Life imitates art………………(spoiler alert)

Last week my sweetheart and I went to see the Avengers, which I’m going to talk about so if you haven’t seen it, don’t read any further until you do.  It was, as many of you already know, awesome.  The highest praise I can give them is that I would pay to see it again.  While I go to movies like that because I love superheroes, mainly because we don’t have any in reality, I always find some life affirming or moral component that I can ponder and apply to my life.

The Avengers was just chock full of these little, as I see them, gems.  The one that stood out to me though was the scene where all of the “heroes” were gathered together in the meeting room, discussing what to do now that they had captured their “arch nemesis”.  Now the characters had been brought together mostly against their will.  They’d been threatened, ordered, manipulated and simply compelled to come together.  Most of them had ego’s the size of the sun, due in part to their abilities to save the world all by themselves.  In this case though they can’t do it alone, they have to work together, to have each others backs, to be willing to give the last great measure.

Although the bad guy was able to affect them and cause contention, their egos and attitudes are why tempers flared, offense was given and taken and contention ruled the day.  They were so busy one upping each other, so busy scoring points, so busy giving out the “burn” they didn’t even know the bad guys had landed on their ship and were systematically destroying it. By the time they realized this it was almost too late.  People died including a very good man, who kept his eye on the prize and was there to try to stem the tide of disaster.  His sacrifice enabled the good guys to come together but at what cost.  Revenge fueled their rage and while it united them the fight still had dangerous and disastrous consequences.

So why did that so affect me.  Because that is where we are today.  We as conservative Republicans and Libertarians can either unite behind the nominee or continue to tear each other apart.  All the while the “bad guys”, those people who have put our economy in the toilet, who have made us a laughing stock internationally, who have compromised our security by allowing unfettered access to our boarders and intelligence, to take away our liberties and freedoms and who have forced us to endure illegal search and seizure (in our homes, schools and at airports, bus terminals and concerts).  People who allow those without the best interest of the country access to the halls of justice, who are more interested in not offending our enemies and who don’t care how they offend our allies.

We have a choice.  Loki, the trickster god who sought the subjugation of all mankind with himself as the all powerful ruler and god or the freedom to create our own destinies.  Which group of politicians desires to make decisions for everyone, which seeks the freedom for everyone to make decisions for themselves?  Which seeks to “help” us because we are too stupid, or ignorant, or childish to rule ourselves or which want to assure us the opportunity to make those decisions and to live by the consequences of our decisions?

This scene illustrates my point exactly: (Loki is the bad guy and he starts a rumpus in Germany)

Loki: [to crowd] Kneel before me. I said… KNEEL! Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It’s the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life’s joy in a mad scramble for power. For identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.
German Old Man: [Stands] Not to men like you.
Loki: There are no men like me.
German Old Man: There are always men like you.
(source IMDB quotes The Avengers)

I just read an interesting piece on mamapundit. It was in response to the Time magazine article “Are You Mom Enough” and suggested that we moms simply deny the media and crankies  the satisfaction of inter-female cat fights.  The world with the help of Democratic candidates have been waging war on women and families since before Margaret Sanger hung up her “kill you’re child here” shingle.

There has been a steady march toward denigrating women and mothers which was at the root of the “feminazi” movement. Our foremothers who fought for the vote did not want to see women “objectified” or “devalued” or “put out of their jobs” as mothers. They are probably rolling over in their graves, actually they’ve probably stopped by now and are actively gnashing their teeth and itching to get their cold dead fingers on some of the most egregious of the drum bangers.

Our foremothers sought to make women’s contributions acknowledged, not discarded.  They realized that the most important work anyone mother or father will ever do is in the walls of their own homes.  Those who prey upon society and each other, for the most part, have only to look to the lack of parental involvement or sometimes too much involvement to trace their issues.  Would all of them be model citizens, of course not.  Without a steady rudder, in most cases mother, in the home the chance for children to learn to be decent, productive citizens decreases.

Are there bad mothers.  Of course.  Still out of the billions of mothers there have ever been, the children they have raised have been builders, growers, makers, doers, doctors, lawyers, businesspeople, inventors, scientists, teachers and more.  These positive forces out weigh the who seek to destroy and defame. Today, however without a steadying influence in the home children are left to dangle in the wind like so much floss.  With no examples of self sacrifice, service, integrity and no one who loves them more than their “job”, “career”, “new boyfriend, husband, one night stand” they wallow in a lack of confidence that is debilitating .  Someone who is so tired at night they can’t help with homework, someone so busy in the morning they can’t make lunch, someone so consumed with their adult life they can’t bother to go to parent-teacher night or music concert or play.

Today many mothers have to work.  It is a essential.  Who drives that by making it impossible to live on one income?  Who has not made the family a priority by ensuring food, gas, homes and other services are not out of control  due to regulations and taxes?  Who has encouraged women to “Have It All”?

No one can have it all. Something has to give and in todays world it’s the family that has to give.  It’s the family that can wait, that doesn’t need mom, that doesn’t need time together.  They have Xboxes, cable, the internet and cell phones.  We’re so connected it’s claustrophobic, but we a not close…………not even a little.

So my hope this Mothers Day is that we stop beating each other up.  We start looking at what is really important.  We begin to be the mothers we were meant to be.  We are doing an impossible job, without the time, talent and knowledge given to any other “business”.  We need stop selling ourselves short,  stop comparing ourselves to others and stop allowing ourselves to be taken advantage of by giving away what should be held close, self respect and dignity.  We are Mothers……….we are better than what the world would assure us we can settle for.

MOTHERS DON’T SETTLE.

And now for something somewhat different………….

Every now and again there are just too many choice bits of  buffoonery to deal with  at one time.  One has to eat the gigantic, odoriferous, malignant elephant in the room one minute bite at a time.  Such is todays round up of fribble.

Obama Getting His News from Andrew Sullivan Now- well Obama might as well, no one else does.

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EPA official compares enforcement to crucifixions- So riddle me this Batman, a government official suggesting people he disagrees with should be crucified.  Well at least they’re not saying the government should burn down peoples houses or stage violent protests if they disagree with you. Of course this is how adults deal with disagreement.  A civil society noshes on it’s own when there are issues and problems to be discussed. (If you watch the video be prepared for disgusting language).

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Jesse Jackson says white people want to see blacks getting murdered.

2 charged in Oak Park beating motivated by Trayvon Martin killing, official says.

Alabama man’s attack not being investigated as hate crime, despite claims of ‘justice for Trayvon’

Horrifying: 13-Year-Old White Boy Set On Fire In Racially-Charged …

Texas Woodlands mother killed and newborn baby kidnapped …

If that’s the case we’re doing a pretty sad job of getting it done.

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Then there’s the  TSA in all it’s gory glory

and here

and here

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As far as the prostitution scandal goes, it can join Contraceptive-gate,  Rush-gate, the Buffet Rule (which you know is focused against one individual), Reverend Wright,  race agenda, gay agenda in the never ending list of distractions offered up by the Obama administration.  Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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And so I wish you a good day with lots of opportunities to laugh, love and play. Good day!

Oh no……..you didn’t (finger snap)

Whether I’m a Romney fan or not.  Whether I’m a conservative or not. Whether I’m female or not this is without a doubt the most offensive, disgusting, patronizing, pile of horse( you know what) I’ve ever seen.

“She never worked a day in her life”.  Really so tell me Ms Hilary (what a surprise there) Rosen, who raises your children?  Do you pay someone to do that for you? Who teaches your children morality and civil behavior, right from wrong, as it were? A day care provider, public schools or maybe you’re lucky enough to send them to private schools.   Do you have more than the 2.3 children so popular with liberals today?  Of course maybe you don’t have children.  Maybe you feel that babies and children are a curse, a cancer on the planet who will get in the way of your high minded, liberal utopia. Maybe you think that you’ll miss all the fun stuff you want to do.  Maybe you think that like a dog or cat, a child left at home even with a babysitter isn’t worth the money you’d have to pay for someone to watch them.  Not to mention their sticky fingers on your white furniture and muddy paw(footprints) on your pristine white rug.

NEVER WORKED A DAY- Let me tell you about a mothers day.  It usually begins before sun up when the baby needs to be fed, then there’s the boys to get up, fed and ready for school.  A mom gets a break after the children have gone to school so that she can then, depending on the amount of money they have to live on, bake bread (yes people still do that) do the grocery shopping, clean the house, tend the baby. If the baby sleeps the mom might also sleep because by 12 noon she is just beginning the longest part of her day.  She picks up the children from school, takes them to any classes they might attend, comes home, makes, dinner (most of the time, depending on money) home cooked, then there’s homework to supervise, dinner to clean up, baths, scriptures to read, prayer to say and finally bed time except for the baby who will be awake another 2 to 3 hours and get up at least one more time at night.

And this is if there are no teenagers in the house.  Once they go to high school the activity in most families escalates X10. We don’t even need to talk about what happens when they get sick.  Imagine if you would 5-6 children with strep throat or the flu or chicken pox.   Imagine 200+  concerts and about the same parent teacher conferences, the hours spent on homework and projects.  Mrs. Romney’s boys, like my own, probably also did scouting which is very parent involved and then there’s sports.

I never wanted to be anything but a mom.  It was my career.  Thanks to your boss I now have to go out in the world as an old lady and try to find someone to hire me.  I’m faced with foul mouthed, arrogant, obnoxious morons everyday and those are just the women, so please don’t tell me how oppressed I was.  I never had to listen to some pretend adult who uses the F word like punctuation in my home.  We had more respect for each other than that.

I spent 27 years raising my 6 children and nowhere since then have I had a more exhausting, busy, frustrating, wonderful, blessed experience than being “just a mom”.  I’m sorry you don’t have any respect for that.  It makes it hard for me to have respect for people who make light of, or fun of something they don’t try understand or who aren’t tolerant of someone else’s “choice”.  I hadn’t planned on voting for your boss Ms Rosen but now I think I’ll spread this little gem as far and wide as I can.  I hope he won’t be able get elected “pooper scooper in chief.”  Try to pick this one up from the clean end………..I dare you.

Oh and just a little tip.  Anne Romney suffers from Multiple Sclerosis.  I guess that’s so much less debilitating than having too much junk in the trunk (of which the press is not allowed to comment on).  Way to go, as with Trig Palin, picking on the disabled………..that’s so liberal of you.

35 Years and Counting

Today is my 35th year anniversary.  On this day 35 years ago my husband and I got married.  I was in school he was in the Navy and after a few LONG months we moved together to his first duty station. In those days we did things somewhat differently, we got married before we had a baby.  Because of the swiftness of our wedding (once we decided to get married) there were people counting on their fingers but when the first anniversary arrived without the pitter patter of little feet people stopped counting. By the time our son was born three years later my gestation period rivaled the elephant. Our second baby  a girl didn’t take near as long, go figure and arrived 22 months after the first. The first one must have been a fluke.  Over the coming years we welcomed what would be six little darlings into our family. All are grown mostly, with only one in high school, 4 who have children of their own, 5 who are or will be married by the end of summer.

Why did this come to mind today?  Partly because it’s the day our family really began but partly because the shape of the world is such a mess. I never envisioned the complete lack of humanity that would become normal 35 years later.  I remember my grandparents who lived in “Pig Town” as the poor Irish neighborhood they lived in was called complaining that as folks moved into the suburbs those who took their places lacked the morals and ethical behavior that holds civilized society together.  My family was poor, Irish railroad workers who died from Consumption (TB) all except the youngest child, my grandmother.  She remembered that even in the worst of times, the Great Depression,  people didn’t have to lock their doors.  They weren’t afraid to walk the streets no matter what time it was,  that they looked out for each other but they were especially careful with visitors.  They were brought up on the “Good Samaritan” gospel account.  It was just how they were.

Today we have gone back to tribal living.  Only now tribes contain folks who are ideologically pure instead of racially pure.  The outcome of tribal war between groups is just as devastating as physical war.  This group think emboldens the fanatical and makes the average person uncomfortable with either side allowing the fringe to gain foot holds where they never had before.  Peter Pan children who’ve never grown up are in positions of authority playing Neverland games with the lives of those they are supposed to protect.  The crock with it’s ticking clock continues to shadow the Peter and Capt. Hooks not caring which of the two he devours first.  The Wendy character who brought common sense to the story has morphed into one of the lost boys and we are left with Tinker Bell , a devious, nasty, envious little person who would rather see everything fail if they can’t have what they want. Of the Lost Boys and Indian Tribes we might not even mention.  They float through life, living off the government, churches and who ever they can con into bankrolling them, never getting ahead, never suffering the consequences of their inactivity.

So I apologize to my children and grandchildren for not understanding the problem and for not doing something about the problem before it got to this point.  I apologize to those who came before me for letting them down and for allowing what they worked, bled and died for to become corrupted.   I’m afraid that sooner rather than later the tribes are going to have to go.  We are going to have to learn how to get along even when we disagree.  We are going to have to learn how to deal with each other in a civilized manner or we’re going to have to learn how to exist on a apocalyptical crippled planet. It’s our choice.  Not the government or the church or the corporation.  We the people, us, the citizenry.  It’s time we showed the bullies who the real bosses are.  Time to insist that government works for us, time to let certain churches know that the days of convert or die have expired and time to let the corporations know there are things we can and will do without, starting with Hollywood and the main stream media.

I hope it is not too late.  I hope there are enough patriots and civilized human beings to go around.  Like those who supported Obama in the last election though, I think the ship has sailed and left us standing on the bank.  Peter, Capt. Hook and Tinkerbell have all deserted us.

Manufactured?

This weekend James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released another episode of “Voter Fraud“.  This time they went right to the source, one of  the main opponents of voter ID Attorney General Eric “Fast and Furious” Holder.  One of O’Keefe’s associates entered the voting place and said “Eric Holder” the worker then gave him a ballot.  When the man offered to “go get his ID” he was told he didn’t need it.

Over the last couple of months O’Keefe has proven time and time again that voter fraud is real, is a problem and is growing in the US.  Thanks to the party of “vote early, vote often, vote illegal, voter dead” vote fraud has blossomed and been aided and abetted by groups like the New Black Panther and SEIU, whose intimidation techniques while course and clumsy are unfortunately effective.

What does “the man” Holder have to say.  Voter Evidence Manufactured from the DOJ and or O’Keefe’s Video Not Voter Fraud from our generous overlords to be at MediaMatters.  Then there is the continuing mini-series 2008 Indiana voter fraud case that has involved at least 4 Democratic Party Officials.

If voter fraud is as wide spread as it appears to be to those of us NOT in law enforcement, why are those at DOJ so reluctant to leave Voter ID laws alone.  Unless they feel it is the only way their guy can win.  He can’t run on his record that’s for sure.  Their usual refrain of Republicans “hate (put your protected class here)” is not playing well with a large portion of the electorate that hasn’t been promised anything except that since they’ve spent their lives paying for other people to eat better then they do, have their children have more opportunities to go to college, and get passed over for jobs, schooling and raises, that they will continue to pay.  Gee, sign me up, I want to make sure that the person using their Vision card in front of me in line at the grocery store buying steak, lobster, shrimp and name brand items can continue to eat better than me with my 75% ground beef, on sale chicken and store brand items.

I dont’ know how else to prove something if video won’t do it.  I guess there is really no way to get people to face reality.  Hence the state of  our government and their protected classes.

 

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.

Here

Here

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.

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.//

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Abortion and Race

There is so much to say about this issue but I prefer to let the experts speak first.

“To use racist arguments to try to bait black people to get them to be anti-abortion is just disgusting,” said Guy-Sheftall, who teaches women’s history and feminist thought at the historically black women’s college.

“These one-issue approaches that are not about saving the black family or black children, it’s just a big distraction,” she said. “Many black people don’t know who Margaret Sanger is and could care less.”

Guy -Sheftall teaches women’s history and feminist thought at Spelman College?  Really?  I hope she already has tenure because here’s what Margaret Sanger actually said:

“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with

social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most

successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal.

We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro

population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if

it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

– Margaret Sanger’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255

Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith

Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in

Linda Gordon’s Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth

Control in America . New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.

Yes indeedy, those stirring words came from Margaret Sanger father of Planned Parenthood and eugenics proponent extrodinair .  You see Mags didn’t like “minorities” or “the religious” or “the ignorant” or a host of other groups of people she found “unfit” for existence.  She suggested encouraging all of these groups to jump on the abortion bandwagon and make the earth a better place to live for those who were “fit” for life.

Don’t believe me?   Do a little research on what she actually wrote, not what her sycophants have attributed to her.  The most frightening thing to be ever uttered by this sociopath………….”

“The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)

I wonder how many children would be alive today if Ms. Sanger’s parents had adopted this philosophy in her regard?  What a horrible excuse for a human being and what a terrible influence on women everywhere.  She makes harpies and liberal women look good in comparison and I’ve got to say that’s a real stretch.

The Race Card, Part Bazillion

Yoda said to his young patawan learner Luke Skywalker “That is why you fail”.  He of course was speaking of Luke’s inability or unwillingness to believe in the force, himself or both.

This however is why Obama has failed so far.  Instead of being the unifier he was portrayed to be, he has become the most diversive president in the history of the country.  He, his friends,  followers and  apologists have resorted to the race card at any and every opportunity.  If you disagree with the president on any topic, at any time, in any way, shape or form………you are a racist.  If you are a minority and disagree you are an Uncle Tom or a traitor.  If you dare to ask a question that in any way could be perceived as a criticism of any policy or program favored by this administration you are arrogant, bigoted, and just plain mean.

There is no room for dialogue, no room for compromise, no willingness to even listen to the ideas of others on the left and now there is a growing group on the right that feels it can no longer wait for those in government to get it together.  After 3 years of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid many independents and conservatives who have had bills shoved down their throats, who have been ignored, patronized and demonized have had enough and are simply done.  They will not be bullied anymore, especially on health care, especially as the American people as a whole (no matter what Pelosi and Co. say) do not want cradle to grave, European style,  socialist health care.  They  have seen what it has done to the economies and moral fabric of countries like Greece, Canada and the UK, whose ill politicians and those who can afford it come here for medical procedures they can not get at home.

So one more time, with feeling, just for little Louie Farakahannnnnnnnnnn.

Yes I want the socialist, Marxist, Communist to fail.  I want people to see them for the frauds and cheats they are.  I don’t care what the color of their skin is.  I want someone with a career  running a business or working for one to be a force in government.    I want people to judge others by the content of their character not on how good a speech reader they are.  I want people to accept responsibility for their own actions, for their words,  and for their followers.  I want people, no matter what group they belong to, to be Americans first.  No hyphens, no titles, no pretense. I want people to either follow our laws or go else where.  I want people to develop a back bone, integrity, and empathy.  But more than that I want all the “do gooder” groups (political, social, environment et al) to back up, stop trying to run every one’s life, pay attention to their own problems and leave the rest of us in peace.  The adults in this country already have had or still have mommies, we don’t need any others.  Especially those who try to wrestle us to the ground (for our own good, of course) and force feed us the pablum of their choice.

Not that Louie would understand this.  He is firmly in the “white-bad, black-good” mindset.  But that’s not racist.  That’s “fact”.  Oh and here’s an interesting question, at least to me.  Why are we paying attention to a man who continues to ally himself with the very people who seek to destroy this country and kill it’s people?  If he is as committed to Islam as he claims, he is in direct opposition to very essence of America. Freedom. Liberty. Equality. The fact that his audience wore “uniforms” and the women where behind the veil says all that needs to be said.  If he wants to practice Sharia law he should be free to do so, somewhere else.  The middle east is teeming with countries that feel the need to degrade, imprison  and abuse half of it’s population. They encourage their citizens to live in the 12sth century and that is probably right where they belong.

I am always amazed that people who strongly disagree with the ideals of this country choose to stay here.  They seek to remake it into their own image, I guess because they are FREE to do that here.  In countries that follow ideals that closely resemble Louis’, freedom is not appreciated or encouraged.  It is the very nature of liberty which encourages debate and disagreement.  It is this that he  and his kind seek to destroy.

I frankly am tired of this.  Either get with the program or get out. Leave. Go somewhere else, where they don’t care about freedom, liberty and individualism.  Please.  Just go.

Open letter to Rupert

My dear Mr. Murdock,

As an interested bystander who once upon a time, had a vested interest in the success of the News media, I have watched with fascination as you and your fellow publishers/owners have managed in the space of a single decade to destroy what has taken centuries to build.  From the beginning of this once great nation, it’s leaders have supported and encouraged an open and free press as one of the pillars of democracy.  Thanks to you and your cronies the media is now so splattered with the muck of bias that very few people believe, and rightly so, that anyone in the media is or can be “objective”.

Now that newspapers, magazines, TV stations, and cable networks are hemorrhaging red ink your solution is to “make people pay for news“?  Really, this is your solution.  When we have news sites, blogs and more springing up like the proverbial flowers in May.  More people trust Matt Drudge than cute little Katie Couric, sir.  Apparently you want people to stop going to the NYT web site in droves.  ”We,” Mr Murdock, the little people, are experiencing a recession.  Times are hard, people are losing their jobs, homes, dreams and your insightful suggestion is that you, sir, are not making enough money.  I’m sorry, did you have to lay off your second under-gardener or may haps the sous chef.

Instead of trying to flim -flam the country how about you start taking a really good look at your product and the folks that provide it.  If I were as incompetent as most reporters, news anchors et al are biased I’d be fired tomorrow.  What ever happened to OBJECTIVITY, the idea that one can get the facts and present them, all of them, not just the ones one agrees with.  What ever happened to INTEGRITY the idea that one does the right thing no matter if someone is looking or not.  These ideals have to start at the top and go down, they have to be encouraged and demanded, especially when one is the supposed protector of TRUTH.

Oh yes I’ve forgotten.  All truth is relative.  Integrity is for suckers and Objectivity is for fools.  It’s been an education watching you do business, sir.  I won’t ever forget what you and your brothers  and sisters in wretchedness have taught me.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste, or never to have had at all.

Sincerely,

A sadder  but wiser girl.

Surprise, surprise, surprise!

So our government, consisting for the most part of liberal, left wing, radical, revisionist, reactionary, former flower children, anti war, anti church, anti family and anti liberty adherents is surprised.  They are surprised at the depth of anger out in the hinterland.  They are surprised at the force of the reaction to the shoving of health care down our throats (for our own good, don’t you know).  They are surprised that unlike Europeans we don’t just sit down and shut up when our overlords are so generous and magnanimous  to “we the rabble”.  They are surprised that some loons on the right and on the left have decided to take matters into their own hands and display that anger in a more physical way.

How stupid are these people really?  How long do they think they can run roughshod over peoples rights and liberty before these same people become fed up? There are not enough jails in this country to house inmates once people get really fed up.  Once they do and begin taking matters into their own hands, whose going to go to work in the morning the welfare check, food stamp, daytime TV watching crowd?  Oh I know, the libs are going to replace everyone with SEIU thugs and Black Panther want a be’s.  There aren’t very many of them to go around.  Blacks only make up 15% of the U.S. population, Hispanics another 15% and not all of them are happy about the abduction of liberty that has resulted from this administrations Hell bent drive to Socialism.  Who’s going to work when those of us, who are or will be militantly against EVERYTHING that comes out of congress for the next year, are sitting in jail.

You want to see a depression.  You want to see a real recession.  Take the wage earners out of the economy,  those people who actually produce something, who actually do something, who actually EARN a living instead of living off the government teat.  Who’s going to pay for health care then?  Who’s going to pay for Social Security, who’s going to pay for schools, welfare, food stamps, student loans, Fanny and Freddie bail outs?  Who’s going to keep grocery stores, department stores, gas stations, TV stations, and dare I say government in business when they are all sitting in jail for refusing to buy into the health care pyramid scheme?

Here’s a clue congress  ( when they actually deserve a capital C I’ll give it to them ) when you enemies hail a decision, you’ve done it wrong. When people who have plotted your downfall, worked to weaken your national defense, given aid and comfort to your enemies think you’re on the right path, walk don’t run to the nearest exit.  Get off the train, bus, plane you’re on and back the truck up.  These people do not want you to succeed, they want you wiped off the face of the earth.  They HATE you, they hated you before and nothing has changed except you’ve proven to their satisfaction that THEY were right.  Emboldened, they will now step up the attacks on your sovereignty .

Congratulations congress and the Obama Administration, you have done what you promised, we are now united.  Of course we are united AGAINST you, but hey you can’t have everything.

For the Record

In the middle of the minutia   of life it is sometimes hard to focus on the causes that affect our day to day experience.  Especially when the segment of our society charged with reporting on those causes has come to believe if they just say the same thing over and over again it will make it true.  Some people (this same segment ) say the recession is over.  Another segment uses the misrepresentations of the first to wrest more and more control from the leaders of business and finance as well as from the common folk, thus adding to the  6% of the economy they have already stolen thanks to the Health Care Reform Act or as I like to call it -Barak”s Big Ball of  Burlesque.

So lets revisit some reality.  Congress percipitated this crisis by…………messing in the lending market.  Way. way, way back before George W Bush, they had their hands in it.  Forcing banks to lend money to people who they knew could not afford it.  Fanny, Freddie, Barney, Chucky,  Nanny and Harry were in this up to their little liberal eyebrows.   Bush and others over the years told Congress flat out that it was unsustainable but they were called racist, homophobes, elitists, and worse.  Let us not forget it was Little  Chucky Schumer who went to California and pulled the now infamous “the banks are failing, the banks are failing” causing, gasp, a run on the bank.  What a surprise?  He of course did not realize that a member of Congress facing a wall of microphones would have such a impact on the economy.  Since he’s tried to convince us he is a moron, it’s almost believable.

Now this same group of business genius’ want to take over Wall Street.  Once the heath care powergrab became “law”, how long did you think it would take before they made their next power play?   What’s next?  They own your house, your car, your community what else could they want?  Brothers and sisters they want it all.  They will not be satisfied until they own your souls.  Having no souls themselves they seek to destroy or at the very least reduce and shrink the souls of their serfs.  After all a soulless serf is a docile serf.  No messy morals or integrity to work around.

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends, we’re glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.

Welcome to the new regime

Wow! I never thought I would see this in our country.   What is that popular Tea Party saying,  ”If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.”

I don’t know who the Gestopo tool is who is pushing the public around but if I were in the crowd I’d be getting his name and a badge number.  I thought that a public park was open to everyone. At least that’s what it says on the Lafayette Park website, open all day everyday.  What a wonderful surprise for all those visitors in the background.  A real lesson in citizenship, at least as it’s practiced in the new regime.

I thought we fought a war about just this kind of thing. I know it was a long time ago but some schools still actually cover it in government class (those that aren’t taught but coaches that is).   I didn’t think that embarrassing the “ruler” occasioned the suspension of a group of citizens “civil rights”.  Where is the ACLU, where are the liberals, those bastions of  ”free speech” policies?  Where are the Code pinkers, Barney Frank, GLSEN et al?  Where are the movie stars, producers, directors and studio heads, where is Michael Moore, Janine Garafalo and Perez Hilton?

Of course the elitist media was there.  You can clearly hear the reporter saying that it’s perfectly OK to close the park to the public, but to close it to the media is just ridiculous.  He is a very unhappy talking head.  I wonder if this will make the news tonight?  Wouldn’t you just love to be a fly on the wall at the evening news meeting as they try to figure out how to spin this.

It’s pretty sad that the present administration is so lily-livered that a few gay military members could make they overreact and show their true nature.  Even the evil Bushhaliburtoncheneyrove could take a protest or two outside the front door.  Our president, the wuss.

Equality?

So the Reverend Al wants everything to be equal.  He wants every thing in everybody’s house to be equal.  Well fine, then.  Let’s talk equal.

Religion will be outlawed, after all one can’t have more than one church, that’s not equal.  One kind of pet or more likely no pets as some people are allergic.  No cable or dish, not everyone can afford them. They’re gone.  New cars or any cars, a thing of the past.  New clothes only from one store……….let’s pick Wal mart because more people shop there, majority rules you know, in the new order.  No DVD’s unless everyone has them and they all must be exactly the same or else it’s not equal.  No more movies, not everyone can afford that.  No minority movies either, equality you know. Personal property will become the stuff of legends.  No going to college, after all not everyone is interested in college so the rest of you people who want to advance your eduction, too bad, so sad, it’s just equal.  No more children after all not everyone can have children, and that’s not far.  Sterilization for all, now that’s equal.   No affirmative action, everyone is equal. No more minority set asides, they’re just not equal.  No more resturants, amusement parks, no proms, no nothing.  No jobs, all will simply get a stipend from the federal government to sit around doing nothing because that will make us all equal. But wait who will pay the taxes to feed the masses, clothe the naked, house the homeless, that’s right, there won’t be any taxpayers just tax gluttons.   We won’t need legislatures any more just one person to run things but wait, that would make him more equal than the rest of us so I guess no one gets to be in charge.  Just who is in favor of chaos I like to know?  Well I know but I bet most folks don’t have a clue.

Life, Al is not equal.  Sometimes you have more, sometimes you have less.  Those who work hard, save, invest do better. Those who sit on their butts watching Geraldo, Judge Judy, Jerry Springer and Oprah, sucking from the government teat, inpregnating teenage girls and killing each other with knives, guns and whatever else is handy don’t do well. Surprise, surprise, surprise.

I don’t want your version of equal.  I don’t want communities where young thugs roam the streets shooting at whatever takes their fancy. I don’t want to live anywhere that parents can’t or won’t disipline their children.  I don’t want to be involved with people who refuse to take responsibility for their actions and refuse to admit their problems.  White, black, yellow, red, brown it doesn’t matter. What matters is integrity, honesty, loyalty, freedom and sacred honor and those virtues know no color.

I realize these words are not in the Reverend’s vocabulary.  Maybe someone should help him look them up.

Memorial Day

It is May 2010. The current administration is yet again under a cloud of scandel, this time they’ve tried to influence the election of a member of Congress. Of course why that is different than what happened with SEIU and the Black Panthers during the election (in Pennsylvania, go figure) I’m not sure. The president is going on vacation over the Memorial Day weekend and it has been reported he will NOT be present at Arlington National Cemetery for the commemoration of the day in which Americans honor those who have given “the last great measure” .

Given these events, would anyone believe that Memorial Day is an important occasion? There are grave doubts that the majority of Americans even know what the day represents. While those in the South have been decorating the graves of their fallen countrymen since before the end of the Civil War, the rest of the country has been observing “Decoration Day” as it was initially named, since after WW1. Twelve hundred soldiers, members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry, have been placing small flags on the 260,000 plus graves at Arlington since the 1950’s. Twenty four hours a day, all weekend, these soldiers patrol the cemetery to insure all flags remain standing. These men and women understand the sacrifice because they have accepted that they too may have to extend that same sacrifice in defense of this nation.

Why is it important to remember and reverence our “Fallen Heroes”? One reason is that without them and their willingness to give their all many of us would not be living at all. Freedom may have been lost to the despot, the king, the dictator or the commisair. The Chinese with their one child only policy can attest to the foulness of the dictation of reproductive requrirements. How many of us are not the “first child” or the “only child”? Which of you parents would give up one or more of your children? In communism there is no freedom to disagree, there is only obedience or death.

A country that will not value the sacrifices of it’s defenders refuses to remember what is needed to keep liberty alive. War is a very bad thing. It is a cancer to the world and a canker to the soul. The sad fact is that until human beings can live in peace the strong must protect the weak against those who refuse to behave in a civilized fashion. Today this country has men and women serving in far flung areas of the world, confronting the enemy of freedom, liberty, integrity, honor and reason. They fight those who would kill you, your spouse, your mother, father, children , siblings all because you don’t believe the way they do. They chant “death to America” and “freedom go to hell” as they subjugate more than 60 % of their own population. They are an athema to those who died defending “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. They know nothing about freedom or liberty and they seek to make others miserable just like themselves.

We celebrate those who gave their all because if we forget we diminish the worth of their sacrifice and we trample on the attributes of courage, integrity, and sacred honor that are our legacy from these our fallen comrades. We remember because some day, maybe sooner than anyone is comfortable with we may be called upon to fight the enemy in our country, state or community. We remember because if we do remember where we have been we will have no idea of where we want to go or in fact where we don’t want to go. We remember because we stand on the sholders of those who’ve come before, who have lifted us into the future with their willingness to die for us.

So this Memorial Day sometime between the hot dog and the ‘smores or perhaps before the Prince of Persia or the ball game remember those who fell that you might stand. Remember those who came back and thank them for their service. Recommit to being the best citizen you can be, encourge our leaders to return to the principles spelled out in our Constitution and exercise your right to make meaningful change at the ballot box. This is “our” country, it is our job to take up the standard those who’ve fallen have left us and continue on, better, stronger with more resolve.

They deserve nothing less.

Israel (the root of all ?)

Let us look at some of the events and activities of those dedicated to “wiping Israel off the map” shall we?

Iran’s leader President Ahmadinejad threatened to do so but on many liberal blogs and in many Liberal media outlets the apologists soon began to forment the excuses. He didn’t mean physically, he meant regime change. He meant it in the context of Israel occupying Jerusalem. One blogger went so far as to say “This is about the demise of a corrupt occupying power, not the deaths of millions of innocent people.”1 This same writer offers the “closest translation” (ie the one Anti-Semites like the best because it makes them feel better about their hatred toward any group of people) “The regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.”

Now far be it from me to quibble but………..vanishing from the page of time pretty much means he wants them to disappear. How might that happen the reasoning human being might ask? How could an entire country, an entire people, an entire entity cease to be? Well, by killing every man, woman and child of course, haven’t you been listening. For the passed two millieum forces have been at work to annihilate the Jewish people. They have been driven from one end of the world to another. The Jews of the Warsaw ghettos, the concentration camps where somewhere approaching 3 million people died (the vast majority of them Jews), expulsions from almost every country in Europe, Roman hatred and violence, as well as Babylonian, Philistine and Egyptian attacks. Yet through it all Jews continue to survive, but if Iran has it’s way there will soon be nothing left and the history books will be purged of any and all mention of the “godless-jew”.

As a Christian, a conservative, and an American (of Irish, Welsh and English decent) why should this bother me to the extent of writing this missive. I guess because I am a student of history. Whenever a regime, especially a brutal, totalitarian, godless regime feels it has free reign to extort, bully, brutalize others into doing it’s dirty work for it, that is what will and does happen. Ahmadinejad doesn’t want to exterminate Israel himself, he doesn’t want Iran to be involved. He wants the UN to do his bidding, like the lap dogs they have become. Some tin plated despots with delusions of grander, relevancy or glory have become the pilots of a plane full of explosives targeting whatever building the despot decides needs to be blown up. Insensitive you say, appropriate none the less. Terrorism and terrorist are out to cleanse the world of your kind; your mother, son, father, daughter, sister, spouse, church congregation, community, state, nation. We ARE the infidel.
First they came for the Jew. Who then is next in line?

Ask your friendly area Imam, they aren’t shy about what they desire and what they feel we unbelievers deserve.

Welcome to the New Rubicon

The current administration is poised to move on the internet. It wants to level the playing field it says. It wants to make things fair for newspapers and outlets. They seek to take over yet again another portion of the economy that is failing, due in great part to that industries refusal to adhere to it’s own rules of objectivity.

These people think that it is their right and privilege to control every facet of life in America. After all they went to Harvard. They were elected by a mandate from the “people”. People aren’t smart enough to run their own lives and deep, deep down they want a “mommy” to take care of them. Just ask them. “Obama’s gonna pay my mortgage,” “its OUR turn,” and the like are refrains heard throughout the campaign and into the present.

In January of the year 49 (Anno Domino) AD Julius Caesar crossed a small river in northern Italy called the Rubicon. He and his rag tag army sought to unseat the Senate and put Caesar on the throne as emperor for life. They claimed a mandate from the people, but as usual the politician promised everything that anyone wanted and delivered only what HE was willing to give. Caesar plunged Rome into civil war and when it was over “the people” had less liberty, less freedom and less republic.

We stand on the cusp of an intellectual Rubicon. The government is poised to move on the internet. They seek to strip “the people” of their ability to exchange information freely. They seek to control that information for their own gains. They seek to ensure that criticism to them and their agenda is sought out and silenced once and for all.

