Flyfishing is my sport ! - some pics of the past 5 years

Land's end - San Luis Pass - Frank in background -

C's Moon, Port Arthur Tx

Dai - Land's End, San Luis Pass

Dai with fine catch at the falls on White River

Camp at Roaring River

The Flats at San Luis Pass(South end, Galveston)

2nd day's catch, White River, 2007

Boliver Light House, Boliver Penninsula, Near
Galveston Tx 2005(ooh. Is it still there after Ike?

In Tribute to Veteran's

I want to honor those who have served the Republic. Such recognition is deserved and should be forthcoming from the citizens in general and specifically from those who honor and adore the Republic, founded on true liberating principles and codified into our constitution, the ratification of which was signed by 55 men at Philadelphia 17 Sep 1787.

I want to recall the words of Benjamin Franklin on that fateful day in 1787, as the convention closed and he urged the signatures of the delegates in a speech, though he was too ill to speak the words himself and this was done for him by Mr Wilson who spoke in his behalf. I excerpt from "Madison's Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787":

"DOCr. FRANKLIN rose with a speech in his hand, which he had reduced to writing for his own conveniency, and which Mr. Wilson read in the words following.
Mr. President
I confess that there are several parts of this constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them: For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. Most men indeed as well as most sects in Religion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and that wherever others differ from them it is so far error. Steele a Protestant in a Dedication tells the Pope, that the only difference between our Churches in their opinions of the certainty of their doctrines is, the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong. But though many private persons think almost as highly of their own infallibility as of that of their sect, few express it so naturally as a certain french lady, who in a dispute with her sister, said "I don't know how it happens, Sister but I meet with no body but myself, that's always in the right — Il n'y a que moi qui a toujours raison."
In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other. I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors, I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were born, and here they shall die. If every one of us in returning to our Constituents were to report the objections he has had to it, and endeavor to gain partizans in support of them, we might prevent its being generally received, and thereby lose all the salutary effects & great advantages resulting naturally in our favor among foreign Nations as well as among ourselves, from our real or apparent unanimity. Much of the strength & efficiency of any Government in procuring and securing happiness to the people, depends, on opinion, on the general opinion of the goodness of the Government, as well as well as of the wisdom and integrity of its Governors. I hope therefore that for our own sakes as a part of the people, and for the sake of posterity, we shall act heartily and unanimously in recommending this Constitution (if approved by Congress & confirmed by the Conventions) wherever our influence may extend, and turn our future thoughts & endeavors to the means of having it well administred.
On the whole, Sir, I can not help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it, would with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own infallibility, and to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument. —
He then moved that the Constitution be signed by the members and offered the following as a convenient form viz. "Done in Convention by the unanimous consent of the States present the 17th. of Sepr. &c — In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names."

In honor of this day, the sister of an acquaintance and her musical tribute to those ideas -- espoused by radicals of freedom, who cherished liberty, and established a Constitutional based government to ensure it's general well-being. Too often, our citizens turn to other radicals, mostly of the left. Too often, those who believe they hold true to the traditions and ideas of enlightenment, fail to see that each little act of giving up freedom encourages it's loss and most of this is due to the unwillingness to take responsibility for our own safety, enconomic security and adherence to principle. I pray to the God within me to live by the designs of those who established the Republic -- admonishing others to follow suit."

Here is the Tribute to our Veterans on this Armistice Day, 11 November 2009, a
very beautiful piece with film:

http://www.flusionmusic.com/lambvideo.php

Cordially,
David Edwin Bell

Frank's Big Ride _ October Force whatever - Not muchFurther comment, just one photo

'Tis my Son, Francis, offshore in stormy seas before a hurricane. This is in the
Gulf of Mexico in Mid October....


Frank Suffered a knock-down and blew out two sails during this storm... best...dai

Lord Monckton on The Ceding of US Sovereignty -- by Barak H Obama

I am not going to comment. Take the time to view his short talk. Then visit the video bar at the bottom for the excerpt from "Network"... It appears that the great atomic theory of Business is being combatted economically by the communist/socialist forces of the world. As the CP USA submerged in the 50s to re-emerge in the 60's and 7o's, so has the Communist world state epitomized by the USSR submerged with Gorbachov who is integral to Greenpeace.

