Ford Assembly Plant In Brazil

Every one needs to see this -- and they want a bail out!

Worried about our auto industry? Watch this!

Assembly Plant In Brazil. Interesting ...This is a video of a new Ford plant in Brazil.One look at this and you will be able to tell why there will probably never be another one built in the USA. It will also point out why more assembly plants will go offshore.

http://info.detnews.com/video/index.cfm?id=1189

and.. pay attention to the last few words. It says a lot!

The plant was built in 2007.

There is a lot of material, take the time to go through it.




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Is Reality Beginning To Set In?

Happy Thanksgiving to you all.

I wasn’t going to get all riled up over this Holiday but with what is going on in the news, in India and reports of the possible bombing attempts anticipated to be made on the New York subways, I got riled up anyway.

It has been my observation before and sense the election that B. O. is like a kid playing dress up. He has seen the face of reality and like facing the grim reaper it has scared the he** out of him.

I remember when President Bush was in Salinas, I wasn’t more then 20 feet away from him, his hair wasn’t gray, he didn’t look worn, look at him today after eight years, knowing what he knows, seeing what he has seen and doing what he has had to do as Commander in Chief.

In my humble opinion we all owe our thanks to God for President Bush during the perilous times we have faced, and we owe a debt of thanks for his steady hand at the helm preventing any further attacks. Islamic terrorists are out there waiting for a smell of weakness, of fear, of uncertainty, of confusion; they didn’t find it in President Bush. In fact President Bush has taken the fight to the terrorists wherever they are. He has seen to it that terrorist leaders are killed at every opportunity. The terrorists are on the ropes, if the people of this country don’t respect President Bush, believe me, they do.

We are at war people. It’s not just the economy, it’s not just these banks and everyone else lining up for a handout. We are at war. Maybe when Biden said B. O. will be tested within six months, if elected, he was actually warning the people to beware, but at least 53% of the country didn’t heed his warning. You have to give O. credit though, he is sly, he kept Defense Secretary Robert Gates, some are probably wondering why with all the Clinton retreads he has around him, he has possibly finally come to the full, unmasked, realization that we are at war, not words, but a shooting, killing war and Defense Secretary Robert Gates is kicking butt. B. O. has no idea what to do, how could he, he has no résumé, no experience in anything, he has found himself about to be thrown into a pool of hungry sharks, so I’m sure he pleaded with Secretary Gates, maybe with a bit of a whimpering voice, to please, please stay on. It’s one thing to go out and talk to a bunch of suits with their hands out, it’s quite another to face the incredibly stark, unbelievably horror filled realities of what he has found himself right smack dab in the middle of.

Well rehearsed flowery talk said over a teleprompter, as he used during the campaign, will no longer cut it, he is about to be up to bat, he will be facing fast balls coming from every direction, he is far from ready, the most difficult decision he possibly has ever had to make is what suit he will wear on a given day, now because of all you B. H. O. people out there he is about to become Commander in Chief. Are you all as happy and comfortable now that reality has had a chance to set in and your no longer hearing the mantra, “CHANGE?”

Yes the New York subways have been threatened by terrorists, thank you Mr. Biden for your forewarning.

What next?

Happy Thanksgiving. When you gather around your tables today remember our troops away from their families fighting for us all, our country, remember those less fortunate and the homeless and maybe see what you can do to make this a more thankful day for them.

POW/MIA's

I have a subject all of you can get wrapped around; what is it you ask excitedly? POW/MIA’s, specifically for this post, those from Vietnam/Laos.

I was listening to former Congressman John LeBoutillier on the Mark and Jim Show on 1460 AM this morning. LeBoutillier was elected to Congress in 1980, representing New York’s 6th. District. He defeated 16-year incumbent Lester L. Wolff to become the youngest member of the 97th. Congress. He served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and as a member of Special House POW/MIA Task Force.

He reported that in 1974 there were about 1200 pow’s being held by North Vietnam. The United States, reportedly made a deal to give around 5 billion as war reparations, half was provided, half of the pow’s were released including John McCain. The last half was never given, the remaining pow’s were apparently abandoned.

Why have these men been left abandoned all these years? Politicians are apparently hoping time will take care of the problem and it probably has, unfortunately, in many cases. The government has done everything it can, not, to bring them home. We have been and are shoveling out money like it was rain from Heaven but not one cent to complete the deal made way back then and to see to it that all remaining POW’s are returned and families finally have closure. Even if there is only one left we owe it to him to bring him home. A good book to read on this is “An Enormous Crime” By Bill Hendon, William Martin Hendon, Elizabeth A. Stewart.

Thank God there are some out there like Congressman Bob Dornan, Bill Dumas, http://www.billdumas.com/ and the American Legion acting on the behalf of our Nation’s POW’s and MIA’s.

This is important and requires research and interaction by us all to bring this injustice against our nations hero’s to an end.