They will reap the whirlwind, I hope. I hope they citizens of this country understand that he who is willing to surrender a little liberty to assure a little safety deserve neither safety nor liberty (paraphrased from sage Franklin). I hope that the people in this country will finally wake up, and smell the coffee burning. The government never, ever, ever has had enough the people’s liberty once it has had a taste, it is insatiable.

I hope that the sleeping giant that awoke on Dec 7th 1941 is still there, waiting for another assault on our freedom and liberty. I hope people will finally understand that those in charge are not looking out for their best interest, they are only looking out for their own opportunities and that of their friends and party members. They are willing to lie, cheat and steal, and that’s just the things that have come to light thus far, no telling what other things they’ve done or are willing to do, that they are desperate to cover up. Hence the new FEC focus on the internet.

Transparency, these people are about as transparent as lead. Hopefully we the people are not as dense as that. Caesar plunged Rome into a tragic and deadly civil war. Team Obama and his lackeys in the government and the media stand breathlessly on the edge of the cliff, ready to jump into the arms of Ares. Intellectual war will not stay on the purely academic plain. In Chicago that’s not how they “roll” as it were. Politics is personal and literal. Brother against brother. Neighbor against neighbor. This is where we are headed I’m afraid.

As for the FEC and “the one.” Here I am. Or at work, or visiting the grandchildren, or at a quilt store. I’m sure with your vast network of spies and intelligence workers you’ll be able to ferret out the little American-Irish grandmother. So dangerous to the status quo, such a bad example to others.

Welcome, back my friends to the show that never ends, we’re so glad you could attend. Come inside, come inside.

How Did We Get Here?

I don’t know about you but I’m getting kind of dizzy watching the members of our government, sports heros, civic leaders and dead politicians fall from grace. Surely people have not always been the scum bags of the universe. Unfortunately this debacle has come about , I admit, by our own inability to focus our attention. We seem to be lately a nation, overcome by ADD, or psychosis or perturbation.

We have congressmen and women behaving like college kids on spring break in Mexico. Want something, charge it, daddy will pay. Break something, that’s ok mommmy’s got her checkbook out. Manhandle someone, just say you’re sorry, you’ve had a bad day and eveyone will give you a pass. Of course this incident is not as bad as the behavior of sports “hero’s” or Hollywood “stars”. They have the morals of an alley cat and the common sense of a domestic turkey. Apparently our politicians have the same inflated sense of their own superiority.

I wish I could say that I’m surprised. I’m not. Occasionally I get to see part of Glen Becks program and I’m afraid for him. No one today is allowed to ask moral questions that make the majority squirm. No one is allowed to state the obvious which is, that without some kind of guiding principles human beings will descend to the lowest common factor. We have pushed religion out of our schools, our communities and our government and we have been left to rely on the “arm of the flesh.”

I can see the left secular humanists heads beginning to expand, hang on, it’s going to get worse. Fact is, that without some kind of moral absolutes human beings will descend into chaos, anarchy, desolation and crisis. While this is good for the forces of evil both spiritual and secular, it is disastrous for civilization and especially bad for the old and the very young. We hear a litany of moaning about “the children”, we have to “save the children”. The left have done more save Satan himself to destroy the lives of children all over the world. Their constant attacks on the family both here and abroad have destroyed the lives of millions. It is not just their opposition to traditional marriage but their willingness to commit genocide against generations of the unborn. The warehousing of children in secular prisons where they are daily indoctrinated with “secular humanism” and God is no longer allowed. They have managed to destroy, almost entirely, the “black family” over the last 40+ years. They reverence nothing, no person, no idea, no rule, no law. The only law is their desires and the only rule is their “need”. Feelings not common sense rule them. Thanks I guess to Dr. Spock, we have an entire generation of stunted two year olds to deal with.

So what does this have to do with the congressman. Quite a lot actually. He is a water carrier for those in charge of todays government. He is the pimple on the big hairy butt of government. He needs to be popped, but I am afraid that his constituents will not have the moral courage to throw him out.

Our forefathers and mothers are weeping. I hear them every time a Demoncrat speaks. All I can say is I’m sorry. I should have done more, I should have paid better attention, I should have done something, anything (legal that is). I’m not the only one, but it all starts with one person.

I should have been one.

People Just Being People?

I don’t know, it’s getting crazier and crazier out there . I ‘d say the inmates have taken over the asylum but really I think they’ve burned down the asylum, killed all the doctors and convinced the neighbors that they (the inmates) were falsely imprisoned. It’s like a bad B movie, without popcorn. What am I referring to? Well……………..

The man who would be king has tapped a vocal immigration enforcement foe to head the ICE. This is just what that organizations needs. Already dispirited and disheartened this should be the final nail in the coffin. The man chosen is a former Houston and Phoenix chief of police who’s ” sanctuary” mentality some claim contributed to the deaths of three police officers. He is a vocal critic of immigration enforcement, which makes his elevation to the $180,000 a year job somewhat disturbing. Maybe they could hire someone who actually believes in curbing illegal immigration to head the agency tasked with controlling immigration. Just saying……..

Then there is General McCrystal. I realize that “the world’s smartest man” and his ilk were taught American History by the Ward Chuchill school of Social Science but one would think that if one of the few members of the military to actually vote for him became so frustrated and angry that they would go to Rolling Stones in order to savage the commander in chief and his friends, that someone would take note. But no, instead of finding out what would inflame a career soldier so much that he would be intemperate enough to “dis” ‘the one’s’ anointed water carriers, they simply fire him. They then bring back a general that the Liberal Democrats christened “General Betrayus” and try to whitewash history by saying the Right are the ones that gave him that nickname. Sorry boys but the web is here now and we all know just who said what. In 2004 the mouthpiece of the Democratic party, Moveon.org used the moniker to slander the general. They continued to use it in the years since and apparently have produced a new ad which has since been pulled from their site. As usual transparency triumphs again in the age of O’vomit.

Anyone who is surprised at the Blago trial, has really not been paying attention. This is Chicago politics at it’s best. These politicians would throw their own grandmothers or mothers, or sisters or daughters under the bus if they thought it would get them votes or keep them out of jail. Obama knew about the selling of his seat to the highest bidder…..my opinion is that Rahm is mad that he didn’t get the seat. I wouldn’t elect an Illinois politician to be dog catcher in my town. Next thing you know Elvis will be a co-conspirator. After all this is Chicago we’re talking about, the home of “vote early, vote often, vote dead.

Ah yes and last but by no means least, Sir Paul McCartney and his outburst concerning global warming skeptics. When, Sir Paul, did you manage to get a degree in science. Was that before or after your mind altering visit with the Dali Lama? Could it have been in the years you’ve wandered the globe spreading your global footprint from Zanzabar to Waldens Pond? You, sir, have a right to your opinion but the facts are the the data has been shown to be flawed, the scientist have been compromised and you don’t have either the education or the experience to have anything but an ignorant opinion. Too bad you and your cohorts didn’t go “Back to the USSAR” where you’d have been sent to Siberia for your inability to assimilate. I would guess your observations about global warming would be somewhat different. Then again maybe not you and your ilk could rightly be called “Queens of Denial”.

I could go on but why bother. The more things change the more people continue to be crazy. God bless us everyone.

Now, No More, Never Again…..

So, I live in fly-over country. Quite a way from either the left coast or the other left coast. Usually the crazies like to stay far away from here. We don’t suffer fools gladly, at least I didn’t think we did until lately. My family and I fled (that’s right FLED) the Socialist Republic of Maryland 20+ years ago because the inmates had burned down the asylum and had started on the state house. We thought we’d found a place where people appreciated common sense, shunned political correctness and protected themselves and their loved ones with passion and well…….bullets, frankly.

But today, today while not the first step on the gangplank of collectivism, was I’m afraid, the place where half of the gang plank is bit off by the shark from Jaws. This state has decided to become smoke free. Establishments that serve the public can no longer tolerate smoking in their buildings. That’s right bars, restaurants and other “public businesses” can not decide what patrons can do in a business they own, which takes no government monies. The caveat however is a doozie. State run CASINOS are exempt from this law.

Now, I’m not a smoker, never have been. I belong to the LDS church, we don’t smoke, it’s part of our religion. So, you might ask, why does this bother me. Well, here it is in a nutshell. First the government decided smoking was bad for children so we allowed them to legislate who could buy cigarettes because we wanted to protect “the children”, then they legislated how much cigarettes should cost by adding tax after tax after tax, then they decided people couldn’t smoke in government buildings, then they went after stores, restaurants, clubs and now it’s bars. We allowed the government to do this because it was for our own good, because smoking is bad for human beings. Unfortunately government never knows when to say enough. Why is this important, because our liberties are being syphoned off one by one.

Next time you pick up a piece of cheesecake enjoy it, you won’t be able to for long. State fairs are going to flavorless once the government outlaws corn-dogs, cotton candy, funnel cakes and fried Twinkies on a stick. According to the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, government has a responsibility to take care of us and laws like the one I just described and the one passed in our little slice of the gulag are simply there to make our lives more …………..homogeneous. Interesting how we’re all supposed to be the same, but minorities and special interest groups are to be lauded for their diversity.

Where were we when our country was turned over to the zealots, the humanists, the godless, the social engineers. Watching CSI or King of the Hill, I guess. While I’m somewhat gratified that I can say I told you so (because as a woman and an American Irish woman at that, I just love to say it) I am disheartened at the morass that we have visited upon our posterity. I am reasonably sure they are going curse our names. I know I would and do every time I read the news. We may deserve this but they certainly do not and it’s about time something concrete is done.

November is coming. Get out and vote. Send a message even the deaf, dumb and blind Washington press corps can understand. Throw out the idiots from the city councils to the Senate. Make sure everyone understands that the buck stops here, with this generation. NOW, NO MORE, NEVER AGAIN.

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death- Patrick Henry (never more appropriate than now).

Well Demoncrats, here you go again.

I wish I could say I’m surprised, really I do. In this case I’d love to be wrong, but I’m not, dag-nab it.

The present administration is at it again. More interference with the 1st amendment, you know that pesky freedom of speech, freedom of association thingy again. First Uncle Sister want to protect those naive and dainty government workers from the mean, nasty, dangerous “Controversial Opinion” sites on the internet, other wise known as conservative news and blog sites. After all we can’t have government workers being exposed to opinions not given them by their masters. To those who find the use of that word offensive may I suggest a walk through the dictionary. The word does have more than one meaning, in this case it means their supervisors, administrators, bosses. So put the race card back in your pocket and get a life.

Second for people who were all about transparency before the elections these people have manage to out dirty deal every Republican since Taft. This last bit of skullduggery is not just arrogant but is honing right on into hubris and if you don’t know about hubris, I again suggest a stroll through Mr. Webster’s opus. The idiot “the one” has just appointed thinks that Great Britain’s health care system is just fine. I wonder if it was his parent who wasn’t going to get chemo or a hip replacement or his grandchild who’s illness was “untreatable” would he simply pat them on the head and say “the doctor says to take some aspirin, and wait for the end”. After the horror stories of people dying of dehydration and other treatable side effects of serious illness, I think I might take my chances with the wolves and bears out in the woods. At least the end would be quick and nobody would be telling me how sorry they were, but “you’re just too expensive to keep alive.”

Third and last, at least for now is this piece of nonsense. Business is now not responsible for it’s own security, the government under the auspices of NSA is. How long before government begins to make ” suggestions” on how to run the business. The next step is guarding our home and personal computers. Then it’s “suggesting” where we should or should not go when on the computer. What sites are appropriate, what games are permissible, what we can and can’t buy, sell or trade and don’t forget those pesky fees because when has the government ever given anything useable away for free? You always pay whether in taxes or in loss of liberty, always.

So, as I have said before, Janet here I am. Right here at my little Apple computer. Typing my “controversial opinion”, participating in free speech, freedom, liberty and the pursuit of my happiness. Come and get me, I’ll make sure to be a guest on every radio and TV talk show possible. I’d even go on NPR, but I’d take a bleach bath afterward. I’d make dang sure you and the rest of the brown shirts at the NSA are seen as the fascists you are. But thats just me, I’m sure there are people out there who can’t wait to hand over their lives to you. Just remember they will also probably want you to wipe their little tushy’s after they’ve gone potty too. Some will people never grow up.

Really, REAL-ly?

Today I read a fascinating post on Politico by Roger Simon (I was going to link here but apparently they, like liberals, are not into sharing unless they get paid for it ) called “Journolist veers out of bounds”. The article was all about Jounolist and how REAL journalist aren’t in any way biased, bigoted or subjective. How in the not so distant past they were honorable, reasonable, upright individuals who worked to uncover the “bad guys”, right the wrongs, to shine the beacon of truth and justice into the seedy corners of dirty backrooms and elite boardrooms with equal vigor.

I really don’t know where this guy worked but in my spouse’s 20+ years in journalism this has NEVER been the case. To be completely honest there have been some people in the industry who have tried, mostly without much success, to report objectively on the news, but they did not last long. There are editors who slant the news by encouraging biased reporting, but that’s not all. What they allow to be covered, how or by whom it’s covered as well as allowing reporters to use emotionally charged words and phrases to impress their biases on the reader are typical behaviors. For example President Bush was described as uncaring, unfeeling, unattached, a dullard and rube to the folks affected by Hurricane Katrina. President Obama on the other hand is inexperienced, overworked, deliberate, and charismatic when journalists (both print and TV) describe his handling of the Gulf Oil Spill crisis.

Bernie Goldberg in his book biased points out that most journalists go to the same schools, are taught buy the same liberal professors, live in the same neighborhoods, send their children to the same schools. So when they say “No one I know thinks that way” or “Everybody I know is going to vote for (fill in the blank)”, these are true statements. They don’t know any of the “rabble” or the “religious zealots” or the ” common men” and they don’t want to. They have been taught that theirs is a higher calling. They are the keepers of the truth, and if that truth doesn’t agree with yours you simply need to be re-educated. Marx, Lenin, and Stalin had programs for that. Here we have the New York Times.

It’s been decades since we had a press that informed us instead of indoctrinated. They have sold their souls to the devil that is the Soros controlled Democratic Party. They are no longer interested in protecting the little guy, they are interested in re-distributing wealth so that one party and one party only will remain in charge. It will be interesting in the days to come to see just how many of the little people, the ones who actually worked for a living, start giving up on the system and decide that since people have been making money off their backs for years, it’s time for them to get their share. Then who’s going to pay the bills? Who’s going to pick up trash, be plumbers, electricians, treatment plant workers, build cars, roads and the rest of the things we need in order to have a civil successful society?

Oh wait I forgot, thats why the Democrats are importing foreign labor, my bad. I guess the press won’t cover that either, unless it’s to cover the liberal hind end.

Which in reality is all they’re good for now anyway.

Thanks again

I would like to thank the people of the state and district I live in for reminding me once again how selfish, ignorant and naive people are.

Yesterday, as this post is written, was primary day. We had the opportunity to send to the Senate a man who stood firm for our state. When the federal government tried to pull a fast one and give a large contract to a foreign company for military hardware he shone the big, bad spotlight of truth on it and then continued to press on until the playing field was leveled. His oponent in this primary, also a congressman, did…………NOTHING. He said nothing, he sided with the government but this is no surprise.

This RINO is endorsed by SEIU, Obama, and the rest of the beltway crowd. Why? Because he is a political opportunist of the first water. He will try to fool all of the people all of the time and here in my state and district the rubes are more than willing to be fleeced. As a matter of fact they seem to want to stand in line to be cheated out of their rights. They seem determined to hand over the reins of their lives to their “betters”. They don’t want to work, think or do for themselves so…………….

Good job. Once again you’ve proven that you can’t be trusted with freedom. That you are so steeped in self absorbtion that nothing penetrates the haze of “what are you going to do for me”. That the people who over the years have bled and died to keep our freedoms did so in vain.

So, you SEIU thugs, you RINO’s, you people who voted to keep the same unscrupulous, amoral, deaf legislators in power even after the debacle of the last two years. After the trillions of dollars spent on stimulus that stimulated only the pocketbooks of the FOO’s (friends of obama). After the passage of the health care scam over the objections of the vast majority of Americas. After the disintegration of our foreign policy and the abandonment of our military overseas and the despicable treatment of our allies.

All of your fake outrage, your verbosity, your disingenuousness is on display in the bright shiny light of 1984 (otherwise known as 2010). This November you will have the choice between the RINO of your dreams and the Demoncrat that is his brother from another mother. At least the Lib will tell you the truth about what he plans to do, well more of the truth than the RINO.

I think I might choose an appropriate write in candidate. Someone more trustworthy like say Jack the Ripper, the Maquis de Sade or the Boston Strangler. Then again apparently the American people would not know a fictional (that means NOT real) character from a real politician. My bad. Real/politician=oxymoron.

And don’t you dare whine about your taxes, your loss of individual liberty or your constitutional rights. You handed them over every time you went to the ballot box. I guess I should pity you, it’s obvious you were educated in Americas public schools. They didn’t teach you how to think, just what to think. The NEA should give it’s self a big bright star, in 10 years there won’t be a United States of America but the Socialist Republic of Progressivism will be alive and feeding off the blood of it’s hosts like the leach it and it’s adherents are.

You know what assume means?

I posted this on the comments of the article about a Peggy Noonan commentary over at Pajamas Media. I reposted it here because I liked it but also because sometimes and with some writers, my comments get lost. I’m not sure who I’ve irritated over there but oh well, thems the breaks.

Her thesis statement was that not all Americas have always assumed their children would do better than they, but that Americans are always spoiling for a fight;

Of course not all Americans have ASSUMED their children would be better off. Good parents and citizens, however, hoped that the rising generation will have it better than they did. How selfish, egotistical and short sighted it is when adults are unconnected and unconcerned about the fate of the children within their, to use a Hillary phrase (yech) “village”.

As a society we have for the last 60+ year abdicated our responsibilities to assure that our children, be they by blood or by citizenship, have better lives than those who came before. While we still look for and develop new medical cures and procedures the emphasis is not on posterity but on “fix this for ME now!” While we plan city development the focus is “how can we bring in more tax dollars to pay for our new (fill in the blank with the expensive but oh so “necessary” activity/building/ service). Contrary to the hype the party with the most self-centered, self-absorbed, selfish, hubristic platform is not the “big business, greed, corruption” Republican Party. No it would be the party of redistribution of wealth (you have, I want, give it to me), abortion (the killing of viable fetus’ in some places would be classified as murder), health care (all you old people are too expensive- you have to go, for the good of all -meaning ME, of course), government corruption (intimidation at polling places, vote early vote often vote dead -Chicago style politics)

Oh and if something isn’t worth fighting for, how much is it actually worth to you? Would you stand by idly while someone beat your child, raped your wife, shot your husband, abused your mother or father? Here’s an even tougher questions for the libs out there. Would you stand by and watch someone beat a dog, drown a cat, gut a shark or terrify a snail darter? It’s all about what is sacred to you. That’s what you fight for. The problem today is that most people in this country today can’t even define sacred let along identify it.

So as usual with the elite media types, of either flavor, Noonan had the initial premise right. It’s when she had to dig deeper that the hidden progressive made it’s appearance.

It’s what happens when reality becomes a spectator sport.

The View vs the Scouts

I haven’t weighed in on this because………..well, because I have a personal stake in it. I have made no secret that I believe the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is an incompetent poser. That I wouldn’t hire him to thread the needle on my sewing machine. He may be smart in the ways of the world but his common sense has left the building without a forwarding address.

l have a Boy Scout and have had one for the last 22 years. My oldest son started scouts at 8 years old, he’s 30 this year. My youngest is 14. The church I belong to has a strong tie to the Boy Scouts because it believes that scouting, if done correctly builds good leaders. I have seen this in action too many times to dispute it. If you leave children on their own with too much idle time you get troubled youth and dangerous behavior. Sorry, fact. Very few children involved in 4-H, Scouting, Boys and Girls clubs, the Y have the same problems as those who are left to their own devices. Those that do have issues are the exceptions not the rule.

So his highness, missing the Jamboree, to be seen on the view is troubling in so many different ways. It shows his disconnect with the things that make America what it is. It shows his lack of regard for fundamental principles of civilized societies. A scout is (supposed to be, this is the ideal, something they are striving for, because perfection except for liberals is not attainable in this life) trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. These are the ideals that boys in scouting are encouraged to live, work and play by. These should be the things a president of a Democratic Republic or Representative Democracy or whatever the elites are calling it these days, he should be promoting. Instead he goes on The View?

The View promotes what exactly? Division, bigotry, intolerance, stupidity, laziness, illegality. I could go on but why bother. The harpies on the view encourage people in their bad and destructive behaviors in the guise of freedom, tolerance and openness. There is a reason some people in this country are miserable, one has only to look at their self-absorbed, self-centered, selfish actions to understand the underlying problems. Boy Scouting takes a young man and turns his attention outside of himself and when it does focus on the boy, it focuses on positive change and reinforcing appropriate and healthy behavior.

Appearing on The View was just another opportunity for “the one” to prove he has nothing in common with most Americans. He is a selfish, shallow, opportunist without a shred of moral fiber. This I’m sure is not new to most of us. The sad thing is that even this blatant disregard for the core values that are still important in most Americans lives and homes will not sway the Obamanations from their sycophant ways.

After all it’s their turn. Hopefully in November their turn will be over. One can only hope………..and pray (at least for now, until they outlaw it- wait for it, it’s coming to a community near you and you can take THAT to the bank.)

Gore- the definition of CLUELESS

Well, well. Al Gore harbinger of damnation, scion of disaster, lord of weather and the internet is saddened. Nay he’s crushed, demoralized and disgusted. Why, you may ask? Is it because his new ocean front mansion lost it’s housekeeper, because he has been outed as a serial groper, or that most people consider him a pariah. No silly Americans.

No, Al’s upset because government ( the all powerful, all knowing, all seeing overlord of us all – this is what happens when you exchange one god for another) has failed us. While I am in agreement with the sentiment, as usual Al is clueless. He couldn’t find a clue with a gaggle of sherpa’s, a herd of bloodhounds, OnStar, a Tomtom, smoke signals or Darwin’s Origin of the Species.

Government, he whines, has failed us by not passing Cap and Trade or as it is referred to in our house, Crap and Raid. So Al, how much more in taxes can the average Joe Sixpack pay. How much higher can food priced and energy cost go up before people are forced to living on the streets. I realize that in your mind we all need to live like they did 10,000 years ago, and that only the strongest need to survive but think again. That would ensure that the only people to make it would be conservatives. Liberals will be the first to die out. They don’t hunt or fish, can’t use a hammer or saw, won’t fight for what they need. They are the fodder on which the new civilization will be built. Most farmers, real farmers not deck-side dabblers are conservative or libertarian so again the libs are on the lower rung of the food chain.

While I realize that “Climate fear mongering” is a booming business and that Al now needs even more of Americans hard earned cash to support his new swinging single life style, I think America has to “just say NO” to Al and his continual mantra of “Woe is us, woe is us”. Are there problems, absolutely. Do we need to do things to make life better for everyone on the planet, again absolutely. Is Al the savior of mankind……………….so epic a fail as not to be acknowledged.

In this one thing government came to it’s senses, helped along by the agitators in the Tea Party Movement (bless you, bless you), Mr.’s Beck, Levin, Hannity, Limbaugh and others who held their proverbial feet to the fire. In the last two years it was the one time they DIDN”T fail us.

As usual Al has even less than a clue. Maybe he should look in the bucket Obama carries around on his head for one. You never know.

History repeats itself …..surprise, surprise, surprise

Surprise, surprise, surprise as Gomer Pyle would say. The old adage “he who refuses to learn from history is doomed to repeat it” has never been truer than it is under the cabal governing in DC today. As liberal heads threaten to explode allow me to demonstrate my point:

In 1765 the British Parliament decreed that all papers (contracts -commercial and personal, licenses, legal documents-bills of sale, lading etc., media – including newspapers and pamphlets and even playing cards) had to have a tax stamp. It was a way for the government of Great Britain to raise funds to recoup the money expended in defending the colonies, otherwise known as paying for the wars and peccadilloes of the dimwits in charge. The Stamp Act, as it was called, was passed by a body of lawmakers who had no loyalty or concern over those who were going to bear the brunt of these “taxes”. There was NO debate, NO representation and NO recourse. The Stamp act further solidified the backlash already brewing in the Colonies. Years of inept leadership, officious toadies (who got their jobs because they were FOG-friends of George III, or political backers of some member of Parliament) was taking it’s toll on the good people of the American colonies. Most of them came to this country seeking the freedom to worship, work, and live on their own terms. The reality became much different as the British government tried to solve it’s monetary problems using the backs of people they refused to represent. This was one of the watershed events that lead to revolution.

Fast forward to today Aug 14, 2010. We have been informed by our overlords that we will now be forced to pay for health insurance. Everyone will be covered, well not really everyone, but almost everyone or at least 2 in 5. For our own good cigarettes, gasoline and coming soon to a community near you, snacks are and will be taxed to the max. After all if something is bad for you taxing it will make you stop thus cutting down on the harm to yourself, the environment, your community and the world. Of course who decides what is bad for you changes daily. Sometimes it’s doctors with financial axes to grind, sometimes it’s politicians who are lobbied (bribed) to push certain items. Then there are the experts (past drips under pressure) who, like Al Gore, Sean Penn and Michael Moore, have absolutely NO experience or training in any of the subjects they feel free to pontificate on.

We are going steadily down the same path which led to the “shot heard ’round the world” and like then it won’t be the actual violence that begins the revolution. It will be the continual chipping away at the God given rights Americans possess. Eventually even the dim among us are going to have to admit that those in charge of government be they elected or hired are dangerous to our lives, liberties and pursuit of happiness.

So the next time you hear about the Soda Tax remember the Stamp Act and where that led us. I personally am not looking forward to hand to hand combat in the streets but I am getting closer than ever to applying for a concealed carry permit. I will protect myself and my own. I pray every night it will not come to that………..but I am losing faith in not only those doing the governing but the governed as well.

Sort of an update…….

Over at IMAO the other day they had a post concerning the Ground Zero mosque, lately known as the Ground Zero Victory Mosque or GZVM and Nancy Pelosi’s claim that anyone against said mosque “should be investigated”. I hope that my readers will not mind my reposting as the update is specifically tied to this post.

//Caution ………..Rant:
Welcome to my life Nanny. Come on down and investigate the pittance I and the sweet spouse are paid (compared to your salary, fringe benefits, retirement and golden parachute). People in this country by a wide margin feel they way the do about Islam and muslims because of what they say and do, not because of who they are. If they didn’t say things like “Israel should be wiped off the map or Kill the infidel or Death to America or America is the Great Satan”, some of us might feel differently. Those of us who are students of history however would probably feel exactly as we do today. Islam is not now nor has it ever been a religion of peace. It’s doctrine is violent and intolerant of everyone and anyone who does not ascribe it.

Look it up, I dare you. Some where there has to be objective writers who still have a semblance of integrity. While in the past other religions have made mistakes and tried to enforce their beliefs through the sword they have discarded these ideas and have come to understand that only by persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned will anyone be able to affect meaningful change in their own lives or the lives of others.

Islam will never rise to that level. One has only to look at how they treat their women and children to see that the men are animals who have no finer feelings. Lust and depravity fill their souls to the exclusion of anything lovely, fine or virtuous. Hence the 72 virgins – if that isn’t tied to the arm of the flesh I don’t know what is. What god would give another sentient being to be the slave of another, knowing that the slave owner was guaranteed to abuse, debase and destroy that which they have been given to slake their depraved desires. I would say that this was painting with too wide a brush but I have yet to hear any cleric or apologists come out against the things written in the Koran or Sharia law, so I would guess that muslims believe in these ideologies, which just proves my point. Not to mention the so called “honor” killings that have happened in the last several years. These ghouls wouldn’t know “honor” if it reached up and bit them on the …………….nose.

But I don’t hate them. My God insists that I Love my enemies, bless them that curse me, do good to them that hate me, and pray for them which despitefully use me, and persecute me…. I’m not there yet but I am not going around insisting they be deported or jailed or worse. So by “their fruits shall ye know them”.

Just sayin’//

Today a story from Foxnews.com contains the quote, “Is this what we are? Savages?” “So utterly bereft of a speck of humanity that a crowd of ordinary men are passive spectators to public murder?”, from a English daily newspaper. I hate to make this kind of leap but what is the predominant religion is Pakistan again? According to some estimates 97% of Pakistani’s are muslim. It is the “State” religion of the country. And they are surprised by this? Or are they surprised by this kind of violence against MEN. After all the usual victims of this kind of outrageous villainy are women and children and of course ungodly infidels. All of Pakistan is up in arms the article states but I’m reasonably sure that the group of people standing around watching this bestiality, including apparently members of the police force were not offended by it. Otherwise they would have done something or at least walked away. But no apparently they stayed to the end. After all the show isn’t over until the victim has breathed their last.

So here’s my question, if you as a citizen are so afraid of your fellow citizens that you can’t or won’t intervene when someone else is in mortal danger, do you live in a civilized society? If you don’t live in a civilized society why are we Americans being asked to send money, arms, and military to protect you from not only your neighbors, who have given themselves over depravity, anarchy and religious tyranny, but from you yourselves. Maybe you and your religion are not worth saving? Maybe you should be left to sink in to the cess poll of history along with other peoples who proved themselves incapable of self governance, discipline or control. Of course as I said in my post at IMAO, my God requires that I treat people as I’d like to be treated. I’m supposed to love them, even the ones who announce almost daily that their focus in life is to kill all that I hold dear. I’m not very good at that yet, as you may have intimated.

I think though I should get a gold star for not advocating turning the entire Middle East into a glass parking lot and finding a way to send off planet ( physically not as in killing ) all of those who practice religions that glorify violence and intolerance. Maybe on another planet they can live peacefully, or they’ll commit genocide. Either way they will not be our problem anymore.

It’s a win-win to me.

Caution ……….. Religious content

Enter at your own risk. There is religious content in this post. Not just religious mind you “MORMON” religious content. So those of you of a bigoted bent might not want to venture further. You might actually learn a few things that will disappoint you. They may surprise you. They may make you re-examine your prejudices and they might just tweak your halo and impact on your aura of personal self righteousness.

I’m am slightly furious. I probably should wait to post. I should gain some perspective, breath, regroup. But the fire in my heart and the roiling of my stomach will not pass ere I say what needs to be said.

We have become a nation of animals. When abortion Dr. George Tiller was killed by a lunatic in his church in Wichita Kansas I among many, many others condemned the act. While I strongly disagreed with Dr. Tillers way of making a living, I believed and still do that the rule of law must be our vehicle of redress. Taking the life of anyone especially because of a political opinion is beyond horrific. It is evil personified. There should be a sacredness of life that is missing in todays life thanks to the purveyors of filth and depravity that is the entertainment industry, the abdication of parental responsibly by parents who are too young or to tired or to busy to actually teach, guide and direct their children, a government so steeped in hubris and secularist-humanism and a school system peopled by those who seek to destroy all that is virtuous, lovely and of good report or praiseworthy in the name of progressivism They advocate socialism where the collective is all that is important. The individual is replicable, easily replaced and worth less that the matchsticks used to burn churches.

Then of course there are the “main stream religions”, the ones who feel they have the right and privilege to dictate what one can believe. They decide who is Christian and who is not. They decide whether the heavens are still open or whether we have been left alone but an absentee Father, to claw our way through this mortal existence with only a guidebook of indeterminate age and no actual interaction but the occasional miracle. God to them seems to be an esoteric being to many of these people, having no real interest in the lives of his creations, used only when in dire distressed then disregarded and forgotten while the “liven’ is easy”. Some of these “religious” folks repeat claims they don’t know anything about. They listen to disgruntled former members of other religions and believe whole cloth their claims instead of finding out the truth for themselves. After all if they find out those ideas are wrong they may have to change their thinking, rearrange their prejudices. They might just have to stop frightening their children with “if you don’t be good the (fill in the appropriate supposed cult) will get you”. Don’t believe this happens, I promise you I know personally it does.

So at the risk of alienating what few reader I have, I will give you an inside view of what this “Mormon” really believes.
I believe in God the Eternal Father and in his Son Jesus Christ. I also believe in the Holy Ghost.
I believe that Jesus Christ died for my sins.
I believe that man will be judge for his own sins not for Adam’s transgression
I believe that to be “saved” a man must have faith, repent, be baptized, and confirmed by someone who holds the authority to do so.
I believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly. I also believe the BooK of Mormon to be the word of God and another Testament of Jesus Christ.
I believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, I also believe all that God has revealed and believe he will reveal even more in the future and in the same organization that existed when Christ was on the earth, prophets, pastors, apostles, teachers and evangelists.
I believe we all are granted the privilege of worshiping God according to the dictates of our own conscience and that we should honor and sustain the laws of the land.
I believe the a man must be called of God by those who have the authority to act in his name and that there is a prophet on the earth today.
I believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent and in doing good to all I come in contact with. I seek after the virtuous, lovely and things of good report or things that are praiseworthy.
I believe in prayer, faith, good work, honesty, integrity and try to live these values every day.

There are so many more things that I believe but these are the guiding forces in my life. I learned them in church where I go every Sunday. Not to socialize or to look righteous before man but because I KNOW that the only way to return to my Father in Heaven is to learn to do His will and to do my best to love Him and my neighbor and myself.

I have turned a corner this day. I am done being afraid of what people my think, say or do to me because of my belief. I am done being tolerant of those who abuse, murder and destroy because of their selfish, willfulness and bigotry. I am done trying to placate those to whom violence comes so naturally. I’m done having my peanuts stolen my the monkeys.

So beware. I won’t force my religion on you, but I will not sit idly by while you destroy that which I treasure. I will use all the tools lawfully at my disposal to frustrate your designs and to shine the light of truth on your deceptions. I will not excuse violence, I will not participate in demagoguery but I will call out the liar, the thief and the dissembler.

One last question. Just who’s plan are the haters following again? By their fruits shall we know them (you)?

Open Letter to the NRSC

To whom it may concern,
What a night. Washington insiders, political cronies, RINOs of every stripe have fallen by the way side. I feel like I’ve walked into a cell phone commercial, except it’s millions of people all over the country screaming in to their phones “CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW”.

For months we have been telling members of Congress, members of the media, we’ve held Tea Party’s and rallies, all with the same message. “LISTEN TO US! WE PAY YOUR SALARY! YOU WORK AT OUR SUFFERANCE. Still as deaf as the liberal progressive democrats, you thought that you could frighten us with the same old bogey man. “If you don’t vote for our guy, the other side will surely win. So and so’s unelectable, you HAVE to support the party favorite.” NO MORE.

We refuse to send more of the same to Washington. It’s time to clean house not just there but in counties, cities and states around the country. If you’re not for “we the people” then you’re against us. If you don’t honor, defend and sustain the constitution you’re a traitor. If you don’t like it here, don’t let the screen door hit you on your way out. If you think its ok to break the law to get in here and bring your violent culture with you, it’s time you were invited back over the border.

No more incompetents, no more “friends of……”, no more corruption, no more bribery, no more lawlessness and no more back room political deals. The new folks getting involved know exactly who elected them and what they stand for. They also know that “we the people” will be watching and that they serve at our pleasure.

There are some of you who will be leaving Washington after November. Now is not a good time to try to sell that palatial home outside the beltway and getting a job back in your old district could be a tad difficult. The irony is that since this is what you’ve done to us, it is only fitting that you find yourselves in our shoes.

Karma, ya gotta’ love it.

Welcome home

Yesterday we welcomed into our family a new spirit. Fresh from the Heavenly realm, our newest granddaughter made her appearance at 8am. Mother and baby are fine and siblings are adjusting just fine.

I have observed several things since my children began to have children of their own. First, it is much harder for me to watch them struggle through the same kinds of things I’ve already had to do. I would so do some of the hard things for them if I could. If you’re of a religious bent it kind of helps you understand in miniscule how God must feel all of the time. He would so help us if we’d let him, and most times when we let him he knows we have to go through it on our own. As frustrating as it is to go through trials, it is at least as frustrating to watch.

