LAST MINUTE BLESSINGS!

Ever since i got back into chickens, about a year and a half ago, I have been praying for a hen to "set" (set on eggs to hatch).  That is why we bought the "Three amigos", who were originally five amigos.  The original twelve old girls, "sex-links", are egg machines, and supposedly have the egg setting, bred out of them. 

Over the course we have had three roosters in hopes af kicking them in the motherly way.  Due to the excessive crowing we took two roosters to the auction last week.  In their absence, the remaining rooster decided to make up for the lack of noise, from 4 am till whenever.  Feeling as if the hatching eggs was not going to happen, and wanting to open our window for fresh spring air, we decided to take the lone cock to the auction also. 

The night before I was to box him up, I noticed a hen was on the nest at 6:00 pm.  I told Jane that that was rather late to be laying an egg.  We took him the next day, and we officially have a setting hen, one of the old girls. 

Hopefully by the time some of our grandchildren visit this summer, she will be scratching around and clucking with her brood. 

Sometimes, God waits till the last minute to bless us.

Fishing License

Delegate Elliott:

   I, and many of my peers, find it most invasive to be required to provide a social security number in order to get a fishing license in Maryland.  The Social Security number was never inteded to be an identification.  I remember the original card that stated, "Not to be used for identification". 

   As a health provider, I have observed most if not all insurance companies moving away from the use of a SS #, due to issues of privacy, and identity theft.  I believe the 4th amendment states, that we should be secure in our person and personal papers.

   Please draft, or allow me to draw-up, legislation that would remove this unconstitutional requirement for something, as everyday, as a fishing license.

Sincerely,

Michael T. Hargadon DDS, MS

Clear as a Bell

    The hit piece on Frederick County’s constitutional sheriff titled, “Jenkins fans the flames around gun control proposal”, was biased and disrespectful of one for our republic’s treasured offices. 

    You attack his description of this increasing conflict over armaments, as “extraordinarily distasteful”,… “to invoke the deaths of law enforcement officers to bolster his political argument.”  Well how about the “good people” who refuse to be disarmed?  Would you find invoking their deaths distasteful? 

     Rather than reporting on the conflicting information presented at the hearing for SB 281 by one of the lead proponents of O’Malley’s gun grab, Baltimore Co. States Attorney Shallenberger, you take issue with our sheriff’s clear and well stated position.  Shallenberger’s statement, to the effect that this bill will deter a similar incident like at Sandy Hook where a Bushmaster, assault style rifle was used to kill children, conflicts with a report by a major news outlet!  MSNBC's correspondent, Pete Williams stated that only hand guns were used in the incident, and the rifle that was found in the car, never entered the school.  Talk about flaming a fire?

    We are blessed in Frederick County to have a constitutional sheriff.  Jenkins clearly stated: “My job as sheriff is not only to uphold the law, but also to uphold and protect the constitutional rights of the citizens of Frederick County.”  You were right about one thing, “He is the chief law enforcement officer in Frederick Co.”, and as such, he is expected to ignore any pretend legislation that is obviously unconstitutional. He doesn’t need to, “clarify what he means” to your paper, or to anyone else.  He means what he said, and he said it clearly.

Undelivered testimony on SB 281

My name is Michael Hargadon. 

I do not want my 2nd amendment rights infringed!

I have practiced dentistry for 30 yrs. in Maryland:  East side Baltimore City,  West side Baltimore city, Carroll County, and Frederick County.

One of ten children. My dad was a Baltimore City Police sergeant.  He carried a gun, and we all knew not to touch it.

About 25 years ago, my assistant and I were threatened by a man at my East Baltimore Office.  I went out the next day, bought a gun, took lessons, and carried it on my person, in my office, for several weeks.

Gun safety, and personal defense are essential, but this bill threatens the spirit of our 2nd amendment: Defend ourselves against tyranny.

Paul Craig Roberts, a former Reagan staffer, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury summarized the danger we face today in, “America’s Future is Death” http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/08/20/amerikas-future-death-paul-craig-roberts/

He asks questions such as:

Why does the Department of Homeland Security need enough ammunition to shoot every American 2.5 times?

Why is Homeland Security equipping itself with full-body armor? 

Why are other federal government agencies such the Fisheries Office ordering large orders of ammunition?  

Why has the Social Security Administration ordered 174,000 rounds of hollow-point bullets?

Hollow point bullets are for killing people.

Military use of hollow point bullets is actually banned under the Hague Convention of 1899, which prohibits the use of expanding bullets.

As if this arsenal is not enough, a new army manual for “Civil Disturbance Operations” describes how the military is to be used domestically within the US to put down protests, confiscate firearms, and kill citizens.

Mr. Roberts concludes that

“The purpose of the police state is to terrorize US citizens.”

So!  Why isn’t this legislature concerned about the terror this federal police state poses to Marylanders? 

Maryland legislature was jailed before the Civil War, because they represented Maryland, and not the Feds.  The war is over, and our representatives are no longer imprisoned by the feds. 

Thank you to those senators who oppose this legislation. 

Shame on those senators who proposed, and or support, this disarming of our Freestate. 

Please kill this bill!

Evil From Frederick County

Over three years ago we moved to Frederick County and have been delighted with the agricultural culture, the rural lifestyle, and a constitutional sheriff as law enforcement.  Like anywhere though, all is not good in Frederick County.  SB 40, introduced by our own Senator Young, and cross filed by Delegate Clagett as HB 171, entitled, “Motor Vehicle Administration- Organ Donation- Presumed Consent”, strips our inalienable right to life. 

