I remember after 8 years of the Clinton administration, Americans were clamoring to “bring back some dignity” to the Oval Office. This of course after scores of classless acts by Clinton and his children running his offices and topping that off with a rendezvous in the Oval Office with Monica Lewinsky, complete with cigars and oral sex while chatting it up with foreign dignitaries on the Oval Office phone.

How soon I guess we have forgotten about the importance of class and dignity in the White House. Among all the other things President Obama has done, and I, for one, am sick and tired of hearing time and again about them all, we now have the “Beer Summit”.

The president invited Professor Gates, the man who cried racism because a cop was doing his job, and the cop to come to the White House and talk this out over a beer. Yeah, that’s right! A beer. A totally classless act that adds to the misery of this administration and reaffirms his freshman ignorance and proves the job is way over his head. This was all mostly because our president called the cop stupid.

But get this. Robert Gates, the arrogant Obama clone who is Obama’s press secretary, attempts to chide the press for its ridiculous coverage of the Beer Summit.

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We have a bunch of classless and ignorant kids, Robert Gates included, attempting to laugh and ridicule the press in how it handled the Beer Summit. It must be obvious that Gates, and his boss the President of the United States, actually think his calling a Beer Summit is a serious event, one that deserves completely serious coverage.

All this ended up being was a terrible publicity stunt in hopes of Obama saving face. Well, he didn’t, at least to anyone willing to be honest about the make up of this guy.

Isn’t it bizzare? Here’s our press, totally in bed with Obama and all that he does. They see him and report in a way that “The One” can do no wrong and think they are playing along with Obama’s little games of playing golf, having pizza parties and throwing beer summits, mixed in with apologizing for bad America and the kids of the media almost got detention.

What’s next to come from the White House? Maybe invite Rev. Wright and the Pope over for a good old fashioned tent revival.

Tom Remington

Many readers may find this adventure something they would be interested in following. National Geographic Channel is following the 30-day trek of documentary filmmaker and outdoors enthusiasts Ed Wardle across the Canadian Yukon.

While following his adventure, with the ultimate goal of creating a full feature documentary, National Geographic Channel will follow Ed in nearly real time. His journey will be plotted with Google Map Locator. Ed will be Twittering his journey as well. We also will have the entertainment of several videos of Ed’s adventures.

I intend to follow Ed’s progress as best I can and receive periodic updates of his journey. I will also post up some of the more interesting videos and you can visit Ed Wardle’s web site and view them all.

Tom Remington

At the end of Thomas Jefferson’s five years he spent in Paris, France working for the United States to open treaties and agreements of commerce and trade, back in the States work was being done in drafting the Constitution.

Jefferson was always adamant that the Constitution should contain a guarantee of rights to the citizens of America, that it should be spelled out clearly the freedoms guaranteed to each person. The debate on such ranged from it not being at all necessary and whether or not any “guaranteed” rights be done as amendments to the ratified Constitution or a stand alone document.

If Jefferson were alive today, he could make a fortune in consulting fees. He was the go-to guy for many when seeking advice on an array of topics. It seemed that while he was in the middle of receiving mailings from across the ocean about the drafting of a constitution, he was also consulting with many concerning the French Revolution and helping the French people to regain some of their lost freedoms.

James Madison was a protege of Jefferson’s. Jefferson thought highly of him and mentored him on many occasions throughout his life. The drafting of the Constitution was no different. But it should be said that even as close as Jefferson and Madison were, they didn’t always see eye to eye on issues, the Bill of Rights being one of them.

Don’t be confused, Madison was a firm believer in the rights of American citizens. The difference came in whether it was necessary to actually have those rights spelled out in a separate document or through amendments to the Constitution.

In March of 1789, Thomas Jefferson answered a letter sent him by James Madison about whether or not it was necessary to include a bill of rights and other concerns of the drafting of the Constitution. Some believe that in the following text of his answers, shows us some of the greatest thoughts that Jefferson had and why he felt compelled to create a Bill of Rights.

I cannot refrain from making short answers to the objections which your letter states to have been raised.

1. That the rights in question are reserved by the manner in which the federal powers are granted.

Answer. A constitutive act may certainly be so formed as to need no declaration of rights. The act itself has the force of a declaration as far as it goes: and if it goes to all material points nothing more is wanting. In the draft of a constitution which I had once a thought of proposing in Virginia, and printed afterwards, I endeavored to reach all the great objects of public liberty, and did not mean to add a declaration of rights. Probably the object was imperfectly executed: but the deficiencies would have been supplied by others in the course of discussion. But in a constitutive act which leaves some precious articles unnoticed, and raises implications against others, a declaration of rights becomes necessary by way of supplement. This is the case of our new federal constitution. This instrument forms us into one state as to certain objects, and gives us a legislative and executive body for these objects. It should therefore guard us against their abuses of power within the field submitted to them.

