Thursday, January 29, 2009
More Examples of Change
Republicans Object to Stimulus Dollars for ACORN
Republicans say voter registration and community groups like ACORN could be eligible for funding under the Democrats' economic stimulus bill.
FOXNews.com
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Republican lawmakers are raising concerns that ACORN, the low-income advocacy group under investigation for voter registration fraud, could be eligible for billions in aid from the economic stimulus proposal working its way through the House.
House Republican Leader John Boehner issued a statement over the weekend noting that the stimulus bill wending its way through Congress provides $4.19 billion for "neighborhood stabilization activities."
He said the money was previously limited to state and local governments, but that Democrats now want part of it to be available to non-profit entities. That means groups like ACORN would be eligible for a portion of the funds.
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., told FOX News Tuesday that the money could be seen as "payoff" for groups' political activities in the last election. ACORN generally supports Democratic candidates and actively backed President Obama last year.
But he said the funding is just one example of frivolous spending items in the $825 billion package.
"It's just a long list of spending items. Not a real economic stimulus job creation bill," Vitter said. "It's line after line after line of favorite liberal spending programs, and it amounts to a big government bill -- not a job creation bill."
Summary of Amendments Submitted to the Rules Committee forH.R. 1 - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009Listed in Alphabetical OrderJanuary 27, 2009 5:55 PM
http://www.rules.house.gov/amendment_details.aspx?NewsID=4133
The Obama-Limbaugh Bipartisan Stimulus Plan of 2009
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_012609/content/01125108.guest.html.guest.html
Senate backs Obama on abortion funding
Support restored to groups abroad
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/29/senate-backs-obama-move-on-abortions/
Monday, January 26, 2009
Obama Does First Formal TV Interview with Al-Arabiya
President Obama Does First Formal TV Interview as President with Al-ArabiyaJanuary 26, 2009 6:29 PM
As special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell heads off to the region to begin work on negotiating a cease fire between Israel and the Palestinians, President Obama has sat for his first formal TV interview with the Arabic cable TV network Al-Arabiya, ABC News has learned.
The interview was taped this evening and is set to air at 11 pm ET, as Mitchell is in the air and on his way to the region.
Based in Dubai, Al-Arabiya estimates that it has a potential audience exceeding 23 million in the Gulf region.
All you who cried for change, here's another. Don't you find it just a bit odd that his first formal TV Interview is not with FOX, CNN, etc. but with Al-Arabiya. Doesn’t this make you wonder where his allegiance really lies?
As special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell heads off to the region to begin work on negotiating a cease fire between Israel and the Palestinians, President Obama has sat for his first formal TV interview with the Arabic cable TV network Al-Arabiya, ABC News has learned.
The interview was taped this evening and is set to air at 11 pm ET, as Mitchell is in the air and on his way to the region.
Based in Dubai, Al-Arabiya estimates that it has a potential audience exceeding 23 million in the Gulf region.
All you who cried for change, here's another. Don't you find it just a bit odd that his first formal TV Interview is not with FOX, CNN, etc. but with Al-Arabiya. Doesn’t this make you wonder where his allegiance really lies?
FAIRNESS DOCTRINE
The following is an article concerning the “Fairness Doctrine” that I came across and because it is so news worthy I thought it only prudent to share it.
Remember the slogan “CHANGE” so many were mindlessly chanting? Here is an example of what to expect. The majority of Republicans in Washington appear to be “RINO’s” and seem all to eager to buckle under, they have lost their character, whatever honorable convictions that prompted them to run for office has dissolved away as the shoulder up wanting to be included rather then to stand apart and cry “Not On My Watch!”
I picture B. O. as a runner heading towards a goal post that has in small print “socialism,” small print because he and his cohorts don’t want to seem to blatant about it, while in his rear stands the opposite goal post with giant print depicting the Constitution, The Bill of Rights, The Declaration of Independence. Obama is running at full speed towards his goal and only a few voices are screaming the warning to the people. At some point those that were so eager for change will find themselves sickened by what they see happening and will join with those that have been sounding the alarm; but by then will it be to late?
“Fairness Doctrine”
According to Congressman Mike Pence, and others, the Pelosi-controlled Congress HAS JUST RENEWED ITS ATTACK on Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and others. They're ONCE AGAIN trying to shut down conservative talk-radio by bringing back the so-called Fairness Doctrine.
"Over the past few months, some of the most powerful Democrats in Congress have made their intentions to restore this Depression-era regulation clear. However, bringing back the Fairness Doctrine would amount to government control over political views expressed on the public airwaves. It is dangerous to suggest that the government should be in the business of rationing free speech."
Congressman Pence isn't the only one sounding the alarm.
Senator Jim DeMint says the Left's intention and goal is to silence millions of conservative Americans who disagree with the Left's warped vision for America.
"Democrats want to impose an unfair doctrine that destroys talk radio and silences the voices of millions of Americans who disagree with their vision for America. But the First Amendment of our Constitution guarantees the right of free speech, regardless of political affiliation..."
Senator John Thune tells us that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution is at risk and calls this draconian attempt by Pelosi and other leftists in Congress to impose their version of so-called "fairness" on the American people a "recipe for an Orwellian disaster."
"For over 200 years, the First Amendment has allowed Americans to voice opinions, thoughts and questions of their choosing without the fear of Government reprisal. This guarantee is now threatened by some liberal ideologues who are frustrated with the free flow of ideas on talk radio. ... I advise every American to be hesitant when government officials offer to regulate the media in the name of 'fairness.' ... Simply put, giving power to a few to impose 'fairness' in the media is a recipe for an Orwellian disaster."
And Congressman Greg Walden tells us that some Democrats seem to be INTENT on censoring speech on radio and television!
"The founders would spin in their graves at the thought of the government censoring speech on many of today's radio and television stations. Yet that's just what some Democratic leaders seem to be after. Whether as a throwback to the old Fairness Doctrine or under a less controversial guise, any effort to exert government control over speech on the airwaves is an insult to the principles behind the First Amendment."
To head-off sleazy, squalid schemes by the Pelosi Gang and the Obama Administration to curtail free speech, conservatives in Congress have introduced the Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009 (S. 34), legislation designed to crush the poisonous head of the so-called Fairness Doctrine.
According to DeMint:
"The bill would prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, which would suppress free speech by requiring the government to monitor political views and decide what constitutes fair political discourse."
Make no mistake, the Pelosi Gang and the Obama Administration will continue their policy of obstruction and try to KILL the Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009. They want NOTHING to stand in the way of their attempt to control what you and I see and hear on the radio and on television!
That's why we must go on OFFENSE RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW! We must bombard our elected officials with Blast Faxes and force them to explain exactly why they view the First Amendment as a threat!