A 2nd. Amendment Topic

I keep hearing in the news that a great many people are actively purchasing handguns and ammunition because of the upcoming B. O. presidency. It is reported that this activity has been ongoing sense it was observed he would win the nomination. People are afraid of what he and his cohorts will do in connection with the peoples right to keep and bear arms, to have weapons in useful readiness in their homes for self protection without having to be either disassembled or crippled in their usefulness by a trigger lock. Then there is the fear of taxes, so severe, placed on weapons and ammunition that the average person will not be able to afford them.

Forgive my apparent misunderstanding but I thought this had all been settled by the Supreme court decision of June 26, 2008. Are we as a people still in jeopardy of losing our 2nd. Amendments rights? Can we as a people be so laid back and unresponsive that we allow the government to come in through the backdoor and infringe upon our rights under the 2nd. Amendment through excessive taxation? I thought this was a settled issue.

I have included the June 26, 2008 Supreme Court Decision below.

The 2nd. Amendment
District of Columbia v. Heller
From Wikipedia,

Supreme Court of the United States Argued March 18, 2008 Decided June 26, 2008

Full case name: District of Columbia, et al. v. Dick Anthony Heller Docket no.: 07-290 Citations: 554 U.S. ___; 128 S. Ct. 2783; 171 L. Ed. 2d 637; 2008 U.S. LEXIS 5268; 76 U.S.L.W. 4631; 21 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 497 Prior history: Provisions of the Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 infringe an individual's right to bear arms as protected by the Second Amendment. District Court for the District of Columbia reversed. Procedural history: Writ of Certiorari to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Argument: Oral argument
Holding The Second Amendment guarantees an individual's right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed. Court membership Chief Justice: John G. Roberts Associate Justices: John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito Case opinions Majority by: Scalia Joined by: Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito Dissent by: Stevens Joined by: Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer Dissent by: Breyer Joined by: Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg

Laws applied U.S. Const. amend. II; D.C. Code §§ 7-2502.02(a)(4), 22-4504, 7-2507.02 District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. ___ (2008) is a legal case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual's right to possess a firearm for private use. It was the first Supreme Court case in United States history to directly address whether the right to keep and bear arms is a right of individuals or a collective right that applies only to state-regulated militias.

On June 26, 2008, the Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Parker v. District of Columbia, 478 F.3d 370 (D.C. Cir. 2007).[1] The Court of Appeals had struck down provisions of the Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 as unconstitutional, and determined that handguns are "Arms" that may not be banned by the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.), also striking down the portion of the law that requires all firearms including rifles and shotguns be kept "unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock."

Decision

On June 26, 2008, by a 5 to 4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the federal appeals court ruling, striking down the D.C. gun law. Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, stated, "In sum, we hold that the District's ban on handgun possession in the home violates the Second Amendment, as does its prohibition against rendering any lawful firearm in the home operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense ... We affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals."[30] This ruling upholds the first federal appeals court ruling ever to void a law on Second Amendment grounds.[31]

The Court based its reasoning on the grounds:

that the operative clause of the Second Amendment—"the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"—is controlling and refers to a pre-existing right of individuals to possess and carry personal weapons for self-defense and intrinsically for defense against tyranny, based on the bare meaning of the words, the usage of "the people" elsewhere in the Constitution, and historical materials on the clause's original public meaning;

that the prefatory clause, which announces a purpose of a "well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State", comports with the meaning of the operative clause and refers to a well-trained citizen militia, which "comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense", as being necessary to the security of a free polity;

that historical materials support this interpretation, including "analogous arms-bearing rights in state constitutions" at the time, the drafting history of the Second Amendment, and interpretation of the Second Amendment "by scholars, courts, and legislators" through the late nineteenth century; and

that none of the Supreme Court's precedents forecloses the Court's interpretation, specifically United States v. Cruikshank (1875), Presser v. Illinois (1886), nor United States v. Miller (1939).

However, "[l]ike most rights, the Second Amendment is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose." The Court's opinion, although refraining from an exhaustive analysis of the full scope of the right, "should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms."

Therefore, the District of Columbia's handgun ban is unconstitutional, as it "amounts to a prohibition on an entire class of 'arms' that Americans overwhelmingly choose for the lawful purpose of self-defense". Similarly, the requirement that any firearm in the home be disassembled or bound by a trigger lock is unconstitutional, as it "makes it impossible for citizens to use arms for the core lawful purpose of self-defense".
The opinion of the court, delivered by Justice Scalia, was joined by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. and by Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr.

Issues addressed by the majority

The core holding in D.C. v. Heller is that the Second Amendment is an individual right intimately tied to the natural right of self-defense.

The Scalia majority invokes much historical material to support its finding that the right to keep and bear arms belongs to individuals; however, rhetorical impact is provided by the Court's linguistic assertion that the "people" to whom the Second Amendment right is accorded are the same "people" who enjoy First and Fourth Amendment protection.