2. A positive declaration of some essential rights could not be obtained in the requisite latitude.

Answer. Half a loaf is better than no bread. If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

3. The limited powers of the federal government and jealousy of the subordinate governments afford a security which exists in no other instance.

Answer. The first member of this seems resolvable into the 1st. objection before stated. The jealousy of the subordinate governments is a precious reliance. But observe that those governments are only agents. They must have principles furnished them whereon to found their opposition. The declaration of rights will be the text whereby they will try all the acts of the federal government. In this view it is necessary to the federal government also: as by the same text they may try the opposition of the subordinate governments.

4. Experience proves the inefficacy of a bill of rights.

True. But though it is not absolutely efficacious under all circumstances, it is of great potency always, and rarely inefficacious. A brace the more will often keep up the building which would have fallen with that brace the less. There is a remarkable difference between the characters of the Inconveniences which attend a Declaration of rights, and those which attend the want of it. The inconveniences of the Declaration are that it may cramp government in it’s useful exertions. But the evil of this is short-lived, moderate, and reparable. The inconveniences of the want of a Declaration are permanent, afflicting and irreparable: they are in constant progression from bad to worse. The executive in our governments is not the sole, it is scarcely the principal object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislatures is the most formidable dread at present, and will be for long years. That of the executive will come in it’s turn, but it will be at a remote period.

Jefferson had witnessed first hand how without any charter or declaration of rights, the people of France had their liberties yanked out from underneath them. He feared the same for America and therefore spent a great deal of time and effort in convincing many others that the United States Bill of Rights was a necessary document.

His influence on Madison was great enough and over time it was James Madison who introduced the Bill of Rights (the first ten) into Congress as amendments to the Constitution.

Tom Remington

Have you heard? The great “Cash for Clunkers” program was such a success, the House voted to put another $2 billion of your tax money into the coffers to give rebates back to anyone interested in buying a different car.

I am considering a move to Washington, D.C. because evidently money grows on trees down there. My biggest fear though is that there is something in the water that makes you incredibly stupid.

Call it a scam, call it a shell game, call it what you wish. Some would even say it is unconstitutional, at least that’s what the courts said when FDR tried slaughtering pigs and burning cotton.

I thought I had posted the story on this blog about the guy who walks into a hotel and sets a hundred dollar bill on the counter and asks to see a room. While he is looking at the room, someone takes the $100 and pays a debt, which in turn pays another debt, etc., etc., etc., until eventually the $100 bill ends up back at the hotel lobby desk by a hooker who pays her room tab. This is the essence of the “Cash for Clunkers” program. (No! It isn’t about prostitution. Stay with me on this!)

First of all, was I fast asleep on this one? I never heard anything in this Obama stimulus scam that had anything to do with giving people up to $4,500 in rebate money if they trade in their old cars and buy new ones. What a joke!

The car industry, which is poorly run and based upon every American owning at least 5 cars and having a million dollars in debt, gets to sell some of its cars because government (your tax dollars) are used to create the rebate. You trade in your old clunker and get up to $4,500 of my tax money. Then the Obama people can run around bragging about how he bailed out the auto industry because sales are up.

But let’s not forget. This is tax payer money he is using to transfer through a line of debtors, similar to the $100 con job and eventually ends up as seemingly free money to some guy who was planning to buy a car anyway……..or not.

This stimulus con job of Obama’s was supposed to last into the fall but after one week, all the money is gone. So, as we have all come to expect, Congress just adds more money to the game and they walk away thinking they have helped. Just call me Goober!

Well, fools! Who is going to have to pay back the $4,500? We either have to pay it back in higher taxes or print more money to cover the give away putting us that much closer to hyper-inflation. Either way it’s a piss poor deal and you and I are being screwed.

Jump in your car and head on down to Washington, D.C. Before you go, you might want to consider trading in your “clunker” and buying a new Obamamobile. When you get to Washington though, find that money tree fast and get out of town. Above all else, don’t drink the water!

Tom Remington

Or perhaps none at all.

I recently received an email from a friend who is part of a sportsmen group. I am going to reprint some of that email but will intentionally leave out the names of groups used by the friend who sent it to me, not wanting to cause anyone embarrassment and also because of my lack of first hand knowledge of these groups. Those group names have been replaced and you can find them in italic font.

As you read the email, put your sportsmen group into one of the two categories mentioned.

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I have had a lot of people ask me what has happened to Your Favorite Sportsmen Group. Keep in mind while I do not always agree with Your Favorite Sportsmen Group I do have a lot of respect for what they have done.This reply is what happened to My Sportsmen Groupp!