Second, Grandchildren are like presents for being parents. Being a parent is a thankless job most of the time. Important, essential but mostly unsung, until your children have children. Grandchildren (most anyway) think you are the best thing since sliced bread. There are a few things that come before Grandma and Grandpa but who can really out do Scooby Doo!

Third, this is why we work hard, are obedient and stay the course. So that our children and their children can have better in their lives. This is something some people don’t understand. Of course they support abortion used as birth control, population control and other anti-people policies, so it’s understandable. Sad but understandable. Maybe if they instead didn’t think of people as a collective and thought of the individual first they might change their perspective but I doubt it.

Lastly, welcoming a new life gives us the opportunity to reassess our lives, rearrange our priorities and rethink our decision making paradigm. I am truly grateful for the opportunities the Lord has given me to experience such a wide range of ………well experiences I guess. I have truly learned a lot but I realize that I have so much more I need to learn. It is my understanding that when one becomes truly educated they realize how much they don’t know and how much they still have to learn. There are so many truly ignorant people running around trying to run everyone else’s life that nothing get done. Well very little good gets done.

Carl Sandburg wrote, “A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.” I couldn’t agree more and as Mr. Dickens famously penned, “God bless us everyone.”

Extremists? Really?

You have to grudgingly admire the New York Times. It’s dogged determination to recast reality into it’s own image is nothing less than Quixotic and as we head into the closing days of this election cycle, the Don Quixote of the lame stream media will get shriller and shriller, it’s offerings sillier and sillier and it’s leanings will go which ever the way the prevailing winds are blowing.

The quote of today from it’s most resent vitriol laced offering and maybe for the election season in my humble opinion is

The tactic of linking potential Republican rivals to such statements was already in evidence last week. After Ms. O’Donnell’s victory, a party spokesman told reporters, “The fact that Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin would put their name behind a candidate that believes women who serve our country ‘cripple the readiness of our defense’ make them unfit to be commander-in-chief.”

Really? They are really going to go there. When we have the most incompetent, most hostile, the most anti-military regime in place ever to mar the annals of this country. In the run up before his election or dare I say ascension to the throne Senator Obama stated “

“I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending. I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems. I will institute an independent Defense Priorities Board to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary defense spending … I will set a goal for a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal: I will not develop nuclear weapons.”

After he was crowned as President he and his wife, the woman who said at the Democratic convention

“For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country, and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change.”

chose to ignore a 50 year tradition and bypass the Medal of Honor Inaugural Ball,

Instead of attending this ball honoring our nation’s heroes, Obama was busy making stops at 10 other official balls. Obama and his wife’s first stop was at the Neighborhood Ball. From there they went to the Home State Ball for Illinois and Hawaii, the Commander-in-Chief Ball, the Youth Inaugural Ball, and the Home State Ball for Delaware and Pennsylvania. They finished off the night with brief appearances at the Mid-Atlantic, Western, Midwest, Eastern, and Southern regional Balls.

Of course the military ball wasn’t jam packed with the his highness’ cronies, the beautiful rich donors, oh sorry I’m mean celebrities.

Celebrities were a plenty at the balls, with Stevie Wonder, Shakira, Mary. J. Blige, Faith Hill, Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Adam Levine, will.i.am, Sting, Mariah Carey, and Leonardo DiCaprio in attendance at the Neighborhood Ball. In addition, the other nine balls also featured a star-studded lineup including Kanye West and Kid Rock at the Youth Ball, Marc Anthony at the Western Ball, and Cheryl Crow at the Western Ball.

And so who exactly is not FIT to be Commander in Chief. This is the same man who as Candidate Obama said,

“As President, I will close Guantanamo, reject the Military Commissions Act and adhere to the Geneva Conventions.”

But you say, he has a right to change his mind. He has since becoming president become educated. I would counter that since becoming president he does not want to be impeached or have the country go up in flames. As the leader of the party in power his taste for “change and revolution” has waned considerably. Funny how once the Alinsky followers get into powerful positions they have the same lack of principles as any other group of humans. Of course it is easier and faster for them to turn because since they have no scruples it is easier for them to jettison the ones they’ve pretended to have.

So please, NYT spare us the mendacity you are so famous for. Forgive us for ignoring your lame, partisan rhetoric, and liberal whining. We’ve long since absolved you of any trace of objectivity and patriotism. We see you for what you really are, the mouth piece for the fringe left wing of the Democratic party, anti-American, anti-family, amoral and anti-reality.

Good bye Jeffy

……as my grandma used to say”Don’t let the screen door hit you on your way out.”

I don’t know why the folks at General Electric would want to fire the smartest man in Hollywood or maybe it’s the new folks at Comcast that decided to pull the plug on the backed up sewer water that is Zukers stock and trade. The man who was the executive producer of the that liberal leftwing lovefest called the Today show was tapped in 200O to head the network because he’d made that show such a success. Pardon me if I digress here but, the other two network shows were dismal so being the best of three piles of pigeon poop doesn’t seem to be to be that much of a success. Under his inspired leadership the network strayed from wildly popular script based series like Friends and ER to the wasteland that is “Reality” TV. He also managed to fiddle as NBC news burned, going down in a slow, steady but definative decline under his inspired leadership. His major claim to fame seems to have been buying successful cable companies. So he’s a good liberal, co-opting someone else’s achievements and then taking credit for them. How “fearless leader” like. His biggest blunder of all, at least in entertainment circles however is his mishandling of the Conan O’brien-Jay Leno debacle. Which actually is a analogy for the inherent problems with liberalism.

First you have someone who’s doing a decent job but wants to move on. He’s a big money maker and one of the few successful people at his particular job. So what to do, what to do? In Jeffy land you let him retire but……….you promise him a different show, a different venue as it were. Oh and buckets more money, never forget that. Then you, after months of waffling decide on a successor, to build up the excitement of course. Then you wait six whole months, and we have all been told they measure time in Hollywood in dog years – six months equalling 3 1/2 years, to see how the new guy does. He doesn’t do badly, he just doesn’t do as well as the old guy and the old guys new show has tanked, but you have million dollar contracts with both of these individuals plus there’s the guy that took over the successors show. Again what to do?

In Zuckerland you rehire the original guy, demote his successor and really screw the new guy because after all he and the successor are dispensable. Wait you had a contract. You are legally required to stay with the original concept for the duration of said contract. Ah but we can finagle, turn and twist things so that we are not literally breaking said contract. Which is why everyone involved in any way with entertainment keeps lawyers on retainer, that and the Lohan get out of jail card, free with any purchase of Low-Low’s fine body of work. What about being morally responsible to keep your word? Excuse me, where do you think you are Kansas, Texas, Montana? Places where morality still exists and the majority of people still know what the term means and try to live within it’s definitions.

In the end what you’re left with is the old guy who’s ratings have never, not even on the week he returned, rebounded. The successor, after a large payoff, has jumped networks to do an as yet specified cable shoe and the new guy who’s just happy to have a job, but is most likely working on other projects just to be safe. See any similarities to the way liberals run the government? If it’s broke don’t fix it, if you think it’s broke break it more, throw money at it, sacrifice a peon to the god of whateverispopulartoday, blame everyone but yourself, claim victory no matter how much of a defeat you’ve suffered and/or if it’s someone else’s work, move on as if nothing happened.

Life imitating art. Ain’t it grand.

In our next installment, Joey the news kangaroo. And we all know how much I love the MSM, Drive by, Liberal loser media. Should be worth a buck two ninety eight and change.

And this is why we are where we are….

Today in a post on the Drudge report we are guided to a vomitous mass of incomprehensible blather by none other than King George of Soros. Like his namesake George III his grasp of reality is tenuous and his elitist revisionism of history is criminal. Of course no one should be surprised, this is the man shepherding the “new progressive” movement. More taxes, more regulation, more government oversite, more of our money in his pocket and in the pockets of FOG’s (Friends of George). In the play 1776 Benjamin Franklin opines,

Never was such a valuable possession so stupidly and recklessly managed, than this entire continent by the British crown. Our industry discouraged, our resouces pillaged… first of all our very character stifled.

Well King George has done it again. Of course those who rewrite history are doomed to repeat it. How can one learn from the mistakes of the past if those who keep the history spend the majority of their time rewriting it. This too is a favorite pass time of the King.

Now we learn from his, oh so educated, Highness that it wasn’t the government and the jesters in Congress that almost destroyed our economy. It wasn’t people who forced banks into lending money to people who could not possibly repay them. It wasn’t the crushing burden of federal regulations and Mickey Mouse operations that insure the employment of people who spend the majority of their days standing at each others desks talking about last nights reality show. It wasn’t the incalculable burden of millions of illegal aliens sucking at the federal teat. It wasn’t failed federal programs. It wasn’t the gagillion of uninsured Americans.

No it was us, we the people. Small and large businesses going about, working everyday, buying things, using our money. That’s who the villain is here. We’re not regulated enough, we’re not controlled enough, we have way too much freedom to think and act as we believe we should. Oh and don’t forget that profit is bad, debt is good. All those interest payments going into the pockets of the FOG’s. Enslavement via government handouts, subsidies, programs and burdensome taxes, that’s what will keep the rabble in line.

This my friends is how we got here in the first place. I am not sure exactly what King George has in mind but I can testify to this…….it isn’t going to be good for you and me. Nothing this man touches has been good for America. I’m not sure who exactly he works for but somebody ought to find out, or maybe not. Maybe they’d just disappear, the left has a real history with that kind of behavior. One only has to look as far as the Clintons. Sobering thought.

Repeated history. Again and again and again and again…………….

From the rise of Napolean to the ascent of Hitler there have been symathizers and appearsers of tyranny, depotisms. From the elite to the intelligensia to the ignorant, the forces of evil have found fertile ground in which to grow their caustic, poisonous blend of evil under the guise of ” equality, liberty, fraternity,” for some. Control, enslavement and death for those who either will not bend or those who are deemed not valuable enough.

Today it is the rise of Islam and it’s accompanying Sharia law which threatens the very fabric of our eternites. The propagandists and appeasers would have us believe that alternately “Islam is a religion of peace” or ” if we don’t make them mad, sad or aware of our existence they’ll leave us alone”. Both are, as history has shown us, concepts that are complete lies and fabrications as well as being completely useless.

Evil never sleeps. It is never satisfied. It’s voracious appetite is never whetted. It continues to crave power and control over the minds and souls of men. Money, land and possessions are only the vehicles used to further it’s aims. It is all about the souls and the entity who desires them. While many would have you believe that this is not true that in itself is testimony of the truthfulness of the argument. Why make so much over a faulty belief, why fight so desperately against a flawed ideal?

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Freedom loving people have always been at war with the forces of slavery and despotism. Communism, socialism, fascism are all really the same -ism and have the same end, the enslavement of the human soul. Only one entity has that as their stated and published goal.

Islam is no different. Religion, as long ago Crusaders learned, enforced by the sword, creates fare-weather adherents at best, impatient enemies at worst. We stand at the precipice, there is no going back, no do overs, no take backs.

A quote contributed to Edmund Burke but supposedly not uttered by him says;

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

It’s a great quote no matter who said it.

Believe or not, it’s your funeral.

Literally.

Who are these people again?

Now let’s all get on the same page. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chucky Schumer, Barney Frank, and the cast of Democrats fighting for their political lives have been in power for how long? Their answer is “not long enough to fix the mess Bush left us”. The real answer is quite some time. Pelosi has been in Congress since 1987, Reid since 1883, Frank since 1980 (he succeeded a priest in MA go figure), little Chuckie Schumer also arrived in DC in 1980. But let’s not dwell on the distant past. Let’s focus on just the last few years.

Contrary to what they would have you believe the Democrats have been in power 4 loooooong years. That’s right, they were in power DURING George Bush’s last term. THEY were the obstructionist during Bush’s last two years. They were the ones who refused to reign in Fanny and Freddie even after an administration advisor, Gregory Mankiw ,TOLD them that the current system was unsustainable. In Nov. 2003, yes that would be 7 years ago, the administration was warning Congress that Fannie and Freddie couldn’t be trusted to police themselves.

Mankiw’s remarks to the Conference of State Bank Supervisors come as the administration and lawmakers push to overhaul the regulatory framework for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which earlier this year admitted to understating its profit by $4.5 billion. See full story.

Due to the enormous size of the mortgage-backed securities market, any problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would have a ripple effect, Mankiw said.

“This risk is a systemic issue also because the debt obligations of the housing GSEs are widely held by other financial institutions,” he said.

In 2003.

In a 2009 appearance before Congress Barney Frank testified that

Congress will eventually want to change the model of the government-sponsored enterprises. But, he added that Democrats already have imposed major reforms requested by the Bush administration.

6 years between the time the Bush administration told Congress that something HAD to be done. 3 years since the Democratic takeover of Congress. What are they waiting for the moon to turn red, the Second Coming, Frank to tell the truth?

Then there’s the banking mess. While I’m sure there is plenty of blame to go around, this was one of the worst excesses of Congressional power it has been my misfortune to witness.

Schumer’s letter on June 26 said he was “concerned that IndyMac’s financial deterioration poses significant risks to both taxpayers and borrowers.” But after Friday’s statement, Schumer swiftly rejected any suggestions of responsibility for IndyMac’s collapse — and in a Sunday news conference, he said “everything” in his letter was already known to the public.

If this man is so stupid that he didn’t know what an incendiary letter like that would do to the reputation of a financial institution that’s already experiencing difficulties he has no business being a Senator, much less being on the Senate Banking Committee. I would ask if he had to take any history classes in college but as a Democrat they rewrite history to please themselves and prove whatever point they’re trying to make, so that doesn’t really apply. He should have been impeached, disbarred and arrested, just as someone yelling fire in a crowded theater would have been. His actions were irresponsible and reprehensible. They set the stage for the debacle now occurring. From the Wall Street Journal February 2009:

As far as commercial banks go, Federal Reserve data released last week show that their lending increased 2.36% during the last quarter of 2008. For all of 2008, commercial-bank lending rose by $386 billion, or 5.63%, even as the economy slid into recession. Over that 12-month period, business lending jumped $152 billion, or 10.6%, real-estate loans were up $213 billion, or 5.9%, and consumer lending rose $73.5 billion, or 9%. Other categories of bank lending such as loans to farmers, broker-dealers and governments, declined $53.2 billion, or 5.4%.

Fed data also show that during the first three quarters of 2008, the total amount of credit supplied to the economy increased $1.91 trillion, or 3.8%, with $540 billion of that amount coming from foreign lenders.

Nevertheless, Treasury recently demanded that the 20 largest recipients of government capital investments start providing detailed monthly reports about their lending and investment activities. This new requirement could lead to government lending mandates. That would not be a good idea.

So yet again. Who are these people scrambling for their political lives? Are they servants of the public trust or swine at the government trough. All of this information and more is just a mouse click away. Be aware, be informed, be smart. Vote them all out. The new people my be inexperienced but at least, unlike the current administration, they have a moral compass………

……..and even know where to find it.

And as usual, they got it wrong…..

Today’s entry in the “Mass Media still don’t get it” competition comes from ……………..wait for it. The New York Times. Now lately there have be glimmers of sanity, nebulous true, and slightly ephemeral. Signs that some in the media have thrown off their “Red Colored” glasses and noticed how very close we stand to the precipice. Unfortunately for all of us not nearly enough have relearned objectivity. You know, that’s where you gather the facts and present them to the public and LET THEM make up their own minds. You don’t use certain facts because they bolster your point, you don’t use certain words for their connotations, for or against a subject. You strive to be as emotionless and unopinionated as possible. It is difficult to do and today almost impossible to find but it is possible.

Shall we take today’s entry for instance. The New York Timesoffered this article in it’s Week in Review. In it the author Matt Bai tries to appear objective in his assessment of ” David Kirkham, the former Eagle Scout and Mormon missionary”. The fact that Mr Kirkman runs and owns his own company with manufactures custom cars, employing not only people in his own community to work in his factory but also in a factory in Poland where the leftovers of Socio-Communist control has stifled entrepreneurship until it is almost deceased, is not enough. He had to add the aside, pointing out to the left thinkers that this man was already a zealot. After all no “real” people are Boy Scouts any more (ie xenophobic, homophopic) and let’s not even go into the whole Mormon bashing methodology.

Then there’s this lovely bit of accidental damage “Then came the Republican-led bank bailouts in 2008″. Huh? Who is the head of the banking commission again, who’s on the Senate committee again, who in 2008 caused a run on a bank, something not seen since the Great Depression? Well, from the lists available to me, there are 13 Democrats with Chairman Chris Dodds and little Chucky Schumer in control as opposed to the 10 Republicans of which Senator Bill Bennett from Utah, who the Utah Tea Party managed to defeat. Just how is that a “Republican” led.

The Dodd-Frank bail out was one of the most unpopular pieces of legislation to come through Congress in a long, long time. According to my count, which is probably flawed when the vote was taken 19 Republicans voted for it (several of which were from CA which means they’re not conservatives, just Republicans) out of 435, or so not including the ones who just voted present? In the Senate 40 Democrats and 33 Republicans voted for the bailout, along with Joe Lieberman. How is this a Republican -led measure? Did they do it by mind control? Remote control?

But to me the crux of the matter is the blatant disregard of the validity of Krikman and those who belong to conservative organizations point of view, as follows ” he started doing what a lot of sickened and powerless people do in the Internet age” and

“What we are seeing now — and are bound to see more of in the years ahead — might better be described as a series of mini-movements. They come together quickly, almost like flash mobs, anointing leaders overnight and reaching peak intensity within weeks or months. They create a satisfying outlet for frustration and a means for social connection.

and

You can try to reason with the David Kirkhams of the world, or adopt their rhetoric. The one thing you can’t do, it seems, is wish the new reality away.

Here’s the reality of the situation. There will always be those who think government is not doing enough. They need to go back to Europe or South America or Asia and experience what giving up your freedoms really mean. I don’t say that with vitriol. They really do need to go where they would be happier. There are on the flip side those who distrust government and those associated with it. In anarchy there is profit, someone once opined. The majority of us simply want what our Constitution guarantees us. The freedoms our fore-fathers fought so hard to win and keep as well as leaders who listen to “We The People” because frankly they serve at out indulgence and behest. Not because they’re smarter or better or richer but because they offered to serve in that capacity.

The statue of blind justice needs to have a twin and that twin needs to be installed in front of every newspaper office in the country. Justice and journalism must be objective or they must be replaced.

My opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted so as to be most useful [is]… ‘by restraining it to true facts and sound principle only.’ Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:224

Well she’s somewhat right….

……that’s progress, I guess.

NPR President Vivian Schiller makes that case that NPR listeners are “smarter” than the general rabble, ie you and me. They are more cerebral, more erudite, more dare I say elite. They understand the nuances that led to the firing of Juan Williams. They understand the ebb and flow of business and politics. They understand that progressivism is here to help us, to take away our stress, to lighten the burdens in our lives (and wallets), to make everything fair (if someone has to work twice as hard so someone else can sit on their fat butts and watch Jerry Springer, so what?) and bring secular humanism to our schools and close our churches (the opiate of the masses remember) so that we will be free to look at rainbows and feed our unicorns.

In reality those who still listen to NPR are barely clinging to relevancy. Let us take for her example of the “intelligence” of commenters to the NPR story about the “Balloon Boy”.

“Twenty-foot diameter, 4-feet-tall would get you about 77 pounds of lift at sea-level, not including the weight of the equipment,” Schiller quoted from the site. “Average 6-year-old is 45 pounds, average weight of equipment would be 32 pounds, which might have been reasonable if there was very thin Mylar.”

Pardon me but doesn’t it seem that this commenter has missed the point. The focus of most people was the safety of the child and while you could stand around and discuss endlessly whether the child was capable of doing what it seemed he had, until you actually DO something -for example, find the child or the balloon- it’s kind of academic.

And there my friends and readers is the rub. One can stand aside from life and observe. You can watch and make judgements, you can postulate and posture. In the end you change nothing. It is the doers that put the plan in action, who find the bugs in the system and fix them or go around them or who create an even better one. Without the worker bees the Queen, no matter how “smart” will die. The more corpulent, ponderous and gargantuan the Queen is, the quicker she’ll assume room temperature. She becomes an ex-queen. Such is the case in every large corporation and such is the case at NPR. The more biased, the more radical, the more left of center they become, the more people like me will leave them.

I used to listen to NPR because I love classical music and hate the commercials for “gentlemen’s clubs” “erectile disfunction” and “used cars” on most rock stations. There are talk shows that I listen to but when the start screeching I turn them off. Now I listen to very little in the car or plug in my I Pod. While I miss “A Prairie Home Companion”, Thistle and Shamrock” and “Car Talk” I do not miss Terry Gross, Nina Tottenberg or the rest of the political hacks and pseudo-journalists that are employed by NPR. So I guess she’s somewhat right. Some NPR listeners are smarter, like me they don’t listen to it anymore.

Next time the argument about NPR vs Fox comes up remember this. Fox regularly seeks opinions from those on opposite sides of issues, NPR regularly abuses, derided and defames those who disagree with its viewpoint.

Just ask Juan Williams………..I’m sure he’d be delighted to tell you.

Call me paranoid but……..

From the very beginning of this new nonsense, ie pat downs, from the TSA and Big Sister I have had the sneaky suspiscion that something else was going on here. It’s so intrusive, so offensive, so over the top that there just has to be something else driving it.

I have entertained this idea over the last week or so but with no real evidence it was just that, a conspiracy theory, if you will. Today’s news however while not providing the smoking gun does give us, the dripping water pistol as it were.
Here in MSNBC’s fluff piece on the poor unfortunate TSA workers who have been so vilely abused (what no one’s stuck their hand up their pants today, no ones fondled their child or grand daughter, no one’s made their wife, sister, daughter take off their bras and show their prostetic breasts?) in the last week, we find this quote, from the head of the appropriate labor union.

Valyria Lewis, local president of AFGE Local 555, which represents TSA screeners in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, said TSOs are trained to screen passengers who opt out of full-body scans.
“But we’d like TSA to hand out pamphlets detailing what opt out means. When someone opts out of the X-ray scanners, they’re opting in for the pat-down,” Lewis said. “And once we explain what the pat-down is, you can’t go back and change your mind and say ‘OK, I’ll go through the scanner.’ We’d like that explained so officers aren’t caught in that crossfire.”

Ah, so that’s how we’re playing the game. Either you go through the scanners, who’s dangers have not yet even begun to be calculated or we get to feel you up. Either you surrender the right not to be seen without clothes by who knows how many perverts and deviants (and please don’t insult our intelligence by claiming the pictures can’t be downloaded to the internet – how did the ones that are already out there get there, magic?) or we get to put our hands where if anyone else did the same they’d be arrested for assault or in the case of our children molestation.

This my friends is the way our new government works. Don’t like what they’re doing, they’ll just rachet it up so that you’ll be thankful to just have the first thing you didn’t like to deal with. They are going to wrest our liberties from us one unthinkable way at a time. This ladies and gentlemen is the new reality, and it will continue to be this way until the cabal that’s in Washington is flushed down the drain. We made a good start but the usual suspects are still there and still in leadership positions.

We need to send a clear message to the powers that be. One of the messages needs to be a severe drop in airline travel. Take a train, take a bus, rent a car or stay home. Don’t go out at all over the weekend. Make black Friday look like Yom Kippur in Kabul. Yes, I know, what about the bargains? Well I guess if $50 off a TV you don’t really need pays you back for someone sticking their hand up you shirt and feeling you up then there’s not much I can say.

But don’t say I didn’t warn you because I will say I told you so. Over and over and over……………

Sycophants and apologists

In response to a post on the story on “The Hill” about the new Homeland Security power grab.

Seriously, how inept does a person have to be before you sycophants wake up and smell the house burning. The current president is incompetent, his cabinet is a collection of the worst American politics has to offer, and then there is the radical liberal leadership in Congress that has been in power for the last 4 years. And what do we have to show for this stellar leadership paradigm?

A divided country, a wrecked economy, a disasterous foreign policy and a world on the brink of collapse.

Who was it that forced banks to make loans to people who clearly couldn’t pay them? Under who’s administration was the Community Reinvestment Act (in 1977)? Who were the apologists for Fanny and Freddie? Who have been dismantling the private sector one new regulation at a time? Who is it again that thinks businesses should pay more, cutting their profits and thus discouraging them from expanding and or keep people employed? Who is it that takes money from unions, who spend their time and money trying to run businesses into the ground? Who’s friends and supporters are making money hand of fist in the worse economy in decades? Who is it that blocks illegal immigrant control, but favors putting Americans in jail for jaywalking (or downloading music)? Who are the ones making money off the “greening” of America and the world? Who is making money off “enhanced security”? Who is making money off the hatred of others?

While there is plenty of blame to go around, on both sides of the aisle the fact is that banks made loans to people who couldn’t pay them back. Fanny and Freddie have been in trouble for years. The Community Reinvestment Act was created in 1977 under whose administration? Ah yes, that would be Jimma’ Carter, the second worst president in the history of the country. He just loves Obama, wonder why?

The Bush administration said as long ago as 2003 that there were problems but the know it alls (Barney Frank, Little Chucky Schumer , Chris Dodds and others) refused to listen. These individuals have been playing partisan payback for more years than I can recall. They are the ones who needed to be replaced this year but the moochers in their districts couldn’t bring themselves to disconnect from the government teat. After all as one person reminded us, they always bring home the bacon. The fact that they steal it from some else doesn’t matter much. After all it’s all about what my country can do for ME. I’m surprised Jack Kennedy’s grave spinning hasn’t set off an earthquake in Washington.

Yeah, this administration and it’s enabliers are destroying America from within. This is why learning history is important. We are following the tortured path laid out by Rome. This is thanks to a cadre of former and present basket weaving, bead wearing, pot smoking professors and teachers who have “educated” generations of Americans who not only don’t know anything about the ancient past, they don’t know anything about their country’s past.

Ignorance is never bliss and wickedness never was happiness.

Apology?

Over at The Nation we have this piece of journalistic nonsense.

At the nation they

make it a point to practice fearless, bold, timely journalism that raises critical issues ignored by the mainstream press.

Really. They also make it a point to do sloppy, messy, unrepentantly biased journalism as in the article to which Ms. Vanden Heuvel refers. Biased, you say. Biased I answer. There are many sins committed by journalist today but the most egregious are the ones pertaining to a lack of objectivity about the subject being reported on. In the halls of academia, journalism professors teach and have taught for years that the journalist’s job is to not only report the news but interpret it for the poor slobs who by their paper or magazine or who listen to or watch them on radio or TV. What about, the left would screech, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck? The big difference is that these men and their female counterparts like Laura Ingram, Tammy Bruce et al. don’t consider or refer to themselves as journalists. They are not required to be objective. They have an ax to grind, preferably in the neck of “progressivism”. They are NOT reporters and no one can claim other wise.

There are many ways to do biased reporting. How you report something, the words and phrases you use convey feelings and nuances that color the actual facts. As in the previous paragraph when I used the word screech. I could have used a plethora of other words; said, claimed, maintained, mention, assert, declare, retort, respond, or argued. I did not. I used the word screech because NOT being a journalist I don’t have to maintain a veneer of objectivity. I’m not objective, this is an opinion blog. My opinion blog. I claim nothing else.

So let’s take a quick peek at this “apology” and see how objective the editor’s piece really is, shall we.

might be linked to an Astroturf operation.

didn’t directly call Tyner a plant, and they didn’t say that he was funded by the Koch brothers. Nonetheless, their article gave that impression

The Nation hasn’t been–and never will be–in the business of muffling citizen protest.

Now then, let’s take make sure we understand. A citizen has the right to protest unlawful, intrusive behavior only if that citizen isn’t a member of some astroturf organization or in any way shape or form affiliated with those cwafty and wrascally ne’er do wells the Koch brothers. So Ms Vanden Heuval I live in the same state as the Koch brothers does that make me muffle-worthy? I ascribe the the principles asserted by the Tea Party; less government, more transparency, less taxes, less restrictions, more personal responsibility. Does THAT make me a plant? What about organizations such as Code Pink, Moveon, The Tides Foundation and a virtual cornucopia of organizations whose stated goals are diametrically opposed to the ideals held by most Americans? Are those astroturf organizations? They are funded by one man, or by subsidiaries or friends of his. How is it he’s not wrascally and cwafty? Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, as they say.

We are, however, committed to bold reporting and to airing intelligent debates even–or especially–when they challenge our preconceptions and make our readers uncomfortable.

Here’s I think a revelation to you. I don’t read the news to be comfortable, I read it to be informed. If your delivery of the news makes people uncomfortable I would suggest you’re doing it wrong. Facts do not make people who are seeking the truth uncomfortable; innuendo, suggestion and right out falsehoods, however, do. Maybe you should worry more about that then about your lofty mission statements.

Oh and next time, a simple “We made a mistake, We’re very sorry” would go a long way to rehabbing your somewhat tarnished reputation. That would however be a fundamental paradigm shift among the progressive cadre so I won’t be looking forward to that anytime soon. Here’s another observation, progressivism is a failed ideal, like communism and socialism. Maybe ya’ll could come up with a few new “isms” to try out. Chaos, disaster and disunion seems to be the norm with liberals.

Some people just can’t live without crisis.

….”the more planets will slip through your fingers”

Most of us remember the very first Star Wars movie. I guess that would be episode four? Princess Leia is confronting the evil General Tarkan after being taken prisoner on her “diplomatic” mission.

“The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.”

That ladies and gentlemen can be specifically aimed at Big Sister and her cadre of Stormtroopers at Homeland Security.

Since they’re mostly libs in Washington today I know they’ve all read Animal Farm by George Orwell, but unfortunately for the rest of us they didn’t get the moral of the story. Of course if anyone told them it was a moral that right there would have made them turn tail and run the other way. A Liberal hates a moral like a vampire hates sunlight. So here’s the primer, big government whether it’s shifted left or right is bad. Absolute power corrupts, ABSOLUTELY!!!!!

Now we have the seizure by HSA of websites they consider illegal. So far they haven’t been able to shut them down legally but that’s just a technicality. They know better than judges, lawyers and citizens what is best for the country. Now don’t get the ideal I agree with lawlessness. I don’t. I also know that messing around with these websites is only going to make the people who run them and visit them become much more creative. They will figure out a way around the issue as in this posting from today. Instead of dealing with real problems the morons at HSA is going around tweeking the noses of people who will go out of their way to invent new and diverse ways around the problems now created by these seizures. It won’t be long afterward that our enemies will have the same technologies and then when we want to stop real criminals and terrorists, they that much farther ahead.

I know, I know breaking the law is wrong but in today world the priorities should be keeping us safe from terrorists not from people who want to download music/videos/media. Really that’s what we have to worry about. North Korea’s going to attack the South, Russia is moving Nukes close to our allies, the dollar’s in the cellar, more people are losing their jobs and homes every day. We are being invaded by people who have allowed their own countries to become havens for drug dealers and mobsters and this is what they chose to spend our precious resources on?

Why not, right? Most people are more interested in watching Bristol Palin lose on DWTS. They can’t be bothered with reality, footballs on. Crisis, the only crisis is whether to watch Jay, Dave or Conan.

I’m asking the Lord to move up his time table. I’d like to be done…………..right now.

Cyber bullies and the Anarchy of Self

So the web is under attack by those who believe it is perfectly alright to steal in order to fulfill their own sick version of “world peace” or whatever they call it.

Wiki leaks is powered by self serving angst and by the urge for revenge by those for whom America is a threat because she and a majority of her people still believe in morals, ideals and values. The dupe in question was angry because of a failed homosexual affair and then targeted the US in part because the military ( and the public) are uncomfortable forcing straight military folks to bunk with avowed homosexuals. Just as most people would be uncomfortable with men and women in the military co-habitating in a war zone. If nothing else, in that kind of situation, military folks don’t have the time or leisure for the kind of distraction that causes. Just look at the damage one angry gay man has done. We want that kind of nonsense in a battle zone. Of course we do.

But I can hear the left say, that’s just one person. That kind of thing happens in hetero relationships.

That’s why the military frowns on fraternization. It’s not a moral issue to them, it’s a safety issue. We are now less safe than we were a month ago thanks to Wiki leaks. We don’t know substantially more than we did before but our allies and enemies know quite a bit more. Thanks to the lack of integrity of the principles in this teenage soap opera we may not be able to collect data and informants will no longer be willing to talk to us. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.

I personally don’t care what someone’s bedroom antics are. I don’t want to know. That is their business as long as they keep it to themselves. Once they try to inflict their degeneration on me, once the make it my business then all bets are off. Elvis has left the building. I will fight and continue to resist the moral decay and societal nonsense that is so prevalent in todays world. I don’t have to nor will I approve, espouse, or validate other peoples bad decisions. Just as I don’t expect them to approve of decisions that I make.

I’m a big girl. I make my own decisions, run my own life and pay for my own mistakes. I’m conservative.

A War on Islam……in Europe?

I posted part of this at IMAO today, but I felt the urge to expand.

I don’t know if y’all heard but the Sweden bomber who blew himself up with his own backpack asserted the attack was in reference to these points;

“Our actions will speak for themselves. As long as you don’t stop your war against Islam and degrading the prophet and your stupid support of that pig Vilks,”

Sweden’s war against Islam. First I’ve heard of it. Wait I get it, all this is about a cartoon buy ONE man. Thousands must die because of ONE man.

Of course the corollary is one cannot die because of thousands. For one Muslim to die for thousands of infidel deaths would be a call to world wide jihad. Which of course is what we already have – those who will not condemn terrorist actions or stated are tacit enablers. Those who bombed the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon and who were planning to send a plane into the White House should have already been executed. Bullets dipped in pigs blood, as the British did in the early 20th century should have been used. A firing squad composed of members of the families that died would be a nice touch.

War on Islam? They haven’t see war yet. We could do as the Germans did at the beginning of World War II. We could inter Muslims as we did the Japanese after the attack on Pearl Harbor. We could march them around and then put them in camps as did the Japanese during World War 2. Of course we could always do as the Moors did in the 11th century. Murdering their enemies, destroying and denigrating sacred places and raping and pillaging as they endeavored to wipe out the indigenous peoples and their society.

According to research Christians and Jews could practice their religion at that time , as long as they adhered to Islamic law. How tolerant of them! Sounds exactly like what all non Muslim countries have been saying for the last 40 + years. Unlike Sharia law however, Judeo-Christian law does not infringe on the worship and beliefs of others until that belief causes pain or suffering to others, even those within the perimeter of their own religion. A man therefore cannot have his wife or daughter stoned for disobedience. A women is not property, nor chattel to be thrown away in a fit of pique.

A women is a sentient being, created by The Creator as equal but different from her male counterpart. She is created as a helpmeet, as a companion and as partner with her spouse in the creation and administration of the family, societies crucial petri dish. This is where humans learn to think, to understand emotions and connect with others. It is in this venue we create not just the heros of the world but the despots as well. This is where good governance begins. With the decline of the family, both the nuclear and extended families we see the decline of good government and the assault on our principles and values.

We are perceived as week because in governing our families we have abdicated our responsibilities to those who have no vested interest in producing good people. Many are interested in cashing a paycheck, they are interested in producing people who think the way they do and who will keep them in power but they are not interested in producing leaders who will think on their own. They don’t chose to produce those people who can make decisions based not simply on rational, scientific thought but on principles and values that honor not just those of a certain group but all people.

Thou shalt not kill, steal, bear false witness, not covet the property of others, nor his employees, nor his family, commit adultery or fornication, honor your parents.

Adherence to these principles should not be abhorrent to any decent human being. They are not simply a moral code, they are a societal code. A way for diverse peoples to live in harmony with each other. The only people who could find these principles offensive are those who are interested not in the elevation of the species but in the degradation of it. In chaos there is profit, and the destruction and enslavement of millions is a small price to pay for them achieving the acme of their desires.

Islam cannot exist in harmony with the other religions of the world because like some “isms”, communism, socialism for example, they seek the enslavement of others in order to further their financial and misogynistic goals. Muslim men do not want companions, they want slaves, they don’t want wives they want concubines. They want to be able to satisfy their debauchery outside the confines of a civil society. Most of all their central consuming passion is the gratification of self. What they want, what they need, what they desire, all must be granted and if they have to kill millions to get it. So be it.

