My internet and my phone line oddly fried this week, one after the other, so although I have had trouble getting online, I haven’t had trouble following the news. The news this week has been triply disturbing, as have the weird things going on with my life and the life of my partner in activism, the co-leader to our group of conservatives. In her case, her internet was flagged because of a benign email about getting our small weekly groups going. The phrase that was at odds with AOL’s TOS agreement was “organizing small groups”. She was roundly scolded that email is for fun and entertainment and this email did not “fit into” that category, therefore if she persisted, her account would be closed. She was also unable to reply or to print her emails, only to delete them. She was able to get this decision reversed…but the question remains for how long will that last?
Hmmm. I don’t know…Anyway, all this aside, the real smoke and mirrors is the White House this week, and this is where I shall focus the rest of my efforts in this blog.
The Smoke
The White House flip-flopped again, this time on the release of memos of our simulated drowning and other "insect letting" on terrorists who have attacked our country. Then the White House oddly flipped back on Thursday. Do we ask ourselves why???
The Mirrors
We must remember that Obama does nothing without an agenda and that he creates diversion through smoke so the mirrors do not reflect what he is really doing to our country under the cover of said smoke. What else happened during this recent 4-day period?
Obama went after credit card companies early this week.
He told them that they WILL issue credit, massive amounts of credit, even though a staggering one out of six people are not paying their credit card bills, and that the great benevolent government will supply them with their privatized gains, while publicizing their losses. As an interesting side note, American Express, who was not the holder of credit, the money in most cases, but a pass through Credit Company, signed on last November to become a “bank” so they would be able to cash in on the government handouts. In December, they were approved. Since then their losses have been a staggering 56%. They want out. Obama doesn’t want to let them out. With a sixth of the payments becoming chargebacks, how exactly will this work to help us out of financial demise?
Obama went after the banks this week.
He used his bully pulpit and the media against them to switch up the TARP rules to trade the Preferred Shares we agreed upon in October to common shares. This will negate the ability for our Tax coffers to be paid out first and best in dividends, relieving the American people of a bit of the great burden of the bailout through dividends through profits. It will also mean that if any of these banks go belly up, our tax coffers will not be the first to receive payouts in assets, again relieving the American taxpayer of a bit of the great burden. What it will do however, is to give our government the ability to vote on the shares. You can’t vote on preferred shares, but you can vote on common shares. Therein lays the sting, the completion of the nationalization of the banks, otherwise known as the first step in the government controlling all aspects of our lives through credit and banking.
Obama stated we will release the Uighur GITMO detainees into America this week.
Obama has stated that as many as seven GITMO detainees will be freed in the United States, which not only endangers the lives of American citizens, but more importantly is a violation of U.S. law. Known as the "Uighurs", they were captured on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and were trained at the al-Qaeda affiliated East Turkistan Islamic Movement ("ETIM") Tora Bora camp while the military was hot on the trail of Osama Bin Laden. Obama Bin Lyin’ says we will protect these men and let them free in America. Quotes "The Obama administration is preparing to free into the United States Chinese Muslims being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the first release of any of the detainees into this country, according to current and former U.S. officials." – Chicago Tribune and "Officials have not said where in the United States they (Uighurs) might live. But many Uighur immigrants from China live in Washington's Virginia suburbs, and advocates have urged that the detainees be resettled near people who speak their language and are familiar with their customs." – Los Angeles Times
Obama pushed through his agenda on the Healthcare bill this week.
Obama has pushed through his agenda on healthcare, to be voted on next week. With socialized medicine comes rationing. Who among us is prepared for being “queued” for a gall bladder removal or a hip replacement, who among us is prepared for being left to die “in dignity” if we are 80, otherwise healthy and happen to get an infection that requires aggressive and expensive treatment? I dare say none of us is prepared for that eventuality, but an eventuality it is. You cannot have it both ways, free and without strings. The strings are rationing and queuing.
Obama used the memos to reflect attention away from the HR 1913 Hate Crimes Bill.
Obama has used the memos uproar to up the ante in the HR1913 Hate Crimes bill being heard this week and being voted on April 29th. This bill, in short protects sexual behaviors by refusing to define sexual orientation and gender identity, imposes greater penalties on pastors for Bible Speech than child molesters, forces to remove the Findings Section--fraudulent basis for the legislation, equates bizarre sexual behaviors with race, religion and ethnicity and lays the legal foundation and framework to investigate, prosecute and persecute pastors, Bible teachers, Sunday School teachers, youth leaders, Christian counselors, religious broadcasters, etc. which have been protected by the First Amendment.
There is more, so much more. But this ought to keep your mind busy enough for now. Where there is smoke in this administration, there are mirrors, do not doubt that. Be on the lookout under the cover of next weeks burdeoning new smoke screen, the new "Swine Flu" outbreak. He will use this coverage and fear to release a whole new host of hidden agenda's. God help us all. Don't fear an outbreak, just use common sense, use a mask, wash your hands, restrict unnecessary travel right now, eat well, and take your vitamins.
Cut through the noise, do not be distracted, and keep an eye on the small print as well as on the bills. Fight back people, before we can fight back no more.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The Third Founding of a Nation and the Fomentation of the White Rose – an article.
Aristotle: On Politics: "... and further, it is part [of the nature of tyranny] to strive to see to it that nothing is kept hidden of that which any subject says or does, but that everywhere he will be spied upon,... and further, to set man against man and friend against friend, and the common people against the privileged and the wealthy. Also it is part of these tyrannical measures, to keep the subjects poor, in order to pay the guards and the soldiers, and so that they will be occupied with earning their livelihood and will have neither leisure nor opportunity to engage in conspiratorial acts... Further, [to levy] such taxes on income as were imposed in Syracuse, for under Dionysius the citizens gladly paid out their whole fortunes in taxes within five years. Also, the tyrant is inclined constantly to foment wars"
I attended an interesting presentation Monday evening on the historical premise of the Constitution as presented, the “Unwritten Constitution”. It was an interesting take on the reasons and the basis for the Constitution. The presenter showed the intent of the founders, how they formed their opinions from early times in the history of great thinkers and from the basis of the ancient philosophers. We learned why they chose to expound on the ideals of free men as they reintroduced these ancient precepts as they founded our budding nation as a “way of life” while establishing a government for the people, by the people and of the people.
Our presenter was an attorney whom I will identify only as Mike. It was a very well thought out presentation and one that although difficult to hear in many respects, opened my mind to a new perspective that I dare say might make the difference in this cultural war. He highlighted a few points that led me to a refined conclusion. I will attempt to convey to my readers the core truths of this dissertation.
The background of the presentation among other writings, was a book titled “The Road to Serfdom, The Collective Works Volume Two” by Friedrich August von Hayek (circa 1944) and the more recent writings of Claes G. Ryn. Both writings are rather prophetic in nature, so much so that as you read them, you feel as though they were written in the last few months. The presentation was a very telling tale of a nation’s decent into the “Collective” culture; as opposed to the ‘Constitutional Culture’ on which our country was built.
As background, Wikipedia in describing Hayak’s book states,
“The central thesis is that all forms of collectivism lead logically and inevitably to tyranny. He used the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany as examples of countries that had gone down “the road to serfdom” and reached tyranny.”
