I am going to say the truth and not what cow-towing liberal press is trying to spout about the Fort Hood terrorist. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is a perfect example of a domestic Islamic terrorist. A man with ZERO battle experience does not have any sort of "trauma" or "stress" to calmly and carefully shoot people while shouting "Allah Akbar!" ("God [of Islam] is great") at a military base. Let's call a spade a spade, and stop trying to deny Islamic terrorism is still a problem.
He is a cold-blooded murderer, plain and simple. He was no different than someone strapping bombs to their chest and blowing themselves up in a public square. It was a cowardly act. It was behavior his superiors knew he supported and envied. Yet, he was promoted recently to Major.
There is no draft. He was not forced to join the Army. He joined of his own choice. He also had the legal option to protest any orders to go to a war he did not approve of. He also had the option of being honorably discharged as such. No, he chose to murder 13 people and try to murder nearly 40 others! This means he knew what he was doing, planned what he was going to do, and did it, knowing full well the consequences of doing it. I hold no compassion for him. I make no excuses for his behavior. I say shame on any news organization or government entity trying to spin this into something else to support their agendas.
My compassion, prayers, and best wishes go to the real victims in this terrorist attack. To the news agencies spinning this into something it isn't (CNN etc.), I say "SHAME ON YOU!"
"Thirteen
people are dead because we take the multi-cultural airbrush to blur and
obfuscate the critical frontline of the ideological battle against the
pathologies driving our enemies." -Mark Steyn
In the Star Trek universe, the Borg are the Federation's (and Earth's) greatest threat and enemy. The Borg show no mercy and adapt quickly to all resistance to their weaponry and advances. The Borg does not negotiate. They come in and take, and consider you insignificant. They are the living realization of Bill Maher's philosophy "...He just needs to drag them to it. Like I just said, they're stupid. Just drag them to this..." The Borg consider themselves "progressive perfection" and everyone else insignificant.
The Borg usually have a lot of success and insignificant hurdles (resistance) with assimilating other societies. Humans, however, are proving to be quite difficult to assimilate. Their typical tactics haven't worked against the humans' ingenuity and tenacity. So the Borg realize that some psychological warfare is going to be necessary to achieve their goals. So they capture the Federation's most trusted (and famous) officer, the Captain of their flagship called "Enterprise". They assimilate him and give him a new name, quite unusual for the Borg to appoint a drone an individual role. The picture you see, is him. His new name is "Locutus" and he is now "ambassador" to the humans, except he isn't negotiating. His role is to demoralize the humans and to use his knowledge of humans and technology against the humans. He knows about weaponry, battle tactics, secret codes, etc.
I see this happening right now in the USA. The new idea of the individual becoming the most important thing pulled the world out of perpetual stagnation. In a little over 200 years, the world went from horses and buggies, outhouses, bad hygene, etc. to cars, cell phones, computers, landing on the moon etc. All because of a new idea that made each person important, which had the side effect of making society better.
Now we have a group of Borg, with their own Locutus (Obama, except he's a willing participant) wanting to assimilate everyone into the Marxist collective. When you think you can help the individual by disregarding it, then you're fooling yourself. The United States Constitution, what it says, how it says it, and those that wrote it, changed the world for the better. The so-called "Progressive Movement" is a lie. There is nothing "progressive" about Marxism or so-called "collectivism". All it has ever brought a people and nation is stagnation and misery. Sure, everyone (except government officials) are equal ... equally poor. Nobody has an incentive to invent or to improve themselves. Why? The government will just confiscate it and pat them on the head or give them a medal. They will still be living in their generic one bedroom apartment like everyone else.
