And The Winner Is…..

The National Enquirer wants to get a Pulitizer.  This is priceless.  The magazine the started out covering the supernatural, the private lives of celebrities and so called “miracle” cures for everything from asthma to multiple personality disorder.  They go through peoples garbage, they hire helicopters to invade their privacy and when all else fails they make things up or as they would say embellish the truth.

Well why not.  Obama got a Nobel Prize for DOING absolutely nothing. His prize was for simply articulating hope and change.  The Enquirer actually does things.  Of course, most of what they do is lack luster at best, in tremendously bad taste at worst.  Since the main stream media (MSM) are missing in action I guess something has to fill the void.  Becoming the mouthpiece of the Liberal Left has taken newspapers and magazines out of the real news business and dumbed them down to the level of your average scandal sheet.  No longer can the people trust the media to be fair and balanced, not when they cover one issue from only one angle.

Take Global Warming as a glaring example.  Since the release of the “hacked”  climate emails, the media has continued to prop up the claims of “climate change” when it is obvious to even the most scientific challenged that the data just isn’t there to support those claims.  Just this week the UN has had to backtrack yet again on it’s “Glaciers melting” hysteria because the science just isn’t there to back up the outrageous claims.  Do we here about this in the MSM?   No, and if we do it’s buried on page 10 under the fold next to an ad for Colon Cleansers.  How many local papers except in Massachusetts covered in any depth the Scott Brown phenomenon?  How may news outlets on television made fun of, slandered and or libeled Mr. Brown his family, supporters and ancestors?  How many Chicken Littles (Chris Matthews, Keith Olberman, et al) declared the world would end should this one man be elected to “Ted Kennedy’s seat”.  As Senator Brown so clearly put it “With all due respect this is not the Kennedy’s seat, it’s not the Democrats seat, it’s the people’s seat.

For too long journalists have believed that they are the experts on, well, everything.  They know what’s best for us.  They have fallen into the Liberal trap of believing “we the people” need mommies not leaders, information not propaganda.  In fact they have become what the National Enquirer has always been a scandal sheet , just like the rest, run by the most unprofessional, unscrupulous, unmitigated ambulance chasers to ever live on this planet.  The difference is that the MSM truly believes it is different, better, on a higher, more professional level than the Enquirer.  With this claim to one of journalisms most coveted prize we see the truth.  There is no difference between the National Equirer and the New York Times.  None at all.

Channeling Dirty Harry (the good one)

As Clint Eastwood once demanded in the Dirty Harry movies “………go ahead, make my day”.

Democrats in Congress have decided now is the time for threats.  If “we the people” don’t vote for THEIR candidate they will pass health care legislation anyway.  Wow.  The arrogance, the hubris, the shear unmitigated gall of these people is staggering.  The more citizens, voters and companies tell them that this bill is not acceptable the more they dig in their collective heels.  What in the name of all that’s holy are they thinking?

Well, like their lapdogs in the MSM they are thinking they know better than ” we the people” what’s good for us.  They  assume they are our parents not our employees.  Working under the old adage “this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you” they are endeavoring to “save” us from ourselves.  Of course in usual Democrat fashion they are trying to stop the paper cut from bleeding by cutting off the finger, as it were.   They use fear and class envy to whip up the citizenry and then like the flim flam snake oil salesmen they are they try to sell us something we can’t afford, don’t need and that in the end will hurt us. Classic.  They’re also thinking that it’s their ball and if we don’t play by their rules they’ll take the ball and go home.  Liberals forget that it’s our ball, we paid for it, we voted for it and in the end we WILL take it back.

The Democrats in Congress are also thinking that once this is done, that’s it, no do overs.  Wrong again Patty Patty Buk Buk.  Anything they do short of murdering us in our beds, and don’t put that past them, can be undone.  Nothing in this life is set in stone except death, not even taxes.  As long as there is breath in our bodies, many of us will fight tyranny of any kind, from the left or from the righ. Of course we haven’t had to fight that fight yet, the left keeps us plenty busy.

So here we are at the hour of decision.  What do we do?  Well I’d say prayer might be in order but the way we’ve treated our Creator I’m not sure he’ll be inclined to lend us a hand.  After all some sections of the populace have been very clear in their disregard, nay downright hysterical hostility toward Him and His adherents. The doctrine of loving one another, turning the other cheek and seeking out the lost lamb is so selfish, narcissistic, egomaniacal, I’m sure you’ll agree.  Projection is a concept Liberals and Democrats do without even thinking about it. They think that way and so they assume everyone thinks they way they do. When it is pointed out to them that, no most of us are not self-absorbed hedonists they get all defensive, whine that we are mean and pitch a fit somewhat reminiscent of a two year old who is over due for his nap.

The solution to this situation is fairly simple.  Vote the blighters out.  Do some research, figure out who the best candidate is, not just for your state but for the country.  They may not agree with everything you want them too but being a one issue voter  or an “I’m voting against the other guy” voter has not worked very well so far.  As much as I hate to say it ,voting along party lines is not helping either.  Rino’s are just democrats dressed in red, donkeys in elephants clothing, as it were.  If all politics are local, that, it seems to me is where to start.  Vote for the candidate who believes in the Constitution, liberty, freedom and Democracy (with a BIG D).  Encourage candidates that understand the meaning of the words service, sacred honor and integrity.  Help with the campaigns of these folks with time, money and talent. Above all be engaged, aware and in-tune.  The time where  we could trust our politicians to do what they promised has passed, at least for the moment, due in large part to our unwillingness to take them to task, or to the woodshed for that matter.  We have to step up, be the parent, be the adult.

It is past time to Cowboy Up, way passed time.

Doomsday

Well it’s time to move the Doomsday clock ahead again.  Crisis, chaos, pandaemonium  and hilarity ensues.  I personally agree with scientists except in one minor respect.  I think, nay I’m certain that we are already there.  We have arrived.  Now is the time.  The party is over and it’s time to go.

Of course why I feel that way is pretty much 108 degrees in opposition to our “great” scientific minds.  You know the guys who gave us “global cooling, global warming and now climate change”.  The people who are so involved in proving God doesn’t exist that they can’t be bothered to work on cures for diseases, finding alternate energy sources, or building buildings that can withstand disasters.

Then there are the rest of us.  So enamored of our little lives we think only about the next “fix” (new TV programs, movies, games- sport, video and or computer).  The lottery ticket that’s going to change our lives, the new man or woman who’s going to “make us happy”.  The better job with more money that’s going to cure all our ills or the new set of pills that’s going to help us not care that our lives are empty, sad and lonely.

We who have a spark of the divine are simply too busy, too intelligent, to mature, to sophisticated to need the Creator.  We understand how everything works.  We have come up with theory after theory and pronounce them as fact as to the existence or lack there of, of a higher authority.  We’ve traded a Heavenly Father for Barak Obama.  We do unto others before they do unto us.  We swear at each other, curse each other, neglect each other, abuse each other, maim and kill each other all in the name of …………..nothing.  We do it because we can, because we want to, because we are all there is ( and a bag of chips).

Some have bemoaned the lack of civility in modern life, some look with horror at the carnage  that our cities have become, some wish there were new places to discover just to leave behind the morass of modern life with it’s robot sex toys and prancing soft porn TV actors.  There is however no escape.  Even without the media one is under constant barrage from the forces of darkness and let there be no mistake they are there and they are winning.  One of the greatest tools in the arsenal of the destroyer is to make people believe he doesn’t exist.  In that way he has free rein to sow contention, hatred, disrespect and calamity without fear of reprisal.

Don’t believe me.  Look at the news.  See the horrific things man does to man on a minute to minute basis.  Look around and see the little and great indignities forced upon those who are weak and helpless.  Look at Washington, a greater group of nere’do wells has never been seen on this planet.

So go ahead turn the clock a couple of minutes but I’m here to bear witness that it’s all for nothing.  Ladies and gentlemen,

WE ARE ALREADY THERE.

Unfeeling Conservatives?

I posted this at PJM in response to the typical liberal clap-trap but sometimes they don’t like what I post.  Therefore, I reposted it here in all it’s partisan, hateful, disagreeable glory.  Enjoy.

Ah yes we horrible, unfeeling, selfish, money grubbing Conservatives who want to control everyone’s lives dreamed this nightmare up . When are you libs going to wake up and see, we have met the enemy and it is YOU?

You of the Health Care Debacle

You of the Gagillion Dollar Deficit

You of the Church of Global Warming/Climate Change Debacle who continue to beat that dead Albatross to the ground. How many Trillions of dollars wasted, how many multi-billionaires created. Green jobs my great aunties bussle.

You of the Recession that 83% of the Cabinet and CIT have NO EXPERIENCE to deal with. (only 7% of this cabinet have public sector experience, the lowest previous in the last century was JFK, no surprise, with about 40% and the chief executive has no experience running anything but his mouth).

You of the Pork Barrel politics, dirty play and back room cabals. The Secret Combinations.

You of the ad hominem attacks of ANYONE who disagrees with you. and You of the MSM who can’t tell the truth even if it would buttress their case. YOU can’t handle the truth.

Your leaders are socialist who hate this country and want to turn it into their personal monetary fund and to Hades with the rest of us. We’re only useful as a source of revenue. The time when we would “Sit down and shut up” has passed. We can be as snide and nasty as you are. We don’t like it, but when forced we can do it. So get used to us “uppity conservatives” we’ve learned our lessons from you well. I’d thank you but I’m not really grateful. Libs must live horrible lives, all that angst and anger all the time. Maybe the census takers could hand out Valium at each dwelling and give you people some relief.

CA Protests

Students are apparently still illegally occupying  buildings on University of California Campuses due to a tuition increase of 32% as the state of California approaches monetary critical mass .  They are protesting this raise through civil disobedience which has a long and inglorious history among the pedagogues who make up the educational elite in not just this university system but many educational systems across the nation. The actions of these protesters are not surprising as many are the children or students of former radicals who were educated in the same university system.  That their parents and teachers didn’t learn much of anything during their time in the rarified air of academia is blatantly obvious.

If these individuals want to affect substantive change I have a better and more productive idea.  Leave.  Go. Vaya con dinero. I don’t mean that in a sarcastic way either.  I mean they should go to other universities that need, want and appreciate their money.  They might even be exposed to new and dare I say common sensical ideas.  Of course most universities don’t have classes for radical and underwater basket weaving but hey sometimes one has to sacrifice.

The only way to get the attention of those who breath the sweet smell of ivy is to take away their sense of entitlement and to do that means to take away your support of their standard of living.  The university system in California and public education throughout this land have spent millions of dollars on fluff while ignoring the actual educational needs of their communities.  Colleges have turned out teachers who don’t teach, they preach but they only preach their agenda. Are there real educators out there, absolutely.  Many however have turned their back on education due to the hostile environment experienced by anyone who has a different opinion to the overlord at the NEA.

I have spoken to former educators as well as professional people who would be great teachers but are unwilling to deal with the domineering, hostile, dismissive, down right mean environment in education in many communities today.  There is no tolerance of differing opinions.  If you disagree obviously you are  ignorant, stupid or evil.  Young people I know today very rarely speak their minds in class as they do not want their grades impacted by saying the “wrong” thing.

So, what to do?  If I were beginning again with my children’s education I would home school.  While I realize the importance of social interaction, I’m sure I could find volunteer activities that would provide a better environment for them.  Home school organizations have bands, choir and sports activities as well as other opportunities.  I would put my money where my mouth is and take that money else where.

Of course it is their God given or for those who askew that their constitutional right to go to a university no matter how overpriced and parocial This then is the economic lesson for the UC students, call it ECON 101.  If someone refuses to sell you what you want at a price you can afford, find someone who will.  I guarantee you can find it, all you have to do is look……… some of you might use the computers in the library you are occupying.  You’ve apparently got time on your hands.

