20 posts tagged “conservative”

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.

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.
 

And it came to pass in the Age of Insanity that the people of the land called America , having lost their morals, their work initiative, and their will to defend their liberties, chose as their Supreme Leader that person known as “The One”. He emerged from the vapors with a message that had no meaning; but He hypnotized the people telling them, “I am sent to save you. My lack of experience, my questionable ethics, my monstrous ego, and my association with evil doers are of no consequence. For I shall save you with Hope and Change. Go, therefore, and proclaim throughout the land that he who preceded me is evil, that he has defiled the nation, and that all he has built must be destroyed.”

And the people rejoiced, for even though they knew not what “The One” would do, he had promised that he would bring change, and they proclaimed “Yes We Can”.

And “The One” said “We live in the greatest country in the world. Help me change everything about it!”

And the people said, “Hallelujah!! Change is good!”

Then He said, “We are going to tax the rich fat-cats,”—- And the people said “Sock it to them!” “—- and “Redistribute their wealth.”

And then He said, “Redistribution of wealth is good for everybody”

And the people said, “Show us the money!”

And Joe the plumber asked, “Are you kidding me? You’re going to steal my money and give it to the deadbeats??”

And “The One” ridiculed and taunted him, and Joe’s personal records were hacked, publicized, and ridiculed; though no crime could be found.

One lone reporter asked, “That shouldn’t be, isn’t that Marxist policy?”

And she was banished from the kingdom!

Then a citizen asked, “With no foreign relations experience and having zero military experience or knowledge, how will you deal with radical terrorists?”

And “The One” said, “Simple. I shall sit with them and talk kindly to them and show them how nice we really are; and they will forget that they ever wanted to kill us all!”

And the people said, “Hallelujah!! We are safe at last, and we can beat our weapons into free cars for the people!”

Then “The One” said, “I shall give 95% of you lower taxes.”

And one, lone voice said, “But 40% of us don’t pay ANY taxes.”

So “The One” said, “Then I shall give you some of the taxes the fat-cats pay!”

And the people said, “Hallelujah!! Show us the money!”

Then “The One” said, “I shall tax your Capital Gains when you sell your homes!”

And the people yawned and the already slumping housing market fully collapsed.

And He said, “I shall mandate employer-funded health care for EVERY worker and raise the minimum wage, and lower the white collar wage. And I shall also give every person unlimited health-care and medicine and even transportation to the free clinics.”

And the people said, “Give me some of that!”

Then he said, “I shall penalize employers who ship jobs overseas.”

And the people said, “Where’s my rebate check?”

Then “The One” said, “I shall bankrupt the coal industry, and perhaps even the oil industry (Cap & Trade/Carbon Tax) and though electricity rates will skyrocket, we shall soon build wind farms and solar power stations and drive green cars that I shall mandate in Detroit!”

And the people said, “Coal is dirty, coal is evil, no more coal! But we don’t care for that part about higher electric rates.”

So “The One” said, “Not to worry. If your rebate ($10/week) isn’t enough to cover your extra expenses ($3,000/year), we shall bail you out. Just sign up with ACORN and your troubles are over!” “Only the fat cats will have to pay.”

Then He said, “Illegal immigrants feel scorned and slighted. Let’s grant them amnesty, Social Security, free education, free lunches, free medical care, bi-lingual signs and guaranteed housing…”

And the people said, “Hallelujah!!” And they made him King!

And so it came to pass that employers, facing spiraling costs and ever-higher taxes, raised their prices and laid off workers; though they sold much less of their products. Others simply gave up and went out of business, and the economy sank like unto a rock dropped from a cliff. The banking industry was destroyed. Manufacturing slowed to a crawl. And more of the people were without a means of support.

So “The One” again blamed the prior administration, extended unemployment benefits to a year, bailed out his favorite banks, and then took over the banks and auto industries. “The One” said, “I am the “The One” - The Messiah - and I’m here to save you! We shall just print more money so the government will have enough!” “Surely one trillion dollars will make everyone happy.” And immediately the Fed complied and the money presses roared.

And China reconsidered their one trillion dollars of loans to the US ,, and threatened to call in their debts. Other foreign trading partners said unto “The One”, “Wait a minute. Your dollar is not worth a pile of camel dung! You will have to pay more.. for everything.. as your dollar becomes worth less.”