This then is the startling difference between Islam and Christianity. One is a religion that promotes selfishness the other a religion that promotes selflessness. One receives the opportunity to live with his God after death. One receives the services of 78 virgin slaves to do with as he pleases.

I don’t know, doesn’t seem to be any comparison. What world do you want to live in?

My Dear Reverend,

So the Reverend Al Sharpton has had a “fruitful meeting” with the FCC in an effort to muzzle conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. Interesting. This is the same Rev. Al who perpetuated the Twana Brawely hoax. The same one who incited Anti-Semitic feeling in the face of a tragic accident which caused an innocent person his life. The same individual who also inflamed a landlord-tenant-tenant debate in which someone shot several people and burned down a store causing the deaths of seven people.

Let’s revisit some of the Revered’s most, dare I say colorful remarks:

“White folks was [sic] in caves while we was building empires…. We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”

“As for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyways, so don’t worry about that; that’s a temporary situation.”

“We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems — let’s march.”

As is my usual M.O. I will take these sterling examples of the Reverends thought process one by one.

First, I not sure exactly who he’s taking about. Eqyptans, Israelites, Babylonians, folks from the land of Ur, the Phoenecians………as far as I know they were all middle eastern and certainly not African although there is some doubt about Egypt in some corners. If the Reverend actually believes in the Bible as he says he does than he should know who settled where and about the “disporia” after the Babylonian invasion circa 588. Such knowledge should keep him from making ignorant and somewhat stupid comments in the future. Then again actual religious teaching from the Bible such as “turn the other check”, love thy neighbor”, “do good to those who despitefully use you” and my personal favorite “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us”, don’t seem to be in the Reverends canon. I guess the “Lord’s Prayer” is too racist to use.

Second, and I must say I love the hypocrisy, here is the quote against Gov. Romney and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The only organization in the history of this country to have an “Extermination Order” put in force against them. This order enacted in 1838 was not rescinded until 1976. Of all peoples “Mormons” know what it was like to be hunted down and live in fear of their lives. They were not even as valued as slaves. Of course all of this centers on a supposed bias against blacks. The one thing that most people don’t understand about the LDS Church is that they believe in prophecy. Really believe that God speaks to their president and while it would have been easier in the 1960′s to go along with the prevailing winds, they waited until God was ready to change things. In His time and for His purposes. Do we know what those were and/or are? No but we have faith that if we do our best to follow His direction, all will be well. Foolishness to some but no more foolish than trusting in the “arm of the flesh” to make decisions for us. As we’ve seen in the last 4 years of a Democratic led Congress.

The Revered is a religious bigot. He despises Mormons, Catholics, Jews and other religions and feels free to express that hate verbally. Jesus would be proud?

The last quote does not speak to racism per se but to a mindset that encourages and exaserbates racial tensions. In the 1960′s blacks were indeed discriminated against and that needed to change and it did. The Revered does not mention the thousands of white man and women who took up the cause of civil rights because it was “the right thing to do”. What have Sharpton, Jackson and other done with this opportunity. Very little. They have not encouraged people to stay in school, stay away from drugs, become integrated members of society. They have preached hate and division and derision since the passage of civil rights legislation.

Are their racists in this country? Abso-freak’en-lutely. Are they all white? Absolutely not. Will they be turned aside or converted by incendiary rhetoric and pertinacious ideologies? It’s never worked before but those who make money from chaos and discord are always first in line to claim it will.

I read this last night in the “Book of Mormon” one of the canon of scriptures Mormons use along with the New and Old Testaments to learn about Jesus Christ and His will for all people.

He commandeth that there shall be no priestcrafts; for, behold, priestcrafts are that men preach and set themselves up for a light unto the world, that they may get gain and praise of the world; but they seek not the welfare of Zion.

Jesus Christ commands that no man should preach to get gain or for the praise of the world, that they should be seeking the welfare of Zion. Contrary to the popular idea of Zion as a Jewish state the original meaning is “where the pure in heart dwell”. I would really not want to be standing in the Reverends shoes at the Judgement Bar.

Epic Fail.

Instead of “Don’t ask” – don’t care

So I have a few questions now that the left has gotten it’s way.

Who gets to wear the dress uniform (with a skirt) in the military now? Real women, men who want to be women or any body who cares to.

How long before the military will be sued into providing sex change operations for members of the military? Really, how long?

Will military bases have to perform marriages for gay couples?

What do you call a tranvestite military officer? Sir, ma’am,mir, sa’am shim?

Will it be considered sexual harassment to have to share quarters with gay military members or will they have to bunk with each other?

What about fraternization? That puts a whole new meaning to the word doesn’t it?

Of course you’ll say these are silly questions, but I’ll lay you odds that within the next 2 years all of these issues will have to be addressed because those who push them aren’t interested in what’s good for the country. They aren’t interested in what’s best for the military. They hate the military and they hate the United States and anything it stands for. They seek to destroy all that is good. They are miserable and seek for everyone to be miserable like unto themselves. They are the worst the world has to offer.

And they will use anyone and anything in order to sow the chaos that creates the wealth that they hunger for. Their dupes are so desperate for confirmation that they will do anything to get it.

Wickedness NEVER was happiness. Not now, not ever.

One finger points at someone else, the rest point at you.

(My prayers go out to the families so tragically affected by this senseless act of bestiality. That said there are a few issues that need to be addressed. This in no way should be seen as making light of or demeaning what has happened. God Bless all who mourn and sorrow)

Congratulations to the radical left, marxist, socialist, Daily Kos, anti-anything good, moral, or praiseworthy crowd. Thanks to them six people are dead, 12 injured. You have pushed people to the end of their ropes, you have driven some of them over the edge of sanity. How? By encouraging the belief that government is an evil, all rights consuming succubus that they have NO control over. You have continued to refuse to listen to the majority (and here in THIS free country, the majority is supposed to still rule). You have created a country in which people are afraid to say anything to their neighbor for fear of being sued or arrested. You have insisted that there is not God and that the only thing that is important is “your” rights, and “your” agenda.

This would be a ridiculous rant if it the left wasn’t already saying the opposite about the right. Yes the Daily Kos, the arbiter of civility, morality, and intelligent discussion (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more, say no more) has already trotted out the tired old refrain. “Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity et al, it’s all THEIR fault”. Wait I forgot George Bush and Carl ( the architect) Rove, my bad. While all of the above are proponents from personal freedom they are also strong proponents of personal responsibility.

Crazy is………..CRAZY. Do we know why someone does the awful things they do? No Can we stop them? Not unless we want to give up all of our freedoms and live in the Gulag. It is the price of living in a free land that sometimes bad things happen to good people. That’s why you live everyday as if your were going to be gone tomorrow.

So now that we know who did this, and there are many witnesses so they can’t claim he didn’t do it, how will this play out. He’ll get a trial (in many countries this would just be a show) and be judged by a jury of his peers (of course they can’t let crazy people on the jury so I’m not sure how to feel about that). Than IF he’s convicted (because of course there is the insanity defense, used so persuasively by the killer of John Lennon- I forget his name) the real fun and games will begin. Thanks to years of liberal back room deals, the death penalty has become the slow boat to life. He will continuously appeal until he either dies of natural causes or is killed in a prison riot by his prison pimp or “girl” friend. The next nutjob will be emboldened by his “Lifetime” movie biography and attempt to create for himself a cult following.

Maybe instead of rushing to judgement and name calling, we could all take a couple of steps back and respond with sensitivity, caring and concern. Maybe instead of vitriol we could try reason and calm. Maybe instead of automatically making enemies of those who think differently than we, we could share our common distress and try to find common ground on which to make the country and the world a better place to live.

Or we could just say as did Daily Kos Founder and chief lunatic:

Mission accomplished Marcos Mouslitsas

New (not really) from the left

Over at one of my favorite blogs, IMAO, there was a post concerning a new poster that has cropped up in San Franny featuring Sarah Palin. While the poster is lame, uninspired and too wordy, the artist apparently posted a screed that just got my engines turning. I felt that some of his claims needed to be addressed as an intellectual exercise. Apparently we on the right don’t get enough of that kind of exercise. At least that’s what the artist claims.

It is an eternal principle that there will always be those who follow the destroyer. They seek to denigrate man and make him little more than the animals, or in the case of the left in this country, below the animals. These people look for anything virtuous, lovely, of good report or praise worthy and seek to destroy it.

I do however love the out and out hypocrisy of his manifesto. So lets examine his claims one by one shall we ( I know, I know but indulge me. I ‘ve had a really lousy week).
We’re dumb? Most of us, at least on the right are either employed or employable, and we didn’t vote for “the man who would be king”

We’re big? Hello Michael Moore and Roseann Barr and Rosie O’donnell …………

We’re white? Guess again, conservatives come in all sizes, shapes and colors. Except dirty hippy and smelly radical

We drink beer and watch the NFL? Wow, 300+ channels and that’s the worst you could come up with. It’s a shame libs don’t watch TV. They could tune into the History channel and maybe catch a clue.

We over consume and under achieve? So what you’re actually saying is we power the economy and it seems to me that the left in their four years ( until now) of holding the White House and Congress only managed to pass the most expensive, job debilitating boondoggle in recent history. Other than that the economy has tanked, the terrorist are still free and Gitmo’s still open.

We think we are this nation? We don’t think we are, we know we are. Who defends it? Who believes in the Constitution? Who lives it’s basic principles? The left? Please don’t be obtuse. And yes those who protect, defend and believe in this nation are heir to it, that’s how it works. The left are heirs to chaos, destruction and anarchy because that is what the promote, seek and worship.

We’ve traded our legacy for fear and complacency? Really. Now that the right is standing up and fighting for our very existence, suddenly, we’re fear mongers. Now that we’ve learned our lessons from the left, hyperbole is unacceptable. I remember “conservatives want to starve school children” and ” conservatives want poor people and senior citizens to die”, but that’s not fear mongering, right. Speak truth to power ( of course that makes statement makes no sense but our intellectual betters can’t be bothered to speak english properly, they’re too busy saving the Snail Darter).

We distrust intellectuals and aspire to stagnation? Well ok. We distrust some intellectuals. We distrust those who lie to further their agenda. We distrust those who never leave their ivory towers and mingle with the rabble, except for junkets to third world dig sites.
We distrust those who manipulate data for their own personal gain. We distrust those who place reputation over facts. Who comes to mind here? Ah yes, Ward Churchill, Global Warming Scientists, Barak Obama, Keith Olberman, Sean Penn (I know but he thinks he’s smarter than everyone else so I’m counting him -it’s my post) and Al Gore the smartest man on the planet.

Last but not least, no we don’t seek stagnation. We also don’t see any need to change something that isn’t broken. This nation has stood for that last 200+ years as an example to the world. A free country. A democracy. A place where anyone, even an incompetent poser can become president. If it wasn’t Barak Hussien Obama would be flipping burgers at McDonalds or greeting people at WalMart.

So as usual the liberal has no leg to stand on, no real basis of fact and no argument of substance.

But then when have they ever let that stop them in the past. Sigh.

Hiatus

I will be taking a small vacation from the blog world for the next little while. I figure two weeks to a month. That’s probably how long it will take for me to get my sense of humor back. Those who come here often will most likely know why, but let’s just say I have had enough fun and I don’t desire to have any more of that kind of fun anytime soon.

I am physically fine
Mentally average
Emotionally frustrated

……so instead of taking my rage out on the world in general, I’m going to log off and go kill some monsters. It’s very satisfying and helps me to not want to harm real live people or their unfeeling clones.

Ta ta for now.

Radiation?

From Glenn Reynolds Insta pundit and the Atlantic we find this little gem.

Let’s see. They’ve made us hysterical about lead poisoning, mercury in fish, skin cancer, second hand smoke, obesity, sugar, salt ad infinitum. Just having these things present on earth is a death sentence, right? However we are supposed to ignore the mercury in the new light bulbs, because that’s “green technology”. What other green technology is waiting to kill us? What about the radiation from medical tests, TSA scanners, cash register scanners, TV’s, Microwaves and Coffee machines.

Ok that last one was just silly, but really, how do they (being the ones in charge and so much smarter than the average pic-a-nic basket) know what is slowly killing us and if they do what should they do? How many of you out there are willing to give up light bulbs, microwaves, TV’s and Cell Phones? Does it depend on how fast it’s killing you or if it’s killing just you or your children or family pet.

I personally believe that the powers that be are sure nuclear Armageddon is on it’s way. Once Israel is attacked all bets are off. I have no
heart burn with this. I would welcome a glass parking lot stretching form the Black Sea to the Indian Ocean. The Fertile Crescent has brought us nothing but violent, intolerant, jihad since the beginning of time and yes as someone with a degree in History I do know the “importance” of the area, but like Europe, all the folks that could play well with others moved on long ago. I’m personally not all that sure that humanity is worth saving and whether their are any human beings in that area of the world is at question as well. Do human beings kill innocents for money, land, power or religious fervor? Do they use children and women and the elderly as human targets, or bargaining chips? Animals do, but human beings, creations of an Eternal Intelligence should not.

I wonder how many times God (the Father) has said to himself, “but it was such a good idea. It worked out really well on paper.” Note to self, not everything that looks good on paper translates.

Sold Out?

HuffPo has sold out. Ariana Huffington has sold the Huffington Post to AOL/Time/Warner (or whatever it’s calling itself today) for lots and lots and lots of that nasty dirty money. Could be she sees the writing on the wall. Could be she senses the mood of the majority of the public and it’s not good for her or her progressive friends. Could be she’s as stupid as she appears in interviews. Could be she’s decided to go back to whatever country she came here from and enjoy her ill gotten gain.

That said, for Dana Milbank ( of the WashPo) to claim in his op-ed piece that Ariana has sold out her fellow progressive to those dirty rotten scoundrels at the MSM is laughable in the extreme. I haven’t heard a better joke since Algore claimed he developed the Internet. HuffPo has always been a proud member of the liberal, leftwing, moonbat, commissar card carrying, uber-left. The posters there who whine about the MSM claim it’s a tool of the vast right wing conspiracy. So reality is a stretch for these folks anyway.

To recap the lefts stranglehold on the media they have: ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, Atlanta Constitution Journal, LA Times, The Atlantic, Time, Newsweek and these are just a few.

And the right has? Fox if you listen to the left. Now we do have a premium in the blogisfere, and talk radio. This of course should tell the left something. People will go where they need to, to find the truth. No matter how you control it, bury it, or spin it. Just ask the members of the former Soviet Union regime.

So Dana, did Ariana sell out. No, she was already in bed with the MSM. She just finally got paid.

Color Me Surprised

So the MSM and the blogisphere and pundits around the globe are surprised. They’re surprised that Obama has yet again proven what an incompetent blunderer he is. That he has surrounded himself with even bigger fools who are supposed to make him look smarter in comparison. He dithers, he poses, he makes stupid speeches and ignorant pronouncements.

Why? Why? Why?

It is such a tired question and it has been answered so eloquently in the past that it seems ludicrous that we have to revisit it again. This man (and I use that term loooooosely) has neither the experience or the training for this job. He got it because people voted against McCain (and rightly so) and because he’s the right color. I personally have no heartburn with the color of anyone’s skin but that is not a suitable requirement for giving someone a job.

Let’s put it in perspective. You have a life threatening disease. You look for an expert in said disease. There are several candidates available and willing to take you on as a patient.

Dr. number one has little actual experience in dealing with this disease but he went to John Hopkins University, became an administrator there and is now teaching medicine as well.

Dr. number two has some experience with the disease, didn’t go to John Hopkins but has worked in his profession 5 times as long as Dr. number one.

Dr. number three has extensive experience in the disease, went to medical school and has a very high success rate in controlling or even curing your disease.

Who do you pick? Is there anywhere in this scenario where you add color as a deciding factor. Do you not pick the best doctor because he’s Mexican or African? Do you let your bias or prejudice stand in the way of your health? Would you choose a doctor based on a ” It’s his/our turn” mentality.

But we did. According to Politico, exit polling showed that 95% of African Americans who voted, voted for this guy. He had no qualifications, no experience, no training and NO CLUE. He’s surrounded himself with people who are even bigger fools then he, of every color, race and creed (or lack there of). They have proven time and time again how incompetent and ignorant they are and yet their base still supports them and if YOU don’t, you’re a racist.

Martin Luther King must be spinning in his grave. He dreamed of a color blind America.

What we have is a color blinded America. To the race baiters and progressive liberal professional victims………….Mission Accomplished.

Hey George, come on down……..

Well, it seems Media Matters the George Soros funded apologia of the left are planning to launch media terrorist attacks at Foxnews. They are going on the offensive……….of course they have actually been offensive for years now but I guess this is offensiveness on purpose as opposed to the apparently accidental, incompetent offensiveness that is usually perpetrated by the terminally incompetent and ineffectual.

Yes George Soros the Wizard of IDiots, behind the “progressive” green curtain. The man who would be the puppet master. He doesn’t actually want to run anything. He is one of those people who seek to hid behind their puppets and manipulate others. These types of people are cowards who can’t take the vicissitudes of power so they surround themselves with layers of plausible deniability. Make no mistake though, they call the shots. They may whisper, email or text but they are giving the orders.

So, have conservatives learned the lessons taught to them by the professors of media terrorism on the left. Will they be able to repay their leftist opponents in the way they most deserve? Do we have the folks and nerve necessary to take the fight to the terrorists? I hope so. I hope Soros becomes target number 1 on the guerilla warfare and sabotage express. I want to see bloggers stepping up to take this fight to Media Matters, Huffpo and the rest of the “progressive” wanna-be blogs.

You want containment. I think we should give them so much containment they’re lousy with it. A surfeit of it. So much of that containment, that it makes their tiny, little pin heads explode. Lists of organizations Soros funds should be published along with lists of people who support the traitor Soros. Businesses who advertise with Soros companies or organizations should also be published so that those of us who don’t want to support him and his anarchists companions don’t have to.

It is time my friends to take back our media from those who live in the land of denial. Who brought us the horror movie known as the O’bama administration. This man and his lackies make Forest Gump look like Albert Einstein. It’s time to send both Obama and Soros back to where they belong. Back to where they came from.

Way past time…..

Goodbye my friend………

He cast his pearls before swine and they turned and rent him. I guess to some this is a surprise but not to me. Any time you tell people they need to straighten up and fly right, that they need to reassess their decision making paradigm or even that they might want to actually research something for themselves-think for themselves, the masses get nasty.

They get really nasty when you tell them it’s their personal responsibility to vote, to elect representative with honesty, integrity, morals and courage. It is further our responsibility to manage our companies, our families and our lives with the same kinds of ideals. It is in fact the responsibility of ALL citizens with-in their nation to ensure the continued existence of said nation, to stand guard over the principles that keep that nation strong. Civilization requires the efforts of all. There is no room for slackers, anarchists, and ne’re do wells. The criminal element, in order to keep the community strong, needs to be rooted out and if necessary done away with whether by incarceration or deportation, or in few cases execution and not allowed back into society without true repentance (which includes restitution and forsaking of the prior behavior).

Of course my friend decried the “I want” society. The “my turners”, the “I can do whatever I want” brigade. He encouraged people to grow up, leave kindergarten and do the right thing. He was castigated, mocked, and targeted. He called them as he saw them, always maintaining that people should not just take his word for it, but to research the things he talked about for themselves. That of course is an anathema to todays “tell me what I need to know” American educated crowd. They have gone so long without having to think for themselves that they don’t even know how or where to begin.

He offend people by telling them their personal integrity, righteousness and moral code was the only thing standing between us and the chasm leading down to hell on earth, as well as hell in the eternities. The fact that he had the audacity to bring God into the discussion at all sealed his fate, I believe. God is a convenient scapegoat when something goes wrong, the last chance for those in trouble or the final act of the desperate. To fall to your knees in prayer is to admit there is something larger, greater and better than “man”. We can’t have that.

So he has to go. He has sounded the warning bell, somewhat like prophets of old. He’d hate that analogy. He knows what it take to be a prophet and has reminded us time and again of his flaws. Whether you like him or not, no one would have said the things he did, not because they were not correct but because they are. They were and are uncomfortable, unpalatable and unpleasant.

Just because someone is elected to a position of authority doesn’t make them not a racist. Just because someone has money doesn’t make them smart, just because someone is college educated doesn’t make them intelligent and just because someone is a self proclaimed and self endowed apostle doesn’t make them moral.

So I raise my glass (of water, I don’t drink alcohol) to you my friend, Glenn Beck. Good luck and may God continue to bless you and your family with all they stand in need of. May the wind be always at your back and may God hold you in the palm of his hand.

Apocalypse …………….not

Well the end is not near. At least not as near as last Saturday. I’ve waited a couple of days to make sure it wasn’t happening in a different time zone or across the international date line. Of course to folks in Joplin, Minneapolis and other places affected by some of the horrendous tornados we’ve had this past Spring it probably seems as if the world is teetering on the brink of annihilation. As is said in the Christian scriptures though, no man knows the time of His return.

So here I am poised on the horns of a dilemma. Do I make this point (about the eventual apocalypse and take the chance of being lumped in with the nuts and flakes running around with sandwich boards screeching “the end is near”) or do I, like the subject of my previous post, stand up and dare to be counted. To those who have been here before that wasn’t really a question. We all know what I will do. I could do nothing less. So let’s get it over with, shall we.

As far as I understand, disasters, at least natural ones are not the work of the Lord. The interesting idea here is that many people believe that God in his infinite wisdom and love for his children would foist these disasters on them for his personal edification. Some disasters are man made and unfortunately for us we must live with the consequences of those actions. Some disasters are completely random and the fault of no one. Here to me is the crucial conjunction, why if God loves us, does He let these things happen to us?

My answer is the exact opposite of this question. Why, would GOD NOT allow these things to happen? Let us take a slight detour of the last 29-30 years shall we and see how to answer that question.
* we have thrown God out of our schools
* we have thrown God out of our government buildings
* we have thrown Him out of our lives
* some people visit him twice a year, some never and some deny his existence completely
* there are those who only use his name to curse another
* there are those who use the name of His Son, you know the one who sacrificed Himself to save mankind, in the worse possible ways
* there are those who use hate and pride and disrespect in the name of the Lord to abuse and manipulate others, to get gain, influence and power
* there are those who revel in the base, the impure, the unholy and then seek to make others just like them.

Why then do these same people think that it is God’s responsibility to “save” those who put themselves in harms way, who refuse to take advantage of the opportunities to avoid disaster as they continue to revile and disrespect Him? After ignoring and denigrating Him, His prophets and people why would He care what happens to these people? “Because He’s God and He’s perfect”, they whine.

Here’s the secret. He is perfect, which is why He is not willing to stand between people and the consequences of their actions. Nor does He always save people from the random disasters in life. Sometimes we have to go through the furnace of affliction in order to grow and become, hopefully, better.

Pardon me be for being redundant, why would God save those who don’t believe in Him, don’t respect Him or curse others in His name. After all they don’t want anything to do with him…………….until and unless a disaster happens and then God is their best friend.

With friends like that who needs enemies?

Hope

I have been thinking a lot about hope lately. With the ending of my employment I have begun to ask for answers from someone more intelligent, more knowledgeable and more omniscient than I. While reading in the scriptures (I’m LDS, I do that every day -not bragging, just explaining) I came across this golden nugget.

40 And again, my beloved brethren, I would speak unto you concerning hope. How is it that ye can attain unto faith, save ye shall have hope?

41 And what is it that ye shall hope for? Behold I say unto you that ye shall have hope through the atonement of Christ and the power of his resurrection, to be raised unto life ceternal, and this because of your faith in him according to the promise.

42 Wherefore, if a man have faith he must needs have hope; for without faith there cannot be any hope.

43 And again, behold I say unto you that he cannot have faith and hope, save he shall be meek, and lowly of heart.

44 If so, his faith and hope is vain, for none is acceptable before God, save the meek and lowly in heart; and if a man be meek and lowly in heart, and confesses by the power of the Holy Ghost that Jesus is the Christ, he must needs have charity; for if he have not charity he is nothing; wherefore he must needs have charity.
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47 But charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him.
Moroni 7:40-44,47 (Book of Mormon)

So this is where we are today. We have no hope because we have no faith in our elected leaders. Consequently we have no faith in our leaders so we have no hope in the future. (I really hate circular thought) We have no charity with each other because lowlyness of heart is considered weakness and meekness an invitation to subordinate. We have a government that has sold it’s collective soul to the forces of darkness (however you’d like to define that, be my guest) and has just begun to reap the whirlwind.

Believe in God or don’t. Totally up to you. The wisdom of the ancients however continues to provide the same message. (Christian, Buddist, et al.)

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -Edmund Burke, Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 – 1797) And after centuries of genocide by the British against the Irish, Scots and Welsh, Mr Burke was an expert.

When life hands you lemons……………..

Don’t make lemonade.

At least don’t make it in;
Midway Georgia
Tulane California
Portland Oregon
Montgomery County, Maryland

To be fair in the Portland case a city official apologized and she was allowed to reopen, but in the Maryland case the parents were fined $500.

I don’t know about you but if I lived in the above mentioned communities I would be sure to spend my money outside the city/county boundaries as well as make sure when the chief of police or Mayor or whatever city official is responsible for overseeing these nimrods is up for election they do not return to the public trough.

If the police and city/county inspectors have so little to do that they have to hustle lemonade stands, sno cone stands et al, maybe the local government should downsize and save the citizens a little of their hard earned cash.

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
Edmund Burke
Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 – 1797)

I know Hobbits and you sir are no Hobbit.

Today on the floor of the Senate Senator John (never met a democratic proposal he didn’t like) McCain quoted the Wall Steet Journal:

The Republican House that failed to raise the debt ceiling would somehow escape all blame. Then Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced-budget amendment and reform entitlements, and the tea-party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor.

For those of you not fortunate enough to have read or seen Lord of the Rings allow me to enlighten you. The Hobbits of the Shire did not go out to fight the forces of evil. They stayed “safe” within the shire, believing that there was no real evil outside their borders and if there was the dwarves, humans and elves would take care of it. After all it’s wasn’t THEIR fight. When the forces of Mordor fell upon them they were quite surprised because you see, Saron was just a myth. A fairy tale told to children to get them to behave. This has the patina of liberalism, those who believe in nothing but what they can touch, see or hear except for Global Warming, of course. Intelligent design takes so much more faith than the Big Bang….. Really?

No it was four Hobbits who left the shire in the Company of Heroes. They survived battles, capture, they saw their leader taken from them, they were betrayed by those they trusted and still they soldiered on. In the end it was the smallest Hobbit, the gardener, who saved them all after his friend was corrupted by the Ring. Did he leave his friend behind? No, he saved him as well. Integrity as always was the underpinning of the success of the venture not just for the Hobbits but the others in their company as well.

So thank you Senator for comparing Tea Party folks to Hobbits. Those four Hobbits saved their world just as members of the Tea Party are trying desperately to save ours. It is a privilege to stand with them and there is no room for the mendacious, disgraceful, greedy, dishonest, disingenuous members of your political cabal. Those who won’t stand for truth, integrity and liberty are a hiss and a byword, and stand rejected.

Oh, and one last thing. How dare you, you who single handedly surrendered the Presidency to a man with no experience, no honor and no integrity make slanderous comments about ANY other candidate.

Again from the WSJ McCain quoted:

This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell into GOP Senate nominees. The reality is that the debt limit will be raised one way or another, and the only issue now is with how much fiscal reform and what political fallout.

You dare to call people who stood up to both parties and got trashed for it, who acted with integrity and refused to concede defeat until victory was no longer possible, names. Mendacity sir, unmitigated mendacity.

You sir are no Samwise Gamgee nor are you an Aragon. You, do however bear a striking resemblance to Wormtongue.

“A witless worm you have become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth.” -Gandalf to Grima Wormtongue

Budget debacle

There is a point that needs to be made in reference to the entire budget debacle. We’ve heard all the hysteria about the debt ceiling, we’ve been treated for weeks to the spectacle of Congressmen and women hurling insults at each other, at their respective parties, at the other political party, at other entities (Tea Party, CBO, Treasury Department for example). We, the American people have had our intelligence insulted and dismissed and had our integrity questioned. One point however remains in the lock box apparently.

The one person who’s promised to stop any action moving forward to get our fiscal house back in order, including raising the debt ceiling, unless he get’s what he wants is, guess who???????????

That would be President Barak Hussein Obama. What does he want? What is the most important part of his agenda in all of this? Is it the creation of jobs. Is it encouraging business to stay in the U.S.? Is it making sure we as a country meet our responsibilities? No. His focus is making sure that what ever we have to do after we put the bandaid on this problem doesn’t come due until AFTER the election in 2012. If this is such a problem, if it’s so bad we have to do something immediately why would we wait for a year to get something real and substantive done?

If I were a cynic (and I am) I would worry that “he who would be King’s” only interest in this crisis is figuring out how to shift the blame to the other party and making sure he doesn’t have to actually do anything that would irritate his base. He wants to make sure his supporters don’t have any more reasons to mistrust him. The black middle class is hanging on by their fingernails. In C.A. illegal immigrants are leaving to chase the American dream in, of all place Mexico. Their jobless rate is 4.9 while here in the U.S ours is 9.4. It’s really bad when the rats start leaving the ship. It usually means the ship is listing and going under in short order. Obama is becoming desperate because his plan to “substantially change America” is taking more time then he suspected. The Tea Party and other right leaning activists and movements have taken up more of the debate and have slowed the march of socialistic communism to a crawl and the American people are finally starting to wake up. None of that sit’s well with our “fearful leader”.

Obama was a coward when he was elected and nothing has changed. He has no experience or integrity on which to draw. He is a political hack with delusions of relevancy. He is also the consummate politician and like all animals in that species, the first most salient ideal is “how can this profit me.” The president will continue to bang that drum until next November, when hopefully the people will have woken up and sent BHO and his cabal back to Chicago, where he can throw his fortune in with his good, good friend and cohort Rahm.

I hope Barry finds a decent mosque to attend. He could use some inspiration.

This country needs an enema

Budget debacle pas deux:
I have spent most of the day being reminded about the absurdity going on in not just Washington DC but throughout the U.S. I have heard the name calling (from the fringe of both parties) I’ve heard it because the lame stream media cannot stop repeating, replaying and regurgitating the same sorry stories over and over again ad nauseam. I’ve watched pundits screech and pontificate, legislators whine and prevaricate and average citizens, who can’t be bothered to find out what all the hysteria is about, complaining about things they couldn’t be bothered to learn about. Frankly, ladies and gentlemen I have HAD ENOUGH.

The general public, Joe Sixpack and Sally Soccer Mom, have absolutely no idea what’s going on. They will sit in front of the TV tonight and watch “America’s Got (no real) Talent” or the “The (brain dead, inane, immoral) Bachelorett”, and continue their slow but steady decline into insipid, uninspired, uncreative mediocracy. They don’t care what’s happening in D.C. unless the president interrupts their reality programming. Most of them are still mentally 4 years old crying because “the presidents on every channel”.

Then there are the Tin-foil lefties who wouldn’t recognize reality if it reared up and peed on their noses. These are the folks who’ve never met a social program they didn’t like. They are all about redistribution of wealth, just so long as it’s not their wealth however. Not too many of these folks have given up their homes, cars, computers et al and gone to live with the homeless. Of course many of these folks come from situations where they were taught that this is what good citizens do, thanks in large part to parents who embraced the counter culture of the 60′s. Still they don’t offer to give up their cushy jobs and lives so that the “less fortunate” can have a shot at the big time. Self-preservation usually kicks in which is why it’s O.K. to leech off the rich, after all they can afford it. These rich individuals are, after all, already footing the bill for the 45+ percent of Americans who don’t pay taxes now as it is. Why can’t they just pay for everyone?

I wouldn’t leave out the fringe on the right even if my integrity wasn’t as precious to me as it is. There are quite a few who say “Default, go ahead”, ” They deserve it”, “It doesn’t go far enough”, “Cut federal job, programs, support for (place your favorite government supported entity here). OK, let’s get real. Just where are those people you’re planning to put out of work going to go? As those of us who are already laid off know there are very few jobs out here. Unemployment was not created so people could live off of it. What about those houses that will go into foreclosure, the businesses that will fail because people don’t have the money to shop there anymore? What about communities that will no longer be able to supply basic services and those who will also be laid off because there will be less tax income, due to the problems mentioned previously? If you think we have a homeless problem now, just keep throwing people out of work, either in the public or private sector.

I don’t know what the “PERFECT” answer is. I’m only human, therefore fallible. I do know that we have to begin somewhere. We have to make a start. Is this deal the perfect start, of course not? People were involved which common sense should tell you means it is not perfect in the least, but it is a beginning.

So while some of y’all are out there experiencing verbal diharreah about the fact that your personal agenda/issue/feeling wasn’t addressed in the debt ceiling talk/agreement, maybe you could dial it back a couple of clicks. Or may-haps it’s time for banks and loan companies to call in your mortgages or credit card companies to insist that you pay them what you owe them right now. What? You don’t have the money. What? You’ve maxed out your credit cards. What do you mean you can’t come up with the money immediately? What do you mean you need more time? You’ve had all this time to get things in order. You’re lack of planning does not constitute someone else’s emergency.

The folks in Congress act more like the American people than anyone wants to admit. What a surprise? I’m appalled. Verclempt (yiddish for amazed) Totally freaked. But then again I’m sure that the public’s self- awareness being what it is, no one will ever admit to it.

We have met the enemy and he is us – Pogo

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. – Thomas Jefferson

Time to make some decisions

In everyone’s life there are times when they come to a fork in the road. A place where a decision must be made as to which path they choose to follow. Of course sometimes the answer is simple, do the right thing or go to jail. Easy, right? Not for everyone otherwise our prisons would not be overcrowded. Sometimes the answer is less clear. Should I go to college or get a job? If you’re smart enough and have a clear idea of what you want to do, by all means go to college. However, if you don’t have a clear idea it might be best to get some work experience first. If nothing else it will help you decide what you DON’T want to do.

Apparently the Debt Ceiling Deal is not appearing to rave reviews with the American people. Consensus and compromise are not what the majority want. Everyone wants their side to win and when you have 4 or 5 sides that’s just never going to happen. Do I like the deal? Not particularly. Some of it I like, some of it I don’t like. But I like having something to keep us afloat better than the alternative. I personally do not want a repeat of the 1929 disaster and the ensuing decades of depression, desperation and malaise. I realize there are people out there whose attitude is “that’s just what this country needs to put it on the right track”. Sorry the deaths of thousands of innocent people from starvation, exposure, and violence is not what this country needs. The strong of course will survive, that is what they do. Does this mean the best will survive, not by a long shot.

We have become a nation of malcontents. Nothing is ever good enough for us. There has to be something better, different, more. One of my favorite movie lines comes from the romantic comedy Sabrina. She tells the uber-rich Linus Larabee “Sometimes more isn’t better Linus, sometimes it’s just more.” It’s not that I don’t think progress is important, or that I don’t think achieving goals is important. Sometimes though you have to accept where you are and adjust your goal to your situation. If you don’t have a good enough job to buy a house in the neighborhood you want then you have several choices. You can stay where you are and stagnate, you can go to school and try to get a better job, you can marry money, you can lie on your paper work or you can get the government to make banks lend you money they know you can’t repay. Quite a few of us apparently have done the latter and we are now reaping the whirlwind as it were. How did we get there though?

Part of the problem is the people we send to Washington. They have an almost impossible job. We want them to do what we want the to and do what’s good for the country. At time these two desires are mutually exclusive. As in the case of this Debt Ceiling issue there is no good way to make what we want and what the country needs happen, immediately. If our representatives did what’s best for the country there would be massive government layoffs at a time when the private sector can’t possibly absorb them. And yes, I realize that jobs are one of the largest slices of this issue pie but we’re not concerned with that in this scenario. We need to deal with one thing at a time. Raising the debt limit as unpalatable as it may be gives us time to strengthen the economy, to add much needed jobs and to make difficult decisions including but not limited to spending cuts and taxes.

