A new 30-day window for signatures to a petition regarding
our “Hierarchy of Law” will begin at WhiteHouse.gov in less than 48 hours. We will need every signature we can get each day, particularly at the start, for whatever is left of that window. It may be the last chance to stop the UN Small Arms Treaty that could be the end of US sovereignty, due for signature by Obama on June 3. We will post the new URL for that petition as soon as it is available.
Please consider signing that petition. Even if it is not exactly as you would do it yourself, please note that your signature does not mean that you agree with the proposal, but that you agree it is important to get a clear policy statement from the White House on the question. That would be a good starting place; please pass the word.
This effort has been going on longer than we care to admit,
on the web in one form or another since at least 2004.(?)
Most recent substantive content change May 19, 2013
to this page, March 7, 2013
PLEASE SPEND SOME TIME WITH OUR BLOG(S)
On September 17, 2012, we added:
Today, Constitution Day 2012, we begin our second year of serious blogging, even as we work at amending our Constitution. Our fondest hopes are for introduction, passage, and ratification in less than 30 days...twice. Take a look below for hints about our philosophy; check out the blog for more, particularly on this amending effort. Take your shoes off, stay awhile, look around a bit -- and no worries about pop-ups or any of that other stuff, nothing for sale at the moment, and no emails -- you might find something you can enjoy.
New page, "Purpose", added October 2, 2012.
from "Voter ScoreCard", some of which goes back roughly 20 years:
It is now only ... weeks before the scheduled 2012 election. We ask serious perusal of this stuff written, as far as we can determine at the moment, in 2006 as an update to even older material. It is astonishing how much of what we face today is perhaps just exaggeration of what was going on then.
There is a problem though: the exaggerations may have come to a point at which, if not corrected now, there simply may be no more road on which the can might be kicked. The game, as is sometimes said, will be over; an ignominious death of The Great Experiment.
Usann,
and the rationale for using it, as further explained near the midpoint in "Watch Your Language" (September, 2008).
Usann. U.S.A.N.N.: United States of America, Native or Naturalized. We certainly have Texans and Nevadans, Virginians and Californians. By use of the acronym Usann, much as scuba stems from "Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus", we can differentiate between Usanns [the citizens of The United States of America, be they native or naturalized] and the millions of others [citizens of all those other countries in The Americas] who have, certainly in this time [21st Century], as much claim to being "American".
Why is anything here of any importance to anybody, let alone a given reader? [from "Significance", last revised 3/6/09]
We believe the FREE commentaries offered here provide real value in terms of perspectives, ideas, and alternatives to the way things are [generally] being done in The United States of America today [the early part of the 21st Century]: value that can ultimately help improve the financial situation of every person in the nation, can help improve the quality of life for everybody in the nation, and help preserve that nation. Notice we used the word "help": reading these things will not do it as if by magic. We have sought to keep things reasonably simple, but simple is not necessarily "easy"...or even "pleasant"; there might even be some work and discomfort involved.
And, from "A Minds Only Alert" (2004{?})
Particularly if you are a veteran, and more particularly if you are a veteran of The U.S. Marine Corps, or if you have or ever have had love or even respect for one or more of these, this message is for you.
The Oath taken on entering service in the U.S. Armed Forces, taken "without reservation":
" I do hereby swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice."
[the newer, current variation on this theme has, appended to it, "so help me God."]
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Our goal is to follow the above plan in our lives and our business, thus being a part of returning our country, The United States of America, to the Republic it was envisioned and designed to be and The Great Experiment -- the Rule of Law -- brought to the world by the Founding Fathers.
We ask readers -- and others -- consider doing likewise.
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be going to other things, from the few items sometimes in our store, and whatever
donations might be put in the tip jar on our Comment/Support page.
To the extent that you think reasonable
-- and please think for a moment about how long it would take you to put something like this together,
and what it would cost you, in energy and money, to then make it and keep it available on the web --
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