke.

    Again, she was a nice lady and a good mother and...

    Damn.

    I wish I could have done more to ease her pain.

    Thank you.


    I thought about my sister today.

    I have this old picture of me and my children all together with my sister.

    The picture is added to a wonderful picture in miniature with a picture of my grandbabies and my children.

    My sister looks like my grandmama and my kids are playing along, My kids wish to do the right thing as it were.

    Maybe we should just attempt to do the right thing just once in awhile?i dunno, this just caught my eye today!

     


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