Monckton states that the force of communism has overtaken the green movement. We are at war in our own dwindling economic republic with the forces of free enterprise and free markets. Barak Obama is headed to Copenhagen. Monckton provides his view from the following October 14th Video! Which network will it be?

Here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMe5dOgbu40&feature=player_embedded

Here is the link for the excerpt from the film: Network.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sySuIXG_IM

best....

Dai

The Rise and Fall - Forging the links in the chain

If If Social Security, FIT and other programs are socialist, then any GOP proffering of a Government subsidized National Socialist Health Care system is just a shade better than what
the American Socialists offer. So then I must ask: What is reason you think you can take money from any citizen and redistribute it to others?

If you give the government this power, it will corrupt the power and use it as we have witnessed all through the 20th Century and now into the 21st.

If Socialism is better, then by God try and implement it. You are piece-mealing us to death and won't even admit the error of your view. You are so afraid of standing up to the tax and spend liberals that you are not in opposition to the implementation of a Statist Republic. Hell, you have ensured it with your so-called HOMELAND SECURITY. What you all have done in the name
of peace is create the police arm of internal enforcement and they are acting like it.

We have a so-called voluntary social security system. Roosevelt is on film stating it is voluntary. Can you opt out? When you give the government control it becomes manditory no matter what they lie about to get a bill passed.

During the congressional hearings between the proposal for a Federal Income tax, it was stated it would apply to only "true Income" and not wages. They promised it would never exceed 7 Percent tax on that said true income. So we, the people, via our state legislators, gave the government control and what do we have now? ONE OF THE PLANKS OF THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO! You see, Lenin knew what the power of taxation would do across time. Nikita Kruschev knew our system would destroy itself from within -- and WE, the CITIZEN, ARE MAKING IT HAPPEN!!

The law which created Homeland Security is up for renewal. It has abused its powers left and right. Sure, it has prevented some problems. BUT THESE COULD BE AVOIDED BY A FUNCTIONAL IMMIGRATION SYSTEM AND ADEQUATE BORDER CONTROL. So what does Border Patrol do? They don't stop the bastards at the border and they turn inward towards the citizens traveling the highways and roads of this country -- WHO ARE CITIZENS BY RIGHT OF CONSTITUTION!

Constitutional Right, recognized as God Given, PRECEDE all of you sons a bitches and your laws and controls and taxes, and centralized socialism.

So I ask you, where you true patriots really are? Are you, the people of this country clamoring for safety and protection from cradle to grave so fervently that you wish to abdicate the authority of God in your life? When you give up power to Government you give it power to do what it will do. It will become corrupted because it is centralized and this is what we have seen occur in my lifetime.

WAKE UP! Where are you now, you who call yourselves Americans. You are, as Brutus observed to a different population 2000 years ago, Romans, if indeed I can still call you that,
forging the very links in the chains which Caesar will one day make you yourselves wear.

From Amarugia to the Southern Ocean

Destination Hemingway Marina, Cuba - Setting sail in my mind as my son
set's sail for the Dry Tortugas and then Cuba and onward into the southern
Caribe.

I am sitting here having just hung up the phone. Francis wants me to sell
the trucks and gear and purchase another boat and go--the adventure of
my own life which was cut short when I wasn't young enough to venture
on from the Dry Tortugas. Before my 4th Cindy who was also the 2nd. Before
things fell apart and the lost world of early adulthood slid away. To dreams
which were only that, and to things which I do now to help others.

I picture the vastness of the ocean, and, sitting at the tiller of a 37 foot
cutter, pointing the bow south from the haven of port for the living of it.

As a father, I worry of course. But both son's are pursuing dreams with
ability to accomplish them. If I did one thing properly as a father it was
this.

Francis(Frank) is setting sail at 26 -- a time when he should so that
he might accomplish the dream rather than tending to distractions
which lead to attachments -- those that make us happy momentarily,
but which leads to our pain and suffering, dreams only, that never were
to be.

I wish him well. I pray for his safety and happiness, from
the Amarugia Highlands at the edge of a sea of the grass of the plains,
to the Southern Ocean, to a beauty of living in the here and now and
nothing more. I see it now, the cold sweep of the Southern Ocean, the
vastness towards which my son will soon sail on a reach.