Congratulations

(while I do know the rules of capitalization I refuse to honor certain words or people with that much respect)

Congratulations democrats you have your bill.  You’ve worked hard for it.  If you worked nearly as hard on say, the economy, the war, illegal immigration, drug enforcement or education something might get done.  Of course it would be the wrong thing because your talent of backing the wrong horse has now become legendary.  You people couldn’t find the correct action if obama rose into the air, flew backward to the capital, and did a triple Lutz on top of the dome before handing it to you on the rostrum.

Congratulations to those conservatives,moderates and rinos who helped elect these traitors into office.  Your anybody but Bush mantra worked like a charm.  You got your wish, obama is as far away from Bush, who mind you wasn’t the best president ever but given what he had to work with did a mostly good job, as one can get.  His major failing was abandoning the conservative principles on which he ran alienating the base and thus ushering in the age of enlightenment complete with it’s very own messiah.

Now will the wringing of the hands commence.  The cries and lamentations will begin.  Unfortunately under this health care plan so will the dying.  Kiss grandma and grandpa good bye. If you have children who are disabled be prepared.  If you intend to breed I’d do it now before you have to have a license.  If you are a registered republican get your affairs in order because you WILL be in the back of the line for any and all procedures.

What can we do?  Well honestly it’s a little late in the day for that question.  You could have paid attention during the elections.  You could have gotten your news from someone other than the msm (the new democratic publicity firm).  You could have written your congressman and senator, the aarp, or you could have attended Town Halls and Tea Parties.  Now what can be done is more difficult but it’s never too late to start.

First pay attention- listen, read and research

Second get them to pay attention. One of the best ways to do this is to affect their pocketbooks.  Do not give money to incumbents, or political parties.  I personally would like to see a nationwide strike, where people just stop doing anything for several days, perhaps a Thursday thru Sunday.  While I realize this might just shoot us into a depression I don’t know how else to convince the mob in dc that We The People are seriously angry.

Although with this group (the monkeys not the blog) I’m not sure even that would be enough.

School Lunch

Ah yes here it is, the obligatory , why are kids fat report.  So why are kids fat now?  Same old song different verse.

Kids today are fat because ;

They don’t get enough exercise.

They don’t eat enough vegetables.

They don’t eat enough fruit.

They spend too much time in front of the TV, the computer, listening to music, watching movies.

Well allow me to weigh in (punny, sorry) on this most corpulent (sorry again) of subjects.

Kids may be heavier than before but truly I am not seeing it.  The percentage seems to be pretty much the same.  Of course the standards of what is now obese have changed considerably.  If you have any meat on your bones, if your ribs are not sticking out  of your chest, if your face doesn’t look like a skeleton with flesh stretched over it, you are officially obese.  Let us however try to make some sense out of the mish mash of opinion offered today.

Kids do not get enough exercise- duh, they spend more than eight hours of daylight sitting in a class room.  If they do have PE it is so structured (to prevent injury or any fun breaking out) it is simply another box to check off during the day.  ”His majesty, the one” wants them to spend even more time in school.  Here’s a question that needs to be asked.  If school is such a great substitute for family why is it that children are fatter, more stressed, more violent, more disrespectful and less happy?  Maybe it’s because children were NEVER designed to spend 33% of their day away from their parents.  While I am sure some children are more than happy to spend as much time away from home as they can (since their parents would never allow them to look, act and speak as they do at school), most dislike school and it’s constant attack on the mores, morals and teaching of parents in the home.  Most children today spend less time in the home than ever before.  An hour in the morning, 4 hours at night and then it’s off to bed, so they can get up and do it again in the morning, that’s if the kids get “home” before 6 at night.  Many don’t.

Now to the crux of the article above.  Kids don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables.  After 30 years on the Mommy Track I can tell you that the child who likes fruits and veggies is the minority not the majority.  I fed my babies vegetables and kept them away from junk.  Guess what?  They liked the junk better.  They never met a sugar they didn’t like.  I had a Gestalt moment (little light bulb over the head) many years ago.  We had moved back to the states from the Far East and missed the whole “white sugar is the devil” fad and my husband attended a university on the GI Bill.  The mothers in this area alarmed by the sugar -ADD controversy had decided to remove all sugar, fat and taste from their children’s food.  It got so bad that the local college TV station had a respected Peditrician on to council parents.  Can you guess what he said?  Mothers your children need calories to grow, they need a certain amount of fat in their diets.  If your child does not have a medical condition, give them a cookie once and in while.  Sugar is NOT the devil, fat is NOT evil.  Moderation in all things should be your slogan.  Children in the area were ill less , were happier and healthier with a little meat on their bones. We see daily on Television the emaciated bodies of children around the world.  These children die from  the effects of malnourishment every day.   Surely here in the US we can do better.   These are not little adults, they do not have the same needs as adults and government officials, their lackeys in the media nor their collusionists in the health care cabal, are not the ones who get to tell parents how to raise their children Yet!

School lunches in most cases are deplorable.  They are tasteless, cold and unappetizing.  They are usually served by ladies who don’t give a hoot, because all they are paid to do is microwave or remove things from trucks.  Nothing is cooked there anymore, you could get better nutrition from a handful of vitamins.  So add even more of the same, over cooked or cold broccoli, limp salads, apple, oranges et al and what do you get.  The need for a larger trash can.  How are you going to force children to eat these things?  Starve them until they do, our new social order on display. By the time they are adults they will simply allow government to take over their lives, because it is exactly what they’re used to.

You want kids to be healthier, happier, and more stable?  Find a way to get one parent back in the home and send them to school 3 hours less.  Many children leave their homes in the dark and come home in the dark.  That may be fine for adults (it’s not of course – human beings need sunlight, hence the depression problems we have to day). Cut out the misc. days off and end school on a reasonable date.  Allow them to be children instead of forcing them to be adults.

I don’t know, we haven’t been as successful as home schoolers so far.  At this point it couldn’t hurt.

Get Ready

Ladies and gentlemen get ready, Brothers and sisters on the Right, prepare.

The games have already begun.  As the current administrations missteps, foibles and flat out idiocies  continue to mount, more and more liberals will decide that the only way to stay in power is to turncoat.  Wolves will appear in sheep’s clothing.  There will be more disguises on Capitol Hill and in state and local elections than Halloween night at Disneyland.

How then are we supposed to know who are the sheep and who are the wolves?  It is, in this day and technological age, not all that difficult. LISTEN  to what they say and then verify by doing a little research on what they have said before.  For example, the commander in indecision, may talk a good game about compassion and caring for children and how important they are but……let us not forget the he “wouldn’t want his daughters  punished by a baby”

In New York Doug Hoffman has been thrown under the bus by Newt Gingrich, and the NRCC among others.  Apparently his competition is a Margaret Sanger  Award winner .  Let me educate you on just what Ms. Sanger, the father of Planned Parenthood, proposed.

“Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying

… demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism …

[Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal sections of the

world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of

others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead

weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the

stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world,

it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant … We are paying

for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing,

unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born

at all.”

– Margaret Sanger. The Pivot of Civilization , 1922. Chapter on “The

Cruelty of Charity,” pages 116, 122, and 189. Swarthmore College Library

edition.

and

“[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden

of unwanted children … [Women must have the right] to live … to love

… to be lazy … to be an unmarried mother … to create … to destroy

… The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order

… The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members

is to kill it.”

– Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel , Volume I, Number 1.

Reprinted in Woman and the New Race . New York: Brentanos Publishers,

1922.

Yes, this is Sanger, the fearless leader of the leftish fems.  She was a racist and a bigot.  She believed that only the “fit” should breed.  Who were the unfit, you might ask?  Blacks, Irish, Catholics among others.  Don’t believe me, it is all there in black and white and there is NO way to argue that this is taken out of context.  She hated them all, but she saved her most vicious attacks for those of her own kind (women) and their inability or unwillingness to throw off the chains of motherhood and embrace the secular, self aggrandizement model of the “enlightened female”.

So, the woman the National Republican Committee wants to champion is a Sanger award winner?  Really?  Are they tired of shooting themselves in the foot have now decided to take aim at their heads?  Have they decided to take the ideals and mores of conservatism and throw them not only under the bus but to grind them into the pavement?  I have only one last comment.

Barak Obama is president of the United States………….and that is exactly how that happened.

Health debate pas deux

PJM takes quite a time to moderate my comments.  I must have ticked someone off, who knew?

My comment on their story about health care.

These are some of the people who support this administration and what they have said.

Robert Reich “…..”Thank you. And by the way, we’re going to have to, if you’re very old, we’re not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It’s too expensive…so we’re going to let you die.”

At a health care takeover protest…….” an unidentified man bit off another man’s pinky finger at the top joint. *The victim anti health care, assailant pro.

Rep John Conyers “I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill,’” said Rep. John Conyers. “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?” *Question are doctors, nurses and technicians going to be so innandated with bureaucracy that they won’t have time to “read the chart” or “read medical journals”?

Sebelius HHR Sec. has been endorsed by Planned Parenthood and they have conducted fundraising activity on her behalf. Sebelius vetoed abortion legislation in Kansas in 2003, 2005, 2006, and again in 2008. “In 2008, Sebelius vetoed House Substitute for Senate Bill 389, titled the Comprehensive Abortion Reform Act by its sponsors. Proponents of the bill claimed the legislation would strengthen late-term abortion laws and prevent “coerced abortions” particularly with respect to MINORS.” (my emphasis).

John Holdren Science Czar from the 1977 text book Ecoscience. “On page 837, the book states that compulsory abortion is perfectly legal under the Constitution of the United States: ‘Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.’” and “A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.

*Now to be honest Holdren may not have been the author of the specific quotes but he is one of the authors of this text book and so one assume he not only read it (unlike members of Congress) but agrees with it.

Now for something slighly different but ………….oh so sadly similar.

Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at Austin Eric R. PiankaI wrote this in the article entitled “What nobody wants to hear, but everyone needs to know”, “I do not bear any ill will toward humanity. However, I am convinced that the world WOULD clearly be much better off without so many of us.”

And less you think that all of this is new to the Liberal thought process we have these quotes by Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger. “The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”

and “Birthcontrol: to create a race of thoroughbreds”

and “More children from the fit, less from the unfit.

But this is so far the best Sanger quote

“Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying … demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism … [Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant … We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.” – Margaret Sanger. The Pivot of Civilization, 1922. Chapter on “The Cruelty of Charity,” pages 116, 122, and 189. Swarthmore College Library edition.”

Why would we want ANYONE “punished with a child” or to live beyond their usefulness to society?  Death panels what death panels?

How very unObaminain.

Haters? What haters?

On Pajamas media what appears to be their token lib wrote the following (my comment is still awaiting moderation so just in case they chose not to publish I’ve posted it here).

//thuggish goons carrying guns (yes I know it’s legal, it’s also incredibly stupid), haters screaming down dissenters from their talking points at Townhalls, the kind of violence in the rhetoric of the anonymous cowards who spill their bile–behind their cowardly anonymity–in the comments section.//

Oh dear, let’s just take this as it comes shall we?
1. Thuggish goons- surely you mean members of the New Black Panthers or may haps the purple shirted members the SEIU or AFT (of course they are into the “gentle persuasion” of kindergardeners and music) among a host of others.

2. “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED”…….you see, those of us on the right do not go out looking for people to shoot, we seek only to protect ourselves and our communities. If that means we have to carry a gun, or stand up for those who can not do so, so be it.

3. The politics of incivility we’ve learned from our left wing foes. From the likes of Code Pink, Alec Baldwin, Al Franken, Cindy Shehan, as well as members of the Democratic party who say things like “Republicans want you to die…..quickly” or “Conservatives want children to starve” or “….THEY want to take away your Medicare and Social Security”. We have finally begun to speak up and talk back and behave in an “Uppity” manner………get used to it. Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander, you know.