In November of 2001 a group was started in my state that was not afraid to stand up for sportsmen and wildlife. For over three years the group grew like wildfire with a huge membership. There was a sportsmen voice being heard! A voice being heard on Mule Deer, Elk, wildlife and the damage wolves where doing to My State and more.

My Favorite Sportsmen Group then fell into the trap of being told they needed a softer voice and felt it is more important to be a friend of the governor, than represent the sportsmen of Your State. A governor who had one Sara Palin moment, then vanished. Some sportsmen and legislators claimed My Favorite Sportsmen Group was just another sportsmen group who fell into the trap of being a rubber stamp for the ______ Fish and Game. A lot of sportsmen were also tired of sending a lot of money to the state organization for a weak voice. My Favorite Sportsmen Group took an approach similar to the Republican national party and got run over standing in the middle of the road. The result was tremendous membership loss!!

As a result, sportsmen still wanting to have a strong voice, started a new Sportsmen Group. Similar to the original group but with more organization, more expert knowledge, and a strong voice. Once again membership is growing like wildfire and chapters are forming all over the state. And a great thing is that three quarters of the money stays in the chapter and is not wasted on a soft voice in My State Capital!

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If you’re tired of being part of a sportsmen group that has chosen to be middle of the road, a soft spoken group more interested in keeping friends with politicians, etc., maybe it’s time to take a different approach. Get active! Find an organization that truly looks out for your needs and desires as a sportsman. Become a truthful and outspoken voice.

Tom Remington

Today I had a reader leave a comment/question for me at a story I did recently about how John Kerry and some in Congress have made the claim that our military will be spread all across the globe dealing with issues directly related to man-made global warming if we don’t do something about it. The reader wanted to know:

Have you ever considered whether the people warning of global warming are right?

Of course I have. This is what I have considered. Back in the 70s we were all going to freeze to death because of global cooling. This was all because of evil man’s disruption of the atmosphere as we destroyed, or so they thought, the ionosphere and continued to grow the “hole” in the atmosphere…..of which they knew nothing about. Now we are all going to cook, sea levels will rise, storms will get bigger and Al Gore’s bank account will swell to gigantic proportions.

Soon the idea of global cooling cooled off – no pun intended – and life went back to some semblance of normal until a politician, with about as much background in science as I have, who claimed that he invented the Internet, waved a magic wand and created “An Inconvenient Truth” based on nothing more than speculation and the gathering of a few overly anxious scientists willing to jump on Al Gore’s bandwagon and make a few cool billion dollars by scaring the hell out of people.

The truth is, there is no proven science to support man-made global warming. All this has been hyped from poor computer modeling and no, I repeat NO, scientific fact, proven and tested that shows we are all going to die because man contributes a tiny amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere – a gas that IS NOT a pollutant and yet those who stand to make millions from selling their global warming scare, have convinced people it is a pollutant and can be regulated by the EPA and the Clean Air Act.

There is a ton of evidence that shows that climate variations have occurred for millions of years, long before evil man invaded this planet and yet, this person wants to know if I’ve considered that Al Gore is right. There is absolutely no reason why I, or anybody else, should consider that a washed up politician who stands to reap millions of dollars from his scam, is right.

No, no! The burden is on you, the reader who thinks I need to prove that global warming is not man’s fault. First, you have to prove that it is and you haven’t done that yet.

So, get busy and see if you can find proven scientific data that shows us that man-made global warming is real. In the meantime, I will ask, “Have you considered that Al Gore and the rest of the amateurs are wrong?”

Tom Remington

The way this summer has been, I have short windows of time when it isn’t raining like feral cats and wolf-hybrid dogs and so I took most of this morning and this afternoon to work on getting a roof on the new shed I’m building here at camp.

Rafters are up, now I got to strap it and put up some forest green painted steel on it.

This is all happening at a time when my email in box is busting out all over with updates and news. It appears the weasels in Washington couldn’t wait for Sarah Palin to resign so they could step in with their reintroduced bill to stop wildlife management in Alaska. They are like pond scum looking to fill a vacuum.

I should have more information on this soon. It appears our city slicker Congressman from California, George Miller lost his metal in trying to deal with Sarah Palin. Now that she’s gone, he’s dusting off his skirt, stuffing his brazier and going to see if he can get it done without Palin around.

More to come soon.

Tom Remington

This link was sent to me by a reader.

This is a cool video, very patriotic and thought provoking. It is something some seem to have forgotten about this country. Go ahead and click this link and read the text, view the photos and listen to the music. Ronald Reagan is the last one quoted in this video. I might remind you while viewing this, that our current president, Barack Hussein Obama, told the world only a few short weeks ago, that the United States is not a Christian nation. The rest speaks for itself.

Warning: Not for the liberal, progressive minded, who scoff at God.

Tom Remington

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