How is legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
A Fishy Story
See the hard working, weathered man
Donning his well worn slicker
He works from dawn to setting sun
Still struggling, but here's the kicker
He raised his family to be strong
And put away their money
Since that time he's taxed so much
It surely isn't funny
His fishing boats are paid for
With the sweat dripping off his brow
He'll work until he's old and grey
I really don't know how
He paid off land along the sea
To moor is fishing fleet
Sometimes his family picniced there
It really was quite sweet
But along came the local government
With plans to take his land
They said the beauty a park would bring
Would surely be so grand
They called the fishing boats unsightly
For their townspeople to have to see
If the fisherman refused to sell his land
Political force just had to be
So they took away the family's land
For a very minimal price
Said the fishing boats could move elsewhere
This land was much too nice
But the cost of mooring fishing boats
A fleet as large as this
Would be much too costly to sustain
They could no longer fish
The fishing fleet was sold, they tell
And the fisherman retired
All the people who worked for him
Unfortunately, were fired
So now all the happy people
Can meander freely around their park
While unemployed fishermen
Have outlooks bleak and dark
Marian
February 10, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
When I Died
When I Died
Did I tell you about the day I died?
I have tried to remember it, Lord how I tried.
Was it that first beer when I was thirteen
You know, the beginning, that's what I mean.
Was it later when I toked my very first blunt?
Then it was a sorta cool kind of stunt.
I was about sixteen, as much as I remember
Maybe somewhere around June or November?
Was it when I dropped my first ball of speed?
Grass wasn't enough to fill my need.
LSD, PCP, I tried it all
Is that when the reeper made his first call?
Sex was meaningless as far as love went
It was just another way my time was spent
When love finally found me, I was way too lost
The drugs ruined that too, at the ultimate cost.
I never forgot her, but my long drawn affair
With alcohol and drugs had me so unaware.
My only accomplishment was how good I could lie
And mostly to myself, doesn't that make you cry?
My life officially ended beside the road
Tipped over in my wheel chair, boasting a load
How much I had drunk or taken in dope?
I never was a man who could function and cope
I was still a young man in chronilogical years
But aged very quickly on whiskey and beers
They say you can't have it all, but I didn't have any
Except the heartache, of that there was plenty
Blame, as I did, those who comforted me
It would be only death that would really set me free
I guess that I died a long time ago
And as smart as I was, even I didn't know.
Marian
January 29, 2010
About my departed brother Donnie
Did I tell you about the day I died?
I have tried to remember it, Lord how I tried.
Was it that first beer when I was thirteen
You know, the beginning, that's what I mean.
Was it later when I toked my very first blunt?
Then it was a sorta cool kind of stunt.
I was about sixteen, as much as I remember
Maybe somewhere around June or November?
Was it when I dropped my first ball of speed?
Grass wasn't enough to fill my need.
LSD, PCP, I tried it all
Is that when the reeper made his first call?
Sex was meaningless as far as love went
It was just another way my time was spent
When love finally found me, I was way too lost
The drugs ruined that too, at the ultimate cost.
I never forgot her, but my long drawn affair
With alcohol and drugs had me so unaware.
My only accomplishment was how good I could lie
And mostly to myself, doesn't that make you cry?
My life officially ended beside the road
Tipped over in my wheel chair, boasting a load
How much I had drunk or taken in dope?
I never was a man who could function and cope
I was still a young man in chronilogical years
But aged very quickly on whiskey and beers
They say you can't have it all, but I didn't have any
Except the heartache, of that there was plenty
Blame, as I did, those who comforted me
It would be only death that would really set me free
I guess that I died a long time ago
And as smart as I was, even I didn't know.
Marian
January 29, 2010
About my departed brother Donnie
Rising Tides
quote by Marian Wright Edelman ...You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
Rising Tides
As little as you think we are
As insignificant as we seem
In masses we can grow to
Be quite a formidable team
As a tiny common person dwells
In the country he truely loves
He becomes as big as a mountain
When he must put on his gloves
Common caring people joining
Can conduct a winning cause
When a government becomes way too big
And strangles us with its useless laws
A million tiny voices sing
Our inspiring battle hymn
Will set progressives back on their seats
Just like the patriots way back when
Marian
February 9, 2010
Rising Tides
As little as you think we are
As insignificant as we seem
In masses we can grow to
Be quite a formidable team
As a tiny common person dwells
In the country he truely loves
He becomes as big as a mountain
When he must put on his gloves
Common caring people joining
Can conduct a winning cause
When a government becomes way too big
And strangles us with its useless laws
A million tiny voices sing
Our inspiring battle hymn
Will set progressives back on their seats
Just like the patriots way back when
Marian
February 9, 2010
First, Let Us Speak
John F Kennedy Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable
First, Let Us Speak
Please listen to our pleas
It's for our country that we cry
In times as bad as these
It's up to us to ask you why
Please hear the patriot's voices
Put your scheming plans on hold
We have questioned now your choices
And resent the lies you told
Here comes peaceful revolution
To enlighten your point of view
We ask for a solution
Other than that you plan to do
If you still fail to listen to
The folks you call ineligible
A vilolent revolution seems
To be quite so inevitable
Marian
February 9, 2010
First, Let Us Speak
Please listen to our pleas
It's for our country that we cry
In times as bad as these
It's up to us to ask you why
Please hear the patriot's voices
Put your scheming plans on hold
We have questioned now your choices
And resent the lies you told
Here comes peaceful revolution
To enlighten your point of view
We ask for a solution
Other than that you plan to do
If you still fail to listen to
The folks you call ineligible
A vilolent revolution seems
To be quite so inevitable
Marian
February 9, 2010
It's All Inside
It's All Inside
Smiles and laughter
Dancing little eyes
Kicks under the table
Is this her disguise?