Hayek argued that within a centrally planned economic system, the distribution and allocation of all resources and goods would devolve onto a small group. This would lead to a disagreement about the practical implementation of any economic plan. Combined with the inadequacy of the central planners’ resource management, in turn would invariably necessitate coercion in order for anything to be achieved.
Failure of central planning would be perceived by the public as an absence of sufficient power by the state to implement an otherwise good idea. (Bush) Such a perception would lead the public to vote more power to the state, and would assist the rise to power of a “strong man” perceived to be capable of “getting the job done”. (Obama) For Hayek “the road to serfdom” inadvertently set upon by central planning, with its dismantling of the free market system, ends in the destruction of all individual economic and personal freedom.”
We also were presented the Economic Bill of Rights, better known as the ‘Second Bill of Rights’ written by FDR and he introduced the concept that we are currently in the Third Founding of this nation. The former I did not know existed, and the latter concept I found a very eye-opening description of what is occurring in our Nation today.
The point of the discussion was to begin to understand where our founder’s were going with the writings of the instrumental declarations and the establishment of guidelines from which this country was founded, starting from the perspective of personal and societal responsibility combined with reason; as compared to today’s direction of feeding and controlling all needs, wants and desires of our current culture.
The conclusion being we have one of two choices:
Finding a way to secure our independence and protect our children’s freedom, the freedom in which we ourselves were raised, or if we do nothing, being the very people who will have to explain to our children and grandchildren what it was like to live in a free America and the more difficult explanation of why they no longer live free.
Perhaps an enlightened way of understanding this culture shift would be Gain vs. Greed as opposed to the flattening of the bell curve and a leveling of society that we currently see as populous ideals. The manipulation and framing of the premise being no one believes we should see a starving child and not wish to help.
The Take Away
Four statements made by Mike struck me quite hard and I have been pondering them ever since. I am going to ponder them with you.
1. A well-organized minority can quickly become the majority.
2. The meaning of Constitutional Living, or “Living in Freedom” is simply the act of caring for yourself and your neighbor physically, keeping government at bay and taking responsibility for ones actions. In times of old, if my neighbor and her nine children became widowed, either she would be living in my home, or I would be helping her tend her fields to support her. If my neighbor is a little old lady who finds herself buried in snow up to her ankles, I as a younger individual will go over and shovel her driveway, start her car, put her in the car and drive her down to the grocery store so she can get what she needs. It is a mindset built in the active support of our struggling fellow man.
3. Our society now lives as a “Statist Society”, which is, in short, a welfare mentality perhaps better phrased as “Freedom from Need or Want” as the main driver. It is these thoughts that fill the Economic or 2nd Bill of Rights. Do you see the difference between points 2 and 3? We have gone from “Living and Giving in Freedom” to seeking “Freedom from Needs and Wants”.
Freedom from Need and Want says that I matter and then maybe my fellow man - although he is not my problem. I go to work and I give the government a large chunk of my paycheck. I do not look out for my neighbor personally, but I expect the paycheck I give my government will somehow go to meet my neighbor’s needs/wants after my needs are met.
It teaches me that my money will somehow be returned to the collective in the form of government subsidy so that we can all live in our homes. It also promises that we can pay our bills and party when we want to party. It tells me that it will end world hunger, world pain and world want without my direct involvement or the need to go out of my way for the betterment of society. It is the "easy" way out through apathy and I propose it is a trap from which we will travail to escape. For once it breathes strong, the people suffocate. Never can we have it both ways.
Who can argue against that frame of “statist justice”? You can’t without understanding the difference in ideology. No one wants to say there will be starving children and the framers of this statist system know that and use it to manipulate us.
The difference in ideology is who should feed that hungry child, individuals, churches, charities or the government? Can the government do it better than the neighbor can? If we truly all helped our neighbor through the former 3 avenues presented, would any be starving, would we need the ever increasing appetite of the government? If so, then why when we incorporate the 4th avenue (the government) do we see an increase in poverty? We will always have the poor with us, but which is better, to teach them to fish, or to only give them a fish to feed them for a day? And who really gets that money we faithfully send in to the government. Has it ended poverty and starvation? We keep throwing more money at the problem, yet we seem to actually create more poverty….Why?
4. As we are in the throes of the Third Founding of our Nation, what are we prepared to do to overcome the seemingly inevitable. The First Founding is highlighted by the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, the framing of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The Second Founding was highlighted by the Civil War, went through the New Deal period, ended after WW II, culminating in the 2nd Bill of Rights. This Third Founding in my view could easily be called a “Third Reich” which started with Carter, was slowed by Reagan, was picked up again by Bush Sr., gained strong support from Clinton, accelerated through Bush and is now at warp speed with Obama.
The Third Reich USA style is simply defined by the politicization of everything, the privatization of gains and the publicizing of losses - for now.
History teaches us that with Revolution, blood can and often does flow in the streets. If this is true and with a nation changing as rapidly as is ours, how then does that bode for we the people? How can we avoid the fate of past Revolutions? How can we stop the hate and the division we are witnessing?
Part II - The White Rose Society
I am going to tell you a story of the “White Rose Society”, a story that will not only move you tremendously, but through the reading of just a one of the six pamphlets produced from this movement, hopefully will help you realize once again that nothing is new under the sun. This young organization mobilized many to rise up against fascism and to demand a return of freedom to its people from within Nazi Germany.
The White Rose Society was a student organization in the early days of the Third Reich based out of the University of Munich. It was started by Christian students, Hans Scholl, his sister Sophie Scholl, their friends Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf, and their philosophy professor Kurt Huber. They were youthful, innocent, courageous, morally strong college students who stood, taught, and fought against the tyranny, oppression, and genocide of the Nazi regime. They were not Jewish, yet they found the hatred of the Jewish, and the promulgation of a culture of hate through centralized government dictates which were becoming more and more cruel, appalling.
These students, along with their teacher built pamphlets of their ideals, based on the values, morals, and ideals of their faith and of other, wiser men before them. They printed these ideals for all to disseminate. They were true freedom fighters, the human swords of the proclamation of liberty, compassion, and devotion to their fellow man.
They were barely out of childhood, very young adults who wrote the road to freedom. Like many who become human swords, standing for what was right; they were subsequently and very publically beheaded for their beliefs. Their six pamphlets were confiscated by the Gestapo and destroyed at their capture, not that a capture was terribly difficult for such a government machine, as they were students going to school and being proponents of unsanctioned ideals as students are prone to do.
But, like all truth is wont to do, 17,000 of these pamphlets were somehow spared and they made their way to England. The Royal Army reproduced these pamphlets and later airdropped over 5 Million pamphlets over 17 German cities. World War II was not won solely by outside freedom fighters coming into the country in warrior fashion, it was won through the hearts and minds of its own people. I am reprinting the third pamphlet here in its entirety.
The Fomentation of the Ideal – The Third Pamphlet of the White Rose Society
Reprinted here in part.
“Salus publica suprema lex – The Safety of the People Above Law
All ideal forms of government are utopias. A state cannot be constructed on a purely theoretical basis; rather, it must grow and ripen in the way an individual human being matures. But we must not forget that at the starting point of every civilization the state was already there in rudimentary form. The family is as old as man himself, and out of this initial bond man, endowed with reason, created for himself a state founded The White Rose Society on justice, whose highest law was the common good. The state should exist as a parallel to the divine order, and the highest of all utopias, the civitas dei, is the model which in the end it should approximate.