4. Most of us (conservatives) don’t HATE anyone. It’s counter to our belief system and an anathema to us. We don’t like some things some people do, we dislike some peoples actions and words and we detest some people (but you really have to work at that) but we DO NOT HATE people, groups of people or countries of people. Unlike the left we can separate people from ideas. We can disagree without making it personal and we can without screeching make our points. I don’t know which Townhalls you attended but from the scenes I saw the only time people got vocal is when their elected official LIED to them. I think if someone looks you in the eye and lies to you, you have the right to call them on it right there and then. Of course our esteemed counter parts on the left have NEVER behaved in a disrespectful manner.

* From the Democratic Underground…..”Ann Coulter may be a travesty of humanity, as unacceptable a hank of flesh draped on a hanger ever to be foisted upon an ignorant populace….”
but hey, it’s not personal, just politics, as was the pie in the face she received for daring to exercise “free speech”.*

5.As a coward hiding behind anonymity I have seen what happens to people who speak their minds (see above). I have a job and a family to protect. I know that there are crazies on both sides of any issue but my fear is not those who would come after me physically but those who would seek to have me fired or who would harass my kids and spouse or worse yet sue me for my beliefs. So yes, I am afraid………I have seen the absolute lunatic behavior of those who are for gay marriage, against the war, for abortion and universal healthcare. I have seen the hate (Bush Hitler, Nazi, Brown shirts ect) that were visited upon former President Bush and now watch with ironic detachment when the same names are recycled to the new resident of the White House. Sauce for the goose……….

I guess that after years of being called every horrible name under the sun, being blamed for everything from Global Warming (welcome to the new ice age, folks) to the extinction of the Delta Smelt (a minnow like fish in CA, where water levels are so low farms and products are in danger of collapse) Americans have had enough.

Thank Goodness!
(apologies for the length, but you really tread on my last nerve)

*This guy could really use a better spell check program or an editor.  While some small mistakes are expected, one wonders if he actually read his diatribe before he published it.

Up date: (wow sounds like I actually know what I’m doing. Don’t act so surprised!)

Hot off the Michele Malkin site, email about a story run saying Malkin is being mean to an O’vomit apologizer and supporter.  At least the posters had the courage to give their names but since they are the crazies I worry about I’m not surprised.

//Priscilla Cortez
to writemalkin@gmail.com
date Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:40 PM
subject TIP

I feel bad for your kids; to be raised in such a hate-filled household must be devastating.

I wish somebody could call CPS on your Asian ass before your children develop the same hatred running through your Filipino veins.

***

Ed Rittershausen
to writemalkin@gmail.com
date Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:31 AM
subject Charisse Carney-Nunes

Michelle Malkin, she’s just a brainless %it. Instead of pissing in the toilet, she pisses in the media. She’s Rush Limbaugh’s girlfriend on the side.

***

Barbara Norwood
to writemalkin@gmail.com
date Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:22 AM
subject your lineage

I reviewed your image this am and I noticed your thick lips. Please tell me you’re not BLACK. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE.//

Excuse me?

Call me naive.  Call me disingenuous. Call me confused but this is the hight of hyporcrisy.

I want to know how many of you out there are lily white? How many of you have never driven under the influence, never cheated at anything, never lied, never sped, never “sinned” against God or mammon? While I know that we don’t want career criminals on the police force, what happened to forgive and forget, paid your debt and now you can begin again?

If you want to start down that slippery slope y’all best think up some small business ideas to generate funds because there are going to be a lot of positions going empty waiting for those perfect people. You know the ones without any sins at all (who’ll be casting those nasty stones) to “come on down”.

Let me know how that works out for you. ‘ kay.

Obamanation

Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am a white, middle class, WASP. I was born and raised in the Socialist Republic of Maryland where you can’t swing a dead fetus without smacking a liberal democrat. I should by all accounts be as liberal as those I grew up with. I am not. I am a disgrace to the proud heritage of “Vote early, Vote often, Vote dead, Vote Democrat.

Even if I was a Democrat, even if I was a Liberal I could not vote for Senator Barak Obama. Not because of his economic ideas, which will be disastrous. Not because of his socialist ideals which will prove to destroy the ethics and mores of this country. Most of all not because he’s black, a fact he and his campaign want the rest of us to forget but they can’t seem to stop talking about. No the reason I can not nor would I ever vote for, hire, talk to or be in the same room with the Senator is for one reason only. His stand on what to do with babies born of botched abortions.

It is the Senators contention that saving the life of a baby already born as the result of a botched abortions is not near as important as the sanctity of Roe vs. Wade. The fact that this is a human being does not seem to occur to the Senator. It is the same kind of attitude that enabled generations to this day in some parts of the world, to buy and sell their fellow men. In fact, it is worse. People can be freed from slavery or indentured servitude, people can not be brought back from the dead. At least not by anyone presently residing on this planet.
I am also a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We believe that this nation was saved by the Lord as a choice land. It was fore ordained to be a place of refuge, a place where liberty and freedom would reign but……
Ether 9: 20

“20 And thus the Lord did pour out his blessings upon this land, which was choice above all other lands; and he commanded that whoso should possess the land should possess it unto the Lord, or they should be destroyed when they were ripened in iniquity; for upon such, saith the Lord: I will pour out the fulness of my wrath.”

I am afraid ladies and gentlemen we are here. Thanks in most part to those who refuse to see where their experiment in social engineering has taken us. They are so steeped in hubris, self-gratification, indulgence, degeneration and sin that they can not even admit how far from the ideal they have fallen.

“The Sky has Fallen”

Something occurred to me this morning, when my local talking heads were pulling a “Chicken Little” stunt, you know,  ”the sky is falling, the sky is falling, watch us for the latest.”  They reported that now communities were going bankrupt and soon things like road work and trash collection would have to go by the wayside to pay the bills.  This got me to thinking, where is the outrage from the “drive by media”?  Where are the calls for investigations of the major players in this mess?  Why are Misters Shummer, Dodds, Frank and Pelosi not being summoned before a Senate committee investigating why this crisis occurred? 

We have of course the obligatory committee with the usual suspects grilling the administration, which sounded the alarm about the fallout from these unbelievably rash and ill conceived practices as early as 2003.  Mr. Dodds had the bald faced hypocrisy to ask why the administration did not alert Congress and the American people about the possibility of this all going south.  Why those on the hot seat did not answer the question honestly is a mystery to me.  This is what should have occurred at the hearing.

Mr. Dodds: (smirking)  Why  didn’t the administration alert Congress to the possibility of such a disaster occurring in the financial markets?

Token administration scapegoat: Well, Senator because the people responsible for it, those on the Senate Banking Commission/committee told us in 2005 there was no problem.  Congressmen Waters, Davis, Meeks and of course Clay (who called the idea of an investigation of Mr. Raines a political lynching) spoke at the hearings and assured us all was well.  Then there are the usual suspects Senators Shummer, Dodds, Pelosi and Frank not to mention Waxman.   All of them have told us that there was NO crisis, it was made up by racist Republicans.  The fact is that those in charge i.e. Raines, Garlick and Johnston were cooking the books, but received a pass because of their political leanings and their victim status as blacks, women and or Democrats.  The regulators in 2005 were attacked, their expertise besmirched, their integrity degraded all because they had the audacity to tell the truth.  I don’t know Senator………why didn’t YOU tell us the truth in 2005?

That’s what should have happened.  Those in charge whose unbelievably naive, incompetent idea it was to force financial institutions to lend money to people who couldn’t possibly afford to pay back their loans should be investigated.  Their assets should be frozen and all monies earned by them over their government salaries put into a fund to repay the losses at Freddy and Fanny.  Those two organizations should be revamped or if that is not feasible dismantled and the loans that have some hope of being paid refinanced.  

We the people should then take a very intense look at the partners of the Liberal Left who helped drive the bus of this crisis.  How does it feel at the New York Times, LA Times, Philadelphia Enquirer, et al, to know that you are officially the whore of the Democratic Party?  You have prostituted your ideals, your craft and your integrity to people who use you to protect them, to make them rich and to steal and cheat not just your reader but you as well.  Prostitutes on the street get better treatment, at least they get paid.  All you get are falling revenues, job losses and subscriber flight.  Congratulations, American journalism died-2008, actually it committed suicide.  

The government should commission a monument.  We could put in  Arlington National Cemetery.  Wait never mind, it would be among those who served and gave the last measure for their country…….they’d probably rise up in mass and throw the monument into the Potomic River.  That’s probably appropriate. It’s already really polluted, one more pile of trash wouldn’t even be noticed.

School-Prison, same difference

I have a middle schooler and someone at high school.  It has been impressed upon my mind in the last several years that somehow we have deviated from the original purposes of education.  School has become; 

a daycare center

a prison

an indoctrination center 

a restaurant 

a social club

a sports team

 

Whatever learning taking place there is not preparing our children to make intelligent, informed decisions in their lives.  Children are in school longer, more hours a day more days a year, than ever before.  There is more violence, more sex, more bullying, more stress and less learning going on than ever before as well.  

Now don’t get me wrong.  The teachers are not the people at fault in most cases.  Are there bad teachers? Are there bad policemen, politicians, doctors, lawyers, preachers ad infinitum.  Of course, there are bad people everywhere.  That cannot be helped.  With education however the problems are varied and difficult and the one size fits all cadre along with the zero tolerance Nazi’s have taken over the asylum.  Here’s an interesting question.  If children spend 33% of their day sleeping (8 hrs.) an another 50% engaged in education (going to and from, sitting in class, doing assignments) how much time do the spend being taught by their parents?  27%?  

Think about what goes on in your home after school.  Don’t forget to take out the hour or two it takes to prepare, partake and clean up after dinner, then there are baths, some children even have time to play before they are packed off to bed.  Of course not all children have parents who care for them.  Some are neglected and abused.  To them school may be a sanctuary, but for most children it has become a prison whose tentacles invade the sanctuary of home ensuring no rest from the stress that marks their every waking moment.  

Well, some say, we are just preparing them to be adults.  This is hogwash.  People who say that are miserable in their lives and seek to make other as miserable as they are.  Children are no longer allowed to be children.  They are over scheduled, over booked, over worked and over stimulated.  They are not content with what they have but are always looking for the next new thing.  I Pod’s, Game Boys, Computers, and TV have isolated our children from each other and from the adults in their lives.  Some children without are willing to kill to get what they feel they “deserve”.  

At school they are ruled by the agenda book, driven by standardized test scores and encouraged by society to grow up faster than is appropriate for their mental health.  We now have dances, yes dances for 10 year olds.   What exactly are they supposed to learn from this?  Children are now encouraged to have “a significant other” in elementary school or they are assigned the “gay” label.  Once children begin to indulge in adult behavior that genie is out of the bottle and good luck stuffing it back in.  

Why you might ask has this come to my attention.  My son (who is a pretty good kid, has some homework issues, but all in all he’s a good boy) got detention.  Why?  Because every child in the school has to wear an ID badge with their picture and name on it. He’s forgotten his 4 times, so now he has detention.  I believe in obeying the rules, so he will go and do as he’s told but……  It occurs to me that a really good way to get around this whole issue is to take a leaf out of the Nazi handbook and just tattoo their Social Security Numbers and names on their forearm or maybe on the back of their hands like in the 5th Harry Potter movie.  That way they would be always recognizable and the school/prison would always be able to reach out and touch them, or there are micro chips that vet can place under an animals skin These are just a couple of other options.  

Mr Orwell was wrong.  He should have titled his book 2008, instead of 1984.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

The end of the world?

The writer of this http://chizumatic.mee.nu/not_the_end_of_the_world is right. It is not the end of the world.

However some of their assertions are incorrect. While many of those who voted will be heartily disappointed in the new cabal in power, many will continue to support them because of pride and greed. They know that with this group of incompetents in power there is money to be made, people to cheat, systems to manipulate and a civilization to destroy. That is what they do. Look at the cities liberals have been in charge of for years. Chicago the murder capital of the country, New York duh, Los Angles, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, New Orleans, Detroit, the list goes on and on. Crime is rampant, people have become little more than animals. Everyman for himself is the mantra and Do unto others before the have a chance to do unto you is the 1st commandment.