In the end we are talking about lives. Real live people and their ability to survive. And yes we can live without cable, cell phones, computers and microwaves. We can’t, however, live without homes, food, water, waste systems, roads, and the money to procure such things. We all need to stop thinking about “how can I make money off this” and start thinking how can we make things better for everyone. A strong economy means more and better jobs for everyone. Stoping illegal immigration means employers who hire the undocumented so they can take advantage of them will have to change how they work or go out of business. Putting unions in their place means money that is now being syphoned off to pay for union bosses and their hangers on will go to workers instead and then out into the market place. The repeal of onerous regulations will spur growth and simplify life. But it will not happen overnight. You CANNOT have it all, no matter what TV guru tells you. You have to chose what is most important to you and then you have to make sacrifices to keep those things.

In the end all we can do is to live our lives the best way we can. Try not to harm anyone. Try to leave things better than you found them. Try to do the best job you can, no matter what kind of nimwit boss you have. Try to keep those you love safe, healthy and happy. Live within your means. Take care of yourself instead of expecting the government to do it. Be self sufficient. More than anything else develop some integrity. Do the right thing even when you KNOW someone is NOT watching. I would also suggest developing and attitude of gratitude. It goes along way to accepting the things we can not change which helps us accept reality for what it is.

This is not a magic cure all. There aren’t any of those, no matter what Oprah, Dr Phil or Dr Feelgood tell you. Life is hard, and we make it harder by pretending it isn’t. Just because it’s hard does not mean it can’t be good. It really is all up to you. Your choices, your decisions, your consequences. Elect people with integrity, pay attention to not just what they say but what they do, and hold them accountable for those actions. For those of you of a religious bent I would heartily endorse prayer, lots and lots of prayer. We are going to need that.

Free tickets to the deserving ……….

I have actually thought about this for years but after reading about the events at the Wisconson State Fair I really believe something like this should be done. Government, federal, state and local should consider giving free tickets to the country of choice to criminals especially those that are racist, religious fanatics, anarchy driven, and or violent.

While this thought came up again because of the racist attacks last night in WI it is not racist in it’s intent or scope. I would like to see all those who don’t like it here, who feel they have been abused, neglected or damaged encouraged to expatriate. Those who hate the government and wish to live under Socialist, Marxist, Communist and or Sharia law should be encouraged to move to places where they can experience that kind of life. Those who feel they are being “kept down by the MAN” and who cannot or will not get over the slavery issue (which has been settled since 1865) and who feel they were brought here illegally should be encouraged to return to the land of their foreparents. Those who have come here illegally are felons and should be encouraged to go back over the border where they will no longer face the threat of incarceration and we won’t have to spend billions of dollars on prison fees, welfare, food stamps, and education.

I would even agree to a raise in my taxes to provide plane tickets to any and all of the above who wish to go. I also would like to see those charged with any kind of anarchist behavior expelled and their citizenship revoked. Along with those changes I would also like to see the immigration laws and rules strengthened so that only those who have had jobs, no criminal history and are not mentally deranged (not disabled but bat crap crazy) will be admitted. Once admitted they would be given two years to apply for citizenship or they can respectfully go elsewhere.

If one can not live in a civilized way, one should not expect to be treated in a civilized fashion. What goes around comes around and since this country has bent over backwards for minorities no matter what color, race or ethnicity in the past 50 years those who feel they are disenfranchised have no one but themselves to blame. The victim mentality, the anarchist meme, the malcontent mantra are all excuses for inaction, intolerance and ingratitude.

So please go. Don’t let the screen door hit you on your way out. Bha-bye. Auf Wiedersehen . Au Revoir. Adios. Totsiens. Elalleqa.Do vstrechi/До Встречи. Build your new country in your own image. It should be entertaining. Just remember we have guns and we are more than happy to use them. You stay in your country and we promise to stay in ours. After all we don’t want to have to start supporting you again. Been there, done that, got the movie, tee shirt and Special Edition DVD, wrote the screen play, directed, produced and distributed it and lost billions of dollars.

The Difference

What is the difference between 1982 and 2011? Besides 29 years, there is a great deal of difference. When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 the country was in the grip of one of the worst recession since the great depression. There were food shortages, gas lines and the military was ready to go on strike. Some of you out there probably would like to argue that last point, because the military can’t go in strike. I am here to tell you than my family and I were in the military at that time and there was talk, serious talk about a strike. The malaise that had settled over the country was like a old, moldy, scratchy, wool quilt. The mood was a dank and depressed as the soul of a code pink activist in a district that elects a Tea Party candidate.

Then Ronald Magnus was elected. He cut taxes, he deregulated industries, he made it easier for small businesses to survive. Reagan’s main impact however was in how Americans saw themselves and their country. Gone were the gloom and doom, the constant meme of “we are not worthy”. Gone was the mantra “America is bad, we don’t deserve good things, we’re greedy, evil, colonialists” of the Jimma’ Carter Administration. Ronald Reagan gave us hope that America could achieve great things again. That we have been and could still be a force for good in the world. That America could be that shining city on a hill the founding fathers envisioned.

Because of his unflagging optimism businesses began to grow, profits began to rise and people began to believe in the power of the U.S. and it’s ability to lead the world economically and politically. Along with allies like Great Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, Reagan held other totalitarian rulers feet to the proverbial fire, which eventually led to the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and the Communist block. Yes there were patriots in places like Poland and East Germany but without the strength and vision of Ronald Reagan they would still be dying in Communist gulags.

Was Reagan perfect? Of course not, no one is. But he gave the country something the current president promised but has never delivered. Hope, real honest to goodness hope. Not some political slogan, or self aggrandizing blather, but an actual belief things could get better. We the people could by our own efforts make them better. We were the engine, we were the catalyst, we were the spark that would create new and better opportunities for ourselves and for people around the world.

So what’s the difference. The difference is between someone, with experience, who brought hope through empowerment and someone, with no discernible experience, who bought power through falsely promised hope. A difference between someone who does and someone who talks. Hopefully next time we vote we’ll be able to tell the difference.

How we got Obamacare

I used to wonder how in heavens name Obama and his demoncratic coven convinced so many people, smart people, to buy into universal health care. I don’t anymore. I understand now, I have a sure knowledge of just why everyday, average, intelligent people would go for this. I still think it’s wrongheaded, asinine, and foolhardy but at least now I understand.

I’ve been laid off, thrown out into the cold cruel world. No job on the horizon, heck no job I can see on the planet. Luckily my spouse has a job with health care. We are very grateful. However in order to start health care with them we have to get a Certificate of Coverage from the previous employer. Because I’m on severance however the current insurer won’t give me the certificate that has an end date on it, because the insurer sends the certificate and they won’t know I’m not working for the company until the company tells them. We can’t start the new insurance until we have the certificate. So there you have it. The classic Catch 22 event.

This ladies and gentlemen is how Obama and his cabal pulled the wool over so many folks eyes. This is how he sold the snake oil, liver pills and bust developer. People all over the country deal with this nonsense everyday. My spouse and I have spent all day dealing with this. He’s gotten nothing done at all. I am ready to take a handful of tranquilizers. I can’t even begin to imagine what this is like for someone who’s really ill and desperately needs care for themselves, a child, a parent, a spouse. What is it like for people who are disabled or elderly? You don’t need a form for this you need an entire HR department just to deal with one persons problem.

This is how we got Obamacare. I’d like to blame the government, I’d love to blame liberals but no, insurance companies are the bad guys in this situation and because of them HR departments are the second level of villains. Because of the complexity of insurance coverage companies especially small companies have to sign on with large HR firms who add a whole new and different level of absolute nonsense to the mix. They seem to go out of their way to make it so difficult to do anything that many people give up and don’t do anything until it’s too late. I’m beginning to think that is exactly what the plan is now. Make it so bad that it’s not worth the trouble.

The Obamanationusts sold this plan to people who felt (wrongly I think) that there is no way the government could make this worse. That surely things would change and the process would be more customer/ citizen friendly and people could actually get the care they needed without spending days wishing you were institutionalized. That there would finally be some recourse, some entity for people to focus their ire on. Some one in charge to blame.

Of course they were wrong. In all of the hate and discontent though, nothing has really changed. Healthcare is still a tar pit of monstrous proportions. Until someone get’s serious about overhauling the system, making it consumer friendly or providing some other serious options nothing is going to get better. Insurance companies will continue to get richer. We, whether we pay for our selves or pay through taxes, will continue to pay more.

And prescriptions for tranquilizers will continue to rise.

School-smull

Yesterday I stayed with my younger grandchildren while my daughter and son-in-law took my oldest grandson to school for his first day of kindergarten.  It was a poignant moment.  For several minutes I was inundated with memories of taking my own sweet children (6 of them, and I cried every time ) to their first day of school, knowing as I did, that they would return to me fundamentally different.  Gone would be the child I raised from an infant, replaced with someone whose attention and respect I had to compete for.  I was no longer the person in their life who had the answers, I was “just the mom”.  I didn’t have an eduction degree or years of classroom experience.  I couldn’t possibly know how to properly teach my child what he or she needed to know.  After all I’d managed to raise someone who was kind to others, respectful, honest (mostly) and empathetic.  But it was time for me to step aside and let the professionals take over.

Over the years my children have had many fine teachers.  People with integrity, intelligence and common sense.  They have also had horrible teachers, incompetent, emotional and uninterested. But  more than teachers, they have had with one glaring exception unbelievably inept administrators.  In times past those administrators had to put in their time as teachers or school professionals.  The one example of a good administrator was someone who’d been a teacher for 15 years before moving to administration.  This gave him a real knowledge of what teacher, students and parents were actually dealing with, instead of information from a professor and teachers in a sanitized college classroom.  He loved the children and they in turn loved him back.

We now have random drug testing in our schools, locked and barred doors and administrators who think they can dictate to parents what we can do with and to our children. They aren’t interested in education, they are interested in propaganda, in promoting the Alinsky playbook and in dismantling the family.  After all without that support system people must rely on the government which keeps political opportunists and hacks in the business of victimization and social engineering.

I have several children who have decided eduction would be their career of choice.  I must say though, if I had to do it all over again, I’d home school.  I wouldn’t allow my children to fall into the hands of people who eschew morality for the path of least resistance.  Individual teachers touch lives and make a difference.  The educational behemoth sucks the community, state and nation dry while continuing to perform at lower and lower standards. For the amount of money we’re paying for our children’s education we should be getting a better product then this. Maybe if bad teachers could be fired that would help.  It might also help if we hired teachers to teach and coaches to coach, not coaches to teach.  Time for a change.

Did I cry when the took my grandbaby to school?  Yes I did (and so did they).

Presents from our liberal overlords…..

As I wrote yesterday, school is back in session.  What joy, what bliss, what a pile of horse manure!

My child came home today, first day on the job, as it were, depressed and dispirited.  Seems he has not one, not two but four coaches for teachers this year.  Now I don’t know what the emphasis are concerning these teachers and their degrees but from sad, personal experience I can bet that maybe one of them is teaching something they minored in at college.  I am reasonably sure none of them majored in whatever it is that they’re teaching. You see in my little corner of Paradise being a coach trumps being a history teacher (any fool can teach history, besides who needs to learn about all that stuff dead white guys did, right), a communications teacher, an english teacher or any basics class in any discipline,

My daughter had a teacher ask her to write down “that song we sing before the game” for him, he coached basketball.  When the other teachers got tired of doing his lesson plans for him, covering for him and asked the district to fire him, his players parents (as well as other parents of sports players) insisted that he be retained.  This has nothing to do with how nice someone is. It has to do with the eduction my child, who already struggles at school, is getting.  This is the last of 6 children in this district, all of whom have told me that if you have a coach for a teacher and you don’t play sports they don’t have time for you.

To make matters worse they also sent home the consent form for them to randomly drug test my child.  Illegal search and seizure much?  Unconstitutional a bit, may-haps?  But you see this district is expert in extortion.  Either you let them drug test your child or said child can not participate in ANY extra-curricular activities at all.  No sports, no arts, no drama, no JROTC, no music.  Nothing.  So my choice is to pull my child out of school completely, let him go to school but prohibit him from anything that makes going to school in any way appealing or sign the dang thing.  This child so dislikes school that I look for anything that might encourage him to tolerate being there and music is what does that.  So of course I signed it but I sent along a little love note for the principle.

Our school board and city council managed to sneak passage of the drug testing proposal through on the sly.  Next election I’m going to be the burr under their saddles.  I’m going to write letters to the editor, talk to folks, attend council and board meetings and make a nuisance out of myself.  They’re going to hate the sight of me.  I’m Irish. I can be really offensive and irritating.  It’s a talent……….or maybe a gift.

I intend to share.

…..and then there was Lybia

Fox’s Shepard Smith patronizingly reminded his viewers that although the magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Virginia, which was felt as far away as Toronto and South Carolina, was unusual and that things would indeed be weird probably for the rest of the day, REAL history was being made in Lybia.  Well for those who have loved ones on the east coast, we are somewhat less interested in the chaos  in Lybia and more interested in whether or not building which are quite old and were not built to withstand any kind of earthquake event, are still standing.  This is the capital of the United States and while those of you who are either from the west coast or have lived there are somewhat jaded where this kind of event happens quite often, on the east coast this is a extreme event.

While I was taking classes to get my degree in History I had a professor who talked about the “So What” factor in history education.  By that he meant, why is this event worth studying, why is it important, what impact has it made in peoples lives, how has it changed the fabric of history and our lives?  Passing events through this prism helps to solidify not just what is important about an event and why, or why not.

Now as for Lybia.  Someone tell me just how this is going to change anything in Lybia or in the Middle East.  Who is going to fill the vacuum?  What new dictator, what new group of thugs will be in charge?  They have ONE working hospital for thousand and thousand of people.  The rebels are dancing in the street.  The street however is littered with the detritus of ruined shops and homes.  They are looting the government compound, so just what makes them any better or different from the people they’ve toppled?  Apparently Sharia law is going to be the law of the land.  How exactly does that relate to freedom and liberty, again?

We’ve seen this all before.  These people have never lived in freedom and their religion doesn’t make any space for it.  They subjugate roughly half of their population behind the veil and refuse to educate their women and girls.  Liberty cannot exist in the same country as Sharia law.  The two are mutually exclusive.  So pardon me if my enthusiasm lacks vive.  This goat and sheep show is something I’ve seen multiple times in the past.  Get back to me when they elect a real government, with equality promised to ALL citizen, when they promise to educate ALL children and when they aren’t stealing from the shop keepers in their neighborhoods.  Until then………so what!

Marwege is what bwings us togetwer today. Marwege that bwessed awangement………..

I like Libertarians.  I really do.  We disagree about the details of most issues but for the most part we tend to agree.  Every now and then however we violently disagree and usually it’s over something that to me seems as fundamental as Liberty, Freedom and  Justice.

John Stossel over at Fox News has an opinion piece about gay marriage.  His attitude is that if two members of the same sex want to get married who cares? Why does anyone need to worry about this? What exactly is the big deal, he questions.

While there are periphery issues about what to teach children in schools and whether organization can be made to accept such unions and how two members of the same sex can procreate without intrusive medical assistance and how do those parents model behavior of the opposite sex in order for said children to be given free will and choice concerning their own sexuality.  Leaving those thorny issues alone for the moment, let’s harken back to the crux of this problem.

Why should the government change the definition of marriage?  First off marriage was never the function of government.  Marriage is a sacrament.  It was conceived and executed by “religion” long before any government got involved.  It had nothing to do with laws and everything to do with the best and most productive way to produce and rear children.  Having two parents in the home has long been the cure for social ills that have always plagued society. When “the family” remains intact there are less problems with illegitimacy, adultery, and other sexual perversions as well as crime in general.

Imagine if you would a world in which men and women prefer same gender partners.  Without the auspices of intrusive medical procedures the species would die out quickly.  In the wild, animals that prefer to mate with their own gender essentially take themselves and their genes out of the pool, leaving the strong to survive.  I’m sorry if that is offensive. It is not meant to be.

I personally don’t care what someone’s sexual proclivities are.  I do care that educators are teaching my children and grandchildren that my beliefs and values are bigoted and backward.  Of course I’m one of those moron (Mormons) who believe that not only did Adam and Eve exist, they did the things the Bible says they did.  They were married and instructed  their children to marry.  That was why the Lord made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. This is the plan. It’s your choice whether or not you participate in it,  ”for God will force no man to heaven”.

If people today wish to have a relationship sanctioned by the “State” then they should do just that. Call it a civil contract, call it alternative family, call it Fred.  Just don’t call it marriage.

As to answer your question, that John, is why gay marriage is not acceptable to most people, especially Christians.  We don’t “hate” homosexuals, we do feel sorry for them. It is also very apparent that the behavior doesn’t just damage the individual it damages society as a whole and communities in specific……………..just ask any one who’s fled San Francisco due to the overbearing, intolerant gender warriors.

There are just some lines you shouldn’t cross.

Governance by poll……….

If I believed that polls were a bellweather of where the American people really stand on the issues I would do as my husband suggests and agree we should move our family out into the hinterland of flyover country (yes there really is something more rural than Do-dah City, typical Mid West State).  Todays NBC/ WSJ Poll has some amazing numbers.  For example;

44 % of Americans still support Obama – really no one I’ve talked to, even life long Democrats approve of his handling or lack thereof  of the economic mess this socialist/ communist has tried to force down our throats.  Government does not know business.  It is an anathema, an excoriation, an imprecation.  In other words it is an impediment to growth and success.

37% support Obama’s handling of the economy – again really.  They found 37% of people who don’t know anyone who’s out of a job and can’t find one.  They don’t know anyone with 50 thousand dollars in unpaid student loans working part time at Sam’s Club.  They don’t know families who’s parents are working two or three jobs because they can’t get a permanent full time job with benefits.  Maybe that 37% likes staying home on unemployment or welfare.  After all that’s what we’re approaching.  When the Chi/Coms take over there are going to be a whole lot of unhappy drones in the sweatshop bemoaning their fates.

42 % believe Obama has exhibited strong leadership – where, when.  I must have blinked, I missed it.  Was that when he shoved Obama care down our throats or when he lied to us about the stimulus creating jobs?  Maybe it was when he took his 60th golf outing?  Or could have been when he picked the same day as the Republican debate and then blinked?  Somebody help me.  Leadership and Obama does simply not compute.

41%  think he’s a good commander in chief- Well if he didn’t hate the military, wasn’t trying to dismantle it and wasn’t using soldiers as campaign props while impeding their ability to get the job done I guess I might believe that too.

There are other findings but the most interesting to me is that;

60 % want the super committee in  Congress to  end the Bush tax cuts to families making $250,000 a year.  That’s two people combined each making $125,000 dollars a year.  Now out here in fly over country that’s a lot of money.  My family and I could have all we’d ever need with that kind of money but on the east coast (where we grew up) that kind of money will buy you a house in a so-so neighborhood with drug dealers, whores and gang bangers on the next street.  Just ask people in Montgomery County MD, a suburb of DC.  We won’t even talk about New York city where a condo can go for 300, 000 +.

37 % want a combination of tax cuts and funding cuts, but not their personal agenda programs I’m sure.  Sacred cows will out.

So I ask again.  Where are the jobs coming from Mr President?  They can’t come from the federal government, that’s not sustainable.  It is a vicious cycle that can not support itself.  Government gives you a job, taxes you but unless it taxes you 100 % it’s not getting it’s money back.  Government doesn’t create a commodity, doesn’t provide a tangible product. Which of our new entrepreneurs are coming from the Welfare rolls?  So if more than 40% of Americans don’t pay any taxes at all, how about we tax the rich more as well as start taxing the poor ?  You know, have everyone pay a fair share.  Maybe that would give some of the deadbeats an incentive to get off their fat butts and on to a job training program.

People with money create jobs either through employment or consumption.  Take away the money take away the jobs.  It’s not rocket science but apparently we have a country without the brains God gave a gnat.

According to the polls.

Hey Maxine………..

Guess what?  Maxine Waters thinks that because there are “roughly three million” blacks out of work the president in his speech should focus on what he’s going to do for “them”. This is typical behavior for the majority of the members of the “Black Caucus” ( wonder what would happen if there was an “evangelical caucus”, a hispanic caucus, a heterosexual caucus- sounds a little silly doesn’t it).  The country should do something now, right now for blacks because THEY are suffering. Apparently they are the ONLY one’s suffering. So I have a few questions.

1. How many of these three million people are normally out of work?  How many of them are unemployable due to criminal history, emotional damage or cultural inability? The fact that many of these people are low paid, unmarketable, inexperienced is never mentioned.  They have little to no training or ability.  They didn’t graduate from high school or if they did they didn’t learn anything of any use to them.

2. Why is it that a group of people who only make up 12.6 % of the population, take up 80% of our time and resources?  Why is it that a  community that demands so much of our attention can’t acknowledge it has fundamental problems with their citizens?  Why is it that we don’t hold members of this community to the same standards that we hold everyone else?  Adult men impregnating young girls, young children killing children- adults and anyone else, community leaders who use their positions to lie, cheat and steal from those they are supposed to be leading.

3. How dare you ask if one group of people are any more important than any other group?  One of the reasons we are in this mess is because of people like Waters.  The people who want Americans to spend their time and energy fighting with each other.  That way we’re not paying attention to the ever expanding scope of government and the ever shrinking scope of liberty.  This in ONE country, it’s people should be UNITED.  That can’t happen as long as there are race baiters, religious zealots, cultural stormtroopers stirring the pot and the  jackels that ravage the political landscape .

4. So then if blacks make up only 12.6 %  of the population,  it would seem the problems are supposed to be fixed by the other 85% of us .  At least 9.5% of Americans are out of work.  What about them?  Are they any less needy?  Do they count less?  Do their children not need to eat, sleep, go to school?  Many of those out of work have be paying all their lives for some citizens to sit on their fat butts and watch Jerry Springer or Oprah all day.  No matter how you slice it the other 85% make up more in numbers than that 15%.  There should be no difference between blacks, white, asian, hispanic, or any other group.  9.5% unemployment is unsustainable and inexcusable.

This president and his czars and supporters have in three years done what the Soviet Union tried for decades to do, and the American people helped them.  Our supposed watchdogs in the press were bribed with sweets and turned into lap dogs just when we needed them most.  Instead of truth we got propaganda.  The smartest man in America has turned out to be at best an idiot at worst the most accomplished saboteur the U.S. has ever had the misfortune to come up against.

Unlike most people I believe Barak Obama has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.  He has pushed America to the brink of despair.  The jury is out on whether or not she can be saved.  He told us this is what he was going to do, remake America.

Am I the only one who listened?

The elephant in the living room………..

This morning the “speech that will change the world” has been chewed almost to death.  I personally didn’t watch it.  I can’t watch the presidents speeches and stay sane.  I like my TV and the urge to throw a box of Lincoln Logs through it is sometimes almost overwhelming.  So I watched reruns of the Big Bang Theory with my kids.

From what I can tell there wasn’t a lot new in the speech.  There was some mention of tax cuts (on social security – which of course isn’t in trouble at all) along with the obligatory spending proposals, of course.  This president has never met a spending proposal he can’t inflate.  One of the most interesting things that hasn’t been covered, at least to me, is the regulatory morass that has been perpetrated by the democratic Congress since 2006 and added to by this president who never, it seems, met a regulation he didn’t like.  Regulations that impede business growth and expansion, that kill jobs, that make NO SENSE at all.  Regulations that are redundant, restrictive and repulsive in their intrusion into peoples lives.  The American people want government out of their businesses, out of their lives and out of their bedrooms.

But the most stunning circumduction of the speech was the absence of any mention of Obamacare.  This is the one piece of legislation that is killing job growth and stifling consumer spending.  According to the Americans for Tax Reform site (I would have use a more neutral sites but the left really doesn’t want to talk about this issue)

2. Obamacare Individual Mandate Excise Tax (takes effect in Jan 2014): Starting in 2014, anyone not buying “qualifying” health insurance must pay an income surtax according to the higher of the following

	1 Adult	2 Adults	3+ Adults
2014	1% AGI/$95	1% AGI/$190	1% AGI/$285
2015	2% AGI/$325	2% AGI/$650	2% AGI/$975
2016 +	2.5% AGI/$695	2.5% AGI/$1390	2.5% AGI/$2085

Read more: http://www.atr.org/comprehensive-list-obama-tax-hikes-a6433#ixzz1XShLxIXb

Even worse is the news from the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) that,

According to the CBO, by 2016, the cheapest family health care plan that Americans will be required to buy under the law will cost $12,000 per year. The average family plan will cost $15,200. A family of four making $88,201 per year—or more than 400 percent of the poverty level—will not receive any federal subsidy to purchase such a plan. They will pay taxes, however, to subsidize the health care purchases of people earning less than 400 percent of poverty.

and,

“That means that if the reduction in the labor used was workers working the average number of hours in the economy and earning the average wage, that there would be a reduction of 800,000 workers,” Elmendorf said in an exchange with Rep. John Campbell

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49273.html#ixzz1XSpEKgeV

While those in the Budget Office say that these lost jobs will be from people not having to work for benefits, how else are they going to be able to afford even the “government exchange health care”?  Hmmmmmmmm.

By 2016 for just myself, my spouse and my baby who will be 21 years old and most likely a student, thus on our insurance, it will cost us $1390 or 2.5% AGI.  So is that a month, a year, and 2.5% of what, our income?  If it’s a month that’s more than one and a half of my mortgage payment.  As the second quote shows a family would face the prospect of paying. for the least expensive policy – $1267 a month, for health coverage.  Much more I’m sure if there are any health issues. I’d have to have a two full time second jobs just to pay for this.  So if I don’t want to pay a surcharge I have to find an employer who will still offer benefits. Many employers who will, if they can, simply pay a fine will and them move on.  Why have an HR department with 10 people,4 of whom deal with insurance issues, when you can pay a fine to the government and move on?   A three thousand dollar fine per worker or employees making 50- 80 thousand dollars a year. Bottom line, the fine is cheaper and since we’re going to be minus roughly 800, 000 jobs people won’t have the luxury to chose an employer who offers benes.  We’ll just have to take what we’re given.  What employer wants to deal with insurance companies any way?  Talk about a morass made in hell.

If you really want to have some fun go to the CBO website and click on;

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s Effects on Employers’ Decisions to Offer Health Insurance

then take a look at pages 9, 10, 11 (all of it is very informative- i.e. clear as mud). Remember this is the simplified version for us rubes and little people. You know actual tax payers.

3. Obamacare Employer Mandate Tax (takes effect Jan. 2014):  If an employer does not offer health coverage, and at least one employee qualifies for a health tax credit, the employer must pay an additional non-deductible tax of $2000 for all full-time employees.  Applies to all employers with 50 or more employees. If any employee actually receives coverage through the exchange, the penalty on the employer for that employee rises to $3000. If the employer requires a waiting period to enroll in coverage of 30-60 days, there is a $400 tax per employee ($600 if the period is 60 days or longer). Bill: PPACA; Page: 345-346

Read more: http://www.atr.org/comprehensive-list-obama-tax-hikes-a6433#ixzz1XSk4Ysk3

So the one piece of legislation hated by the majority of Americans, that’s killing the economy BEFORE it’s even implemented, that is stifling job growth and actually causing layoffs wasn’t included in the speech.  And nobody in the media or Washington is talking about this as of 9 am CDT?  Really?

Hey you’se guys.  There’s an elephant in your living room and it’s excreting all over your couch!  Anybody want to do something about that? Make a statement?

Good luck with that.  You’d better hope no one feeds it fiber!  I guess this is one of those shovel ready jobs “his highness” was talking about.

Sept. 11, 2011

As am sure everyone on the planet knows, today is the anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Towers 1& 2 and the Pentagon as well United Airlines Flight 93 which crashed in Pennsylvania.  The television, radio and internet are drowning in memorials, remembrances and documentaries.  All of these have their place.  There are those who wish as a reminder to immerse themselves in the history of the day. I on the other hand lived through it once.  Unlike the families who live everyday with the reminder that dad, mom, daughter, son, loved one, co-worker or friend will never come home, I am reminded only when there is mention of the Taliban, Islamo-fascists, Iran, Afghanistan or any Mid-east country, Pres. Bush, planes, TSA, or a millon other small insignificant topics are mentioned. While the families are affected intimately, the rest of us are also affected but by degrees of separation.  We all remember, mourn, adjust in different ways but I really believe there are a few things we all can agree on.

- Do not produce a “celebration” “memorial” “event” with speakers from the political landscape trying to one up each other and denigrate the other party.  In this particular venue I do NOT want to hear campaign speeches.

-I do not want to hear representatives from the countries whose citizens danced in the streets for a week after  Sept. 11, 2001 explain how this is OUR fault.

- I do not want to hear apologists for Islam who are supposed to represent us in government try to downplay or make light what occurred.

-I do NOT want to listen to those who despise America and who choose to live in the freedom and liberty bought for them by thousands of lives, trash the Constitution, the country and those who were on the first line of defense in 2001.

Finally,

-I do not want to watch another documentary about that day made by people who have no clue what sacrifice, integrity and honesty really mean, nor do I want to watch a fictionalized account of what some directior/producer/ actor thinks would be “good TV”.

That said, what do I want.  I want a REAL memorial event.  One where all religions are accepted and included (as much as possible). Where prayers are not considered taboo.  Where if you’re offended by religion YOU STAY HOME or create your own event.  Where the families of those who died are the focus not an impediment.  It seems that those in charge of the country and the memorials have lost sight of what’s important.  Symbolism trumps substance, but that shouldn’t have happened here.  I want those countries who support terrorism and terrorist to not receive one penny of our tax dollars. I want governments to ferret out training camps.  I want anyone who goes to those camps to be stripped of their citizenship and put on the first slow freighter to Kenya and encourage their family and extended families to go as well.  I want those who threaten Americas to be deported, including but not limited to politicians, professors, scientists, post office workers . I want the government to stop worrying about mentally disadvantaged Canadians and worry about Islamists, Mexican drug dealers, and anchor babies instead.

I don’t remember the last time someone with ADD flew a plane into a building. I do remember the 100′s of jihadists  including the Rev. Al, Jackson, Wright and Louie preening and posturing because the Great satan had been attacked because as you know God damned America.  I do remember the Middle East acting like it was New Years Eve and I also remember there are those who refuse to accept that terrorist actually attacked this country, preferring to believe that our own government murdered citizens in cold blood.  I feel these traitors should be repatriated to a dictatorship so that they can experience first hand the iron fist of government mandate for themselves.  Unfortunately for them once they’re gone we should institute an No Return policy.

Keeps out the riff-raff don’t you know.

So for  all those missing prayers at memorial services today, please accept my sincere, heartfelt, inadequate attempt.

Our Kind and Gracious Heavenly Father,

We come before Thee at this time to thank Thee for all the blessing we enjoy in this land.  We thank Thee for our families and friends, our country and those who have fought and still fight to keep  us free.  We thank Thee for the impact of those who’s lives were lost September 11, 2001.  We thank Thee for the courage, integrity, love and sacrifice exhibited in those horrific days after the attacks, for the lives saved and for those who gave the last great measure.  We are grateful for the opportunity to come together at this time to mourn and remember those who remain forever etched in our hearts.  We seek Thy peace, Thy understanding and Thy support as we continue to try to live up to those who have gone before us and pray we may be reunited with them in the Hereafter.

Father help us to understand Thy will for us and our nation. Help us to seek to become a united land.  Help us to protect and defend our families, our communities and our country.  Hedge up the way of those who seek to harm others.  Turn the hearts of those who would do evil unto innocents.  Grant peace to those who do their best to live so that they will harm no one.

We love Thee Father and thank Thee for all blessings seen and unseen.

In the name of Jesus Christ.

Surprise, surprise, surprise………

From  an Ann Althouse post but found in the comments.  I don’t have access to the report but if this is true (and the prevailing procedure for universities) we might as well grab our collective keisters and kiss them goodbye.

CEO: Admissions at UW-Madison
Undergraduate and Law school

By SAT and class rank:
• African Americans favored over whites 576-to-1
• Hispanics favored over whites 504-to-1
• Black SAT score 150 points lower than whites and Asians
• Latino SAT score 100 points lower than whites and Asians

By ACT and class rank:
• Black favored over whites 1330-to-1
• Hispanics favored over whites 1494-to-1

Chance of admission for grades and LSAT scores at the median for that race/ethnic group
• Out-of-state Black: 7 out 10 chance
• Out-of-state Hispanic: 1 out of 3 chance

• In-state Asian:1 out of 6 chance
• In-state white: 1 out of 10 chance

CEO is the Center for Equal Opportunity.

I guess it all depends on what the meaning of equal is.

The most frightening things for me in the article were the quotes from the Damon Williams the Chief Diversity guru at the university.  This is not a education of higher learning it’s a tribe of vicious, violent, anarchists with delusions of elitism. It is way passed time to dismantle this failed system and institute common sense solutions.

Welcome to my nightmare

As I watch the Republican debates, I realize that we are on the brink of a crazy person running our nation. I sit in front of the television and shudder at the thought of one of these creationism-loving, global-warming-denying, immigration-bashing, Social-Security-cutting, clean-air-hating, mortality-fascinated, Wall-Street-protecting Republicans running my country.-  James Carville

Apparently Mr. Carville is panicked.  Well sir, as Alice Cooper famously wrote……”Welcome to My Nightmare”.

I have watched as the incompetent, atheistic, socialist of the Democratic Party have torn my country apart.  Yes the evolution loving, global warming snake oil salesmen, criminally illegal immigrant supporting, Social Security propping, human beings are the cancer on the world criers, death embracing, Wall Street bailer out-ers, who have turned our small recession into a looming depression.

I guess one would never want people of integrity to be in power.  That might mean people in the country might have to take responsibility for their own actions or inaction.  Heaven forbid scientists do real research, don’t manipulate data to insure funding for their personal agendas.  Not to mention the politicians who assisted in the  coverup and continue to carry water for a group of professionals that half the country doesn’t trust anymore.  Then there are those who feel that criminally invading a country, crossing their borders in spite of their laws, helping themselves to services paid for by citizens of that country (which is theft if not fraud) is not only appropriate but natural. Let’s not descend into the death cult that is liberalism, proponents of abortion and end of lifers, not to mention rationed care favorers who deny death panels but plan on them at the same time. Oh and don’t forget that animals, plants and minerals on the planet are all more important than any number of human beings.  These are the same people who make excuses for raiding Social Security and other federal money pits and got their friends and donors as well as political operatives and office holders out of trouble for flushing our economy down the drain. Any one remember the names Frank, Schumer, Dodds ect.  We don’t even want to open the Constitutionally challenged Justice Department, maybe it should just be renamed as the Injustice Department- or Ministry of Magic American Chapter instead.

If Mr. Carville was in anyway interested in anything besides “being right”, he might open his little mind to the fact that there is more than enough room at the political table for all sorts of opinions He might find that if there was more common sense people could compromise in ways that made things better for all Americans not just for the protected classes the Dems have purchased with their “it’s YOUR turn” mentality. That hasn’t worked out very well for them as this group has been one of the hardest hit by Obama’s inability to actually lead in any substantive way.

It’s not their turn, it was never about who’s turn it was. It’s about the correct thing to do and the correct way to do it. Not right, not left ………….correct.

The internet as cultural Apocalypse ?

I am the first one to admit our culture is coarsening. But that the internet is the main, first source seems to have come quite late to the party.

Our culture has become coarsened because there is no adherence to societal mores, there are no “manners” any more, no rules of good behavior. Until the 1950′s people, at least most people, were expected to act in a certain way. Words like respect, integrity, honesty, and patriotism hadn’t lost their meaning. People actually believed in “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Most peoples lives were influenced more by religion than by “culture warriors”.

Then came the twin disasters known as Korea and Vietnam-wars we should have won but we’re too tired and too fed up to deal with. TV spread it’s influence and with it filth far and wide. Am I saying TV is bad, no. Am I saying TV as coarsened our culture, absolutely. It has made bad behavior not just acceptable but prevalent. By focusing on the worst in human nature instead of promoting the best TV has done what nothing else has been able to, bring America to the brink of destruction. We are all pretty much sewer dwellers now. With a steady diet of adultery, thievery, dishonesty, and a marked distain for anything that even smacks of the divine (and I’m just talking here about the reality shows for the moment) Americans have become weeds that bend with whatever new atrocity the media choses to blow at them.