Why do people keep getting suckered into Marxism? Don't they understand that human beings are naturally freedom loving and competitive? Don't they understand that individuals are not equal? Some are smarter, some are prettier, some are more athletic, some are artistic and creative, some are great thinkers and inventers, etc. The notion of "equal" is preposterous! The US Declaration of Independence said instead that people have EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, equal amount of God-given rights, and that they have the responsibility to take care of and support themselves and not allow some bureaucrat to dictate their lives. Is this so hard to grasp?? This isn't something that is "living and breathing" as progressives will claim. This is a concrete truth and fact. The truth being: society benefits the most when the individual is its most important asset. This isn't something that changes or morphs over the years; it is concrete and steadfast. Martin Luther King Junior understood and appreciated this too, as his speeches were full of such ideas that everyone had the right to better themselves, everyone had the right to be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.
Any structural engineer will tell you that the most important "floor" of any building is the foundation. It supports the whole building. If you disregard the importance of the foundation, the whole building will collapse. The foundation here, is the individual, the building is society, and the top floor is government. Marxism concentrates on the building and disregards the individual floors and the foundation. It makes the strongest floor the top floor by putting equal stress and weight on all of the floors. A collapse is inevitable as it has no foundation.
I love how the trumpeters of Marxism don't actually practice it themselves. Hollywood elites fly around in jets, living a life of opulence, catered to by maids and butlers, eating the best foods, driving the best cars, the ultimate examples of capitalism, yet decrying the very thing that gives them their riches in favor of a tyrant like Mao Se Tung, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Chez Guevara, or even Josef Stalin! Some will even say if Hitler hadn't been psychotic by massacring millions of Jews, his government was perfect! Noting that "Nazi" meant "Nationalsozialist" (or "National Socialist" in English, it's not an acronym but an abbreviation) a member of the "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" (or "National Socialist German Workers Party" in English), the ultimate example of Fascism and socialism.
This pontification and claims of being smarter than the little people (Bill Maher said "...Americans are stupid...") is what the world lived with for centuries. The "new" ideas the USA brought to the world of personal responsibility and opportunity made it better. The ideas of Marxism, spreading the wealth, having the government take care of you, etc. are the same old song and dance of those wanting POWER over the centuries. It's just been repackaged and given a new name. Today, it has been given the new name of "Hope and Change". Which is ironically not related to those words.
People, don't you realize what you are doing? What those in our government are trying to do to this nation will have only one effect, and it will not be the improvement of society. It will set us back hundreds of years. There will be another period of stagnation the world has seen before.
You cannot benefit society by rendering the individual insignificant. Society benefits when the individual is free to live as he or she chooses to live it. The United States of America is PROOF of this. The former USSR and many nations of history, is proof of the flawed design of society first or the intellectual knows best ideas.
These Marxist, socialist, pro-Mao, pro-Chavez, pro-Castro people living in mansions, going on expensive vacations, wearing expensive clothes saying "you need to sacrifice more and pay more taxes", "spread the wealth around", and pay for someone else's mistakes have no thoughts nor cares for you. They think they are better than you. They think you need them, when you only need yourself. Do you realize how much money capitalism has made for Michael Moore and Sean Penn, yet they constantly put down the very system that makes them filthy rich?! Hypocrites! You have the likes of Michelle and Barack Obama, Van Jones, Dick Durbin, Rohm Emmanuel etc. saying you need to spread the wealth around, yet they live in the lap of luxury! Hey! You first!
The problem is not capitalism. It's greed and corruption. Capitalism worked quite well for the past 250 years. Greed and corruption of our government has caused the natural balances of the market to become blocked. Isn't it ironic that the very group of people that brought our economy to this dire position have the balls to claim they know how to fix it? These people should be in jail, not in the halls of government. What the Obama administration and his supporters in government are doing are treason, plain and simple. Their plan is to collapse the US economy so they can replace it with a global Marxist economy, a "Utopia" in their eyes. The so-called "stimulus" was written by a Marxist lobbying group called the "Apollo Group". You know, the thing nobody read before they voted on it. How can a Marxist group possibly want to write anything to rescue a free economy? How can anyone quadruple our national debt in mere days and not want our economy to collapse? It's called "assimilation" and they think resistance is futile.