I wish him, God Speed.

dai

Revisiting 1991 - 1996 The Third Way as a Threat + Claire Wolfe

What should I write about today? I am seeing a communist as a major player in the oH!bama Adminstration. He is surrounded by those placed in position and influential voice who originated from the American Left. It seems like a plan. Maybe because it is. Long ago was written a work regarding the submerging of the CP/USA and it's re-emergence in the 1960s, aka the weathermen, SDS, etc.


Here we are in 2009, on the brink of economic collapse. The left is intent upon destruction of the CIA, teaming up with it's new internal security aparatus(DHS, FBI and the UN?). I don't know. The book was written in 1973 - Diggins - "The Rise and Fall of the American Left". Diggins examined the Left dealing with the intellectual and social movements, addressing the Old Left, especially that of the emerging Soviet Russia(Trading Czars for Commissars), the international implications, SPI, American Labor and the empowerment of Roosevelt, going underground after the last run for the US Presidency by the CP/USA- Earl Browder, 1940, and Socialist party USA in the many candicacy's of various and assundry personalities.



None of these appear to be as effective as the submergence and re-emergence in which we see the likes of Bill Ayers and Van Jones holding such influential

roles in any adminstration since the inception of the now defunct Republic in 1789.


But that isn't so much what I want to impart today. It doesn't matter that they have begun dismantling the smaller form of the Republic(which was the intended form) by introducing vast new bureaucracies which will take over ownership of the the complete economy by government agency. Sounds like a 7 year plan.

In 1991, as Bill Clinton began his run for the Oval Office, and later in 95, the Assault Weapons Ban was of major import. Opposition was strong enough to have a sunset law provision and it did just that. It appears the strategy has shifted -- Homeland Security, Foreign investigation by internal agency investigation agency, namely the FBI, various policies to keep firearms or the ability to use them as the Constitution intended -- by legislation which makes ammunition difficult to obtain for the weapons owned, etc.

But let's look at the overall picture as painted in 1996.

Here is Claire Wolfe's address to the Libertarian Party Convention in Arizona in 1996. All the while this has been going on (All of my life), there have been those who have understood the threat: Claire is one of those people. I have added her old blog to my own. It is outdated but contains valuable insight, references that may be needed, and pointer's to the Hardyville "fictional locale" somewhere out there in America.

Here are Claire's remarks at this site: take the time to read them.

http://gos.sbc.edu/w/wolfe.html

best regards,

Dai

We are a country divided--and I don't believe it is possible or desireable to reconcile with the American Left

There is to be no peace. The American Left is allied with the international left? Don't believe me? If you were on campus in 1969 and 1970, then you know it is true -- the Weather Underground, emerged from the Communist party of the 1950s. It found it's voice on campus in the easily persuaded crusaders. We had May Day demonstrations, 1971, and this was not the end...it was the beginning of the third wave, the third way of Bill Clinton and they are not going away. They have convinced half of our voting public that such change is convenient, that the government will take care of all of our needs. It doesn't seem to matter if the GOP or the DNC is in control. It is all headed to the same place.

WAKE THE HELL UP!

There is no possible reconciliation. The Fascist/Socialist Republic was born with Homeland Security(Turned inward) shortly after it's creation. The statists desire a police state and we are being Sheriff'ed to death.

A major indication of the absolute Gall of the American left is very apparent
to anyone who has even an "Inkling" of what it meant to form the Constitutional Republic, what Liberty means and it's foundation in the supreme(GOD GIVEN) right of the individual to live freely.

The best evidence for this was on Fox News: If you watch O'bama, he lies through his teeth and expects us to believe it. Many do believe: after all, 52 Percent of the American voting public voted for this socialist mouthpiece. He is campaigning again. ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION?

It is my belief that we need to begin forming US Government free Areas and
do not allow the sorry bastards to cross the line.

View this youtube viewing of Fox News Glen Beck Program. It is scary as hell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAOBlqUqUZ8

A few months ago(Well, I think the first of these was televised on FNC about 1 year ago), Beck also aired the War Room series and again, it is worth the viewing. I no longer believe the elected officials of either party are capable of telling the truth, acting under constitutional law nor do I believe that they wish to do so.

Take the time Damn it! View the video referenced above. View the War room Series as provided by the links below.