The Obama Administration can bring back the Fairness Doctrine WITHOUT a vote ever taking place in Congress.
Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi:
"You give president-elect Obama a few months or a few years in office, and pretty soon he will have appointed a majority of the Federal Communications Commission. And my fear is that Commission could re-impose the Fairness Doctrine without ever having a vote in the United States House or Senate."
And what happens if the Obama Administration brings back the Fairness Doctrine?
Bill Ruder, a top official in the Kennedy Administration, told us how the Fairness Doctrine worked in the good old' days when it was simply FCC policy:
"Our massive strategy was to use the Fairness Doctrine to challenge and harass right-wing broadcasters and hope the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue."
But we're fighting a two-front war because Nancy Pelosi can make "fairness" the law of the land as well... AND LIBERALS IN CONGRESS ARE WORKING TO DO THAT RIGHT NOW!
Vincent R. Caravan, writing in the Valley News, said:
"Senators Diane Feinstein of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York are pushing for passage of a new Fairness Doctrine. Their aim, of course, is to end conservative dominance of the American airways and the Internet."
Either way you slice it, the prognosis is grim.
Brian Anderson editor of the prestigious Manhattan Institute:
"The measure is just a sneaky way of shrinking the hosts like William Bennett and others of his ilk, or even getting them off the air altogether."
Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily.com paints an even uglier picture:
"This legislation will be crafted with one purpose in mind - control. As far as the Democratic Congress is concerned, they have no worries about control of the Big Media. Big Media dance to their Big Government schemes without being provided choreography."
"The new 'Fairness Doctrine' is going to be written in a way that allows the government to mobilize community organizers to do Big Government's dirty work. Groups like Media Matters and ACORN will be named to community oversight boards to police the programming of local radio stations. These groups will not be promoting 'fairness.' They will be promoting their own narrow and extreme political agenda. Anything that deviates from it will generate complaints and letters and calls opposing license renewals."
Edward D. Michalek, of the Baxter Bulletin, in Mountain Home, Arkansas, wrote:
"If you've heard of the so-called 'Fairness Doctrine' on radio, you know there's nothing fair about it. The Fairness Doctrine is nothing more than censorship, pure and simple. ... Americans can make up their own minds about who we want to listen to on the radio and not have censorship of our news."
Does the Pelosi Gang really believe in giving both sides of the political debate voice?
For years, the American people have complained about the leftist bias of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) - institutions supported by your tax dollars.
Viewers have been bombarded with attacks on orthodox Christianity; fawning, idealized depictions of Mohammad funded by the government of Saudi Arabia and the shameless nightly skewing of contemporary politics.
When decent Americans protested, the Left responded by thumbing its nose at us.
Smut floods our streets and our airwaves like an open sore. When the people complain, we are told that the First Amendment is pristine and should protect even objectionable speech. (We couldn't agree more.)
Okay... So why do liberals NOT apply the same standard to conservative political speech?
The hypocrisy is STAGGERING!
But that's what happens when "fairness" is under left-wing management: Intellectual tyranny... the old double standard... heads we win, tails you lose.
Anything the left agrees with is "fair" by definition. Equal time is NOT required.
Anything decent conservative Americans agree with is "hate-speech" and MUST be countered with opposing views. It's only right.
In some sick way, Pelosi and Obama and leftists will probably tell the American people that they're being "tolerant" by even allowing conservative or religious viewpoints to have ANY airtime at all!
America can't go there!
If this push for government control of political dialogue were an isolated phenomenon, that would be one thing - no more than an odd perversion of American values in a single industry.But suppression of free speech is rapidly becoming the American way.
With few exceptions, major newspapers, magazines and the major television networks are monolithically leftist. They steadily lose money, lay-off employees and go out of business, but they stay the course.
In a shocking majority of our colleges and universities, left-wing slogans and Marxist
Clichés have replaced genuine scholarship in the classroom and on the podium.Outside speakers with a conservative message are either banned by the administration or else drowned out by shouts, shrieks, and catcalls. Some are physically attacked. Conservative students are savaged by their professors and insulted and bullied by administrators.
Back in the old days, it was the Left that took to the streets, demanding the right to teach radical politics in the classroom and demonstrate in support of revolution.
They had their revolution and, like Stalin and Castro, they turned around and immediately repressed all dissent - EXACTLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THEY IMPOSE THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE.
Are you ready to let the federal government tell you what you can and can't hear on the radio or read on the Internet?
Jeff Mazzella
President, C F I F
Remember the slogan “CHANGE” so many were mindlessly chanting? Here is an example of what to expect. The majority of Republicans in Washington appear to be “RINO’s” and seem all to eager to buckle under, they have lost their character, whatever honorable convictions that prompted them to run for office has dissolved away as the shoulder up wanting to be included rather then to stand apart and cry “Not On My Watch!”
I picture B. O. as a runner heading towards a goal post that has in small print “socialism,” small print because he and his cohorts don’t want to seem to blatant about it, while in his rear stands the opposite goal post with giant print depicting the Constitution, The Bill of Rights, The Declaration of Independence. Obama is running at full speed towards his goal and only a few voices are screaming the warning to the people. At some point those that were so eager for change will find themselves sickened by what they see happening and will join with those that have been sounding the alarm; but by then will it be to late?
“Fairness Doctrine”
According to Congressman Mike Pence, and others, the Pelosi-controlled Congress HAS JUST RENEWED ITS ATTACK on Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and others. They're ONCE AGAIN trying to shut down conservative talk-radio by bringing back the so-called Fairness Doctrine.
"Over the past few months, some of the most powerful Democrats in Congress have made their intentions to restore this Depression-era regulation clear. However, bringing back the Fairness Doctrine would amount to government control over political views expressed on the public airwaves. It is dangerous to suggest that the government should be in the business of rationing free speech."
Congressman Pence isn't the only one sounding the alarm.
Senator Jim DeMint says the Left's intention and goal is to silence millions of conservative Americans who disagree with the Left's warped vision for America.
"Democrats want to impose an unfair doctrine that destroys talk radio and silences the voices of millions of Americans who disagree with their vision for America. But the First Amendment of our Constitution guarantees the right of free speech, regardless of political affiliation..."
Senator John Thune tells us that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution is at risk and calls this draconian attempt by Pelosi and other leftists in Congress to impose their version of so-called "fairness" on the American people a "recipe for an Orwellian disaster."
"For over 200 years, the First Amendment has allowed Americans to voice opinions, thoughts and questions of their choosing without the fear of Government reprisal. This guarantee is now threatened by some liberal ideologues who are frustrated with the free flow of ideas on talk radio. ... I advise every American to be hesitant when government officials offer to regulate the media in the name of 'fairness.' ... Simply put, giving power to a few to impose 'fairness' in the media is a recipe for an Orwellian disaster."