Here we will not pass judgment on the many possible forms of the state - democracy, constitutional monarchy, and so on. But one matter needs to be brought out clearly and unambiguously. Every individual human being has a claim to a useful and just state, a state which secures the freedom of the individual as well as the good of the whole. For, according to God's will, man is intended to pursue his natural goal, his earthly happiness, in self-reliance and self-chosen activity, freely and independently within the community of life and work of the nation.
But our present "state" is the dictatorship of evil. "Oh, we've known that for a long time," I hear you object”, and it isn't necessary to bring that to our attention again." But I ask you, if you know that, why do you not bestir yourselves, why do you allow these men who are in power to rob you step by step, openly and in secret, of one domain of your rights after another, until one day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a mechanized state system presided over by criminals and drunks? Is your spirit already so crushed by abuse that you forget it is your right – or rather, your moral duty - to eliminate this system?
But if a man no longer can summon the strength to demand his right, then it is absolutely certain that he will perish. We would deserve to be dispersed through the earth like dust before the wind if we do not muster our powers at this late hour and finally find the courage, which up to now we have lacked. Do not hide your cowardice behind a cloak of expediency, for with every new day that you hesitate, failing to oppose this offspring of Hell, your guilt, as in a parabolic curve, grows higher and higher.
Many, perhaps most, of the readers of these leaflets do not see clearly how they can practice an effective opposition. They do not see any avenues open to them. We want to try to show them that everyone is in a position to contribute to the overthrow of this system. It is not possible through solitary withdrawal, in the manner of embittered hermits, to prepare the
ground for the overturn of this "government" or bring about the revolution at the earliest possible moment. No, it can be done only by the cooperation of many convinced, energetic people - people who are agreed as to the means they must use to attain their goal.
We have no great number of choices as to these means. The only one available is passive resistance. The meaning and the goal of passive resistance is to topple National Socialism, and in this struggle we must not recoil from any course, any action, whatever its nature. At all points we must oppose National Socialism, wherever it is open to attack. We must soon bring this monster of a state to an end. A victory of fascist Germany in this war would have immeasurable, frightful consequences.
For the entire reprint of the White Rose Society pamphlets, click here.
Ending Thoughts
The oracles of this movement, the brave young men and woman who began it, may have lost their lives to the fight but in their end, the movement continued. I propose to you that this movement galvanized the people, the underground and ultimately, even while struggling to recover through the late 80’s to today, freed an imprisoned population from Nazism and many of communism which is only a different flavor of the same governmental appetite. These countries remain far from perfect, it is a long road back to freedom, but the gray people of the gray breadlines find relief, they can and will, if allowed build nations of Freedom in Living and Giving.
Before we get there, I challenge all to practice what we preach. We must return to the culture from which we came in part. We may not be able to return to a strict construction ideal, but we can certainly return to free market system, where our children can be raised with a sense of personal responsibility. I challenge everyone reading this that we stand for that which we tolerate. If we do so, will that make us the oracles? Could we become targets of a government gone to repeating the failed movements of the past? I can’t answer that question, but I can ask in return, which is worse, to live in a country that suffocates and silences its own or to live in a country in which it is all for one and one for all? A country such as we mainly were as recent as the 80’s, free from nationalization, fearful out of control deficit, and mass control of her people and her businesses.
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Two Can Play at This Game
The elitists are it again. They Target, Freeze, Personalize, and Polarize their opponent in the brashest way possible, in order to make them a laughing stock of a nation. How better to do that than by making accusations, making offensive fun at others, insinuating dirty ideas and separating us through the sensibilities and morals of the various individuals within the group.
As individuals, we know better. Let’s face it, we are all grown up and should be able to see through the dirty tricks and jokes. We realize exactly what they are doing. I maintain we are giving them exactly what they expect with “acting wounded” and demanding apologies. If we demand apologies, we are reacting, not acting. We are choosing to remain in the defensive position. Why should we give them the satisfaction? We forget that offense is our best defense. In other words, don’t get mad, JUST GET EVEN! This is war. No apologies are necessary.
At the risk of sounding a little crass, homosexuals did not invent the action they refer to as teabagging, regardless of whether they invented the term. It is a fact though that a strong contingency of gays seek to make sex as perverse and public as they can for the shock, awe, and brag factors. I attribute this to “group-think”.
In group-think, everyone thinks they are individuals – or rather they want to believe that they are - and in the trying, they seek to top each other in their attention getting “I am more obnoxious and out there than you are” ploys. That way they can pretend they are simply expressing themselves while working diligently at being “fabulous”. In reality, it’s no different than the little gang of bullies trying to steal your lunch money, you have a leader and you have the follower’s, but they all try to act tough and as if they all are the originators of the idea of bullying. Until, of course, you challenge them! Then they run for the little weaklings they are.
In processing all these staged interviews with the elitists, I decided that the first step to reversing the trend of targeting is to make fun of the targeter. To do that, we simply embrace the moniker. The facts are that we do send tea bags through the mail, we wear tea bag pins and hang tea bags off our hats. We can take hold of teabagging and give it new meaning. If we do not accept the term as they define it, we remove the sting in the crass sense of the word. We end up in the position of making fun of them by actually taking on the term, changing it around, and calling ourselves teabaggers, so the joke is on them. We are the “giver” of the teabags. In our sense of the word, that means we "stuff" something all right, we stuff their mailboxes by starting a nationwide envelope campaign, hopefully enough that they will gag on it. I am not going to be embarrassed by a term just because they want to use it to belittle and make a mockery of regular people.
Everyone who uses a derogatory term or calls us tea-baggers, astroturfers, shameful, despicable, racists, or accuses us of “unhealthy displays of disaffection” or any such negative term, gets “bagged” big time. We send millions of tea bags. We bury them in the highest caffeine versions we can find to ‘OD’ them on the stuff and we do it proudly. We do so without false modesty, posturing, or embarrassment. We simply learned that like many other words or terms there is a derogatory alter-meaning. We realize it is just another bit of the education we need to be a successful Alinsky Students for Conservative Values.
We have a little fun with it. We make them out to be the targets… the butt of their own joke…(pun intended) and we freeze them, personalize the embarrassment, and we polarize them. We rise up and be strong. We are able to take any insult and turn it around.
We aren’t the astroturfers, we aren’t the union printed sign holders funded by the DNC, or the 40 protesters in front of AIG, we are the real article with absolutely nothing to be ashamed of, and we need to be proud of that fact and ourselves, while having a little fun with it at the expense of the other guy. We need to stop the prudishness.
Lest those who are religious begin to think this is a sinful response, may I say the reaction they expect is that we should only ever be kind to them in return, yet remain abashed or appalled by those who ridicule us by stomping our feet and demanding apology. Even if we got an apology because they were forced to, it would be an empty one. Why bother?! The meek and mild soldier isn’t what God expects us to do in war, and in case you haven’t noticed, this is a war of ideologies.
Take a second to remember what Jesus said to the Pharisees, the moneychangers and the group-thinkers of His time. In Luke’s John the Baptist story, Jesus ridicules the religious leaders who rejected John the Baptist. He compares them with bratty little kids who just don’t want to play no matter what the game is. John the Baptist came as an Old Testament prophet: a man from the desert who shouted, "repent or be damned". He was a puritan, drank no wine, ate honey and figs, and fasted regularly.
