The Point

IF WE DON’T USE IT, WE LOSE IT! Exercise Your Freedom To Speak!

2010-09-02T12:22:00.006-04:00

How many of us, when driving cross country, come across a set of 3 crosses lifted high upon a hill and feel comforted, quieted and awed?

This free expression, this sweet comfort, the very basis of our freedom is quickly being brought to extinction in America. The land of the free and the home of the brave has lost her fortitude, her sense of decent expression and is quickly losing her liberty through activist judges offering our Constitution "ministerial justice" from the bench.

Robert Knight in his article in Townhall titled "Uprooting Crosses, One By One" examples our extinction in the form of crosses to depict a statement. May every God fearing US Citizen place a set of 3 upon their hill!

He writes:

"While the furor over the proposed mosque at Ground Zero has New York Gov. David Paterson offering public land as a peace offering, a more familiar symbol - the cross - is systematically being uprooted around the country.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruled Aug. 18 that placing crosses where Utah state troopers died violates the Establishment Clause.
The 14 crosses, 12 feet tall and bearing a trooper's name, have been erected by the privately funded Utah Highway Patrol Association since 1968. Robert Kirby, a Salt Lake Tribune columnist and former cop, initiated it. He told Newsweek, "We wanted something instantly recognizable at 75 miles per hour, something that would say, 'This is hallowed ground.' "
Not to a mirror-worshipping group, which sued in 2005. It lost in U.S. district court, which ruled in American Atheists Inc. v. Duncan that the cross is a symbol of "death and burial." The atheists appealed and persuaded the 10th Circuit to reverse. But a further appeal to the Supreme Court would bode well, given that swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy, in Salazar v. Buono (2009) wrote:
"The goal of avoiding governmental endorsement does not require eradication of all religious symbols in the public realm. A cross by the side of a public highway marking, for instance, the place where a state trooper perished need not be taken as a statement of governmental support for sectarian beliefs."

CAN YOU IMAGINE?

For every one set of crosses torn down by a Ministerial Justice another 20 rise in its place? The ACLU goon squad would soon cease to have reason to exist for it would bankrupt them just fighting our expression of freedom! The anti-freedom of religion left can’t possibly keep up with an effort such as this! They can't bulldoze 70% of the private land in America.

So Americans, don’t just get mad, GET EVEN! Make is so they can’t possibly take our freedom of speech and religion down!

Often we will find that the best solution to tyranny is in the simplest and least expensive path to freedom, the sheer beauty of the expression of freedom. If we don't use it, we will lose it.

The Coming Bowel Movement

2010-04-23T08:32:00.006-04:00

The Obamabots, those glassy-eyed subhuman species who thrill to the tingles every lie the great one tells, stood up last week and shouted “Thank You!” to the great one as he made fun of every red blooded American freedom lover on the streets protesting his tax and spend policies.

Obama makes light of anti-tax protests. President Obama said during a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Miami on Thursday that he was "amused" by tea party rallies across the US, observing that he has signed tax cuts into law. Obama told the crowd at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, one of two Miami DNC fundraisers he attended Thursday, that he has "cut taxes, contrary to the claims of protesters." The President said, "You would think they'd be saying thank you." Many in the crowd then "stood and yelled, 'Thank you!'

Well, this red-blooded American says No Thanks, Mr. Obama. No thanks indeed.

You lied on lowering taxes.

You lied on transparency.

You lied on being a centrist; in fact you are as extreme as they come.

You lie on lying; you are doing so right now on the VAT taxes you can’t wait to push the overcharge button to initiate.

You are the epitome of everything the founders warned us about. You are at best a Socialist and at worst a Marxist and we are not buying what you are selling. Not one little bit.

Yesterday your evil twin over at ACORN turned her Alinsky poisoned spirit on the Tea Party Movement, calling us a Bowel Movement. I can just see you and your Chief of Staff giggling in utter delight as you watched that particular video, sitting back on your haunches like the dogs that you are, laughing in delight with the word picture Bertha Lewis spat off her vile tongue. What you and Congress don’t yet realize, sir, is that the description is actually a perfect turn of phrase to depict what we have in mind for you as we turn these last 14 months around starting this November.

We are the teaming masses sir, we are the people! We are the real article and if there is one thing we know, it is just how powerful we are. We are more powerful than you can ever imagine. We are so committed to the internal cleansing of this nation that you will look back on your ACORN assisted usurpation of the White House and wish you had never bound us up with your actions. We embrace that description Mr. Obama. We vow to be the laxative this country needs as our cleansing action is totally aimed at you and your associated parasites.

Nature does have a way of dealing with its infections, sir, and you are the head of this particular plague on our great and exceptional nation. We fully recognize that you are the biggest source of the constipation plaguing our system of government as you seek to control all aspects of society and then set about shredding every vestige of liberty within our constitution. I predict you will see the culmination of this first of several cleansings in this coming election and that it will be the largest evacuation of parasites you have ever witnessed as your plan dissolves into so much putrid liquid and global warming caused methane as we work out our constitutional cleansing on you.

I trust that this election you come to realize exactly how deeply your pogrom has failed. I trust this will be the most humiliating moment you will ever live through and that you will writhe with all the pain you have bestowed onto the collective good and decent citizens of this great country as you watch this empire you have tried to build dissolve into the very pile of excrement that it is. May the waves of cramps that these movements promise to instill be prolonged, excruciating, revealing, and unbearable for you and your faux presidency.

May this particular movement expose you for the marxist individual that you are and may your ensuing stench cause you to be bereft of your friends, all trust, any stature and all hope that the cleansing will end soon, sir - as no one will be able to bear to be in the same room with you, let alone continue to cover your effusive behind anymore. I pray that God in heaven will show you for the very constipated spirit that you are and that He causes you to end your regime in all the lame duck glory you deserve, just as weak as a kitten.

We proud Americans will then set about the work we are not too ashamed or too unwilling to do, to clean up the crap you have sprayed over this great country and our constitution.

Let's Not Get Too Late Schmart!

2010-04-03T11:45:00.005-04:00

Ah, the old sayings, so full of wisdom....Too Soon Old, Too Late Schmart...How true it is.

Fellow freedom fighters, let's not make that same mistake in our efforts to take our country back.

Today I came across an article in WaPo titled "With midterms approaching, GOP outmatched by Democrats on campaign funds"

"The Republican Party's strategy since early last year of lock-step opposition to the Obama administration's major legislative initiatives has proved to be less bankable than some party leaders may have anticipated.

With eight months to go before congressional elections, House and Senate Democratic candidates exceed in virtually every important campaign fundraising category. Democratic House lawmakers appear likely to reverse their seven-cycle record of being outspent by House Republicans, according to recent finance reports.
Democrats in both chambers are enjoying the traditional advantages of majority-party status -- and then some. They lead in donations by political action committees, by committees affiliated with the national political parties or with House and Senate leaders, and in individual contributions to incumbent lawmakers. In some instances, their lead exceeds what the Republicans had when that party controlled both chambers in the 2005-06 midterm election cycle.

To no surprise, analysts differ by party on the causes and significance of the disparity. Some Republicans say a donations surge may still come in the campaign's final months, particularly as the party courts new, small donors outside Washington. They also complain that donations to party stalwarts have been affected by internal squabbles with rebellious tea partiers, which they hope will end soon."

In our desire to return to our roots, to our constitutional values we all hold so dear, we are failing to realize the political realities of the near future. The consequences of our stubborn rebellion and anger will be our undoing if we are not very careful to turn that old Irish saying around on ourselves VERY QUICKLY. We need to become Very Soon Schmart!

While we want absolutely no liberal leaning in our candidates, we cannot have that...that is akin to a perfect world and if by our age, we don't realize that nothing is perfect, then we lose.

If we are to have a hope of at least not funding the healthcare bill, to unseat Pelosi, Reid and every other democrat who voted for this monstrosity of a freedom stealing bill and to destroy Obama's plan, getting him out of office in 1022 days in order to repeal this bill, then we must unite and we MUST be smart about it. As much as we may hate the thought of electing a less than perfect candidate, we are stuck with two parties, lest you forget Bush 1 losing to Clinton because of Perot.

Later; after we get this whole team out of office, elect a conservative president, and repeal this bill; then we can look at reforming the GOP as Reagan did in the 60's. Until then we must be content and resigned to color inside the lines. Until then, if you are a Reagan Democrat, work within your party, join your precinct, take back your party and you Reagan Republicans, Reagan Libertarians, Reagan Independents, do the same thing. If we 180 or so Million Conservatives(assuming by the latest polls that 60% of us are now awake) who don't like what is happening to our country, with the healthcare bill, the EPA regulations circumventing our constitutional process as it turns Global Warming into redistributive law and all the rest of their socialist progress can't turn it around in a single election cycle, then we deserve exactly what we get.

We must stop beating up on our own. Remember what Reagan said...never speak ill of another Republican! Don't buy the MSM efforts to discredit the GOP chairman regardless of whether it bothers you that someone took the YR to a lesbian S & M joint or not....the Dems have done MUCH worse, but they don't eat their own.

The progressives will win if we do not learn this lesson quickly. We need to get off the chairman's back, we need to shrug it off, ask him to take better care and to realize there are infiltrator's that he is dealing with in his organization the same as there are infiltrator's we are dealing with. Stop the sibling rivalry and win this one for the Gipper, friends -or risk losing our country - perhaps forever. So open your checkbooks, work to get the best Republican you are handed elected, ignore the Tea Party infiltrators from the bowels of Harry Reid's evil devises, forgive the less than perfect for their wrong and once in, hold them to the right!

Remember who the true teabaggers are and they are not us, they are those very same infiltrators made destructive by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.

I wish I could post the following video directly into the site, but apparently PJTV doesn't allow us to do that. Regardless, this video says it all - please watch it and please consider it deeply.

PJTV - Trifecta - In 2010, Will Tea Party Candidates Pour On The Heat Or Get Soaked?

Are the Al Qaeda 7 Just John Adams Wannabe's

2010-03-13T20:27:00.007-05:00

In the Atlantic today I found a rather slanted article titled Not Believing in America "Liz Cheney and company tear at the legal system that makes this country free and exceptional by targeting the rights of the accused and their attorneys"

It's about time we let the left professorial elite know that trying to fit a round peg in a square hole to call it a 'fitting historical example' just isn't cutting it with us any more. We know the truth and we will report the truth. I couldn't take it anymore. I wrote the author the following:

Dear Mr. Edwards,

While I agree with the majority of your article and we are of the same generation, I am just not sure I get your point on the “Al Qaeda 7”.

To the overall patriotism of your article, I couldn’t agree more. I am astounded when I hear a 20-something say what a horrible country we are and verbally ponder why anyone would ever want to emigrate here. I wonder what KoolAid their professors are feeding them to cause them to think this way, as we are still the most forgiving and free nation on the face of the earth. The United States of America as a whole with her people and her history is exceptional without a doubt. Aside from the fact that I am watching our government trying to run our “exceptionalism” into the ground and I see them working hard to make us “just another European Nation” with every bit of power they have in their arsenal, while engaging in interference with other nations (such as Honduras and others) where we have no business, we are not yet without exceptionalism.

But to your argument concerning the “Al Qaeda 7”, I am not seeing it the way you do. What exactly is your point about Cheney and Kristol? I think in this case they are correct in what they are saying.

Yes, John Adams defended the British soldiers. What you aren’t remembering is that those soldiers of the Boston Massacre were tried prior to the revolution. They were here by order of the crown, acting as the “policemen”, or if you will, the “tax-enforcers” in the colonies. We were still British Subjects in the eyes of the crown, and they were sent here to quell the growing anger of “taxation without representation”.

The Boston Massacre occurred in 1770, prior to any physical separation between the British government and the colonies, during a time of great unrest. We may have been rebelling, may have declared our intention to separate, but we had not yet won separation. Adams, perhaps to the consternation of many sympathizers, stated he felt it was his duty to defend them, to show our colonies as fair in our justice to the crown.

Your argument is more equal to a modern day analogy of an attorney choosing to defend a National Guardsmen after a riot which had gone so badly that in self defense, he felt rightly or wrongly compelled to kill many rioters. The guardsman would require defense because he fired the first shots killing rioters who he felt threatened him. He has the ability and the right to defend himself with the specific defense that he was threatened in some physical way, and he was acting in defense of his own life or those of his fellow guardsmen. He and the rioters are all citizens of the same nation. There was civil unrest. There was a physical assault. There was an even greater threat by those behind the original attacker and the escalation became a tragedy. He would deserve a defense, although the wounded parties or their sympathizers may not agree and it may be an unpopular defense to them. That was what Adams did.

That’s a bit of a different scenario than Panti-bombers and other war criminals who come here to blow up airplanes full of travelers above cities, or to fly those planes directly into people’s work places, don’t you think?

In this case, it is not our own countrymen we are fighting (unless in a few cases they became citizens prior to deciding to blow us up). We are not subjects of those suicide bombers who believe themselves to be “soldiers”. We are not a nation attempting to reason or to separate from the motherland through which they hail. Moreover, we are currently at war with their countries or at the very least their religious misconceptions which cause them to become fighters for those countries for the sake of jihad. They were not threatened by a mob of people rioting against them. They boarded planes with the strict intent to kill all aboard for reasons of hateful intentions to prove a point without regard to those “unbelievers”.

You are comparing apples and oranges with your argument.

Another key point about Adams is that he didn’t enter the federal government for another 19 years after trying those soldiers, nor did he take any position within the government that had anything to do with continuing to defend the similarly accused leading up to, during, or after the war. These attorney’s came straight from those unfinished cases to Justice. That’s a huge difference.

Overall, this whole war is a deeply complex and difficult issue. That and our agreements or differences as to why we are in it aside, we are in a war. That makes the cards in your argument play quite differently. On the one hand you have the inequality of the comparisons, on the other, the average American’s mindset on the whole deal. I am not talking Harvard or Princeton’s intellectually elite mindset; I am talking the average American’s mindset.

The American public is typically of the “You want to fight us? Bring it on” mindset when somebody brings acts of war to our shores. Blowing up planeloads of regular folks is an act of war. Our intent is to make war fair and square, military to military and we will fight it. There are accepted Rules of Engagement. Don’t be setting off bombs in your panties on a Christmas Day flight full of regular families who are just going to observe their familial traditions, and certainly don’t take plane loads of workers, children and women hostage and fly them into tall buildings on a bright blue day, and expect us to feel sorry for you if you get caught before you succeed in blowing us all up. You deserve trial, but in a military tribunal if you are caught. If you are guilty, then you deserve to be incarcerated for life in a military prison or sentenced to death.

American citizens culturally loathe unfair fights, especially when it involves killing innocent citizens in acts of mass murder, whether or not you take yourself with you, rather than engaging our trained and paid military. We have words and phrases for acts like that, one of which is baby killers. Just like our decades of fighting the similar war of Barbary Bay where they would take hostage our shipments overseas or our transits, holding innocent Americans hostage for ransom, we cannot continue to pay bribes, do business with, or to use these murderous fanatics with the one hand and fight them with the other. Thomas Jefferson had it right – cut them off financially, realize our mistakes, don’t repeat those mistakes, fight to win the war fair and square – battle by battle – and get back to the business of America. On the Shores of Tripoli and all that.

In reality, what you are saying is nothing new under the sun. Every young attorney truly covets a high profile cases such as these. It makes those 100 hour weeks go by quickly. It assures them stature in all the right places to further their careers and make the big bucks, just like the shining stars they believe themselves to be. It catapults them into partner like nothing else. It garners those awards, promotions, the visibility, and accolades at every turn. But it should not catapult them into a governmental position so powerful as to ensure justice for Americans against the very ones they just finished defending or were hired away from defending!

It is a conflict of interest to come off a defense team and turn around to take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States while agreeing to serve as US prosecutors to those very cases of which you are intimately familiar. The Al Qaeda 7 attorney’s obviously have a soft spot for these prisoners (or a keen eye for the fast track) or they wouldn’t have agreed to defend them in the first place. A Dept of Justice attorney’s job is to ensuring Justice first and foremost to those very same work-a-day folks who died that day and to defend the constitution, not provide civilian criminal trials to war criminals when we are at war. They aren’t citizens; they are jihadists who would no sooner look at you and me than kill us. In the case of KSM, he had already admitted guilt. He was on his way to court and Obama stopped it. Imagine how those families of the USS Cole feel. Just imagine had it been your son or daughter.

Let’s look at it another way. Let’s say I am a business who is entangled in a patent case. I am being accused of stealing a patent. You are one of the young attorney’s at my defense teams firm. Let’s say you have prepared briefs for my attorney’s, doing what young and bright attorney’s do. Later, while the case is still active, but long and drawn out, you quit the firm I hired to defend me, and go to work for the firm who is working for my accusers, or even another firm who is later brought in as 2nd chair to my accuser’s firm.

Is it a conflict of interest for them to hire you? Would my defense team think it would be a conflict, knowing that you know a goodly amount of the defense that I am bringing? Could you potentially build a case around all that known evidence in my defense to help my accuser’s team win the case? What kind of fight would ensue from my defense team against you and your new firm? I would venture to say huge, even if only hired by the newly appointed 2nd chair firm. I would venture to say they would be at that bench for hours convincing the judge that you cannot be anywhere near my case – they would fight that your new firm cannot be anywhere near my case regardless of whether you are officially on the case or not. Who knows what pay off you may have received. Who knows what damage you may cause my case in back door deals, or even how much damage you may cause to the other side if you were so inclined to subvert their case against me. Who’s to know you aren’t playing both sides for some unknown third party interest?

Am I wrong?

So why is this any different? Is it because it is an “unpopular” defense? Not really, because those attorneys became shining stars to the far left’s ideology. Is it because of liberal bias that this case is somehow different? Is it because it is the popular thing to think that jihadists are somehow different than other war criminals? Is it because CAIR is mixed up in here somehow as an interested third party? The same questions my defense team would be raising are the very questions that are arising in the minds of the American people - and frankly, it is pi$$ing us off.

Justice may be blind sir, but she isn’t stupid. She knows when a conflict of interest exists. From my perspective, it is these “Al Qaeda 7” that represent the very definition of a conflict of interest. Our family was fortunate on 9/11, in two cases, with my husband in the air on a different flight (which we thought was flight 93 due to a misstatement made by a reporter) and my brother in law at the Pentagon (who went dark and we didn’t hear from for 2 weeks), we thought we had lost our loved ones and in both cases, thankfully, we hadn’t. But not losing anyone doesn’t make it much better. We still watched those planes loaded with innocents turned into bombs that killed thousands more innocents.

To us, these attorney’s pictures could be laid right beside the word listing “Conflict of Interest” and the definition would speak for itself. I believe that nearly every red-blooded American feels the same as well.

Taxpayers already pay for the war, we already give untold monies to feed the jihadists, Hamas, and the Taliban themselves, and we repatriate them here. To know this, all we must do is to remember the storehouses of undistributed goods and foods we sent to the Iraqi’s during Saddam’s reign. We are losing our special relationships with Israel and the UK. That’s quite enough of the right hand playing the left, don’t you think? We don’t want to add paying for public trials that will give these self-admitted murderers (who call themselves righteous warriors) a pulpit to sound the battle cry anew. The majority of us don’t want them in our prisons proselytizing and recruiting our prisoners. We want them separate and we want them prosecuted by military tribunals. Don’t you get that?

It isn’t undoing what made this a great country, it is doing governments #1 job, protecting the citizens of the United States against all known or perceived threats from inside or outside the Union.

Somehow, I think both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson would agree.

The Anatomy of Politics Reaches the Anatomy of Humans

2010-03-07T11:20:00.005-05:00

Rahm Emanuel's bioethicist brother suggests government intervene in eating habits

It’s very interesting to watch how something so everyday suddenly becomes political.

First the First Lady says fat people are a National Security Risk and then the paid off “experts” agree (wonder which of those will end up in an appointment)…. Now they say 'Heavier people' are bad for the economy.

The drumbeat continues to turn the population AGAINST a segment of society – any segment will do. Smokers were the last decade, now fatty’s are the new decade.

Why, you ask? So they can tax it. If it moves, if it doesn’t move, or if it even exists - tax it! And along the way, we will probably hear some murder defenses which purport some creep killed some fatty because he was a drain on his welfare check.

Do they really not realize how damaging these campaigns against a singled out segment of society will be to the not so stable of our nation? Sure they do, they don’t care.

So tell me, oh ye progressive governmental purveyors of destruction, which is it? Are fatty’s a threat to National Security or to the Economy? Both, you say? How convenient for you! All that is wrong with the nation is just a problem of fatty’s. Not politicians seeking a career, not progressives seeking the takeover of America and putting into place bigger PROHIBITIONS (which in case you didn’t know is the key to progressive politics….it’s not about “moving forward” - it is strictly about “moving backwards” into taxing everything and taking things away – an easier way to remember it is Progressives = Prohibition).

But No. It is all the fatty’s fault. How else can you tax it? How sick are the politicians of this nation, really? Would seem to me that fat people are just fine where they are…it’s the progressives who are the threat.
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The Imminent Death of American Healthcare

2010-03-06T11:21:00.005-05:00

A Pre-Decedent Death Vigil Notice

American Healthcare has been given her death panel. She will be sentenced to die of a disease called Socialized Medicine, a disease better known as “Obamacare”.

The President and our legislators Pelosi and Reid tell us her death is to occur on or before Easter 2010. Like the Christmas Eve vote, once again they determine to remove not only the joy of our Christian holiday, but the hope of our future health.

While not perfect, American Healthcare has provided her citizens and the citizens of all nations with comfort and healing throughout the generations. She has given renewed health to the infirm, made the lame to walk, healed the uninsured accident victim, and enabled the cancer victim to walk away cancer free on untold occasions. She has done so without question, regardless of the ability to pay. A miracle worker every day, her hallowed abilities will be sorely missed by all. American Healthcare surely is a hero loved by all.

American Healthcare has treated Kings not as fortunate for medical advancement within their own borders, as well as has provided worldclass treatment for the poorest and sickest of humanity throughout the world. Prime Ministers from socialist countries enter her beds for premier heart surgeries; just as the downtrodden, those found beaten and left for dead on "Anywhere Alley", USA have received the same tender loving care. Untold Millions have exited her doors in restored health - whole and healed. The sick child from Haiti, the Leukemia patient from England, the brain tumor victim from Canada, the Siamese twins from India and we are always welcome in her beds.

Indeed, American Healthcare, along with her helpers, our physicians and nurses, repeatedly open their beds to treat the masses from all walks of life. American healthcare is blind to station, but never to those desperately in need of world class treatment for life threatening conditions – oftentimes at no cost to the patient.

Now we citizens are told they will install panels to decide what treatment we will be permitted to receive. If we are not of prime age or perfect health, we will be given over to death panels whose job it will be to provide us with counseling to end our lives, to order lesser care, or perhaps a letter offering to pay for the drugs for our suicide – all to “insure” 30 million people.

What else will they do? We know they will enter our checking accounts for auto withdrawals, track our health through the IRS, and tax or jail us if we refuse to buy their insurance. We know they will use our tax dollars to provide for abortions and the continued culling of the human race. As was proposed in the American Mecca of socialized medicine (Massachusetts) just Thursday; should we also expect that our faith-based and deeply personal circumcision decisions be outlawed for cost containment reasons?

Once American Healthcare dies, there will be nowhere else in the world for anyone to go for premier care and the newest advancements in medicine. Where can we go where we are assured the best care in the world regardless of our wealth or ability to pay? No other country will offer us what America offers now. Rather, we are being warned by nearly 45% of the doctors that they will no longer be able to afford to practice. They will be forced to retire.

Our taxes will increase, in exchange for receiving substandard care. Our choices will no longer be our own, and our own doctors may very well choose to close their doors.

Please join us to pray for American Healthcare’s miracle – the very miracle she has given so many of us - renewed health and reprieve from certain death. A candlelight vigil for the wellbeing of American Healthcare is scheduled for Sunday, March 7th at NCH Main Hospital in front of the parking garage on US 41 at 7:30 – 8:30 PM. We will meet there this Sunday and every Sunday evening thereafter until we see this big government American Healthcare death panel fail.

Bring your candles, your bibles to “cling to” and the words to the song “We shall Overcome”. We will pray fervently for the death of the Obamacare in order to save the life of American Healthcare.

And Please! If you do not live in the SWFL area, show up at your own main hospitals for a nationwide candlelight prayer vigil tomorrow night. We know it is cold, we know it is short notice, but this is a call for emergency supernatural medicine. As she, American Healthcare, was there for you in your hour of need, please be there for her in her death throes.

We Must STOP Spending!

2010-03-04T10:23:00.008-05:00

Sen. Bunning: 'Paygo Means Paygo'
In effect, Sen. Bunning said to his congressional colleagues, "Before we expand a program, let's make sure we can pay for it." Defying Democrats and most Republicans, he objected to a motion for unanimous consent on an extension of unemployment benefits.