And Congressman Greg Walden tells us that some Democrats seem to be INTENT on censoring speech on radio and television!
"The founders would spin in their graves at the thought of the government censoring speech on many of today's radio and television stations. Yet that's just what some Democratic leaders seem to be after. Whether as a throwback to the old Fairness Doctrine or under a less controversial guise, any effort to exert government control over speech on the airwaves is an insult to the principles behind the First Amendment."
To head-off sleazy, squalid schemes by the Pelosi Gang and the Obama Administration to curtail free speech, conservatives in Congress have introduced the Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009 (S. 34), legislation designed to crush the poisonous head of the so-called Fairness Doctrine.
According to DeMint:
"The bill would prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, which would suppress free speech by requiring the government to monitor political views and decide what constitutes fair political discourse."
Make no mistake, the Pelosi Gang and the Obama Administration will continue their policy of obstruction and try to KILL the Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009. They want NOTHING to stand in the way of their attempt to control what you and I see and hear on the radio and on television!
That's why we must go on OFFENSE RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW! We must bombard our elected officials with Blast Faxes and force them to explain exactly why they view the First Amendment as a threat!
The Obama Administration can bring back the Fairness Doctrine WITHOUT a vote ever taking place in Congress.
Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi:
"You give president-elect Obama a few months or a few years in office, and pretty soon he will have appointed a majority of the Federal Communications Commission. And my fear is that Commission could re-impose the Fairness Doctrine without ever having a vote in the United States House or Senate."
And what happens if the Obama Administration brings back the Fairness Doctrine?
Bill Ruder, a top official in the Kennedy Administration, told us how the Fairness Doctrine worked in the good old' days when it was simply FCC policy:
"Our massive strategy was to use the Fairness Doctrine to challenge and harass right-wing broadcasters and hope the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue."
But we're fighting a two-front war because Nancy Pelosi can make "fairness" the law of the land as well... AND LIBERALS IN CONGRESS ARE WORKING TO DO THAT RIGHT NOW!
Vincent R. Caravan, writing in the Valley News, said:
"Senators Diane Feinstein of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York are pushing for passage of a new Fairness Doctrine. Their aim, of course, is to end conservative dominance of the American airways and the Internet."
Either way you slice it, the prognosis is grim.
Brian Anderson editor of the prestigious Manhattan Institute:
"The measure is just a sneaky way of shrinking the hosts like William Bennett and others of his ilk, or even getting them off the air altogether."
Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily.com paints an even uglier picture:
"This legislation will be crafted with one purpose in mind - control. As far as the Democratic Congress is concerned, they have no worries about control of the Big Media. Big Media dance to their Big Government schemes without being provided choreography."
"The new 'Fairness Doctrine' is going to be written in a way that allows the government to mobilize community organizers to do Big Government's dirty work. Groups like Media Matters and ACORN will be named to community oversight boards to police the programming of local radio stations. These groups will not be promoting 'fairness.' They will be promoting their own narrow and extreme political agenda. Anything that deviates from it will generate complaints and letters and calls opposing license renewals."
Edward D. Michalek, of the Baxter Bulletin, in Mountain Home, Arkansas, wrote:
"If you've heard of the so-called 'Fairness Doctrine' on radio, you know there's nothing fair about it. The Fairness Doctrine is nothing more than censorship, pure and simple. ... Americans can make up their own minds about who we want to listen to on the radio and not have censorship of our news."
Does the Pelosi Gang really believe in giving both sides of the political debate voice?
For years, the American people have complained about the leftist bias of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) - institutions supported by your tax dollars.
Viewers have been bombarded with attacks on orthodox Christianity; fawning, idealized depictions of Mohammad funded by the government of Saudi Arabia and the shameless nightly skewing of contemporary politics.
When decent Americans protested, the Left responded by thumbing its nose at us.
Smut floods our streets and our airwaves like an open sore. When the people complain, we are told that the First Amendment is pristine and should protect even objectionable speech. (We couldn't agree more.)
Okay... So why do liberals NOT apply the same standard to conservative political speech?
The hypocrisy is STAGGERING!
But that's what happens when "fairness" is under left-wing management: Intellectual tyranny... the old double standard... heads we win, tails you lose.
Anything the left agrees with is "fair" by definition. Equal time is NOT required.
Anything decent conservative Americans agree with is "hate-speech" and MUST be countered with opposing views. It's only right.
In some sick way, Pelosi and Obama and leftists will probably tell the American people that they're being "tolerant" by even allowing conservative or religious viewpoints to have ANY airtime at all!
America can't go there!
If this push for government control of political dialogue were an isolated phenomenon, that would be one thing - no more than an odd perversion of American values in a single industry.But suppression of free speech is rapidly becoming the American way.
With few exceptions, major newspapers, magazines and the major television networks are monolithically leftist. They steadily lose money, lay-off employees and go out of business, but they stay the course.
In a shocking majority of our colleges and universities, left-wing slogans and Marxist
Clichés have replaced genuine scholarship in the classroom and on the podium.Outside speakers with a conservative message are either banned by the administration or else drowned out by shouts, shrieks, and catcalls. Some are physically attacked. Conservative students are savaged by their professors and insulted and bullied by administrators.
Back in the old days, it was the Left that took to the streets, demanding the right to teach radical politics in the classroom and demonstrate in support of revolution.
They had their revolution and, like Stalin and Castro, they turned around and immediately repressed all dissent - EXACTLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THEY IMPOSE THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE.
Are you ready to let the federal government tell you what you can and can't hear on the radio or read on the Internet?
Jeff Mazzella
President, C F I F
Thursday, January 22, 2009
A New Era
The following are a few items worth thinking about.
Diversity for the sake of diversity is wrong, it must happen naturally. Change for the sake of change is irresponsible and reckless.
With all this talk of reverence, messiah and god being levied on B. O, one would think, if he had any character, if he didn’t in fact believe it himself, he would denounce and condemn such talk as sacrilegious and disrespectful.
What is all this bullcrap about being a citizen of the world? He is supposed to be a citizen and President of the United States; or is he? Now he has, by executive order, ordered the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. His executive orders will reshape how the United States prosecutes and questions al-Qaida, Taliban or other foreign fighters who pose a threat to Americans. There will be a review of each detainees' case to decide whether they should be returned to their home countries. In other words to release them back into the battlefield, released into our communities, transferred elsewhere or sent to another U.S. prison. Obama's advisers are looking at whether the terror suspects should be tried in federal courts under long-standing military or civilian criminal law. John D. Altenburg Jr., a retired Army general who oversaw the military commissions until November 2006, says Guantanamo should stay open and the tribunals should continue. Trying detainees in federal courts is problematic, he says, because the evidence was collected "on a battlefield" and may be inadmissible outside the commissions, although "it doesn't mean the evidence is tainted."