So, how's that "Hope and Change" going for you right now? What happens when there is no more wealth to spread around? Who will pay for your social programs then?
Here's a thought:
- Be responsible for your own life
- Earn your own living
- Be responsible for your own medical care. You'll find medicine was a lot cheaper before insurance and medicare.
- Understand you have a right to succeed
- Understand you have a right to fail
- Be charitable and give a hand up not a hand out. Pull people out of the mud and don't just pay them enough so they don't sink (like welfare programs do).
- If you don't speak the language, learn it. Success requires communication and not your refusal to learn or laziness to be catered to.
- Protect yourself and your neighbors. Do not rely on the government.
- Understand that what your neighbor owns he earned. Stop comparing yourself to someone else either positively or negatively. Instead of taking away what someone else earned, how about making your success greater than theirs?
- Judge people by their abilities, talents, and content of their character. Understand it's the differences in people that make them special and unique.
- Be prepared in all things. Do not expect the government to baby you.
- The government is there to protect you from enemies and criminals, to ensure free economic trade, and to make sure your freedom and liberties are never infringed upon. Yes, that is what it says in the Constitution, nothing else.
- Understand that EVERY SINGLE RACE HAS BEEN IN BONDAGE AND SLAVERY throughout human history. No single race has the right to claim they are special and deserve special treatment in being "former slaves". Understand that YOU are not a slave and have every right and capability to succeed. Understand that those continually labeling you the victim are modern day slave owners.
- Understand that actions have consequences, either good or bad. Justice requires a punishment, even if the offender is "reformed". A truly "reformed" offender would understand this. Compassion makes sure justice is accurate for the crime itself and not anything after. Forgiving someone does not mean denying justice.
- Understand it is the individual that makes the nation great, literally. People with freedom and money tend to travel and spend. People recognizing this will make goods and services to spend it on by hiring people to do it.... and so it builds. People without such incentives do nothing as they are not allowed to, and if they do, government will just take it away.
If you are an American, I don't care which party you are a member of (well, except maybe the Communist party). For just this week only, and I don't care if you like him or not, you need to watch Glenn Beck on Fox News. I only ask this week (the end of August). For both fans and non-fans, your duty is to have a notepad and take notes. This is to verify or disprove what he asks and says this week.
This is important. He has uncovered quite an interesting and disturbing thing happening to our nation. He is having Democrats on his show who are just as concerned about what is happening as are the conservatives on his show. This isn't some sort of Republican rant. In fact, he is just as angry with them as he is those that are selling out our country with a nefarious goal in mind. He holds everyone (that is) responsible in this case.
Frankly, he's rattling his sword and the government is trying everything to discredit and silence him. Which is a very good sign he's on to something that is true.
Glenn asks you to prove him right or prove him wrong. It's so important you know the truth he challenges you to do it out of duty as a citizen of the USA. He doesn't claim perfection, nor does he ask you take his word for it on everything. He tells you he came to know this and backs up his claims with the truth. No belittling, no slander, no so-called "hate speech", no racism, just the facts and some very hard hitting questions.
So far, he has exposed the fact that our President has appointed self-admitted Marxists to be his "Czars" and such, and that the "Apollo Group" wrote the "Stimulus" package. Yeah, a group of people with Marxist values wrote our economic stimulus for our capitalist economy. What doesn't add up here? Since when have Communists known anything about capitalist economies? Glenn's research shows that they want high unemployment, and large debt, so it overwhelms the government with welfare and debt to cause it to collapse. All the "stimulus" has done so far is to increase unemployment and fund organizations like Apollo. So, the "stimulus" was written to stimulate Apollo with taxpayer funds.
Set you DVRs for this show at least for this week. Inside Passage, I know this will be hard for you, but hear him out. Pay less attention to his personality and more attention to what he is asking and saying.