I can’t even express how disappointed I am in both parties that a month ago they passed Paygo and they are already beating up the only Senator prepared to hold them to their word.

Yes, times are hard, but unless big government controls its spending, we will never pull out of this. We simply cannot TRIPLE down on our deficit in a single year and expect things to go well in 10 years. With interest rates at their lowest ever now, and interest payments to China, to the Fed, to the UK, to everywhere already obscene, what will we see in 10 years at this interest rate? 800 billion a day in interest payments? What then if interest rates increase?

Everyone thinks their group is entitled, that it does good - from drug and alcohol rehab centers to families needing longer unemployment, to poor folks buying their American dream home – when and where does it end?

To turn it around will be painful, but turn it around we must. Lest they be forced eventually to begin killing off “the teaming mass of humanity” clamoring for ever more free rides. Hence healthcare reform and OTC vitamins…what better way to quickly cull the “non productive”, those of us with pre-existing anything, illness, addiction or simple greed?

Not only that, but I am so weary of the Dems new line…do it for pre-existing! If that were true, why are they already proposing to cull benefits for the elderly and infirm on Medicaid/Medicare. Their lies are the web that entraps.

It is a lie straight from the pits of hell and we must stop it NOW!

Update: For a great blog on this subject, check out Senator Bunning Was Right from my good friend Frank over at the Telemachus Leaps blog.

Meet The Koffee Klatche Set

2010-03-01T16:35:00.004-05:00

Or is that the copy cat set?

Tea'd off 'Coffee party' takes aim at tea party movement [video]
Will the so-called coffee party catch on? A liberal grassroots movement is frustrated with the health-care gridlock

Too funny! They are so discombobulated by real work-a-day Americans standing up to say enough they found the need to counter challenge us in such an original copycat way.

Go Koffee Klatche! I look forward to facing you on the street corner in competing protests - our 1000's to your 20 whimpy whiners.

Too bad you couldn't have been a bit more original....at least go with wine, that way we could've brought our cheese!

A Rebuttal to Liberal Lunacy In The Form of NYTimes Frank Rich

2010-02-28T11:44:00.005-05:00

Since The Times refused to post my rebuttal to Frank Rich in his piece "The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged Violent invective, once largely confined to blogs and talk radio, is now spreading among Republicans in public office or aspiring to it.", I decided to post it here.

Frank, you’ve really no idea from where you speak, do you? That you would even place Stack in with Tea Partiers shows you are being a hack in order to ruffle feathers, rather than a serious reporter or opinion maker.

The majority of Tea Party activists are regular moms and dads who learned about the constitution and the true history of this country in school. I might add, we were the last generation to do so, from the last baby boomer through the oldest remaining.
We are teaching our kids. We are uniting in freedom. We don’t need a “leader”, we were born in freedom and we understand it innately. We don't like BIG government, as opposed to your accusation of any government at all.

We are staid, work a day, average Americans who are looking on with alarm at our:

Shrinking (or non-existent) paychecks
At the loss of our freedoms
At the mass creation of fiat dollars
At “jobless recoveries” (whatever the heck that means)
At government owned everything
At bank and company bailouts and
At an uncontrolled, uncontrollable government and business symbiosis that will, if given the chance, catapult us into a 1930's style Germany where the likes of IG Farben and the government gained the position of ruling everything.

We fully understand that absolute power corrupts absolutely. We know and understand the sayings of our forefathers "A government big enough...", "When the people fear their government..." Look them up, they aren’t hard to find. They were warnings to the people of America that were and remain prophetic.

We don't want a nation where government workers outnumber private sector workers who make more money (off our backs) than the private sector employees (through free enterprise). We don't want a world where fake overprinted fiat dollars draws down the value of everything, where we are working three quarters of the year just to meet the hunger of BIG government while leaving our families wanting because of the pittance we are allowed to keep. We don't want, as Evan Thomas so proudly proclaimed, to all be socialists now, led by a sort of a god!

We are reasoned and reasonable middle class people who see our class, through the likes of Goldman Sachs (because of naked short selling, M2M, CDO’s, CDS’s and the removal of the uptick rule) who will literally steal $18 Trillion dollars worth of this nation’s personal wealth - the people’s wealth. Wealth we worked very hard to gain. We want to be responsible for our own families first, then reach out to others second, as it should be.

Our goal is not to feed the ever-hungry government who now has its eye on our personal healthcare and our retirement funds.

We will stand against a government who will take everything for the elite on Wall Street and the Soros’ of the world, who will allow "too big to fail" companies to make use of our future dollars to turn the biggest profit ever in a single quarter (immediately following the bailouts) and who now turn their greed on the likes of Greece as they short everything to steal what is left there. We didn’t create this mess. They did. Let them dig us out.

We aren't sheep. We aren't stupid. We aren't crazy. We simply see too many similarities to other points in history and we simply refuse to go there. We are making our voices heard. We are successful through peaceful means, as exampled in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts elections. There are more of those to come, Mr. Rich. Mark my words.

I was one of the tea party people to meet with Michael Steele. I will gladly meet with Tim Kaine. We don't believe in “no government” as you accuse, we understand the need for politics. We simply believe in balance, the rule of law, our constitution and personal responsibility.

In this country the elected are servants of the people. We are a REPUBLIC. We have successfully held off the healthcare disaster to date, Cap and Trade and many more. We will continue to do so because between those two bills and the bailouts, we are looking at nearly 30% of the GDP. A country like ours cannot sustain itself on that level of the GDP being government owned. We know that. The question remains,” Why don't you?”

We aren't the Stack’s of the world, but we are a force to be reckoned with. You can’t control us, no one does. We are independent minded successful people who have made it this far without government involvement and we plan to keep it that way. We are moms, dads, company owners, kids and grandparents who believe vociferously in the American Dream. We will not allow any bully pulpit, any president or one party rule situation take that away from our kids. They deserve the very same opportunities we had. No less.

So please. Learn from where you speak. Look at your man’s polls. We are the great people of this nation and no single man, president or not will take us down.

We are the people.
We have our rights god-given, not man given, therefore they can not be taken away.
We won’t allow that to happen.
Just watch us November 2, 2010 and again in 2012.
We, the giant are now awake and we are watching every single move this government is making. We do surround you, in size, in votes, in numbers.
We don’t need violence or crazy misled acts. We can do this all on our own, one vote at a time.

Fear THAT!

Meeting with Michael Steele and the Tea Party Groups

2010-02-20T17:55:00.004-05:00

As many of you know, Cheryl, Terri and I went to the grassroots private meeting with Michael Steele last evening. We understand there is some controversy within the various conservative groups surrounding this meeting. Some are saying we shouldn’t be taking a seat before what could be considered a “part of the problem”. We felt strongly that without having a face to face with party leaders we would be effectively shutting down the most important part of the process: that of allowing our group’s voice to be heard to the powers that be.

Over the course of the next few days, we will be explaining what happened here in detail, but first we wanted to give an overview of the takeaways from this meeting and address the concerns and the news.

We believe that to be effective leaders for the group, one of our main responsibilities is to take advantage of any opportunity to be heard by the leaders of every political avenue available. We believe that to be fully aware of someone’s intentions, it is the best and fastest to simply ask them.

We were very direct as a group last night to ask the RNC Party Chairman if his intentions were to co-opt the various groups and if the GOP’s intention was to fold on Healthcare Reform. We were very pleased by his answers on these questions and many others.

Overall, this was a fantastic meeting. Not only because of what Michael Steele said to us, but more than that, how much he listened to what we had to say. I mean really listened. We were slated to be there for one hour, we were in that meeting for going on 3.5 hours. That was quite a telling statement to us. The RNC is getting that it is high time they sat and listened, took it on the chin and heard what the groups that were represented wanted from our various leaders. It is important to note – we were not there representing the “movement”, we were there representing our group.

Mr. Steele made three key points to us:

Maintain the energy in our groups, amp it up even. We are having an earth shattering effect on Washington in general and the DNC/Progressives and their state-run media in particular. In fact, he stated it was nothing short of the effect that the founders had in the first revolution.
Made the very strongly stated point that we are the answer to this country’s problems, not those in various offices or in party leadership. The RNC is looking to us for their marching orders, not the other way around. We are shattering the standards, we are the voters, but we are acting in a way that old established Washington has no idea how to handle, understands it is way bigger then they, and has a sense of fear they will lose this particular war. They don’t know how to poll it, play it, combat it, and they don’t know what to do with it. The old standards aren’t working anymore and we need to keep that up. We learned that Michael Steele originated from DC and is a grassroots based individual whose goal is to shake up party establishment and return to a bottom up organization.
Get out the vote and run them if you’ve got them.

He also taught us the roles of the parties versus the roles of the GOP, the DNC, the candidates, the elected, and the people. It was very interesting and will be the next topic we go over on Friday. This is something we did not understand and we don’t believe many people do understand.

We made many points to him, which we will go over in detail in the coming days. The main ones were:

We do not desire to be co-opted. He answered very clearly that is not a threat at all. What we are hearing is spin and word twisting from left based media and the democrats, not the RNC.
We do not feel he is stating his message clearly at all. He is confusing the issues by what he says versus what he states he feels personally, namely that he is one of us and not of “old party” which makes him the odd man out in Washington. I responded directly to that statement, then rid yourself of the “politi-speak” and make your messages very clear, direct, exact, because we aren’t getting your message.
Part two of that same question was that the ground game for conservatives is not there. We don’t hear the message as conservatives and if we aren’t hearing it, many voters not yet immersed in the movement aren’t hearing it or seeing it. He stated that this will change within the next few weeks. There is an entire bottom up program being finalized now that the RNC will run with to provide us with avenues to utilize.
We stated we are VERY concerned about the Blair House meeting and we want a definitive answer on what their response will be. They aren’t strategizing and we require a strategy. He wrote that down and stated he would talk to minority leaders to encourage them to consider their alternatives and game plans.
We don’t want “the party of no” label. We want “the party of HELL NO!” label.
We voiced quite a few concerns about local issues, and he directed us to involvement with our local RNC and our voice there. Additionally he was very encouraging about the precinct involvement and explained where his duties lie in the scheme of things.
In addition there were many interesting points made, things we didn’t understand but better understand now. Those we will save for different editions.

What Mr. Steele meant by “Republican’s aren’t ready to win” among other key questions we have had were explained in depth and made great sense, however he did agree that he is not being clear enough.

The key issue I raised was grassroots doesn’t speak politispeak, he needs to be very clear when he makes these statements and he agreed that he was not clarifying his thoughts enough. This is going to hopefully be the beginning of an ongoing dialogue. We are very encouraged and excited by the outcomes last night.

The RNC from Mr. Steele’s perspective is that they don’t want to co-opt us. They are willing to do what we need them to do within the perimeters of their role in politics and the political process. They hear us, and they do fear us.

When we ended our after meeting dinner meeting the group leaders agreed that our motto is “Independent but Together”.

Next edition will cover the role of the NC’s in politics. What we can expect from them as the election moves forward and what is not within their charter to do.

Creeping Gradualism

2010-02-11T13:04:00.028-05:00

I am so shocked by the following series of articles, yet I have heard barely a ripple of conversation, news reports or pundit discussion concerning its content.

It feels very much like a deep black hole in the information age.

The below articles provides the missing pieces to a very complex puzzle that causes one pause.

Presidential Assassinations of U.S. Citizens
Last week, Glen Greenwald of Salon.com wrote about a shocking revelation buried in a Washington Post article by Dana Priest which described how the Obama administration has adopted the Bush policy of targeting selected American citizens for assassination if they are deemed by the President to be "terrorists". As The Washington Times' Eli Lake reports, Adm. Dennis Blair was asked about this program at a Congressional hearing Tuesday and he acknowledged its existence:

The U.S. intelligence community policy on killing American citizens who have joined al Qaeda requires first obtaining high-level government approval, a senior official disclosed to Congress on Wednesday.

Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair said in each case a decision to use lethal force against a U.S. citizen must get special permission. . . .He also said there are criteria that must be met to authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen that include "whether that American is involved in a group that is trying to attack us, whether that American is a threat to other Americans. Those are the factors involved."

Where have we heard words like those before?

It is quite a dangerous situation the American people find themselves in, although as a whole, we just don’t know it yet. I am going to do my best attempt to explain why.

It's bringing the frog to a slow boil.

In 1930’s Austria they called it "Creeping Gradualism".

We used to be against tyranny in this country. We fought and won World Wars against it. We fought and won the Revolutionary War for the same reason.

We are a nation completely blind to what is to become of us, what danger awaits us, but I believe that before we know it we are all in danger of being deemed "a threat to other Americans" simply because we don't like the loss of our freedoms and we are organizing to push against this monolithic governmental empire they are creating.

Flashback: We were already identified as potential terrorists in the DHS directive last April. The (U//FOUO) Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment document clearly states " the threat posed by lone wolves and small terrorist cells is more pronounced than in past years. In addition, the historical election of an African American president and the prospect of policy changes are proving to be a driving force for rightwing extremist recruitment and radicalization."

My concerns run deep on this issue and although it has constantly nagged me for nearly a year, I just couldn’t put my finger on what was bothering me so deeply - besides the obvious, of course. I knew something was drastically wrong, but I didn’t have all the pieces.

Adding the revelation of presidential directive to the puzzle last week and this newest article today, “Obama Admin wants to track cellphones; 'Americans enjoy NO reasonable expectation of privacy', I feel a chill so deep that no Florida sun can penetrate. All the pieces have tumbled into place in my mind.

This President will try Abdulmutallab the pantibomber, KSM of USS Cole fame (whose tribunal he stopped after his admission of guilt at the military trial), and Hasan the infamous soldier slayer in US Civilian Courts.

Obama via Holder will afford them constitutional protection. He has mirandized them. They have just finished trying Pakistani Scientist Aafia Siddiqui and found her guilty of two counts of attempted murder of US Soldiers in Civilian Criminal Courts - yet he ORDERS assassinations on US Citizens without benefit of trial?

At least Bush was consistent in his directive (if that can be considered a plus at all) - but this president acts without the equality of the thing and orders the murder of Americans at the same time he fiercely protects terrorists. Not only that, but he calls it racism to do otherwise.

Do we at all understand what this means to those of us born and raised in America? To the everyday natural citizens of these United States?

Do we know what criteria they are using to determine these American citizens are "terrorists"?

Is it just the newly granted citizens, those who are now known to be terrorists but who somehow made it through citizenship without detection - or is it something far more insidious, something that we only got a whiff of in last April’s DHS missive?

What are the criteria Mr. President? List it out for us, please.

Inquiring minds want to know.

Is it simply okay to give admitted terrorists access to our Constitutional Rights, yet not afford our own citizens those same rights?

Apparently that is our brave new world of hope and change.

The Freedom Stealing Trifecta and One Party Rule

4 Patriot Act
4 Executive Decisions/Directives
4 Congressional Pseudo-Wars

The Patriot Act has effectively suspended the Writ of Habeus Corpus for American Citizens.

It allows them to search us at will and detain us indefinitely under "suspicion".

It affords us NO access to speedy trials or even an attorney on the "assumption" that we are a threat.

Apparently it also allows them to assassinate us.

Yet they afford admitted terrorists fair trials with our tax dollars even when they are caught trying to set off a bomb in their panties on a planeload of Christmas Vacationers! SCOTUS stripped us of our right to have an attorney present in May of last year, but this apparently doesn’t apply to terrorists.

The entire purpose of habeas is to say, “Look at me! I’m being detained/abused/disenfranchised contrary to law”. If there’s no writ available, the result is that the government can hold you “against the law”. Since the writ encompasses the full scope of our Constitutional rights, it’s a logical conclusion is to say that while it’s suspended, Americans currently have NO exercisable constitutional rights.

My heart is heavy and my mind is boggled by this as I witness and hear of case after case against our Constitutional and God given rights. Fathers denied their children, children on no fly lists who cannot find recourse to be removed, citizens who are subjected to unlawful search and seizures, and the list goes on and on.

Effectively, they are saying they have all power to do all things because Congress has given the powers of Military License and Force to "protect" citizens, while in reality they take away ALL our liberties in the Patriot Act.

The President, by saying “I can kill you at will because I am the President of the United States and I believe you to be a "terrorist" threat.”, literally means you have a "free for all" from the government’s perspective.

The door has slammed shut on your freedoms.

Creeping gradualism is no longer creeping, my friends, the serfdom has arrived.

What is considered our most basic liberty, our writ of habeas corpus, was finally and completely removed between the trifecta of the AUMF of 2001, the Executive Directive of assassination, and The Patriot Act. All of this because of the very terrorists we are mirandizing right now.

We The People vs The Machine

The Constitution of the United States very clearly states:

1) Congress has the power to declare war.

2) Constitutional provisions cannot be altered by statute.

Based on those 2 points, it is interesting to note that Congress has not actually declared war since Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania on June 5, 1942. They have however, declared many Military Engagements and AUMF's (Authorizations of Use of Military Force) as the functional equivalent of a declaration of war.

In Point 2, nothing in the Constitution can be reasonably construed to allow Congress to reallocate powers to themselves in a more palatable or politically expedient manner. Yet that is precisely the effect the War Powers Resolution, by which "AUMFs" are passed, has done.

It has given them all encompassing political power.

In a time such as this with One Party Rule, this use becomes especially apparent as it did in the late 70’s, the early 90’s, the early to mid 00’s and now again this past year. The problem is that without the checks and balances, soon you become a single party system as seen in the 30’s and 40’s Austria, Germany, China, and are witnessing in Venezuela today through Chavez and his "istas".

Additionally, that is exactly how those currently in Congress intend to continue to use it to order to remain in power with the recent (Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey and the rise of the TEA Party) threats to their One Party Rule status. See Will Obama Play the War Card?

The War Powers Resolution limits Presidential authority in the use of force without an official resolution or declaration of war by Congress.

The controversial question then becomes, "Where the provisions therein are consistent with the Constitution". According to Wikipedia, in an argument for the unconstitutionality of the War Powers Resolution by Philip Bobbitt, it states that

"The power to make war is not an enumerated power" and the notion that to declare" war is to "commence" war is a "contemporary textual preconception". The Framers of the Constitution believed that statutory authorization was the route by which the United States would be committed to war, and that 'declaration' was meant for only total wars, as shown by the history of the Quasi-War with France (1798–1800); in general, constitutional powers are not so much separated as "linked and sequenced"; Congress's control over the armed forces is "structured" by propriation, while the president commands; thus the act of declaring war should not be fetishized."
Bobbitt also argues that "A democracy cannot ... tolerate secret policies" because they undermine the legitimacy of governmental action.”

Based on the in depth analysis of this explanation, the Constitution authorizes Congress to declare war, but it does not authorize Congress to declare Military Force, License or pseudo-wars whether or not they are politically expedient. The “preconception” is actually a misconception and a severe one at that.

3) In light of points 1 and 2, regardless of what Congress may have done, purposed or purports to do in the way of authorizing force, the AUMF is constitutionally a “brick short” of a war declaration.

This leaves the question of whether we have a need to consider or obey the war-time powers of the President - as they have not actually been constitutionally activated.

Logic dictates that the Executive Decision of the President to Assassinate US Citizens is then simply a legal loophole to authorize sending out “hit men” on American Citizens because he (or any of the organizations that he may empower) arbitrarily deem them to be terrorists.

In light of the DHS directive, secret watch lists and any number of things the American public cannot possibly know about, this indeed is a very dangerous position to find ourselves in as average Americans.

4) The Due Process clause of the 5th Amendment states quite clearly that government shall not deprive any person of life without due process of law.

A secret, unilateral, unreviewable determination that an individual is a “terrorist” by the President doesn't in any way, shape or form constitute "due process".

The Door Slamming Shut

The problem we face with this directive doesn't lie with shooting an enemy combatant who is shooting at us, regardless of whether that person is a US Citizen, nor does it include fighting true terrorists. It certainly doesn't concern capturing them, imprisoning them, interrogating them, or killing them before they kill us as those are all "normal" war time activities.

No, the problem lies with effectively calling out a "hit" on an American Citizen whom they arbitrarily determine is a risk, without due process, without a jury of our peers, without known proof or warning, while at the same time securing those same constitutional rights to known enemy combatants and war criminals they have just denied the newly declared American citizen “terrorist”.

Here are two very specific stances of our most recent President's:

1) Targeting specific individual citizens whom they believe have ill intent and ordering them shot on sight, presumably “in other countries”, although Blair didn’t actually use those parameters in his description of the directive.

2) The fact is that they view the world as their battlefield in this AUMF, including hits on citizens of the US, sending drones, secret or pseudo secret actions in Yemen, Pakistan and any other country they damn well please, without concern to collateral damage or definitive proof.

There is war, then there is just playing dirty. I understand that sometimes during war, playing dirty is collateral - it's called strategy - but this is beyond that. This is simply playing dirty most of the time, more so on American Citizens than on the actual enemy. An enemy who consistently breaks the rules of engagement no less: who has no uniforms, no marching orders, just murderous intent regardless of the collateral damage it may cause. In fact, they delight in murdering innocent citizens on their way to work or home for the holidays.

In reality, what highlights an American Citizen as a "terrorist"? Do we know?

We have no idea their criteria, but we have hints to what it might be that constitutes a "terrorist".

4 We have the Terrorist Watch list. Many of us left-titled "right wing extremists" (who are actually just natural and patriotic citizens) are probably teetering on the brink of being on that one because this president doesn't like dissent for his policies. In fact the DHS report says as much.

We may very well reside there simply because we are either Veterans, don't believe in abortion, do believe in the Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms, or we “cling” to our bibles. What of those who act as recruiters to community organizing conservatives, are bloggers, tea partiers, or any other ludicrous thing they can think of to include to marginalize and attack us?

4 We have the "No Fly List" (which houses untold natural US citizens), and

4 We have recent “questionable” citizenships they examine – unless, of course, they are Muslim – for that would be racist profiling.

4 Furthermore we have no access to any of the above lists, nor do we know if we, as an individual sit on either of the first two “lists”, and if we do, why we are there. We apparently can't find recourse to be removed from said list as recent revelations by those who find themselves on said list can attest.

This leads to the very real conclusion that anyone on a no fly list, a government deemed “right wing extremist” or virtually anyone the government targets could realistically be shot on sight or meet some other fatal event, even though he may have no prior knowledge of being on some list somewhere. The question that follows this conclusion then is: would that include his or her traveling companions as well? What if there are children around this big bad townhall attendee, veteran or tea partier?

Who’s to say since the world is the administrations battlefield, that regular people couldn’t meet with some “unfortunate accident” in their own backyard or driving to work one day? Who’s to say it couldn’t be one of us? Will we be shocked then?

The meaning of this executive directive is simply too broad, too secret, too arbitrary and far too outside the confines of the Constitutional boundaries under which our leaders rule. When considering we have 8 year olds who have been battling to be removed from the no fly list for 3 years, who are surely no danger to the US, it is highly likely there are other innocents who have been deemed dangerous to the US. I can easily extrapolate that list could include those of us who disagree with this president’s policies, whom he has already called out as “extremists”, and of which the DHS has further extrapolated the term to mean “terrorists” - or at the very least “terrorists in the making”.

The fact is that individual citizens have no chance to defend themselves against such a charge and it is a charge unbeknownst to them in most cases. They are a target and the President can simply say “just take them out”. That quickly. POOF! You are no more.

Combine those facts with the newly revealed adjacent "policy" that tells us the government has purposely allowed known terrorists into the US for Surveillance purposes. A policy which obviously has the potential to foment war upon the citizens of these United States, since such a one could escape surveillance easily enough in order to do the dirty deed they came here to do.

For good measure add in the loss of our economic freedoms that has been proven to have been brought upon us through a combination of congress, President’s (CFR and redistribution initiatives), cabinet appointees (deregulation of SEC trading rules), and the purposeful, proven “negligence” of the Federal Reserve. It becomes clear that we now have quite a dangerous stew of policies going on in this country today. Policies that should deeply disturb all of us.

We can’t fight it, we don't know exactly what it is. Even if we did, they won’t listen because it contains their belief in superiority, their political expediency to remain in control, and entitled elitism. Nor do we have the funds left to flee or to protect ourselves against it, which is exactly the definition of our "economic freedoms".

They are playing quite dangerously with the rights afforded us by our constitution: our safety, security, privacy, redress, petition, protest, due process, economic freedom, and our personhood rights - those of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They are manipulating with their pseudo-war time activities. They are playing in such a way as to endanger ALL US Citizens, not just those deemed “bad seed” - and they dare say we the people are the threat to this country?

Are we a threat to their policies through peaceful resistance? I certainly hope we are.

Are we a threat to their plans to stay in power through the web of campaign contributions, States of Emergencies and further pseudo-war actions they themselves have built? We had better be.

Are we a threat to their ever increasing credit lines and their license to makes us all serfs?

If we aren’t, we might as well hand over our property and simply lie down in the coffin now, for we can all be labeled “terrorist serfs” now.

Additional Recommended Reading: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer. A study of the takeover of a people by Nazi Germany.