Have you heard? William Ayers was turned back at the Canadian border, as reported on the news, yesterday. You all remember “Slick Willie” William Ayers, he’s the good buddy of B. O. Canada didn’t want anything to do with him.
What about the comments B. O. made that we are a nation of Christians and Muslims? When did this happen? Didn’t he mean Christians and Jews? This country was founded on Christian/Judaeo ethics, principles, the Ten Commandments, etc. where does this Muslim reference come from?
B. O. is the most far left politician in Washington, he was elected without the slightest thought concerning his experience or what he could possibly do while occupying the chair of the presidency, people listened to the drive by media and flocked to B. O. as though he was indeed their messiah, on the news one woman referred to him as God. These multitudes of people, these mindless sheep fell into lockstep and went as though brain-numbed into the voting booth and voted for an unknown entity. This man was as unknown as the least important sentence in the back pages of a badly written science fiction novel just a few years ago. He is an empty suit sullied by those he has been shouldering up to all his life. Everyone was yelling “Change, Change, Change!” well you are going to get it and are beginning to get it.
I have only heard rumors but they surround the fact that offshore drilling is to be capped. If that is true, or will become so, all those of you crying for change will be crying indeed when you look into your wallets and find nothing but change. If $4.50 a gallon for gasoline was crippling your life get ready to dust off your crutches, high fuel costs affect everything you can think of.
If he nationalizes healthcare, our healthcare system, that people from around the world come to, will be lost and with it a slippery slope will be developed where the other systems of this government will slide into the dustbins of history, as we fall into the open arms of socialism and communism.
Look for the resurgence of the “Fairness Doctrine.” Once implemented it will be a death nail for free speech, talk radio programs will die on the vine. When you see these things begin to happen, be very aware, socialism will be walking down the isle.
Change, I dread the thought of it, I have come to even hate the word, I fear for my country.
Diversity for the sake of diversity is wrong, it must happen naturally. Change for the sake of change is irresponsible and reckless.
With all this talk of reverence, messiah and god being levied on B. O, one would think, if he had any character, if he didn’t in fact believe it himself, he would denounce and condemn such talk as sacrilegious and disrespectful.
What is all this bullcrap about being a citizen of the world? He is supposed to be a citizen and President of the United States; or is he? Now he has, by executive order, ordered the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. His executive orders will reshape how the United States prosecutes and questions al-Qaida, Taliban or other foreign fighters who pose a threat to Americans. There will be a review of each detainees' case to decide whether they should be returned to their home countries. In other words to release them back into the battlefield, released into our communities, transferred elsewhere or sent to another U.S. prison. Obama's advisers are looking at whether the terror suspects should be tried in federal courts under long-standing military or civilian criminal law. John D. Altenburg Jr., a retired Army general who oversaw the military commissions until November 2006, says Guantanamo should stay open and the tribunals should continue. Trying detainees in federal courts is problematic, he says, because the evidence was collected "on a battlefield" and may be inadmissible outside the commissions, although "it doesn't mean the evidence is tainted."
Have you heard? William Ayers was turned back at the Canadian border, as reported on the news, yesterday. You all remember “Slick Willie” William Ayers, he’s the good buddy of B. O. Canada didn’t want anything to do with him.
What about the comments B. O. made that we are a nation of Christians and Muslims? When did this happen? Didn’t he mean Christians and Jews? This country was founded on Christian/Judaeo ethics, principles, the Ten Commandments, etc. where does this Muslim reference come from?
B. O. is the most far left politician in Washington, he was elected without the slightest thought concerning his experience or what he could possibly do while occupying the chair of the presidency, people listened to the drive by media and flocked to B. O. as though he was indeed their messiah, on the news one woman referred to him as God. These multitudes of people, these mindless sheep fell into lockstep and went as though brain-numbed into the voting booth and voted for an unknown entity. This man was as unknown as the least important sentence in the back pages of a badly written science fiction novel just a few years ago. He is an empty suit sullied by those he has been shouldering up to all his life. Everyone was yelling “Change, Change, Change!” well you are going to get it and are beginning to get it.
I have only heard rumors but they surround the fact that offshore drilling is to be capped. If that is true, or will become so, all those of you crying for change will be crying indeed when you look into your wallets and find nothing but change. If $4.50 a gallon for gasoline was crippling your life get ready to dust off your crutches, high fuel costs affect everything you can think of.
If he nationalizes healthcare, our healthcare system, that people from around the world come to, will be lost and with it a slippery slope will be developed where the other systems of this government will slide into the dustbins of history, as we fall into the open arms of socialism and communism.
Look for the resurgence of the “Fairness Doctrine.” Once implemented it will be a death nail for free speech, talk radio programs will die on the vine. When you see these things begin to happen, be very aware, socialism will be walking down the isle.
Change, I dread the thought of it, I have come to even hate the word, I fear for my country.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Pride In Country
This picture, by “Joe Rosenthal,” depicts pride in country; a million words could not provide a more telling explanation of what it means to have that love, devotion, pride, personal satisfaction, patriotism and pleasure of being an American.
Remember the World War 2 posters that were everywhere? For those not old enough they are easy to find on the Internet.
Remember:
“This Is The Enemy,”
“…Pass the ammunition” The Army Needs More Lumber,”
“Save Freedom Of Speech - Buy War Bonds,”
“Where our men are fighting our food is fighting,”
“1778 - 1943 AMERICANS will always fight for liberty,”
“OURS…to fight for FREEDOM FROM FEAR,”
“OURS…to fight for FREEDOM FROM WANT,”
“the five Sullivan brothers missing in action off the Solomons, THEY DID THEIR
PART, ” “What did you do today for freedom,”
“YOU can’t afford to miss either! BUY BONDS EVERY PAYDAY,”
“To Have and to Hold - WAR BONDS,”
“OER THE RAMPARTS WE WATCH - UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES,”
“PT 34 - GIVE US LUMBER FOR MORE PT’s,”
“KEEP IT UP BROTHER THIS WAR’S NOT WON BY A DAMN SITE,”
“DO IT RIGHT - MAKE IT BITE,”
“SUB SPOTTED - LET EM HAVE IT,”
“CARELESS TALK got there first,”
“God help me if this is a dud!” His life is in YOUR hands,”
“We have just begun to fight!,”
“MEN OF VALOR - They fight for you,”
“…we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain…REMEMBER
DEC. 7TH,”
DEC. 7TH,”
“If you tell where he’s going…he may never get there!”
“GIVE IT YOUR BEST!” and
“You buy em we’ll fly em! DEFENSE BONDS, STAMPS.”