The authorities made fun of him, saying that he was just one weird dude and must be demon-possessed. Then Jesus came along, also preaching repentance, but with a more relaxed style, he drank wine, and didn’t fast continually; to which the authorities said Jesus is "a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of . . . ‘sinners’".
These objections are contradictory on the face of them, just like the teabagging missives and astroturfing accusations are today, but that doesn’t matter to the leaders, because they aren’t the actual reasons for the statements to begin with.
The authorities don’t object to the style of John the Baptist and Jesus . . . but they object vehemently to their respective messages . . . the message that salvation comes through repentance, not through following the strict "legalism" of the oral law. The spiritually discerning individual can see right through the duplicity of the authorities, then and now. We aren’t sinning, we are at ideological and moral war, and God expects that we act as such.
I challenge you to start your career as a teabagger today. Send your letters to Schakowsky (D-IL), Pelosi of California, Cooper Anderson of CNN, Paul Krugman of the NYTimes, David Axelrod, Sr. White Advisory, little miss crazy lady, Janine Garafolo, for starters. Then move on to anyone else you find who is joining in the chorus of crass name-calling through their elitism.
Send them tomorrow and send them often. Let us know if you hear someone else. While you are at it, send two to Napolitano as well for target veterans and everyday Americans as extremists.
We just can’t take it anymore. Fabulous is just selfish and it is time we divorced these so-called "leaders".
As individuals, we know better. Let’s face it, we are all grown up and should be able to see through the dirty tricks and jokes. We realize exactly what they are doing. I maintain we are giving them exactly what they expect with “acting wounded” and demanding apologies. If we demand apologies, we are reacting, not acting. We are choosing to remain in the defensive position. Why should we give them the satisfaction? We forget that offense is our best defense. In other words, don’t get mad, JUST GET EVEN! This is war. No apologies are necessary.
At the risk of sounding a little crass, homosexuals did not invent the action they refer to as teabagging, regardless of whether they invented the term. It is a fact though that a strong contingency of gays seek to make sex as perverse and public as they can for the shock, awe, and brag factors. I attribute this to “group-think”.
In group-think, everyone thinks they are individuals – or rather they want to believe that they are - and in the trying, they seek to top each other in their attention getting “I am more obnoxious and out there than you are” ploys. That way they can pretend they are simply expressing themselves while working diligently at being “fabulous”. In reality, it’s no different than the little gang of bullies trying to steal your lunch money, you have a leader and you have the follower’s, but they all try to act tough and as if they all are the originators of the idea of bullying. Until, of course, you challenge them! Then they run for the little weaklings they are.
In processing all these staged interviews with the elitists, I decided that the first step to reversing the trend of targeting is to make fun of the targeter. To do that, we simply embrace the moniker. The facts are that we do send tea bags through the mail, we wear tea bag pins and hang tea bags off our hats. We can take hold of teabagging and give it new meaning. If we do not accept the term as they define it, we remove the sting in the crass sense of the word. We end up in the position of making fun of them by actually taking on the term, changing it around, and calling ourselves teabaggers, so the joke is on them. We are the “giver” of the teabags. In our sense of the word, that means we "stuff" something all right, we stuff their mailboxes by starting a nationwide envelope campaign, hopefully enough that they will gag on it. I am not going to be embarrassed by a term just because they want to use it to belittle and make a mockery of regular people.
Everyone who uses a derogatory term or calls us tea-baggers, astroturfers, shameful, despicable, racists, or accuses us of “unhealthy displays of disaffection” or any such negative term, gets “bagged” big time. We send millions of tea bags. We bury them in the highest caffeine versions we can find to ‘OD’ them on the stuff and we do it proudly. We do so without false modesty, posturing, or embarrassment. We simply learned that like many other words or terms there is a derogatory alter-meaning. We realize it is just another bit of the education we need to be a successful Alinsky Students for Conservative Values.
We have a little fun with it. We make them out to be the targets… the butt of their own joke…(pun intended) and we freeze them, personalize the embarrassment, and we polarize them. We rise up and be strong. We are able to take any insult and turn it around.
We aren’t the astroturfers, we aren’t the union printed sign holders funded by the DNC, or the 40 protesters in front of AIG, we are the real article with absolutely nothing to be ashamed of, and we need to be proud of that fact and ourselves, while having a little fun with it at the expense of the other guy. We need to stop the prudishness.
Lest those who are religious begin to think this is a sinful response, may I say the reaction they expect is that we should only ever be kind to them in return, yet remain abashed or appalled by those who ridicule us by stomping our feet and demanding apology. Even if we got an apology because they were forced to, it would be an empty one. Why bother?! The meek and mild soldier isn’t what God expects us to do in war, and in case you haven’t noticed, this is a war of ideologies.
Take a second to remember what Jesus said to the Pharisees, the moneychangers and the group-thinkers of His time. In Luke’s John the Baptist story, Jesus ridicules the religious leaders who rejected John the Baptist. He compares them with bratty little kids who just don’t want to play no matter what the game is. John the Baptist came as an Old Testament prophet: a man from the desert who shouted, "repent or be damned". He was a puritan, drank no wine, ate honey and figs, and fasted regularly.
The authorities made fun of him, saying that he was just one weird dude and must be demon-possessed. Then Jesus came along, also preaching repentance, but with a more relaxed style, he drank wine, and didn’t fast continually; to which the authorities said Jesus is "a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of . . . ‘sinners’".
These objections are contradictory on the face of them, just like the teabagging missives and astroturfing accusations are today, but that doesn’t matter to the leaders, because they aren’t the actual reasons for the statements to begin with.
The authorities don’t object to the style of John the Baptist and Jesus . . . but they object vehemently to their respective messages . . . the message that salvation comes through repentance, not through following the strict "legalism" of the oral law. The spiritually discerning individual can see right through the duplicity of the authorities, then and now. We aren’t sinning, we are at ideological and moral war, and God expects that we act as such.
I challenge you to start your career as a teabagger today. Send your letters to Schakowsky (D-IL), Pelosi of California, Cooper Anderson of CNN, Paul Krugman of the NYTimes, David Axelrod, Sr. White Advisory, little miss crazy lady, Janine Garafolo, for starters. Then move on to anyone else you find who is joining in the chorus of crass name-calling through their elitism.
Send them tomorrow and send them often. Let us know if you hear someone else. While you are at it, send two to Napolitano as well for target veterans and everyday Americans as extremists.
We just can’t take it anymore. Fabulous is just selfish and it is time we divorced these so-called "leaders".
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Ft. Meyers Tea Party, One of My State/Regional Co Leaders in the 912 Project
Lloyd Duhon, one of our Co State Director's in the 912project/florida group gives one of the speeches at our Ft. Meyers, FL Tea Party. Serves with Cheryl and I on the State Director's board.
Pelosi on Her Way to Getting Turfed
So Madam Speaker calls our tea parties astroturf. One can't tell whether she is following Krugman's line, or he is taking down talking points like a good little journalist.
Nevermind, who cares.
Pelosi spends the entire cost of two middle class houses a month flying her twittering green hide to and fro California in the lap of luxury. The people lose their homes. How are ya liking that jet ride Pelosi? Enjoy it now, because you will be one of us (with the exception of your great big pension and a lifetime of healthcare) one of these days very soon.