I'm Tired

2010-02-04T22:57:00.007-05:00

Every single day... My job is to aggregate the news, for about 300,000 readers every day of the week.

It’s like watching a slow motion train wreck on the Obama Team to switching the channel to the three stooges on the Republican side.

Will they ever learn that we get it?

We get their lies and their half truths.

We know they are wagging the dog.

We see right through them.

I don’t think so. But does that really matter in the grand scheme of things?

Sarkozy’s turning right when we turn left. Russia’s fighting Putin’s last gasp for power, while Britain is sticking their finger up their nose, and the terrorists are keeping us in chains.

Enough.

Obama, either lead or get off the freaking pot.

Prime Minister Brown, you suck.

China, take your dreams of world domination, AND your money and go home.

I’m tired. I’m tired of the political posturing and the BS.

We all know that freedom reigns. So either you get it or you don’t, but leave us alone.

We don’t want your Sharia laws. We are more than you. You can’t win.

We don’t want your socialism. We are more than you. You can’t win.

We can fix the economy, if you will get out of our way.

We can fix the country when you get out of our way.

We don’t want your affirmative action.

We want to be citizens of the UNITED STATES. United. Not hearing that we are haters because we don’t want government run healthcare or the third freaking debt ceiling increase in as many months.

We are Americans.

We know how to industrialize.

We know how to capitalize and we know how to freaking grow the GDP.

So move on with your rhetoric, because WE ARE DONE.

You suck.

We don’t.

We are free people.

You can’t take that away. We won’t let you.

Go back and run for mayor of Chicago, BO, with your “retarded” totally non-PC buddy, faux Chief of Staff Rahmbo, you freaking bow-crazy, big-eared dumbo. It is the job you should’ve gotten. Not freaking Annihilator in Chief.

America is done.

We will not serve you, regardless of whether the loonies from bollywood do.
We will not serve you. Regardless of the amount of groveling you do.
We will not serve you.
We will not work for you to take our money and redistribute it to the world.
We will not serve you.
Need more be said?

America's Mop Up of the Underwear Bomber and the Ensuing Presidential Disaster

2010-01-08T09:25:00.060-05:00

Mr. president? You are Fired!

I am going to start with this report:

Obama Report: We Knew Extremist Was On Detroit Flight “Administration officials initially had tried to downplay the incident. But in the past week, a litany of errors emerged that enabled a 23-year-old Nigerian with known terrorist inclinations, who paid for his ticket with cash and checked no luggage on an international flight, and who had an explosive device hidden in his underwear…..There is no indication, however, that U.S. officials attempted to alert the crew of Flight 253 that a potential security risk was abroad the aircraft.” [italics mine]

Well heck, if we didn’t have so many of our highly trained CIA agents stationed in the Arctic watching the Polar Ice Caps melt while we working citizens were being cataloged on the DHS Watch List for disagreeing that this president has ANY business being in office AT ALL, perhaps we could have had our sh!# together enough to catch him. He didn’t have a passport either by the way, Man aided terror suspect onto plane without passport. And BO’S POLLS AREN’T BEING AFFECTED? Really?

And these related: De Borchgrave: Obama's Weak Response to Airliner Attack Increases Threat to U.S. and
Administration Knew of Tactic Used in Airliner Attack Since October

FLASHBACK: For Immediate Release May 21, 2009 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON NATIONAL SECURITY “…my single most important responsibility as President is to keep the American people safe. It's the first thing that I think about when I wake up in the morning. It's the last thing that I think about when I go to sleep at night.
And this responsibility is only magnified in an era when an extremist ideology threatens our people, and technology gives a handful of terrorists the potential to do us great harm. We are less than eight years removed from the deadliest attack on American soil in our history. We know that al Qaeda is actively planning to attack us again. We know that this threat will be with us for a long time, and that we must use all elements of our power to defeat it.
Already, we've taken several steps to achieve that goal. For the first time since 2002 (blame Bush), we're providing the necessary resources and strategic direction to take the fight to the extremists who attacked us on 9/11 in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We're investing in the 21st century military and intelligence capabilities that will allow us to stay one step ahead of a nimble enemy. We have re-energized a global non-proliferation regime to deny the world's most dangerous people access to the world's deadliest weapons (really, is that what you call this?). And we've launched an effort to secure all loose nuclear materials within four years. We're better protecting our border, and increasing our preparedness for any future attack or natural disaster. We're building new partnerships around the world to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda and its affiliates. And we have renewed American diplomacy so that we once again have the strength and standing to truly lead the world.”

Oh, ok. Umm...I have a few questions Mr. Present ...er...a...Mr. president,

Is that why you sent our CIA to watch polar ice melt because you were up day and night worried about our safety? CIA Resources Diverted to Climate Change

Is that why you took 3 days to address the nation, An Absentee and Complacent President but you stopped your golf game right away for your friend’s hurt child? Terrible thing to have happen, a hurt child, but it’s not 300 people who are all probably suffering PSTD over what might have been their last Christmas Day on this earth!

Is that why you aren’t demanding resignations yet because you are so concerned about our safety?

Here, let me help you. I’ll start the list and list the reasons for you…

Hillary Clinton – Besides the fact that Hillary Clinton's Agency Issued the Terrorist's Visa, she decides she wants to take more of our safety, not to mention our Constitutional Rights away by committing her intention to sign the UN Small Arms Treaty. Hillary Clinton Commits To UN Small Arms Treaty. She just needs to go. She doesn't do anything unless somebody asks her about her husband, only then do you see some emotion! Never though, I repeat NEVER does she show any strength when it comes to AMERICA'S safety! Rather, she runs around with Overcharge buttons!

Janet “The System Worked” Napolitano with her “what she says” BS….Napolitano: No indication of larger terror plot (which means our beliefs at this point in time must be exactly the opposite)! Especially considering this little gem ….Warning on Detroit suspect didn't rise above the 'noise' OH! And this, Homeland Security’s National Operations Center ‘Unable’ to Do Its Job, Inspector General Finds, who couldn’t manage to implement National Security (Secretary Napolitano Delays Implementation of Crucial National Security Law). Then this lovely statement, as if she finally figured out we aren’t all as stupid as she looks Napolitano Now Says Airline Security System Failed.

Souther’s - before he ever gets back in front of the Senate, simply because he is not ethical TSA Nominee Misled Congress; White House Defends: and he wants to unionize the biggest cluster#^@% ever to be formed (Caught: TSA pick boasts of 'joining' security with unions) which most of those genius’s in Congress wrote and approved.

Whoever is in charge of TSA currently – “Arrest em” Hawley (Traveller detained by TSA for calling head of TSA an idiot) or whoever is in acting head of that disaster continuing to happen (Attacks on screeners could endanger passengers, TSA workers say). Oh and by the way, while you are firing what's his name, don’t blame DeMint on your own failures as a president with-a-little-p because we know You Waited 8 Months To Appoint a New TSA Head. You weren't in too much of a hurry to do your duty…must not have had too many sleepless nights....

Eric Holder, because he is one of the biggest detriments (White House: Justice Dept. made decision to hold Detroit bomber in civilian justice system) to your performance as Trainee in Chief with his hell bent "read ‘em their Miranda rights" dictates. So much so that NYC Mayor Bloomberg Has to Say Security for KSM Terror Trial to Cost $216 Million of which charges I’m pretty sure will mean that besides completely offending the majority of Americans also will be deducted directly out of our paychecks. You remember we the people? The taxpaying citizenry, whom as you say, it is your most important job to protect, right? Meanwhile he tops that little gem off (by your direction) by ordering the arrest Navy Seals, Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted ...! Those guys are over there, WILLING TO DIE IN THEIR DUTY TO PROTECT US, and you are REALLY going to try them for slapping an enemy combatant? Really? And you dare call yourself presidential? Can I just say SIR, The Judiciary is No Place to Make National Security Decisions! Fire him! Otherwise we wonder exactly what you are trying to say here with this absolute nonsense of trying terrorists in American courts... I don’t know - are you trying to say that you are Muslims and you don’t want to sign the death decree should they be sentenced in war court because that will go against the Koran, perhaps? You can be like Herrod in the civilian courts, wash your hands of it, don't have to sign the decree...hmmm. I wonder...

Jim “shock a day” Jones – your National Security Advisor! Don’t “tweak” terrorism, confront it! What an obvious CYA yesterday's press conference was! Makes me sick!

Michael “gee, I think I’ll take a ski trip” Leiter, the director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center Who knew what under investigation, and his boss, John "It was my fault" Brennan - Man in Charge of Analyzing Terror-Threat Info Did Not Interrupt Ski Vacation After Attempted Airplane Bombing, Report Says

And Finally, YOU SIR! Mr. Barack Hussein Obama! You are A Constitutional National Security Crisis of Your Own Creation . You should resign effective immediately. As sad as it is, we would be safer with that Gaffmaestro you named as your Second-in-Command and whom you obviously now so despise. Your Knee Jerk reactions and your lies, dodging and weaving has left us wanting. EDITORIAL: Obama denies crotch bomber conspiracy. Oh, but there's many more reasons than that, here's just a few of the cream of the crop:

You opened up Gitmo. Freed Guantánamo inmates are heading for Yemen to join al-Qaeda fight...

The guys you released to Yemen are coming back to haunt us. Was the Fruit of the Loon Bomber Trained by Gitmo Honor Graduate? You can't tell us that you didn't know prior that the Yemen minister said "We have 300 al Qaeda militants planning attacks"... because if you do, then you weren't DOING YOUR JOB and that's still grounds for your resignation! Al Qaeda Leaders in Yemen Released by U.S. from Guantanamo 2 of the 4 released, SIR?

And what about those guys in Bermuda? Where are they and what are they planning? Or the 8 Uighers? Hmmm? Many Ex-Detainees Return to Terror, Pentagon Says . Exactly how many is “many” SIR? Pentagon: One in five return to fight after leaving Gitmo Are you SURE about that? Are you absolutely POSITIVE that ART THERAPY works for the other 4?

You gave Hamas (Obama Decrees: Massive Immigration of Hamas Refugees from Gaza ...) and Yemeni’s repatriation (State Department Using 'Diversity Visas' to Encourage Immigration to U.S. from Terror-Ridden Yemen) to America, to be citizens of this country, living among us and your total aid to the Hamas now is nearly YET ANOTHER TRILLION of our “redistributed dollars”! US Gaza Aid To Top $900M: says US Official.

You, SIR! I believe you WANT to see regular hard working Americans either dead or broke, whichever comes first. YOU care NOTHING for the hard working American Citizen’s of these United States. Nothing! You care only for your elite status, your big parties, celebrities fawning all over you, Soros's attention, flitting around everywhere as you please, in our jet, on our dime no less, BOWING to the head’s of state wherever you go! You care about NOTHING else except fundementally "changing" America into a third world, Sharia Lawed Socialist State. There is no OTHER REASONABLE EXPLANATION FOR YOUR ACTIONS! Are The Elite Inviting a Terror Attack in America in Order to Have A Crisis to Exploit? We wonder SIR, I guarantee you that!

You transfer highly trained individuals from CIA to the other farce brought upon the American people, Global Warming? CIA Resources Diverted to Climate Change, like what are they gonna do, jujitsu to hold the ice caps back? The American people paid for their training so that we could be safe, so that they could gather evidence and thwart any attacks on our soil. And you DARE to send them off to war on Global WARMING? We are at WAR FOR OUR VERY EXSISTENCE!

You open up State secrets (Obama Curbs Secrecy of Classified Documents - NYTimes.com), war prisoner secrets, Obama's State Secrets Overreach, thereby removing the ONLY veils of protection we have from these horrible, hateful jihadists while you abuse, belittle and terrorize your own citizens, Our Incompetent Civilization? BTW - That isn’t a hate crime to say that. What they try to do to us because we don’t believe the way they do, now THAT is a HATE CRIME! To Hell with Political Correctness!

You spend a year going after law abiding American Citizens (Statement By Deputy Press Secretary Matt Chandler On DHS' Efforts To Enhance Driver's License Security) and Veterans, New DHS Domestic Terrorism Report Targets Millions of Americans, offering so lovingly to put WH cookies on our boxes when we visit your webpage 'Cookie' Anyone?: White House May Track Visitors to ... or your facebook, while you call us and the Veterans DOMESTIC TERRORISTS because we *gasp* disagree with your freaking politics (for obviously pretty damn good reasons)! Then, when you aren’t busy building enemies lists or attacking a right leaning commentator or Fox news (Lamar Alexander to Barack Obama: No 'enemies list') -of which I am pretty sure I already belong, you are either out of the country, golfing or on another FREAKING vacation! Whatever it is you are doing, it is anything BUT addressing the grave attacks in a timely and presidential manner and doing your main job, to protect the American Citizens from attack. No, instead you open up State secrets and open the door wide to our enemies, take over our freedom, rahm through Healthcare reform, bail out bankers, steal car dealerships from entreprenuers, and steal our and our children's childrens money! You lie, you steal, you cheat and you have some really truly sick friends. You know that the Terrorism Threat Demands Smarter Security , Not More Money yet you do nothing about that at all.

You are freaking calling us racists at every turn (google it yourself, it’ll give you something to do besides pretend to protect Americans) or you have your Obamabot media tingle seekers do it for you rather than hunt down and kill people who would kill us! 'More Than One-third of All Terrorist Plots Since 9/11 Transpired in 2009' News flash SIR, your pigmentation is not my concern. My constitutional rights, my freedom, my liberty, my safety and that of my children, my healthcare choice, and my hard-earned paychecks, THOSE are my concerns. You want it all and yet all is not enough for you. So I don’t like you. Not one bit. Call me whatever you will, but know that I know the truth. Sticks and stones buddy. Where your problem is so ideologically, spiritually and realistically truly screwed up you may never find NORMAL…a NAMBLA fan for safe school czar? Really.

You leave our soldiers and our CIA operatives open to attack in Afghanistan and 7 die, in large part because you dithered (Obama's Afghanistan policy isn't 'dithering.' It's 'reckless ...). 7 whose knowledge and wherewithal we will never get back.

It took so long for you to put troops in there that the only thing you succeeded in doing was further endangering our troops (US casualties 'will rise to 500 a month')! Meanwhile the enemy was plugging away at recruiting and training for going on 200 days! When Obama is faced with a problem, what does he do? Review and NATO intelligence chief issues scathing critique of military intelligence in Afghanistan and Obama Will Spend More on Welfare in the Next Year Than Bush Spent on Entire Iraq War, Study Reveals

You use a guy who is known to have problems (Fort Hood shooter asked about 'killing Americans in 2008'), who was used on your terrorism task force, who later BLEW AWAY 13 grown up soldiers like sardines in a can along with one unborn child, What was the most covered-up story of 2009? and you didn’t even mention that issue first in the speech you gave while it was still happening until the very end! President Obama delivers remarks on Ft. Hood shooting at end of ...

Beside putting the CIA on the all important ice cap watch, you decided to cut NCTC funding NCTC Was Slated For Deep Budget Cuts, you bury it all under emergency healthcare reform and you think we don’t know that this is your MO, A 40-Year Wish List - WSJ.com? You are an insensitive and incompetent SCHMUCK! Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting NBC Chicago and you do not deserve to be our president. You have proven that time and time again!

It took you 3 days to address this nation on this latest attack while you were Dithering in Paradise

It was 4 days and the WH website still had no mention of the underpants bomber on your site!!! White House Web Site Does Not Address Failed Terror Attack

You say there was “No evidence of collusion with other individuals” NO EVIDENCE OF ACCOMPLICES..., until, of course, there was… FLASHBACK: Flight 253 passenger claimed Abdulmutallab accompanied by 'well dressed' man, helped him on plane without 'passport'... then you all lied about it....until you didn't anymore... Report of 2nd man cuffed from Flight 253 confirmed

You lie - White House accuses Downing Street of making 'a mistake' over intelligence claim about what Britain told you, MI5 told US about Detroit bomber's terror links 'a year ago', and then you don't even mention that in your report yesterday. Own up dude, Man UP!

YOU knew three days before and you gave NO WARNING or heightened security measures, EXCLUSIVE: Obama Got Pre-Christmas Intelligence Briefing About Terror Threats to "Homeland"

You STILL continue to make excuses for the haters, you tell us you are worried we will "profile" them, which by our very own justice dept is proven not true (The Myth of the Anti-Muslim Backlash), while Christians and Jews are put down at every turn Christian witnessing a no-no on campus. Did you know SIR that Hate Crimes last year were overwhelmingly for the Jewish people that you seem so much to put down? You cover for your cabinet members and for your failures.

You STILL apologize to them when you should be apologizing to US! U.S. Terrorism Czar: Christmas Day Plot 'Not Like 9/11' even after they accuse US and Mossad colluding to order the attack! Washington DC IMAM "Attempted Christmas Day Plane Bombing is the Work of The U.S. Government, and Mossad" Flashback: U.S.: Panel Cites Lack Of Imagination In Failure To Prevent 9/11 Attacks

You knew he was in the air and you didn’t CALL THE PILOT or at the very least have one of your lackluster appointees do it for you so you wouldn’t have to interrupt your VACATION (the 9th one in 11 months)? US learned intelligence on airline bomb suspect while he was en route

And I haven't even mentioned the disasters waiting to happen with the Missile Shield or Iran! Your policies are going to get us all killed!

You are one lucky man for whatever reason there Barry, who Has Had A Very Lucky Escape With the Detroit Bomber, but you know what? Your luck has run out. The majority of Americans would dance in the street if you resign. We don’t want you in the Oval Office anymore. We want a REAL President. America Waits For Leadership. We want you out of the office and back to your community service where you belong, with the groups who all just think you are as sick minded as they are. MEET THE EVIL ANTI-AMERICAN...ANTI-CONSTITUTION...THE SHADOW PARTY...! DEEP, DARK AND PERVASIVELY EVIL...! We want you to live forever with your failures. We don’t want terrorists or enemy combatants tried in OUR courts, Nigerian Indicted in Terrorist Plot unless their names are Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Timothy Geithner, James Jones, Michael Leiter, Ben Bernanke, Janet Napolitano and a whole bunch of bankers, congresspeople and senators.

We don’t want Gitmo closed, Mr. Obama, Those Are OUR Prisoners at Gitmo, Not Yours; Leave Them Where They Are.

We are DONE apologizing to people who hate us simply because we aren’t like them, Radicalization is alive and well in the U.S. we are non-muslims and for that they hate us so badly (Ex-CIA agent: Threat From Al Qaeda Greater Now Than on 9/11) that they would blow 300 people out of the air on Christmas day who are just trying to get to their homes to visit family, children, women, men, AMERICANS! What If the Bomb Had Gone Off?

What is wrong with you?! What PART of You is BROKEN? Why aren’t you OUTRAGED! Why the "review" instead of just the truth? Transparency indeed! You know the truth, you just can't HANDLE the TRUTH! Could this actually be the greatest and potentially the deadliest of your screw ups so far? You betcha! This is your nail buddy, the one that split wide open your little Alinsky-loving shriveled walnut of a soul. 'You Mr. Obama get an 'F' for protecting Americans'!

NO MORE! We've Got You Figured Out! You just want the news doled out piecemeal to us, find a way to say you did it better than Bush (The Politics of Incompetence) so we won’t freaking notice exactly how incompetent you are, or what bullshit you are cramming down our throats, but guess what SIR, for all your brains, you deeply underestimate the intelligence of the American people and our will to keep our borders safe and our country free.

Your job SIR is not to REVIEW, IT IS LIKE YOU SAID, FIRST AND FOREMOST PROTECT THE CITIZENS from our enemies! In other words, it is to know how to do it out the GATE! That little thing we like to call experience…. We want a Man in Charge, Dude. Don’t send your girlie men, your bullies, your joke of dog wagger or your new manly girls anymore because they provide No Comfort At All!

Go back to Chicago and run as Deputy Mayor with Rahmmy boy! Better yet, go back to Kenya and find a surrogate mom to re-read the constitution to you first thing every morning again because you obviously didn't understand it the first time around! Just get out of our WHITE HOUSE! We don't want a president who MAKES TOP 10 LIST OF CORRUPT POLITICIANS! FREAKING RESIGN ALREADY!!!!! Sort of a god, sir? More like shades of the devil himself. Resign!

Excuse Me While I Rant On Bernanke

2009-12-03T20:46:00.011-05:00

Fed Debates New Role: Bubble Fighter (WSJ) “Not so long ago, Federal Reserve officials were confident they knew what to do when they saw bubbles building in prices of stocks, houses or other assets: Nothing. Now, as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke faces a confirmation hearing Thursday on a second four-year term, he and others at the central bank are rethinking the hands-off approach they've followed over the past decade. On the heels of a burst housing-and-credit bubble, Mr. Bernanke now calls financial booms "perhaps the most difficult problem for monetary policy this decade."

Excuse me while I rant….

Um, dear, dear, dear Mr. Bernanke. Could it be that the deregulation of tried and true market methods like:

Removing naked short selling rules, to remove the necessity of covering your shorts - along with other important market regulations which YOU removed in 2004 and 2007, and which allowed bear raiding of perfectly good companies, as well as a risky derivatives markets
the Mark 2 Market accounting schemes,
the government and banking industry sanction for the creation of new and risky loans for homes, and the creation of “no matter your credit!” as well as “just state your income – no proof required!” rules
that were further complicated by new and risky derivatives that go BUST the minute something happens to even ONE of the units within the derivative (in this case ONE single mortgage housed inside a derivative comprised of 100 mortgages, goes belly up) which in turn causes said derivative to instantly become a junk bond due to those very same M2M accounting schemes,
along with the creation of insurance products (CDS's) that aren’t called insurance products for the express purpose of avoiding insurance regulation rules of those VERY SAME INSURANCE PRODUCTS (that aren’t really insurance) that could maybe….. possibly….. perchance… be the problem?

While we are at it, MR. Bernanke, why not mention the facts that soon after you accepted the position of Fed Chairman:

YOU stopped the rate increases that were designed to slow an expanding bubble.
You also well understand that the repeal of Glass-Steagall opened the door to the financial bubble. (After all, you are a “Depression expert”, are you not?)
That YOU know that the Commodity and Futures Modernization Act opened the door for commodity bubbles. AND THAT YOU DID NOTHING TO FIX ANY OF THOSE ISSUES, KNOWINGLY and COMPLICITLY?
And at the risk of being repetitive you certainly ought to know that forcing banks to make sub-prime loans is not healthy, for the bank or for the home-buyer.
If YOU are such an expert on the Depression, the mark-to-market rules have got to be ringing in your ears….as well as the dismantling of uptick rules, unless of course you are as adept at lying to yourself as you are to the American people, the president’s, the world and the Hill.
YOU knew banks were selling CDS derivatives with a vengeance. YOU are well aware of the whole mess and YOU did nothing…except of course help your buddies at Goldman get their money out of AIG.

In other words dear Mr. Banker Bernanke sir, couldn’t it be YOU, along with all your redistributive (from our pocket to their own), tax stealing, loss publicizing, gain privatizing buddies at all the chop shops on Wall Street (all of whom are right there alongside you) that are the major problem? YOU who STOLE so very many trillions out of the pockets of unsuspecting citizens in the largest “transfer of wealth” event in the history of transfers of wealth? Yep. You betcha!

Honestly Mr. Bernanke - Do you truly believe that we the people are so stupid that we don’t understand what is going on? That we aren’t already about 99.9% certain that it is YOU and YOUR BUDDIES Geithner and your best bud Larry Summers (whom you so adeptly quote today and who is so wrapped up in Citibank it isn’t even funny, as well as the mess at Harvard, the muni bonds and so much else) who orchestrated this whole mess to begin with?

As you blithely sit before the Senate Committee, while all of you in this administration hold our feet to the fire, may God judge you severely for your complicit greed and avarice.

While you are leaving WE THE PEOPLE afraid to make a move in our companies and in our personal lives for what is sure to be coming down the pike tomorrow, in the forms of new banking regulations that are so far reaching as to be nothing but money guzzling big government; not to mention all the other ways we face uncertainty in our businesses and our lives, i.e. new taxes, fees, healthcare insurance, cap and trade or the signing of the Copenhagen treaty (whichever comes first) that we are facing because of your collective efforts to steal our wealth, I simply cannot understand how you live with yourself. Do you honestly believe that we can just freely go ahead and participate in the free market at this time? While you boss is out there doing a “JOBS Summit” with EXACTLY TWO CEO’s in attendance? Really? Do you think we can recover this economy and recapture our wealth in an environment as obviously greedy as this one?

NO! We can’t Because YOU WON’T LET US!

Stop messing with the system so that your buddies at Goldman Sachs can manipulate the markets and all will soon return to normal! LEAVE US ALONE TO FIX IT! The people can fix themselves if you and all your cronies will get the heck out of the way!

You sir, need to go. Not only do you need to go out of office, you need to go to STRAIGHT TO JAIL! Shame on YOU!