Where are the posters of today?
Remember the “USO” entertainers? Thankfully we still have entertainers who are willing to give of their time for our troops; remember all that Bob Hope did and John Wayne back in their day?
Remember the patriotic movies? They did much to tap the patriotic spirit of the American people while they entertained. The movies made during the war, even the classics, emphasized patriotism. Movies like “The Lion Has Wings,” a British film, actually a documentary, made in 1939; “The Long Voyage Home,” made in 1940; “Waterloo Bridge,” made in 1940; “Caught In The Draft,” made in 1941; “Sundown,” made in 1941 concerning the North African campaign; “Underground,” 1941 about the German resistance; “Corregidor,” in 1943; the list goes on, movies about patriotism.
Some of the actors who were enlisted were:
James Doohan (”Scotty” on Star Trek) landed in Normandy with the U. S. Army on D-Day. Doohan was a Canadian citizen.
Donald Pleasance (The Great Escape) really was an R. A. F. pilot who was shot down, held prisoner and tortured by the Germans.
David Niven was a Sandhurst graduate and Lt. Colonel of the British Commandos in Normandy.
James Stewart Entered the Army Air Force as a private and worked his way to the rank of Colonel. During World War II
Clark Gable (Mega-Movie Star when war broke out) Although he was beyond the draft age at the time the U.S. entered WW II, Clark Gable enlisted as a private in the AAF on Aug. 12, 1942 at Los Angeles.
Charlton Heston was an Army Air Corps Sergeant in Kodiak.
Ernest Borgnine was a U. S. Navy Gunners Mate 1935-1945.
Charles Bronson was a tail gunner in the Army Air Corps, more specifically on B-29s in the 20th Air Force out of Guam, Tinian, and Saipan.
George C. Scott was a decorated U. S. Marine. He served as a ceremonial guard at Arlington National Cemetery and taught English literature and radio speaking/writing at the Marine Corps Institute.
Eddie Albert (Green Acres TV) was awarded a Bronze Star for his heroic action as a U. S. Naval officer aiding Marines at the horrific battle on the island of Tarawa in the Pacific Nov. 1943.
Brian Keith served as a U.S. Marine rear gunner in several actions against the Japanese on Rabal in the Pacific and received an Air Medal.
Lee Marvin was a U.S. Marine on Saipan during the Marianas campaign when he was wounded earning the Purple Heart.
John Russell enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 where he received a battlefield commission and was wounded and highly decorated for valor at Guadalcanal.
Tyrone Power (an established movie star when Pearl Harbor was bombed) joined the U.S. Marines, was a pilot flying supplies into, and wounded Marines out of, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.And
Audie Murphy; Murphy was the most decorated serviceman of WWII and earned: Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, 2 Silver Star Medals, Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Star Medals with “V”, 2 Purple Hearts, U.S. Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal, 2 Distinguished Unit Emblems, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with One Silver Star, Four Bronze Service Stars (representing nine campaigns) and one Bronze Arrowhead (representing assault landing at Sicily and Southern France) World War II Victory Medal Army of Occupation Medal with Germany Clasp, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, Combat Infantry Badge, Marksman Badge with Rifle Bar, Expert Badge with Bayonet Bar, French Fourragere in Colors of the Croix de Guerre, French Legion of Honor, Grade of Chevalier, French Croix de Guerre With Silver Star, French Croix de Guerre with Palm, Medal of Liberated France, Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 Palm.
Now compare that era with what we have today.
The national pride and patriotism we once had is gone. The last president we had that embodied patriotism was President Reagan who also served and held the rank of Captain.
Hours from now we will have a First Lady who professes she has never been proud of this country. A president who openly refused to place his hand over his heart during the National Anthem, a president weaned at the feet of some of the worst this country has to offer spouting “CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE.” How he must be inwardly laughing as he sees the multitudes grovel at his feet and refer to him as messiah.
We have a fine group of personnel in our military that we should all be proud of, but as a nation we have overwhelmingly gone from a era of real Americans to a era of whiners, people with their hand stretched out, palm up, waiting for someone to fill it rather then get off their backsides and work for want they want, to keep fighting for that next step up on the ladder. We have national leaders, elected to office to serve and protect yet our borders are as porous as cheesecloth, our heritage, our national character dissolving away, we have a government intertwining itself deeper and deeper into every aspect of our lives until we can hardly take a step in any direction without the need of first asking; may I? We have fallen deeper and deeper into the waiting arms of socialism, forsaking all that made this country great, the greatest of all time, forsaking our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, the teachings of our forefathers. As one pathetic man put it years ago in a question to the president, we are your children, how will you take care of us?
I’ll close with this ending paragraph from “The Evolution Of A Republic,” by Alexander Tyler;
“From bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to
great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to
abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from
selfishness to complacency, from complacency to
apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency
back to bondage.”
Saturday, January 17, 2009
The Inauguration
Personally I hope B. O. fails in his attempts to push this country further into full blown socialism, I do not wish him well. Why should I? Why should any red blooded American who believes in our “Republican Form of Government, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights,” our way of life, wish him well? Why should I look forward to the furtherance of liberalism/socialism? Why should I look forward to this country being pulled further and further into third world status?
I remember over the last two terms of President Bush’s presidency all the democrats, liberals ever did was call him names, disparage him, belittle, laugh at, mock, ridicule, scorn, criticize, denigrate, and rundown everything he did. Not one word of praise, not one word of thanks for insuring we were not attacked again. Sure he made mistakes, but give him some credit, those tax cuts didn’t hurt either.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The total cost of the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States will likely top $150 million.
2005, George W. Bush, est. $40 million
2001, George W. Bush, est. $30 million
1997, Bill Clinton, est. $29 million
1993, Bill Clinton, est. between $25 million and $30 million
1989, George H.W. Bush, est. $30 million
1985, Ronald Reagan, est. $20 million
1981, Ronald Reagan, est. $16.3 million
1977, Jimmy Carter, est. $3.5 million
1973, Richard Nixon, est. $4 million
Source: Congressional Research Service The Library of Congress
All this mula and for what? To hire and bring on board a man whose character is deeply shadowed, whose past associates would, under any normal circumstances, preclude his ability to acquire meaningful employment past a fry cook, whose resume consists of an empty folder, who has zero positives associated to his name, a man who can only profess to being a community organizer, whose pre-inauguration is shrouded in controversy, a man who is obviously even afraid to reveal his vaulted birth certificate to settle once and for all, one way or the other, his right to be president, a man who is far left in his thinking, a socialist, whose wife openly states she has never been proud of America, a man resurrecting and surrounding himself with old Clinton appointees; oh yes, what a day to look forward to.