With that finding as anchor, the Court ruled a total ban on operative handguns in the home is unconstitutional, as the ban runs afoul of both the self-defense purpose of the Second Amendment—a purpose not previously articulated by the Court—and the "in common use at the time" prong of the Miller decision: since handguns are in common use, their ownership is protected.

The Evolution Of A Republic

When the 13 colonies were still part of England,
Professor Alexander Tyler, a Scottish historian,
wrote about the fall of the Athenian Republic over
2000 years earlier. He said:

“ A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of
Government. It can only exist until the voters
discover that they can vote themselves money from the
Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority
always votes for the candidates promising the most
money from the Public Treasury, with the result that
a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy
followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations
have been 200 years. These nations have progressed
through the following sequence;

From bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to
great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to
abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from
selfishness to complacency, from complacency to
apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency
back to bondage.” ---- Alexander Tyler

Where does this country stand on the evolutionary scale?


"Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual -- or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country."

"When People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders."

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" --Samuel Adams

It Is Time To Act As Responsible Adults

Some of us are acting like quarrelsome children during this election period. Instead of discussing the issues rationally, pro or con and backing them with commonsense and the Constitution, many of us have reduced ourselves to name calling, finger pointing and in the case of political signs, stealing and vandalism. What I am about to say is hard to believe but I even had one man, a liberal in every sense of the word, a store owner in fact, so outraged with me that he gave his name and address and pleaded with me to find my way there so he could show me how tough he was by engaging in a fist fight with me.

People it is time to grow up and act as adults, not disrespectful quarrelsome children full of hate towards one another.

Politics is a war of ideas and each idea must, must, must be backed by the Constitution, otherwise it isn’t worth the paper it is written on or the time it took to write it. If an idea is not inline with our Constitution it is naturally in line with that which is bad for our country, that will cripple and pull the rug out from under us all.

There is a time for children but this is not it.

A Chronology of Obama

A chronology of Obama, his family and associates. Very interesting reading.

It never hurts to know as much as possible about a man that could become our next president.

For those who have already made up your mind to vote for Obama facts will have little meaning, this is, at the least, an insight on how he came to be where he is.

http://www.renewamerica.us/news/081030obama.htm

What Has Happened To Halloween?

When I was a boy the children in grade school would dress up in their costumes after lunch on Halloween and we would all have a party. After school we would go home and get ready to go trick or treating. We were out at dusk, not glumly trudging along as they do today, we were out for all the candy we could get, we literally ran from house to house as though in a race, it was, I guess, a race for candy. Up one street and down the other we would go until our bags were about to burst.

Everyone got involved, homeowners bought all sorts of candy to give out, some people even made candied apples, of course that wouldn’t go today but back then there were few problems. Every home had their lights on, not like now where more then half the lights on any given street are off. What’s the matter with everybody today, has everyone forgotten what it’s like to have fun, to be a kid and dressing up one lousy day of the year? Have people become so cheap they can’t go out and buy candy? Have parents become so warped that they have forgotten how they use to look forward to Halloween?

When I was young the streets, on Halloween, were full of kids, even after I grew up, married and had a family of my own and took our kids out the streets were still crawling with kids scampering around from house to house, people had their lights on.

Now lets jump ahead to today. Most all lights are off, telling kids they aren’t worth a few pieces of candy just one day out of the year, the precious money it takes to bring a smile to a kids face is just to precious to part with. Parents are to lazy to get their kids ready and take them out.

A few years back, approximately ten or eleven. we would have around three hundred kids come to our door. We always bought candy bars from Costco, or some such place, to give out and would give each kid three. We had a ball going to the door and seeing the kids all dressed up in their costumes and some that were still trying to hold on to the last vestiges of their childhood, people were having fun. Then gradually, year after year the numbers began to dwindle. A couple of years back we only had about a hundred come to the door. Some of the neighbors, like me, were wondering what in the world is going, no one could come up with an answer other then it might be the parents and a great deal of selfishness from people who feel their time is just so d*** important that they can’t be bothered.

My wife and I thought that this year was going to be different, there are a lot of kids in the neighborhood, I bought four large bags of candy bars at Costco and boy oh boy I was ready for the expected onslaught. Sure enough, at 5:30pm there came up the walk four kids all dressed up. I told little Momma that it wouldn’t be long now, I was getting excited, Halloween has always been a fun time for me, for my wife also. Tick tock, the minutes went by, then an hour, what in the h*** is going on? Finally here comes two more. Stragglers like this would come around until the last two at 9:00pm. The sum total of kids was 34. Of those who came most never said thank you. I never saw a smile, never a glimmer of excitement, some were even to lazy to come up the walkway to the front door, why did they even come out, they expected for us to bring the candy to them.

Can anyone explain what has happened to Halloween? Is Halloween dying away only to become a relic in the dustbin of our memories?