TV in itself is not evil. It’s those who produce, market and glorify the least common denominator. It’s a cultural redistribution of wealth and as we’ve been told before, all that happens in that case is everyone becomes poor. Cable and satellite have simply exacerbated the already putrid problem. The subject of movies does not even need to be gone into further.  The filth and stupidity passing itself off as “art” make the stomach turn and the mind reel. I’m not talking about bad films, poorly made , no plot, horrible acting.  I’m talking about films lauded for their realism, their cutting edge, their “pushing of the envelope”.  Those are the real cultural battles we didn’t even try to fight thus losing by default.

The all out war on religion and by extension those who are religious needs a mention.  Religion, helps to guide men to a higher existence, muslim extremism aside.  It provides guidelines and boundaries for societal behaviors.  Religion encourages man to become more than he is, at least those founded on doing good to others do. By throwing the religious baby out with the bath water society has not simply opened the floodgates of secular humanism but broken the dam and we are awash in a flood of septic, parasitic, soul melting debris that will drown, harm and harass our country for years to come.

As with all technology the internet “can be used for good”.  Just like everything else it is the user who control the trajectory.  We can either govern ourselves or we will find ourselves governed.  That in a nutshell is Sharia law “man for his own good must be governed stringently”.

Me I  chose to govern me and let the rest of the world go to the equator in a row boat. Have a good trip.  Don’t write.

Trouble in Perrydise

(I’d like to note that there are no ad hominem attacks here.  I might not care for the Governor but those kinds of sentiments just negate one’s argument not buttress it, and the Daily Kos this is not)

Governor Perry  can’t turn things around on his record. 80% of the jobs created in Texas went to immigrants 40% or more went to ILLEGALS.  He’s the governor of Texas, close the borders, expel the criminals, stop the trafficing of human beings.  Except he agrees with Obama and is against the Arizona law that would force the state to enforce Federal law at the border.  Go figure?  And lets not even go to instate tuition for illegal immigrants.  Heartless I may be but I refuse to subsidize college tuition for criminals when my own children are in debt up to their eyeballs because they wanted/needed to go to college.  So I should tell my youngest child, “Sorry Mom and Dad can’t afford to send you to college.  They are paying too much in taxes to send illegal immigrants to school instead.  You can get a job at McDonalds or maybe something in the yard work or roofing industry.”

That’s not to mention his willingness to make medical test subject of young Texas girls with the whole HPV debacle. The fact that his former chief of staff is/was a lobbyist for Merc the company that developed the shots and that Merc gave him 30,000 dollars not 5,000 as claimed. When you’re running for president there can be no hint of backroom deals.  Not any more. People are wise to that nonsense. On top of all of this is the reality that in Texas girls and their parents have no real choice about the vaccine.  They can of course OPT OUT but unless they are paying very close attention their daughters are vaccinated before they even know about it.

(there should be a break here but wordpress won’t do it. Sorry)

Then there’s his position on Social Security as a ponzi scheme.  He has yet to address what the country is going to do with millions of senior citizens who can no longer work but who still surprisingly have to eat, pay rent or a mortgage, clothe themselves not to mention medical care.  If you’ve ever owned a car for longer than 4 years you understand that the older it gets the more work has to be done on it.  Just like the human body. So what’s he going to do about that?

Sorry, I’m just not feeling it.  This is a candidate I would have to hold my nose to support. Of course if the choice were him or Obama, I’d vote for him but I’m really tired of voting against someone. I’d really like to vote for someone this time.

Au revoir

I’m done for now. Had enough. Not interested in the world, in it’s steady march to destruction. I think I’ll quilt, or maybe play video games or visit the grandchildren.

There has to be more to life than the constant barrage of hate and discontent that spews from the politically aware on both sides of the aisle, by the way. While my sweet spouse will continue to fight the good fight at least for now I’m on hiatus again. Somewhat like “what’s his name” from Green Bay who kept retiring, except I have a wonderful warm feeling in my heart (which I know to be the Holy Spirit) that this is the right decision for me.

To those of you who come occasionally, thanks for visiting. To my friends, we won’t say good bye but as the French say au revoir.

Good luck and God bless you.

Republicans Will Cripple America????????????

Republicans, the one’s shut out of the decision making process for the last 6 years (up until January of this year 2011) are going to CRIPPLE America.  Really? That’s where this president wants to go now.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (8.9
percent), adult women (8.0 percent), teenagers (25.4 percent), whites
(8.0 percent), blacks (16.7 percent), and Hispanics (11.3 percent) showed
little or no change in August. The jobless rate for Asians was 7.1 percent,
not seasonally adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)

and

The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) was
about unchanged at 6.0 million in August and accounted for 42.9 percent of the
unemployed. (See table A-12.) Report

and not ONE job was created in August 20011.

Pardon the expression but America is already crippled. The criminal lack of leadership by this administration who couldn’t create a job due to the fact that none of them have a clue as to how to do so because they’ve never actually worked or owned or managed anything in their lives.  Only 7 % of the Cabinet have any business experience outside government or the law profession.  Hence why they think that if you water the ground with money jobs will simply grow, like weeds. Thanks in large part to the dismal liberal leadership in the government, before January, and in the Senate since then, the currant administration has hounded, regulated, and taxed the American business community not just into crippling inactivity but almost to death.

The annual cost of regulation—$1.75 trillion by one frequently cited estimate—represents twice the amount of individual income taxes collected last year. Overall, from the beginning of the Obama Administration to mid-fiscal year (FY) 2011, regulators have imposed $38 billion in new costs on the American people, more than any comparable period on record. Consider Washington’s red tape to be a hidden tax. Report

Republicans plan to cripple America?  How exactly do they plan to do this? I know they want to get rid of ridiculous regulations, free businesses from onerous taxation, and repeal the greatest boondoggle in the history of the world “Obamacare”.

Here’s what families have to look forward under our fearless leaders health care plan to.

* If your household income is $66,000 a year, slightly above the national average, Obama’s healthcare bill will require you to spend 12 percent of your income — about $8,000 a year or almost $700 a month — to buy health insurance before you get any federal subsidy. * Even those making less will have to reach deep into their meager resources to satisfy Obama’s statutory requirement. Families scraping by on only $44,0000 a year will have to pay 7 percent of their income (about $3,000) on insurance.- The Hill

It’s no wonder businesses aren’t hiring.  With the insecurity attached to the presidents “fair and balanced plan” we get items such as this;

No matter the size of his firm, if he or his workers earn around $30,000 to $100,000 and get coverage through one of the new health insurance exchanges, their implicit marginal tax rates will jump from around 30-40 percent all the way up to 60-75 percent!

In many cases, if his employees get a raise or work more hours, ObamaCare will leave them with less take-home pay, because the higher earnings will cause them to lose thousands of dollars in subsidies. Their implicit marginal tax rate will exceed 100 percent!  -Cato.

No matter how you slice this Nancy Pelosi, and her cabal in the House (before January) who rubber stamped everything and I do mean EVERY LITTLE THING the administration whispered in her craggy ear and her partner in crime Dingy Harry Reid in the Senate and the current resident of 1400 Pennsylvania Ave. have their sticky little fingers all over this new recession/depression. From the bank failure and bailouts to the massive land grabs to the unwillingness to shut off the glut of illegal immigrants (sorry I’m mean future Democratic voters) to new and costlier regulations and taxes on the citizenry, these people, the card carrying members of the Liberal coven, have indeed crippled America.

We have no other option.  They have left us with no other choice.  Come November 2012 we too must MARCH, to the polls.  We need to organize and  mobilize, unmask and debunk, educate and enlighten our fellow citizens.  At every opportunity we should remind others of the sheer unmitigated incompetence of the current crop of liberal inmates running the asylum.

It’s past time to find some adults to put in charge so that the teenagers can go back to protesting every little thing, pouting because they didn’t get their way and mooning over George Clooney and Rachel Maddow. It is way past time to get an adult in the White House who won’t embarrass us just by opening his mouth, whose first lady won’t decide she’s the nations “buttinsky” who will leave parents and their children alone to make whatever choices they desire. Someone who will fill their cabinet with experts instead of “past drips under pressure” or political cronies, who’s experience in the business of America wouldn’t fit on a gnats small toe.  Oh and one other important thing, someone who wouldn’t make the choice of vice president as a life insurance policy. You know the guy NO ONE in their right minds would want to see in the Oval Officer should something happen to the President.

That’s the guy we need in the White House with his finger on the red button.  I’m not sure we have one of those in any party but that my friends is what and who we need.

Treason

“Three key elements are necessary for an offense to constitute treason: an obligation of allegiance to the legal order, and intent and action to violate that obligation. Treason is a breach of allegiance and of the faithful support a citizen owes to the sovereignty within which he lives. A citizen of the United States who is subject to the law of a foreign state may owe allegiance to that state at the same time he owes fealty to the United States. But this dual nationality does not relieve him of obligation to refrain from volunteering aid or comfort to the foreign nation if it is at war with the United States. Although the matter has not been presented to a court in this country, an individual present here and enjoying the nation’s protection owes it his obedience while he is resident, and thus may be guilty of treason if he commits what would be the offense when done by a citizen. “-Note

While I realize, especially in this day and age there are people who do and will make up definitions willy nilly about “what the meaning of the word is, is”, it is sometimes appropriate  to reflect on what some of the words we use really mean. I found this description of the act of treason to be appropriate as we whip ourselves and the country over the death of an “American citizen” in hiding among the Al Queda operatives.

I am speaking of  Anwar al-Aulaqi, the supposed “American Citizen” born in New Mexico and Samir Khan also a purported American citizen.  As was posited in the first paragraph however  “Treason is a breach of allegiance and of the faithful support a citizen owes to the sovereignty within which he lives. A citizen of the United States who is subject to the law of a foreign state may owe allegiance to that state at the same time he owes fealty to the United States. But this dual nationality does not relieve him of obligation to refrain from volunteering aid or comfort to the foreign nation if it is at war with the United States.” Aulaqi and Khan both worked with foreign nationals to harm and kill Americans here and all over the globe, they planned terrorist attacks, their stated goal was to bring down the government of America.  In such things they committed treason, no matter where they were living and thus they cast off their citizenship along with the rights and privileges it afforded them.  They were no longer citizens.  It doesn’t take a court of law (and with the activist judges we have today, they (said judges) would probably give the terrorists a medal) to decide that.  Aulaqi and Khan made the decision to jettison their rights and privileges when they joined an Islamo-facist organization who’s stated goal is the destruction of the US and it’s allies.

If either of these so called citizens were not prepared for their end they should not have been where they were, doing what they were doing. Thousands of lives have been saved by the execution of these two sociopaths.  Their end was directly guided by their decisions.  They were in charge of their lives.  When someone fights against their Mother country, when they subvert others with-in that country and seek to overturn or undermine the representative government for their own profit, that my dears, is treason.  We used to hang traitors or at the very least deport them.

We could, on the other hand, always make them federal employees.  They have the work ethic and ideological stance to fit right in with the current administration.

 

The Price of the First Amendment

So today in 2012, this is the price of your 1st amendment rights.  You make an analogy that someone doesn’t like and you get the boot.  It doesn’t matter how many liberals before you have done so to political leaders in the past .  It doesn’t matter that you didn’t say nor did you infer that a political leader was “just like Hitler”.  You had the audacity to compare that a Obama/Boehner  pairing was akin to a Hitler/Netanyahu one. As Kathleen Parker put it “Two guys who are enemies aren’t likely to play golf.”.

She also mentioned the approximately 13,900,000 entries you find when you google Bush/Hitler (this is my favorite of the ones I found but truthfully I didn’t spend days going through them all) All sorts of people who should have been fired or boycotted or subjected to invective and ridicule made this list.  You know what happened to most of them? Nothing, not a single blessed thing.  Which is as it should be. If  you don’t like someone’s analogy , too bad-so sad, especially if it doesn’t concern you directly.  While some on the right were enflamed about the comments comparing GWB to Hitler most simply laughed at the stupidity of the remark and moved on.  Those on the left however are so personally involved, have such high stakes in and/or  are unable to separate “feelings” from rational thought, that they can not or will not understand that some people think/feel/ believe differently than they. (gasp, shock, shaking head, tears in eyes)

As we have seen in the last 5 years (since Dems took over the Congress then the White House) this is what happens when you govern by emotional excess.  We’ve had the whiners, the cryers (including RINO’s) the screechers, the bombasts. These people should be given what they want because they “care sooooooooo much”.  They’re only trying to help the (sniffle, wipes tears from eyes, voice raspy with emotion) poor, hungry, downtrodden, displaced, disenfranchised, depressed, …………and the list goes on. If they make millions of dollars for themselves and their friends who are we to quibble?  Wait you might say don’t conservatives do the same thing? Why yes they do, but as a business not as a purported philanthropy.  It’s a hypocrisy issue not a profit issue.

So I guess that soon Hitler will go the way of all the other words we’re not allowed to use in polite company.  Except for the protected classes that is.  Some people have it right.  Words convey thoughts, thoughts control actions and when you drive ideas underground they usually erupt, eventually, with sometimes disastrous results.   In the musical 1776 depicting the Continental Congress Steven Hopkins Delegate from Rhode Island opines “in all my years I never heard, seen, nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn’t be TALKED about!”

Of course our forefathers were men of honor, integrity and vision.  They had convictions and courage in said convictions.  The thought of infringing on another mans freedom of expression was an anathema to them.  It’s what they were fighting against.  Thanks in great part to the inadequate and inane public education as far as history is concerned we have a nation filled with people who not only don’t know what the American Revolution was about, they don’t even know when it was fought or by whom.

Yesterday’s heros were fighters, todays zeros are whiners.  And yes that is exactly what I mean.

Quote of the Decade………or longer even.

From the late, great Burt Prelutsky (film critic, TV writer as well as the author of several books ) on the state of politics in the land of fruits, nuts and flakes.
“Frankly, I don’t know what it is about California, but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I’m not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine, even comes close. When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington, we’re number one. There’s no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on “Macbeth”.
The three of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of speech. You don’t know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words.”

Now this is a man who really gets it, as the Wall Street Occupationists would say.  Too bad they “don’t get it”.

Do unto others………..

There are several ways to complete this sentence. There’s the one in the New Testament when Jesus Christ tells his followers to “do unto others as you would have others do unto you, in explaining how our Heavenly Father expects us to treat each other.

Then there is the current completion of the sentence, ” before they do unto you”.  I’m sure this came  out of Hollywood or a comedians stand up routine.  Maybe it came from D.C.  which is like a 24 hour comedy club lately, with more and more comedians coming to town and more and more getting the hook for their trouble (this is not a bad thing, culling the herd as it were).

Today I weigh in on yet another installment of the true nature of religious bigotry in America. A “pastor” defends his comments about the religious preference of one of the Republican nominees for president.   That said “pastor” is from the great state of Texas is not surprising, that he is “Baptist” is also not surprising.  Let us without offense discuss what I “know” about Baptists (and other so-called Christian denominations -not in specific- more in the if the shoe fits, you’re it Cinderella).

I “know” that Baptists:

• do not believe in keeping the commandments of Jesus Christ- Blasphemy  some will scream.  Nonsense I would reply.  What exactly is your average Baptist doing on an average Sunday morning.  They go to church of course -well not everyone does.  Some believe they don’t need to go to a service on Sunday.  They’ve accepted Jesus as their personal Savior, he knows they’re trying to do good to they don’t have to check in all that much, Christmas/Easter.  Just like they visit Grandma at the home.   Do they spend the day resting from their labors?  Well some do, most don’t.  They shop, golf, swim, play football and any other form of game possible, go to the casino, go to concerts, comedy clubs, museums, travel, and maybe visit their loved ones (especially the one’s they’re not married to).  Meanwhile all of those “heathens who have to work in businesses that cater to the above don’t get the opportunity to be obedient to the commandment to “keep the Sabbath Day holy”.
• Bear false witness against their neighbors and coveting their neighbors……..what ever it is the neighbors  have that they want. Bearing false witness is more that lying.  It is lying with the intent to do harm to someone or something else.  This is why they make up ridiculous statements and pass them off as fact when they have no knowledge on which to base their statements.  They listen to those who have either left the church or been asked to leave and take as gospel what these people relate.  Somewhat like a person looking for a new car will ask the Ford dealer to tell them about the newest Chrysler product because the “know” the care dealer won’t lie to them (he’ll tell them exactly what they want to hear.

Most of the claims of the anti-mormon side are ridiculous in the extreme.  While the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has differences with other churches in doctrine, procedure and worship LDS members and the Church follow and believe  in the 11th Article of Faith which states;

“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.

Family is supremely important to Latter Day Saints.  If someone is estranged from their family you can pretty much guarantee that the fault in that belongs to the people who refuse to allow said person to believe as they wish.  While I understand that some members (who are as human as Baptists-go figure) are sometimes pushy in their zeal to share what to them is exciting and important, most members ascribe stringently to the 11th Article of Faith.

• are tolerant of others beliefs just as Jesus taught them.  Okay I can’t even begin to wrap my mind around that.  I feel like I need to take a shower after making such an obviously ridiculous statement.  Take a look at the Westborough Baptist Church in Topeka Kansas for an example.  While most Baptist aren’t as crazy as these folks, it’s just a matter of degree.  Someone once told my unmarried pregnant daughter that she “and her unborn babies” were going to Hell and that was just what she deserved.  Somehow that didn’t bring to mind the account of Jesus Christ and the woman taken in adultery.  I guess the “church” as the Baptist envision it is a hotel for the perfected not a hospital for sinners.  Who’da thought it.
• work under authority of Jesus Christ.  Since there is no real overarching organization, with say a prophet/seer/revelator or as the Catholics might put it a Pope to authorize work done in the name of the Church or in the name of Christ, where exactly did this “pastor” get his authority, from some college somewhere, some man somewhere, on line, out of a magazine?  Is this the Church of Jesus Christ or the church of Rick Perry or as one church I saw years ago, the Church of Highway 98?  I would figure the Lord would expect his church to be named after him and that he might want to communicate with someone specific in order to guide the church as an entity.

It seems to me that in a time when the Constitution is hanging by a thread, where our country and principles are under constant attack, when the Destroyer is ravening at the very gates, this “pastor”, this man of god seeks to drive yet another wedge between people who should be binding together.  People who love, believe in and try to the best of their abilities to serve with the Lord Jesus Christ,  His and our Eternal Heavenly Father.  That kind of behavior comes from only one entity and it isn’t divine, it is debased.  The wonder is that this man of god can’t or won’t see that.

So in the end I don’t believe that all Baptists do the things I’ve alliterated above.  I don’t believe the Baptist Church is a cult of the Devil.  I also don’t expect people to “DO UNTO OTHER AS YOU WOULD HAVE OTHERS DO UNTO YOU“. I don’t have that much faith in humanity.  I truly believe that many is the time that God has said to Mrs. God, “I think we should have gone dancing, instead of creating the earth and man and the rest”.

While I don’t think she would say it out loud, I think she secretly agrees.

A little dose of reality please.

 

I don’t mind if people don’t agree with me.  As the daughter of rabid liberals from the Socialist Democratic Republic of Maryland, I’m used to being the lone voice of sanity within a group.  As the mother of 6, that’s right SIX children I am used to people thinking I don’t have anything between my ears but air, after all who in their “RIGHT MIND” would have 6 children.  As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints I’m used to people not believing the same way I do and making a issue out of it.  My husband’s lost jobs because of our faith, my children weren’t allow to play with other children because their parents thought they might “catch” Mormonism, I guess.  I have lost family members and good friends because they were willing to listen to the lies of others about what I believe.  Even after 32 years I still have people who tell ME what I believe as a member of my church.  They know this because they heard some pastor, preacher, politician, friend or family member (who of course has never been to our church) or former members ( who of course have no axes to grind) say something that sounded like whatever it was they were telling me.  Of course they were only telling me for my own good and of course when I told them they were wrong they shook their heads and told be how “brainwashed” I was.

What brought this on you are probably asking yourself? What has got our dear girl”s knickers in such a twist?  I found this little gem on the internet and lest you think this is unusual, you can take it from me, this is somewhat tame. Frustrating, irritating, absolutely hair on fire infuriating, which is why I can not leave it alone.  It is so bad, so without merit, so without even the patina of intelligence that it fairly reeks of unhinged zealotry.

 

IS A CANDIDATES’ RELIGIOUS FAITH FREE TO QUESTION?

Last weekend at the Values Voter Summit, a Christian pastor raised the question of whether Christians should vote for Mitt Romney because he is of the Mormon faith. The Pastor was lambasted from the GOP RINOs and from the liberal media as a religious bigot. Monday night Ann Coulter, commenting on Fox, dismissed the question as irreverent, and in my opinion, she flippantly mocked Christians by describing Mormonism as merely another Christian denomination.

Some of the major differences between Christianity and Mormonism are:

Mormons believe Satan is the elder brother of Jesus;

That Jesus tricked God the Father into giving Jesus Satan’s birthright to rule over the earth, and someday Satan will come back to earth to reclaim his rightful kingship over the earth from Jesus;

Mormons believe when they die, their spirit goes to another planet where they are awarded a group of celestial virgins to populate a new and different planet and become its’ Christ.

When they convert others to Mormonism, at death those people will join them and become their slaves.

Until recently, the mid 1900’s, people of color were not allow to join the Mormon Church.

These differences, and there are more, show such a radical deviation from the Christian faith there is no joining the two.

I believe, with respect to Karl Rove’s and Ann Coulter’s opinions (both Romney supporters), that the Pastor’s question is relevant and appropriate.

Just as conservatives demanded in 2007 of then candidate Obama to answer why he sat in a church for twenty years listening to Pastor Wright spew hatred for America, Mitt Romney, who claims he is a longtime, proudly practicing Mormon, must answer if his character has been built upon theology such as described above, and how it affects and influences his decision making processes.

That isn’t being anti-Mormon, it’s being prudent. A man’s faith should affect his character and how he lives his life every day. If it hasn’t changed him, it’s a

phony faith, worthless… and so is his character.

While I hate to waste time on such utter dreck I feel like my head will explode if I don’t counter some of this mindless swill.

1. Everyone on this Earth that has a body IS a spirit child of our Heavenly Father.  As spirits we lived with him in Heaven before our time on Earth.  If we are spirit children of Heavenly Father then we are all “brothers and sisters”.  Which makes Jesus Christ OUR elder brother as he is the FIRST born.  That also makes Satan our brother in spirit or at least he was until he was cast out for rebellion. Which makes him Jesus’ brother as well.  Logic who’da thunk it.

2. The brother who “tricked” his father into granting him his brothers birthright was Jacob.  Rebekah and Jacob conspired to receive a blessing from Issac.  A birthright by the way that the elder brother sold to the younger because he was hungry.  Read the Bible(KJV) for a change instead of allowing illiterate preachers to make up your minds for you. Satan wants to be the god of this world, but Jesus Christ is the Messiah and He and only He will reign over the renewed earth, under the direction (as always) of our Eternal Heavenly Father.

3.  When we die we go to Paradise (until the 2nd Coming) then we’re judged (some of us should be uncomfortable right about now) and then unlike some other denominations we will await instructions from our Savior and our Father.  We will not spend eternity sleeping on a cloud or playing a harp or any other recreational activity.  There will be plenty of work to do to enhance and enlarge our Fathers kingdom and add to His Glory. (Oh, and the virgin thing, that’s islam dear not Mormonism. Catch a clue please).

4. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints do not believe in enslavement of any kind. Not for people, not to tobacco, not to drugs, not to sexual misconduct, not to money or fame or power. Latter Day Saints were chased out of Missouri and Illinois for just those reasons.  They would have voted to rescind slavery before the civil war.  People of color have always been free to join the church.  Men of color could not hold the priesthood until 1978 (not because they weren’t worthy in MY OPINION, but because we as human beings were not ready- beside God does what he does according to His time period, not ours).

5.  The basic difference between “Mormons” and “Christians” are that some Christians refuse to admit that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints testifies of the same Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father these so called Christians pray to and read about in the scriptures.  The Book of Mormon – Another Testament of Jesus Christ testifies of the divinity and divine mission of the Savior Jesus Christ on this Earth.  Members of the LDS Church read and study not just the Book of Mormon but the Old and New Testaments so that they can further serve the Savior and our Father and help others to return to live with Them after this life. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ to the Father several times a day and many of us have added the names “our trespassers” to our prays in the hopes they will find some kind of happiness that doesn’t involve hating us.

The saddest thing to me is that those on the left are the ones defending us.  These are people we can never support.   Their agenda is Satan driven but he has agents on both side of this debate.  Those who inspire intolerance and who perpetrate lies and those who by their support seek to insert a wedge between conservatives hoping to drive us asunder. “A house divided against itself can not stand”.  My thanks to Mr. Rove and my hero Ann Coulter for their unwillingness to join with the unhinged.

In the end the only real way to know about Mormons is to ask one.  Our missionaries and members ask that you allow us to share our message with you but if you decline that’s quite alright.  If you think there is something that might make you happy in that message we’re glad to have you.  If you think we’re wrong, that’s ok .  We think you’re wrong too, but we can still agree to disagree.

That I think is the true test of Christianity.  Are you really willing to do unto others as you’d have others do unto you?  How many of you would appreciate being lied about, slandered and made a hiss and a byword?  Really, how many of you are willing to “take one for the team”?  13,000,000+ of us are, many experience this everyday. So gives us a break and at least try to do some research  other than at anti-mormon sites and find a active practicing LDS member to chat with.

We don’t bite, I promise.

 

 

Protest?

I don’t know about y’all but I’ve had more than enough of these “occupiers”.  They’re destructive, fithy, morally bankrupt, party goers out to have a good time at my expense.  Some of these morons are on welfare,  getting food stamps,  medicare/ social security disability, some are on unemployment, some are living in mommy’s basement. Any of them with real jobs should be fired for taking time off to destroy our way of life so that they can join their compatriots in chaos.

I have a suggestion.  Maybe it’s time for the rest of us to protest.  Not to get the attention of the protesters, their attention spans are not that long and their sobriety is somewhat suspect.  No it’s time to get the attention of their enablers.  The liberal cabal that has almost single handedly destroyed our economy.  You want to see real chaos, lets have a “spend free” weekend.  The “little people” the “average Joe”, the “people who work to make the economy run” need to stay home, say the first weekend in November.  No food, no gas, no movies, nothing. Spend the time with your family, visit elderly parents, play a game, go to a park as long as you can get there for free and don’t have to buy gas.

What will this do you ask?  Hopefully it will get the attention of not just politicians but business leaders as well.  Your bank threatening to charge you a fee for access to your money after they’ve gotten you addicted to their debit cards, vote with your feet.  Find a credit union or local bank to switch to, they may not have everything your used to but they will have one thing you’re not used to. Gratitude for your business.

It’s past time for the majority to rise and “you know what” slap these anarchist back under the rocks from which they  crawled.  They don’t like it here, they want to propose violence to change our system into their socialist/communist nirvanah, they are free to find somewhere else to spread their cancer.

While I believe there need to be changes, we’ve seen what happens when irresponsible, incompetent, anti-American’s are put in charge of the government.  Nothing good ever happens with these people in charge so it’s time to clean house and give any of those who wish to go, free tickets to any country who will take them.

Bah bye

So long

Don’t let the screen door hit you

Don’t ever come back for any reason, anytime.

An interesting analogy

In the Bible there is an account in Exodus concerning Moses and the Children of Israel.  They’ve been wandering in the desert for quite some time because they refused,  by their bad behavior, the opportunity to live the “higher law”. God therefore gave them a lesser more restrictive but doable law. Somewhat like the rules we give our 2 year olds as opposed to the rules that govern, say, our teenagers.

Picture if you will an out of control teenage party with inappropriate things happening willy-nilly. Then something bad happens and you tell people to do something simple like maybe to stop talking or running or screaming and everything will be OK but because the answer is too easy they continue to elevate chaos until someone gets hurt or arrested.

Same for Moses.  The children of Israel got out of control.  God sent firery serpents to pull them back from the ledge.  The people freak, but Moses forms a snake and puts it on a pole and tells them anyone who looks at the snake will live. Do they look?  Well some do but some don’t.  Why?  Pride, hubris, rank stupidity.  I don’t know.

Seems to me we have a similar issue this election with Mr. Romney.  I don’t know if he’s the best man for the job but he has the most experience economically speaking, even better than Mr. Cain.  Still some people refuse to even look at Mr. Romney’s record in business.  For whatever reason (many peoples religious bigotry is showing and  his part in MA’s healthcare plan- which was going to happen whether he threatened to veto it or not.  As it is the plan is not as horrible as the liberals wanted so he held the line as far as he could, not to mention his perfect hair) they refuse to admit that he might be the only one with the experience to get us out of this mess.  While I’m not a Romney “supporter” I have to admit his business acumen seems to be something in short supply today. even with Mr Cain in the race.  His political experience trumps most people as well because as a senator one does not actually “run” anything. One simply spends money, and then borrows more.

But whatever you do don’t look dispassionately at the candidates.  Vote for the guy who looks best to ya.  That worked well the last two times they tried it. Clinotn and Obama, stellar examples of what you get when you elect radical left wing radicals. That’s worked well for us.

Poor Governor Perry…….I feel his pain.

According to the Drudge report Mrs Rick Perry is upset because her husband has been “brutalized” by the media because of his “faith”. Really?  The Governor who’s pet attack pastor savaged 13,000,000 + Mormons just a few days ago.  That husband (of course she’s not Mormon so she only has one, right? -sarcasm alert)?  Let’s see what other savagery Mr Romney has been exposed to lately, shall we.  We can then compare who’s more brutalized.

Is Romney’s Mormon faith affecting votes? – CBS News

Mitt Romney is a Mormon. Does it matter in politics? – CSMonitor.com

Expose Mitt Romney, Mormon cult member

Mitt Romney and Mormonism

These are just a few of the hits one can find with just two words romney/mormon.  Don’t be confused, the people who “reported” on this issue wouldn’t recognize actual doctrine from the Mormon ( or the true name of the church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints) church if it rose up and bit them on the nose.

So let us revisit some early church history.  Members of the church were beaten, abused, humiliated, chased from their homes, robbed, cursed, chased from cities they built, their leaders jailed, their leader murdered in cold blood (no one out of the 200 or so members of the gang that shot leaders Joseph and Hyrum Smith were ever convicted) and an extermination order was still in effect until the middle 1970′s.  Their property left behind, taking only what they could carry in a wagon load, Mormons were chased from the city of Navoo across the frozen Mississippi in Feb. 1846. Between 400-600 people died that winter into the next due to exposure, disease and malnourishment.  The Latter day Saints then moved to Utah where they made the desert bloom but they were still harassed.  Through all of this whenever the saints sought redress, guess what the local, state and federal answer was.  So sad, too bad.

I’m so sorry your husbands had a hard time.  I’m so sorry his Christian companions and coworkers have turned against him because of his religion-sarcasm again.  While it is difficult when one’s enemies attack them, it is so much more painful when the very people who are supposed to be on your side, stick a dirk between your ribs.

Don’t worry Ms. Perry, I’m sure the governor will get over it.  After all it’s not like one has to worry about their actions.  Once they’ve accepted Jesus as their personal savior it doesn’t much matter what they do,right.  Of course I might have that wrong.  It’s just something I’ve read about evangelicals and of course I take as gospel things written about others by people who know little to nothing about them.

Doesn’t everybody.

Now that’s what I call leadership?

Top news story today.  Obama  embraces the 99%.  He is giving support to people whose stated goal is the destruction of the American way of life.  These people have threatened Americans and showed their own special brand of bigotry and racism.  THESE are the people this administration supports.  Not the hard working, taxpaying, law abiding citizens.

No law abiding Americans are the enemy.  They are the ones responsible for the mess we’re in.  They’re the ones who’ve kept the economy running for decades.  These “occupiers” haven’t done anything but support failed policies and taken out unsupportable student loans.

Besides the fact that the “occupiers” are not the 99%.  They’re more like the .5%.  The takers, the malcontents, the constant bellyachers.  These are people who have never been taught that you can’t expect something for nothing.  It’s not someone else’s job to take care of you. And for the “bible” guy who tried to use Jesus Christ to excuse their bad behavior, I would love to be a fly on the wall at his appointment on Judgement Day.  ”Do unto others as you’d have others do unto you” deal I guess is so 33 AD.

I’m sure none of them want to hear this but the reason this economic problem has been so bad can be laid directly at the feet of  Little Chucky Schumer who started a run on a California bank, Barney Frank and Chris Dodds of  Freddy and Fanny fame and Barak Hussein Obama of the 450 trillion dollar repayment to his campaign contributors.  The Wall Street bailouts were in response to the bad decisions over the years since the Carter administration.  Pres. Reagan tried to hold these peoples feet to the fire but no one listened to him. GW Bush in 2003 again raise the warning cry, but again no one listened to him, he was an idiot after all (sarc on). The government told banks to lend money to people and companies that they knew would never be able to repay.  They passed regulations to make banks and financial institutions do this. Thanks to the most recent meddling debit cards will now have to be paid for by a service fee. Again causing the working man and women to have to readjust their shrinking budgets.

I realize no one at “Occupy” want’s to hear this truth.  I’m sure they won’t believe this truth but it is the truth.  Wall Street is not without fault but throwing the baby out with the bath water is not the answer.  The answer is making hard choices, working hard and sacrifice.

Something the “occupiers” never learned about from their parents or professors, apparently.

Higher Education

Two interesting education stories in the news today. From Utah we have this story and from nj.com there is this story. (Hat tip Instapundit)

Now don’t get me wrong after raising six children I know the importance of a good education. I myself went back to school after 20+ years in the Mommy trenches to finish the degree I abandoned to have a family and raise my children.  I knew how to study, how to work hard and since my youngest was now old enough to go to school himself I also had a part time job, as do most students today.  Actually a large group of students have to work full time and go to school part time and many are also returning students with families to care for.  So not only do they have to deal with the pressures of college work,  a regular job but they have to keep a roof over the heads and food in the bellies of the people they are responsible for.

Which brings me to the first story about a professor in a Community College in Utah Valley.  I’ll bet you didn’t know that the state of Utah is has one of the highest, if not the highest, percentage of college graduates in the country.  One reason of course is BYU and the other is that people don’t want to leave the area.  BYU is difficult to get into due to the high grade point average needed for admission. The people who live there, in Utah Valley, and those who send their children there ,value education and most are willing to accept the stressors and responsibilities that go with that education.

That said, anyone who has ever been to school knows there are teachers who feel their job is to “wake up” students.  They live to fail their students with an almost sadistic glee.  These teachers don’t seek to educate, they seek to dominate.  They want to be known as the “grade point smasher”.  The only way one can make a decent grade in these kinds of classes is to abandon all other classes and responsibility and focus on this class and this class ONLY.  If this teacher teaches the “capstone” class for your degree, you might as well change majors.  It has very little to do with your previous work, this class and this class alone determines whether you’ve wasted two-four or more years or not.

Many of these teachers find it impossible to teach entry level courses because they teach their courses as if the students already know the material and are proficient in the knowledge there of.  Students do not come to class already knowing the course material.  They are there for the instructor to teach them the material.  While I will agree there are always student that are lazy and some that should not be attending college, if half the consumers of your product have a problem with it, it would appear you have a significant issue.  You could either get rid of the problem professor or get rid of the students and since the students are PAYING for an education and the professor is PAID to educate them it would seem pertinent to deal with the professor issue.  The issue you can actually affect.

Next is a fun little article about a college wide game of Zombies vs Humans.  Now there were many commenters on the story who it seems didn’t finish the article (which I sometimes do myself, mea culpa). If they had they would have read the the purpose of the exercise was to help the students understand that they could have fun and recreation without drugs or alcohol.  A laudable goal on most campuses (or campi for the Latinist).  As I stated before most students are under many other pressures as well as those connected with their education, so blowing off steam seems to be a good thing.