I remember over the last two terms of President Bush’s presidency all the democrats, liberals ever did was call him names, disparage him, belittle, laugh at, mock, ridicule, scorn, criticize, denigrate, and rundown everything he did. Not one word of praise, not one word of thanks for insuring we were not attacked again. Sure he made mistakes, but give him some credit, those tax cuts didn’t hurt either.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The total cost of the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States will likely top $150 million.
2005, George W. Bush, est. $40 million
2001, George W. Bush, est. $30 million
1997, Bill Clinton, est. $29 million
1993, Bill Clinton, est. between $25 million and $30 million
1989, George H.W. Bush, est. $30 million
1985, Ronald Reagan, est. $20 million
1981, Ronald Reagan, est. $16.3 million
1977, Jimmy Carter, est. $3.5 million
1973, Richard Nixon, est. $4 million
Source: Congressional Research Service The Library of Congress
All this mula and for what? To hire and bring on board a man whose character is deeply shadowed, whose past associates would, under any normal circumstances, preclude his ability to acquire meaningful employment past a fry cook, whose resume consists of an empty folder, who has zero positives associated to his name, a man who can only profess to being a community organizer, whose pre-inauguration is shrouded in controversy, a man who is obviously even afraid to reveal his vaulted birth certificate to settle once and for all, one way or the other, his right to be president, a man who is far left in his thinking, a socialist, whose wife openly states she has never been proud of America, a man resurrecting and surrounding himself with old Clinton appointees; oh yes, what a day to look forward to.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Hamas reviving crucifixion
Here is a story that boggles the mind. Tell me, did I miss the front page, any page, reporting of this in the newspapers? Did anyone see the reporting of this resurrected barbarism in any newspaper? There is little doubt, except for pockets of news outlets, journalism is dead.
Have any pastors, priests or rabbis been discussing this? I think intense interaction and dialog have been replaced with whimpering and denial, refusing to face unpleasant facts.
GLOBAL JIHAD
Crucifixion OK with Mideast politicos
Islamic radicals also endorse cutting off hands, whippings
Posted: December 30, 200811:16 pm Eastern© 2009 WorldNetDaily
The political arm of a radical Islamic group has approved a new law that allows traitors to their government to be crucified, thieves' hands to be chopped off and someone guilty of drinking alcohol to be whipped.
According to a report in the Jewish World Review, Hamas, which was elected to government power in Gaza, over Christmas week adopted penalties included in the Shariah criminal code for the Palestinian Authority.
The report said Hamas endorsed "nailing enemies of Islam to crosses" even as it was renewing its jihad by lobbing missiles at day care centers, schools and travelers in line "to travel to Bethlehem for Christmas."
According to the online military news resource Strategypage, Hamas "believes it is better to be feared than loved" so it instituted the new laws.
"When word of its new laws reached the Western media, Hamas denied it. But in Gaza, the Arabic media made it clear that the new laws were very real, even if embarrassing when trying to explain it to the infidels," the site's commentary said.
"The ancient barbarity of crucification (sic) is brought back to life on the same week as British television broadcasts a 'Christmas message' from the radical Islamic president of Iran," noted the online page for One Jerusalem, a group established to unite people behind the concept of keeping the city away from division.
Right Side News Reports said, "Christians better wake-up as Hamas is bringing back the 'crucifixion' of Christians, Jews and anyone else who does not conform to their ideology."
A participant in the site's forum page said, "Anyone who isn't following the teachings of the Quran is an infidel to them, and according to the Quran they must convert or be killed. So wake up world! That means if you are Jewish, Christian, Gay, Buddhist, Hindu, Atheist, and so on, and you are not Islamic, you are an infidel to them and they must convert or kill you. They don't care if you are an adult, child, or an infant."
Have any pastors, priests or rabbis been discussing this? I think intense interaction and dialog have been replaced with whimpering and denial, refusing to face unpleasant facts.
GLOBAL JIHAD
Crucifixion OK with Mideast politicos
Islamic radicals also endorse cutting off hands, whippings
Posted: December 30, 200811:16 pm Eastern© 2009 WorldNetDaily
The political arm of a radical Islamic group has approved a new law that allows traitors to their government to be crucified, thieves' hands to be chopped off and someone guilty of drinking alcohol to be whipped.
According to a report in the Jewish World Review, Hamas, which was elected to government power in Gaza, over Christmas week adopted penalties included in the Shariah criminal code for the Palestinian Authority.
The report said Hamas endorsed "nailing enemies of Islam to crosses" even as it was renewing its jihad by lobbing missiles at day care centers, schools and travelers in line "to travel to Bethlehem for Christmas."
According to the online military news resource Strategypage, Hamas "believes it is better to be feared than loved" so it instituted the new laws.
"When word of its new laws reached the Western media, Hamas denied it. But in Gaza, the Arabic media made it clear that the new laws were very real, even if embarrassing when trying to explain it to the infidels," the site's commentary said.
"The ancient barbarity of crucification (sic) is brought back to life on the same week as British television broadcasts a 'Christmas message' from the radical Islamic president of Iran," noted the online page for One Jerusalem, a group established to unite people behind the concept of keeping the city away from division.
Right Side News Reports said, "Christians better wake-up as Hamas is bringing back the 'crucifixion' of Christians, Jews and anyone else who does not conform to their ideology."
A participant in the site's forum page said, "Anyone who isn't following the teachings of the Quran is an infidel to them, and according to the Quran they must convert or be killed. So wake up world! That means if you are Jewish, Christian, Gay, Buddhist, Hindu, Atheist, and so on, and you are not Islamic, you are an infidel to them and they must convert or kill you. They don't care if you are an adult, child, or an infant."
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean
With just a few days left in his presidency President Bush can rectify an unjust error and show how compassionate he is.
Do you all remember the two brave border patrol agents named Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean?
Back in in Feb. 17, 2005, Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, an illegal Mexican alien was attempting to bring 750 pounds of marijuana across our southern border with Mexico near Fabens, Texas; Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean interceded and attempted to arrest him. He was fired upon and wounded in a place that made sitting down very uncomfortable for him. As a result, these two agents were rewarded for their public service by trying to keep this marijuana, this filth, from coming into this country and hurting our children by being arrested and ending up in solitary confinement in federal prison, serving 11- and 12-year sentences.
In my opinion these two men should have been thanked, instead they got the shaft; and for what? For doing their jobs and protecting us. President Bush will pardon others but seems unwilling to give one compassionate thought to pardoning these two men who have been unjustly punished.