To give you a hint at how important this is. Yesterday I heard something I would not have believed would happen ever, no matter even if Jimmy Carter were President. Rush Limbaugh, ultra-conservative, finally came out with what we all knew, and he was not happy saying it. Rush Limbaugh called our government, as Obama has finalized it, not a socialist government, but a fascist government.
This is not about race, so get over it. It's about what is being done to our Republic.
[Added after this article was originally posted]
Those that missed it: go to Blenn Beck's web site and watch the videos you missed this week to catch up. Prove him wrong, I challenge you.
Go here for the questions to ask and find out if he's full of crap.
Here is a rule everyone with common sense would recognize as being sensible. When someone uses all of their powers of hatred, propaganda, vitriol, smears, and lies against someone or a claim is false, you can count on the fact that what they are saying is true. The difference between righteous indignation and full on hateful anger is as simple as right and wrong.
When a group of people or government do not want the truth to shine, they will use every means within their power to belittle, slander, libel, threaten, and lie about those spreading the truth about their lies. Those simply angry with those telling lies will simply point their lies out and tell the truth. The liars, will be wailing and gnashing their teeth with great fervor. It always happens, and has been happening for centuries.
For example, this out right lie called ObamaCare, has its supporters and its opposers. The opposers are attending so-called "town halls" and merely asking why certain things that are in the bill are being forced upon us. The reaction is typical of someone attempting to hide a lie. They either:
- Deflect the question by simply saying "that's a lie" even though they know it's true.
- Deflect the question by making an unfounded accusation against the one asking the question (you work for an insurance company).
- Avoid the question by staging fake "town halls" and only have prepared questions asked by those usually designed to bring sympathy rather than truth (children).
- Deflect the questioner by directly threatening them with physical force (SEIU or Acorn thugs).
- Broadcast on TV propaganda known to be quite full of lies, and easily provable as such.
- Intimidate those in opposition by collecting names of those in opposition and instilling fear with threats of home, family, and property (more thugs).
- Lie and say everyone is in support (the so-called scientific "consensus" of "Global Warming" is a convenient excuse from debate for example).
- Get your media friends to bully those in opposition echoing your claims (MSNBC, CNN, etc.)
- Make the opposition's life a living hell by threats, false accusations, numerous frivolous lawsuits to bankrupt them etc. Kind of like what they are doing the Sarah Palin.
These tactics usually work ... until people stop backing down and have had enough of their crap. The so-called "new" views of "progressives" and "liberalism" are not new at all. In fact, they are the oldest ideas passed down throughout the centuries, except just packaged in a new name and a new pretty wrapping. What they preach has brought down great nations. Has halted innovation and science, even thought they claim allegiance to science. Their message of only smart people (intellectuals) know better how to govern than the people. Their message of so-called "free" programs such as welfare, health care, etc. have always been the means of enslaving a populace. They think the people are too stupid to govern themselves, so they devise ways to sneak in methods of control under the guise of "fairness" or "equality" or the "environment" or a "crisis" or even "charity" to accomplish their designs.
History has overwhelmingly proven that an oligarchy of snobs brings misery to every populace, Such practices never bring the best out of people, nor does it breed harmony. Liberty, is the biggest enemy to those who desire full control. Never has an oligarchy achieved control by telling the truth. Yet, what happens is they summon support by those they have convinced are "victims" of society, or those sympathetic to that message to achieve their designs. It is done quickly, so as to prevent the individual from analyzing it; as it would fair a common sense and logic test quite easily when scrutinized.
Socialism doesn't improve lives. It never has. In fact, throughout its history it has brought only equal poverty and equal misery. Those that support socialism and Marxism don't understand it. Those that do understand Marxism, are those that fervently oppose it, because they understand it doesn't work and only brings out the worst in people and governments.