Bunning agrees with me….Bunning Statement on Bernanke: ‘You Are the Definition of a Moral Hazard’ A MUST Read/MUST Disseminate Article “It’s highly unusual for us to find a lawmaker’s statement at a hearing to be particularly informative, even rarer for it to be entertaining. At Senate Banking Committee hearings, Sen. Jim Bunning has at times proved the exception on the latter. The Kentucky Republican has firmly staked out his spot on the field as the primary attack dog against the Federal Reserve, its leadership and much of how it operates.
We’ll leave you to grade his statement for content at today’s confirmation hearing for Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. But we’ll gladly give him an A for effort. He’s got zinger after zinger, a citation from prior hearings and even a reference to his baseball career (before he became a Hall of Famer). Some members of his party have tried to quietly nudge Sen. Bunning out of office — he won’t run for reelection next year — so this was his last opportunity to oppose a Fed chairman’s nomination. As a sort of parting gift to him, and to you, we offer his full statement from today’s hearing, as prepared for delivery. (Just remember that one of the leading candidates to replace him is Rand Paul, the son of Texas Republican Ron Paul, the House’s leading Fed hater.)”….

Text of the statements are included in this article.
Here is the opening salvo: “Four years ago when you came before the Senate for confirmation to be Chairman of the Federal Reserve, I was the only Senator to vote against you. In fact, I was the only Senator to even raise serious concerns about you. I opposed you because I knew you would continue the legacy of Alan Greenspan, and I was right. But I did not know how right I would be and could not begin to imagine how wrong you would be in the following four years.” It gets better from there! Read it, you will enjoy it!

SONG THAT SAYS EXACTLY THIS. Hat Tip Cheryl. It is perfect!

Everyone – CALL TODAY and SAY NO TO BERNANKE! 4 more years of him and we may as well throw in the towel.

Related - Exclusive: Republican To Place Additional Hold On Bernanke In Senate Banking Committee “As Ben Bernanke’s confirmation hearing begins in the Senate Banking Committee, a source tells FDL News that one Senate staffer and an outside source confirmed to him that at least one Republican on the committee will also place a hold on the Federal Reserve chairman, throwing the process into potential turmoil and giving Chris Dodd a difficult series of choices to make. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity because of his work behind the scenes on the Bernanke confirmation, told me that two separate sources assured him that the Republican hold would be made public after today’s hearing. One staffer said that two Republicans would place the hold, while the other said it would just be one. The source said that the trans-partisan nature of opposition to Bernanke, with a conservative Republican and a socialist independent uniting to block the appointment, shows the intensity of the feelings on the issue. “It’s great to see everyone come together – Democrats, Republicans, progressives and libertarians, against this Federal Reserve, which is not federal, and not a reserve, just a group printing money and giving it to their buddies,” the source said” Woo HOO!
Bernanke defends his Federal Reserve record Oh just gag me!

GRRRRR - Goldman Takes Offensive on Pay “Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs Group Inc.—known for its outsize profits and unapologetically handsome pay packages to go with them—has begun meeting with major investors in an effort to ward off an investor backlash over its record compensation pool. The private discussions are a first for Goldman, several shareholders said, as the Wall Street firm finds its self on the defensive over its pay, where employees are on track to earn an average of more than $700,000 apiece this year. The meetings are expected to last several more weeks and come as shareholders are filing proposals aimed at restricting pay ..."

To Hoffman or Not To Hoffman?

2009-10-29T16:54:00.009-04:00

NY’s 23rd District Candidate Doug Hoffman Gave an Excellent Interview Under a Very Tough Opening Question while the Tea Party Express Endorsed Hoffman Yesterday in spite of Gingrich’s Tough Talk.

Mr. Gingrich simply isn’t getting the message the Tea Partiers are trying so hard to send.

Conservatives don’t want “moderate Republicans”, we want conservative candidates. Whether that means we have to risk losing a few races now, or we actually succeed and win it, the effort will mean a win for conservatives, because before the GOP gets it, they must understand we mean business. We must get the message across that we will not be controlled by fear-mongering any longer.

In trying to insure we listen to him by calling it “a win for Pelosi” if we back Doug Hoffman for NY23, Gingrich is doing that very thing. He is creating fear to control the segment of the population he needs to control. It is wrong and it has to stop.

I’m sorry Mr. Gingrich, but you kicked that dog the moment you walked away from your Contract With America. We don’t believe you are THE conservative voice anymore. Once burnt, twice shy…all that.

You certainly are not the conservative voice at this moment Mr. Gingrich, right now you are simply toeing the party line and we all know it. You, Mr. Steele and the GOP really need to understand the party line no longer cuts it with us. The Sleeping Giant is AWAKE!

Right now Mr. Gingrich, Mr. Hoffman is the conservative voice and all of conservative America is climbing behind him because his is the first meaningful election since we gave our country away last year. You then essentially say that we have no business being involved in this race, and by saying that local elections shouldn’t be attended to by the general population, well, might I remind you that you are not a New Yorker living in Albany and yet you are supporting the liberal moderate RINO Scozzafava, as is the RNC who so relentlessly pursues our dollars….

When exactly are we supposed to be concerned with the Congresspersons being elected? Only when you or the GOP tells us to? Perhaps when the RNC takes our donations and floods the playing field for the moderate/liberal ‘conservative’ with our dollars? Or should it wait until perhaps when they are actually in office signing on to TARP or cozying up to the Spendocrats to spend our money collectively?

No. Politics are changing in America Mr. Gingrich, the people are taking it back. We are awake, we are watching and we are silent no more.Stop fighting us and join us, or we stop buying your books, donating to your causes and listening to you.

It’s that simple.

It’s that real.

You don’t seem to understand that we aren’t Republicans, Democrats or Independents, we are THE people. We are the ones written about in the Constitution. We are U.S. Constitution believing citizens who believe that the founders had it right and we have NO REASON to back away from that.

We know we can’t spend ourselves into “prosperity”, we bought that lie once, and it blew up in our faces. We get that it is just a shiny new phrase that simply means politicians want to redistribute our wealth, obviously to themselves with pay raises, repatriating terrorists, buying up companies, and giving to banks filled with toxic debt! We understand that the government is now in the business of privatizing the gains of the usurped companies at the same time they publicize the losses.

We finally realize that the only difference between the accepted parties at this time is how quickly and to what degree they believe they can achieve the goal of centralized government while ensuring themselves power in perpetuity.

Politicians don’t yet understand that we get it now. That it is simply a question of what level of socialism they are trying to bring to bear upon us, not whether or not it will be crammed down our throats.

We believe we CAN fix these problems as capitalists, we can still work with other countries (been doing so for centuries) without the UN's involvement. We CAN still have tolerance (as long as you will afford us the same luxury) but we cannot support huge centralized government or lose our sovereignty over who is the turtle and who is the rabbit as far as bankrupting us and our country goes.

Take a minute Mr. Gingrich to listen to the shocking Dobbs video from October 26th, 2009 and the 45th anniversary week of this Reagan speech from Tuesday to get the message. The difference now is that the threat they both speak of is not external anymore, it is strictly internal within our own government. This is our last best shot to begin to fix the destruction and waste that government, labor and special interest has thrust upon us, and we are going to take that shot.

We simply aren’t doormats anymore. We are awake and we are big.

WST Digest 9/29/09

2009-09-29T22:02:00.020-04:00

This is a copy of the WST Digest (We Surround Them) that I send out to about 25,000 people a day. It is a listing of various news stories in categories. We will have a webpage up soon. If you like it, please stay tuned for further updates on the webpage. Generally, the top section is reserved for various items of interest such as videos of the day, deep thoughts, or high interest items. Hope you enjoy!

Deep Thoughts:

God’s Note To Those Who Will Abandon Israel In Her Time of Need "For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?" Esther 4:14

We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country's Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions." --George Washington, General Orders, 1776 Hat Tip Mary

Joke of the Day - Don't let your worries get the best of you; Remember, Moses started out as a basket case.

Action

Call and Thank Nelson For His NO Vote on Public Option for Healthcare Reform! send e-mail or see bio Hat Tip Stan!

Lodge Your Concern Over Cap and Trade at Our Energy Voice

USA Today 2nd Amendment Vote

Eagle Forum Action Items for the day

Historic! 1,000,000 'pink slips' to Congress – in less than 4 days! We’ve posted about this grassroots initiative the past couple days. We think it’s a great way to get the message out there. My entire family has signed up to do this. That means over 3,000 pink slips are on their way from South Florida! Of course, you will still need to make calls and send emails and faxes. But what is at stake is well worth $29.95. You also need to immediately contact Sen. Olympia Snowe R-ME. She is the most powerful Senator in Congress right now. Here’s a link. I think a more appropriate animal on her banner would be a RINO. Hat Tip Kathy
LOCAL COVERAGE We want you! We are in need of members who can keep us up-to-date on local political issues and other issues which might be of interest to our readers. Please email such information to Jamiescain@gmail.com. Hat Tip Kathy

Please Help Now! Call Sen. Cornyn's office and tell him NO on Public Option! Moveon.org has an all out push to make calls today to Sen. Cornyn's office to ask that he support a Public Option to the Healthcare bill being debated in the Senate Finance Committee. I called his office and the staff said they are getting far more calls for Public Option than against it. That's the effect of the Moveon.org making their calls.John Cornyn's Washington DC office:Phone 202 224 2934Fax: 202-228-2856
Email: http://cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm Please pass this info. to all of your contacts--whether they are Cornyn's constituents or not. Hat Tip Mary

Audacity

Glenn Beck on Pledging Allegiance to Obama click the second video down.

The Stealing of Bob Taylor Jeep/Chrysler Dealership

Terre Haute – Woman Arrested for Buying Too Much Cold Prep (2 purchases of one box in a week) Wow. Had a hard time with this one’s placement, Audacity or Socialism in America for categorizing, but audacious won out. Um…Earth to Terre Haute? hello? It’s flu season! This poor elderly woman. Guess now we know what government being “too up in our business” really means.

Crap and TAX

Kerry and Boxer Set To Introduce Climate Bill Hang on to your hat!

A Pile of Crap By Any Other Name… John Kerry was FOR Cap and Trade before he was against it. There’s nothing different here. Democrats are just calling it something different. Hat Tip Kathy

Economy and Finance

Here It Comes – The Dollar’s Death The president of the World Bank said on Monday that America’s days as an unchallenged economic superpower might be numbered and that the dollar was likely to lose its favored position as the euro and the Chinese renminbi assume bigger roles.

The Loss of Three Great Economic and Policy Thinkers of Our Time Sadly we bid them farewell and we wonder who will fill the void that they made, especially Milton Freidman, especially him.

Hitting the Ceiling. The Limits of Taxing the Top 3% Rush had a good segment on yesterday’s show about the stupid Dem tax logic on New York Taxation Policies such as these and more recently these rather than the common sense advice the NY Business Council recommended. He addressed how many large Corporations and individuals like Golisano who is Founder of Paychex or Nancy Bell of Science First are leaving New York (many to Florida I might add) as a consequence of their raising taxes. One of whom spent $13,000 in taxes EVERY DAY, another a corporation that had been a NY Corp for nearly 30 years and Rush, among many others. The State revenues are far down, their concern is high and as a result they have made the increase in taxes “temporary” in nature. Temporary won’t help though because of Three Pesky Facts: First, this is the second “temporary” increase since 2001 and the ability for them to get back to their former revenues are rapidly becoming impossible with the last 2 niggling little facts….CEO payroll caps and the PERMANENT layoff of so many in the banking and investment fields on Wall Street. Many States are eyeing NY nervously to see if they dare raise taxes on their constituents. As this scheme plays out, it will be soon enough that the government finds out you WILL run out of Other People’s Money (OTM). Looks to me like NY could benefit from a little of Reagan’s Common Sense, as could the rest of our Government but to see Krugman’s upside down rant on Bush back in 2001, our chances appear slim to none they will EVER get it. Again, the definition of insanity.

Recession Widens Gap Between Rich and Poor Even Further. So where’s the hope now? (Small businesses hope they’ll get some relief to produce new hiring.) Flashback Hat Tip Kathy

Healthcare

Is Obamacare Destined to Go Postal?

Again With the Violent Warnings Rhetoric. I assure you Mr. Kennedy, you won’t see it coming from the Right – there is a reason we are called “conservatives”! If anything, you are preparing the press so that the Left can issue roundups and “overzealous” police actions such as what were seen at the G20 last week. Don’t think we don’t see right through your words. You’ve obviously taken lessons from Obama and Pelosi on this one and how unfortunate that is for all of America.

Townhall with Rand Paul A long video (75 mins) but a great one. Rand is Ron Paul’s son. He really does a great thing with Healthcare in America. You will enjoy!

Stop With the Misleading Misleaders Already!

Obama Czar Sunstein: Government Must Subsidize Abortion Is there any limit to the nutballs in the Obama administration? We have many tax cheats. We have a Truther. We have race baiters and people who push euthenasia. Plain racists. Climahysterics. Militant envirowackos. And all sorts of other wackos. And we’ve got…Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama's head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), who has advocated a policy under which the government would "presume" someone has consented to having his or her organs removed for transplantation into someone else when they die unless, that person has explicitly indicated that his or her organs should not be taken. Under such a policy, hospitals would harvest organs from people who never gave permission for this to be done. Organ donation is great. I hope everyone becomes an organ donor. But pro-choice for abortion and not organ donation?! More like no choice from the womb to the grave. Hat Tip KathyThe Senate Shell Game: Taking Up the Blank Health Reform Bill on the Senate Floor This is OUTRAGEOUS! Every citizen should call their Senator now and tell them they want 72 hours to review the actual legislative language before the bill goes to the floor, and they want a CBO Score based on real legislative language. Hat Tip KathyThe Real Canadian Health Care Field Trip 2009 Canadian professionals are saying--"Don't do what we've done. We will lose our escape valve." Hat Tip Kathy

Immigration

Has Immigration to the US Hit a Tipping Point? Good stuff if we can keep it up!

International

Iran: Tests Missiles on Eve of Talks with fighting words threatening any nation that they will be served a crushing blow should they intervene and frankly it is too late for that anyway as the Qom Installation is beside a Revolutionary Guard encampment. The multiple missile launches dubbed the “Great Prophet IV” were successful in spite of how clever our president thinks he is. Who knows, maybe Sarkozy can put him in his place.

Honduras: Michelletti Bows To Pressure. I can’t say I blame him, but at the same time, he needs to keep doing what’s right in protecting the Constitution. Let’s hope he does.

Afghanistan: Welfare and the Will To Win considering yesterday I told you that Obama has not spoken to his General in Afghanistan except once in over 70 days, it is not so surprising that our dear leader has a problem deciding what to do. In an interesting side note, some say the Taliban is using money American Taxpayers are giving them to defeat our own men. My question? When is enough, enough for this president? So we criticize Bush for not listening to his fighting General’s (of which he should have been criticized for doing), but those very same people applaud Obama who is creating the next Vietnam? An unwinnable war? Not for lack of strong, brave and brilliant men to fight it I might add, but perhaps because our president is too busy pandering to Islamists, too indecisive, too afraid of the political consequences, too pantywaist to not allow our men to do the jobs they have been trained to do, or to give them the support that the General said he needed! Unconscionable, Inexcusable and Unforgivable Mr. president.

The EU: Socialism’s Slow Collapse Question. If it is failing here. If the people are moving right. If Socialism is no better….Why are we moving in that direction? And to see exactly how pervasive socialism can become, check this story out from the UK, government digging through their garbage! Maybe Tammany Hall Lives Again? And Kathy Says This…. Take heart! Some American conservatives demonize Obama’s fiscal stimulus and health care overhaul as a dangerous turn toward European-style Socialism — but it is Europe’s right, not left, that is setting its political agenda. Related - What the German elections teach us

China: Is Getting a Lot of Attention From America Lately…Flags near the White House, in San Francisco, Now Lighting of the Empire State Building to Commemorate Red China’s 60th Anniversary
09/30 - 10/01 Red/Yellow/Red 60th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China Guess that’s what we get for selling our country to them. And what a celebration it will be too, parades, parties, prettily decorated squares, cannons, choruses, gun confiscations, unveiling of new missiles!!! Such a nice day. Hat Tip Ann Marie

America? Obama Thinks So couldn’t have said it better.

Local

Principled Conservative Rubio Will Likely Beat Wayward Crist You may have read this in The News Press yesterday. But I know a lot of you gave up on The News Press so thought it was worth including here. If you like Marco Rubio, make a donation! We need to round up that RINO Crist. Hat Tip Kathy

Candidate Tracking System for Florida Hat Tip Mary how cool is that?!

On Obama

Reality bites Obama's 'West Wing' You’re no Martin Sheen, Barry! Hat Tip Kathy!Obama's Olympic Bid Stagecraft Personally, I think he’s doing it for Michie. Cripes, all she’s had to do since inauguration day was plant a garden! This was her baby, in collusion with Valerie Jarrett, so Barry to the rescue! Course, just like Health Care, he doesn’t care what the Chicago residents – divided about equally for and against – think. And he’s got a lot of chits out there in Chicago! Hat Tip Kathy!

The Left Loonies Take On New Meaning

BIG NEWS! and OH BOY! Check out the New EEOC Czar! Gotta love the site I found it on as well. No news dare carry it! FROM LIBERTY COUNCIL Not only is Feldblum a former legal counsel for the ACLU and the pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign, she is a CO-AUTHOR of the ENDA bill (second from the last under On the Hill) that she could soon be enforcing! And what is Feldblum's agenda? Incredibly, Feldblum says that when there is a conflict between religious freedom and homosexual rights, "...society should come down on the side of protecting identity liberty of LGBT people" (LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered). Feldblum stated: "Thus, for all my sympathy for the evangelical Christian couple who wish to run a bed and breakfast from which they can exclude unmarried straight couples and all gay couples, this is a point where I believe an inevitable choice between liberties must come into play. In making that choice, I believe society should come down on the side of protecting identity liberty of LGBT people." The nomination of Chai Feldblum makes the ENDA battle in Congress even more critical. If she is confirmed and ENDA is passed, we should brace ourselves for the most radical, anti-faith interpretation of this bill that is even possible.

On The Hill

I encourage everyone to examine these bills and write your Senators and Congress

Senate DEFEATS Rockefeller’s Public Option Proposal!!!!!!! One Down, one to go (so far) and that is Schumer’s Celebrate, Celebrate, Dance to the Music!!!!!
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 – Vote Passed (77-21, 1 Not Voting) The Senate approved this $32.1 billion bill funding the Department of the Interior, Environmental Protection Agency and related programs for the next fiscal year. Sen. Bill Nelson voted YES......send e-mail or see bio Sen. George LeMieux voted NO......send e-mail or see bio

Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009 - Vote Passed (331-83, 18 Not Voting) The House passed this bill that would extend by 13 weeks unemployment benefits in states with a jobless rate over 8.5%. Rep. Connie Mack IV voted NO......send e-mail or see bio

Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2010 - Vote Passed (217-190, 25 Not Voting) The House approved this $4.66 billion bill that funds the legislative branch for Fiscal Year 2010. The bill also includes a continuing resolution to fund government operations after the current fiscal year ends on September 30, as this is the only one of the 12 annual appropriations bills to have been completed. Rep. Connie Mack IV voted NO......send e-mail or see bio (I thought we just passed a 3.6 Trillion dollar bill in the spring for these dudes?)

Upcoming Votes Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 - H.R.3326 The Senate is scheduled to work on this $636 billion bill funding the Department of Defense for the next fiscal year.

Upcoming Votes Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 - H.R.3183 The House is expected to vote on the conference report of this $34 billion bill funding the Department of Energy, Army Corps of Engineers and related agencies and programs.

Sexual Orientation Bill on its Way Again HR Groups are not happy about it at all!

Baucus Bill: What it Could Cost You

Politics

What's working for Mr. Obama and the Democrats? A political party with principles and ideas that resonate with voters doesn't need to ignore the people, nor does it need to resort to parliamentary chicanery to win a result. It speaks tellingly of the weakness, not the strength, of modern liberals that they're willing to end-run the popular will. But we’re here to stop them! Hat Tip Kathy!

POLLS

Good Work Libs... 66% of Country Angry With Dem Policies-- 36% Very Angry Anger’s not a bad thing! As long as it is properly channeled. Hat Tip Kathy!

Students in America

Another School Indoctrination Video? 'Change Has Come ... Change Has Come' Hat Tip Kathy The video link doesn’t work in the blog, so here it is

More on the Story of Sand Hill – Atlas gives a great idea. Opting out of the educational system and starting our own schools.

Swine Flu and Other Weird Stuff

Mandatory Swine Flu Shots Split Medical Community

Hardin Montana Gets New Police Force?

US Northeast Expected to Have Coldest Winter in a Decade Damn that Global Warming anyway! Just won’t cooperate for the Cap and Trade vote, will ya.

Veterans and Soldiers

DESPICABLE! Obama Orders WWII Vets CUT OFF From Pensions!

Mandatory Vaccines Start Next Week

VOICES IN AMERICA

We’re sorry we did not find out about the Independence Caucus’s webinar, held today, in time to let you know about it. However, click here to watch a great video. Hat Tip Kathy

Your Say

What’s It All About, Barfy? By Kathy

Mr. President,

The day after your inauguration, you made it clear you had “won.” But somehow it hasn’t yet set in that you are The President of the United States and the Commander-in-Chief. Or at least your performance thus far would indicate this to be the case. During the campaign, you dismissed Iran as a “tiny country that poses no threat.” “Iran, they spend 1/100th of what we spend on the military. If Iran ever tried to pose a serious threat to us, they wouldn't stand a chance,” you said. Now you flitter off to Copenhagen with Michie and Valerie and Oprah. Guess you just have to take credit for everything, or maybe you know your trip is unprecedented, as no sitting U.S. president has ever made a personal pitch at the IOC vote, so you’ll go down in the history books. And clearly, your Chicago connections had a part in your decision.

Don’t you realize the United States of America is about to implode and the international scene explode? Iran could set off World War III!

For Heaven’s sake, you’ve talked to David Letterman more than you have your commander in Afghanistan! I’d ask you to think about this one inconvenient fact: Americans are even angrier now than they were when GW was president. But, that’s a good thing! As is the fact that your approval rating is tanking big time! Sooner or later you’ll have to learn to lead. But the damage being done in the meantime may be irreversible.

Mmm, mmm, mmm – Barack Hussein Obama. Mmm, mmm, mmm – Barack Hussein Obama. Mmm, mmm, mmm – you are a joke Obama.

Unfortunately, it’s no laughing matter.

IOU’s at the Center of Obama’s Capitulation to Russia?

2009-09-18T03:11:00.022-04:00

In an afternoon report from Reuters on September 17, 2009, we see the headline Obama helps strengthen General Electric-Putin Ties. This article effectively suggests that our President sold America out for IOU’s to GE and Wall Street thugs for campaign promises. Might that also be for future election coffer fattening purposes as well? Purposes that serve only him and perhaps a select few governmentally symbiotic corporations and news outlets who want the deal of a lifetime. And I quote:

"Shortly after the pullback on the shield programme was announced, Russia's government said Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would meet several U.S. executives on Friday from firms including General Electric, Morgan Stanley as well as TPG, one of the world's largest private equity firms."

I can’t believe what I am reading. I don’t want to believe what I am reading, but there it is. Right there in black and white on the front page of the Washington Examiner. I am sick. Not only are the American Taxpayers on the hook for IOU’s to the Unions, but apparently our liberty, freedom and safety are on the block too. This audacious man (The “Won” who poses to be the President of the United States with ACORN laden votes and deal sealing election returns) will actually risk our safety by scrapping our “peaceful” means of protection (that I might add I am loathe to figure out - if Russia is our “friend” as they claim to be - they would be upset about in the first place) for freaking IOU's!

Before I continue any further on the theme though, let’s digest that last parenthesized thought for just a second. If I understand Russia's "concern" here, had we continued with the Missile Shield Program, Russia would continue to be upset… Why is that? It’s not like we are aiming missiles at them, we are simply shielding those that might come our way from Iran or N. Korea. Right? Doesn't it make you wonder why that would "concern" a country… unless of course they thought perhaps there may come a day where they, too, would feel the need to threaten to pop a few over the border themselves….

But nooooo. It’s about giving his buddies at GE, at TPG and at Morgan Stanley a leg up in the region. More union IOU’s, a posh seat for MSNBC at the table (by association to GE), as well as a few more investment banker favors - as if he isn’t holding the American Taxpayer hostage to the likes of union and Wall Street thugs enough already?

So now we find out that it’s all about the money…. Really? Our safety and our Sovereignty are sold to the highest bidder? Are "We the People" a tradable commodity for the padding of special interest and election coffers? Our country is no longer concerned about its own, let alone the people Russia could care less about while they turn off their heating fuel, causing them freeze to death in the worst winter on record.