A childlike wonder
Of all that is real
But very deep down
How does she really feel?
The fear it resides
And shows itself here
She doesn't even realize it
In her outwardly cheer
Lock out the demons
Who have damaged her soul
They continue to follow
Wherever she'll go
Marian
February 9, 2010
Smiles and laughter
Dancing little eyes
Kicks under the table
Is this her disguise?
A childlike wonder
Of all that is real
But very deep down
How does she really feel?
The fear it resides
And shows itself here
She doesn't even realize it
In her outwardly cheer
Lock out the demons
Who have damaged her soul
They continue to follow
Wherever she'll go
Marian
February 9, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Capitol Hell
America died from the delusion she had moral leadership Will Rogers
Capitol Hell
With trust that all their leadership
Had just and moral minds
Our American citizens
Went through their daily grinds
We gave no thought about the laws
We trusted them to make
We we sure we elected those
Would vote for freedom sake
We trusted them with money
And gave it all in tax
We trusted that they'd spend it right
By studying the facts
We had faith in their decisons
To keep us all from harm
If terrorists were coming at us
They'd sound a big alarm
We gave to them the power
To enact and uphold the laws
But somewhere along the line, you see
They strayed to their own cause
So while suffering delusions
That those elected will serve us well
They served us up for dinner
In the capitol I call hell
Marian
February 9, 2010
Capitol Hell
With trust that all their leadership
Had just and moral minds
Our American citizens
Went through their daily grinds
We gave no thought about the laws
We trusted them to make
We we sure we elected those
Would vote for freedom sake
We trusted them with money
And gave it all in tax
We trusted that they'd spend it right
By studying the facts
We had faith in their decisons
To keep us all from harm
If terrorists were coming at us
They'd sound a big alarm
We gave to them the power
To enact and uphold the laws
But somewhere along the line, you see
They strayed to their own cause
So while suffering delusions
That those elected will serve us well
They served us up for dinner
In the capitol I call hell
Marian
February 9, 2010
Defacing The Constitution
here's a quote from Martin H. Fischer...Of all the supervised conditions for life offered man, those under USA's constitution have proved best. Wherefore, be sure when you start modifying, corrupting, or abrogating it.
Defacing The Constitution
The document most honored
By free nations we all know
Is our own Constitution
America's heart and soul
So before you go to changing it
Rewriting and retooling
Please think it through a thousand times
To really what you're doing
Don't go about corrupting it
For agendas that you find
Please think about the founders
And the blood in which they signed
Please think about the patriots
Who for freedom gave their lives
Think about the honor
From which its words derives
Mostly, think about the people
To be affected by your whims
While thinking play back in your mind
Our country's battle hymn
Marian
February 9, 2010
Defacing The Constitution
The document most honored
By free nations we all know
Is our own Constitution
America's heart and soul
So before you go to changing it
Rewriting and retooling
Please think it through a thousand times
To really what you're doing
Don't go about corrupting it
For agendas that you find
Please think about the founders
And the blood in which they signed
Please think about the patriots
Who for freedom gave their lives
Think about the honor
From which its words derives
Mostly, think about the people
To be affected by your whims
While thinking play back in your mind
Our country's battle hymn
Marian
February 9, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Monster Government
Douglas said...The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people. The right to be left alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms. Common sense often makes good law. William O. Douglas
Monster Government
Putting their nose in everywhere
Not letting us live in peace
Taxing, regulating, being unfair
Causing liberty to cease
Slavery is making its way today
And We The People are prone
To be the captives to what they say
From birth through when we're grown
Indoctrination, excessive taxation
And ultra progressive regulation
Is our new government's cry
It's time to set the record straight
It's let's be free or die!
Marian
February 8, 2010
Monster Government
Putting their nose in everywhere
Not letting us live in peace
Taxing, regulating, being unfair
Causing liberty to cease
Slavery is making its way today
And We The People are prone
To be the captives to what they say
From birth through when we're grown
Indoctrination, excessive taxation
And ultra progressive regulation
Is our new government's cry
It's time to set the record straight
It's let's be free or die!
