The Declaration- If Conceived Today

                                                     The Declaration of Dependence

               We hold these truths (or whatever) to be self-evident, that all living creatures are created  and shall remain equal, that they are endowed by Gaia (Trans*Female, Gender Questioning) with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Abortion, Welfare and free Contraceptives for life.-That to secure these rights, Big Governments are instituted among all Creatures, deriving their just powers from the consent of the coastal elites. –That whenever any Form of Big Government becomes destructive of these ends (like, we’re so sure, lol), it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new and even more intrusive Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its (vast) powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to give them stuff while punishing “the rich”.

                And for the  support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on  humanism and paganism to protect us from religious extremists, we mutually pledge to each other our belief in Climate Change and Social Engineering.

                             Nancy Pelosi                                                      Harry Reid
                             Sherrod Brown                                                   Elizabeth Warren
                             Charles Schumer                                                John D. Rockefeller IV
                             Mark Udall                                                         Tom Udall
                             Ron Wyden                                                        Robert Menendez
                             Tom Harkin                                                        Dianne Feinstein
                             Barbara Mikulski                                               Richard Durbin
                             Amy Klobuchar                                                  Patrick Leahy 
                             Barbara Boxer                                                   Al Franken    
                             Barack Hussein Obama                                    Al Gore
                             Michelle Obama                                               Hilary Clinton
                                                                                                                                            
                             Mike Wallace                                                    Keith Olberman 
                             Andrew Cuomo                                                  Lincoln Chaffee
                             Jerry Brown                                                        Terry McAuliffe
                           
                  
                            Maxine Waters                                                   Corrine Brown
                            Alcee Hastings                                                    Daniel Lipinski
                            Debbie Wasserman Schultz                                John Sarbanes
                            Elijah Cummings                                                 Joseph P. Kennedy III
                            John Dingell                                                        John Conyers, Jr.
                            Sheila Jackson Lee                                              Betty McCollum
                            Keith Ellison                                                        Charles B. Rangel
                               

                          

                            

Columbus Day?- Part II

                Well prior to the Revolutionary War, many people felt that America should actually have been named Columbia after its discoverer, Christopher Columbus. In fact various Colonial poets used this term for her throughout the war. The word was first used by Phillis Wheatley, an African-American slave poetess in Massachusetts, in a poem honoring George Washington! Ironic, no? I wonder if she knew she was insulting Native Americans as she was honoring Columbus and the Father of Our Country?

                There is currently, of course, a massive politically-correct push to slander Columbus into shame and obscurity. He was responsible, the p.c. crowd crows, for the disenfranchisement of the Indians, their subsequent high rate of alcoholism, the rape of the land, etc.

                He was, somehow, not subsequently responsible for the massive gaming casinos across the country bringing hundreds of thousands of dollars into many Indian families, their status in many cases as a “sovereign” nation, and consequently not having to abide by our game and fish laws, etc.                 Nor their physical protection by the U.S. armed forces despite their “Sovereign Nation” status.

                 In 1784 King’s College in New York City was renamed Columbia College (since updated to Columbia University). This must be a bit of a puzzler to the p.c. crowd. Columbia is bad, as a tribute to Columbus, but we don’t want to endorse a monarchy either. Perhaps a good name for this particular institution of higher learning would be the “Non-Monarchical, Indigenous Peoples University” or NIPU.

                There must be sweeping changes. Our sensitivity level must be ratcheted up to historic highs. No more can we excuse the indignities of the past. All the statues, streets, towns, rivers, public buildings, etc., currently named Columbia or Columbus shall be subject to an immediate name change.

                The Columbia River must be renamed. All the towns and cities in the U.S. currently called “Columbia” (South Carolina, Missouri, et. al.) must be renamed. The dome of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., is topped by a statue of “Columbia”, the long-time literary representation of the United States of America. This statue should be removed immediately, painted red, black, yellow and brown,  rendered transgender, and given a tat and a tongue piercing.  It could then be placed in Hollywood, perhaps atop the old “Columbia Pictures” (now known as “Columbia Tristar”) building.

                CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System, must be recast as the “Indigenous Peoples Broadcasting System”, or IPBS.

                Columbus, Ohio should be forced to immediately relinquish its name and henceforth be referred to as “Indigenous Peoples”, Ohio, or have the Blue Jackets forfeit every game this season.

                And then there is the matter of the great grey elephant (I don’t mean Republican) in the room. The U.S. capital city itself will obviously have to be renamed. Henceforth, lawmaking will be done in Washington, District of Indigenous Peoples…or Washington, D.I.P.

               

Columbus Day?- Part I

                Some large U.S. cities are dispensing with “Columbus Day” celebrations and instituting  "Indigenous People’s Day” festivals in their place. Many government offices will be closed for the replacement holiday, parking meters won’t be enforced, mail not delivered, etc., in keeping with past observances of “Columbus Day”.

