In February we told you that the federal government’s fiscal year begins October 1, giving Congress eight full months to write, read, and pass the bills needed to fund government departments.
It’s almost September, and not ONE appropriations bill has passed. It’s probable that NONE will pass on time. And it’s a certainty that no member of Congress will read any of them.
This is just the latest evidence that Congress is broken. Fundamental change is needed.
The Read the Bills Act (RTBA) is that change. Please send Congress another letter urging them to pass DownsizeDC.org’s Read the Bills Act.
You may borrow from or copy this letter . . .
How can you be trusted to regulate me, when you can’t even regulate yourselves? This year proved that Congress is broken.
* You passed a $26 billion spending bill but forgot to name it http://tinyurl.com/3yj9lqb 
* You didn’t bother passing a budget resolution because you were afraid of the bad publicity of a huge deficit http://tinyurl.com/2bhz8vl
* And you haven’t passed even one of the 12 departmental appropriations bills that are due on Oct 1
Yet somehow the House found time to pass 261 bills this year, and the Senate passed 137. That’s not counting the dozens of resolutions both chambers passed. You passed everything EXCEPT the bills that keep the government running, which should be your top priority!
* I know these departmental funding bills, totaling some $3.8 trillion won’t pass on time
* I know that when you do finally pass them, you won’t have read them
* Which means you won’t even know how you spent MY money
* And the bills will be full of secret deals, corruption, and waste
I am thoroughly disgusted and out of patience. A real, working Congress would make the budget a top priority at the beginning of each year. I insist you do one thing to fix yourself. Taking this action will also help your re-election chances. Introduce DownsizeDC.org’s Read the Bills Act. The RTBA will . . .
* Force Congress to prioritize, so you won’t wait until the last minute to pass needed legislation
* Keep Congress accountable
* Create shorter, understandable bills
Introducing the RTBA will show me that you know Congress is broken and needs to be fixed. Introducing this bill will make you a part of the solution, instead of the problem.

John Wayne Smith,Libertarian Candidate for Florida Governor, stopped in Broward ,in Davie at Crisper’s for a few hours.J.W.S was in Coral Gables for a visit there and graciously stopped bye.John Wayne with Larry Targett ,Chair of the Libertarian Party of Broward County. Photo (2) John Wayne with supporter Mr.J. Roaf.

Just some photos of the social dinner at tijuana taxi  Aaron kept sayin” Eat your heart out Janet Napolitano” Thanks to Darren Aaron ,Jim,Ultra Fab  April,Sean (taken pictures)Matt,Bruce.Hope fully YOU will be there.LarryT( I’m in the beige polo)

This Saturday Night at 6:00 p.m. at Tijuana Taxi in Davie.The Libertarian Party of Florida is having the state convention in Panama City Fl. We’ll have our own convention here.Cold beer ,chips and salsa.Come on by.Take a load off your feet,enjoy the scenery.

Tijuana Taxi 4400 North University Dr. Davie Fl  (954) 472-5008

Tijuana Taxi  is two blocks north of Griffin Rd. next to the Bp gas station.

The Shot Heard Around the World

APRIL 19, 1775

Remember, that as wayward children of King George, we (as British subjects), were commanded by our government to surrender our guns and powder.

The actual British order to seize and destroy the American’s guns and supplies, for that day, reads as follows: 

“Having received Intelligence, that a Quantity of Ammunition, Provision, Artillery, Tents and small Arms, have been collected at Concord, for the Avowed Purpose of raising and supporting a Rebellion against His Majesty, you will March with the Corps of Grenadiers and Light Infantry, put under your Command, with utmost expedition and Secrecy to Concord, where you will seize and destroy all Artillery, Ammunition, Provisions, Tents, Small Arms, and all Military Stores whatever …” (Per Order of General Gage to Lt. Colonel F. Smith, of the Kings Troops. The Minute Men The First Fight: Myths and Realities of the American Revolution, by John R. Galvin, at page 100).