Just think, the community organizer and his tribe are bringing this attitude and these accomplishments to a community near you, enforced by the crushing weight of the Federal Government. I hope you’re scared. You should be. I’d start stocking up on food, water and ammunition. Four years is a really long time.

Here’s the sticking point though. The majority of the people of this once great nation chose these losers. That means that more than half of the people in this country are so lost to the ideals of decency, truth, liberty, and freedom that they would elect a Socialist as President.

As bad as Carter was he wasn’t a socialist. Those who fought in the military for this county should consider going on welfare and medicade as it is blantantly apparent their sacrifice has been tossed in the dumpster. They are in good company though. Christ endure this kind of gratitude ever day.

In flyover country it rained yesterday. It was cold and blustery. It was a perfect day for a funeral.

And God wept.

Reflection

It’s taken this long for me to get some kind of handle on the moment.  I went through the  stages of grief:

Shock and Denial

Pain and Guilt

Anger and Bargaining

Depression and Reflection

There are three more stages, the upward turn, reconstruction and working through and acceptance and hope.  But I’m stuck on number 5.  Probably because number 5  gives me no comfort.  The more I reflect the more depressed I get.  Then there is the fact that I can’t get a respite from the Obamagasm being enjoyed by the media.  It’s all Obama all of the time, his face is on the cover of almost every magazine, they talk about him on the radio, on television and at the water cooler. The more I reflect, the more I’ve come to one sad but inescapable conclusion.

Over half of the people in this country are spiritually dead.  I can think of no other excuse for this debacle.  Now just for the record, I held my nose when voting for McCain because like most people I realize that he is no better or worse than the rest of the cabal in Washington.  That said, Barak Hussein Obama is so much worse than the majority of government leaches that even Hillary Clinton would have been a better choice.  

Let us renew some of the most glaring issues about our new “ruler” (this term was used just this week to assure the masses that “the messiah” was “ready to rule.”  

This man voted 4 times in the Illinois Senate to kill a bill designed to help post aborted babies.  Let me put that more clearly, he favored the neglect and murder of babies already born ALIVE.  Why, one might ask?  Simply put,helping these fetus’, these tissue masses, would undermine the sanctity of Roe v Wade.

He has NO experience that would recommend him for this job.  He has been a lawyer and community organizer.  I’ll bet most companies wouldn’t hire someone with a resume like this.  Of course he has had experience in the government, which he has used as a springboard for his lope for the presidency.  How many times did he actually vote in his 148 days actually in the Senate, 4?  The rest of the votes were recorded as NOT PRESENT.  Let’s hope for the countries sake that he perpetuates the same record in the White House.

His business associate and friends.  We haven’t seen a bigger group of crooks, traitors and ner’do wells since the time of William Howard Taft.  Will he jettison these people, of course not, they are his compatriots.   The name of Jamie Gorelick one of the architects of our banking crisis and one of the major players in the deconstruction of our intelligence system (which as you remember led to the first attack on American soil since the War of 1812) has been floated as one of the messiahs apostles.  It’s my guess she’ll be tapped for Treasury Secretary with William Ayers as Secretary of “Peace”  and Bernadette Dorn as Health and Human Services.  Tony Resco can take over as FBI Director and The Reverend Jeremiah Wright will be installed as Attorney General (I know he has to experience in law but “the one” doesn’t have any either so…..what’s your point).

Of course it is only 4 years and we’ve lived through bad presidents before. What is most troubling to me is the blank disregard more than half the country engaged in during this election.  The “Sheople” have triumphed.  They call that which is good evil and that which is evil good.  We have truly entered the last days. 

Isa 5:20 

 

     Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Welcome to the New “liberty”

Wow, the Socialist and social engineers haven’t even gotten into the White House yet and we are seeing the dismantling of our civil liberties. 

Apparently California officials are now investigating the donating of NON-monetary “stuff” by the Mormon Church to pass Prop 8.  I guess now it is illegal to give your time, or donate business equipment (if someone did) or paper or paint or anything else if you are a member of any group against anything the socialistas are for.  I cannot tell you how many times the leaders of MY church “the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints” has read from the pulpit that “The Church” does NOT support any political party, person or proposition.  Church members are asked to be prayerful as they research issues and candidates and then they are to vote according to the dictates of their own conscience.  

Funny how Catholics, Evangelicals, the Black and Hispanic communities all voted overwhelmingly for Prop 8 but the Mormons are the ones highlighted.  

This is not unusual for us. We’re used to bigotry.  We are the ONLY church in this country that has ever had an extermination order put out on our people.  That’s right, on October 27th, 1838 Governor Lilburn W. Boggs enacted an order to drive the Mormons from Missouri or to exterminate them (kill them all).  It wasn’t until June 25, 1976 that the order was rescinded. The dirty little historical secret is the Missourians want the Mormons gone because they were Anti-Slavery and Missouri was a slave state and many in it were flooding Kansas with Pro-slavery sympathizers, thus the Mormons had to go. (bet you didn’t hear that in US History 101)

Their leader was murdered in cold blood, while in federal custody, by a mob of 200 masked men on June 27, 1844. The Mormons were then driven out of the city they had build from a swamp on the Mississippi River called Navoo in the depth of winter.  They managed to flee to the Great Salt Lake where they made the desert bloom but continued to be victims of hate, rumor, slander and misunderstanding.  

Our 11th Article of Faith says: We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may. 

Apparently we are not free in the “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave”.  Could be that’s because it’s become “The Land of the Chained and Home of the Depraved.” 

Marriage is a Sacrament, a religious observance.  If the state wants to enact a civil partnership or what have you that is entirely different.  What people of faith do not want is the government telling them who they HAVE to allow to marry in their churches.  

Many religions believe that homosexuality is a sin against God and nature.  If you don’t believe in God then why would you want to be married in a ceremony that for centuries said “what God had joined together let no man put asunder”?  If you do believe in God, you should understand that the whole Adam and Eve situation is a clue to how things are supposed to be.  

God created Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve, sorry that’s just the way it is.  What you do about it is between you and God. What a church does about it is between the parishioners, their pastor and God.  The vaulted separation between church and state the socialistas adhere to should dictate that the government has NO role in forcing churches to change their beliefs.  

We, Christians know this is exactly where this is all heading.  Those on the left will never be satisfied until they force everyone to adhere to their beliefs.  It is the plan of the anti-Christ, to make everyone miserable like unto himself, to take away choice and to demand everyone be tied to the same yoke.  It is what socialist see as Nirvana and what Communist believe is their right and privilege.  

Welcome to the Brave New World- May God have mercy on our souls.

I am thankful for:

O beautiful, for spacious skies,

For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties

Above the fruited plain!

America! America! God shed His grace on thee,

And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea.

O beautiful, for pilgrim feet

Whose stern, impassioned stress

A thoroughfare for freedom beat

Across the wilderness!

America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw;

Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law!

O beautiful, for heroes proved

In liberating strife,

Who more than self their country loved

And mercy more than life!

America! America! May God thy gold refine,

‘Til all success be nobleness, and ev’ry gain divine!

O beautiful, for patriot dream

That sees beyond the years,

Thine alabaster cities gleam

Undimmed by human tears!

America! America! God shed His grace on thee,

And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea!

These words were NEVER truer than today. God Bless and Happy Thanksgiving.

I Told You So

I hate to say I told you so……no actually, I’m a woman, of Irish (Celtic) heritage and I love to say I told you so. 

Here it is folks, just in time for Christmas, the annual “Hate Christians or anything that has remotely to do with religion or any stripe or variety (except Islam-cause their so nice)” syndrome. 

Church Fire

Rudolph

Santas

Now truly the church fire probably has less to do with Christmas and more to do with Sarah Palin, who I am sure wishes she’d told McCain to trot on back to Washington and find someone who likes being drawn and quartered or flayed alive instead.  But the perpetrators waited until right before Christmas to make their point. Of course as usual they are late but hey a points a point right.  

It doesn’t matter that arson is against the law, it doesn’t matter that someone (a firefighter or people inside the building could have been hurt or killed-what’s a few dead right wing religious fanatics, right).  It doesn’t matter that this country was founded on religious freedom, not freedom from religion.  They had a point to make and they sure made it.  The forces of peace and tolerance on display today.  God helps us all.

As far as the Anti-Rudolph/Santa’s are as cranky as toddlers crowd goes here’s a hint.  If you don’t want to participate, DON’T.  Retailers are only in it for the cash.  We “Christians” would be more than happy if those who don’t believe in Christ would simply not celebrate our holiday.  After all we don’t celebrate Ramadan, Hannukkah,  Kwanzaa, Samhain or other holy days from other religions.  Everyone however, seems to think our religious celebrations belong to them.  

Christmas, Easter, St. Pat’s and St. Valentines Day are all open season for commercialization and abuse, not to mention de-Christianization.  So make a decision, either enjoy the celebrations and shut up or just go about your business, like the rest of us do all year long.  

We don’t try to take over your holidays so either leave ours alone or “Cowboy Up”.

Sedition?

Question:  If sedition* is against the law, why are Senators Pelosi, Reid, Obama, Frank et al still not only in office but walking around free?

Sedition: incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority

 

In an effort to be historically accurate I have done a little research into the topic of sedition.  While not exhaustive I have tried to go to source documentation for my information.  What I found in a cursory web search was the following. 

 

In 1798 with another war looming on the horizon the government passed 3 Naturalization laws and a Sedition Act.

 

• Naturalization Act, passed by Congress on June 18, 1798 which required that aliens be residents for 14 years instead of 5 years before being granted citizenship.
•  Alien Act on June 25, allowed President to deport aliens “dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States” even during peacetime.
• The third law, the Alien Enemies Act, on July 6. Allowed the wartime arrest, imprisonment and deportation of any alien subject to an enemy power. You know citizens of other combatant nations, like Saudi Arabians, Yemins, Iraqi’s Iranians et al.

Last but by no means least

• “Sedition Act, passed on July 14 declared that any treasonable activity, including the publication of ‘any false, scandalous and malicious writing,’ was a high misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment. By virtue of this legislation twenty-five men, most of them editors of Republican newspapers,were arrested and their newspapers forced to shut down,” including the grandson of Benjamin Franklin.   (my thanks to the folks at Archiving Early America for their succinct information)

 

1918 Sedition Act.

SECTION 3. Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States, or to promote the success of its enemies, or shall willfully make or convey false reports, or false statements, . . . or incite insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct . . . the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, or . . . shall willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States . . . or shall willfully display the flag of any foreign enemy, or shall willfully . . . urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of production . . . or advocate, teach, defend, or suggest the doing of any of the acts or things in this section enumerated and whoever shall by word or act support or favor the cause of any country with which the United States is at war or by word or act oppose the cause of the United States therein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both….  ( many thanks to the folks at BYU Library document site for providing this information and the ability to access the original act).

(ie. The surge is not working, our troops are morons, cutting the budget for the military, and sundry other outrages perpetuated by member of the Party of Undemocracy.  They should ALL be stripped of their citizenship, deported and put on a list of enemy combatants.)

I would suppose as we have a illegal alien as president that most of our other laws are null and void as well. This is good to know.  I wonder how the federal government would react if we all decided that paying taxes like obeying the Sedition acts is simply something that one can chose to do or not do?  Would be an interesting contra temps, eh what?

It’s a Wonderful Life?

Occasionally, even we hardened cynics come across something that makes us stop and scratch our heads.  Even we, pessimists though we are, say……well really we don’t say anything.  There are no words to describe the sheer unadulterated excrement that spews forth from the pages of the “penny dreadful” NYT.  

Does one still have to go to college to get a job there?  If so could someone list the colleges so the rest of us could know where to avoid attending, sending our children or encouraging our grandchildren to attend.  The National Enquirer, Weekly World News and the Star get it right more often than these cretins.  