Anyway, here is what Madam speaker says about our Tea Parties yesterday. To this I say she wouldn't know what a world looks like where you actually do something out of a sense of love and passion, where you are willing to work for a cause for nothing in return, except perhaps for the chance that you might be able to remove the "CHAINS" that has swept across this great land. View it and decide for yourselves.
Nevermind, who cares.
Pelosi spends the entire cost of two middle class houses a month flying her twittering green hide to and fro California in the lap of luxury. The people lose their homes. How are ya liking that jet ride Pelosi? Enjoy it now, because you will be one of us (with the exception of your great big pension and a lifetime of healthcare) one of these days very soon.
Anyway, here is what Madam speaker says about our Tea Parties yesterday. To this I say she wouldn't know what a world looks like where you actually do something out of a sense of love and passion, where you are willing to work for a cause for nothing in return, except perhaps for the chance that you might be able to remove the "CHAINS" that has swept across this great land. View it and decide for yourselves.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
The Other Chattering Class IS the Point
Today I am doing my homework in preparation for tomorrow’s Tea Party. There are quite a few opinions out there that I believe deserve a closer look-see.
Opinion #1 Mainstream media: Paul Krugman from the New York Times calls us crazy, "Republicans have become embarrassing to watch. And it doesn't feel right to make fun of crazy people.", adding that we are “Astroturf” protesters with no real roots and not representative of popular opinion. Others like Rachel Maddoff simply roar with laughter.
These outright leftwing extremist opinionaters (like terminators only devoid of any real ammunition) are attempting to Target us, Freeze us, Personalize us and Polarize us.
They must laugh at us in order to create emotion and undue anger from their loyal party base. It is an Alinksy tool that the left uses so much it has become nothing more than a pesky little gnat we must shoo away. This mocking, ridiculing and marginalization doesn’t bother me anymore because I know it for what it is, and two can play at that game.
Hopefully, you won’t allow it to bother you either.
They call us "Republicans" like it is a dirty word. They make no note of the fact that we are the people, made up of all parties and religions because it serves to marginalize us further, as well as makes it easier to launch the next onslaught of “those greedy rich people”.
By these sound bites mass opinion can be formed. We just need to sound bite them right back.
We must hit them repeatedly with their own book of rules. For instance, Pelosi claims she is for the little guy, yet she spends $60,000 of our money every time she flies her commandeered military private jet to California and $60,000 every time she flies back to DC. That equals right around $510,000 dollars a month (two and a half average mortgages) or a grand total of $6,120,000.00 per year, just in trips home, not to mention her trips to other countries and around the US. That’s a pretty big book with which to hit the “little people protectors”, folks. Sound bites abound in this one little statistic.
In fact, this could be really fun!
Tell you what. I am going to launch a contest, right here, right now. This contest will last for two weeks through May 1st. Write your "Pelosi Private Military Jet" slogans in the comments section and I will decide which one is the best. I will have that slogan designed for a T Shirt and send that T Shirt to the slogan winner FREE, I will even cover shipping. I will also donate that slogan to the Tea Party groups to use in their T Shirt fundraising efforts. Your name will be on the shirt as the author. Let’s have some fun with this one! I have to have at least 20 to choose from, so if enough don't register their slogans, then game is over.
Opinion #2 Leftwing Extremist Groups: Charles Jackson, ACORN’s spokesman, told WDN, "ACORN is going to be engaged in a series of rallies across the country on April 15 in support of the priorities outlined in President Obama's first budget – investments in education, health care, and getting Americans back to work."
Meanwhile rumors abound on Conservative Talk Radio, Fox News and many ning and social networking sites warning of “infiltration” of the left at our Tea Parties and “attempting to provoke violence especially while in front of the cameras.”
Blah, blah, blah. We hear you ACORN. Scare tactics all. This is also in Alinksy’s rule book for socializing a nation, and I quote “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
They are trying to make us afraid to attend. It’s not a worry folks, they are not the big black bear on the porch - they are simply the annoying little mosquito trying to suck some life-blood out of us. Ho Hum.
We have to realize that Alinsky’s School of Organizational Training is a 15-month long, full-time program. We don’t have that long to gear, but that is okay.
As a matter of course, we are simply smarter, better equipped and more experienced than they are. After all, most of them are 20 somethings while most of us have spent our entire lives working, owning businesses, and or being quite successful in the corporate world. We are in our middle years as a whole, wiser, and much of this is just second nature to us. We know how to build the message and marketing the message is as easy to us as rolling off a log.
It helps too, that it is a real issue affecting real working people, with real consequences to us and to our children’s children.
We aren’t manufacturing a perceived slight, we are being slighted, and therefore we have nothing to fear. We don’t have to allow all that training of the organizers intimidate us. We are the real thing and more people are truly conservative when it comes to home and family than are socialistic.
We see clearly this administration’s purpose, tax, spend, and apologize for America and bowing...er...…uh...…“dipping towards” the Kings of other nations. (Or is it picking up quarters in a foreign countries throne room – HA!) to show our new submission to the world at large. All the while it is a smoke screen for signing a G20 document titled the FSB that signs away our country’s sovereignty and the regulation of our own currency.
Rahm's "opportunity of crisis" outline and to-do list has been built and we can clearly see where this is headed. As more American’s realize they are losing their freedoms and their money, the fat lady will sing.
We are simply a nation of individuals who love our country, love our freedom, and will not go silently into the dark night of One World Order. Nor will we remain silent for the direct attempts at marginalizing us.
All this election of One Party Rule did for us (along with this and the last administration’s bailouts) was to awaken the long sleeping giant. Our inner Galt was aroused within us all.
That, my friends, is a good thing. We may not be organizers, but we are so far beyond the pale intellectually, less cruel and more hard working as a whole, that the transition is a natural one for us. We may not get government grants to professionally and full-time go out with our signs, but we are even better, we have learned how to do more on a shoestring!
Take the reins, fear not the reaper, and March baby, March!
Opinion # 3 DOD and Homeland Security: This Homeland Security document is quite ripe my friends, and one which will not play well with the average Joe. Be patient with the link, it takes a bit to load.
It is a take off the MAIC document a few weeks ago, with more punch. This document was sent out to all law enforcement groups, but I somehow think they are not buying it.
In it, they are saying that “The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has no specific information that domestic rightwing* terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.”
So let me see if I get this right….No mention of "leftwing extremists" such as Bill Ayers, ACORN and others, only “rightwing extremists” who are dissatisfied with “real estate foreclosures, unemployment, and an inability to obtain credit” and who “have capitalized on the election of the first African American president, and are focusing their efforts to recruit new members, mobilize existing supporters, and broaden their scope and appeal through propaganda, but they have not yet turned to attack planning.”????
What they are saying is those of us who are the productive, conservative individuals, the tax-paying citizens of these United States, the ones who sweated our children through school, the ones who have contributed more to society than any other group, are suddenly the enemy. We are instantly classified as the new bullies of society, capable of violence and we are simple haters and racists. See how this works? These Alinsky rules are pretty powerful methods meant to take down opposing views. They have met the enemy and it is we the people.