This, my friends, is what we get with “Change” and “Hope”. Did we really just exchange 222 years (on Constitution Day no less) of our freedom and sovereignty for IOU's? Did we just waste 30 years of hard work by this and other nations, who collectively worked and bled hard to specifically end the horrors of the Cold War? Did we really just sell out the struggle that these ex-satellite countries have undergone to gain a little of their own rightful sovereignty from the great beast Russia, just as they were beginning to work? We, the great defender of democracy that we are? All for money? All for more profits and a fatter reelection account?

Can this be treason for no other reason than the man makes a deal with the wolf in sheep's clothing without concession one from said wolf? I don’t see how it couldn’t! People! WE NEED TO WAKE TF UP! We have to put an end to this madness!

I am telling you now…this is not an accident that ‘The Won’ did this on Constitution day and on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion into Poland!! This was not an accident at all. This act on this day was not any more an accident than bobbing for quarters before the King of Saudi Arabia was an accident.

No friends, this was a message. Loud and Clear. This is significant in and of its own right, and I firmly believe history will prove that statement true. Nothing this man does is without symbolism and this is the biggest symbolic move he could provide the world. That is exactly what he did. He delivered the message while putting the final big screws to the coffin of our Constitution - on Constitution Day - in front of the whole freaking world.

Well, I just guess that makes Sept 17, 2009 another day that will go down in infamy, doesn’t it?

Putin tipped the celebratory glass of frozen Vodka this morning as he got exactly what he wanted and he had to make no concessions to get exactly what he wanted (still wondering why he wanted it) while Obama sold out democracy in one fell swoop - all for a past and a future election and mo’ power with the devils that be.

Oh how Winston Churchill is rolling over in his grave right now! The poor heroic corpse must feel like a top! The entirety of Churchill’s last years were trying (unsuccessfully) to convince Eisenhower and others of the grave danger of this behemoth we once (and soon will again) called the Soviet Bloc.

Now here we are 30 years after the biggest victory in recent history, just handing it right back to them. We are dumping on the freedom-seeking Slav nations in such a devastating way - and we do so without passing go. We are headed straight back to the cold war as soon as Russia can threaten and undermine the fledging sovereign countries of Ukraine, Georgia and a few other key States. Do not doubt that this is where we are headed or - God Almighty forbid - worse.

It is a documented fact that Russia is in bed with Iran. They are making a lot of squeaky noises, overtures and sometimes outright war gestures to their former States. Germany, Israel and other key allies completely believe that Iran is in fact building nuclear weapons, but our White House is so loaded down with Bo's ho’s who wouldn’t disagree with “the Won” even if they were threatened within an inch of their lives, that even if they did disagree, they wouldn't admit the disagreement. Bought, sold and guaranteed a select spot in the Post-American world, they will do whatever he or his minions request.

No one questioned why The Won was able to raise all that money, which devil he had sold his soul to then…but gosh, I guess we know now don’t we? That would be Brezhnev, Soros, Rockefeller, Kissinger, the UN chief Ban Ki-moon, the Union Lords, Wall Street, and who else can we list here….God knows we can’t list them all – there simply isn’t enough room!

Say farewell to your Sovereignty, America. Your final bill just came due and payable. You are now officially a banana republic replete with bought elections and the selling of the people’s wages for whatever deal guarantees that "The Won" who is in power, stays in power. Watch your bank account for that is the only thing between you and complete serfdom.

If Pelosi wants to cry about violence…why in the hell doesn’t she cry about this?

Is The Cold War Heating Up?

2009-09-17T18:22:00.011-04:00

By Jamie Cain

Today President Obama announced that the planned Missile Shield Program in Czech Republic and Poland Have Been Scrapped. I am going to try to explain why it is so very important that we have these missile shields in place as quickly as possible and show how very dangerous shutting down the Missile Shield Program is to America and the EU. With this move on President Obama’s part, it is a given that the efforts of President Reagan, culminating to the end of the Cold War are about to be undone and we must be aware of that fact.

Let’s start with an article from January of this year, over a Natural Gas crisis between Russia and the Ukraine.

As the story goes, Russia supplies 20% of Europe’s heating fuel through a series of pipes that run through the Ukraine, which (as of 2004) is now an independent State. Qualify this story with the larger fact that Russia wants Ukraine back, along with Georgia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and numerous other States that used to belong to the USSR (most of whom now control certain key natural resources or infrastructure that used to belong to the Kremlin) and the little fact that the Kremlin never was truly happy sharing the power with anyone, let alone those who were once subservient to them. That is one big huge ego slap to the Kremlin and they do not like it, not one little bit.

In the midst of a freezing winter, Russia stopped supplying Ukraine with gas that Ukraine was beholden to send through its pipelines to supply 15 EU countries with a fifth of its required gas for heating. It appeared on the surface that Russia said, “Um no. I’m not selling you the gas anymore, Ukraine, to deliver to all these fine people. In fact, I am going to hold it hostage while people freeze until you agree to my deal. My deal (step one of the taking of the Ukraine) is that I want you to pay FULL market price while I pay discount prices to deliver it through you”.

Well heck, delivery is simply the turning of a valve, albeit the right valve, which Ukraine contends Russia didn’t do as witnessed here. It’s a complex pipeline dedicated to delivering Natural Gas, one that requires regular maintenance which costs money and the proper flow lines that require monitoring, which also costs a lot of money.

The issue to this “reduced delivery price” that Russia forced down Ukraine’s throat, is that Ukraine IS the delivery system, they have pipes to upkeep and Russia doesn’t want to pay those prices while belligerently demanding that Ukraine pay full price for the gas Russia sells them. It’s enough to break the bank for Ukraine, even if the agreement is just for this year until Russia will pay market prices. Any businessperson can do the math on this one. Ukraine could be forced to let those pipes go without maintenance or efficient monitoring to be able to afford the costs of the gas, which could create a multitude of future delivery problems. But no one seems to notice that little problem, let alone intervene in them on behalf of the Ukraine.

None-the-less during the coldest winter in a long time, Ukraine was forced to agree to buy Russia’s gas at $450 per 1000 cubic meters through the entire winter. This is a deal that only offered some relief in price after winter was over, when most countries utilizing the gas would have no more need of the gas.

How untypical is it that a middleman would pay full price for anything that it is responsible for delivering? In the home heating business, one only has a certain amount of months to recoup the cost of doing business, let alone make a profit, and Russia has effectively cut any ability to turn a profit off at the knees even supposing that Ukraine can manage to maintain a breakeven to their customers. There is simply nowhere to go in price once the middleman pays the vendor full price for their product. Not to mention that 2010 will be a whole new deal - once again - that Ukraine will have to get through without freezing out a large part of several ex-Soviet and other EU nations as well.

As it stands now, fifteen countries in the EU were sent scrambling for alternative fuel, while Ukraine had no choice but to sign the hostage agreement (as I am sure they had agreements they were bound to with their customers, in addition to facing the human suffering element and the anger pouring in from their customers).

Meanwhile Russia sat back willing to freeze millions of people in order to further weaken the geopolitical landscape just so they could further their purposes.

Might I remind you this all happened on the heels of the little to do over Georgia’s Oil Reserves where Russia sent several thousand troops into Georgia to prove their point there. Same point, same reason, these were once their resources and they are no longer, a point which Russia seems all too happy to make again and again. The war over Oil with Georgia was a very dangerous game indeed, that so easily could have disintegrated into WWIII given just the right set of circumstances and to which we came closer to seeing happen, than most of us can even fathom.

Ah, but wait! Maybe that wasn’t what Russia said to the Ukraine…according to Moscow, the Ukraine was stealing natural gas, withholding it and not sending it out to get a better deal from their last accord as of Jan 10, 2006 (which was to last 5 years to 2011 as witnessed here). According to Russia, they were just collecting debt. So why, in 2009 was this deal no longer valid? Why, when Ukraine could buy gas at $95 per 1000 cubic meter would they want a new deal now with 2 years to go on such a sweet deal? Good question. The Ukraine didn’t. Russia breached and Russia lied about the reason why. Russia says it was two-fold; Ukraine wasn’t paying their bill (at $95 when they could turn around and sell it for $450? I seriously doubt they weren’t paying their bills) and Russia wanted higher prices. Somehow, that story just doesn’t hold water for a new country wanting to succeed outside the grip of the Motherland. Sorry Russia, but most businesses can’t stay afloat without paying their bills and Ukraine knew it would be not only its business, but it would mean State suicide to breach a contract that sweet only 3 years in, while energy prices were going through the roof.

It had to be that Russia didn’t like the deal anymore simply because Ukraine was making better than 300% profit on their gas during the 2008/09 winter season. On the heels of the Georgia War, an accord that was to last 5 years didn’t because Russia breached the contract. Russia simply cut off the gas. They just turned that little valve and said, “Let’s talk”. Millions without gas to heat their homes? 20% of the buying countries, of the population of 15 countries now literally in danger of freezing to death and Russia says “Let’s talk”? That’s one heck of a bully pulpit, isn’t it.

Millions of people nearly froze to death. The EU had to scramble to get electric heaters rushed out, spend a fortune doing so. Ukraine was risking all sorts of lawsuits, not to mention trade and supplier agreement breeches all because Russia didn’t want to miss that huge energy spike, didn’t want Ukraine turning that kind of profit because it might have strengthened their position as an independent State.

No matter how you turn it, that is exactly what Medvedev and Putin decided to do, and it is why they decided to do it. Russia is the same as it always was and America should “reset” nothing because Russia still places power over people and their State welfare over the human element. That is the great thing about holding most of the cards, they can do whatever they want, make it look like the other guy’s fault (Georgia being another point in case, Iran a third) and they can get away with it because no one can audit the truth in Russia, there are simply way too many layers.

Yushchenko (Ukraine’s President) seems to think that it is all about Russia destabilizing Ukraine (and other regions dependent on them, most of which were formerly known as the Soviet Bloc). I tend to agree as I look at all the arguments, along with the fact that Russia was selling at a loss based on the former accord and the Ukraine was reselling at a significant profit, making their weak new little State just that much stronger. So they reach an unstable deal, whose time is nearly up, and which makes the EU quite nervous. Then suddenly we see this article stating that they are entering a new crisis. Russia is speaking those fighting words again…Russia’s pushing it again and a new crisis is about to begin…um…let’s see, just a few weeks before winter sets in? Gee Wilikers, isn’t that just grand timing?

Let’s understand this. Russia is flexing its big communist muscles and Russia wants to turn back to the good old days where they were a superpower and they owned all the land, infrastructure, and power. Simply put, they want to recreate the Soviet Union.

This means they will be quite happy about the reports of Obama stopping the shield system plans. The Ukraine government and the EU know this. That is why, whether the people of Ukraine understand the truth or not, Ukraine is standing strong (as strong as an independent country of only 5 years can stand, that is) against a giant machine.

Russia is taking a low key approach hoping the people who aren’t too keen on the recently separated State will revolt, and they are busy doing just what they do as communists, quietly feeding the opposition funds and encouragement to revolt to destabilize Ukraine further; kind of like an ACORN on steroids with ALL the money at its disposal.

The Ukraine State is in turn, understandably taking a more aggressive role towards Russia’s military encroachment and is actually stopping and searching weapons transfers and placing limits, as weak as they may be, on Russia’s coming and goings.

Russia is blustering that it is our fault they can’t join the WTO, meanwhile they are increasing their aggressions against Georgia again and they are damn close to finishing their own new air defense system.

Do we have any idea how far back this will set us? This will set us all the way back to the cold war or worse, especially in light of Russia’s friendship with Iran. In his inexperience, our President is squandering our sovereignty, seemingly by order of the UN, Soros, and the like. For what? Why are we cancelling that Shield System?

For us, however (you know, the ones who supposedly believe in democracy and the capitalist system), the removal of our shields and the carte blanche ticket to power we are handing Russia in our misguided effort to “reset” relations, Ukraine and Georgia might be the only hopes we have left to stop a new Cold War and/or energy war. They are our friends. Russia will only be as long as it suits her to regain her superpower status, and by then we will be too weakened from internal strife and debt to do a damn thing about it. They know it, we know it and the rest of the world knows it.

What I want to know is, “What are We the People going do about it”? Can we have a grown up in the White House? Please? The old Soviet Union wants their power back and it looks as though we are party to laying it all in their laps with this move. It will be a very interesting few years indeed.

Dear Mr. Olbermann

2009-09-07T12:04:00.004-04:00

Dear Mr. Olbermann:

You are so right about Glenn Beck. What a freak! How could he actually expose Van Jones as nothing more than Obama’s brilliant pick for Green Jobs leader? I mean even though the guy may have said and obviously believes some very strong ideas and ways that might seem a little out there, like that America flew planes into her own building and white people purposefully poison young black children, but why would crazy ideas affect his job performance or make him lean a little bit prejudiced against all those asshole republicans, anyway?

Beck on the other hand – he just pretends – it’s all show, you are so right to go after him in such an obvious smear campaign! He couldn’t actually believe in strong ways himself about this country and its leaders and he must be silenced at all costs! He’s just a showman, a comedian – who could ever believe him about anything? You know, I heard that he is a recovering alcoholic and that he bashed Bush just as bad as he bashed Obama, but he isn’t our friend against any corrupt government because we like the leaders we elect and we have to just refuse to see the writing on the wall.

After all, there is You. You are a serious newsman and you are taking your training as a sportscaster to prove how right Obama is, ignoring the facts that just don’t fit or what you didn’t see with your own eyes, just like the referee’s you used to cover. You paid your dues, right? So what’s wrong with that? Sportcaster is so obviously way above comedian and hey, we all gotta get our start somewhere and work our way up so we can pad the welfare rolls for all our hard work, right? We don’t want the TRUTH about someone in such a high level position who is not accountable to anyone but our beloved leader, we just want to live in Candyland and have the Candyman give us everything he can, right? Even if it means stealing your earnings so I can send my kids to college for free. That’s okay with you, right? If that means we turn our heads away from dissenting ex-wino’s and start an all out smear campaign, calling on all dirt on the dailykos like you did. Hell, we can differentiate between a one-sided sportcaster and equal play comedian. We can all go on a witch hunt and smear campaign to punish someone who dares reveal negative information about another of our dear leaders nefarious picks, for that is what we do, separate, belittle, ridicule and destroy, right?! You are darn straight! We can’t let the truth really get out about all the president’s men because we have "an agenda" and only so many crisis' to fuel them! Gee, who else said that. Wasn’t that Nixon?

So you go, sportsman turned serious newscaster! We’ll help you slay the big bad comedian who is kicking the pants off your ratings. Yes we can!

Oh, and sportcaster? It's oligarchy, not oligarhy! And that would be what YOU advocate! Idiot!!

Haters Anonymous

2009-08-02T14:43:00.015-04:00

One law for one creature; it works in the wild, why can’t it work in human race? In examining the most current hate crime bill, the one they will or have already attached as an amendment to some completely unrelated law like, oh, the Defense Appropriations bill for instance; I witness a duality that does not, nor can it exist in nature. If it doesn’t exist in nature, then it must be unnatural; right?

So it is.

If I am a black woman and a white man rapes me, it is a hate crime. If I am an Asian woman and a white woman knocks me down to steal my purse, it must be a hate crime. If I am a white woman and an Asian, Black, Indian, a gay woman, a Jewish man or now even a pedophile rapes me (or my kid), it is not because of hate.

Why is that? Frankly, as the victim, I don’t care if you are black, red, white, yellow, brown or even if you took so much silver in your life, you are now permanently blue; I am feeling like that was a pretty hateful thing you just did to me. You took the most private and spiritual parts of my being as your own without invite, without warning and you purposefully hurt me for your own pleasure, gain, and sick sense of power.

But no, not in America. A person of color gets off easier simply because I am white and you are not. You get privileges, you get “counseling”, you get TV, radio, 3 squares, workout rooms and internet for free while I try to piece my life, or God forbid, the life of my child back together again. Yet if a white man does it to one of another color or race, he gets a Federal offense. He gets high security federal prison time, locked in his cage, only to be let out once a day like a dog. Frankly, all criminals should receive the same treatment for an equal crime, simply because they hurt someone else. The very fact of me being cream colored now says I am the only race capable of feeling prejudice and I am the only race who is recidivistic, there is no cure for me.

No matter it was a white man, and a Republican, President Grant who fought an uphill battle against all the democrats to gain blacks the right to vote. No notice that it was a white man, a Progressive Democrat, President Roosevelt, who added the Asian race category to the census so that he could easily round up the Asians and place them in internment camps here in the US. Or that Martin Luther King Jr himself was a Republican because they were the party to free the black man, the ones who thought it so wrong that blacks were segregated.

All whites are now considered inherently evil as the Democrats usurped the titled of the “freer” in the country. We are told now that whites think they are a master race bent on enslaving those who don’t look the same, therefore are singled out to be the only peoples capable to use another to gain pleasure, a sick sense of power or as a means to an end.

I have news for you. My ancestors were quite a mix, I am the great granddaughter of a mixed male, born on a plantation of a slave woman, my grandmother was first listed as a MF (mixed female). I am the great, 5 x’s over granddaughter of one who was the interim 2nd governor of Maryland, and cousin to another who was one of the first Senators of W VA. I am the great 2x granddaughter of an American Indian, and I am also English, German, Irish and who knows what else. I am the great granddaughter of a Medal of Honor winner who fought for the north in the Civil War, even though he was from the south, and I am a DAR. I guess that kind of makes me nearly all people, even though I appear cream colored.

I don’t notice color, creed, last names, handicap, or any other differences. I am just a human living in the human race. I am a Republican who is disappointed in her party, feeling quite let down by the Bush’s and the party and I am an American as red, white and blue as they come, with an education and a worldly outlook, interested in other lands and other people. I am a believer in creation, a believer in my 2nd Amendment rights, a believer in second chances and the frailty of the human condition. I don’t care if you are gay or straight and have friends of both persuasions and all races. But if you ever hurt me or mine, then I don’t like you. I see you are a hater. I don’t care your color, I don’t care your breeding, and I certainly don’t care your station in life.

I don’t owe blacks a thing, I don’t owe Germans a thing, I don’t owe anyone anything except maybe my creditors, people of many races bore me and those before me, that is all. Don’t talk to me about hate, because I wouldn’t hurt a fly. Don’t talk to me about reparations because I didn’t do anything to you. I am simply trying to live my life, do my best for my family, and make sense of an upside down world. A new world order where a man loses his job because he chased down an attempted bank robber and held him until the police came, or a white woman who is only trying to be a good Samaritan for a black man’s empty house who is now labeled a racist! A world where folks like that used to be lauded for their community service, are now belittled and ruined by mass hysteria you, Barrack Obama started.

Do not talk to me anymore, Barrack. Your fruits do plenty enough of that. Your ACORN Cloward-Priven Strategies and Alinsky Rules have taught me well that you will the use the poor and the downtrodden for your own gain. You will tell them enough times whatever you think they will buy, in order to get them to back you so you can steal from them and the rest of us. You are a thief of the worst sort; you steal the innocent minds of the country of truth and reasonableness.

You walk two paces ahead of your poor friend Mr. Gates as he tried to get down the stairs of the White house, in your "hard-working-dude" rolled up shirtsleeves, while the awful “recidivist white racist officer Crowley” was the one to take your friends arm and aid your handicapped friend down the steps.

The picture says it all. You are a narcissist liar of the worst sort who believes he is royalty, not a man who puts his pants on the exact same way we all do.

You want a nation to believe that whites are the destructors of all freedoms; whites are the haters, when in reality your very being oozes all the hatreds of hell in everything that you do.

You are the racist, you are not my President, and I don’t like you. You are the hater and I am sick of being pinned with your labels of racist and coward. You can have them back and I hope you wear them well for the hater racist coward that you are. You have failed a nation Mr. President for your own gain and assumed royalty.

How does it feel to be outed?

When Enough is Never Enough For the Prognazi

2009-08-01T12:03:00.008-04:00

A friend and fellow blogger Frank Hill from Telemachus Leaps sent me this link today for my daily email. (Yes, I eblog way more than I blog)

Thanks Frank, a great site!

I found it shocking, sick, greedy, and totally not cool.

Really folks, we haven't even seen the Bush Tax Cuts removed yet, or whatever damage we will see through the new policies, cap and tax and the dreaded Granny Kill Bill from Obamacare.

This regime is not progressive alone, they are Prognazi's all.

From the Tax Foundation

July 29, 2009

Tax Burden of Top 1% Now Exceeds That of Bottom 95%

by Scott A. Hodge

Newly released data from the IRS clearly debunks the conventional Beltway rhetoric that the "rich" are not paying their fair share of taxes.

Indeed, the IRS data shows that in 2007—the most recent data available—the top 1 percent of taxpayers paid 40.4 percent of the total income taxes collected by the federal government. This is the highest percentage in modern history. By contrast, the top 1 percent paid 24.8 percent of the income tax burden in 1987, the year following the 1986 tax reform act.

Remarkably, the share of the tax burden borne by the top 1 percent now exceeds the share paid by the bottom 95 percent of taxpayers combined. In 2007, the bottom 95 percent paid 39.4 percent of the income tax burden. This is down from the 58 percent of the total income tax burden they paid twenty years ago.

To put this in perspective, the top 1 percent is comprised of just 1.4 million taxpayers and they pay a larger share of the income tax burden now than the bottom 134 million taxpayers combined.

Some in Washington say the tax system is still not progressive enough. However, the recent IRS data bolsters the findings of an OECD study released last year showing that the U.S.—not France or Sweden—has the most progressive income tax system among OECD nations. We rely more heavily on the top 10 percent of taxpayers than does any nation and our poor people have the lowest tax burden of those in any nation.

We are definitely overdue for some honesty in the debate over the progressivity of the nation's tax burden before lawmakers enact any new taxes to pay for expanded health care.

For more on this topic, a new Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact includes eight charts of just-released IRS data, and an accompanying dataset breaks the numbers down even further. Read the new Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact or view the data (an Excel sheet is available for download at the bottom of the data page).

Making Sense of Minimum Wage Increases

2009-07-26T15:47:00.009-04:00

The purported greatest monetary mind of the century, Alan Greenspan (before his sellout to the Fed), has stated,"Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights." From http://www.safehaven.com/article-4285.htm

Now wait a minute. We have two very important statements from Greenspan before he was Chairman: the first is “there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation” and the second is “Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth.” We are going to look at both those statements, but Wow! The “HIDDEN CONFISCATION OF WEALTH”, now there is a heady statement for you if there ever was one. What does that mean?

Common Sense vs. The Politicization of Money

Let’s take this a step further and apply a little common sense. Think long and hard about the reality of what happens when the Congress increases deficit or regulation. Let’s say that they issue a ruling that says that minimum wage has to be raised in an attempt to “stimulate economy”. The banner is raised, the people applaud, the pressure is on, the companies lobby, the bill goes up for a vote, millions of other pork is attached, and the bill passes and becomes law. Right?

Not exactly, or perhaps a better way to put it would be it’s not the end of the story.

The rest of the story is that companies comply with the new law requirement, as they have no choice, jobs are lost because expenses go up, prices go up to cover losses. Nevertheless, the money the minimum wage maker earns goes no further than it did at the previous level after the first couple of paychecks, and more often than you realize, you actually lose money. Why, because the prices of goods and services, which let’s face it, we all consume, are increased by the companies in order for the companies to be able to absorb the new wage requirement. It sounds greedy of them, but I promise I will show you that it is not greed, but a necessary fact of life.

This next paragraph is very important to remember for future discussion:

In a nutshell, this is the core of the issue; the government has a corner on the money supply, and to answer that second point Greenspan made: The Government can and does use inflation as a hidden tax, selling it to the masses as an increase in their ‘personal profitability’ or in other words – a hand out. When in reality, it's the magic tax from the government’s point of view because nobody understands it and many people want it. Who doesn’t like the idea of something for nothing?

In the case of any number of this type of a bill, it receives resistance mainly by the companies that are affected, as they tell the government this means they will have to raise the prices of manufactured goods or services to cover shortfall, and the masses take another sip of Kool-Aid and say, “this is just big money talking”.

Power yourself back to that 16th Amendment and the Federal Reserve Act, and take a good look at it. Yeah it’s big money all right, but not of the type you are thinking. It is the governmental big business big money talking, not the little ma and pa shop. These people are hungry and they want more taxes. The companies that are “too big to fail” and the government who has to make up shortfall somehow, win back confidence of the voters, improve morale and all the other “dance of the seven veils” items they do to keep us , well… to put it bluntly, quiet. It is the quintessential panacea to the masses.

”We must keep printing money. We must keep taxing wages.” is their Mantra. However, they can’t ALWAYS say they are doing that…especially when the candidate now in office promises he won't.

But…If they raise your income, you pay them more taxes without them ever having to push through a bill for an increase. It makes you feel good, it makes them look good, but I promise you, it is Kool-Aid. I will help you understand this statement in the following subsection, but first let’s take a second to review exactly who the small businesses are and what they do you for you.

According to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), small businesses:

• Produces roughly half of the private Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and creates, on average, about two-thirds of net new jobs annually.