Why the screed against the Tinplated Times (pun so intended)?  Take a gander -as long as your blood pressure is low- at  this.  Now not being a fan of this movie, I don’t like tear jerkers and this is the king of that particular genre, but I do appreciate its message.  The jaded and hedonistic author of this particular opinion piece suggest in the body of the article, if you can stand to read that far that:

• George instead of being able to replace that monies stolen from him would go to jail because, well, stealing is stealing.
• George is cruel to Mary and makes her cry, so why would she love him at all?
• Pottersville the town that survived because George was not born is a much more exciting, fun, happening place than stodgy, peaceful, contented Bedford Falls.

Ok while I realize this is written by a New Yorker and they do not actually LIVE on this planet, I am still astounded.  The idea that restitution is not possible, apparently for anything, ever, is so foreign to most of us. Of course most of us have had some contact with the term repentance and the author of the Book of Life so we’re slightly ahead of the author there.

George is cruel.  Good thing the author of this brilliant article has never hurt anyones feelings and made then cry.  Of course I’m assuming he has room for anyone in his life.  I’m assuming that he still speaks to what family he may possess, if they’re not too outdated, stodgy and so last year.  Maybe when push comes to shove and things get messy in relationships he simply bails so as not to become embroiled in one of those nasty, uncomfortable scenes like the one he can’t understand in the movie.  I won’t try to change his mind but I will say that from his comments on this alone it is crystal clear that he has never really loved someone.  When you really love someone you take them with all of their faults, hence why it is so difficult for many abused persons to leave their abusers.   It may not be right, but it’s true.

Last, for me, but no means least is that whole idea of Pottersville being a place anyone would want to live.  Good to know that, “hot women, booze, drugs and cool jazz,” are the essentials of a happy life.  The  fact that no one, with the exception of Mr. Potter, is happy in this town makes not one iota of difference I’m sure.  That rampant sexual deviance, drunkenness, and depravity do not a happy life make, I’m sure come as a shock to most jaded and hardened New Yorkers.  I would be thrilled if we could somehow manage to contain the filth inherent, apparently in large cities (maybe with high walls and concertina wire)  inside the city limits with those who so appreciate it.  That way the rest of us could live our stodgy, dull, unexciting lives in peace and happiness. 

Oh and don’t miss the comments because that is almost the best part of this little burlesque show.  

Isa. 5: 20

  20 ¶ Woe unto them that call evil  good, and good evil; that put  darkness for  light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

To the Lords and Ladies in Congress

Ladies and Gentlemen ( and I use the term as loosely as possible),

I do not believe you.  This sentiment is not said in aguish, nor is it said in frustration, irritation or disbelief.  It is a statement of fact.

I DON’T BELIEVE YOU.  I don’t believe in you, on you or about you.  If you came out today and told the American people the sky was blue, I personally would walk to the window and look out to check.  

You have lied, cheated, falsified, prevaricated, misrepresented, vilified, distorted, evaded and other wise deceived not just your foes but those who supported you as well.  You and your lap dogs in the press have created a fantasy world in which actions never have consequences, where feelings are the pre-eminent driving force, where man is the ultimate authority and where common sense and morality have not only no meaning but are punished severely.

So here we are.  In the coming months and years you are going to court my support.  Eventually you are going to need my vote, my tax money, my disposable income to help stimulate the economy or improve the roads or feed the poor or house the homeless. Guess what?  I’m not interested.  I don’t care.  

“The sky is falling”; not interested.  ”Armageddon is here”; too bad.  ”All is lost”; don’t call me, I won’t call you. 

I DON’T BELIEVE YOU.  

The only way I will vote for another person to go to DC is if the Lord himself comes down and personally invites me to vote for a specific candidate and even then He might have to convince me.  There is NO one in politics that has integrity, NO one who knows what “sacred honor” is, NO one who understands the meaning of “public service”.  

So to all of you I say, Good-bye.  Fairness doctrine or not I will not be deceived because not only do I not believe you, I do not believe your sycophants in the media and I have even less respect or interest in anything the know-nothing, uneducated, common sense starved Hollywood slatterns (be they male or female or neither) have to say. 

Since you so interested in fairness I’ll be looking forward to the day when The View, Today, Good Morning America and the entire MSNBC station join conservative talk shows and go off the air.  Keep it up, you have, in a little over 20 years, almost destroyed something it took the world millennia to produce.

My one wish is that you all get exactly what you deserve, that karma becomes your closest friend, that what ever went around comes around, that the consequences finally match the actions and that the chickens eventually come home to roost.  

But God is usually  merciful.  That’s what makes Him who He is. Your lack of any redeemable qualities makes you who you are.

I weep for you.

Death of the journalsaur

Contrary to Steven Johnson (whoever he is) I have a clue for y’all. Journalism IS dead.  Real true journalism has been on life support for the past 30+ years and has now finally succumbed.  It is an ex-professions, it wouldn’t move if you put 50,o00 volts through it, it is now pushing up the daisies and joined the blooming choir invisible (apologies to Monty Python). 

As someone with a intimate knowledge of the inner workings of newspapers and the sad state of affairs in newsrooms across the country, nay the world, I should know. Journalists believed their professors, friends, and coworkers when they maintained that Joe six-pack was too stupid, too ignorant, and too lame to know what’s good for them.  They truly believe it is their job to save us from ourselves.  The arrogance that makes that statement possible is almost unbelievable. 

What is most amazing however is that these bastions of tolerance, these monitors of morality, these gatekeepers of all that is right and just are supporters of :

Genocide-millions of children have been killed for the convenience of people too stupid to use contraception

Global warming hysteria- while climate change has ALWAYS been with us, they have enabled the snake-oil sales men to dupe millions of people out of their hard earned money for fake science and ignorant “chicken little “scenarios .

Bad leadership- Journalists support for leaders, locally, nationally and world wide belong to those who have little to no experience, talent or intelligence. They seek only those who agree with them and those whom they can control

Bigots and racists- what do you call someone who hires an employee based on the color of their skin?  With the support of the media something akin to 98% of blacks in this country voted for Obama. From most the interviews it seems that the vast majority of them had NO idea what he stands for, the only credential needed was the color of his skin.  This man has singlehandedly turned back any gains in race relations that had previously been made. He is an embarrassment to the black community, the states of Illinois, Kansas and Hawaii and the entire United States.

These and other concepts have contributed to the leprosy affecting the journalistic profession and have caused it to self-destruct.  Many of us have been left to find our own way through the morass of what is now referred to (laughingly) as news not knowing who or what entity to trust.  One thing we do know though is the the Main Stream media can not be trusted.  CBS, ABC, NBC  are simply propaganda organs of the Democratic Party whose reports are always suspect.  NPR and PBS are direct outlets for the ” Vast Left Wing” conspiracy and are therefore never to be trusted, while MSNBC is a SNL parody of what journalism has become. 

Yes Steve journalism is DOA. Stick a fork in it, it’s so DONE.

The Ugly Truth about Newspapers

I guess you could make the case that I’m  a tad bitter.  

I guess I’m not the most objective person in the room on this particular subject.  

But then journalist who have been hiding behind the second amendment have been doing so for far too long.

I can only offer one persons perspective.  True I am one step removed from the issue but am closer than most people and have 20+ years of experience dealing with and watching these people at work.  While there are objective, honest, passionate professionals out there who have honed their craft over many years there are still others who are integrity challenged, agenda driven hacks who care little for the truth unless it fits into their personal perspective.

One of the problems of media today (with the exception of citizen journalists inhabiting the blogisphere) is that they are taught by the same professors, in the same schools the same claptrap that has hastened their demise.  ”You can change the world”  ” It’s your job to educate the public” which translates (via liberal speak) into “You can remake the world in your own image” and  ”People are not smart enough to understand the facts, you must tell them what the facts mean” otherwise know as “Joe sixpack is too stupid to know what’s good for him, you have to tell him”.  These people then graduate get jobs at newspapers working with people just like them, they live in the same enclaves, send their children (if they have any) attend the same schools (usually private), shop at the same stores, read the same books (notice I don’t say go to the same church because frankly the religious are looked at with a very jaundiced eye at newspapers.  My husband was once told he wouldn’t fit into the newsroom because of his strict religious beliefs, after the person doing the hiring noticed he had attended college at a religious school) ………it’s as exclusive a club as you could want.  People who think differently, live differently need not apply, especially if they think differently politically.  Diversity in the newsroom applies only to the color of skin, gender or ethnicity.  Diversity of thought especially political thought is NOT encouraged.

Now the government is going to save the newspapers.  Of course they are.  Newspapers have become the mouthpiece of the Democratic Party.  They proved their worth during the last election.  How else can you explain the election of a man who has no experience in anything (except going to school) with ties to thieves and crooks, who has been nothing but an embarrassment in his first 50+ days in office (Prime Minister Brown and the DVD”s come rushing to mind) who can’t seem to find members of his own party that can stand up to the scrutiny of not the papers of course but ” the citizen journalists” on the web?

Here’s another little piece of information that you might find interesting.  Some newspapers have been hemorrhaging money for years, especially since the MBA’s took over.  They have separated newspapers from the public by convincing board of directors and publishers that papers can’t afford to be involved in the community.  They have focused their efforts on making not some profit but more and more profit to the detriment of the paper and those who read it.  In our community first they jettisoned the outlying communities saying it was too expensive to deliver there (while pulling in roughly 30 % profit)  then they stopped supporting community events (which caused the community to begin to distance itself from the paper).  Add to all of this, that in a predominately conservative community, they continued to hire and promote people who’s values and ideals differed so sharply  from the majority of readers that soon very few households even took the Sunday paper and they are now left with readers who share their mantra but there are not enough of them to support the paper.

Are they still making money ?  Absolutely, just not as much as they would like and that is another dirty little secret.  Grocery stores make under 5 % profit a year while other business make even less. Many newspapers spent years making 30 to 40 % profit.  The publishing arm of the local paper wouldn’t publish anything they didn’t think would net them under 30% profit.  I do understand that business can not afford to be a philanthropy but allowing greed to dictate business decisions is never a good plan. 

While papers in big cities are on life support, mid sized papers have yet to succumb but the trend does not look good for them.   Unless real revision is undertaken we will lose our free press. Those now in government, while they would love to send out mind police, will not be able to save an institution that has repeatedly taken it’s customers for granted, degraded them, lied to them either by omission or commission and gouged them.  In short unless something is done by someone other then the socialists in DC (delinquent communists) newspapers will go the way of the Dodo.  It couldn’t happen to nicer folks…………

and yes I am bitter.

Radical?

Wow. I’ve finally arrived. According to Janet ( former governor of Arizona ) Napolitano who can’t seem to use the word terrorist to describe our enemies but can use the word extremists to describe people who think that the government has too much power and should be held accountable for it’s actions, I am a radical, right wing extremist.

 

“Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines rightwing extremism in the United States” as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.

 

The dictionary defines “radical” as ;

a person who holds or follows strong convictions or extreme principles, extremist; or a person who advocates fundamental political economic and social reforms by direct and often uncompromising methods

 

So I join the ranks of some outstanding folks.  Jefferson, Adams, Paine, Martin Luther, John Wesley, John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Gahndi,  and many, many more.  Thanks Janet.  

Look who’s advocating marching in lock step now.  I wonder when the arm bands and group graphics will come out and how long it will take for the witch hunts to begin.   

No one expects the Liberal Inquisition.  Well almost no one……………but I do.

 

Are we really this bad?

My daughter just showed me the You tube video of Susan Boyle from the program Britian’s Got Talent.  What an awesome story.  What an amazing talent.  How sad that so many can’t appreciate or even see the beauty of not only this amazing woman but of her outstanding talent.

Because I am a cynic where people are concerned (and I am NOT a Simon Cowel fan) I looked at some things that have been written about Ms. Boyle since she knocked the judges and jaded audience on their collective backsides.  These seem to be the main facts.  She is 47 years old, single, a (excuse the term) virgin, lives alone with her cat (Pebbles), is unemployed (after caring for her 91 year old mum), goes to church, has some kind of learning disability and sings like an angel.  