The thing is friends; we must reject this attempt at targeting, freezing, personalizing, and polarizing us. We must not allow any such document to do their dirty work of intimidating us and we must be even louder for it. Instead of simply carrying the signs at our Tea Parties, join in on the cheers, sing “Our Country Tis of Thee” and “God Bless America” as loudly as you can. Open your windows and shout it out to the world. WE AREN’T GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE! Recall your youth, the sit-ins and find that inner and peaceful activist again.
Opinion #4 The Discouraged Set: Often over these last few weeks and with our first Naples Tea Party on the 5th, I heard quite a bit of the “I just don’t see us making a difference. I call and call and no one will listen! They just keep passing bills. What’s the use of continuing this?!”
To that I can only say, “Say WHAT?” We have been silent for far too long. While we were busy living our lives, starting businesses, and sweating over sending our kids to school, they were busy organizing a coup. It is our fault for allowing it to continue while we collected the badges of our success, but we cannot allow this to continue anymore. We simply cannot be silent anymore. We are about 2 months into this, not quite, as the first tea parties occurred on February 27th, 2009. We just got started, but already we see evidence that it is beginning to scare the natives in activism land.
Did you read what I wrote in Opinion #2? These folks simply trained for 15 months! They didn’t tire of the training! We haven’t even begun to catch up. But, and I repeat, given we are smarter than they and can just spontaneously organize, get out there and do it quickly is scaring the living daylights out of the left! That is a really GOOD THING!
We are the doers of the world, we work, we are successful, and we pay our taxes.
They are the trained whiners.
We know Rome wasn’t built in a day and regardless of how shocking these last nearly 80 days have been, I propose we are NOT all Socialists now. Freaking Newsleaze! We must let them in on that secret.
We know how to get a job done right the first time while they spent decades – over 30 years manufacturing false anger and false ideology getting to this point.
We have the wherewithal, we have the ability, we have the common sense, we have the newly raided pocketbooks of the working citizens, the nationalization of our companies, and we have the Constitution on our side.
If the only thing we lack is the foresight to know this will be a long battle, we will be finished before we begin. We cannot get discouraged after less than 80 days into an administration.
So do me one solid, please. Don’t look for the McDonald’s answer to activism. We have to get out there often, run the race, keep calling, keep writing, sign every petition out there from our perspective, keep at it, vote them out, and make sure your newly elected officials fix what this congress has broken. It is the only way.
This is not a sprint – this, my friends, is an octgonathon. This is 80 ways to leave your congressperson!
We don’t have to be forceful with them; we only have to be consistent. We don’t have to get mad; we only have to get even by giving them as good as we get. We are on the side of right!
So regardless of how they belittle and ridicule and pretend not to hear us, do not fear, they hear us, and they are very afraid. They can call us anything they want, extremists, crazy, stupid, racist, sick, uncaring, whatever they want, it cannot be permitted to dissuade us from our mission. Simply put, we cannot let them continue to spend our money, redistribute our wealth and ruin our wonderful free country through socialism.
For a while, this simply has to be a way of life. Many of us have spent our information age forwarding silly jokes through the email, or wasting hours in front of the tube doing nothing but filling our minds with their message. Now we have the opportunity to save our nation for our children. One hour a day on most days is all it takes to make a difference. That’s all. The trick is to just be consistent.
That is all it takes, just changing up a few of our habits. If we all spend our after dinner hour, lunch hour or before work hour doing that, how different do you think we can make this world.
We really do surround “them”, friends. We just have to remind them of that fact. We have right on our side and right now they are shaking in their boots or they wouldn’t be coming out with so many detractors the few days before the tea parties. Keep up the good work and you will save your children’s futures 10 generations out.
Opinion #1 Mainstream media: Paul Krugman from the New York Times calls us crazy, "Republicans have become embarrassing to watch. And it doesn't feel right to make fun of crazy people.", adding that we are “Astroturf” protesters with no real roots and not representative of popular opinion. Others like Rachel Maddoff simply roar with laughter.
These outright leftwing extremist opinionaters (like terminators only devoid of any real ammunition) are attempting to Target us, Freeze us, Personalize us and Polarize us.
They must laugh at us in order to create emotion and undue anger from their loyal party base. It is an Alinksy tool that the left uses so much it has become nothing more than a pesky little gnat we must shoo away. This mocking, ridiculing and marginalization doesn’t bother me anymore because I know it for what it is, and two can play at that game.
Hopefully, you won’t allow it to bother you either.
They call us "Republicans" like it is a dirty word. They make no note of the fact that we are the people, made up of all parties and religions because it serves to marginalize us further, as well as makes it easier to launch the next onslaught of “those greedy rich people”.
By these sound bites mass opinion can be formed. We just need to sound bite them right back.
We must hit them repeatedly with their own book of rules. For instance, Pelosi claims she is for the little guy, yet she spends $60,000 of our money every time she flies her commandeered military private jet to California and $60,000 every time she flies back to DC. That equals right around $510,000 dollars a month (two and a half average mortgages) or a grand total of $6,120,000.00 per year, just in trips home, not to mention her trips to other countries and around the US. That’s a pretty big book with which to hit the “little people protectors”, folks. Sound bites abound in this one little statistic.
In fact, this could be really fun!
Tell you what. I am going to launch a contest, right here, right now. This contest will last for two weeks through May 1st. Write your "Pelosi Private Military Jet" slogans in the comments section and I will decide which one is the best. I will have that slogan designed for a T Shirt and send that T Shirt to the slogan winner FREE, I will even cover shipping. I will also donate that slogan to the Tea Party groups to use in their T Shirt fundraising efforts. Your name will be on the shirt as the author. Let’s have some fun with this one! I have to have at least 20 to choose from, so if enough don't register their slogans, then game is over.
Opinion #2 Leftwing Extremist Groups: Charles Jackson, ACORN’s spokesman, told WDN, "ACORN is going to be engaged in a series of rallies across the country on April 15 in support of the priorities outlined in President Obama's first budget – investments in education, health care, and getting Americans back to work."
Meanwhile rumors abound on Conservative Talk Radio, Fox News and many ning and social networking sites warning of “infiltration” of the left at our Tea Parties and “attempting to provoke violence especially while in front of the cameras.”
Blah, blah, blah. We hear you ACORN. Scare tactics all. This is also in Alinksy’s rule book for socializing a nation, and I quote “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
They are trying to make us afraid to attend. It’s not a worry folks, they are not the big black bear on the porch - they are simply the annoying little mosquito trying to suck some life-blood out of us. Ho Hum.
We have to realize that Alinsky’s School of Organizational Training is a 15-month long, full-time program. We don’t have that long to gear, but that is okay.
As a matter of course, we are simply smarter, better equipped and more experienced than they are. After all, most of them are 20 somethings while most of us have spent our entire lives working, owning businesses, and or being quite successful in the corporate world. We are in our middle years as a whole, wiser, and much of this is just second nature to us. We know how to build the message and marketing the message is as easy to us as rolling off a log.
It helps too, that it is a real issue affecting real working people, with real consequences to us and to our children’s children.
We aren’t manufacturing a perceived slight, we are being slighted, and therefore we have nothing to fear. We don’t have to allow all that training of the organizers intimidate us. We are the real thing and more people are truly conservative when it comes to home and family than are socialistic.