At Concord, house to house searches were conducted by the British to carry out the above order. Remember, the possession of powder, cannon, and other supplies of war might have meant arrest for revolutionary activities. The supplies of arms were substantial:

“Within the town, scattered through the cellars and attics and outbuildings of at least twenty-five houses, the provincials had concealed ten tons of musket balls and cartridges, thirty-five half barrels of powder, 350 tents, fourteen medicine chests, eighty barrels of beef, eight and a half tons of salt fish, seventeen and a half tons of rye, 318 barrels of flour, 100 barrels of salt, … hundreds of axes, canteens, reams of cartridge paper … and … a substantial number of cannon and gun carriages of varying sizes… .” (emphasis added). The Minute Men the First Fight: Myths and Realities of the American Revolution, by John R. Galvin, at page 140).

On April 19, 1775, the Americans were prepared to, and did, fight for their liberty and freedom. What would you have done?  

Lexington and Concord, battles of (1775), first battle of the American independence war. On receipt of peremptory orders from London on 19 April the military governor of Massachusetts Gen Gage reluctantly sent a force of 700 soldiers from Charlestown to seize militia stores in Concord, followed by a support column out of Boston. An earlier expedition to Salem had retreated in the face of threatening Minutemen (militia who undertook to be ready ‘at a minute’s warning’) and Gage knew that his orders made a showdown inevitable.

Signal lamps and mounted couriers, including the now-legendary night ride of Paul Revere, gave warning. Minutemen made a demonstration on Lexington Green, but they were dispersed with a loss of eight killed and ten wounded. By the time the main column arrived at Concord, the stores had been removed or destroyed, and at the North Bridge Minutemen fired the ‘shot heard around the world’, the first time any British soldiers were killed. In imminent danger of being cut off, the column retreated under heavy sniping. Order broke down in the face of guerrilla tactics for which the troops were unprepared and the rout continued until they came under the guns of the support brigade at Lexington. For the remainder of the retreat the redcoats gave as good as they got, but lost 273 men in exchange for no more than 95 rebel casualties.

Never was it more true that the first clash in a war tends to set the tone. Lexington and Concord emboldened the rebels to besiege Boston/Charlestown and to stand at the battle of Bunker Hill in June, after which Washington took over as commander of what was now the Continental Army. Gage’s successor Howe evacuated the isolated garrison to attack New York the following year.

Business Meeting  for Wednesday 14 April 2010

Denny’s

3151 N.W. 9th Ave (powerline rd.) Fort Lauderdale Fl 33309 (954) 565-4983

Corner of Oakland Park Blvd and powerline rd. Starts at 7:00 p.m.

March 23 ,1775, Patrick Henry gave a historic speech on this date. At the St. John’s Church in Richmond VA.”Give me Liberty or Give me death “was the speech given by then Colonel Henry. King George declared all 13 colonize  in a state of open rebellion. Col. Henry spoke out against British tyranny. Colonel Henry motivated the Virginia Provincial Convention to bear arms against England, and then vote for independence from England.

Saturday March 20, 2010. Tijuana Taxi in Davie Fl 4400 N. University Drive.(954)472-5008 Two blocks north of Griffin Road.Good Food  Good Beer and Good Salsa.

Great Britain : Parliament – An Act Repealing the Stamp Act; March 18, 1766
Whereas an Act was passed in the last session of Parliament entitled, An Act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties in the British colonies and plantations in America towards further defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the same; and for amending such parts of the several Acts of Parliament relating to the trade and revenues of the said colonies and plantations as direct the manner of determining and recovering the penalties and forfeitures therein mentioned; and whereas the continuance of the said Act would be attended with many inconveniencies, and may be productive of consequences greatly detrimental to the commercial interests of these kingdoms; may it therefore please your most excellent Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the king’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six, the above-mentioned Act, and the several matters and things therein contained, shall be, and is and are hereby repealed and made void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

Source:
Great Britain
The statutes at large … [from 1225 to 1867] by Danby Pickering
Cambridge : Printed by Benthem, for C. Bathhurst ; London, 1762-1869
After four months of protesting the Stamp Act was repealed.Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty.Wendell Phillips

Social Hour At Tijuana Taxi in Davie 4400 N. University Dr.at 6:00 p.m.Chips ,Salsa, cerveza frio(cold).Great times.I’ll be there hope you will too.Eat ,Drink,and be merry for tomorrow we shall ,you know the rest.