Susan (if I may be so bold as to use her first name without permission) breaks so many of todays cherished ideals that it is almost impossible not to like her;

She’s old- after all 47 is over the hill, it’s all over for her, no one ever does anything worthwhile after 30

She’s single- everyone must be married, several times at least.  With multiple children from multiple partners living with one this week in one city, state, country and jetting, busing or driving multiple miles to live with the other next week.  And after all anyone not having sex daily is repressed, frigid and emotionally scarred at least according to Freud, Jung and Oprah.

I’m not even going to comment on the “virgin” description.  Just as I would not comment on the “whore” description of any Hollyweird starlett. The fact that someone saw fit to make an issue out of it, says more than I ever can about the deplorable state of our society.

Lives alone with her cat – Gee I really would like to know when it became a source of humor and derision for people to have a pet, to have a cat as a pet  or to live alone.  While I realize most people can’t exist without an audience to play to every day, not all of us are or have to be the center of everyones attention. There are actually people who are quite sane, that  live  alone because they want to or because they have never found anyone they wanted to spend that much time with.  There are those who like to live alone because they don’t very much like people and after watching Susan’s clip no one should wonder why ( people are quite often mean, obnoxious and hateful)

She goes to church- well that right there labels her as a right wing extremist.  Religious people are of course the most hate filled, intolerant, violent, vicious and untalented group of people ever to draw breath on the planet.  No talent hacks, especially bloggers and commentators.

She has a learning disability- this obviously didn’t stop her from singing, taking care of her mum and her pet.  She went toe to toe with Simon and managed to over come the nastiness she’s been exposed to over 47 years.

The thing that makes me the saddest however are those who comment that someone that looks like her could sing so well.  Since when did having good looks mean someone is talented.  Since Hollywood convinced us that only those with beautiful faces and chiseled bodies are really talented probably.  We have begun to see in the last several year though that beauty, talent and sense are not necessarily compatible.  

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Susan Boyle is a natural, real beauty.  I wish her lots of luck.  Dealing with the sharks and crooks in the entertainment industry she’s going to need it. That said God sent an angel to sing here on earth.  

Her name is Susan

Surprised? Not me

The Commander in Thief has done it again.  If there is anyone surprised by this latest move they must either have been comatose or received a brain injury in the last 100+ days. Of course that fully explains those Kwazy Kos Kids but I digress. 

B.O.  will not be attending any National Pray Day events.  NONE, NOT ONE, ZIP, ZERO, ZILCH.  Now while that does not surprise me personally, as I have always considered him a spineless, godless, opportunist with delusions of relevancy, I am surprise that his handlers made such a misstep.  

While Americans in the past have been tolerant of their politicians two faced hypocrisy concerning religion (think Teddy Kennedy- I know, I’m supposed to be nice because he’s sick and dying.  Sorry facts is facts. He’s not a poster child for adherent Catholics)  one of the ways people are reacting to events is a increase in religious observance.  People are quite simply going to or going back to church.  Many are in need of the comfort that comes from the knowledge that some entity is really in charge, that things can get better and that we can help make that happen.  Government is not providing that, it can’t really. It can throw money at problems but it can’t come up with faith promoting experiences because it doesn’t believe in the power of anyone or thing but itself, especially the group that has taken over.  

They believe in nothing but the arm of the flesh, they bow to each other but not to God, they believe in doing unto other before others do unto them,

Eat, drink, and be merry; ……..; yea, lie a little, take the advantage of one because of his words, dig a pit for thy neighbor; there is no harm in this; and do all these things, for tomorrow we die…….”

Of course the rest of the verse says that God will only beat us with a few stripes and we will be saved, but since they don’t believe in God the rest is irrelevant. ( The writer of the verse was pointing out the folly of this way of thinking, just to be precise.) The CIT can sit in Reverend Wright’s church for 20+ years and listen to racist, bigoted hyperbole but he can’t have breakfast with a group of religious leaders who are interested in the survival of this nation?

So now “The One” will “publicly observe National Prayer Day – privately, he’ll pray as he does every day.”  

Wow, what a sterling example of showing his utter disregard for the faith of millions of Americans of various faith, Christian, Mulims, Jews et al. What a waste of opportunity for unity, consensus and bridge building……… Is this the Hope and Change we can believe in? No, all socialist, fascist, and communistic governments do away with “God” right off the bat. He’s simply following the play book.  It’s the ONLY thing he seems to be able to do competently.  

Sigh.

I Tried, I Really, Really Tried

I have tried. Really.  I have .  I haven’t gone out with signs, I haven’t accosted people in the streets, I haven’t called local or national talk shows or emailed TV, radio and newspaper journalists.  But I am so very done.

Let’s see if you can follow my logic.  We have elected someone who:

Is ashamed of America

Goes to a church where the pastor for 20+ years incited hatred against those who were of a different color.

Seeks to undermine, nay destroy the institution of marriage.

Desires wealth distribution and the acceptance of illegal aliens.

Favors the killing of children born alive but unwanted by the creatures who unfortunatley are their parents.

Seeks the dismantlement of our military in favor of his very own “citizen army”. (complete with thugs, drug lords and gang bangers one would suppose)

Is trying desperately to sell our allies (Israel) down the tubes.

This last issue though is the straw which breaks my camels back.

He has promoted Harry Knox, prominent anti-catholic poster-boy to be on the “Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships”.  Not only does this “christian” believe the pope is a discredited leader but also believes that the New Testaments teaching about homosexuality are “wrong”.  As well as describing the Knights of Columbus as  “foot soldiers of a discredited army of oppression” because of the Knights’ support of Proposition 8.”

The mind boggles when one imagines what he might say or propose the government do about those pesky “Mormons”, who also supported Prop 8.  We could see a federal “extermination order” just like the one that was recinded in 1974 after over a century on the books in Illinois, where it was legal to kill “mormons” for the good of the community.

Logic tells me that people who fight against the teachings of Jesus Christ are not Christians.  People who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ are not Christians.  Those who are willing to compromise their principles and integrity for power are not Christians.

Which makes them  Anti-Christ.

Logically.

(Maybe it’s time to change the address of the White House to 666 Pennsylvania Ave.  Transparency in government and all that rot. Eh, what!)

Sorprendido Mucho ?

For the linguistically challenged the title means “surprised much?”  Anyone who is surprised by either the CIT’s(commander in thief) pick for Supreme Court Justice or his administrations draconian efforts to smother any and all criticism of Sotomayor has truly been living under a rock the size of Mt. St. Helen’s.  Apparently you must be “very careful” when talking about this woman.  Amazingly she must not be subjected to the same infamous grilling that characterized the Bork or Thomas hearing.  It seems that the Senate Judiciary Committee need not even bother to come in and interview her, they can simply call in their “Aye” votes from their vacation retreats in the Hamptons or where ever it is rich white people go for fun.

Let’s get a little taste of what we have to look forward to in the next 30+ years, because as I’m sure you are aware of there is no firing of Chief Justices.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice O’Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am not so sure Justice O’Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes that line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.

Good to know.  I am sure that by this standard she will recuse use her self from any and all cases to do with anything she doesn’t have experience with personally.  Any cases to do with religious issues that are not of a Catholic flavor, any cases involving “white men”  “white women” or “white children”, blacks, asians, Middle easterners et al should be off limits as well as anything to do with technology, medicine, geriatrics …….the list goes on and on.  If she hasn’t had experience in these things how can she hope to pass judgement on them, according to, of course, her statement above.

Never mind that a Chief Justice should be impartial until they have heard the facts of the matter, never mind that it is NOT their job to be advocates, revisionists, constructionists or panderers. They should not be beholden to any political person, institution or cause.  Like journalists (ha ha) they should strive to be objective in their job and like most journalist fail miserably.

This woman is the Dolores Umbridge of the current administration.  If you don’t know who that is ask any Harry Potter fan.  They’ll give you a pretty fair description of the current nominee.

I hate it when life imitates are.  I hate it more when so few people even bother to notice.

Journalism died 24 June 2009……….

Welcome to Obamaland………………land of the enslaved, home of the indoctrinated.

Well ladies and gentlemen, there you have it. According to this report on June 24th 2009 the “Free Press” died without a whimper.  It rushed head long into suicide.  Of it’s own accord and with the blessing of it’s members it gave away any pretense of objectivity and jumped on the opportunity to become the actual mouthpiece of the Democratic Party.

Of course those of us in the middle and on the right have been aware and afraid of this trend for the past 40 years.  Conservative and Moderate journalist have found themselves pushed to the fringe, if lucky, or without employment, most often.  Liberal professors have poisoned the minds of their students turning out liberal hacks who couldn’t write a unbiased story if they tried, which they wouldn’t.  The mantra from these denizens of academia is “you can change the world”, “we must educate the public”, and of course “we are the defenders of freedom”.  There is only one problem with that kind of indoctrination, it is a lie.

YOU can’t change the world by yourself, and who made YOU the arbiter of what the world should be.  If we lived in the world according to liberals, people would be on the endangered list (what with rampant abortions, homosexuality, eco-centrism, euthanasia, and the general hatred of anything and anyone who dares to disagree with their personal view of Nirvana.

Education should offer the opportunity to explore and learn different ideas and strategies that enable human beings to grow, achieve and understand more of their existence.  However in this instance it means to indoctrinate all to one way of thought, demonizing anyone or thing that has the audacity to disagree with the “educators”.  Smells like team socialism to me.

The press is no longer the defenders of freedom.  That designation belongs to our fighting men and women around the world. “Never have so few done so much for so many”……..for so little.  Todays press wouldn’t know real freedom if it stood up and bit them on the butt.  Their idea of freedom is socialism/communism, where everyone is the same leaving no room for personal achievement.

Thomas Jefferson once opined

“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.” –Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787. ME 6:57

He did not mean that newspapers should govern but that a free press is necessary to a free people.

Thank God (I mean that literally) for bloggers, the internet and independent journalists.  Besides our fighting men and women, they are the defenders of freedom.

MA’AM

Open letter to Babs;

Ma’am, 

You madam are no lady.  You may be a senator.  You may be female. You may be any number of things but you are certainly no lady.  No lady would demean herself by the self aggrandizing, self serving, self promoting nonsense you spout on an almost second to second basis.  It is women like you who continue to buttress the stereotypes of “powerful” women, other wise know as the “office witch”.  As one professional woman to another, thanks a heap (for those of you unfamiliar with my style-that’s sarc).

Are you so insecure, so wholly without merit, so filterless that you need to embarrass a man who is only trying to be polite.  Did he refer to the male members of the committee only as “Senator”, or did he at sometime during his testimony use the word “sir”?  Was that demeaning to them or did they see it as a common form of polite conversation?

I realize that in California people no longer use polite conversation to communicate.  They text, twitter, email and tele-prompt.  I also realize that in your would no one but those you deem worthy are treated with anything but contempt.  I also realize that members of our armed forces who fight and die daily are considered by you and your left wing coven sub human and dangerous, but still.  Was that worth the black eye you now sport, due to your snippy, whiney, crybaby performance?  Who is going to take you seriously now?  Not the public, who viewed your “dressing down” other wise known as a “hissy fit” as just another Liberal Democrat embarrassment.

I don’t know what committee would benefit from you talents and expertise, the Crybaby Committee for the Advancement of Inexperienced Loafers or the Hate every Good Thing that America has ever Stood For and the Dismantling of the Constitution  committees come to mind. You of all “senators” should never be on any committee dealing with the military, defense or security.  Maybe Michele will let you play in her new sandbox.  I’d keep a close eye out for rogue shovels and flying pails though.  

Bon chance

Neda’s new media and death to tyrants

 

I would like to introduce to you my eternal companion.  Formerly know on blogger as “Scribbling Monk” he spent over 20 years fighting the good fight against bias in the media from the front lines.  He is a much better writer than I will ever be and a much greater humanitarian , he likes people you see while I can leave them or leave them.  

The eternal optimist married to an eternal pessimist, a typically Irish irony.

