"The Point" is a rather jaded view of the headlines of today, giving the reader the musings of a fed up mind. Sometimes funny, sometimes sober, always timely, it is my wish that you enjoy even when you might not agree.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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".
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.
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.
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was portrayed in the film “Tora! Tora! Tora!” (circa 1970) saying, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve", after his attack on Pearl Harbor.
It is a matter of lores and legends.
It is, from another Yamamoto saying, a matter of “kicking the sleeping rabid dog”.
I do not know if the first legend is true or partly true, the only thing I know is that it was an accurate description of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
It could also well be descriptive of the America we see today.
Has this current government gone wild awakened yet another sleeping giant, the one we call "We the People"?
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