PACT Act: The U.S. Postal Service is prohibited from delivering cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products through the U.S. Mail to consumers.

Retailers that sell cigarettes [defined as anything but cigars] and smokeless tobacco products over the Internet must collect state cigarette taxes, smokeless tobacco taxes, and sales taxes and pay those taxes to the states where the customer who is purchasing the tobacco products resides. (gee, could it be about TAXES??? Not “Terrorism” as Kohl claimed in his response to me?)

Internet retailers must verify the age of the individual purchasing cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products to prevent underage youth from buying these products.

See any contradictions?

And there’s also the following that hardly improves on the contradiction:

The new mailing policy limits tobacco shipments so that only individuals can ship tobacco to other individuals via express mail in the form of 10 ounce packages, and only 10 such shipments can be made every 30 days.

Those wanting to ship tobacco must be prepared to provide verbal confirmation that the package is intended for a person over the age of 18 and, when it arrives, the recipient must confirm their age and verbally confirm that it was sent by someone 18 or older. (source: http://yuma.usmc.mil/desertwarrior/2010/07/08/feature5.html)

This has most noteably hurt Indian Reservations whose tribal laws have been preempted across the country. Many have been forced to close.  If they now must report their sales to each state for tax purposes they have undoubtedly lost their customers:

• The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will have new authority to inspect records and inventories of Internet tobacco sellers to make certain that Internet sellers comply with the new regulations. Violations of any provision of the PACT Act will now be a felony.  (FOR SENDING A LEGAL PRODUCT VIA MAIL!!!)

View a slightly more detailed (yet not too confusing) explanation of the results of this Act.

What was most interesting though were the remarks by the Postal Service upon the bill’s passage:

“Enforcement will be difficult,” said Gerry McKiernan, a spokesman for the Postal Service. Because of privacy laws, “Priority Mail is sealed from inspection. All first-class mail is sealed from inspection. I don’t really know how it’s going to work,” McKiernan said.

Law enforcement agencies, of course, could get involved, McKiernan noted.  [At that time the ATF said it could not comment on "pending legislation."]

The Native Americans are not taking any of this sitting down (Go, Natives, GO!!!).  Whether or not they are still considering it, the idea of starting up their own shipping system was an option being discussed.  But the most recent – and some will say exciting – development is the court granting a temporary stop to the PACT Act for the NY Seneca nation due to a constitutional challenge:

Federal Judge Grants Temporary Stop to Measure for Silver Creek Entrepreneur
The Post Journal – June 29, 2010

And this costly (postage rates will soar) and destructive (jobs are lost, more damage to a suffering economy) PACT Act, which our own money-grubbing Senator Kohl was behind, truly does sound unconstitutional, so we’re pulling for our Native Americans to “reign supreme” on this one.  After all, it’s “we the citizen’s” who pay for our postal service. Why on earth can’t we mail something totally legal??

Hat tip: Think Progress

And how stupid do they sound when the call Tea Party supporters and activists “Teabaggers”, anyway…grow up already, lefties! You’re imploding, IMHO.

In about 60 seconds or less,  you can add your 2-cents to two key issues via these online one-question polls!

MSNBC’s 1 question survey

MSNBC has been viscously critical of conservative Americans, and conservative causes. They have an online poll asking if Arizona ‘s immigration law should be on the books.  I think MSNBC will be shocked at America ‘s response…

If you don’t do anything else today, please answer this MSNBC Poll question and forward it on to as many people as you can. The silent majority must not be silent on this one.

Fox is running a poll about whether the American flag should be banned in schools “in order not to inflame Hispanic students”. The poll is being sandbagged by SEIU, and we should mount a counter action if you agree with me that the flag should NOT be taken down for any reason.

Organizing for America , and SEIU have been twittering today to go to Fox Poll and vote to ban the Flag …. and right now it is working .