Today 5:43

I’ve spent most of the night watching events unfold in Iran. I don’t have cable or satellite, just internet and Twitter. I hope what I’m watching is a turning point in a revolution not just in Iran today but around the world forever.

This is what happens when you give a cell phone that shoots video and Twitter, Face-Book, YouTube or other social media to people who are fed up with the status quo. Communities grow and people around the world get involved.

This week’s events in Iran mark a tectonic shift in how media nurtures liberty and thus the way our world works. The new face of journalism is the tip of the spear in a new revolution and will likely seal the fate of tyrants — whether they be a short despot in Iran, unresponsive governments or a deaf media establishment. 

A 40 second cell phone video on YouTube shows the new face of the revolution in Iran and is the face of the new media. 

It opens with a young girl, Neda, being eased to the pavement by several men an instant after being hit in the chest by a bullet fired from a government sniper’s gun. The camera moves past the men to see her head. She looks at the camera, bleeds out and dies. 

Her name, Neda, means voice. Neda has become the voice of the revolution, a rallying cry in Iran and around the world. Just a few hours after her death Neda is one of the most popular tags and search terms on Twitter. Internet users around the world are changing their Twitter time zones to Tehran and forwarding messages and photos from protesters to keep them hidden from Iran’s police.

Old media has no part in Neda’s instant and gory fame nor her instant central role in the future of Iran and possibly the broader Middle-East. 

Old media has behaved like the Catholic Church of Gutenberg’s time, before the Protestant Reformation and the Renaissance. Media had and passed up its opportunity to engage and adapt with emerging technologies. In 1983 Knight-Ridder and AT&T launched ViewTron, one of the earliest online news services. 

Viewtron died because Knight-Ridder didn’t see a profit model for selling news online. Almost incidentally Viewtron also let subscribers communicate with each other too. When they pulled the plug on Viewtron in 1986 it was clear that subscribers were more interested in talking to each other about the news than reading a journalist’s perspective on it. Knight-Ridder didn’t understand they had found the genesis and most important component of the media change that would eventually kill the company. People desire to be agents unto themselves. 

Somehow the one with the bullhorn doesn’t hear others very well if all they do is talk.

Noted internet and social media expert Clay Shirky gave a presentation to the U.S. State Department in June 2009. If you have a message to get out to anyone it will be worth your time to spend 17 minutes watching his presentation on YouTube.

Paraphrasing Clay Shirky’s closing:
In a world where media is global, social, ubiquitous and cheap, where the former audience are now increasingly full participants, media is less and less about crafting a single message to be consumed by individuals. It is more and more often a way of creating and supporting environments for convening groups. And the choice we face, anybody who has a message they want to have heard anywhere in the world, isn’t whether that’s the media environment we want to operate in. That’s the media environment we’ve got. The question we all face now is, how can we make the best use of this medium even though it means changing the way we’ve always done it.

Welcome, welcome

My sweet spouse is just about to launched a new blog. .  While most of his posts will be Kansas related some will have a more national and international flavor.  Be sure to stop by and give him a look.  He is a much better writer than I and while that is not saying much where I’m concerned his 30+ years fighting the good fight against blatant bias in the media have given him an interesting perspective on the news, local and national government and those who prey on our liberties.

I’ll let you know the url when it launches.

Hey White House nanny’s ……Here I am.

So the White House is encouraging citizens to rat out the “right wing extremist hate mongers” who are disrupting town halls and publishing salacious disinformation about Obummercare.

I’m somewhat offended.  Here I am.  Right here.  Patiently waiting…………..

I’m not sure it you can find someone less enthusiastic about O’vomit, heathcare reform, Congress, Demoncrats, Libtards, illegals, racebaiters and Hollyweirders.  I dislike them all.  I think they are a waste of oxygen, ink and computer memory.  They can’t think coherently (due to decades of the use of recreational drugs including alcohol), logic is completely out of the question and so their only focus is on how they “feel” about whatever new shineny issue has punctured the narcotic haze in which they live.

O’vomitcare is a disaster.  Congress knows this, which is why they are exempted from it.  If we’ve got to do it, they have to too.  Let’s see Nanny Pelosie stand in line for hours for her meds, or better yet lets see what happens to Teddy Kennedy, who happens to be actually sick but really old.  Maybe he’ll get some pain killers which he can wash down with a fifth of scotch.  These people want to do to health care what they’ve done to Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac one of which is already asking for more government funds because, of course, they can’t manage to run their noses without help.  Or we could look at the Post Office, Veterans Affairs, Medicade, Medicare, Homeland Security, Social Security or Cash for Clunkers.

Now there’s a program.  They take cars that actually still work, disable them and give someone 4.500 dollars to buy a new one.  So this is a program for the rich?  Anyone who is driving a 10 year old car or more is doing that because;

a. they like old cars and like to work on and restore them or

b. they can’t afford a new one.

If it’s a. then they don’t want a new car, if it’s b. 4500 dollars is not going to buy them a 20,000 dollar car.  They are still 15.500 dollars short.  If they couldn’t afford a car payment before they still can’t afford it now.  So instead of there being good used cars like a 2001 Volvo that someone might be able to afford used, our government has taken that car out of the market place and replaced it with a  new 20,000 dollar car, which most of us still can’t afford at 15,500.

And these people want to make decisions about who lives and who dies.  Personally I’m pulling for Amageddon.

It’ll be easier.  I’ll lay you odds, that is if I have any money left after Big Brother finishes with their redistribution of my wealth. Don’t worry it won’t take long, as wealth and I are somewhat strangers.

A Call to Arms (boycott)

It seems that some in the O’vomit administration have thin skins to go along with their thick heads.  Apparently someone is upset because Glen Beck had the nerve to “do unto others as had been done to him”.  I am not fully aware of what prompted Mr. Beck to call the Commander in Thief a “racist”, but after the debacle of the Gates case and “the ones” adroit handling of it, I’m not sure one could argue the point.

Or mayhaps Mr. Beck is as tired as most of the rest of us are at being labeled racist every time we disagree with the current cabal about anything.  The leaders of the Demon-cratic party are socialists, bigots, racists and communists, but with transference they have used these very traits to libel and deflect attention from their hell bent rush for  power, power and yes, MORE POWER.

So I have a suggestion for those of us on the right who are tired of these people and their daily hissy fits.  Find out who the advertisers are that signed on to boycott Becks show and boycott them.

As for me and my house, we will not be stepping one foot in Walmart for the duration.  AT&T will not be our phone, internet or TV company.  When I find out who the rest of these coward are they will also go on my list of boycotted companies (for the time being or forever – it depends on how things shake out).  It’s time for us to put our money (what we have left anyway) where our mouths are.

Save free speech-stick it to O’vomit and his minions.  Boycott a yellow striped corporate skunk today.

Journalism saved by the FTC?

Golly, it seems like yesterday when I posted “Death of Journalism” March 16, “The Ugly Truth About Journalism” March 26 and “Journalism, Smuralism” October 11, 2008.  Now we have government regulators coming to the conclusion that “Main Stream Media is in trouble.

I guess we’re really lucky to have such geniuses in charge of our country today.  Newspapers and media outlets have been hemorrhaging red ink for the last 10 years, which coordinates very well with their yellow journalism, so that now a permanent orange haze has settled over most journalists eyes disabling them from seeing the truth when it rises up in front of them and kisses them on the nosy.  In January 2003 CBS insider Bernard Goldberg penned a damning treatise exposing the left wing agenda propagated by liberal journalism professors to young idealistic skulls full of mush or as I prefer  to call them “head scratchers”.  These shills are then are hired by editors and publishers, who in-turn have come from the same misinformation factory .  Thus we have a  perpetually liberal press who’s relationship with truth is tenuous and who’s responsibility for our present debacle is blatant.

It is no wonder young and old have tuned out the Main Stream Media or the Drive by’s or Hacks or whatever the new moniker is this week in droves.  The new media may not be always right but at least you know where they stand (most often) right up front.  The Drudge Report, Instapundit, and others have filled an ever widening gap left by the likes of MSMBC which has blatantly become the public relations firm for the Democratic Party and apologist for left wing extremists.  There is no objectivity in the “media” today and they deserve to be put out of business for their abandonment of integrity, truth, and sacred honor.

Rest in Pieces.

Welcome to 1984 (2009)

George Orwell hit it right on the nosey.  Big bro’ is watching you and he wants to make sure you are “safe” and “secure” so he will do all of the thinking for you.  That nasty internet, with all of those unregulated “right wing fanatics” who are spreading dangerous misinformation about bro’s attempt to protect you, from yourself of course,  must be tightly controlled.

Heaven knows what kind of cyber emergency will plunge us into complete chaos.  Of course with the group in charge now chaos seems to be their operating system du jour.  They spend months coming up with a 1,000 page bill no one, even bro’, has read.  They

vilify,

libel,

dismiss,

and slander

anyone who even suggests an alternative course.  Last but not least in an attempt to force the issue they “go to the people” who by large margins castigate and reject their “rescue plan”  then announce that they have the votes to do it anyway but even if they don’t they’ll finagle a way to pass it no matter what.

This is representative government?  This is what we fought and some of us died for?  To have someone tell us what to do in our homes, businesses, on our computers?   How long before alternative views become “dangerous”?  How long before free speech is only for the elites, the educated, the powerful?

Probably next Tuesday.

People are complex

I had a history professor who in trying to explain the sometimes unexplainable, would simply remark “People are complex”.  In no time in our history has this been more true than today.  This country has become as polarized as it was in the years right before the Revolution. Then the choice was between staying faithful and true to the mother country, which had come to see America as a golden goose, and those who wanted to create a new nation, was unresolveable.  The British government gathered the eggs but couldn’t seem to be bothered to feed, water, or house the goose.  Some colonists became alarmed over what they considered intrusive measures aimed at keeping the proverbial genie in the bottle.  Homes entered without warrant, oppressive taxes, being forced to house troops with little to no recompense, government inattention and disregard to the peoples concerns were all symptoms which led, to the final break with England.

All colonist were not in favor of disintegrating the ties between the two countries.  Some left these shores never to return rather than become traitors to their mother country.  Others were forced to leave.  Some became covert agents working behind the scenes.  Benedict Arnold didn’t see himself as a traitor, but as a patriot.  I guess it depends on which side of the pond you favor how you perceive him today.

What does this have to do with our current situation?  Quite a bit I think.  We have an electorate firmly divided on ideological grounds, even though the left would like to dismiss this all as racially motivated.  There are always elements of distrust among those who come from differing backgrounds and ethnicities and always will be.  For most on the right however, the discomfort, nay fear comes from differences in goals, ideals and basic core beliefs.

Lets see what the winner of our last election has said about  some of his goals.

Energy Plan:

Double production of alternative energy in the next three years

Improve energy efficiency of 2 million homes and  75% of federal buildings

Create 5 million new jobs-clean energy sources

One million hybrid cars

Cap and trade  to reduce greenhouse gases

Taxes

Reduce tax cuts on the wealthy (families under 250,000 no increase-over that no more than they paid in the 1990s)

Fiscal responsibility

Pay as you go budgeting

Pork barrel spending cut

Health Care

Strengthen employer-provided health coverage,

Make insurance companies accountable and ensure a patient’s choice of doctors.

Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing medical conditions.

New tax credit to help small businesses provide affordable health insurance to employees.

Importation of medicines from other developed countries and increase the use of lower-cost generic drugs in            public programs.

Now most of these goals sound doable.  Most of them sound pretty main stream.  Most of them sound like things people of both parties could get behind.  So the big question is why have people from all across the political spectrum become so fearful, distrustful and out right hostile to this administrations policies.

Let’s focus on fiscal responsibility.  The stimulus package passed by Congress, hailed by Democrats in both houses and in the White House has been a dismal failure.  Trillions of dollars for jobs with no future, while businesses are closing or worse yet moving jobs overseas.  Unemployment is still rising, home foreclosures are also rising and most economic indicators are down.

On to the energy plan which;

“Will cost money….They will pass that money on the the consumers” and ” If you can’t persuade the American people that, yes there is going to be some increase on electricity rates on the front end” but it will be worth it to “save the planet”.