• Are the greatest sources of new employment in inner cities, comprise more than 99 percent of your local establishments, and carry more than 80 percent of total employment.

• American small business is the world’s second largest economy, trailing only the United States as a whole.

• Employs more than half of private sector employees.

• Ninety percent of small businesses employ fewer than 20 people.

• Small firms represent 99.7 percent of all employers.

• Nearly 16 million people operate a small business as their primary occupation in a year.

• Women-owned firms have grown at around two times the rate of all firms; minority-owned firms have grown at around four times the rate of all firms.

The people who are small business and are affected by this scenario are your Barber Joe, your best friend Sally’s Deli down at the corner where you eat lunch every day, and your neighbor Tom who just started his own landscaping company. You are affected too though, in some cases even worse than small business because you as a wage earner can’t raise any new money on your own without taking a 2nd or even 3rd job. You only have to think about it for a minute or so before you see it, but I promise you, this will make sense because I’m going to play out the whole scenario for you now.

Headline: Congress Today Announced Plan for Minimum Wage Increase

You see the headlines on the front page over morning coffee. The bill to increase minimum wage has been introduced to the Congress at 50 cents an hour. “Well, that’s good.” you think to yourself. “I could sure use that!” You see the headlines the following week as they shout “Companies Lobby Congress for Relief. Says No to Minimum Wage Increases” You just shake your head and think, “Leave it to big business.”

You and your friends hang out at lunchtime that day and say, “These rich companies and their fat cat buddies don’t want to give us a raise, and they’d rather keep us down so they can keep the profits for themselves and make money off the sweat of our backs. The greedy creeps!”

Then on the evening News things are heating up. You sit up with interest as you watch the guy you voted for a several other people line up and run to the podium. “We are here for your benefit,” they cry. “The American people need help and we want you to know that we work for you and WE HEAR YOU! The rich companies have got to pay our poor workers more!” The people in the audience welcome and cheer and rally around with open arms, glad slapping each other and jumping up and down in their spot, because their paycheck is now about to get bigger.

Then the other side climbs up to the podium and screams, “This is partisan politics! This is “tax and spend” policy. This will hurt our economy! In the long run this will hurt you, your kids, and your company!”

“Huh, what?” the people say in return. The booing starts.

You yell at the TV, “Dude! I just need more money! Those guys before you made sense and they just gave me the ‘rah rah’ speech and it made me feel real good! You want me to give a hoot about how my little 50 cent raise is going to hurt the economy!? Are you kidding me? It’s the economy that hurts me, Buddy, and I am done with your partisan politics! So, welcome to the real world Mr. Hoity Toit. I need to feed my kids!” You get disgusted and turn the channel to the baseball game to ease your worried mind.

Yet, have you noticed we still have a hard time getting ahead? Why is that? We as a people are completely unaware that it really goes no further than that ‘rah rah’ speech, because while the money looks bigger on the paycheck, we are still having the same trouble meeting our obligations as we did before, maybe even more. We might walk around with great big question marks hanging over our head and worry weighing heavily on our mind, but we don’t really care to explore it because we are too busy making ends meet. The poor are still with us.

Let’s take a minute to do some fuzzy math.

The bill passed and you are into your 3rd week of your new wage increase. God Bless America. Let’s assume for our little experiment that the average paycheck is taxed at 25%. Your 50-cent raise just became 37.5 cents.

Your best friend Sally at the deli sits down next to you with a stack of letters in her hand as you are eating your sandwich and just starts talking. She tells you that she is worried. Her deli has to pay her 4 full time employees 50 cents more an hour and she is open 7 days a week, so her expenses just went up by $16 dollars a day at a minimum, not including overtime or part time employees, or $112 per week. She says her milk delivery company apparently has the same problem on a larger scale because his employees have to be paid more too and he has 50 employees. This morning, she continues, the deliveryman told her that the milk delivery service is increasing 2 cents a container for delivery. Since she buys 200 containers, 2 cents times 200 containers a week is $4 a week.

She was okay with that at first, but she goes on to say she that she just opened the mail a few minutes ago and now she’s getting scared. It looks like it’s the same with the milk bottling company who supplies the milk delivery company, and the dairy farmers who supply the milk to the bottling company. She lifts up her hand to show you the stack they just sent her; the top one says NOTICE OF INCREASE. She says that the total milk price itself goes up another 5 cents times 200 containers or $10.00 a week. Sally, almost to tears now says that just with those things, her expenses are now $126.00 more a week than they were last week. That’s not all though, it’s the same with the meat sellers, the vegetable grower, her pie maker, her utilities, and everything has to go up to cover losses. All those little amounts are going to add up to about $200.00 a week. “That’s $800 a month!” she exclaims angrily.

Now she is your best friend, you know she only brings in about $800 a week after expenses, and she has the house and the kids. She says she is going to have to do something too so she can feed her kids, because she just lost $200 of that $800 a week because of a 50-cent law. She says, “Some of the other owners were in earlier and it’s the same with the Joe the Barber, Sal the grocer, and Tom the landscaper.

Every company has to pay higher wages and their expenses increase as their suppliers have to raise prices to cover their expenses. They were all talking about how they would have to raise their prices. “None of them want to do it, but gosh, what else can we do? You know Lee died last year he didn’t have life insurance. I have the 3 kids to feed, not to mention my dogs! That house to upkeep. What am I going to do?” she asks, getting misty eyed while she is waving all these increase notices around in the air.

“Uh oh”, you think. You feel real bad for her. She was your best buddy’s wife and she does have it hard, you know that. But did she just tell you that everyone was talking about raising prices? What does that mean for you? You still have to get your haircut, that big tree trimmed and buy food, right? You have an awareness that something just doesn’t bode well that you didn’t when the political posturing was going on, so you decide to check it out.

Taking the Math Home

So let’s say for arguments sake, it’s been a few weeks and you have some actual figures you can add up. How much more has all this has cost you, now that everything has settled down some? You pull out your calculator. That total cost you pay extra for all your goods and services a week is going to be about $20.00 once you figure it all up. Since your actual increase is only 37.5 cents an hour and you work 40 hours a week, your increase actual, after income tax, is $15.00 a week. $15.00 -$20.00 = (-$5.00) right?

Wait a darn minute! Did you just discover that you lost $5.00 a week of income because you are making 50 cents more an hour? You drag butt back to work and start talking about it to your friends there.

They’re a little shocked by what you are saying. Jim says, “If we only got to keep the whole 50 cents, at least we would have gotten a little something maybe.” Jerry nods his head and says “Yeah, man but do you know what Tom told me this morning as he was fixing that tree of mine? He said the government just got 12.5 cents an hour for every single minimum wage worker in America for every hour of work they do and they sold it to us as a benefit even though the word tax increase never passed their lips”…..

Let’s assume there are 10 million workers just like you in this country times 12.5 cents an hour. That’s $1,250,000.00 MORE AN HOUR THE GOVERNMENT IS PULLING IN OFF YOUR WAGES WITHOUT A TAX INCREASE!

You can bet ‘The Fed’ has those presses heating up and they are printing a whole bunch of new money. Money that has a big risk of halving itself once it hits the market, because although it is a “good”; it acts different from other goods. There is little behind it except that you keep your job and that they hope they can actually count on your wages for their windfall or fiat money. What is fiat money again? Fiat Money is intrinsically useless and is used only as a medium of exchange.

Can you hear me now? Do you see it? This is an oversimplification, but you get the point, I’m sure.

Every time anything of this nature occurs, whether it is an increase in Social Security distributions, minimum wage increases, healthcare reforms, welfare increases or pork barrel funding - Americans dependence increases on our government - our desire is for getting a little break for all our effort, yet it goes no further.

No one stops to ask why.

This is the crux of the statist ideology. It is a welfare State mentality, rather than a free enterprise mentality and we continue to become more apathetic the longer this goes on. The proper definition of a statist is the practice or doctrine of giving a centralized government control over economic planning and policy. No wonder they say that free enterprise doesn’t work. It isn’t allowed to work!

We say we are a democratic society, which actually we aren’t, we are a Republic according to our Constitution, and there is a distinct difference between those two forms of government. A democracy is ruled by the majority without protection for the minority at all. What the majority says, goes, unequivocally. A republic however, is meant to CONTROL the majority while ensuring the inalienable rights of ALL people. For this point though, neither of those forms of government function well when ruled by statism, yet we are statist society.

Why, you ask? Simply because we don’t understand what goes into all these monetary laws and amendments and so the government and the candidate’s get to tell us what we don’t know in any form they think will get them what they want. The candidates act like the School Council member running for President, promising anything and everything they can to try to be elected!

If that means that they pass a hidden Magic tax off as a benefit, and we don’t understand what they are saying, then we lose. They get to feed us the definition and we know no better. We don’t understand it and we don’t think we want to take the time to understand.

Apathy feeds dependence and dependence feeds bondage, yet we continue to stare at the headlines with the dull stare of a dairy cow - whose price just increased a little bit.

There are reasons Woodrow Wilson said what he did 6 short years after passing the 16th Amendment and the Federal Reserve Act, and this is one of the major ones.

I read in another part of my study; “The fiat standard cannot do what a well-run, or poorly run gold standard can do, which is not attempt to tailor the money supply to any political constituency's demand. Fiat requires philosopher king-bankers. Commodity money requires mere humans.” It is not a perfect system, as a gold standard specie can still cause havoc. There was a gold standard before the great Depression, and it did not prevent the government from inflating the money supply after the Federal Reserve Act because we became a “mixed currency”. Nevertheless, it controlled them better than Fiat Money.

The printing of money is what caused the "lack of faith" in the governments, and as a result speculative attacks on the currencies through options trading and shorting money, companies, and commodities. People may not know why, but they know whether something feels credible or not.

The solution is as simple as it is complex: disallow the practice of issuing fraudulent money. All circulating currency must be backed by existing gold. This is a gold specie standard. And stop the practice of handing out money willy nilly to the less fortunate, but protect them by law and focus where the issues are, in education, in true job creation, in bringing back the American dream through jobs in America rather than overseas. Do what the UK did in part in going back to the gold standard after the war, just at today’s dollar rather than 1971’s dollar.

We are probably entering into a Depression anyway, choose the bondage we are about to enter to fix the problem, don’t just react to it in a single vote and then run for cover and complain when it didn’t quite turn out the way promised or way worse than expected. Do we really know what affects the Healthcare bill and Cap and Trade will have? We do know that promised money from Stimulus stands at $23.7 TRILLION dollars right now and we do know that if we spent $1,000,000.00 a day every day since the day Jesus was born, we wouldn't YET hit spending of $1 TRILLION dollars. We can't even possibly deal with the kind of money these guys are spending. It will ruin our nation, just as it ruined Rome.

Completely severing state and money would be the best solution but that is probably impossible. However, the Government through private bankers has no business being in the manufacturing of money, other than in punishing fraud. We need somewhere to start this process and personally people way more skilled than I believe that “somewhere” is gold specie.

If you aren't in Washington on 9/12, you are just asking for trouble.

When Will We Believe?

2009-07-23T18:10:00.004-04:00

We always think.... "that will never happen in America"

1. What if I had told you in October 2008 before the last presidential election, that before Barack Obama's first 100 days in office the federal government would be in control of both the mortgage and the banking industries? That 19 of America's largest banks would be forced to undergo "stress tests" by the federal government which would determine that they were "insufficiently capitalized" so they must be supervised by the government?

Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America"?

2. What if I had told you that within Barack Obama's first 100 days in office the federal government would be the largest shareholder in two of the US Big Three automakers - GM, and Chrysler? That the government would kick out the CEO's of these companies and appoint hand-picked executives with zero experience in the auto industry and that executive compensation would be determined not by a Board of Directors but by the government?

Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America"?

3. What if I had told you that Barack Obama would appoint 32 "Czars", without congressional approval, accountable only to him - not to the voters - who would have control over a wide range of US policy decisions? That there would be a Stimulus Accountability Czar, an Urban Czar, a Compensation Czar, an Iran Czar, an Auto Industry Czar, a Cyber Security Czar, an Energy Czar, a Bank Bailout Czar, and more than a 20 other government bureaucrats with unchecked regulatory powers over US domestic and foreign policy? And that the “Regulatory Czar” (The new gatekeeper between the President and HIS CABINET) believes that it is ok to “abort” children up to the AGE OF TWO (or until they understand that “a tomorrow” existed)? Or that Animals should be given the right to appear in court and that a well trained BORDER COLLIE is more valuable to the country than a retarded child (Read his book “Nudge”)?

Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America"?

4. What if I had told you that the federal deficit would be $915 billion in the first six months of the Obama presidency - with a projected annual deficit of $1.75 trillion - triple the $454.8 billion in 2008, for which the
previous administration was highly criticized by Obama and his fellow Democrats? That congress would pass Obama's $3.53 trillion federal budget for fiscal 2010? That the projected deficit over the next ten years would be greater than $10 trillion? Or that if all the promises made in the stimulus packages were to come due at once, we would be in hock to the tune of $23.7 TRILLION Instantly? http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25164.html#ixzz0LtdQfpgl

Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America"?

5. What if I had told you that the Obama Justice Department would order FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high-value detainees captured on the battlefield and held at US military detention facilities in Afghanistan? That Obama would order the closing of the Guantanamo detention facility with no plan for the disposition of the 200-plus individuals held there? That several of the suspected terrorists at Guantanamo would be sent to live in freedom in Bermuda at the expense of the US government?

Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America"?

6. What if I had told you that the federal government would seek powers to seize key companies whose failures could "jeopardize the financial system"? That a new regulatory agency would be proposed by Obama to control loans, credit cards, mortgage-backed securities, and other financial products offered to the public?

Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America"?

7. What if I had told you that Obama would travel to the Middle East, bow before the Saudi king, and repeatedly apologize for America's past actions? That he would travel to Latin America where he would warmly greet Venezuela's strongman Hugo Chavez and sit passively in the audience while Nicaraguan Marxist thug Daniel Ortega charged America with terrorist aggression in Central America? That he would diss Israel and not make a fuss over Iran building nukes, killing freedom fighters or N Korea blowing up missile after missile? Or that Hillary Clinton would go to India this week and tell them that “global warming” was all our fault?

Would you have said, "C'mon, that will never happen in America"?

8. What if I were to tell you that the Supreme Court threw away your Miranda Rights in May of this year? http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE54P47120090526

Would you say, "C'mon, that will never happen in America"?

9. What if I were to tell you that the Cap and Trade Bill passed in Congress says that in order for you to sell your house, you must upgrade anything that is not energy starred to the current standards and that you would have to have a government employee enter your home for inspection, and certification to sell your home? What if I told you these upgrades can include your roof, your appliances, your windows and your plumbing and that they MUST be done BEFORE you put your house on the market?

Would you say, "C'mon, that will never happen in America"?

10. What if I were to tell you that the Healthcare Reform bill now in committee says on Pg 22 that the Government will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self insure, that on PG 50 Section 152, Health Care will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise and that on Pg 170 Lines 1-3 it states that any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay)? Or that on Pg 239 Line 14-24 it says that government will reduce physician services for Medicaid (Seniors, low income, poor affected) or that on Pg 354 Sec 1177 – it says they will RESTRICT enrollment of Special needs persons and that on PG 427 Lines 15-24 it says they have even the right to mandate programs on orders to end your life. The Government has a say in how your life ends. Or that on Pg 59 HC Bill lines 21-24 it states the Government will have direct access to your banks accounts for funds transfers? Here's the full Health Care bill that sits in the House.

Would you say, "C'mon, that will never happen in America"?

11. Okay, now what if I were to tell you that Obama wants to dismantle conservative talk radio through the imposition of a new "Fairness Doctrine"? That he wants to curtail the First Amendment rights of those who may disagree with his policies via internet blogs, cable news networks, or advocacy ads?

Would you say, "C'mon, that will never happen in America"?

12. What if I were to tell you that the Obama Justice Department wants to limit your Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms? That the federal government wants to reinstate the so-called "assault weapons" ban which would prohibit the sale of any type of firearm that doesn't require the shooter to pull the trigger every time a round is fired? That Obama's Attorney General also wants to eliminate the sale of virtually all handguns, which most citizens choose for self-defense?

Would you say, "C'mon, that will never happen in America"?

13.. What if I were to tell you that the Obama plan is to eliminate states' rights guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment and give the federal government sweeping new powers over policies currently under the province of local and state governments and voted on by the people? That Obama plans to control the schools, energy production, the environment, health care, and the wealth of every US citizen?

Would you say, "C'mon, that will never happen in America"?

14. What if I were to tell you that the president, the courts, and the federal government have ignored the US Constitution and have seized powers which the founders of our country fought to restrict? That our last
presidential election may have been our last truly free election for some time to come? That our next presidential election may look similar to the one recently held in Iran?

I know, I know what you say, "That will never happen in America".

15. What if I told you that there will be even more of this to come in the next few years?

I know what you’d say, "That will never happen in America”.

Well, I’ve got some really bad news for you: It did happen and more of it will happen!!

Please wake up America! Please start now and realize that although it might be too late, we still have a fighting chance if we all get involved! Write and Call your representatives. Go to tea parties. Join a group. Cry out from the rooftops! The camps are next and if we do not believe that, we did not learn our history very well.

Exposing the Congress

2009-07-10T20:18:00.002-04:00

Just had to share this.

Grayson is one of Florida's Representatives, not mine, but one of ours.

This man has got to go! He is a jerk!

I think I might just have to set up a new blog doing nothing but these types of constituent encounters. It's time people see how really above us these elected officials are. Seems they forget who hired them!

Hooyah!

CAP and TRADE 20 Talking Points - A Between Post Post

2009-07-09T02:10:00.009-04:00

Just finished my study on Cap and Trade. I hope these talking points help you with your Senator. Let it be so! Please call and fax your Senator EVERYDAY!

Most of these are tweetable as well. Others you will have to shorten.

Cap and Trade is the largest single welfare bill ever written, again redistributing my paycheck both overseas and here in the US
Cap and Trade will require government inspectors to tell me what I must replace to even be able to sell my home. Roof to toilet!
Cap and Trade requires every house be registered in a national database as to its energy efficiency which means inspection – who pays?
Cap and Trade registery in database leads where exactly? Some newly created agency can tell me I have to upgrade whenever they want? Will you find a way later to fine me?
Cap and Trade requires that all Real Estate Appraisers will have to be retrained, and tested, and their schooling paid for by us!
Cap and Trade gives even more money to the failed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We're already in a housing crisis, it'll make it way worse!
Cap and Trade puts the Full Faith and credit of the US is pledged to interest and principle payments to the guarantee for retrofit and the mortgage. As if FNMA hasn't screwed up enough!
Cap and Trade creates Carbon Derivative Options: We are going to allow these to be traded around the world – like CDO’s. We haven't learned? It's even the same damn acronym!
Cap and Trade offers grants to take companies overseas because they can no longer justify remaining in the US. Call your Senators!
Cap and Trade offers grants to help companies do “market studies” to determine what they can do after CAP and TAX puts them out of business! They ADMIT IT!
Cap and Trade is expected to lose 2.5 million jobs a year. Frankly, I think that estimate is quite low - it's always at least double what they say it will be! Call your Senators.
Cap and Trade will create a trade war because in order to try to force countries to reduce we will place pressure through the UN according to the Wall Street Journal? Did we elect the UN to be our government?
Cap and Trade calls for refusing to import other countries products if they do not comply to our idiocy by 2020. So we can't make it here and we can't buy theirs? Wow.
Cap and Trade will increase every single item we buy, exponentially, kill the housing industry – create serious issues for all the foreign countrymen who own property and expect to be able to sell that property….it is a nightmare waiting to happen…the ramifications are literally the most unbelievable that have ever passed through the halls of congress.
Cap and Trade will place limits on our energy usage. Could easily go as far as to shut us off during certain hours without warning.
Cap and trade builds more agencies, boards and bureaucracies than any bill to date. EVER.
Cap and Trade places California standards as Federal building codes on every single State, little nook and cranny in the country. We see how well California manages its agencies, right?
Cap and Trade will place requirements on all building code departments in the nation, 3 mandatory full time people, the Inspector, a Health and Human Resources person and One other government agency person. How will Podunk, USA handle the costs? Raise your property tax of course.
Cap and Trade is one hidden tax after another. That 2k increase per year in expected additional expenditures? Yeah, I think I would triple it for budgeting purposes.
It’s all really simple. We can’t afford the bills they are passing, we can’t continue to “print” our way out of a recession, our debt is currently at nearly 400% of gross domestic product without Cap and Trade, Healthcare Reform, and this NEW new stimulus, Stephanopoulos brought up on Sunday. They are just priming the pump again.

In the Great Depression in 1933 total debt topped out at 300% of GDP. This current financial crisis could be more severe in magnitude and length than the Great Depression and we don’t have the strength or the gold behind us anymore – which is EXACTLY the reason the Senate just today said NO to the Audit of the Federal Reserve! They don’t want us or anyone else to know how much is NOT there against our debt.

I can't stress enough how significant Sunday was as Stephanopoulos led Biden down the primrose path of “stimulus not working” do we need a new stimulus bs. Today Bloomberg reports that an Obama advisors says we need a new stimulus because the other isn’t working. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aStWHJXsvePA

Where Today’s Problems Began, Stage One of Current History

2009-07-08T20:59:00.009-04:00

Former President Woodrow Wilson said in 1919,

“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. We are no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”

I will tell you more about President Wilson in another blog, but this guy is exactly why we are where we are today and he was a "high socialist". He was the first elected Progressive. In case you don’t know, the Progressive party ushered in Prohibition! You know – the law that outlawed “spirits” (alcohol). That’s also Obama’s party, although he didn’t really say so until AFTER the election. Watch your beer folks - although Obama's gig seems to be more about cigarettes – the hypocrite…but I digress…

I am going to start from the beginning. If I start from the end, I only get half the picture. At the very least, it is a distorted view and it doesn’t give me a way to answer the questions well enough to make sure that people cannot continue to mislead me. Whether my broker, my banker, a congressperson or the president.

So what happened to America? What does it all mean and how do you put it together? It’s tough unless you have a economics/history degree. It’s actually really just common sense when you break it down, but the breaking down is not easy. I tried to break the concepts down to make it considerably easier for you. Mainly I did so because I am concerned that if we don’t get it soon, we are going to be in a big lot of trouble that we cannot even fathom now.

There are basically two sides of the fence, statist ideology and the gold specie which we will get into in a later blog, but whose definitions are:

Statism - The practice or doctrine of giving a centralized government control over economic planning and policy.

Specie – means simply the belief in coin, money in the form of coins (as opposed to paper money or bullion) and comes from phrase in specie "in the real or actual form" within a society. Specie can also be related to the Labor of peoples, which is why it was mandatory that Act 1 of the scheme, of which I am about to tell you be played out first.

As you can easily see, one has a doctrine, a belief system attached and the other is based in actuality of a unit of trade.

I have to give a shout out to my senior year Government teacher, Mr. Hurncane. We did not learn just the basics in that class. We broke out the constitution, we broke it down line by line, we learned what the President thought after their terms (when possible) and we learned the forces that shaped the subsequent amendments. So much, I do not remember, but it is amazing that so much is coming back to me as I am watching what is going on in this country. He had a big hand in shaping my life, made me passionate about protecting our freedoms, and made it a lifelong love affair of all things liberty.

My recent education in order to answer the basic question...what in the hell is going on... taught me a few things I knew but didn’t know - if you get my drift. I learned that it all got its start back in 1913 under Pres. Woodrow Wilson, with a "sky is falling" state of fear created by JP Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Paul Warburg. These three private bankers worked with Wilson (a past Princeton professor) that only bankers had the answer and together they could rule the world one day if he would only pass two pieces of legislation.

Led by McAdoo, the then Secretary Treasurer, we had a ‘sky is falling’ announcement to the Citizens very similar to first Paulson and now Geithner’s today. Let's call it a "created" crisis. Between Wilson and McAdoo, they pressured Congress to pass the 16th Amendment - without ratification of a sufficient number of States, I might add. In case you don’t know which Amendment that is, it is the Amendment that says we have to pay an "Income" Tax.

An interesting side note I uncovered here is that in 2003, a US District Court Judge by the name of James Fox wrote opinion in a Tax Case that said,

“If you examine the 16th amendment carefully, you will find that a sufficient number of States never ratified that Amendment”.

Are we to assume this is still the case, since it was as late as 2003 that this opinion was written? That in reality, there is no “ratified” Amendment 16? Does that mean that current law says not enough States passed the Amendment - effectively meaning that we really do not have to pay Income Tax?

It would at least now appear that is true of most of Obama’s cabinet members, anyway…. Alas, that’s a whole other ball of wax, now isn’t it? I’m not going to go into that, but will leave it to someone else.

As to our history lesson though, Congress passed an Amendment that had been ruled unconstitutional just a few short years prior, by the Supreme Court. It appears that after lying to the public - stating that it had been ratified, and subsequently imposing such tax, they summarily saddled every working man and woman with a new law they weren’t expecting in the way of “Income” Tax.