My wife and I voted for President Bush twice, I will thank him for doing what is necessary to keep this country safe from another carried out attack, but I am ashamed that he is apparently going to leave office without doing the right thing and pardoning these two men, not only pardoning them but restoring the pay they would have received. I would even say to restore them to their jobs, but why would they want to return to positions where they have no backing, where if they do their job they face possible prosecution? What kind of effect does what has happened to Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean have on those other agents out there along the border? Do they do their jobs, or out of self preservation, look the other way. Why would anyone want to work for such an agency? Why won’t our President do the right thing?
Monday, January 12, 2009
Here is a new wrinkle for all you “global warmers.”
Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age
11.01.2009 Source: Pravda Ru
The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.
Ice cores, ocean sediment cores, the geologic record, and studies of ancient plant and animal populations all demonstrate a regular cyclic pattern of Ice Age glacial maximums which each last about 100,000 years, separated by intervening warm interglacial’s, each lasting about 12,000 years.
Most of the long-term climate data collected from various sources also shows a strong correlation with the three astronomical cycles which are together known as the Milankovich cycles. The three Milankovich cycles include the tilt of the earth, which varies over a 41,000 year period; the shape of the earth’s orbit, which changes over a period of 100,000 years; and the Precession of the Equinoxes, also known as the earth’s ‘wobble’, which gradually rotates the direction of the earth’s axis over a period of 26,000 years. According to the Milankovich theory of Ice Age causation, these three astronomical cycles, each of which effects the amount of solar radiation which reaches the earth, act together to produce the cycle of cold Ice Age maximums and warm interglacial’s.
Elements of the astronomical theory of Ice Age causation were first presented by the French mathematician Joseph Adhemar in 1842, it was developed further by the English prodigy Joseph Croll in 1875, and the theory was established in its present form by the Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovich in the 1920s and 30s. In 1976 the prestigious journal “Science” published a landmark paper by John Imbrie, James Hays, and Nicholas Shackleton entitled “Variations in the Earth's orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages,” which described the correlation which the trio of scientist/authors had found between the climate data obtained from ocean sediment cores and the patterns of the astronomical Milankovich cycles. Since the late 1970s, the Milankovich theory has remained the predominant theory to account for Ice Age causation among climate scientists, and hence the Milankovich theory is always described in textbooks of climatology and in encyclopedia articles about the Ice Ages.
In their 1976 paper Imbrie, Hays, and Shackleton wrote that their own climate forecasts, which were based on sea-sediment cores and the Milankovich cycles, "… must be qualified in two ways. First, they apply only to the natural component of future climatic trends - and not to anthropogenic effects such as those due to the burning of fossil fuels. Second, they describe only the long-term trends, because they are linked to orbital variations with periods of 20,000 years and longer. Climatic oscillations at higher frequencies are not predicted... the results indicate that the long-term trend over the next 20,000 years is towards extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation and cooler climate."
During the 1970s the famous American astronomer Carl Sagan and other scientists began promoting the theory that ‘greenhouse gasses’ such as carbon dioxide, or CO2, produced by human industries could lead to catastrophic global warming. Since the 1970s the theory of ‘anthropogenic global warming’ (AGW) has gradually become accepted as fact by most of the academic establishment, and their acceptance of AGW has inspired a global movement to encourage governments to make pivotal changes to prevent the worsening of AGW.
The central piece of evidence that is cited in support of the AGW theory is the famous ‘hockey stick’ graph which was presented by Al Gore in his 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth.” The ‘hockey stick’ graph shows an acute upward spike in global temperatures which began during the 1970s and continued through the winter of 2006/07. However, this warming trend was interrupted when the winter of 2007/8 delivered the deepest snow cover to the Northern Hemisphere since 1966 and the coldest temperatures since 2001. It now appears that the current Northern Hemisphere winter of 2008/09 will probably equal or surpass the winter of 2007/08 for both snow depth and cold temperatures.
The main flaw in the AGW theory is that its proponents focus on evidence from only the past one thousand years at most, while ignoring the evidence from the past million years -- evidence which is essential for a true understanding of climatology. The data from paleoclimatology provides us with an alternative and more credible explanation for the recent global temperature spike, based on the natural cycle of Ice Age maximums and interglacial’s.
In 1999 the British journal “Nature” published the results of data derived from glacial ice cores collected at the Russia ’s Vostok station in Antarctica during the 1990s. The Vostok ice core data includes a record of global atmospheric temperatures, atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases, and airborne particulates starting from 420,000 years ago and continuing through history up to our present time.
The graph of the Vostok ice core data shows that the Ice Age maximums and the warm interglacial’s occur within a regular cyclic pattern, the graph-line of which is similar to the rhythm of a heartbeat on an electrocardiogram tracing. The Vostok data graph also shows that changes in global CO2 levels lag behind global temperature changes by about eight hundred years. What that indicates is that global temperatures precede or cause global CO2 changes, and not the reverse. In other words, increasing atmospheric CO2 is not causing global temperature to rise; instead the natural cyclic increase in global temperature is causing global CO2 to rise.
The reason that global CO2 levels rise and fall in response to the global temperature is because cold water is capable of retaining more CO2 than warm water. That is why carbonated beverages loose their carbonation, or CO2, when stored in a warm environment. We store our carbonated soft drinks, wine, and beer in a cool place to prevent them from loosing their ‘fizz’, which is a feature of their carbonation, or CO2 content. The earth is currently warming as a result of the natural Ice Age cycle, and as the oceans get warmer, they release increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Because the release of CO2 by the warming oceans lags behind the changes in the earth’s temperature, we should expect to see global CO2 levels continue to rise for another eight hundred years after the end of the earth’s current Interglacial warm period. We should already be eight hundred years into the coming Ice Age before global CO2 levels begin to drop in response to the increased chilling of the world’s oceans.
The Vostok ice core data graph reveals that global CO2 levels regularly rose and fell in a direct response to the natural cycle of Ice Age minimums and maximums during the past four hundred and twenty thousand years. Within that natural cycle, about every 110,000 years global temperatures, followed by global CO2 levels, have peaked at approximately the same levels which they are at today.
About 325,000 years ago, at the peak of a warm interglacial, global temperature and CO2 levels were higher than they are today. Today we are again at the peak, and near to the end, of a warm interglacial, and the earth is now due to enter the next Ice Age. If we are lucky, we may have a few years to prepare for it. The Ice Age will return, as it always has, in its regular and natural cycle, with or without any influence from the effects of AGW.
The AGW theory is based on data that is drawn from a ridiculously narrow span of time and it demonstrates a wanton disregard for the ‘big picture’ of long-term climate change. The data from paleoclimatology, including ice cores, sea sediments, geology, paleobotany and zoology, indicate that we are on the verge of entering another Ice Age, and the data also shows that severe and lasting climate change can occur within only a few years. While concern over the dubious threat of Anthropogenic Global Warming continues to distract the attention of people throughout the world, the very real threat of the approaching and inevitable Ice Age, which will render large parts of the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable, is being foolishly ignored.