So yet again this is going to cost us, the American working men and women.  We GET to pay again!  How special.  Let’s not even begin to look at “Cash for Clunker” where they murdered perfectly good useable automobiles that could have been bought by the “not so wealthy”. Instead the government gave citizens 4 thousand dollars to by new hybrid cars. Here’s the deal, if you can’t afford to by a new, greener car, someone giving you 4 thousand dollars is still not going to get you that car.  You can’t afford the payments especially if the car costs 20,000 dollars.  But you could have afforded someone’s lightly used car, which now has concrete in its engine.  Great idea, how many MBA’s did it take to come up with that?

Last but by no means least is health care. Who is going to pay for this monstrosity?  Medicaid, medicare and Social Security are all bankrupt, practically.  Veterans Affairs is encouraging disabled Vets to “pull the plug”.  Doctors should just give elderly Americans “pain killers” and rationed care is just the tip of that iceberg.  Canada and the UK are killing their citizens through bad care and indifference, but those are the very systems championed by team obama.

Then there is the “race card gambit”.  Anytime anyone disagrees with this administration they are racists.  The speaker of house has called critics un-American and one of the czars has termed Republicans a#$holes. Many in this new administration have tax issues (they didn’t pay enough, Sebelius, Wrangle, Solis, Daschle (first name for HHS),Geithner (Sec. of Treasure – gee I really want him to manage MY money)Richardson, Killefer among a host of others less well known.  Many including the leader and his wife have ties to terrorists, subversives and avowed enemies of this country.

That said, I don’t have any idea why parents might find a talk between the commander in thief and their children somewhat problematical.  After all Saddam, Castro and Hitler all started the same way, its even in Sol Alinisis book Rules for Radicals. Subvert the children and it’s all good.  The irony of all this is that Democrats kept beating the Bush is Hitler drum, but now they refuse to march in the parade of their own making.

I’ve heard of tunnel vision before but dang!

Protest is as protest does

Well, as the old saying goes “the worm seems to have turned. At Politico we have this article about the” Million American March on Washington“. While the author seems to be able to keep his bias at bay through most of the article my favorite part is at the end .

White House officials on Friday professed to know nothing of the planned demonstrations. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs queried reporters about the planners and their issues. “I don’t know who the group is,” he said with a shrug.

Other Democrats suggested the protesters are embittered, fringe conservatives fueled by radio and TV talk-show hosts. “There’s a lot of energy, but it’s negative energy,” said Democratic strategist John Lapp. “At the end of the day, Republicans are left with bomb-throwing, screaming, frothing and a lot of opposition.”

Let us remember:

(warning somewhat inappropriate commentary but that’s what the left is infamous for- civil discourse my Great Aunite’s bussle !

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While protest is a deeply ingrained American right and duty, it is not so much what one protests as HOW someone protests that is a question.  Groups can protest in appropriate ways within the laws of decency and civil behavior.  As long as everyone understands that one persons cause celeb is another’s cause de jour. and we keep our emotions in control protest is a good thing.  If your family has a tendency to heart disease someone else’s family my have cancer concerns, both are important and neither is more important than another.  That said pitting the snail darter against a human child should be a no brainer.  Seriously………sentient being trumps animal every time, sorry PETA.

Here’s the bottom line, we all need to stop concentrating on “ME” and start concentrating on “OUR COUNTRY”.  We need to think of the common good using common sense as opposed to the ‘do something even if it’s wrong”.  There are times when inaction is preferable to  frenetic incompetent mistakes.

“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things – with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.” Corozon Aquino former Pres. Republic of the Philippines.

Why ask why?

It occurred to me this morning as I was perusing the news that there are several questions I have for those who are willing to ignore, obfuscate, and yes, even lie to cement the power of those now in control of the worlds ONLY remaining super power.

First why are they so afraid of Glenn Beck?  In most of his monologues Beck asks more questions than he answers.

He asks uncomfortable questions, questions designed to make you think, to come to your own conclusions.

He asks why no one else is asking these questions?

He asks why no one paid attention to Acorn and their activities?

He asks why no one vetted Van Jones?  No one in Washington including the administration that hired him knew of his previous activities and history?  Even the most naive among us should have a hard time believing that.

One day last week Beck, at his chalkboard, connected dots from radicals in the early 20th century (including Woodrow Wilson, the strong proponent of the League of Nations, the forerunner of todays UN) Che Guevera and Sol Alinsky.

He then asked the uncomfortable question, where was the main stream media?  Why have there been no investigative reports on Acorn, the Apollo Alliance, the Tides Foundation, the New Black Panthers and all of their backers including George Soros, and most disturbingly Jeff Jones, co-chair of the aforementioned Apollo Alliance,  former founder with Bill Ayres of the WeatherUnderground.  Harry Reid senator from Nevada actually thanked the Apollo folks for their help in drafting the stimulus bill.  Why is it we have senators and representatives if they aren’t writing the bills they refuse to read and then rush to sign?

Why is there a feeding frenzy around Glenn Beck?  Because he is asking important questions.  He connecting dots in ways the media and the liberals in government don’t want him to.  Because he dares to say what many are thinking and dares to look where many are afraid to go.  Because he isn’t beholden to either party, he’s a loose cannon, more than willing to impale either party or any ideology  in the pursuance of that which is true, good or bad.

I agree with them ,this is a dangerous man…………….and I for one thank God for him and others like him.

Second, and I feel somewhat chagrined in admitting that I, cynic that I am, missed this.  It is becoming more and more transparent that the current resident of the White House and his political cabal or coven if you like is not going to be content with governing the only superpower left in the world.  They seem to have a more ambitious goal in mind.

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and most frighteningly here

I’m not sure how I missed this.  Mayhaps it was the Czar masquerade, the Acorn burlesque and/or the Health Care obfuscation?  Slight of hand has always been a liberal talent.  From trotting out the bimbos under Clinton, encouraging the Billy brigade under Carter, to the Kennedy family antics under both Kennedy and Johnson (and beyond), all of these diversion were used if not designed to take the publics attention away from what was really going on.  With their co-conspirators in the media (not as many in the past as are now but….) and academia they have managed over the years to get events passed the “great unwashed masses” that might have gotten the perpetrators permanently barred from even the job of dogcatcher on Gitmo.

These people want to rule the world.  They are positioning themselves as being all things to all people.  Christian/ Muslim/Agnostic/ Athiests, middle of the roaders, who are only interesting in “helping” the poor, of whom surprise, surprise there is a majority.  All of this at the expense of the rich, who in their world view are all those who actually work for a living, are barely making ends meet and want them to stay the heck away from them, their families, their homes, guns  and their God.  While the actually rich continue to fund and reap the benefits of the “New World Order”.  Can you say Saudi’s, Kuwaiti’s and Qatar? There are many others but these are the ones out in front at least publicly.

Why one (mayhaps like Beck) might ask would someone like, say, Bill Gates support the current administration when his personal fortune is larger than the annual budget of Russia? An administration who supposedly has painted a large bulls eye on the back of Gates, Buffet and others like them.  Personally I would not be supporting someone whose goal is to redistribute my money to people whose raison d’etre is to be on the Jerry Springer show.

Kind of makes one say Hmmmmmmmmmm…………….but hey I’m a cynic, almost everything makes me say hmmmmmmm.

Crack(Pot)er Jack Prize

Wow………I mean wow!

I’m not sure I have words to describe my amazement, my stupefaction, wonderment, my consternation.

This my friends is “one for the books.”

President Barak Hussein Obama, a man who has never held a real job in his life, a man who single handedly has brought the worlds only super power to its collective knees, a man who’s legislative history can be described in one word; “present,” has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

For WHAT?

Ending war in the Middle East?

Curing the ailing US economy?

Passing ANY legislation besides the non-”Stimulus Package”?

Wait, wait I know, this is his recompense for not getting the Olympics for Chicago!  I knew the European leadership wouldn’t let him down.  Socialists and dastards stick together.

What has this entity done to deserve what has now become a sad, superfluous, lame joke?

Afghanistan is in shambles due to his inattention and inability to make any meaningful decisions.  The US economy is tanking daily.  Health care reform has now become an anathema.  This president has done more to divide, dissect and sever citizens from not just the government but each other than any entity since the founding of this once great nation. He and his cabal have set race relations back about 50 years.  He has sown dissension in the ranks of his own party who have come to the bitter conclusion that Conservatives were right.  The messiah they hoped for is a charlatan, a phony a mountebank.

Lets see who has won one of these prestigious awards in the past, shall we?

Dr. King (I can see this one )

Nelson Mendela (ok)

Mother Teresa ( one of the few who really fit the bill)

Jimmy Carter

Henry Kissenger and Le Duc Tho(very controversial)

Al Gore

Gorbachev (not Ronald Reagan “tear down this wall”, of course)

Kofi Annan ( one of the most corrupt leaders of the UN in history)

So occasionally they get it right…….mostly though they give this award to people who against all odds, against all logic, against all reality believe that peace will happen if only one believes enough. Calamitously reminiscent of the scene in Peter Pan where if you just believe in fairies Tink will live.

I for one have matured.  I realize that not everyone wants peace.  I realize that the only good defense has to have a better offense. I realize that some people will always seek power and authority over others, they will always crave control and do and say anything to get it.  They will lie, cheat, obfuscate, and dissemble.  They will throw their own grandmother “under the bus” if they think it will get them what they want.

One last thing.  Those of you who think the president of the United States is content with ruining this country are sadly mistaken.  His goal is global domination, make no mistake.  An ego that size will never be satisfied with less.  He has become a demi-god, the next step is logical.

God ( the real one) help us all.

Honesty is such a lonely word……..

It seems as if I’ve been saying this forever buy here it goes. We get the leaders we deserve. We elected them, supported them with cash and signed on to their nonsense. The next time a Graham or Pelosi displays a lack of integrity look in the mirror. When was the last time you did the same, have you sold out, lied, obfuscated, called in sick to work when you weren’t, told your mother you’d call when you didn’t. Bah you say those are just harmless fibs.

They are symptoms of a greater problem and they go on all the time. Like gateway drugs, or that first drink the little dishonesties lead to the abandonment of principles, integrity and honor. The Grahams of this world do not start at the top deception wise, they too started in their personal lives. I have no hope that any of this will turn around. People will scoff and make fun of the ramblings of a disappointed citizen. All is well in “where ever you live”. (I’d say Zion but we all no that nothing is well there).

But it isn’t, it won’t ever be as long as people continue to live as if they are the only ones on the planet that matter. That their concerns trump everyone else’s concerns. That the common good is only for suckers and honesty is only for losers. Take a look at the drek that has been foisted on us by the entertainment industry. Compare Friends with the Andy Griffith Show, Simpsons with Dick Van Dyke or any number of other comparisons. That my friends is the evidence of our slide from strong to weak, from honesty to dishonesty, from reality to faux reality.

This my friends is the world in which we live.  Others countries have sold their souls to the devil as well.  There is nothing Great about Great Britain anymore.  France is a hollow shell teeming with appeasers and the appeased.  The Scandinavian countries are a morass of conflicting social schemes and percolating terrorist malfeasance masquerading as societal inclusiveness. We don’t even want to start with Middle Eastern ( ie Muslim Islamic fundamentalist) countries and cultures.  They look you right in the eye and lie to you, because as infidels you are not worthy of the truth. You are only worthy of slavery or death.

I could go on but I’m sure there are many who feel I am being bigoted, racist and unkind.  As Joe Friday used to say on Dragnet…….”the facts ma’am just the facts. There are good people in the world.  There are however enough bad people to make it nye on impossible to accomplish much good and even that is suspect.  What is the overarching agenda, who’s making money and what do they use that money for.  Are the financing a war, a criminal empire, a corrupt government or just advancing their own wealth and power?

So the next time someone disappoints you, look in the mirror.  Then “bloom where you’re planted” and “lift where you are”.  It’s better than the alternative.