Things like the television, personal computers, personal cell phones, video games, choice in the grocery store, the automobile, organ transplants, miracle medicines, and so on didn't come from Marxist or socialist societies and nations. They came from individuals with the liberty and incentive to develop such wonders. The world was dirt roads, horses, and wagons for THOUSANDS of years. What changed the world in a little over 200 years? It was LIBERTY. Liberty means you choose how you live and there's only enough law to prevent someone else from eliminating your liberty, the rule of law, a Republic. The new idea (notice "new") that if people were allowed to be free to live their lives and conduct commerce as they pleased with those in power on there to protect them from others and enforce common sense laws, then greatness would come. In that short period of time, the world changed.
Technology, medicine, hygiene, life expectancy, travel, science, everything that would be considered magical or wondrous just 200 years ago we have now because of Liberty, not socialism, not an oligarchy of know-it-all snobs, but of individuals living their lives as they see fit to live it without government interference.
Rome had wondrous technology and innovations when they were a Republic and the people were free. When the public demanded more handouts and freebies, a crisis ensued and a usurper gained power and called himself Emperor. It took a while for Rome to fall, but they did. They tossed away their liberty for so-called "safety" and handouts. It happened with the Greeks, the Anglo-Saxons, Mexico, and many more great civilizations of the past.
Those that lie and usurp power always do it with a great orator that claims they will take care of them, they will make "change", they will punish the "rich" etc. Unfortunately, the rich are the ones that give the jobs.
Notice how Obama's "change" is creating more and more unemployment and misery? Notice how Obama and his supporters have put this nation into so much debt that it will be almost impossible to pay it, almost as if they are trying to topple the economy to replace it with something else? If you don't see this, then you must be either stupid or blind.
Does the left think that once a powerful government has its claws set, that things like protesting and environmental issues will make a difference with it? No, they were just a means to an end, that end being control. Does the homosexual lobby think that social medicine is going to treat people that have a lifestyle that is known to be susceptible to HIV and disease, and does not reproduce? They are blind if they think so. When you eliminate the individual in favor of the collective, you eliminate any causes you may support if it doesn't support the "collective good".
When you support the government going into people's houses and telling them how to live, you also support that happening to you too, and believe me, it will happen. When a government encourages its populace to report "suspicious activity" you become suspicious too, and it can used as a weapon against you should you become someone's enemy.
You see, when you help the government tear down others in opposition to bad policy, you invite them to do it to you some day. Oligarchies have no friends, ask the friends of Lenin (oops, he killed them), or Castro, or Chavez, or Caesar, none were friends, all feared them, even those who used to support and helped them to where they were or are now are either dead, exiled, or in prison. When you know an oligarchy's weaknesses, you become expendable.
Those that support socialism have no understanding of people or of how economies work. Hence, it is why they always always always fail. They have the arrogance to think they know better than people. Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, are all just synonyms for slavery. In fact, Abraham Lincoln once said, "Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." Change his word "slavery" to social medicine or socialism, and the meaning is the same. Notice how the President and Congress have conveniently left themselves out of the social health care? They know it's bad and they think themselves above the (stupid or ignorant) people.
Abraham Lincoln also said, "Property is the fruit of labor...property is desirable...is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built." If only those in support of socialism and ObamaCare understood these common sense principles, our world wouldn't be in the state it is in now.
Those with valid arguments and truth use facts to back them up as proof. Those with lies use threats, hatred, vitriol, slander, distraction, libel, physical threats, and verbal threats to hide their lies. If Obama and his congress weren't lying to us, they'd simply use the bill itself to prove those, speaking against it, wrong. They aren't, as they know the opposition is exposing their lie.
So I say this, knowing I am right. President Obama, his advisors, his friends, and the Congress are LYING TO YOU about government health care and everything else (in the past year) so far. The reasons for stimulus? A lie! The reasons for taking over banks and other private businesses? A lie! All are lies, and the people are raising their voice against it, the easier it is to see the government's lies. Their attempts at shutting people up, just prove it more. Their cries of racism? All lies, both white, black, Asian, Arab, Indian, Native American, Latino, Polynesian, all see their lies. People aren't angry at Obama's race. They are angry with his lies, and what he has already done to this nation to destroy it and turn it into something nobody intended. You can't hide the truth forever.