Marian
February 8, 2010
Bye Bye Winter
Bye Bye Winter
Here is winter taking its stand
To freeze the soil upon our land
Springtime is coming, creeping in
For warmth and spirit to re-begin
The muscular winter hunkers down
To thwart the spring that's lurking 'round
But winter soon will be giving in
Letting persistant spring to now begin
Snowbirds find their way back home
To the northern climate they've loved and known
Buds are peeking from branches bare
Green emerging everywhere
As spring regains its former power
Rain will drench the blooming flower
People will wake from depression's hold
As spring replaces the winter cold
Marian
February 8, 2010
Here is winter taking its stand
To freeze the soil upon our land
Springtime is coming, creeping in
For warmth and spirit to re-begin
The muscular winter hunkers down
To thwart the spring that's lurking 'round
But winter soon will be giving in
Letting persistant spring to now begin
Snowbirds find their way back home
To the northern climate they've loved and known
Buds are peeking from branches bare
Green emerging everywhere
As spring regains its former power
Rain will drench the blooming flower
People will wake from depression's hold
As spring replaces the winter cold
Marian
February 8, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Let's play what if?
What if.....
What if you worked very hard all your life to realize your dream of owning and operating one of the most successful and prestigious horse stables around? Say you were at the point that you have bred or bought enough good horses to finally compete at top level shows, hire the best trainers, and travel first class. You have a state of the art barn and you are just where you had hoped you would be when you worked your way from the ground up.
Now, what if the horse club you are in decides that the wealthiest of the members must pay the highest percentage of the dues, because after all, those who have the same dreams but did not work hard enough to attain the same success you did want to be competitive in the horse shows also. So those people will pay $5 per year to be members and you will pay $500 per year to support your organization.
Now, what if the organization does not think it is fair that you have the best horses and best trainers, so you always win? Now the organization tells you you can keep 20 percent of your herd of show horses and must distribute the rest of them to people who want to show but were not able to attain your level of success? You must also subsidize these people the cost of feeding, training, and showing their new horses.
Now your organization has leveled the playing field. You are getting beat by all the horses you toiled to breed and buy, and are being beat by trainers and grooms you pay to work for the guy who hasn't raised a finger to build his own show string and reputation. Sucks, doesn't it?
What if your government wants to treat you the same way? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, sound familiar?
What if you worked very hard all your life to realize your dream of owning and operating one of the most successful and prestigious horse stables around? Say you were at the point that you have bred or bought enough good horses to finally compete at top level shows, hire the best trainers, and travel first class. You have a state of the art barn and you are just where you had hoped you would be when you worked your way from the ground up.
Now, what if the horse club you are in decides that the wealthiest of the members must pay the highest percentage of the dues, because after all, those who have the same dreams but did not work hard enough to attain the same success you did want to be competitive in the horse shows also. So those people will pay $5 per year to be members and you will pay $500 per year to support your organization.
Now, what if the organization does not think it is fair that you have the best horses and best trainers, so you always win? Now the organization tells you you can keep 20 percent of your herd of show horses and must distribute the rest of them to people who want to show but were not able to attain your level of success? You must also subsidize these people the cost of feeding, training, and showing their new horses.
Now your organization has leveled the playing field. You are getting beat by all the horses you toiled to breed and buy, and are being beat by trainers and grooms you pay to work for the guy who hasn't raised a finger to build his own show string and reputation. Sucks, doesn't it?
What if your government wants to treat you the same way? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, sound familiar?
PAYING ATTENTION
We cannot, by total alliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong. There are good laws and there are bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws. and to disobey them. Alexander Bickel 1924-1974
Paying Attention
Give me laws and I'll obey them
If my heart tells me it's right
Give me bad laws, I'll fight to change them
With all my mortal might
Laws are made by mortal men
Some upstanding, some not so
So evil laws may trickle in
Before we even know
It's our right and duty to judge them
And our duty to weed them out
That's what a free democracy
Like ours is all about
Marian
February 7, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Another Year and He's Still Here
Another Year and He's Still Here
Years keep passing and fond memories grow
About this man we had the pleasure to know
And his birthdays still pass, but don't mean a thing
Because now he is where the angels sing
His laugh, his smile, his humor, his love
Put him on a pedistal far above
Any great man that ever lived
This man we know continues to give
He gave his time and loved us so
It didn't take much for us all to know
We were the apples in his loving eyes
And he watches now from endless skies
He left with us the knowledge that we can be
The people he had the vison to see
We are all a part of the best he was
He remained with us and always does
Marian
February 2, 2010
Dad's Birthday
Years keep passing and fond memories grow
About this man we had the pleasure to know
And his birthdays still pass, but don't mean a thing
Because now he is where the angels sing
His laugh, his smile, his humor, his love
Put him on a pedistal far above
Any great man that ever lived
This man we know continues to give
He gave his time and loved us so
It didn't take much for us all to know
We were the apples in his loving eyes
And he watches now from endless skies
He left with us the knowledge that we can be
The people he had the vison to see
We are all a part of the best he was
He remained with us and always does
Marian
February 2, 2010
Dad's Birthday
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