What is coming. We have a country divided and socialism/fascism is at the door and we aren't paying attention:

Prepare for the worst, part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mux_-GlgmR8&feature=related

Prepare for the worst, part 2: Freedoms when it falls apart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DuMEmD3G5Q

The War Room, Part 3: Global Civil Unrest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGofjELJzTs&feature=related

The War Room, Part 4: Anger, Discontent, Bubba Affect - 2014

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqWhsMhTqxQ&feature=related

The War Room, Part 5: Survivors:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izvF5nHxW_Y&feature=related

The NWO: Beck with Ron Paul:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nODyj8H68TA&feature=related

The World we grew up in is gone: The NWO is the end-game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZsY5XbLinw&feature=related

The Truth about the bailout:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1A8IhZnVmM&feature=related

Barak H. Obama wouldn't know the truth if he read it

Barak H. Obama didn't read the fine print -- or even care about it! Socialism is an approaching storm as depicted in the photo above... we, the people who would live in a free republic, have wished so long for the peace of a pastoral Jeffersonian Republic that we are lulled into believing that the government will give us the succor we desire. ..Obamacare is a storm revealed in the single moment of illumination as depicted in the first photo below followed by the embodied promises and lies of the American Left as told in HR 3200 about which even Democrat John Conyers is noted as commenting about: "I love these members, they get up and say, 'Read the bill'...What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you've read the bill?" I would toss down the dead man's hand and say, Read and weep, only we are the one's holding the dead man's hand.

In regard to this bill, the image below comes from the Patriot Post, edited by Mark Alexander and illustrates the situation as well as anyone might say in a lot of words(so I won't say more, but quasi-quote an old adage from the Vietnam War era...F--k 'em, feed 'em fishheads, the sorry bastards, they can all kiss my ass!

image taken from the Patriot Post, Wed, 7/29/09, edited by Mark Alexander

'Nuff Said. --dai

Libertarians in NH -- I could not have said it better

Adam Geller wrote the following piece regarding a small group of Libertarian's in NH.

One of those interviewed Fled the "People's republic of Massachusetts"... others like-minded, followed.

These folks already see the long arm of big government, Geller observes, noting that those gathered at the " Porcupine Freedom Festival" for four days are here in a small state to "carve out an enclave of less government and more liberty to do as they wish."

It is my view that we should be doing this, those of us who wish to live in a free republic, by doing similar to what the Tea Parties have done -- only establish enclaves in our own choice location.

Geller identifies people seeking freedom from State oppression in various forms, arriving at this "ideological destination by different routes." Some are of the RKBA crowd, others due to taxes, and still others the are for loosening the drug laws(that have created a quasi-police state in almost every city in the country.

Recently in Joplin Missouri they hired 55 more police officers to add to the existing staff. In an event on the north side of Joplin near the airport, 8 squad cars and at least 8 officers arrived to arrest two 14-year old runaways. It was almost amusing to watch these arrests. No violence was threatened. Both the young people were seeking shelter and help, not causing a problem. Granted they were runaways, had stolen a vehicle but heavens, they were in a controlled environment, the vehicle parked and no threat to anyone. Still a Canine unit appeared, 4 regular squad cars, 2 or 3 sargents and one investigative officer. Observers wondered when the swat team would show up.

Back at the New Hampshire festival one observer stated to Geller:

"Once upon a time America was unquestionably the freest nation in the world by a huge margin. That's not the case anymore and people are starting to realize that," says Varrin Swearingen, an airline pilot who is president of the group. "The further we go down the path to destruction, particularly economically lately, the more interesting this becomes to more people."

go to the AP article, here:

Libertarians In NH (AP)

This article reminds me of Claire Wolfe and her writings, about Hardyville and another enclave of freedom seekers. I can't help but imagine that more and more as Obama and the statist of both major political parties continue on their "Fascist" road(National Socialism is alive and well in the US), that people everywhere will be waking up to the government we have created since WW II; or as my father observed, that those who had acheived victory in Europe and Japan had won the skirmish but were about to lose the war.

You can read Claire Wolfe's Hardyville stories and other musing at Backwoods Home Magazine Online:

http://www.backwoodshome.com/

Or at the Wolfesblog:
http://billstclair.com/clairewolfe.com/blog.html

I don't know where you are going to start but it is my opinion that you ought consider beginning now.

We are headed to a debt of at least 20 trillion dollars and if you think we are going to recover "America" from "Amerika" without a fight and believe that we can solve our economic and social woes by spending ourselves into prosperity, then the American Public has been so dumb'ed down that there is no salvation from forging the links in the chains that Caesar is already making us wear.

Dai