So my friends, when the wicked wail and gnash their teeth at you, throw hatred, lies, and vitriol at you; when the very powers of hell conspire against you, know then you are telling the truth and the truth will always prevail.
To those that try to stop the truth from being told, a wise old President once said, "This
country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can
exercise
their Constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.", yes, Abraham Lincoln
Be revolutionary, vote these liars out of office. Make Obama impotent. Vote people in that will hold him to the Constitution. Which, by the way, is his duty, and the only thing that gives the President his authority. Anything else is illegal.
Today one of the best movie writer/directors ever to come out of the 1980s passed away today of a sudden heart attack while taking a morning walk.
This man invented a new genre as well as a new way to make movies. In fact, the 1980s can be best demonstrated by any one of his movies. Here's just a brief list of what he has done:
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Uncle Buck
- 16 Candles
- The Breakfast Club
- Nation Lampoon's Vacation
- Home Alone (and Sequels)
- Baby's Day Out
- She's Having a Baby
- Some Kind of Wonderful
- The Great Outdoors
- Weird Science
- Pretty In Pink
- Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
- Career Opportunities
- Dutch
- Beethoven (and sequels)
- Dennis the Menace
- Flubber
- Only The Lonely
There are many more. This man preserved and bottled an era with such accuracy and humor, that it is looked back upon with fondness by many.
Many have attempted to emulate his type writing, but none have succeeded. Ferris Bueller's Day Off is probably the most known of all the above movies. John Hughes had a talent for making the mundane and every-day, fun and even ridiculous. He wrote in a way the teenagers of the time could relate to.
With a few exceptions, his movies generally took place in various areas of Chicago, a place he was fond of.
This is one talent in Hollywood I will truly miss. To me, it's like the day Mel Blanc, my favorite voice talent, died. No one could never do what he did. John Hughes was the same, and I bundle him with the greats among history.
Rest in peace John, you will not be forgotten.
I toss humility out the door today and say:
Happy Birthday to me!
Happy Birthday to me!
Happy Birthday to me!
Happy Birthday to me!
This geezer is 42 today!
July 8, 2009 - From The Glenn Beck Newsletter
Last week Glenn got a call from a very impressive young man named Jerome Hudson, who told Glenn he had written an op-ed during the 2008 election on being a black conservative. He sent it in and it's fantastic. Enjoy!
While attending a black fraternity party, I recently learned it’s a bad idea to profess one’s affinity for Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity.
Worse, according to current polls, it appears I may be the only black 22 year old in America who will be voting for Sen. John McCain.
It’s not that I was unaware that being a black conservative Republican puts me in the ultimate “minority.” After all, Shelby Steele’s classic article “ The Loneliness of the Black Conservative” has become an article of faith that I’ve all but committed to memory.
But I guess I had made the mistake of buying into all that liberal yammering about being “open minded” and supporting “diversity” that I’d deluded myself into believing that a civil, discussion about the herd-like ideological mentality of so many of my contemporaries suffer from was possible.
Boy, was I wrong. Big time!
My official “Negro” card got stripped away. I instantly lost my “blackness.” And now, consequently, I now am greeted with this: “Hey, y’all, here comes The Black Republican.”
And that’s when I think to myself, Hmmm…so this is how it feels to be an "Uncle Tom."
Still, being labeled “The Black Republican” is undoubtedly a promotion from: "Hey, why are you dressed so nice? You got a job interview or something?" Or, worse, “Man, why are you talking like that? You sound white? Who do you think you are? A conservative Kanye West?”
But my path to ideological emancipation began where all the most important things always begin—with my father and mother. Growing up, my Army drill sergeant father was a firm believer in tough love. My parents instilled in us Christian values. But I believe that first part—having an involved mother and father—was critical. With 70% of all black babies being born out-of-wedlock, it’s no wonder black poverty remains entrenched, welfare has become a way of life, and that many of my fellow young black male counterparts choose gangsta life over college.