Apparently from the tone of the comments however this is not the case.  No fun should be had, no steam should be blown, no downtime should be allowed, noses to the grindstone should be the order of every minute, of every day.  It would be interesting to see what the posters do daily.  No hobbies, no families, no TV, video or gaming happens in their homes I’m sure.  They just go to work, go home, go to bed,work, home, bed,work, home, bed every day.  All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and not dull as in boring but dull as in not lit from within.  Dull as in “why am I here, what is my purpose and why do I have to continue to live”.  Not many of us are privileged to work in a career that satisfies both our financial and personal needs.  Those personal needs we get from others, from things we like to do, hobbies, games, entertainment. Those things are important too and we learn from them as well.

We could however raise a generations of Dr Sheldon Coopers ( while much on Wikipedia is suspect, this article is concise and spot on).  What they’d do with those who don’t measure up doesn’t bear thinking about.  In the mind of the super intellect humanity is simply a cancer that needs to be removed or are veritable amoeba too stupid to be of any real use.

Don’t believe me, just ask Dr. Cooper, he’ll tell you. He has NO filter.

I posted this as a comment on a PJ Media story (sometimes my comments are apparently offensive, I have no clue why but it’s their site they can do as they like.  I’m open minded like that. ; P). So I thought I’d repost here.  I know the owner of this blog and she’s pretty easy to get along with. Wink,wink, nudge, nudge, say no more, say no more!

One of the realties of life is that a majority of citizens are not conservative or liberal. There are always going to be folks in the middle that are for example fiscal conservatives and socially liberal or who are moderate on some issues and not on others. They are and will always be uncomfortable with the “if you’re not fer us, you’re agan’ ust” attitude parroted by both parties. They see that while there are standards reality must by nature be addressed.

Let’s take abortion for example. Fact there are lots of people having unprotected sex, there are rapes, incest and times when the life of the mother is in danger. For some of these events there needs to be a procedure to address a wrong perpetrated by someone other than the woman (apart from the criminal aspect). Both sides of the debate seem to forget this is a medical procedure and should have stayed just that. It is not nor should it be, used as birth control or for the convenience of the parties involved.

The lefts stand of it’s a woman’s body and she gets to decide what happens to it is fallacious and the rights stand that no matter the circumstances the procedure should never be done is just as ridiculous. As with zero tolerance policies they fly in the face of logic and reason and have entered the realm of Kabuki theater. Our Judio-Christian legal system operates one case at a time and while I understand it is easier to lump all similar things together and make draconian decisions for all, it just isn’t right.

The President has to be the president for “All Americans”. He has to stand even for those he disagrees with. If he doesn’t he will eventually stand for no one. We on the right should now be able to understand that, given political agenda of the current resident of 1600 Penn. Ave. Does he represent us, NO! Does he respect our opinions, beliefs and desires? Seriously? So this is a good way to govern?

But I guess to some of us, as long as our side is the perpetuator, that makes it right (pun sooooooo intended).

Lazy? Really? That’s where you want to go now?

So the president thinks American business is lazy?  Really, that’s the superhighway he wants to go down.  He thinks that after demonizing business, regulating them almost to extinction, allowing his buddies and pals to reap huge profits and trying to flush the American dream down the sewer, someone is going to pay attention to what he THINKS?

He’s done so well so far in managing the economy. At every turn his done the exact wrong thing making an awesomely bad situation so much worse, that I’m sure all of the business concerns are waiting with baited breath to hear further pearls of wisdom from the master. Wisdom from someone so criminally incompetent that if he’s been an executive of a corporation he’d have been fired 15 months ago.  Someone with NO experience in the business world at all, ever.

Obama like Dodds, Frank and the rest of the “stimulus” mavens need to be impeached, recalled and investigated.  Americans are being laid off or fired by companies who feel they no longer have room for employees who are going to soon cost them more then the profit they expect to make.  With the mandate for health care and the cost of hundreds of new regulations small businesses are down sizing or doing without.  Large companies (like banks and car companies) are sending jobs overseas where information like your name, address and social security numbers are available to those who have no interest or desire to keep them private.

So, no Mr. Obama we are not lazy.  Scared, angry, depressed and disheartened but not lazy.  That would be YOUR fans.  You know the Occupy folks, the Welfare royalty, the illegal aliens, the drug runners and terminal victims and the Hollyweird cabal, you know the Jerry Springer guest and watchers.

The First Time?

Really, this is the first time this group of posers has engaged in this kind of behavior.

These people are the high priests and priestesses of chicanery.  The Kings and Queens of mendacity.  They own dirty tricks Chicago style political behavior and they excel at it. They own the mantra “Vote early, vote often, vote dead”. Then there are the ads. Who could forget the “throw grandma over a cliff” ad?  In 2010 there was an ad which depicted an elderly woman being taken in handcuffs to jail all in the name of defeating the Republican candidate because he “may take away their Social Security.  Then there was this little bit of theater:

The Democratic National Committee produced an ad slamming the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. It showed a thief mugging a woman in a parking garage. “They’re stealing our democracy, spending millions from secret donors to elect Republicans to do their bidding in Congress,” the ad stated. “It appears they’ve even taken secret foreign money to influence our elections.” The New York Times stated flatly: “Democrats have offered no evidence that the Chamber is using foreign money to influence the elections.”
Read more on Newsmax.com: 2010: Democrats Set Records for Dirtiest Election Ever

Then of course there was the NBP nonsense in PA which of course wasn’t important enough for Holder’s justice department to prosecute.   Contrary to the flavor of the Post article, a large man standing around flourishing a nightstick would inhibit most people, no matter their color.  It was inappropriate but then this group is all about inappropriate as long as it’s on the correct side of the isle.

Let us not forget that when this president took office we were already facing an economic crisis. His inaction and worse his and his cronies irresponsible actions have not only deepened the recession but managed to gain some of his most fervent apologizers millions of dollars in profit. I guess crony capitalism is alive and well and living in the liberal enclaves of our once great nation.

If this had been a Conservative president there would have been calls for his impeachment, a criminal investigation and jail time, but we’re supposed to look the other way when the Warren Buffits, George Soros’ and Michael Moores make money hand over fist due to their friendship with the “powers that be”.  While there are crooks on both sides of the isle, the inherent hypocrisy of those on the left who support the “Occupy” demonstrators and our Commandeerer in Chief is blinding.

The emperor has no clothes and his supporters have no grasp of reality.   A match mad in the Hell to which we are all speedily heading.

 

I Think We’ve Left Planet Earth…………..

Well. So. Indeed.

I just simply don’t know what to say.  I have bellyached on this blog about the woeful ignorance of the American electorate.  I have said we deserve what we get when we throw out our integrity, our sacred honor, our humanity.  I have likened people to animals, to robots, to rocks.  Never before have I been as disgusted, as horrified, as completely verklemp as I find myself today.

Now I realize that not everyone in this country is a greedy, self centered, narcissistic, lazy, moronic dipstick with the morals of an alley cat. I mean I know people that work everyday, pay their bills, raise their children to be good citizens,  most often by example.  They pay  the taxes that fund welfare, medicare, guaranteed student loans, Fanny and Freddy mortgages and government bailouts.  Today however I am about to throw in the towel.

I belong to a religious organization that teaches we MUST love one another.  If we don’t, we are not going to progress after this life.  As a matter of fact we may have to go somewhere quite unpleasant.  I’m on the good ship “going to a bad place” because I can not love those who today abused children as young as 4 in New York city.  Why did they do this?  Because life is not going the way they wanted it to.  Because they’re disappointed.  Because they’ve made poor choices in their career choices, their political leaders and they have abdicated their moral compass.

Guess what? Most of us out here who are towing the line are disappointed as well.  My spouse after working for a newspaper for 21 years was laid off at 51 years old.  I have a degree that won’t get me a job unless I want to move to the east coast.  I’ve got to tell you after the behavior I’ve seen this fall I wouldn’t live there if I was guaranteed a job, a free house and free food for the rest of my life. I am now also laid off and can not find a job because as you might be able to guess I am also over 50. I worked for one of those banks that took government money and promptly laid off and closed our whole center, moved our jobs out of state and other jobs overseas. No one want to hire anyone my age at least where I live.

We should have been looking forward to retirement.  Now we’ll be lucky if I don’t spend the rest of my life as a greeter at Wal Mart or a cashier at 7-11, if I can even get hired there. And we are some of the luckier ones, my spouse found a job.  Once Obama care kicks in I’m probably going to jail because there is no way we can afford $1200 a month for health care. At least then I won’t be a drain on my family (silver lining).  So please forgive me if I’m not terribly sensitive to your inability to get a job making six figures right out of college.

I would appeal to the protestors better nature but as we’ve seen there isn’t one. When my parents were raising me they wanted me to have better than they did.  The Occupiers don’t give a rats belly what happens to the children or the elderly. They only care about themselves, about their pain, their suffering, their angst.  If it were up to me, I would pick up every man-jack of these malcontents and find a nice COLD island, somewhere in the North Atlantic, and deposit them, their tents, heater, drugs, and weapons and let them destroy themselves.  I would be doing the world a favor by taking out the trash.

I am so furious that I am glad I don’t live anywhere close to a place that has an Occupy  encampment. I think if I did there might be a few rogue skunks making their way into the park .  Of course the protestors might not be able to tell the difference.  They can’t possibly stink as much as their behavior, can they?

Chope and Hange and the Atrocities of John Brown

Today President Barak Hussein Obama is visiting Kansas to make a speech.  This seminal speech is supposed to feature pontifications on the economy.  It is supposed to echo Teddy Roosevelt’s 1910 speech in which the president turned from Republican ideals and embraced the false promises of “progressivism”.  Roosevelt did not win re-election with his “square deal” speech.  It’s no wonder.  How many working people want to subsidize someone else’s profligate lifestyle?  How many people want to have their hard earned cash syphoned off by a government so unable to make common sense decisions as to appear not even coherent.

NPR points out that “progressivism” was the winner in the election of Woodrow Wilson over T.R. but as with most unsustainable concepts progressivism was soundly defeated in later elections and became a hiss and a by word for almost one hundred years.  The only way progressivism can be sustained is through socialism or communism both of which have been proven dangerous to freedom, liberty and human life. (See North Korea, USSR, Cuba, et al for confirmation).  Still liberals try to disguise old, failed, tired ideas into fresh, shiny new sound bites.

Allow me to fill you in on some Kansas history.  From the outset the Kansas territory has been a battle ground for divergent and diverse ideals.  Some people came here to obtain land, some to speculate, some to hunt and trap but most came to create a better life, at least in the very beginning.  Soon however the national angst over the issue of slavery turned the territory into a maelstrom bordering on bedlam. Abolitionists were recruited to come and settle in Kansas to provide citizens to vote anti-slavery.  Pro-slavery folks from near by Missouri swarmed into border towns to counter the steady stream of immigrants from the north east coast. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that eventually these two groups would become embroiled in measure for measure campaign including murder, arson, intimidation and general lawlessness.

Some of the highlights include the Massacres at Pottawatomie  and Marias des Cygnes rivers, the shelling of Lawrence and the Wakarusa War.  Neither side of the slavery issue covered themselves in glory in Kansas.  The rule of law was discarded and as Governor Wilson Shannon opined as he resigned office in 1856,

Govern Kansas…….you might as well attempt to govern the devil in Hell!

While the president would like to advance his income redistribution meme it will have a hard sell in Middle America.  Kansas, who’s largest city is Wichita, has been laboring since 2001 to recover from the effects of 9/11.  The down turn in the aircraft industry, the illegal immigration problem and the “Wall Street and too big to fail” bailouts have impacted on families here since the fall of the Twin Towers and in some cases even before that.  Not to mention the attacks on personal wealth through inheritance taxes and government land grabs as well as the war against corporate and personal “greed” which has decimated the private, corporate plane industry. Ethanol production has quadrupled the cost of feed, causing the elevation of prices for all manner of goods across the board. So the “benefits” of that “green” industry are costing the average person more than the rise in gas prices.

While the larger cities in Kansas are slightly liberal (as are most med-large cities across the nation and especially because several of them are college towns, enough said) the vast majority of Kansas is conservative/libertarian.  There is no doubt that Democrats will pack the house with party faithful but in the rest of the state not only do we not want the president in our town, we don’t want him in our state.  His message will  not resonate here, there is no “friendly” entity outside of the Wichita Eagle, Lawrence Journal World,  Topeka Capital Journal, Kansas City Star and other media publications. The vast majority of Kansans, even those who originally supported Obama have long since suffered buyers remorse.  They see now what inexperience and a socialist agenda can do for them. They understand that voting against a candidate is never a good idea.  They also don’t trust the media to truthfully tell them about a candidate.  As with most newspapers the Eagle has had a steady decline in readership that began with the sale of the paper to the Ridder company and now to the McClatchy  organization. Roughly 79,00 people subscribe to the paper out of a population of 498,365 in 2010, down from 88,502 in 2006.

For Obama to choose Osawatomie as his venue shows his and his sycophants total lack of understanding or knowledge of history.   While Teddy Roosevelt gave his progressive laced pontification from that venue it has a sadder history.  It is on the banks of the Pottawatamie River that John Brown, his sons and anti-slavery terrorists rousted out of bed in the middle of the night, 5 men including fathers and sons and murdered them for the sin of having a divergent opinion.  No matter your stand on an issue the fact that you don’t agree with someone shouldn’t necessitate your death.  Not then, not now.  Nor should the perpetrators of such barbarism be hailed as heros or martyrs to the “cause”. John Brown sowed discention, chaos and violence in his wake. He is no different from the islamo-facists that seek to remake the world in their own images. No matter the righteousness of your cause, lawlessness is never the correct answer. Murder is never appropriate.  Chaos is never desirable.  But the “Great Divider” and his henchmen   can’t comprehend that, they never have been able too.  It’s a symptom of the Self Absorption Syndrome they all share.

So President Obama, please take your snake oil routine back to Washington where people are apparently too busy, too intelligent and too self absorbed to see the emperor has on no clothes.  And to those of you who may say that we should give him a chance, he hasn’t given his speech yet, I would respond……he’s had 3 years to get something right.  Even if he started today there is no way he can fix the damage  he’s already caused.  A greater man would have resigned by now.  A good man would never have run.  He is neither.

 

Gut the middle class? Obama? What?

This is what redistribution of wealth is all about. The rich have more so they will always survive, the poor can’t be gutted because they have nothing of value but ah, the middle class ( these days middle class means those above the poverty line and making less than 250,000 a year whether they run a business or both adults in a family work). They can be nullified. They can be controlled, manipulated and taken advantage of.

While this is a broad brush I think it is true that the rich by and large aren’t religious in nature. They have depended on the “arm of the flesh” for a long time. Even those with inherited money don’t see the need to believe in anything greater than man. The poor by and large also don’t head off to church as a rule. They prefer to get their help from an entity that doesn’t expect them to do anything for it. Most churches expect those who get help from them to do certain things and not do others. Most people don’t want anyone putting limits on their behavior.

The middle class though, these are the church goers, the tithe payers, the tax payers, the family raisers, the savers, the spenders, the engine of this country and the world. There was a very interesting book out years ago which sought to remind us that world wide there are many more poor nations and many more poor within nations than producers and with industrialized nations approaching zero population growth, there are soon going to be too many who don’t produce as opposed to those who do. What then will happen to those who are the non producers when there are no longer those who take care of them, fund their towns, aid their countries to feed their people?

Here in this country we’ve already seen, thanks to the occupy movement, what happens when people throw away self sufficiency and personal responsibility and embrace the Nanny state. The chaos, the anarchy, the lawlessness of occupy camps with their violence, danger and destruction shows what life is like in a liberal utopia. Without laws and morals civilization will sink into the abyss. Most of us who are thinking individuals do not want any part of this. Hence the approval rating of Obama and Congress. If he keeps it up there will be a rise in consumer spending…….

at the torch and pitchfork stores at least.

That’s the way you’re going to go? Really?

This is an open letter to the Republican candidates for president.  I know they’ll never see it. I realize that my core readership could probably be counted on both hands, and I’m being generous here but readership (although I love you all to pieces) is not why I write.  I partially write to keep my self sane, partially to prove to the nuns who thought I couldn’t write that they were wrong but mostly because at the last day I want on record that I tried to help.  I tried to interject some common sense,  some civility, some integrity into the debate. I will have failed of course.  We have left civilized behavior behind, common sense is now uncommon sense and very few people have ever heard the word integrity much less know it’s definition or can use it in a sentence. Oh well, on with the exercise in futility.

Dear Candidates,

Now is the time to realize that the light you see in the tunnel is a train.  Yes, a train wreck is poised to happen and the main stream media and your competition are waiting with bated breath.  They’re fairly foaming at the mouth in anticipation of the professional wrestling cage match that will occur from now until the convention, when after soiling your dens you will expect the party faithful to fall in line like good little sheeple.

As usual you have refused to learn from even recent history.  The convention of 2008, after the backroom deals between McCain and Huckabee to keep Romney out of contention, couldn’t even be saved by Sarah Palin herself.  The darling of the Tea Party couldn’t overcome the distaste which you foisted upon those of us on the right.  Some of us held our noses and voted for McCain but many simply stayed home and voted for none of the above (which should be on every election ballot, by the way).  Look what it got us.  An inexperienced, incompetent, socialist-communist, hedonist, quasi-religionist with delusions of relevancy.  Our economy’s in the tank, our foreign policies are a disaster and our country’s being invaded every minute by people who’s main goal is to get as much money as fast as possible before we are all living in a ditch with a tin roof.

So, what to do, what to do?

1. Stop telling us what the other guy has said, will say and is saying right now, you’re not Dan Rather, Katie Couric or Bryan Williams.  We’re not stupid and the mainstream media is going to do a hatchet job on them anyway so why bother.  Tell us your message, your plan, your intentions.  It is not your  job to vet the candidate, that’s our job.

2. Stop pandering to the mainstream press.  Barbara Walters, Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz  are never going to like you or give you a fair shake.  Spend you’re time meeting real people, go on talk shows that will at least give you an even chance to get your message across.

3. Stop focusing on this state or that state.  You want to be president of the United States.  Visit folks in all the states you can get to.

4 Don’t back down from a fight with the media or the left.

5. Say what you mean, mean what you say.

6. Develop an attitude of gratitude and share that with everyone you come in contact with.

7. Most importantly look up INTEGRITY in the dictionary. Memorize it, practice it, live it, embody it.

Then maybe we won’t have to suffer through 4 more years of president Obamalamadingdong and his coven of cravens.  Good luck and God bless.

Math- not something used in journalism anymore.

Today in the “pink lady” ie the Washington Post(hole) we have a fascinating article by “who knows” concerning the high number of African Americans student expelled in DC schools.  Now we all know, thanks to the movie “Waiting for Superman” (one of the most tragic documentaries I’ve ever had the misfortune to see) DC schools are butt and feet lower than any other school system in the US including LA, Mississippi, and Detroit Michigan.  The school board is made up of minorities and only minorities, so is the administration, the teachers and support staff, by a vast majority. They have millions of dollars at their disposal and they can’t do any better?

So now we have the claim that a school system overwhelmingly administrated by minorities is committing bias against students who are members of that same minority group but make up the majority of the student body.  So here’s my questions:

What is the white to black student ratio in DC.  1:3, 1:10, 1:15?

What are these students being suspended for?

What is the “ethnicity” of those doing the suspending?

Are non minority student behaving in the same manner and not being suspended or are they not engaging in said behavior, therefore not being suspended?  According to the National center for Educational Statistics there are over 66,000 black to roughly 22,000 white children.  I’m not even adding latinos, asians and american indians.

Are there white children in the classrooms of these suspended victims?

Are the suspendees being suspended for nothing more that their color/race?

I guess maybe I’m just not up on the “new” math but it seems to me that if the predominant race is being suspended more often than the minority, it is a function of math (ratios) not bias.

Beside can you call it bias if the race/ethnicity is picking their own members?

Political Correctness and circular thought make my head hurt.

Congratulations South Carolina

Thanks to the people of South Carolina we may well have 4 more years of Obama, even if Swiftpants Gingrich is elected.  He has absolutely no integrity, none on the political front, none on the personal front. Gingrich is a career Washington politician.  He has and continues to play patty fingers with Liberals. Nanny Pelosi, Billy Bob Clinton and his other friends in the entrenched elite will welcome him with open arms should he win because they know there will be NO change in leadership with “Swifty”.

According to the an article at NRO;

Ninety-seven percent are worried about the economy, 79 percent describe themselves as “very worried.”

So thanks for thinking ahead, for taking integrity into account and for putting jobs first by voting for a man who has NO experience in the private sector and who has NO understanding of what we need to do to get out of the mess people like Gingrich have visited upon us.

Just like in 1776 when South Carolina refused to address the issue of slavery insuring a Civil War within 100 years (beginning at Ft. Sumpter SC), they have again made self centered decisions to the detriment of the country as a whole.

In 2008 they gave us John Mc Cain.  South Carolina, according to Fox news (who’s called the state for “Swifty” with 2% of the vote) has now given us “Swiftpants Gingrich”.  The talking heads over there are absolutely giddy with delight. Juan Williams can’t stop grinning.  Mary is just over the moon with delight.

While it is cliche to say, “Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it” it is the truth.  I’d ask God to Bless America but I’m not sure He’ll bother. People who can’t make decisions between those who have integrity and those who don’t, deserve exactly what they get.

“We have met the enemy and he is us.” -Pogo

Dear Janet

I hear Janet’s monitoring web sites for anti-government sentiment.  I, like John Hancock wrote this large enough for her to read without glasses. This is an oldie but a goody from  2010. (I was worried they wouldn’t bother to look for it so I reposted-sorry)  

Surprise, surprise, surprise!

March 27, 2010 by seanmahair

So our government, consisting for the most part of liberal, left wing, radical, revisionist, reactionary, former flower children, anti war, anti church, anti family and anti liberty adherents is surprised.  They are surprised at the depth of anger out in the hinterland.  They are surprised at the force of the reaction to the shoving of health care down our throats (for our own good, don’t you know).  They are surprised that unlike Europeans we don’t just sit down and shut up when our overlords are so generous and magnanimous  to “we the rabble”.  They are surprised that some loons on the right and on the left have decided to take matters into their own hands and display that anger in a more physical way.

How stupid are these people really?  How long do they think they can run roughshod over peoples rights and liberty before these same people become fed up? There are not enough jails in this country to house inmates once people get really fed up.  Once they do and begin taking matters into their own hands, whose going to go to work in the morning the welfare check, food stamp, daytime TV watching crowd?  Oh I know, the libs are going to replace everyone with SEIU thugs and Black Panther want a be’s.  There aren’t very many of them to go around.  Blacks only make up 15% of the U.S. population, Hispanics another 15% and not all of them are happy about the abduction of liberty that has resulted from this administrations Hell bent drive to Socialism.  Who’s going to work when those of us, who are or will be militantly against EVERYTHING that comes out of congress for the next year, are sitting in jail.

You want to see a depression.  You want to see a real recession.  Take the wage earners out of the economy,  those people who actually produce something, who actually do something, who actually EARN a living instead of living off the government teat.  Who’s going to pay for health care then?  Who’s going to pay for Social Security, who’s going to pay for schools, welfare, food stamps, student loans, Fanny and Freddie bail outs?  Who’s going to keep grocery stores, department stores, gas stations, TV stations, and dare I say government in business when they are all sitting in jail for refusing to buy into the health care pyramid scheme?

Here’s a clue congress  ( when they actually deserve a capital c I’ll give it to them ) when you renemies hail a decision, you’ve done it wrong. When people who have plotted your downfall, worked to weaken your national defense, given aid and comfort to your enemies think you’re on the right path, walk don’t run to the nearest exit.  Get off the train, bus, plane you’re on and back the truck up.  These people do not want you to succeed, they want you wiped off the face of the earth.  They HATE you, they hated you before and nothing has changed except you’ve proven to their satisfaction that THEY were right.  Emboldened, they will now step up the attacks on your sovereignty .

Congratulations congress and the Obama Administration, you have done what you promised, we are now united.  Of course we are united AGAINST you, but hey you can’t have everything.

The Right to Have Someone Else Pay for Your Contraceptive Choice?

Well, well, well.  Isn’t it nice to know that as the current administration seeks to dismantle our hard won liberties, you know freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to bare arms, they are giving us new and life altering ones.  The right to be abused in public thanks to Homeland Security and the perverts hired to ogle us on strip cam.  The right not to be bullied, and while I think bullies should be sent off to live on another planet so they can abuse each other, this is a situation that will never leave us.  The right to remain unemployed for years thanks to the mishandling of the economy by the president and his czars and other rights too numerous and sad to mention.

But now, now we have a brand new, shiny, contentious right.  The right to have everyone else pay for your contraception.  Now I do understand some of the thinking that went into this most generous decision.

• If you give women free contraception, they won’t be having children, which won’t swell the welfare rolls and put an added strain on an already overwhelmed and mismanaged system.  This is clearly aimed at minorities and the poor. They’ve already bought the “abortion right” poison, so this is really no surprise.
• Following on the above.  The “undesirable element” as Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood, an early 20th century progressive and eugenics pioneer) would stop breeding, which I guess is good for all of us?
• This is yet another contentious issue,the flavor of which the current administration can’t get enough of. They’d pit Laurel and Hardy against each other if they thought there was political points to be made from it.
• Half of the world contains women and the present cabal in Washington will do anything to get their vote.  No matter how dirty, sleazy, dangerous and deadly.

So after the rapture of contraception is over, what then.  Well then we’re going to have a lot of sick people which will cause the need for universal health care.  What you say?  Sick people you say?  Why yes I do.  Imagine if you will, all of these people who can now have sex indiscriminately.  Whenever, where ever and with whom ever they want.  The rates of STD’s will skyrocket, AIDS will become the number one disease surpassing even Heart Disease, the number one killer of women today.  Women will become sterile due to these and other health issues attached to rampant sexual proclivities.  Family once the cornerstone of our civilization will become a peculiarity, engaged in by only the strongly religious.  No need for 3 bedroom 2 bath homes in the suburbs, no need for elementary schools or very many schools at all.  It will be doubtful whether families will chose to send their children off to be indoctrinated by people  whose moral behavior rivals feral dogs.

And then there’s the need for cradle to grave health care.  The good news is that progressives including the eco-terrorists will finally get their way.  More people, the cancer on the planet, will die.  Many fewer will be born.  Of course there will be less people to pay the taxes that will have to be levied to pay for medical care and so even more will die.  Even fewer health care professionals to handle the rise in patients or if over 70, units.  But not to worry, few if any will reach 70.  Even those who don’t chose to be sexually rapacious will be affected, if they have to leave their homes.  Those with weakened immune systems due to sexual infections will pick up and spread a myriad of diverse and deadly diseases. Public bathrooms and drinking fountains will become a thing of the past.  Going out to eat will become dangerous more as more people become infected with the diseases that are spread by persons whose systems is already compromised.

And what about personal responsibility.  We’ve already seen a shift in that social more.  After all, if you by a house you can’t afford it’s the banks job to fix your problem or it’s the governments job to send you money.  Can’t afford your kids, the government will give you food stamps, welfare, school meals which in some places means breakfast, lunch and diner.  Can’t afford a lap dance, a trip to the casino, liquor, just belly up to the ATM machine and use your government debit card and you’re good to go.  Of course you’ll have to find someone who can change a twenty but the casinos and strip joints are pretty good about having spare change.

Eventually you know the worker bees are going to get tired of footing the bill for everyone else’s party.  They’re going to die off or just stop working.  They’ll stay home just like the takers because going out to work only means they pay more and more taxes. People can only beat their heads against a brick wall for a certain period of time.  Eventually they get tired or knock themselves out. Either way they’re done. They’ll sit back and wait for the eventual collapse.  Like Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome and all of the other civilizations that eventually self destructed by allowing morals and ethics to fall by the way.

Of course there are those of you out there who think, you fool, that will never happen.  You also said that government would never try to take our rights away.  That freedom of religion would never be stripped from us.  But we see the beginnings of that as well.  Government telling churches what they can say, what they can do and what doctrine the government thinks is appropriate. It won’t be long now.  Sit back, enjoy the ride and prepared to be …………………..assimilated.

The president does have a certain “borg-est” quality about him, doesn’t he?

Hey pres……………

So, the divider in chief says Mr. Romney is shoveling “you know what”.  Well sir, I don’t.  I don’t know what.  To what would you be referring? You the bastion of purity, intelligence, and downright righteousness.  You who know better than any other person on this planet what is best for everyone else.  You the community organizer par excelience, the law professor, the man who has NEVER held a real job or gone to a public school or done his own shopping.  You who are above us all with your Harvard education and your professional spouse, who also never met a person she didn’t want to control.

So tell me sir, to just what are you referring?  To the fact that the economy is in the crapper because of you and your socialist, elitist propaganda.  Or could it be your sycophants and their willingness, nay, hysteria for you to “rule” and reign as the imperial president, for life.  Could it be that the shoveler in chief is unhappy because most of the country doesn’t believe in his policies or his ability to lead.

Of course he is our most fit president. 90 rounds of golf and counting.  He also has his nutritionist in chief by his side, except on vacations when they have to take two separate planes to their 5 star resort du jour. Good thing his community isn’t having to close the golf course due to budget problems.  Good for him the White House chief has an unlimited budget to feed 4 people just as they do at Sardi’s in New York.  Good for him he and his family don’t have to buy clothes off the rack they wear once and then toss out ( or give to the poor – give this fool another 4 years and that will be everyone reading this post).

I don’t know what Mr Romney’s shoveling because ask anyone who knows him, friend or competitor, and they will tell you that Mr. Romney is not a liar.  Tell me again how green companies are going to turn a profit, or that oil is going to go down or that there’s going to be a JOB OUT THERE FOR ME. Maybe one of your toadies will be able to get me that check for my mortgage or my gas for life card.  You promised us hope and change and you delivered.  We hope for nothing and are now terrified of change.  Having Mr Romney for president would be novel if for no other reason than it would be a refreshing change from the usual suspects one finds oozing their way toward the presidency.

“This board meeting is held in public, but it is not for the public, or of the public.”

I usually don’t do local stories.  I don’t want people spitting on me in the grocery store or harassing my children at their place of business or at school because their mom has opinions and sometimes shares them with abandon.  But I just can’t help this.  I can’t stand it.  I’ve already taken a tranquilizer and it’s not helping one little bit.  The saddest thing is, my child doesn’t even go to school here, but I’m afraid that this behavior by people who believe they have a right and privilege to reign and rule over those they are supposed to be serving just makes me want to “bust some wigs and split some caps” as Agent J would say. Parents not children pay their salaries.  Parents not board members decide whether children go to school in USD 259 or if their parents can and many do and after this debacle many more will homeschool.

USD Board President Betty Arnold said in an open meeting concerning the closing of at least 5 local schools, whose students would now have to be bussed to schools farther away from their homes, “This board meeting is held in public, but it is not for the public, or ofthe public.” I include the video below.  It’s long and you can find it early in the video but the arrogant behavior continues right on to the end.  Watch at your own risk.  I’m not responsible for anyone’s hair catching fire.

Video

When we came to Wichita 22 years ago one of the most important decisions we made was where to live.  We were discouraged by those we met to buy in Wichita due to nothing more than the state of the school system.  Over the years I have seen and heard some amazing things come out of the district but this one takes the prize.  Never have I seen more arrogant, elitist, rude and obnoxious behavior.  It’s no wonder children don’t learn in Wichita schools.  If teachers are encouraged to model the behavior on display by board members it’s no wonder the children have difficulties dealing with reality.  The Duchy of 259 doesn’t extend very far and coming up against reality in the form of real schools, real jobs and real adults has to be a jolt for graduates.

Obviously hiring coaches to teach civics has had a long and sad history in the Wichita area.  It’s erstwhile leaders need some remedial education in civics, government and etiquette.

In my faith we have scripture that describes what we’ve just seen;

We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.

but what do I know I’m just a taxpayer, I’m just here to provide the money.  I don’t count. No not one jot or tittle.

Rest In Peace

Andrew Brietbart died yesterday. He was 43 years old.  Internet entrepreneur, tireless fighter for the American way of life, husband, father, friend, hero. While I didn’t know him personally I was a fan of his work.  Of course those on the uncivilized left couldn’t wait to start debasing his memory and distorting his achievements.  This was the man who headed destroying one of the most crooked, most dishonest, most dangerous organizations every found on the fruited plain, ACORN. He spearheaded that particular exercise and others that sought to shine the light  of truth into the dark, dank, degenerate actions of the anti-liberty left, and they hated him for it.  It’s a very good thing it was reported that he died of natural causes, to find that anything else were the cause would have been tipping us into a very dark and dangerous place.
In the coming days however we will see the depths to which the “professional haters” will go to sully the memory of this man.  As for the Rolling Stone if I had my way the building would be taken down, the people who work there would be deported to China, where they can learn how wonderful communism is up close and personal and those who have subscriptions should never be allowed to work with children.  But I’m a reactionary.  There will be all sorts of characters oozing out from under their rocks to malign someone they didn’t know but hated none the less. There will be claims of all sorts of things his family and friends will have to wade through.  Some left-wing, angst filled, minding everyone else’s business but their own group will want to protest at his funeral, because of course that will hurt as many innocent bystanders, including young children as possible.  Of course we will not see the hand wringing, sobbing, inconsolable outcry we did from the Whitney Houston suicide.  The stark contrast between the groups should be eye-opening.

Someone at the top of their career. Someone who worked tirelessly to change and improve the lives of others by working to make sure they had the right to decide thing for themselves.  He will not receive the out pouring emotion of someone who’s inability to control not just her career but her appetites, but who allowed her career to be destroyed by illegal and unethical behavior.  Truthfully though, he wouldn’t want that kind of circus atmosphere anyway.  He’d want people to stand up, pick up the standard, move forward and take back our country from those who seek to turn it into some european socialist utopia. He wouldn’t want to be canonized as St. Andrew but he should never be forgotten as a man who STOOD FOR LIBERTY.

Mr. Washington, Mr. Jefferson, Mr Adams and assembled founding fathers and American patriots, please welcome Andrew Breitbart, a good a faithful servant of his country.

Through the looking glass……..

An aggregate of todays nonsense. (even if it isn’t nonsense, with all the rest blather it reads like nonsense.)

• The twist we all knew was coming on Breitbart.  I’m not a prophet but I did call this one.
• Hey Kathy, keeping ones legs closed and pants on decreases pregnancy and the need for contraception methods as well.  Actions have consequences and if liberals could just understand that, life would be much simpler for them and less costly for the rest of us.
• Following closely on the above, what does ethics actually mean.( that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions).  Medical ethics on parade or perhaps in an opium den?
• Now this is something that needed to be said apparently.  He’s a liar, a cheat and a thief in government but not here. He has some standards then, who knew?
• We have 5 dollar a gallon gas right around the corner.  Afghans are killing our troops by posing as friends.  9-12 % unemployment when you count the number of folks who’ve given up or are under employed. Foreclosures on homes and the inability of the lender to then resell.  Cities hovering on the verge of bankruptcy.  Racial tensions at the same level as before the Civil Rights movement.  An abdication of everything Lincoln, MLK and Kennedy said they stood for. But George Will thinks we ought to settle for retaining control of the House.  Thanks a lot George, seems our pundits are actually more lame than the contenders for president. Again, who knew?
• This is one of my favorites. Washington and Defense Secretary Panetta have decided to rape military health care ( and before any of you feminist individuals get your knickers in a twist I’m using the word straight out of the dictionary -an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation).  That’s right. You can bleed, get maimed, and die for us but we can’t afford to take care of you and your family after 20-30 years of putting your life on the line everyday.  Thank you so much for your service, now please leave by the servants entrance.
• Again simply a duh article.  Sarah Palin doesn’t like HBO’S movie Game Change.  Really?  The media treated her so fairly, attacking her, her policies, her looks, her hobbies, her friends and employees,  her then pregnant teenage daughter, her special needs son.  I don’t know why she’d be upset about a film whose makers didn’t think a movie about her needed input from her. Silly Sarah.

Life imitates…..