We see clearly this administration’s purpose, tax, spend, and apologize for America and bowing...er...…uh...…“dipping towards” the Kings of other nations. (Or is it picking up quarters in a foreign countries throne room – HA!) to show our new submission to the world at large. All the while it is a smoke screen for signing a G20 document titled the FSB that signs away our country’s sovereignty and the regulation of our own currency.
Rahm's "opportunity of crisis" outline and to-do list has been built and we can clearly see where this is headed. As more American’s realize they are losing their freedoms and their money, the fat lady will sing.
We are simply a nation of individuals who love our country, love our freedom, and will not go silently into the dark night of One World Order. Nor will we remain silent for the direct attempts at marginalizing us.
All this election of One Party Rule did for us (along with this and the last administration’s bailouts) was to awaken the long sleeping giant. Our inner Galt was aroused within us all.
That, my friends, is a good thing. We may not be organizers, but we are so far beyond the pale intellectually, less cruel and more hard working as a whole, that the transition is a natural one for us. We may not get government grants to professionally and full-time go out with our signs, but we are even better, we have learned how to do more on a shoestring!
Take the reins, fear not the reaper, and March baby, March!
Opinion # 3 DOD and Homeland Security: This Homeland Security document is quite ripe my friends, and one which will not play well with the average Joe. Be patient with the link, it takes a bit to load.
It is a take off the MAIC document a few weeks ago, with more punch. This document was sent out to all law enforcement groups, but I somehow think they are not buying it.
(U//FOUO) This product is one of a series of intelligence assessments published by the Extremism and Radicalization Branch to facilitate a greater understanding of the phenomenon of violent radicalization in the United States. The information is provided to federal, state, local, and tribal counterterrorism and law enforcement officials so they may effectively deter, prevent, preempt, or respond to terrorist attacks against the United States. Federal efforts to influence domestic public opinion must be conducted in an overt and transparent manner, clearly identifying United States Government sponsorship.
In it, they are saying that “The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has no specific information that domestic rightwing* terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.”
So let me see if I get this right….No mention of "leftwing extremists" such as Bill Ayers, ACORN and others, only “rightwing extremists” who are dissatisfied with “real estate foreclosures, unemployment, and an inability to obtain credit” and who “have capitalized on the election of the first African American president, and are focusing their efforts to recruit new members, mobilize existing supporters, and broaden their scope and appeal through propaganda, but they have not yet turned to attack planning.”????
What they are saying is those of us who are the productive, conservative individuals, the tax-paying citizens of these United States, the ones who sweated our children through school, the ones who have contributed more to society than any other group, are suddenly the enemy. We are instantly classified as the new bullies of society, capable of violence and we are simple haters and racists. See how this works? These Alinsky rules are pretty powerful methods meant to take down opposing views. They have met the enemy and it is we the people.
The thing is friends; we must reject this attempt at targeting, freezing, personalizing, and polarizing us. We must not allow any such document to do their dirty work of intimidating us and we must be even louder for it. Instead of simply carrying the signs at our Tea Parties, join in on the cheers, sing “Our Country Tis of Thee” and “God Bless America” as loudly as you can. Open your windows and shout it out to the world. WE AREN’T GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE! Recall your youth, the sit-ins and find that inner and peaceful activist again.
Opinion #4 The Discouraged Set: Often over these last few weeks and with our first Naples Tea Party on the 5th, I heard quite a bit of the “I just don’t see us making a difference. I call and call and no one will listen! They just keep passing bills. What’s the use of continuing this?!”
To that I can only say, “Say WHAT?” We have been silent for far too long. While we were busy living our lives, starting businesses, and sweating over sending our kids to school, they were busy organizing a coup. It is our fault for allowing it to continue while we collected the badges of our success, but we cannot allow this to continue anymore. We simply cannot be silent anymore. We are about 2 months into this, not quite, as the first tea parties occurred on February 27th, 2009. We just got started, but already we see evidence that it is beginning to scare the natives in activism land.
Did you read what I wrote in Opinion #2? These folks simply trained for 15 months! They didn’t tire of the training! We haven’t even begun to catch up. But, and I repeat, given we are smarter than they and can just spontaneously organize, get out there and do it quickly is scaring the living daylights out of the left! That is a really GOOD THING!
We are the doers of the world, we work, we are successful, and we pay our taxes.
They are the trained whiners.
We know Rome wasn’t built in a day and regardless of how shocking these last nearly 80 days have been, I propose we are NOT all Socialists now. Freaking Newsleaze! We must let them in on that secret.
We know how to get a job done right the first time while they spent decades – over 30 years manufacturing false anger and false ideology getting to this point.
We have the wherewithal, we have the ability, we have the common sense, we have the newly raided pocketbooks of the working citizens, the nationalization of our companies, and we have the Constitution on our side.
If the only thing we lack is the foresight to know this will be a long battle, we will be finished before we begin. We cannot get discouraged after less than 80 days into an administration.
So do me one solid, please. Don’t look for the McDonald’s answer to activism. We have to get out there often, run the race, keep calling, keep writing, sign every petition out there from our perspective, keep at it, vote them out, and make sure your newly elected officials fix what this congress has broken. It is the only way.
This is not a sprint – this, my friends, is an octgonathon. This is 80 ways to leave your congressperson!
We don’t have to be forceful with them; we only have to be consistent. We don’t have to get mad; we only have to get even by giving them as good as we get. We are on the side of right!
So regardless of how they belittle and ridicule and pretend not to hear us, do not fear, they hear us, and they are very afraid. They can call us anything they want, extremists, crazy, stupid, racist, sick, uncaring, whatever they want, it cannot be permitted to dissuade us from our mission. Simply put, we cannot let them continue to spend our money, redistribute our wealth and ruin our wonderful free country through socialism.
For a while, this simply has to be a way of life. Many of us have spent our information age forwarding silly jokes through the email, or wasting hours in front of the tube doing nothing but filling our minds with their message. Now we have the opportunity to save our nation for our children. One hour a day on most days is all it takes to make a difference. That’s all. The trick is to just be consistent.
I challenge you to:
• Join a facebook group or ning
• Attend conservative group meetings every other week
• Invite a friend along with you and make it an evening
• Support your Tea Parties, make a sign and show up
• Switch to conservative news each day for a bit, online
• Arm yourselves with facts of this spending
• Forward a few of those article links to your friends
• Cancel a left leaning publication or two
• Find a petition or two to sign, here is two to start
• www.912petitions.com & www.telemachusleaps.com
• Research a bill in congress
• Write a letter to your congressperson
• Thank them if they are voting right, chastise them if not
• Make a call to your senator
That is all it takes, just changing up a few of our habits. If we all spend our after dinner hour, lunch hour or before work hour doing that, how different do you think we can make this world.
We really do surround “them”, friends. We just have to remind them of that fact. We have right on our side and right now they are shaking in their boots or they wouldn’t be coming out with so many detractors the few days before the tea parties. Keep up the good work and you will save your children’s futures 10 generations out.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
There is Meaning Behind Those Words
Last night, in hearing the replay of Obama saying, "We have to approach this with a "sense of responsiblity" for the thousandth time, the meaning cuffed me upside the head in such a way as to warrant whiplash.