Then we had the next big blow that same year (beginning to sound familar?), the Bankers helped McAdoo and Wilson with a second bill, this one introduced to Congress in the middle of that year’s Christmas holiday break when most of the House was not present.

Now I don’t know how much you and yours pay attention to the passing of legislation, but that’s dirty politics right there. To hold a vote that important without the individuals that had been elected to represent the rights of their constituents, and therefore were listed as “not present”, is just. plain. wrong.!

As a result of that dirty vote though, the House proceeded to ram through the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. That vote effectively began, in large measure, the adoption of the Statist Ideology and began the move away from the Gold Specie. It developed a mixed money system and they did so because the Bankers felt that they could do a much better job than we could or the majority of the people we elected could do. Not really, that’s just what they said; actually, they just wanted control.

That act was and remains the largest elephant (of several) in the room, this isn’t just an 8000 lb elephant, this thing still fills the house floor and is now so bloated it takes up all the space available between the Capital and Wall Street.

So what is the Federal Reserve Board Act?

Many believe the Federal Reserve Board Act is an unconstitutional act. They are probably more right than wrong. The act created a centralized banking system controlled by an independent board of bankers. This board, the Federal Reserve, gave the broad power to perform such central banking functions as: determining and harmonizing discount rates, defining eligible paper, and controlling the issue of notes (aka “money”).

In other words, they are private bankers who control the money, the supply of money – and in still clearer words, the dips, and rises in the economy. They are not a "Federal" anything!

The discount rate is the interest rate charged to commercial banks and other depository institutions on loans they receive from their regional Federal Reserve Bank's lending facility--the discount window. With three types, primary, secondary and seasonal credit, each with its own rate, overnight loans, shortfall loans and less than stellar backed loans. This also allowed a “mixed Gold Standard” meaning that even though Gold remained the backing and a backdrop of support for money, the “Fed” could and did devalue said money by the printing of more money when so desired by raising or lowering the price of Gold or manufacturing money to purchase government securities (bonds, T Bills, etc).

They passed this off as a “good thing” for the American public. Now the very unfederal Fed could issue and print dollar 'notes' at will based on existing gold stores or by buying your government issued bonds with Monopoly money that it then "loaned" to the American Government. The American Government had to pay interest on that money, that the day before this bill was enacted, it already owned - and then turn around to pay interest to the very unfederal Federal Reserve.

You have to admit though; it is a sweetheart deal for the bankers! Admirable even - but I have to think that giving private bankers control over the issuing of money and the setting of interest could be very diabolical, indeed. In reality, it caused a nation that had virtually no inflation and no debt to become one of terrible inflation and way too much debt.

If we are to break it down into easy to understand terms, the true meaning of the establishment of the fed is simply to say that the government and its people no longer had control of their own money. The bankers seized control, and the government had to borrow money from the bankers for anything they needed, then turn right around and pay back that money, with interest, to finance itself...and the best part is that the bankers get to name the interest rate! Sweet!

This from a government that was relatively flush at the time in spite of the fact there were some Industrial hiccups and who had just passed the law that Americans would be taxed on the money they earn to feed their families. This is a very important piece of this whole deal: Hand in hand with the 16th Amendment the government forced fees on the people that the government collected from the sweat of the backs of worker in order to ensure they had enough to pay the interest on the loans – loans for money that yesterday THEY owned.

And the progressives want us to believe they are for the workers....right.

These banker “gentlemen” put us right back into ownership again in a midnight Christmas vote. We fought a war to overcome unreasonable taxation and to take our country away from the throne, and within a little over 125 years, they put us right back there again, only this time to secure votes.

Mayer Rothschild himself said somewhere around 1800 “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws.” Mayer Rothschild was a private banker, born by the name of Bauer, Feb 23, 1744 –Sept 19, 1812. He was the founder of the Rothschild family banking empire that would become one of the most successful business families in history. In 2005, he was ranked 7th on the Forbes magazine list of the The Twenty Most Influential Businessmen Of All Time. The business magazine referred to him as a "founding father of international finance”. I would assume he knew wherefrom he spoke.

It was this law that created the nervousness of the early part of the century and in spite of the assurances of the Fed and the government, was the driving force in the Great Depression. We are there again folks. Do not doubt that.

Next blog: So what really is money?

Living in a Zero-Sum Game

2009-07-06T19:02:00.012-04:00

As our “sort of like god” President raises himself above nations, earth and men, we the people are pawns in a zero-sum game with the administration, the czars and Congress. We are being played to keep us in a state of fear while they steal our money and our liberty. They tout international crisis, global warming disasters, healthcare crisis, economic crisis, housing crisis, and the end-of-life-as-we-know-it-if-we-don’t-have something-passed-by-the-end-of-the-week, weekly crisis - simply to keep us afraid.

Not only do they tout crises but they tell us they see “gold in them thar hills” and they plainly state that they plan to use these crises that come across their desk to their gain! Not our gain, not America’s gain - theirs!

I don’t know how many of you remember the days of the Cold War, but Russia always complained that they were in a zero-sum game – meaning America always won and they always lost. In fact, they still believe it as they just said as much yesterday about Obama and Lady Mi’s latest apology tour to Russia.

In an article in the news.scotsman.com they wrote “Russian news agency Pravda was less than subtle in an editorial summing up the Obama administration, headlined: "Obama: Deceiver, cheat, swindler, liar, fraudster, con-artist. [I think I am beginning to like Pravda these days!] The root cause of the antagonism is a belief in the Kremlin that relations with the West must inevitably be a "zero-sum" game – every gain for the West is a loss for Russia.”

But wait, didn’t President Clinton declare the inevitable end of ALL zero-sum games in a Wired interview? In 2000, he said “The more complex societies get and the more complex the networks of interdependence within and beyond community and national borders get, the more people are forced in their own interests to find non-zero-sum solutions. That is, win–win solutions instead of win–lose solutions....”

It is possible to play a non-zero-sum game as Clinton, Obama and the progressives believe, but only under one of two circumstances, either you DON’T KEEP SCORE, or the only people you play with are people of equal power who have equal cards in an equally stacked deck!

Let’s think about this for a minute. Let’s take just one country and examine this worldwide non-zero-sum game. Let’s take Venezuela’s Chavez. What a great guy he is! He is taking over all the people’s money, all the oil, the banks (only Friday he took over Spanish-owned Banco de Venezuela giving HIM control over more than one-fifth of bank deposits in the country), demanding the end of the US dollar standard, befriending all good despots, and he took over the Presidency this February - forever.

What’s even more interesting is Venezuela’s history. The people suffered under turmoil until the 1958 overthrow of General Jiminez. The ensuing political calm ended again in 1989 when the people rioted and more than 200 of them were killed in Caracas. The Caracazo was a revolt against an economic austerity program launched by President Perez.

In February 1992, a group of army lieutenant colonels led by Chávez mounted an unsuccessful coup attempt, claiming that the events of 1989 showed that the political system no longer served the interests of the people. A second, unsuccessful coup attempt by other officers followed in November 1992. A year later, their Congress impeached Perez on corruption charges.

Now here is something that might sound familiar to us: deep popular dissatisfaction with the traditional political parties, income disparities, and economic difficulties were some of the major frustrations expressed by Venezuelans following Perez's impeachment. In December 1998, Hugo Chávez won the presidency on a campaign for broad reform, change and an end to corruption. Hmmmm.

Chávez platform called for writing a new constitution for Venezuela. He said the existing political system had become isolated from the people. Voters gave all but six seats to the candidates of Chávez’s movement that first election cycle. The new Constitution’s draft was accepted in a national referendum in 1999. One of the new rules was that a President could serve 2 terms of 6 years each.

As Chávez power and wealth grew, his supporters won the majority of the seats in the 2005 municipal elections, and all 167 seats in the National elections later that same year- after most opposition candidates withdrew one week before the elections over voter secrecy concerns.

The independent election observers from the EU (European Union) and OAS (Organization of American States) stated those elections were marked by record-high abstention and high levels of distrust in electoral institutions. That’s double-speak meaning that the voters were scared stiff to even vote. The reports made specific recommendations to increase transparency and help voters regain confidence in the system. The recommendations weren’t ever implemented.

Chávez proposed to reform his own REFORMED Constitution AGAIN in 2007, including measures that allowed indefinite presidential terms, geographic boundaries reorganization (redistricting), and a redefinition of private property (we get to take yours when we feel like it).
In late 2007, those reforms were narrowly defeated. Angered by his first loss, Chávez stated he might pass many of the changes defeated in the referendum by presidential decree, but instead played his power again (by scaring more people?) and won his referendum 14 months later in February. In the end, the people knew they had lost and just gave up. He took 10 years to take away their will, now he will finish taking their property, their money, and their lives.

Chávez can now be an official despot like Castro, Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong-il and his son Kim ll-Sung. He can remain in power. The people of these countries are poor and getting poorer, hungry and getting hungrier while their leaders are rich, fat and powerful and getting more so by the day.

We have to understand that despots rule because the people are afraid of them! The only people in those countries who are happy are those who are in power and their families and friends. How they square what happens to their fellow citizens is simply because it is a zero-sum win and they are winning! Where have we heard that nearly every day this year? That is where we are headed in our country, very quickly with all the legislation coming down the pike, with the czars, the business takeovers, the bank takeovers. It’s the same damn thing!

We really do NOT believe that a dictatorship can happen here in America. I don’t know why we think that because as we are witness, it happens all over the world. Never the less and for some strange reason, we still believe it just can’t happen in America. Our government would never move by force against we the people… Why wouldn’t they if it means they gain control, riches, and all the liberty?

Don’t doubt it. Obama is powerful enough, he is taking the same path as others before him, and like others before him, he is winning while we the people are going to be the ultimate losers in this game. We are in the being played in this zero-sum game, you, me and our kids, along with our culture and liberty will be on the losing end - unless we make winning our second job.

One can only win a non-zero-sum game if you are the ones in power. IF we are the ones who stand to gain, IF we are the ones who are being bailed out because we are TOO BIG TO FAIL, and IF we are the ones who count one whit, we might have a fighting chance. But this particular game benefits no one but Obama and his minions. It is why they had thugs at the polls and didn’t limit the campaigning at the polls, why the White House took over the Census, why they are passing all these major bills and it is why they are on apology tours around the world to our enemies all the while he is thumbing his nose to our allies! We gave it all up, we did near exactly what Venezuela 10 years prior, we voted in a one party rule and none of our usual tactics are working for us to stop them.

Our government is the end all, be all right now to remove us from our rights in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and our Bill of Rights for the sake of progressive party power. They only want to stay in power, to do that they must control all major industry and all money. When they succeed the control of the people of the US will be complete. We are the losers in Cap and Trade, in stimulus and bailouts, we are the losers in Healthcare Reform and we are certainly the losers if he too can be “President forever”.

What does it take for us to see the similarities, to recognize a despot and to know that dictatorships do not work? It only takes knowledge and the will to use it every single day going forward.

Cartoon is the courtesy of my friend Robert Smith, Jr. To see more of his work, check out http://www.robsmithjr.com/! Thanks Rob!

Maybe in a Way, Holder Was Right

2009-07-05T10:26:00.025-04:00

Whether or not you believe in God, you must admit there is good sound advice in the pages of the bible. The one that comes to mind in these terrible days is “My people perish for a lack of knowledge.”

I say terrible days because they are terrible. Just the short list of “terrible” is pretty astounding!

Worldwide Economic “collapse”
North Korea testing 9 missiles July 4th alone! (Guess they want in on the fireworks?)
Freedom lovers like Neda slaughtered in the streets of Iran
A mysterious Swine/Avian/Human Flu threatening to kill 40 a day by summer’s end in the UK
A Honduran coup (because their President was shredding their Constitution) while our President supports the ousted despot
Israel losing their country one slice at a time by mainly our President, but also International force
Sharia Law suddenly becoming the law of the land in the common law based UK, making the Queen a puppet
The swift loss of our freedoms here in our own country
Staggering job losses
More than staggering debt
The massive loss of our homes
A created “energy crisis” that will indebt us even further and ruin our ability to compete
The probable loss of even our own private healthcare so we can insure millions of illegals while you and I get taxed and rationed on our insurance
A President and Congress that almost seem hell bent on our demise by saddling us with astronomical debt to build overpass bridges for Microsoft and building “monuments to me” buildings for overinflated egos that we cannot possibly fathom nor afford
Right down to our choice of light bulbs – forcing us to replace safe, cheap bulbs with expensive poisonous ones

Why is all of this happening? I think it is because we lack knowledge. Because knowledge is the only thing that has the potential to set us free. We bought the lies they sold us.

We want sound bites; we want the McDonald’s version of history, economics, and world order. We want to live our lives seeing the issues solved in less than one hour just like on TV and we want to trust the “good guys” will win. We mistakenly believe that the “good guys” just happen to be the ones WE elected to office, regardless of the evidence that is staring us in the face.

We try to tell ourselves it will work itself out. We question our concern. We actually want to believe whatever they tell us, even though our senses are screaming NOT, basically because we want stuff. We want an armchair life to being the quarterback. We want to sit in our easy chair, cloaked in expensive jersey, stuff our faces with pizza while we spit all over the screen as we shout our ‘shoulda, woulda coulda’ directions at the four inch Quarterback inside a tube. Why shouldn't we? After all, that's as American as apple pie, right?

Only problem is, this is not a game. This is not a drill. This is a “Go To Jail. Go Directly To Jail. Do Not Pass Go” card.

Eric Holder, our newest Attorney General called us a nation of cowards. Although he wrongly said those words in reference to race, in our heart of hearts I think we all know that he was half-right. He’s not right in the way he meant it, but through the opposite of what he said. As a whole we are coddled; we are comfortable on our couch and we are afraid to say much about the President because he is the first black President, even though he’s not black; at least not any more so than he is white. We want our life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, yet we want it without a price to us personally - we want it in our armchair. (It's okay if the other guy pays a price though, after all, he chose it, right?)

We are afraid to criticize too much because they might call us a racist. No, no and Hell no! They are the racists for even entering that thought into the equation! This is our Administration we are talking about! This is our country! I don’t care whether the man is white, black, or freaking chartreuse! This is the guy who is running our country right into a deep dark hole with the help of a one party rule Congress and a passel of unelected “officials”. This is Bush dark, peddling the same crap on another day courtesy of Goldman Sachs and company! I am not a racist, but I am a patriot and I want my country back from whatever (party, person or president) is trying to take it away!

We have stopped trusting ourselves and our own brains. We hear statements like “I want to help you” from our politicians, and we want to believe them because we have lost so much trust in ourselves that we think we can’t possibly help ourselves.

Oh, we’ll be macho at our tailgate party, at the bar when we can barely remain seated on the stool and some jerk makes a pass at our wife, or while we sit in our living rooms screaming at the TV, but we aren’t really. We are just posturing. We aren’t macho. We are soft, we are scared, and we are cowering because we want what we want when we want it and we don’t like it when we can’t get it. We see what happened to people like Neda in Iran and we gawk as though we are driving by a gory accident. The real problem is that we don't think it can happen here! Not in America! We think it is sad, but that is all. We should be in front of that White House right now!

We think that maybe, just maybe, big brother is right. Maybe if I just keep my head down when they tell me to, not grumble too much as they indebt every household in America to (currently) a whopping $546,000 apiece in future taxes, if we just allow them to pick our pockets whenever they want – maybe then they can give us what we want. We can keep our job, we get “Free” healthcare, we make sure we have our TV to mesmerize us to doldrums, have ourselves a little vacation, a beer and an iPhone when we want one, and we tell ourselves it’ll be okay. After all, they "say" we made this mess, so we guess we just have to take our lumps.

That is wrong on so many levels, but I truly do believe that every single one of us is guilty of thinking that big brother just might be right - at one moment in time or another - because it is just easier!

It’s isn’t easy starting a revolution, but whether it is easy and comes in a cardboard box and a side of fries within minutes of our order like Honduras', or we have to build another world stone by stone simply doesn’t matter. What matters is that we wake up and realize (finally) that they really only want the rest of our money so they can be hugely, obscenely rich and they can stay in power. We simply get to be the slaves that make it all possible for them.

To do this, they must break us of our wealth, our spirit, our liberty, and our will first. They started with our wealth; they are simultaneously working on our spirit and our liberty. Our will comes next. That means they start taking everything away from those who do not comply - including our armchairs, our electricity, our very ability to sleep in our own beds.

News flash - we already are their slaves; we just haven’t figured it out yet. Or if we have figured it out, we don't want to believe it! The only thing left for them to do is the privation.

If we perish for lack of knowledge, then obviously we survive with it: right? Isn’t that what it means? Perish means to die of violence or privation (death by neglect, denial, devoid of any stimuli), to pass away or disappear, to suffer destruction or ruin. The opposite then is to survive, which means to live after an occurrence, to get along and remain happy, healthy, and unaffected, to pull oneself out of a dangerous, life- threatening situation while others around you die. I don’t know about you, but I don’t think that government can help me; they can’t help me to be successful, save myself or to live. In fact, I think government is a lot like TV. While it might on occasion be entertaining, it makes me dull, dimwitted, spoon-fed, unable to fend or think for myself and frankly lackadaisical.

Over the next few weeks, I am going to post a series of articles. We have to gain this knowledge. We have to realize that this is not a “McDonald’s fight”. This is the real thing. We have one of two choices, to perish or to survive. To put it another way, be slaves or free men.

We now have a new fight before us, Obamaminions are laying the groundwork for his third term. He is making his move on the 22nd amendment which is the one that limits a President to two terms. Jose Serrano, D- NY introduced legislation in the house to repeal the 22nd amendment, to take it away, to say it is no longer valid. A grass roots movement is underway (ACORN) to make Obama's third term possible. A beautiful big website is set up for donations to end the 22nd amendment, http://www.end22.com/. (BTW - does it ever concern you that there seems to be NO END to the money to build websites on the other side? Ya think maybe ACORN is spending their 8 frigging billion dollars they were awarded in stimulus to build these websites?)

So the moral of this story is this. The very thing that the Honduras President was ousted for in last week’s coup, is the very thing that Obama is trying to do right now! (Would explain the constant campaign mode.) If we allow this to continue, it does make Holder right and us simply cowards; quite unlike the people of Honduras who were able to peacefully dispose of a budding despot.

Ok. Order up?

Evan Thomas of Newsweek Gives US 1984 in Real Time

2009-06-12T18:45:00.077-04:00

A few days ago Evan Thomas, editor of Newsweek magazine, in a stunning display of revisionist history and heretics stated that Obama “was sort of a god”. Now there is an interesting comparison. Wrong, heretical, revisionist, but never the less interesting. Here it is for your viewing pleasure.

As we see in this over the top interview where Chris Matthews surely felt the tingling up his leg (an oh-so-gross word picture that never fails to give me the heebie jeebies) as he was declaring "Yeah!", a new comparison was made to ‘the one’ - this time comparing him to God and to President Reagan, all in a 37 second time slot. In this grandstanding, Thomas says "that in 1984 America was ‘still the good guy’, Reagan’s message was different, it was all about America. Obama has a different task", he says, now we are the "bad guys" and he needs to make people love us again, to bring all sorts of people together, to be above America and above the world…"as sort of a god".

Oh man, Evan did you have to spoil my week that way? I might add, I'm not sure that the despots (who aren't Obama) in the world are liking that analogy much either!

Let’s break this down politically first, bit by bit to find out where all the ideas in this little world you imagine come from, Mr. Thomas.

President Reagan came into his own starting back in the late 40’s where the real threat to the Republic was the infiltration of the various forms of totalitarianism. A time when the Socialist, Communist, Progressive, Trotskyist, Labor, and Bolshevik Parties inserted themselves into the Celebrity crowd. Ronald Reagan was on the board of the Screen Actors Guild at the time. It was established as a union for Actors meant to protect them against abuse of the movie houses prior to the start of WWII. It has since turned into a platform for far left leaning socialism - at best - ever seeking the promised Utopia where they are assured of continuing status in the public eye and on the political scene regardless of how dead their career might now be (think Janeane Garafolo here).

Then Reagan, a Reservist from the US Calvary, was called to duty after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He developed (as Second Lieutenant on stateside duty) a new and important method of preparing the bombardiers and pilots for their mission by recreating the Tokyo and Japanese coastlines on a soundstage. By using a camera on a derrick, his team would film what the crew of the plane would see.

Additionally, there were classified films that were made by the troops on the frontlines for the Generals; these were “on location” films of our troops overtaking death camps. Ronald Reagan was one of the first people in the US (through his role as filmmaker) to view these early death camp films. It was through these films that he first experienced the visual and visceral horror of the death camps and it was that experience that horrified and haunted him, no end, until the end of his days. He never forgot those scenes, the sole arm reaching out in death throes from a sea of dead bodies, and it was that remembrance that drove much of what he did after the war. In fact, he kept that particular film and brought it out to show anyone who ever approached him with revisionist history concerning the death camps, giving them lessons on reality. A lesson from which you yourself might benefit, Mr. Thomas.

His movie career was diminished immediately after the war, but public policy and politics had taken root in his heart because of the films he witnessed. He was still a Democrat at that time, but an old school Democrat. He hated Fascism in all its forms because of the very thing he saw that it caused, which led soon to his hating other "isms" in all of their forms just as deeply. He joined many different groups in Hollywood and he became a speaker. His did so out of a deeply held conviction, not for fame or fortune, for surely it hurt his career as an actor.

In a speech to one of the groups, he spoke eloquently against fascism to roaring applause, then as he ended his speech, he said,

“There is another ‘ism’ and if I ever find evidence that communism represents a threat to all we believe in and stand for, I’ll speak out just as harshly against communism as I have fascism.”

He was met with utter silence as he exited the stage. Soon after that moment was when he realized that communism was deeply entrenched into the heart and soul of Hollywood. He began then resigning many groups which he had joined, started his own crusade against those party lines along with several other big screen names. Eventually his passion helped him become our President, one of the greatest President’s in modern history.

Reagan believed in freedom and in liberty. He believed everyone should join in to declare freedom and liberty including anarchist, monarchists, Wobblies, and whomever. He despised Secretism in all its forms, believing that if you refuse to come forward publicly with your ideals and your goals, then you are pursuing power by guile and deception, silently overtaking institutions, companies, and organizations to move for power through force. In his mind, that is what Nazi Germany did and that is what Fascists and those who support Dictators do. It was simply un-American! He was not anti-union, he was anti-fascism, anti-socialism, anti-communism, anti-liberalism, and anti anything that takes away life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He came out hard against organized labor because he saw that secretism take away the will of the people in many ways, including the electoral process through strong-arm tactics.

In the early days after the war, as a member of the Screen Actors Guild, he was asked as a part of a group to research the strikes to ensure they were really about wage or working conditions abuse. He and others in this group found that they were not at all about abuse, they were about who actually was hired to do the work. This led to not honoring the strikes and it placed Reagan roundly in the crosshairs of fascism, literally and figuratively. It was found that Moscow had in fact orchestrated the unrest and this began the Reagan Revolution that was nearly another 30 years in the making. I say all this out of historical fact, not out of a sense of deification of the man Ronald Reagan. He was a great man, a far sight better orator than Obama (he didn't require the POTUS II Teleprompter in order not to um and ah)and he made our country strong and proud again in spite of mistakes. That is all we the people really require from a President, to keep us strong and safe and to use the Constitution as it stands, as he swore to uphold, as his guideline.

Enter Norman Thomas

Although the differing far left parties were weakened by FDR’s policies of the New Deal, they were regrouping under the tutelage of none other than Norman Thomas, six times Socialist Party of America Presidential candidate loser, and the one who declared,

"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without ever knowing how it happened."

Norman Thomas was the ipso facto leader of the new Socialist Party of America. His leadership goal in this new party was to attempt to bring all these various labor and fascist groups together under one set of common platforms. He quit running for President after the new deal, and rumor says that he stated it was because he no longer needed to run for office as the Democratic Party was carrying forward his agenda just fine.

Norman Thomas studied under Woodrow Wilson at Princeton before Wilson was President. He continued schooling at Union Theological Seminary after a stint traveling and he became a Presbyterian Minister. He was Editor of the “The World Tomorrow” publication, the leading voice in the Christian Socialist movement, he was also a member of the Marxist Party, the Assistant Editor of “The Nation” magazine, and was Grandfather to none other than Evan Thomas of Newsweek fame - the comparer of Obama to God and the rewriter of 1984 history, not to mention quite possibly the book! Are we really surprised?

Remember, Reagan began to get his footing as a political leader in those same days. He saw the likes of Norman Thomas, he watched these groups get funding from Leninist's and Stalinist's. He watched as they gained footing in the youth movement to gobble up our youth in great gulps, promising dreams of a utopia where there would be no war, only equality and fraternity with State-owned everything, freely handing it out like candy. He supported birth control, saying essentially that to not would be to support the white man's way of populating the earth with little mini-me's. Reagan listened to radio addresses by Thomas where he talked about things like; the Socialist Party has the desirability of unions, not to live with a rigid creed, but like good Marxists.