I was reading my scriptures today (as a “Mormon” we are encouraged to read the scriptures everyday) and I came upon this gem. Luke 11:53-54 after Jesus questions the motives and morality of the Pharisees and lawyers. (this is in the King James version of the Holy Bible just in case anyone’s confused)

53 And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:

54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

 

Does this sound in anyway familiar?  Could we perhaps replace the word Pharisees to, I don’t know, MSM moderators, members of the drive by media, certain members of the Hollywood elite, members of the current administration.  You. Me.

It doesn’t sit well for me to fell like I’m on the same side with the Pharisees in any way, shape or form.  Still after the divisiveness of the last 5 years beginning with Barak Obama’s entrance into the Presidential race, it is where I am.  I have been lied to, disenfranchised, down sized, and put out to pasture by my own government.  Obama claimed to be different, to be a uniter, a maverick, a different kind of politician.  I didn’t believe him then, not with the people he associated with, not with his voting record in the Senate, not with his pastors bigoted sermons, not with his wife’s shame at being an American.  At that time I didn’t believe in him,  but I did have faith in some members of the political class.

Since then I have come to the conclusion that very few people are honest.  Even fewer have integrity or even know what the word means.  It is a surety that most people can’t recognize it even when it’s displayed on a 100 ft. screen.  I have seen civility extinguished, morality debased and bigotry championed.  More people today are voting for politicians based on the color of their skin, their faith and their looks than ever before.  Instead of doing any actual research most people will simply allow cretins and oafs like Bill Maher and Bill O’Reily to tell them what to think.

I have become more cynical (and those who’ve visited here before or who actually know me are thinking, how can YOU get more cynical).  I don’t believe 99.9999% of what someone tells me.  I look it up, research it, find out about until I’m satisfied.

I will tell you one thing I have not seen this much racial tension since Montgomery during the Civil Rights fight.  The great uniter is really the great divider and we as a country are more divided than we’ve ever been. We think of “me” much more then we think of  ”we”.  We ask not what we can do for our country but what are country should HAVE to do for us.

If this is what the current crop of cretinist codswallop  has in mind I think I’ll pass.  Once Obama care goes into effect I’ll either be dead (not useful enough to keep alive) or in jail (not wealthy enough to afford to pay).  So I’m looking at what should have been my golden years as the faux gold leaf peels off the walls.

Good Night Moon, wish I was there.

 

Appropriate or Inappropriate ………….

depends apparently on which side of the cultural divide you’re standing on.

I’m tried to stay out of the Limbaugh/ Fluke kerfuffle.  There is really no way to win in this argument.  It’s kind of like the joke ” So Mr. Ghandi, when did you stop beating your wife”.  While I would agree that domestic violence is not funny, the idea is that one can not answer the question either yes or no without intimating that they have indeed at some time beat their wives. (and Mr. Ghandi, non violent saint that he supposedly was, did in fact beat his wife – culture aside this is not a good thing)

But I digress.  Last week conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh referred to a women who appeared before a congressional committee about Obama’s contraceptive mandate as a “slut”.  Actually he was asking the question how does one describe or refer or name someone who testifies that she and other college students are so sexually active that the cost of contraceptive is causing them to go broke.  According to the dictionary someone who has sex indiscriminately is sexually promiscuous. The thesaurus also suggest some of the following terms, bimbo, broad, doxy, easy make, hooker, moll, nympho, piece of tail, prostitute, tramp, whore.  All of these are much worse than anything Limbaugh said.

Then on the other side of the aisle we have Bill Maher.  Former actor (B list) now political commentator and talk show host. His mouth is so foul even Larry Flint would have a hard time listening to him for long. Maher hates conservative women with such a wild and fiery passion, it’ almost pathological.  The words he has used to describe former Alaska Governor Palin would make anyone with any morals at all blanch.  His references to Rep. Michele Bachman while not nearly as septic are still beyond inappropriate. For those of you with a strong stomach this article is very enlightening (caution X rated language, enter at your own risk. I just wanted to show I don’t make this stuff up, I don’t have too). Take note of the Maher quote “I can call Palin a &$^$ because I don’t have sponsors.  He commented about the governor,  not on his show but at the Winspear Opera House  in Dallas. People actually had to pay to hear this kind of licentiousness. Who though is calling for Maher’s head? Who is calling for a boycott on Maher? Oh that’s right it’s only offensive if it’s directed at liberals and their cabal.

Brings to mind a headline I say yesterday when libtalker Little Mikey Malloy who said of tornado victims, just last week,

“They keep being killed, you know, their God, if this is where they want to look at it, keeps smashing them into little grease spots on the pavement in…Alabama and Mississippi and Arkansas and Georgia and…Oklahoma, you know, the Bible Belt. [imitates “preacher” voice] ‘Where they ain’t going to let no goddamn science get in the way – it says in the Bible, blah blah blah blah blah!
So, according to their way of thinking, you know, God, with his omnipotent thumb, reaches down here tonight and so far tonight has smashed about 20 people into a grease spot on Highway 12 or whatever the hell highway they live next to. It’s sad, it’s so sad for this kind of nonsense.”

spewed more of his hateful and disgusting diatribe by claiming,

I’m happy Andrew Breitbart’s dead.

Now president Obama wants to school Limbaugh on civility.  Physician heal thyself. (from the New Testament, Luke actually-it’s no wonder Obama and his ilk don’t know this quote. I doubt any of them have even a passing acquaintance with Luke, they don’t use his name as an profanation. They reserve that for Jesus Christ- his name they remember)

We could go on and on with the “do as I say, not as I do”.  This is the same attitude which spawned the revolutions of the 1960′s, the same kind of hypocrisy on the part of those in charge, so go ahead folks, keep it up. Hypocrisy, dishonesty, manipulation, derision and duplicity will eventually come back to bite you.  Ask those who lived through the chaos of the 60′s and came out the other side, actual adults instead of the Dorn’s and Ayers of this world.  Eventually even a pig get tired of wallowing in the mud.  Eventually.  If only we have that long.

 

Is it time to cancel March………..

…..due to madness?

Yes it is March again.  It comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb but in between it seems that March has degenerated into  brackets, schedules, games and hoopla (pun soooooo intended).  Maybe we should just rename March.  We could call it Hoop-b-hap’nen, or B-Ball  or Overpaid, Undereducated players with too much money, women and attention month.  This spectacle, this month long orgy of sweaty, overdeveloped, shallow individuals is somewhat akin to a month of WWE programs.  On every night, talked about every day on  TV, radio and the internet. Even small children are encouraged to “bracket”. One wonders if their parents pay as much attention to their homework as they do the the basketball rankings.

Just so you know, I’m not a sports person.  While I enjoy watching some sports, sometimes they do not take on a religionlike patina in my life.  I don’t care if they strike and the season is over.  I don’t care if they can’t have a play offs.  It doesn’t matter to me what team so and so is ranked. I probably couldn’t name you one person playing basketball, baseball or hockey today.  I do know who Tebow is and who Payton Manning and his brother are. (I just can’t remember the little Mannings last name).  I also understand that we all need a hobby, a break from the tediousness of life, an outlet and that down time is different for every person.

What I don’t understand is;

MARCH MADNESS: President to take UK PM to NCAA b’ball game…

PAPER: Broncos in contract talks with Peyton Manning…

COPS: Coach makes girl run laps; father beats him unconscious…

Massachusetts father faces charges for allegedly pointing laser at hockey goalie

Police arrest man in alleged ear-biting attack on youth basketball coach

There are more but I didn’t bother to go beyond the very first page of google search.

My point.  It’s a game.  It is not the pinnacle of American culture.  It is NOT the best of what we have to offer. This is not how I want to appear to to others.  More than that it is not the example I want my grandchildren to emulate. I don’t want to believe that the president of the United States cares more about who’s winning a basketball game than that gas is $3.80 a gallon, milk is $3.50 and that dinner at a fast food restaurant is $9.00 a person. I want him to be totally engaged in running the country.

On second thought with this president………maybe he should check out for March and take his cabinet and czars with him.  We won’t be able to fix everything in a month but we can try.

St Patrick is rolling over ……….

When Irish Eyes Are……Dying. (over at American Thinker)

The article is about Soros and some of his cronies trying to import Abortion to Ireland.  It is illegal there.  I was going to post this  on the article but I figured it was a bit over the top for them and they already moderate my posts as it is. I guess I went over board sometime but if they don’t tell you when you do, how would you know.  So I figured I’d make my stand here instead.  What follows is the comment which spurred my response and said response.

Comment:

//You mean that women in Ireland now have a better chance of controlling their lives–God bless those who are helping them to do so. Oh, and St. Patrick had narry a drop of Irish blood. He was a Romanized Briton–check it out. And I can say that because I’m half Irish. And woman have been oppressed in that backwater for eons. Just talk to the ones who haven’t been utterly brainwashed by the Catholic church and its male crap and you’ll get the real story. So sorry that you’ll actually have to stop destroying women.// by saxonsun

Response:

//Here’s an odd thing. I’m not usually very engaged in this issue. I have my own opinion and pretty much keep it to myself. But honey you pushed all my buttons, all at the same time. You’re really talented.

How about we let the Irish take care of their own issues? How about we keep our fithy degenerate ideals to ourselves? How about we stop trying to make everyone else as miserable as we seem to be? Because with all the baby killing going on in this country, feminists should be washing their hair in blood and cackling all the way to the next Occupy event, but they continue to scream, shriek and wail over imagined slights and pretend offenses.

So dead babies is what women were fighting for in the 1960′s? The opportunity to commit genocide on generations of the unborn. Seriously, this is what we want to be known for, this was the great enlightenment? Our (female) freedom bought with the blood of the unborn. Rome had nothing on us, we are the cess pool of human detritus.

Had I known this then, I’d have fought against the women’s movement. If this makes me a traitor to my sex, so be it. Freedom bought on the blood of innocents is the worst excuse for homicide I’ve ever heard.

Someone convince me I’m wrong about it.//

(sorry for the rant, I guess my Irish was up-ba dump chi)

Spring Break

So the most popular story that ” never was” , is the one about the 13 year old presidents daughter on a school sanctioned trip to Mexico.  The White House has asked news outlets to take down the story for fear of  what exactly?  Are they afraid some Mexican drug lord is going to kidnap her?  Or maybe some of the presidents enemies in this country or even those farther away then Mexico.  Given the way this president offends people I guess it’s not such a strange idea.

As usual the problem goes much deeper, because let’s face it life is complex.  If we were to start at the beginning we might mention that;

• What parent of a 13 year old girl would allow her, school trip or not, to travel to Mexico for “Spring Break”.  Mexico a country the State Department has warned other older students, you know the ones “Spring Break” has meaning for, the COLLEGE students, not to travel to.
• Why are we the people paying for the 25 secret service agents that have to follow around a 13 year old girl and try to keep her safe in what some people describe as a war zone between drug cartels.  Law enforcement has given up in Mexico and the cartels are the ones in charge.
• Why would someone encourage their child to pretend to be older than they are?  Why would they  approve of an activity which is not appropriate for their child’s age?

In the beginning of this mess the fault was laid at the door of those in the new media that wrote about the trip, saying that the presidents children are off limits to reporters.   While I understand the sentiment, remember that these children have been on something like a permanent vacations since their father was elected.  This latest nonsense is just the tip of the “elitist ” iceberg.  Even though Ms Obama has come under fire for her elaborate and expensive vacations, reporters have left the children alone.  This time it’s different.  This time it’s not her life Ms.Obama’s putting in danger.

One wonders at the parenting skill set modeled by the Obamas.  The encouragement to their daughters to “grow up” too soon.  To become partakers of a habit that has not only become questionable but dangerous.  To allow others to pay for their needs, nay their wants.

So contrary to the White House I will post a story about Malia Obama’s Spring Break Vacation.  Here’s a tip though.  My problem’s not with the girl, she’s simply a product of her environment.  My problem is with parents who are too busy being their children’s friend, which never ends well than to be parents.

Grow a back bone. Say no, you can’t go on Spring Break to Mexico. No you can’t run the roads all night long, you can’t date until you’re 16 unless in a group and you can’t single date until you’re 18.  You can’t rob banks, homes, people , or hurt others in any way (assault, rape, murder)

I wonder if this kind of parenting has been around long? By the rate of incarceration in this country and around the world, I think maybe it has.

To evolve or not to evolve……………question?

Today in the Washington Post is a lovely little opinion piece base on an interview done with the woman running against Scott Brown in MA.  Her name is Elizabeth Warren. You’ve got to give the girl credit, she certainly stands up for what she shills for.

However here are some of the delightful natterings from the piece I just can’t resist sharing.

“I want to see the president evolve because I believe that is right; marriage equality is morally right,” Warren said

“I’d be glad to see it included in the Democratic platform,” she said. “It helps raise awareness of the impact of DOMA and it helps build support to repeal it.”

Warren is also taking hits because of her support for the “contraceptive mandate” which her detractors are alleging shows an anti-Catholic as well as an anti-religious bias. She is trying to portray herself as someone who makes decisions on her values and apparently she and her proponents think that this will draw a sharp line between her and Sen. Scot Brown.  Of course in the last several years Sen. Brown has often parted ways with his party so I’m pretty sure that’s not going to play well for Warren.

As Professor Warren she’ll have enough to overcome with an elitist, university promoted, ivy tower mindset that didn’t sit well with the electorate when the voted in the Anti-Kennedy Scot Brown . Didn’ I hear somewhere that one of the multitude of Kennedy’s in waiting is going to run for the “Kennedy” seat.  After all his great granddaddy paid for that seat with hard earned cash (from enterprises that no one wants to talk about, but many of which were illegal none the less).  So I would think her first battle would be with the Boston “mob”. If she survives to run another day then maybe she’ll be able to take on Brown.

Here’s an interesting thing for those who ascribe to the evolution theory.  If indeed one where to evolve it wouldn’t be to same sex attraction.  That would indeed put a real crimp in natural selection.  Same sex attraction in the animal world does not mean the animal survives. It simply means that the animals genes have been removed from the pool. Not only would the strong not survive, they wouldn’t reproduce and so evolution would come to a screeching halt.  Of course I’m referring to actually man/woman reproduction instead of petrie dish reproduction.  Genetic engineering is a much better system  because we know man is so much smarter and more advanced than any Supreme being?

Can’t you just imagine God saying to Mrs. God, ” I told you we should have gone dancing instead of creating the earth.  I told you people were nothing but trouble. “

I know that’s what I’d be saying right around now.  That and “how hot does the sun have to get before the Earth bakes to a brickette?  How about we try out my new grill tonight honey?”

Religious Freedom……

So here in my little slice of Paradise there were demonstrations over the “contraception mandate.” At issue, as of course you will already know, is whether the government (Pres. Obama and HHS Sec. Kathy Sebilius) can force religious organizations, schools, foundations, hospitals to provide free of charge contraceptives and other pregnancy inhibiting, limiting or  ending services, which may be against the tenets of the religions  of said entities.

Of course the Obama administration had a back up plan.  Their compromise was that the insurance company would be required to provide said products and the religious organization would not even be involved.  Except of course if the insurance company had to pay for all this free stuff, someone was going to have to pay.  The organization would pay by having higher premiums, co-pays and procedure costs to offset the cost of free reproductive materials.

This of course was not an attack on the religious liberties granted citizens under the first amendment to the United States Constitution.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Nowhere does it say that we have only the rights given to us by our generous overlords. Nowhere do I read we have a right to be free FROM religion.

That there is a war going on against religion and especially Christians right now is to state the obvious.  Hollywood and it’s degenerates have been at the fore front.  The drek spewing from the screens of our TV’s, movie theaters, radios, and personal devices has reach epic proportions.  Every where good is being labeled as bad and bad as good.  The media is hand and hand in this debacle.  They push their agenda driven by selfishness, self obsession and self absorption.

While I can understand why some would herald the mandate, I wonder that no one has seen fit to weigh in on some of the unintended consequences of such a mandate.  While we know that the pill is effective it is not without side effects.  What happens after years and years of prescriptions? What happens when a woman can’t ovulate anymore?  What happens to those who take the morning after pill and find that down the road they can’t get pregnant? How about all those wonderful side effects from the pill and other birth control methods (intra uterine products)?  When does one become old enough to get this FREE birth control? 18, 17, 14, 12? After all who wants twelve year olds on the pill, right?  Maybe the better question is why are there 12 year olds having intercourse and who are they having it with?

Not to mention who will the largest procurers of said contraceptives be.  One would imaging the poor, those on public assistance, those who know nothing but Food Stamps and Welfare.  Those of a certain socio-economic group and with in that group are a high percentage of minorities.  I guess eugenics maven and Planned Parenthood founder will get her wish.

The purpose in promoting birth control was “to create a race of thoroughbreds,” she wrote in the Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)

Sanger believed that, for the purpose of racial “purification,” couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech.

and her thoughts on blacks, immigrants and the indigent…

…human weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders,’ ‘spawning… human beings who never should have been born.”  Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people

The Maybe your religion teaches abstinence.  Maybe you’re the parent and have decided that sexual experience is best conducted in a committed, legal arrangement where both parties are mature enough to handle the consequences whatever they may be.  Maybe it’s time to stop the spread of ignorance and self loathing that allows young people to believe they are only as important as their next sexual encounter. Maybe it’s time it stop perpetuating the belief that wickedness ever was happiness.  If people are so all fired happy with their loose morals and no religion, why are they so obviously unhappy.  Why does nothing, no matter how jaded and depraved satisfy them.

Why is it that we can’t find our way out of the morass in which we’ve sunk ourselves by our unwillingness to stand up for what’s correct and our paranoia that someone may be offended by our lives.  Guess what, I’m offended everyday.  I’m offended when I’m lied to by politicians and the media. I’m offended by TV shows and movies that present families as inconsequential and members as ignorant buffoons or intolerant zealots.  I’m offended by the Bill Maher’s and Joy Behar’s of the world who think the rules, whatever they are,don’t apply to them.  More than that I’m offended every time I go to the store or a movie or really anywhere that people congregate.  The filth that spews from their mouths loudly and often is enough to make one never want to leave the house again.

So the next time religion offends you, give a thought to what just came out of your mouth.  As someone once said……”Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?’ and “You have in your mouth what I wouldn’t have on my feet”.  Your welcome.

Congratulations

Congratulations University of Kentucky.  You won a basketball game. I’m sure this win will now assure all people enough to eat, freedom from want, good heath, long life and happiness.  I’m also sure that with this win the world will be changed from it’s lost and fallen state and will become a veritable Heaven on earth.

I’m also sure that your parents (some of whom pay for your opportunity to act like barbarians) are so very proud of you.  Destroying other peoples things is always the most appropriate way to express your elation over some trivial endeavor.  In a life filled with “participation” trophies having something you’re even peripherally attached to be successful is almost too much to handle. Your professors and the leaders of your institution of higher learning are standing quietly to the side wondering how it is possible that these “people” could have been the results of their educational expertise.  (Of course they could be wondering when they’ll be the next group thrown on your “bonfire of happiness” and if I were them I’d slip quietly away to an undisclosed location to live out my life in obscurity).

It’s good to see that something arouses this kind of emotion in you.  Your rights are being syphoned off while you watch, the debt of not just your school loans but of everything else will insure that you and your children and your children’s children will never again see a balanced life.  You will work for the rest of your lives as will they, to pay for the mess radicals, liberals, and freeloaders have placed us.  But it’s all OK because your basketball team, made up of people who would have never seen the inside of a university if they didn’t know how to dribble, dunk, guard and free throw, won one lousy game.

Allow me some questions.  Are the people on this team real students?  Do they take real classes instead of underwater basket weaving and interpersonal sexual relations? Do they have to retain a grade point average?  Of more than 1.75?  Can anyone of them speak the kings english, make a comment that people in Boise would understand,  and or avoid the word “you know” “like” “man” or “dude” in their speech patterns?  Do any of them have an interest in anything outside of basketball, groupies and the NBA?  I’m sure you won’t understand this but back in the day, students who played sports were held to a higher standard than the rest of the student body.  They had to be able to not just maintain their average but play well.   Gone are those days, for sure.  But why should game players be held at a higher level than students, especially since the average student is just barely passing. (and yes I finished my degree in 2004, I do know what I’m talking about). College for most is about fun, fun, fun.

So congratulations for your win. If I were a contributor of your university I would find another institution to grant my money too, maybe the zoo. At least when the animals there went on a rampage I’d not be surprised.  The ringleaders could be rounded up and shipped back into the wild, where it would be up to the law of the wild what happens to them.  At least I wouldn’t have to deal with the aftermath of their destruction.  Too bad they can’t find some of you from the pictures some of your friends took with their expensive phones. A couple of years in jail, cleaning up the mess with a paper towel and a tooth brush might actually make something out of you.

Don’t worry Mommy and Daddy nothing will happen, just like it hasn’t before.  Thanks for that as well.

Identification Consternation

Today Coke pulled it’s backing from a group that supports voter ID laws.  Why?  Because left wing radicals claim that “voter ID” laws are being used and pushed to keep minorities from voting.  That this is a specious argument goes without saying.  That those who oppose the law also favor illegal immigration also goes without saying.  So I have a suggestion that might help ally fears on both sides of this issue.

The vast majority of the supposed disenfranchised are minorities.  The people who are supposedly being targeted are those who are poor, who receive assistance from the government or who are here illegally.  Lets take a look at the first group.

• Those who are poor:  Mandate that everyone who is of legal age and makes under $15, 000 have either a drivers license or government ID.  In our district all children above 5th grade must have an ID card.  From 6 th thru 9th grade that card is on a lanyard around their necks.  They must have it every day.  No excuses.  If they don’t have it they go home and get it or a parent has to bring it in order for them to go to class.
• Anyone receiving assistance from the state or federal government should receive an ID card.  This card should be issued after it is ascertained that the person receiving the assistance is a citizen of this country and entitled to the benefits of that citizenship.
• Now for my favorite category, the illegal aliens.  This seems like such a no brainer, a duh moment that it’s almost unbelievable that we have to address this again.  People who are here illegally are criminals.  They broke the law, heck they probably broke a whole trunk load of laws.  If they were in any other country, including Mexico, they’d be in jail or deported and not nicely either. They do not have the right or privilege to vote for anything.  They do not have the rights granted to American citizens because the ARE NOT American citizens.  They should be deported.  If they choose to return in the right way, that’s up to them but they should not be allowed to stay just because they managed to sneak in, live off our taxes and squat on our land.  We have borders for  a reason.  With all the issues that come with illegals the most important one for me is that once they’ve broken our law by crossing the border illegally what make anyone think they will then be fine upstanding citizens from then on.  No, they will simply ignore any law they don’t like because it doesn’t really apply to them, “they’re not citizens”.
• And lets not forget the 2-3 million Democrats who don’t have ID’s according to  Rep. James Clyburn D. SC. I would think that the party would be spending it’s time and resources educating their minions on the importance of having some kind of ID in the case of emergency.  How is it these people don’t have a drivers license, a work ID card, a school ID, or something else that shows who they are and where they live?  Of course this is the party of “vote early, vote often, vote illegal, vote dead” (I’m originally from the People’s Republic of Maryland so I have seen this kind of voter registration quite often).

I’m really not sure why showing an ID is such an issue.  You have to do that to buy tobacco products, go to an R rated movie (if you look young), buy liquor, fly on a plane and any number of other times.  If you don’t have an ID go to your local government office ( in our state the DMV handles this) they can give you an ID.  If you have a drivers license show it.  I you’re here illegally, go back to where you came from and come back legally.

Not Rocket Science, really.  Even Dr. Sheldon Cooper  could do this and we know what a tenuous grasp of reality he has.

Armageddon here we go……thanks Mr. President.

He won’t be able to dodge this one.  He won’t be able to side step his responsibility this time.  His inaction, his inability to lead, the yellow streak running right up his back that has now turned to neon.  President Barak Hussein Obama will most likely be president when the first nuclear device is exploded in Middle East.

The cradle of humanity, the lands of our ancient ancestors will soon be a smoking hole in the earth.  I don’t know whether to be happy or sad about it.  Those people over there have been fighting since Cain and Able about anything and everything.  They fight about God, about land, about history, about politics, about life, death and everything in between. If they aren’t fighting, they aren’t breathing. Maybe it’s time we all step back and let them annihilate each other and then take out the one left standing, because we will be their next target. While a scorched earth policy is never popular, I’m not sure there is any other way to deal with a group of people who have decided that not only are they in charge, they are “god”.

If we had a commander in chief who did more than posture and pose, who invested in our military personnel, who approved of success and who had not only confidence but respect for our military (someone like Ronald Reagan) the middle east might not be the quagmire it has become. Maybe instead of NASA outreach, we should have had  Navy Seal reach out and stopped Arab states from thinking they own the planet.  Maybe we should have opened our oil reserves, passed the Keystone pipeline and encouraged other countries to deal with us not them.  Maybe instead of playing golf, vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard and stumping on the campaign trail our president should have been paying attention to not just the words but the attitudes of Arab leaders. Maybe instead of complaining to the French President about having to deal with Israel everyday, they both should have be listening to their intelligence services (does France have one?  not a dig but I don’t ever remember hearing about one).

But you know both Obama and Sarkosy have more important things to deal with.  Sarkosy has a hot wife and lots of rich, elite friends to play with and Obama and the misses can’t seem to go more than a month and a half without a major vacation break, not to mention the 90+ rounds of golf he’s played.  The world will just have to get on with the paradigm of deconstruction all by itself.

I think the Israelis have shown admirable restraint.  They haven’t nuked anyone yet.  If the international community does not step in however there’s going to be a real run on virgins in the here after.  Some men might get virgin Fleas or Chihuahua’s or Shrews. No where does it say what kind of virgins, so the afterlife might be a tad disappointing for the followers of Islam.  Of course if the Christians are right it’s not going to go well for them anyway.  Imagine having to explain why and how you killed thousands of people to the person who created them.

Epic Fail.

Agenda

There has been a lot of talk in my little corner of Heaven about this.  The left is counting on being able to brand it’s opponents as conspiracy nuts but they’re  not.  This is coming to a community near you.  They couldn’t get the House or Senate to pass this so they’re doing an end around to local communities.

It’s called the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and the Statement of principles for the Sustainable Management of Forests known as Agenda 21 and was passed by the UN in June 1992.   It is  a;

“comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment.”

Just one of the maps associated with this agenda is can be found on quite a few websites but the best resolution is on 

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message878048/pg1

I don’t usually get involved in things like this because while I believe that conspiracies exist they are rarely as demonic as portrayed.

This however is coming to my community, under the radar. Our county commission by a 3 to 2 vote approved a measure to take federal funds (1.5 million dollar with another $800,000 plus suscoming from the counties involved) for “sustainability”. 

According to some private property ownership, irrigation, pesticides and fertilizer(commercial), meat consumption, private vehicles and personal travel, fossil fuels, single family homes are scheduled to be eliminated by 2030. Not to mention less than 1 billion people world wide are to be allowed to exist. 

““… population growth rates have been declining globally, largely as a result of expanded basic education and health care. That trend is projected to lead to a stable world population in the middle of the twenty-first century… The current decline in population growth rates must be further promoted through national and international policies that promote economic development, social development, environmental protection, and poverty eradication, particularly the further expansion of basic education, with full and equal access for girls and women, and health care, including reproductive health care, including both family planning and sexual health, consistent with the report of the International Conference on Population and Development.— UN document S/19-2. Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21″

This all seems innocuous at first but the more one digs the more “creative wording” one encounters.  This is all about redistribution of wealth and control of peoples lives.  I raised 6 children and have 10 grandchildren under 6 years old, and a firm knowledge of a Divine Creator so not much scares me anymore.  This scares me to death and it’s coming to everyone’s community thanks to an unholy alliance between the EPA, DOH, and HHS.  With these players in the game it can’t be good for anybody. 

Here’s another little piece of the already complex and confusing puzzle. In 2011 President Barak H Obama created the White House Rural Council. It’s goal;

 To enhance the Federal Government’s efforts to address the needs of rural America, this order establishes a council to better coordinate Federal programs and maximize the impact of Federal investment to promote economic prosperity and quality of life in our rural communities.

Who’s included in this council:

(a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall serve as the Chair of the Council

           (1) the Department of the Treasury;(2) the Department of Defense;

(3) the Department of Justice;

(4) the Department of the Interior;

(5) the Department of Commerce;

(6) the Department of Labor;

(7) the Department of Health and Human Services;

(8) the Department of Housing and Urban Development;

(9) the Department of Transportation;

(10) the Department of Energy;

(11) the Department of Education;

(12) the Department of Veterans Affairs;

(13) the Department of Homeland Security;

(14) the Environmental Protection Agency;

(15) the Federal Communications Commission;

(16) the Office of Management and Budget;

(17) the Office of Science and Technology Policy;

(18) the Office of National Drug Control Policy;

(19) the Council of Economic Advisers;

(20) the Domestic Policy Council;

(21) the National Economic Council;

(22) the Small Business Administration;

(23) the Council on Environmental Quality;

(24) the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs

Then there’s this piece of  (fill in your adjective here) :

5.17. Full integration of population concerns into national planning, policy and decision-making processes should continue. Population policies and programmes should be considered, with full recognition of women’s right.

and

5.53. Constituencies and institutional conditions to facilitate the implementation of demographic activities should, as appropriate, be fostered. This requires support and commitment from political, indigenous, religious and traditional authorities, the private sector and the national scientific community. In developing these appropriate institutional conditions, countries should closely involve established national machinery for women.

I don’t know about you but I don’t want to live under institutional conditions.  I am not a member of the collective, I will not be assimilated and if they try I promise to give them heartburn, ulcers and a lacerated colin.

This is all about control.  Control is what socialist do best.  Those in charge at the UN aren’t exactly fond of democracies of any shape or kind from Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of Qutar back for decades.  So pardon me if I side with the country that for most of the last century people have be dying (literally) to get into.  Far be it from me to listen to people who can’t even put indoor plumbing into their own countries. Take care of your own first then give your opinion, which we will listen to politely and then do what we think is best.  That’s how we became the most prosperous nation ever in such a short time. Even with the problems today we are still doing better than most, for the moment.

If we can get the Marxist-in-chief and the Chief dietician out of office things will improve dramatically.

Thank you for making be a republican….

When I was young, 13 in fact, my father a milk truck driver took me once a month to the orthodontist.  My teeth were very bad and in the end after 10 teeth being pulled and only straightening the top teeth we couldn’t afford anymore treatment.  During that winter and spring however I had an educational experience that formed the basis for my future political tendencies.

My father never liked highways so if he could he took the back roads and the old ways to get into the city of Baltimore.  We drove through neighborhoods that in his youth were populated by the upper lower to lower middle class.  In his day marble steps gleamed in the sunlight, windows sashes were painted, there were flowers in window boxes and lace curtains in the windows.  In the evening people would sit out on their stoops after dinner but never in the daytime as everyone had work to do.  Alley’s were keep clear and clean and if you had a car you parked it in your yard in the alley.

One particular day in the fall, we drove toward Federal Hill through a neighborhood hard hit by urban blight.  People hung around on the corners looking angry and disgruntled.  Marble steps were chipped and broken, some replaced by wood steps other by concrete blocks.  We stopped at the light and as usual my father told me not to stare into the houses or at the people on the street.  Usually I was obedient because the people in the city frightened me.  They all seemed ready to yell at you for no reason other than that you looked at them. This time however, my gaze settled on a row house directly across from us.  It has no glass in the windows that I could see and no door on at the front.  When one looked closer into the house a group of people were gathered around a largish (for that time) TV watching cartoons.  They were wearing coats and gloves but right in front of the house, close enough for me to touch it if I chose was a pink Cadillac.  I asked my dad why someone would chose to live in a hovel and have an expensive car.  He said that to some people cars were a statis symbol and that the to the people who lived in that area a Cadillac was the prime symbol.

My parents were not the most tolerant of people but they always taught me to “treat others as you’d like to be treated” and that every one deserves to be treated politely no matter how much you don’t like them or what they do.  That morning began my quest to understand  why someone would be willing to live off the government.  Why politicians lied to people to insure their votes.  Why they were willing to enslave others so that they (the politicians) would be willing to keep people from fulfilling their potential.   At first I was an independent and looked at Ronald Reagan as an odd, somewhat frightening force of nature.  By the time Jimmy Carter was running for his second term I became a Reagan Republican and can count on one hand the times I voted for a Democrat in the last 35 years.

Why this came up is that this video has surfaced and reinforces those lessons learned long ago (Caution disturbing video) .  Baltimore is a sewer, it has been a sewer for more than 4 decades.  There are good people in Baltimore but they are scared to death to go out and never go out at night.  Once the Inner Harbor was a safe place to take your family, to tour, or to just visit for the day.  No more, gangs of roving animals prey upon the unwary and NO ONE will help you including the police if you have the misfortune to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

What should happen to these cretins?  They should be locked up in the cages they, as animals, deserve or sent to the wild where they can kill or be killed without hurting others.  No more welfare for mothers of children who can’t name the father. No assistance to any man who has fathered a child out of wedlock or who has abandoned any child at any time.   No food stamps for those not willing to work and not able to read or write.  Gangs of youths should be picked up and kept in jail until the parents bail them out and then the parents should be fined and if they can’t pay the fine they go to jail with their youths.

So thank you Baltimorians for making me the conservative, republican that I am today.  You never cease to reinforce the lessons I learned in my youth.  Keep on feeding on each other and eventually all the rest of us will have to do is come take out the trash.

Happy Mothers Day

I just read an interesting piece on mamapundit. It was in response to the Time magazine article “Are You Mom Enough” and suggested that we moms simply deny the media and crankies  the satisfaction of inter-female cat fights.  The world with the help of Democratic candidates have been waging war on women and families since before Margaret Sanger hung up her “kill you’re child here” shingle.

There has been a steady march toward denigrating women and mothers which was at the root of the “feminazi” movement. Our foremothers who fought for the vote did not want to see women “objectified” or “devalued” or “put out of their jobs” as mothers. They are probably rolling over in their graves, actually they’ve probably stopped by now and are actively gnashing their teeth and itching to get their cold dead fingers on some of the most egregious of the drum bangers.

Our foremothers sought to make women’s contributions acknowledged, not discarded.  They realized that the most important work anyone mother or father will ever do is in the walls of their own homes.  Those who prey upon society and each other, for the most part, have only to look to the lack of parental involvement or sometimes too much involvement to trace their issues.  Would all of them be model citizens, of course not.  Without a steady rudder, in most cases mother, in the home the chance for children to learn to be decent, productive citizens decreases.

Are there bad mothers.  Of course.  Still out of the billions of mothers there have ever been, the children they have raised have been builders, growers, makers, doers, doctors, lawyers, businesspeople, inventors, scientists, teachers and more.  These positive forces out weigh the who seek to destroy and defame. Today, however without a steadying influence in the home children are left to dangle in the wind like so much floss.  With no examples of self sacrifice, service, integrity and no one who loves them more than their “job”, “career”, “new boyfriend, husband, one night stand” they wallow in a lack of confidence that is debilitating .  Someone who is so tired at night they can’t help with homework, someone so busy in the morning they can’t make lunch, someone so consumed with their adult life they can’t bother to go to parent-teacher night or music concert or play.

Today many mothers have to work.  It is a essential.  Who drives that by making it impossible to live on one income?  Who has not made the family a priority butyinsuring food, gas, homes and other services are not out of control  due to regulations and taxes?  Who has encouraged women to “Have It All”?

No one can have it all. Something has to give and in todays world it’s the family that has to give.  It’s the family that can wait, that doesn’t need mom, that doesn’t need time together.  They have Xboxes, cable, the internet and cell phones.  We’re so connected it’s claustrophobic, but we a not close…………not even a little.

So my hope this Mothers Day is that we stop beating each other up.  We start looking at what is really important.  We begin to be the mothers we were meant to be.  We are doing an impossible job, without the time, talent and knowledge given to any other “business”.  We need stop selling ourselves short,  stop comparing ourselves to others and stop allowing ourselves to be taken advantage of by giving away what should be held close, self respect and dignity.  We are Mothers……….we are better than what the world would assure us we can settle for.

MOTHERS DON’T SETTLE.