But it wasn’t until college that I realized I had been ensnared in what John McWhorter calls the “Cult of Victimology.” One of my professor’s pointed me toward a world of literature I’d never been introduced to: Thomas Sowell, John McWhorter, Shelby Steele, Star Parker, Angela McGlowan, Larry Elder, Walter Williams—they obliterated the Leftist foolishness that floods my community.
It was then that my eyes were opened to the truth, a truth that my father was willing to give his life for, a truth that hundreds of thousands of American soldiers have paid the ultimate price to pass on to future generations. And that truth is this: America remains the greatest country that God gave to man.
So imagine me, a member of various organizations that largely consist of young black Americans, most of whom are womb to the tomb Democrats and liberals, speaking openly about the many opportunities and blessings we enjoy in our great nation and refuting Michelle Obama’s supposition that America is a “downright mean place..”
Can you say…..social suicide?
"So Jerome,” the partygoers asked, “you’re REALLY a Republican?!"
Duh!
Of course I’m a Republican! And your great grandparents were too!
Yes, I’m a member of the Anti-Slavery Party, the party responsible for: the 13th (abolished slavery), 14th (gave former slaves full citizenship rights), the 15th Amendment (gave slaves voting rights), the Civil Rights Act of 1871(protecting southern blacks from the Ku Klux Klan), the Reconstruction Acts, and the 1866, 1875, 1957, 1960, and 1964 Civil Rights Acts.
And no, my brothers and sisters, yesterday’s southern Democrats are NOT today’s Republicans! If so, former Klansman, Sen. Robert Byrd—the highest ranking senate Democrat and President Pro-Tempore of the Senate—apparently didn’t get the memo and forgot to switch parties.
But it’s more than just the history. I’m proud to stand for self-empowerment, personal responsibility, strong family values, small government, low taxes, free markets, a strong military, and individual achievement etc.
And don’t even get me started on which side stands up for the precious 1.4 million unborn children (32% of whom are black), who will be casualties in the war inside the womb. When I see these so-called “black leaders” bashing conservatives for “racist policies,” I wonder how they justify cheering on the political team who proudly defends the annihilation of 13 million black children since 1973.
And conservatives don’t care about black people? I don’t think so!
No, I think I’ll ride with the team who says enough with the welfare cancer that has destroyed people’s innate desire to achieve. Yes, I’ll ride with the folks who respect me enough to consider me their equal and not insult me with Affirmative Action racism. Yeah, I’ll ride with the gang who would rather create effective policies than emotional “feel good” symbolism that robs individuals of their desire to aspire.
So while it may take a little getting used to walking into college parties where I’m known as “The Black Republican,” I now realize I am a newly inducted member of a rich tradition of ideologically emancipated black conservatives. And guess what? I’m more than cool with that. I’m proud, actually.
“The conservative Kanye West”?
Hmmm….
Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?
Jerome Hudson is a sophomore at Tallahassee Community College with plans to transfer to Florida A&M University in the fall.
Why do people attend Tea Parties? Why? Why do people make such a big deal over Obama's Socialist/Fascist policies? Why are the founding father's such an important part of their patriotism?
A little about the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence:
- Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.
- Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.
- Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.
- They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
- Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated, but they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
- Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his Ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
- Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
- Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
- At the battle of Yorktown , Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
- Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
- John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.
Shame! Shame on all of us for allowing this to happen, and even more shame for allowing it to continue!
What If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?
If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?
If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the Fifth of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?
If George W. Bush had misspelled the word advice would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potato as “proof” of what a dunce he is?
If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on “Earth Day”, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?
If George W. Bush’s administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually “get” what happened on 9-11?
If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how he is inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?
If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?
So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 10 weeks -- so you'll have three years and nine-and-a-half months to come up with an answer.
Unattributed | July 1, 2009 - freerepublic.com