He never said he would act with responsibility, only that he would approach with a sense of responsibility! Oh! I get it now! I might "sense" a bad smell, but it doesn't mean I will choose (or in this instance be able) to escape from that bad smell! A sense doesn't cause action, it only warns of the need to take action, but can be ignored. Much like the eyes seeing a grusome accident on the side of the road, our eyes tell our brain "Ooh, gory stuff, don't look" and we then choose to gawk anyway and are rewarded with nightmares for our disobedience to our senses. Much like we are being rewarded now with President Obama's sense.
As a result of this massive lightening bolt that hit me last night, I have developed a new sense which spikes my fuzzy meaning meter.
Here, in the following droll interview of Couric with Geithner, we hear another one of those statements as Geithner speaks about the fact that the beatings will continue until morale improves. Listen closely to his diatribe and I will tell you afterwards what you might have missed. It will help you develop your fuzzy meter sense as well.
Okay. Are you ready for the fuzzy meter spike? (Note: The fuzzy meter is besides the obviously self-serving statements of "new commitments" and "strongest *cough* standards of transparency" in the 9.6 trillion committed in the last two months/two weeks time.) When speaking about the "attacks" on his ability, at exactly the 2:32 minutes mark, Geither said, 'When I took this job I knew I would face enormous challenges'....."for the enormous damage caused by the people who took too much risk...".
To which "people" do you suppose Geithner was referring? My newly developed sense says it was we the people who bought the homes at the peak of the market with ACORN forced bad loaning policies are those to which he refers. To hear Geithner say it, it was decidedly not the unregulated, naked short selling, no uptick rule, mark to market accounting ruled, international obscenely diabolical set (who repackaged mortgages, sold insurance in the form of CDS's that were not regulated as insurances and who resold them again and again) crooks until there was no more market able to bear the risk.
See, we didn't sell our mortgages, they did. We didn't keep driving up the price of oil in shorting activities so we could pocket loads of money from every American, they did, grabbing two or three hundred bucks of cash flow out of the pockets of Americans every single month. The question to ask is who got the money then and who is getting the bailouts now?
He never said he would act with responsibility, only that he would approach with a sense of responsibility! Oh! I get it now! I might "sense" a bad smell, but it doesn't mean I will choose (or in this instance be able) to escape from that bad smell! A sense doesn't cause action, it only warns of the need to take action, but can be ignored. Much like the eyes seeing a grusome accident on the side of the road, our eyes tell our brain "Ooh, gory stuff, don't look" and we then choose to gawk anyway and are rewarded with nightmares for our disobedience to our senses. Much like we are being rewarded now with President Obama's sense.
As a result of this massive lightening bolt that hit me last night, I have developed a new sense which spikes my fuzzy meaning meter.
Here, in the following droll interview of Couric with Geithner, we hear another one of those statements as Geithner speaks about the fact that the beatings will continue until morale improves. Listen closely to his diatribe and I will tell you afterwards what you might have missed. It will help you develop your fuzzy meter sense as well.
Okay. Are you ready for the fuzzy meter spike? (Note: The fuzzy meter is besides the obviously self-serving statements of "new commitments" and "strongest *cough* standards of transparency" in the 9.6 trillion committed in the last two months/two weeks time.) When speaking about the "attacks" on his ability, at exactly the 2:32 minutes mark, Geither said, 'When I took this job I knew I would face enormous challenges'....."for the enormous damage caused by the people who took too much risk...".
To which "people" do you suppose Geithner was referring? My newly developed sense says it was we the people who bought the homes at the peak of the market with ACORN forced bad loaning policies are those to which he refers. To hear Geithner say it, it was decidedly not the unregulated, naked short selling, no uptick rule, mark to market accounting ruled, international obscenely diabolical set (who repackaged mortgages, sold insurance in the form of CDS's that were not regulated as insurances and who resold them again and again) crooks until there was no more market able to bear the risk.
See, we didn't sell our mortgages, they did. We didn't keep driving up the price of oil in shorting activities so we could pocket loads of money from every American, they did, grabbing two or three hundred bucks of cash flow out of the pockets of Americans every single month. The question to ask is who got the money then and who is getting the bailouts now?
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Oh Goody! Yet Another "Czar" Proposal
Czar - (n) an emperor or king, an autocratic ruler or leader, any person exercising great power or authority in any field.
Imagine my surprise when perusing today's Drudge Report, the announcement of a proposal for yet another "Czar", this one of the Cybersecurity sort!
Yes, it's true. As early as today we will see a new bill announced that would, are you ready for this one gang? Federalize Cybersecurity! Proposed by Rockefeller (D - WVA) and our dear RINO in sheep's clothing Olympia Snowe (R -cough- ME), the stated intent has far reaching consequences for all.
I would love to know what you think about this new proposal - especially if you are a small business owner, a blogger, or a taxpayer!
According to the Washington Post and I quote:
They want to be able to shut down private networks? Hmmmm. Interesting.
Would that, better yet, could that be used to shut down private networks that possibly do not agree with them in the name of Cybersecurity?
Could this government imposed autocratic ruler possibly tell me that my blog, or my business for that matter, represents a National Security Breach to them and unilaterally decide to shut me down...leave my voice silenced...leave my customers in the lurch for my web SAAS product?
It amazes me how this group in government will use any excuse to steal more rights away. Wait, amaze just isn't a strong enough word. Astounds would be more appropriate. No. You know what? The mandate to make use of the "Opportunity of Crisis" has gone so far beyond the pale that I have no words for their audacity left in my vocabulary to express my OUTRAGE properly!
I vote no on any attempt to interfere with private enterprise matters unless said private business is not paying their taxes or treating their employees according to the laws already on the books.
In fact, I vote NO on this entire 111th Congress!
If you aren't Outraged...You. Aren't. Paying. Attention!
Imagine my surprise when perusing today's Drudge Report, the announcement of a proposal for yet another "Czar", this one of the Cybersecurity sort!
Yes, it's true. As early as today we will see a new bill announced that would, are you ready for this one gang? Federalize Cybersecurity! Proposed by Rockefeller (D - WVA) and our dear RINO in sheep's clothing Olympia Snowe (R -cough- ME), the stated intent has far reaching consequences for all.
I would love to know what you think about this new proposal - especially if you are a small business owner, a blogger, or a taxpayer!
According to the Washington Post and I quote:
"Addressing what intelligence officials describe as a gaping vulnerability, the legislation also calls for the appointment of a White House cybersecurity "czar" with unprecedented authority to shut down computer networks, including private ones [italics mine], if a cyberattack is underway, the officials said."
They want to be able to shut down private networks? Hmmmm. Interesting.
Would that, better yet, could that be used to shut down private networks that possibly do not agree with them in the name of Cybersecurity?
Could this government imposed autocratic ruler possibly tell me that my blog, or my business for that matter, represents a National Security Breach to them and unilaterally decide to shut me down...leave my voice silenced...leave my customers in the lurch for my web SAAS product?
It amazes me how this group in government will use any excuse to steal more rights away. Wait, amaze just isn't a strong enough word. Astounds would be more appropriate. No. You know what? The mandate to make use of the "Opportunity of Crisis" has gone so far beyond the pale that I have no words for their audacity left in my vocabulary to express my OUTRAGE properly!
I vote no on any attempt to interfere with private enterprise matters unless said private business is not paying their taxes or treating their employees according to the laws already on the books.
In fact, I vote NO on this entire 111th Congress!
If you aren't Outraged...You. Aren't. Paying. Attention!
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