Gregory F. Fegel
Friday, January 2, 2009
Freedom?
Any state that fails to recognize the dignity, the value, the worth of man is an obsolete and oppressive government. A good depiction for this is the following.
"You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.” ..Rod Serling, intro for “The Obsolete Man.”
This is the way nightmares begin.
Where are the second guessers?
The people of this country are being led mindlessly down the yellow brick road by pied pipers and their loyal minions. I fear what lies ahead for this country. Will it remain a Republican form of government, a representative republic? Will we remain a great capitalist country, the greatest, most blessed country in all of history or will we be led mindlessly into the failed systems of socialism and beyond?
What Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev said, "We will bury you," as he pounded his shoe on the podium years ago, is taking place before our very eyes. Our boarders are basically porous, our land is constantly being invaded by people from other countries coming through our southern boarder mixing in with those flooding into our country from Mexico almost totally unabated, our heritage is being dissolved away. Our safety is at enormous risk. The memory of 9/11 seems to have been diminished almost to the point of it having never happened. Where is the outcry? Our politicians are self-serving, our ministers, priests and rabbis say nothing. Our freedoms are being stripped from us one by one, every year we lose more. Every year there are more restrictions imposed. We pay taxes on everything imaginable, we just comply willingly and obey with little or no question like sheep. I remember a war being fought by the colonist over taxes, remember the “Boston Tea Party, December 16, 1773?”
Have you ever just taken the time to reminisce and think back to when we were much younger, to remember all those things we freely did without a second thought, what we use to do naturally, what we took for granted, that we can’t do today? If not please set aside some time to do so; it will take more then a few minutes. Be prepared to be shocked. What we are easily led into today our forefathers would have taken up arms to prevent. While your at it try to remember your parents and grandparents? Would they buckle under and passively allow a bridle to be placed in their mouth turning them this way and that and the things they do and how they do it restricted? They would think they were having a nightmare; their nightmare is our reality. The question is, where is our reality taking us?
“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it." --Woodrow Wilson
"You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.” ..Rod Serling, intro for “The Obsolete Man.”
This is the way nightmares begin.
Where are the second guessers?
The people of this country are being led mindlessly down the yellow brick road by pied pipers and their loyal minions. I fear what lies ahead for this country. Will it remain a Republican form of government, a representative republic? Will we remain a great capitalist country, the greatest, most blessed country in all of history or will we be led mindlessly into the failed systems of socialism and beyond?
What Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev said, "We will bury you," as he pounded his shoe on the podium years ago, is taking place before our very eyes. Our boarders are basically porous, our land is constantly being invaded by people from other countries coming through our southern boarder mixing in with those flooding into our country from Mexico almost totally unabated, our heritage is being dissolved away. Our safety is at enormous risk. The memory of 9/11 seems to have been diminished almost to the point of it having never happened. Where is the outcry? Our politicians are self-serving, our ministers, priests and rabbis say nothing. Our freedoms are being stripped from us one by one, every year we lose more. Every year there are more restrictions imposed. We pay taxes on everything imaginable, we just comply willingly and obey with little or no question like sheep. I remember a war being fought by the colonist over taxes, remember the “Boston Tea Party, December 16, 1773?”
Have you ever just taken the time to reminisce and think back to when we were much younger, to remember all those things we freely did without a second thought, what we use to do naturally, what we took for granted, that we can’t do today? If not please set aside some time to do so; it will take more then a few minutes. Be prepared to be shocked. What we are easily led into today our forefathers would have taken up arms to prevent. While your at it try to remember your parents and grandparents? Would they buckle under and passively allow a bridle to be placed in their mouth turning them this way and that and the things they do and how they do it restricted? They would think they were having a nightmare; their nightmare is our reality. The question is, where is our reality taking us?
“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it." --Woodrow Wilson
The kids today have no idea how few freedoms they have left, how much they have been robbed of and what a slippery slope we are all on. It will take strong minded patriots, with a love of country and a determination to save/restore our way of life for our children. It is our responsibility to educate them and shine the light of truth on what they have lost and are continuing to lose. They will not learn these things in school. They are growing up in a world where they are taught that all these imposed restrictions are for their own good, for their safety, for their sense of well being, so they accept them readily without thought or objection. The imposed rules and regulations that are added annually, without the consent of the people, are burying us one shovel full at a time, as though filling in an open grave by a tombstone that reads “In Loving Memory of The Once Great and Free USA.”
Freedom
Any state that fails to recognize the dignity, the value, the worth of man is an obsolete and oppressive government. A good depiction for this is the following."You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.” ..Rod Serling, intro for “The Obsolete Man.”
This is the way nightmares begin.
Where are the second guessers?
The people of this country are being led mindlessly down the yellow brick road by pied pipers and their loyal minions. I fear what lies ahead for this country. Will it remain a Republican form of government, a representative republic? Will we remain a great capitalist country, the greatest, most blessed country in all of history or will we be led mindlessly into the failed systems of socialism and beyond?
What Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev said, "We will bury you," as he pounded his shoe on the podium years ago, is taking place before our very eyes. Our boarders are basically porous, our land is constantly being invaded by people from other countries coming through our southern boarder mixing in with those flooding into our country from Mexico almost totally unabated, our heritage is being dissolved away. Our safety is at enormous risk. The memory of 9/11 seems to have been diminished almost to the point of it having never happened. Where is the outcry? Our politicians are self-serving, our ministers, priests and rabbis say nothing. Our freedoms are being stripped from us one by one, every year we lose more. Every year there are more restrictions imposed. We pay taxes on everything imaginable, we just comply willingly and obey with little or no question like sheep. I remember a war being fought being fought by the colonist over taxes, remember the “Boston Tea Party, December 16, 1773?”
Have you ever just taken the time to reminisce, to think back, way back and took note of what you use to do naturally, what you took for granted, that you can’t do today? If not please set aside some time do so, it will take more then a few minutes. Be prepared to be shocked. What we are easily led into today our forefathers would have taken up arms to prevent.
“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it." --Woodrow Wilson
The kids today have no idea how few freedoms they have left, how much they have been robbed of and what a slippery slope we are all on. The imposed rules and regulations that are added annually, without the consent of the people, are burying us as though one shovel full at a time, filling in an open grave by a tombstone that reads “In Loving Memory of The Once Great and Free USA.”
“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it." --Woodrow Wilson
The kids today have no idea how few freedoms they have left, how much they have been robbed of and what a slippery slope we are all on. The imposed rules and regulations that are added annually, without the consent of the people, are burying us as though one shovel full at a time, filling in an open grave by a tombstone that reads “In Loving Memory of The Once Great and Free USA.”