With the bill’s presupposition that the State owns your organs, this bill, will allow the medical, transplant business complex to harvest your vital organs, before clinical death, without your consent.  It strips our right to life until natural death, and requires a person to request that one’s right to life not be trampled.  This bill is arrogantly offensive and makes one wonder how these sponsors can justify this bill with our constitution.  This bill is evil.

It's Our Faught Obama Will Ruin Our Country: My Response

(original e-mail is in  bold underline)

Before I say anything, let me apologize if Dale forwarded your e-mail to me against your wishes.   He was correct however in that, "I may have something to say about the matter."      Ron Paul's notions really are very solid thinking, but few Americans paid sufficient attention to those ideas.  Just maybe, "few" paid attention because the "establishment" GOP, who have been instrumental in destroying our constitutional liberties, entangling us in unconstitutional military conflicts around the world, and fanned the fires of debt spending, systematically ignored, cheated, and otherwise minimized his message, along with the presstitutes who consistently displayed incorrect charts and results from polls and elections.

It's easier to just go for a quick sound byte here and there. His message never rose above about 1% or 2% in the Republican primary process.  Not sure where you got 1 or 2 %?  He actually won about 8 states, inspite of the irregularities that have caused major splits within state GOP memberships.

    In November, assorted constituencies that should have showed up and voted Republican stayed home because the Republican nominee was insufficiently pure to suit their tastes.  The assorted libertarians and tea party types who figured there wasn't much difference between Democrats and Republicans handed the election to the Dems by staying home.  We did not hand Obama the election.  Your party rejected a major movement that fought hard to restore your Good Old Ploys back to the "constitution", but you would have no part of it.  I don't recall you stepping up to give Dr. Paul any words of support.  You have been "blah" on Dr. Paul's message of constitutional liberty, and we know what Jesus says about those who treat truth in this manner.

     We will be reaping the output of that sin of omission for decades to come.   If this means you seriously blame the only energetic movement in the GOP that was cheated in the primaries, and at the convention.  They changed the rules, and rigged the vote to keep Dr. Paul's name from being nominated from the floor.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ_ylYNbAlY&noredirect=1  Have you no shame???  It's not a sin of omission.  It is a sin against constitutional authority, fiscal responsibility, and TRUTH.

You and I will both die with abortion-on-demand still the "law of the land."  I had hoped to see the day when abortion was finally banished, but I wont live that long.  Oh, and lets not forget abortion and conscience.  I personally am sickened by the duplicity of you self righteous victims, who ignored the one true candidate who stood for constitutional freedoms.  Check out the early EWTN primary coverage on Raymond Arroyo.  In at least three or four segments, he mentioned every bottom feeder but not Dr. Paul.  In later shows he interviewed much of the dead wood, but not Dr. Paul.  We finally stopped watching and have not since.  No shame?????

The financial insanity of Obama will continue, running up huge debts that can never be paid off, and which no possible Federal-Reserve policy can patch up.  Financial???  Dr. Paul wrote the book on the immoral fiscal direction our country is taking, and please don't pretend that debt spending and lack of control of the private banking cabal, known as the Federal Reserve, is Obama's invention.  You guys spend my great grandkids money on warfare, and they spend it of  welfare.  Both are immoral, and Ron Paul has been the leader in stopping this theft.

     If Ron Paul had tried hard to get his libertarian followers to vote for Romney, the nation's future might not be so gloomy. Instead, Ron Paul gives a farewell speech saying "I told you so" and goes away with his full-pay Congressional   You Son-Of A Bitch!  This man has spent much of his professional life delivering babies and trying to bring our country back on the constitutional track.  He has never taken a lobbyest trip, has voted against many unconstitutional bills many times by himself, and has received more donations from military than all the other candidates together.  He did tell us so!  It is you, and your establishment GOP types, who are responsible for turning a blind eye to the prophetic voice of Consitutional restraints on government.  Truth comes to us in many forms, and Christ himself identifies himself as truth.  Your party rejected a humble man who spoke the truth.  May God have mercy on your soul.

Soliloquy of a Leaf

Ask’em, they’ll tell you.
   They’ll tell you, they’re here.
Just try’em, they’ll answer.
   They’re angels; don’t fear.

So jogging one day,
   Through a brisk autumn breeze,
I challenged my angel;
   His test, my tease.

What I asked for was simple,
   Not majestic, not grand,
“Just put a leaf,
   Right in my hand?”

My jog for two miles,
   Was busy that day.
The leaves, they were falling,
   Along the whole way.

So I ran and I prayed,
   Through this myriad of leaves,
But they seemed to move from me,
   As though I; a breeze.

A little dejected,
   A little chagrined,
I’d tested my angel,
   A negative quest in.

The next day I jogged,
   Was calm as could be,
A rare leaf would fall,
   If you were looking to see.

I jogged up the first half,
   With rosary I prayed,
And started for home,
   To the rest of my day.

Then rounding a bend,
   Through a canopied stretch,
I wondered, my testing,
   I’m an angelic wretch?

Then there, to the right,
   Some twenty feet high,
A leaf falling freely,
   Yet leading my stride.

I kept my same motion,
   No sprint, no delay.
My right hand just turned,
   To catch, angel’s play.

A leaf from my angel,
   As I held to my course,
They’re angels, they’ll answer,
   Be patient with yours.

• M.T. Hargadon 1999