SHOW THEM WHAT TRUE PATRIOTS BELIEVE!!! Let’s flip those numbers and show the leftists we are organized and on the move….flip the numbers now and FLIP THE HOUSE in November!

And as a side, you can still grade the National buffoon on CBS.

On this day, in 1940, Winston Churchill gave his speech, the Finest Hour.

Blood Money: The Business of Abortion - A new film coming soon. Visit the web site to learn all about it.  Here’s the trailor they’re sharing:

Very promising for serious light to be shed on some dire and ugly truth – finally.

Who are the REAL “terrorists”?

Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit
DEM DONOR Arrested for Threatening to Murder GOP Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite …Media Silent

Last Wednesday union thugs rammed their way through the Boston Tea Party Rally where Sarah Palin was speaking. They threw punches, insulted protesters, and screamed through a bullhorn. On Thursday, two democratic officials, Steve Belosi and John Durajczyk stood up, screamed and disrupted Lt. Governor Peter Kinder during his tea party speech in St. Charles, Missouri. One of the thugs screamed at an elderly woman until she started crying. At the Sacramento tea party rally Martin Francis Brown rushed the stage and started screaming until he was slammed down on the back. Of course, these stories were ignored by the democratic-media complex. It didn’t fit their narrative.

These thugs support the thugs destroying our nation – those play ground bullies all grown up and determined to snuff out the world’s beacon of freedom now known as America.

And to add insult to injury, this poor excuse of an “administration” in our White House plays games with social networking – guess having a country to run and keep safe is too boring for the thug mentality…there’s no class, no dignity, no moral compass.  Just clueless bullies playing deadly games. All with a big ugly “D” behind their name(s). Sad thing is, America is their playground and the stakes are too high.

Ref: Is the Obama Administration Behind An Astroturf Anti-Tea Party Website?

“What I did not steal must I now restore?”  Psalm 69:4 (last line)

Special army unit ready to be deployed on American soil just before Nov. elections

Well now just what does one say to that – that hasn’t already been said…

Those small individuals – our Congress Critters – NOT doing what they’re supposed to be doing:

We’ve got two playing solitaire and one watching baseball scores.  How nice of them to waste our taxpayer dollars this way.   Who’s monitoring their Internet use – right there in D.C. at the public’s expense?  I mean c’mon here – Net Neutrality, you know…

Another story posted here was about how Public  Schools lost hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars because they’re stupid enough to hand out laptops willy-nilly to anyone working in the School Districts.

And those who vote for and support these marxist bastards?  They embark upon actions of like-minded small , socialist-loving,  clueless individuals.

Here’s a story to point out where this is going…

After heavyweight boxing champion “Jersey Joe“  Walcott retired, he was elected sheriff of Camden County, New Jersey.  Jersey Joe commented that in his fighting days he thought “the greatest man was the one who could knock the most people down,” but now he believed it was “the one who could pick the most people up.”

And he didn’t mean by robbing Peter to pay Paul…

It’s amazing how many people would like to think they are “big” because they can attempt to knock others down with words, rob us in the name of the law with total inconsideration & selfishness. And the cruelty…OMGoodness. They spit out hateful vitriol thinking with it they will “divide and conquer”.    

Just the actions of a very small individuals.  Just like those small minded congress critters entertaining themselves and not giving a damn what they’re doing to this nation. Those small minded fools on School boards putting our taxypayer dollars into laptop spending with such carelessness, unable to understand the very costly and destructive potential damage that can be done.

Well, these small-minded fools may have won a few battles, but they’re aren’t going to win the war.

According to the Heritage Foundation, the Senate version of the bill that was passed last night will cost our state over $304,000,000 over the course of 6 years, solely from the expansion of Medicaid eligibility. With our state already in financial disarray, where do Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi think we’ll get this money from? – Visit Mark Neumann For Governor for more information

To that end, I’ve already reached out to our Attorney General, JB Van Hollen, encouraging him to join forces with other Attorneys General in challenging the constitutionality of this bill.

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