Was that simply to encourage the youth to join? This promise of, even though we know the State owns everything, we promise to provide you equality in your personhood, in all your material desires and a fraternity in all your whims and beliefs without creed? As if to make them believe that absolute power does not corrupt absolutely and Freedom from Want is all they need?

Ronald Reagan spoke out against all of that and Norman Thomas personally as it relates to another issue that is bigger today than it was even then, and that is the issue of socialized medicine.

Thomas stated in a 1958 radio address in Chicago,

“I think that the socialism of the future has to be increasingly a socialism that is based on the common interest of all of us as consumers. The common interest of all of us in liberty, equality, fraternity and a decent material life, a common interest of all of us in owning the diminishing supply of natural resources. Now this isn’t to deny the existence of class conflicts and this isn’t to deny the tremendous importance of the organized workers, but it is to affirm that the socialism that is going to win in an age in which increasingly the job has to think in consumer’s terms. It has to think in terms well, as the abundance of housing and the equality of what women and men are made of. Of course I am for the largest possible unity of democratic socialists and not on a sectarian basis, but very frankly, I do not think we would accomplish very much, we democratic socialists, in unity unless we get a whole lot more with us pretty soon. They are terms of meeting our problems now in the language of press. They are terms of dialogue to use a now popular term “a dialogue with the realities of the press”. This is what concerns us and we shall, I think, have to work out partly because of our political institutions being presidential rather than parliamentary. We shall have to work out difficult techniques because we can’t get as far as we used to by nominating candidates for almost all offices. You younger people, of whom I am glad to see so many, will have to work this out with vigor, with imagination and with determination.”

Right there in that 1958 Radio address, Norman Thomas got it all started. A mixture of State owned everything except certain services left open for competition, but as he also stated in that very same speech,
“an ability to control everything through taxation and labor legislation”.

Here in the America I know: Reagan saw this movement was afoot, a movement to socialism in the extreme, just as it is today. We had just come off the Carter years when Reagan came to power and by 1984 he had begun the great turnaround in this nation, a turnaround that lasted nearly 30 years. A turnaround that caused the socialists to slink back to whatever rock they crawled out from under, after another failed attempt at socialism.

Americans ushered in a man who got it, who understood that free markets and low taxes were what brought the people liberty, that the right to choose for them even included the right not to work, but it meant they would then remain poor. He understood that the Constitutional Culture is one of strong independence and personal accountability, not one of Freedom from Want. He screamed it from the rooftops, “If you want it, go get it, I'll even help you. But don’t you dare take mine without asking me first!” He was not parochial, he was not provincial, and he was certainly not chauvinistic, nor are we Americans. Is that really what you believe being a true Constitutionalist means, Evan?

Norman Thomas' ideas, with the persistent help of his grandson no doubt, has become the true direction of the progressive party we see today, from land grabs at the federal level, to UN initiatives like Agenda 21, the Global Warming mantra, to total control of the masses through taxation and labor in a planned not very Utopian utopia, to the very recent ownership by the Union majority shareholders of Chrysler and soon GM.

You are digging being "openly socialist" like your grandfather taught you, aren't you Evan? Those tingles are just rocking and rolling up your legs as you see your 'sort of god' using our taxes and our wealth to control us. To steal entire century old companies right out from under the true public's nose - you know, the true 'we the people' who have worked and saved and bought our shares as an investment - and which is now entirely worthless through the nationalization of these businesses? Are you quite happy to see these companies just handed over to organized labor after your 'sort of god' traded in all the preferred for common stock so that it could be done. I'll bet that just makes those tingles roll for you, doesn't it?

Obama apparently studied the message well, which is why Thomas Jr. is so happily sharing the tinglies with Matthews. They think they are winning this long awaited battle, and they are - for now - but once the people see that the utopia will never materialize, their pocketbooks are shrinking and the job market dries up, look out Mr. Apologist in Chief, because you will be kicked to the curb. But hey, while you are on your way out, would you do us one favor please? Would you take Mr. We Are All Socialists Now and Mr. Tingly Jeans with you?

To you Mr. Evan Thomas, grandson of the great social engineer Norman Thomas, that is exactly the reason that President Ronald Reagan spoke mainly about America. That is exactly why he gave back our tax dollars, put the world on notice, sought out panels for small business and local government to advice him, brought our country out of a near miss with 1930’s history, and made us “the shining city on the hill” again. Your revisionist history, while slightly entertaining, is not quite so true. Or do you so soon forget the difficulties Reagan faced with Iran kidnapping American hostages, Hezbollah, the Achille Lauro, the Sandinista, the Libyans, the West Berlin disco, and the Soviets to name a few?

You say Reagan’s was a time when America was well liked among the nations?

Hardly, sir!

Was it a time when we were well respected for our strength?

You bet your bottom dollar, sir!

Now today we have a man who has been dubbed “sort of like god” going on these perpetual self-aggrandizing campaign tours where he is obviously campaigning for Leader of the world, and who is systematically tearing down every special relationship and ally we have on this planet to do what exactly? Apologize? For WHAT?! Is it really for the thrill of quarter dipping before the King in Saudi Arabia? Or maybe Obama was just gauging his popularity with the King, you know, checking to see if he got the leg tingles too....

This president with a little p is out making nice with the people who drive planes into our building, who behead people at whim (as he weakly compares our women rights issues with theirs), and who are, as I write, busy building nuclear weapons. He supports a nation that has 1500 centrifuges churning this stuff out and who have declared their wish for the annihilation of Israel! We have European nations leaning considerably to the right in this past weekend’s election cycle, signally something quite loudly to the inexperienced one we now call our president with a little p. That should make you nervous all in itself, there, little mini-Norm.

And you dare to compare him to God?!

I find I can't even make an argument to this statement for that would be lending it the credence it does not deserve. But I will say this, thank God Obama is not "sort of like a god". The real God has it all over him every day of the week.

I'll bet that's what your grandaddy taught you starting “a dialogue with the realities of the press” meant, huh?

Well, Mr. Grandson of Socialism, I would be keeping an eye on the sky if I were you and I might be considering donning something myself for a while - like a rubber suit complete with booties? Otherwise those tinglies you share with Chris Matthews might just intensify for you with that big lightning strike that is heading your way from the real God, ya know? Yow! Wouldn't want to be you!

We Are All Founding Fathers Now

2009-05-28T11:46:00.003-04:00

By: Michael S. Yashko

The cover of Newsweek Magazine recently proclaimed, “We Are All Socialists Now”. Maybe we are. Maybe it’s time to stop kidding ourselves. Let’s quit pretending that we’re a country of rugged individualists, like in the movies. John Wayne doesn’t live here anymore. Perhaps we should stop the charade and just get it over with, admit that we just don’t have it in us. Americans like the federal nanny-state. They need the federal nanny-state.

To resolve all doubt, we could gather in Philadelphia, draft a Declaration of Dependence and submit these facts to a candid World: “We hold these Truths to be self-evident in our Society: that without Federal Government intervention, we cannot take care of ourselves, our families or our neighbors; that we are endowed by the benevolent good graces of a ubiquitous Federal Government with certain unalienable Rights and that chief among these are taxpayer-funded programs to ensure our happiness and well-being. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on our own inadequacy, we pledge to the Federal Government our blind loyalty, our incomes and our sacred liberty.”

But maybe Newsweek was wrong - a modern-day “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment. I sense a growing awareness on the part of average citizens. Previously too busy bettering themselves and doing right by their neighbors to be “activist” about anything, they are awakening to the realization that their country is being changed. America is not changing in the sense of a benign, political drift, but it is being relentlessly, purposefully changed in a real, fundamental and irreversible way. People now sense that we’ve reached a tipping point, a moment in the history of our Nation when the core philosophy of our country is being re-set for good. And, the gravity of this realization is spurring them to “get into the game.”

Let’s face facts. We are presently engaged in the “Third Founding” of the United States. Only the Revolution and the Civil War rival the coming four years in philosophical importance. If we are intellectually honest and aware, we should recognize that we are being forced to choose: become full-blown socialists or turn back to our historical roots as a constitutional republic. Time is short. This “re-founding” is going to be complete within the next four years, not some time in the obscure future. In these next four years, we will decide if we’re capable of taking back the power we’ve ceded to Washington or if we really are all socialists now. Did Newsweek get it wrong? We’ll know soon enough. We’ll have an idea of what road we’re on after the 2010 midterm elections. The morning after the next Presidential Election, we’ll know for sure.

It’s late in the game, but the battle of ideas has finally been joined in earnest. I say “in earnest” because we finally realize that both political parties are speeding us down F.A. Hayek’s Road To Serfdom. People finally grasp that the choice is not between Republicans or Democrats, but between an intrusive federal nanny-state run by both parties or a movement by the people to take back the power originally reserved for them by the Constitution’s Framers.

The Founders gave us a constitutional republic and made individual liberty paramount. They designed a decentralized government to ensure that the people could govern themselves – those most directly affected had the most say. We now have a centralized, mass democracy where the concept of federalism is but a footnote in history. Professor Claes Ryn calls the social and political philosophy which enabled the Federal Government to invade every nook and cranny of our lives a “moral hoax” because it allows the proponents of big-government to “ooze benevolence for people in the abstract.” Because they don’t have to do something concrete for specific people it is checkbook morality - “moralism made easy”.

The Supreme Court aided and abetted this transformation of the Constitution by ignoring or re-writing clause after clause limiting government power. In his book, Restoring the Lost Constitution, Professor Randy Barnett vividly describes the result, “The Constitution that was actually enacted and formally adopted creates islands of government powers in a sea of liberty. The judicially redacted constitution creates islands of liberty rights in a sea of governmental power.”

So, what to do? Professor Barnett has a concrete answer is in his Forbes.com article, A Bill of Federalism (May, 20, 2009). We must demand that the Federal Government return the power it has usurped. We must restore the original balance of power between the Federal Government and people and the States. But legally and politically, we cannot simply erase the Supreme Court cases that brought us to this point. We must amend the Constitution to formally reinstate the clauses eliminated from the Founders’ Constitution. In this way, we can assume control over our own lives again, just as the Framers intended.

We are but months away from the culmination of Socialism’s one hundred year assault on the Founders’ core philosophies and their Constitution. We must face squarely the question, “What is the proper role of Government in our lives?” Either we will re-affirm the philosophy and virtues of our Founders and re-invigorate the Constitutional Republic they created, or we will take the final step to European-style Socialism. I see ahead the last off-ramp on Hayek’sRoad To Serfdom. Let’s take that exit marked “Individual Liberty, Limited Government and Free Enterprise.” Fight for what you believe in. Join the debate. We Are All Founding Fathers Now.

© 2009. All Rights Reserved.

The So Not Cool Bill Cram du jour - How Do You Go About Proving a Negative?

2009-05-04T10:30:00.001-04:00

Obama is making a proposal announcement to Congress later this morning that if passed, will have two very negative and far-reaching effects on this country. He will propose Congress write a bill to raise taxes on corporations and literally change the way the courts view the presumption of innocence by going after US Citizens who put their money into off-shore, non reporting country banks. This tiny little sideline will seek to prosecute people who keep monies offshore through tax avoidance/cheat laws. He will also ask for provisions for 800 new IRS agents to fulfill this law. 800! I just love these one, two, three you’re out “bill cram du jour” punches, don’t you?

We will make it look good while we change the entire way our system works in the country and no one will be the wiser!

I am going to focus on that bigger point that will be hidden in this bill cram de jour, that little known bit of information wwwaaaaayyyyy at the bottom of the article that we won’t really catch in his spectacularly orated announcement. The second half of that bill I will call the “You are so screwed” amendment. To do that, I still have to attack the first premise of the bill in the hopes that enough of the right people get a hold of this to stop the train before it gets rolling.

Under the guise of “making the rich corporations pay” what will end up being a measly $210 Billion over 10 years (vs. the very real $787 Billion Stimulus Package slated to be spent over the next two years), Obama is going to use this bill cram du jour to “do an AIG” on the American people once again. He’s going to highlight the terrible nature of a company trying to make enough money to survive our country’s outrageous tax consequences to be able to employ folks. Then he is going to make a big to do about those terrible rich people who use non-reporting country’s banking systems to “circumvent” tax laws, “cheat” the poor people. What he won’t say is that while he is at it, he is going to slip in the teeny-tiny little change to our presumption of innocence clause, namely changing it to a presumption of guilt clause that says we will have to prove our innocence!

Are you hearing me? You Mr. “Charged with Theft” or Mrs. “Didn’t Pay My Taxes on Time”. You will, if this bill passes, be presumed guilty, and have to find a way to prove your innocence.

If you think this will only affect tax law, you are sorely mistaken. Once that door is open, once a case is upheld, that CASE LAW will be what permeates every other smart prosecutor’s case building efforts, in all courtrooms, at all levels - tax, civil and criminal.

It only takes one case.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
- Robert F. Kennedy

This announcement will be to try to get the American Public spun up once again about the “rich” getting “richer”, even as it applies to businesses who are the ones who do the employing. I’m not going to belabor this point mainly because there is nothing to labor over. It is a proven fact: businesses that are forced to pay higher taxes in America do three things - move more jobs or their entire company overseas, raise the price of goods to Americans (pass through), and lay off those Americans who are the ones doing the jobs that provide the businesses a loophole to begin with. You can argue those points, but you’ll sound rather dense because you can’t hide from those facts.

If you are a corporation, or you are a defense, business, tax lawyer, or judge, we are counting on you. Somehow, you must get to the media who tingles up their legs every time the orator utters an “uh”, you must promise no campaign contributions to anyone on the left if this bill goes through and you must let the money you have amassed work for you on this one. Frame the argument in a way everyone can understand. You aren’t big business people, rich, or attorneys for nothing, and I would say this is more important to be on the side of right rather than on the side of populous and shut Obama down on this one. You have good brains. Use them! They aren’t listening to the masses anymore, we will back you and fight like hell, but you are the ones on the front lines on this one.

Will someone please be big enough to stand up to set this control freak President down! And Jack Kemp, if you can hear me, please mention this one to Jesus while you are making introductions!

Taking Back Hope

2009-05-02T23:13:00.011-04:00

I was asked last night, "What else can we do?". I was told today through the grapevine by someone else that maybe we were trying to do too much. The latter statement is something I strongly disagree with even though I can see that to some it may look that way. It is not upsetting, actually it is galvanizing to me. To be successful, you have to think big, right?

I believe it is up to the people to change the way we do things. Like a marriage takes hard work to repair, so does a country. If we, as a whole, go about our own personal duties, lose touch with our loved one, and perhaps took for granted our relationship would always remain the same, we now know one thing. Being in any relationship is kind of like a marriage, whether it be to a single individual, a group or even an entire country - if we take something for granted, it can turn away, even when it is a while before we know it turned away. That is where I see us now, as conservatives, our country turned away from us.

So what can we do to stop this out of control world, to take it back to what we can live with and further? Here are just a few of my thoughts...

First, we must stop re-electing the same old, same old. If we want change that demands a smaller, more responsive government, lower taxes, etc., we start first with our party chairperson. We tell them what it is we expect from those they back and fund. Then we go to talk to the State chairperson, saying much the same.

We take a contingent from each State’s 912project and we go make a visit to our respective parties, each person along their party lines, but we go together as a State group. We list our grievances with them. When we do not see a change there (and they won't believe us at first), we write a group letter, we sign the letter individually to say that we are all dropping out of their party to join another. We tear up our party card and place the bits in the envelope with the letter. Then we, as county groups go together to our respective voter registrar for our lunch hour one day and we proceed to change our parties - that very day. We invite the media when we do so.

We write letters to the editor often, we blog the truth daily, we go to the county conservative meetings, our own and other groups. As a group, our State 912 is doing a lot to organize to help us find our voices. We make sure we attend and participate, as well as invite our friends or people we meet to join us. We start book clubs, hold seminars, sponsor Tea Parties, watch and fight the bills and appointments that are dangerous to our freedoms, and we attend the functions and events as often as possible realizing that there is just not a more important role we can play at this time in our history. We help other groups with their functions and most importantly, we help one another Live and Give in freedom.

We understand that it is not only our military whose duty it is to sacrifice and to put their lives on hold, possibly even laying them on the line, to protect our country; it is each and every citizen’s duty to be active in our government.

We stop expecting the people we elect, during this time anyway, to represent us. Instead, we cause them to shudder at the sight of us. We want them feeling nauseous every day as they face going into the office. We want to take away their toys. They will not like that very much. We stay in their face with letters, calls, faxes, visits, petitions, marches and we focus on staying in their face for at least an hour out of every day. We remember, this is our freedom, our Constitution and our way of life they are tearing down, and we have a DUTY to not allow them to do that.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears its people, there is liberty. - Thomas Jefferson

The moment we see that a representative is not voting in the Constitution's best interest, we should recall our elected representatives (for the States that have that option in their constitution), we start those petitions and we carry them through. If we are in a State that does not have the recall option, when their terms are up, they are voted out. No excuses. No apologies. We work just as hard on getting them booted out as others did getting them elected. We find that grassroots politician and we help that hopeful, we give of our money and our time. I could really care less if we ended up with an entire freshman congress and senate at once; we have to make sure the government and financial elite know we will not stand for this. And we do not elect MORE lawyers!

For those who are so inclined, we set up prayer schedules with our friends. We spend every day praying that God would move in a miraculous way to halt this crazy train we find ourselves on. We set a schedule, take 10 minutes and sit in prayer, every day specifically for this country, its people and our leaders.

We realize that it took them 30 years to get here, longer actually, but the train sped up over the last 30 and now here is where we find ourselves, ridiculed as teabaggers, veterans in danger of blowing a gasket when they get home, rightwing extremists in danger of who knows what because we use the word "Constitution, God, ProLife", or any number of other conservative terms. They believe we have unhealthy disaffection because we are not sitting down anymore in silent discouragement for what we can't tolerate. Wow! We realize that we are enlisted to the duties of our citizenship for as long as we are American citizens.

We work to petition our respective States to reaffirm the 10th Amendment. We visit, talk to, call and fax our representatives in the State. We petition our counties, our towns and our States to return the stimulus money, to stop spending, to be careful with the money we entrust to them. We petition them to join with other States to force the government to stop the spending and to lower taxes. It takes 2/3rds of our States. If it means we grind this economy to a halt for a minute, with the exception of the small business, the local grocer, that is what it means.

We boycott the Main Stream Media and their advertisers. We do so in an organized way. We turn off our expansive channel choices and move back to basic cable, as much as possible, all at once, simply pick a day to bring down their phone lines with cancellations until all service but basic is cancelled.

We tell them it is because we cannot support Main Stream Media outlets that they suffer. We stop buying those things that are advertised on the stations whose commentators get tingly up their legs. We insist they represent us fairly, or plugs are pulled. We cancel papers and subscriptions that do not serve the truth, we write letters to every single advertiser who supports those that would unfairly report the news.

We save our money, we learn to garden, and we lead a simpler life of hearth and home. We fight the laws they are making at warp speed, we set up 20 blogs and 50 different websites, if we must, so they cannot take our communication down with a cybersecurity czar. We refuse to allow our children to be enlisted into the Civilian Military as designed by the Give Act, even if it means we homeschool or send to them to a private school. Grandparents, help your grandchildren. We go to church. We reach out and help our neighbors.

We write letters to the leaders of other governments and we tell them we ARE a Christian Nation, that we love our country and we will not go quietly into the night of one world government. We systematically undo or disable every step the current and last Administration has done, as much as is possible.

We refuse to buy vehicles from a government owned auto company, we buy used. We refuse to bank at a bank that accepted TARP wherever possible.

Moreover, we stop arguing with the left and we start doing positive things for this country and for each other. This country is not owned by the government, the government is owned by us. We need to act like it. Are we heir’s of this nation or aren’t we?

We have no need to be worried about what they have done. We have no need to apologize or whimper or to even be overwhelmed. WE are the heirs of this nation and we have a right to ensure we stand up for her and we understand that WE SURROUND THEM.

They do have need to be worried about what we are doing. Our pens are mightier than any sword. We must remember this one thing - That which we tolerate, IS what we stand for!

This administration does not own hope, they do not own change, and they certainly do not own "Yes we can". We simply need to reclaim those words, reclaim our hope and, hold our values dear to live them out as our own. For we do own them, each of us own them, individually. No government machine can corporately own words, for then they are only slogans.

Liberty is not something that can be taken, it can only be given up by our inaction.

You are not alone.

America - The Beacon of Hope to the World

2009-05-02T14:11:00.006-04:00

Written By Greg

George Washington wrote, “I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.” - The writing of George Washington, by John C. Fitzpatrick, GPO, 1931 – 44. Vol 32:2

By this statement, we know that George Washington understood a truth; that God allowed a group of militias to unite to overthrow the mighty British army, whose job it was to uphold the tyrannical rule of the British Empire over the colonies.

When I read his writings, I believe that George Washington sensed the reason for God’s favor on those patriots included an important point – one that I see us moving farther away from as a nation. Namely that God had given a vision to these believing patriots to ensure that our country would be a model, a "Beacon of Hope" to the world. These patriots knew from where their strength came. They knew they were operating under the blessings and by the direction of the One who could lead them from tyranny to liberty. The Constitution of the United States of America is, among other things, a testimony to this reality.

George Washington knew that it would take the American people working together to uphold the principles of our country that are manifested by the United States Constitution. The principles are the reason that he and so many others had sacrificed their comfort, security, health, and ultimately for many, their lives. He knew that winning our independence was nothing short of a miracle, and that our “experiment” as a republic with a distributed form of government led by the people would fail if we failed to remember what would make it succeed – to continue to be the Beacon of Hope – One Nation, Under God.

Our Statue of Liberty declares to the world, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Lady Liberty is a symbol of our own freedom from tyranny and is a symbol of hope the rest of the world. However, a statue with words, or a government making new laws will not endow the American People or the immigrants who have entered her shores with the strength to uphold such lofty ideals. We are a free people, endowed by our Creator to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and we are given a heady responsibility to care for our fellow man while ensuring the continuation of the Republic. Without God, freedom becomes impossible to maintain. It is when the American people remember that those words etched on Lady Liberty by human hands, has a deeper meaning when we believe in our God and His offer - “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest”.

How far have we strayed from these truths? Our elected leaders apologize to the Leaders of these "huddled masses" for what our country has done. Our leaders, elected and unelected are taking significant steps to give up our hard fought sovereignty to be part of a global central government, a one world order, whose goal it is to usurp the moniker "beacon of hope". Our President is trying to convince other nations who have watched the true Beacon of Hope become the leader of the free world through these 200 years that we are no longer a Christian nation.

Of course, these leaders are not the first Americans who deny that it was and continues to be the blessings of our Creator that has allowed the miracle of our nation to occur. These are simply the first leaders to be in a position of power, and to the have benefit of a global stage, enabled by technology and own the media to such an extent that they can get away with making these proclamations. These are the first leaders of the free world to have the ability to take advantage of the momentum and traction of an emerging, powerful global central government whose viability has been enhanced by a global financial crisis not seen since the Great Depression.

It is up to the American people to remember what has allowed us to be the leader of the free world. We need to remember why we are the nation with more immigrants every year than any other nation – it is because we are the Beacon of Hope.

Those of us that understand these truths need to remind our family, friends and neighbors that are old enough to remember the time when we prayed the Lord’s Prayer and pledged our allegiance to our flag every morning at school. We need to take the time to explain to the under 40 set that we did this every morning of every school day so the American people would never forget why we are blessed to live in the greatest nation the earth has ever known.

If we know the truth, the truth shall make us free. If we speak the truth in love, our numbers will increase. If the numbers increase a grass roots force will exist who know these truths, remember them every day, and share them whenever possible. Then and only then will we have listened to the advice given by the father of our great nation and we will be obedient to our Heavenly Father. Then and only then will we prevail and be able to stop the momentum being caused by those who are making sure they "do not allow a serious crisis go to waste".

Where There’s Smoke, There’s Mirrors

2009-04-25T10:59:00.008-04:00

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.

The Third Founding of a Nation and the Fomentation of the White Rose – an article.

2009-04-22T15:42:00.010-04:00

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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Two Can Play at This Game

2009-04-20T10:22:00.016-04:00

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".

Ft. Meyers Tea Party, One of My State/Regional Co Leaders in the 912 Project

2009-04-16T22:44:00.002-04:00

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

2009-04-16T18:00:00.004-04:00

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.

Rockefeller on Taking Over the Net

2009-04-16T16:52:00.001-04:00

Need I say more?

The Other Chattering Class IS the Point

2009-04-14T12:21:00.032-04:00

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.

(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.

There is Meaning Behind Those Words

2009-04-02T10:28:00.008-04:00

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?

Oh Goody! Yet Another "Czar" Proposal

2009-04-01T09:23:00.016-04:00

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:

"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!