                Advocates of the change say it’s not just symbolic and is far more than a simple name change. They say it’s a big step for communities that have been pushing back against negative stereotypes and traditions for decades.

                I’m not sure how Columbus could be responsible for creating negative stereotypes of Native Americans, since he never set foot on “American”- or North American-  soil. He wasn’t even searching for America, as no one at the time even suspected the existence of  “America”. He was simply looking for a short sea route to the Indies. (He wasn’t trying to prove the world was round. He already knew that). Hence the term “Indians”.

                Yet the president of the Native American Community Development Institute stated that “It’s a validation and a correction of a historical wrong that has perpetuated a negative image of American Indian people, by celebrating somebody that has really been nothing but bad for  American Indian people and indigenous people across this continent.”

                Really?  Someone was going to discover “America” ( the land mass; the Founders actually created modern day  America, or the country now known as the United States of America, via the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights). The English, certainly, if Spain hadn’t. The Italians? The Chinese coming from the other way, perhaps? They invented gunpowder and were the first to use compasses, etc., and completed the Great Wall centuries before Columbus was born. Someone or some country or culture or people have “discovered” every place on Earth. Who do all the other peoples of the world “blame” for finding them?

                And wait a minute. Didn’t our “indigenous” folk come across a land bridge from Asia to get here? Hmmm. I bet bison and other native animals were pretty pissed-off about that!

                But if we want to blame white Europeans for discovering and occupying America, and most minorities (soon to be majorities) apparently do, why Columbus? I thought most modern day historians consider it  a virtual certainty that  Leif Erickson and his Viking hoards discovered America first and that they actually trod its soil.

                Columbus endured real poverty as a young man. He was pleasant, but dignified in manner. He had a mystic belief that God intended him to make great discoveries in order to spread Christianity. He was possessed of great moral and physical courage. He navigated by dead-reckoning, yet was one of the greatest seaman in history.

                In 1492 most people in the Old World had little hope for the future. Less than thirty years later a great renewal of human spirit had commenced. Columbus not only discovered the “New World”, for all that has meant to history and the promulgation of human freedom, his success encouraged other explorers and opened new windows to science and general knowledge. He had great tenacity, but one  idea, and that a radical one. As such he was regarded as a bore by many and hated by some. He shouldn’t be now.

                Columbus thought that Japan was about where the Virgin Islands are located. This was because he underestimated the size of the  globe and the width of the Atlantic Ocean.

                We should not underestimate the importance of his legacy.

               To few men in modern history does the world as we know it owe so great a debt as to Christopher Columbus.

            

                It is up to us to discover that truth.

 

The Democratic Bill of Rights

*Amendment I- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of non-religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech of those in government or Hollywood, or of the press, except Fox News; or the right of (approved groups) of the people  peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

*Amendment II- A very well regulated militia, being necessary to help feed and immunize underprivileged peoples around the world and showcase the potential of a truly diverse social organization free of bias against sexual orientation, gender identity and religious  affiliation, the right of the people to keep and bear their arms- and legs- shall not be infringed.

*Amendment III- No Conservative shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

*Amendment IV- The rights of some of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, unless the Government thinks it best for the greater good, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized, unless the IRS- or other Government Agency- deems it necessary to protect said Agency from the people.

*Amendment V- No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime against a conservative, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger and even then not if they are Islamic extremists; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without the due process of law unless we don’t like your kind; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation, except in cases where we want to.

*Amendment VI- In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed; which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence, unless a conservative (or a member of a conservative-leaning group), especially a Tea-Bagger- or Rick Perry.

*Amendment VII- In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law… unless Al Franken or Nancy Pelosi say  otherwise.

*Amendment VIII- Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted… except on the Koch brothers, Mark Steyn and Michael Savage.

*Amendment IX- The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the Congress, President and Judiciary; nor of Big Media, Big Academia, Big Labor, Hollywood, etc.

*Amendment X- The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, should have been! Therefore, the duty of abject obedience (to Federal Power) is reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

(The actual first ten Amendments to the Constitution of the United States- known as 'the Bill of Rights'- were ratified on December 15th, 1791. I'm guessing  Democrats would like to see this, their dream- version of the Bill of Rights, enacted around December 15, 2016. The current version of the Bill of Rights was ratified by those such as Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, etc. The replacement edition would be either accomplished by Executive Fiat or Judicial Decree...or 'ratified' by the August modern-day body that includes such political luminaries as Al Franken, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer).
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And a Bonus Amendment, the 11th!:

*Amendment XI- The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State, unless directed to be so construed by President Obama or the United Nations, in order to promote “One World Government."