And the people said, “Wait a minute.. That is unfair!!”

And the world said, “Neither are these other idiotic programs you have embraced. Lo, you have become a Socialist state and a second-rate power. What factories are not owned by your government are owned by us. Now you shall play by our rules!”

And “The One” said “Americans are arrogant, divisive, and derisive!” “We will listen.”

And the people cried out, “Alas, alas!! What have we done?”

But yea verily, it was too late. The people eventually set upon “The One” and spat upon him and stoned him, and his name was dung. But the once mighty nation was no more; and the once proud people were without sustenance or shelter or hope. And the Change that “The One” had given them was as like unto a poison that had destroyed them from within, and like a whirlwind that consumed all that they had built.

And the people beat their chests in despair and cried out in anguish, “Give us back our nation and our pride and our hope!!”

But it was too late, and the once-glorious “Home of the Brave and Land of the Free” was no more..

-- An anonymous Pastor's Wife.

You may think this is a fairy tale, but it’s not. It’s happening RIGHT NOW, Already—- everything down to the last couple of lines….

I received the following email from a great man, Colonel Riley, aka "Sarge".  A truly great man that just loves his country and is fighting to give it back to the people.  I share his sentiments:

Hi Everyone,

As with some of you, I have been getting an untold number of emails from various sources about How to save the GOP I get this stuff constantly from Newsmax, Human Events, Newt Gingrich and a huge number of others. Of course the chronic talk of how Conservative Republicans (?) can get back POWER??

I have a suggestion for all these pundits, editorialist, and talking heads.

HOW ABOUT SAVING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA????  SCREW THE PARTY AFFILIATIONS!  Where are Real Americans willing to serve this country and defend the Constitution, our Freedoms & Liberties, and get GOVERNMENT OUT OF OUR LIVES and the Private Sector?

Playing with politics and BS Party Lines is why we are in the shape we are in today.  Playing with the Constitution is why we are where we are today.  What happened to serving the country as opposed to serving Party Agenda, special interest, and buying votes with programs that amount to redistribution of the wealth?

We are a unique country in that we all have the right to the Pursuit of Happiness.  The key word is PERSUIT!!  The Constitution does not provide anything more than your right to pursue your happiness, You cannot pursue your happiness with the government involved in your life or business, Nothing is guaranteed, and if you fail to pursue or fail in your pursuit, that does not justify or obligate the government with other people's money to provide it for you!  Remember the government does not have any of its own money.  The money the government has comes from Americans whom they do not feel can apply it properly so the government has decided to spend your money for you in ways they determine for you.  Why has this never sunk in is beyond me.  Of course someone getting a free ride or something for nothing from the government is grateful.  They do not seem concerned with the restrictions and controls placed on them for their acceptance of government money.  This includes most states in this country who are or have forfeited their control and sovereignty to the Federal Government in the name of accepting funds for more and more programs they should not be involved in, in the first place.  The rights of the individual are disappearing with more and more government and government control.  The pursuit of happiness is void when government has too much control.

We have two options:

1. Accept Socialism and more and more government control over our lives and private industry and redistribution of the wealth.  Thus giving up our heritage and all of what our forefathers fought and died for
2. Accept Freedom, Liberty, Much Less Government involvement in our lives.  Become independent and lead our lives as we chose within reasonable laws of course.  Take responsibility for our own actions and lives without the lame excuses or relying on the government or someone else to do it for us.

Socialism is winning big time right now.  I know there are those in denial about the socialist agenda and that is why they are winning.  People / Americans are in denial because they have been conditioned to believe that it could never happen here.  Guess What???  It is happening!!!  It's not about America anymore, it's about power, & control and if that reality does not scare you, nothing will.

America has lost its pride and its soul.  A Great Nation, that while not perfect, has accomplished so much good in this world and for its self, has lost its sense of resilience and independence.  Our leaders travel the world apologizing for imagined faults to countries who owe their existence and prosperity to this country.  Our Leaders are traveling the world visiting and sending messages of weakness and apology to enemies that would like to see every American Dead and this great country destroyed.  America seems OK and very acceptable with this conduct from our leaders.  What is missing is the simple fact that one can be a PROUD AMERICAN without being ARROGANT!  The Arrogance is not average Joe or Jane American, but the elitist who can only find fault with the country that has provided them with so much, and think they have the right to think and speak for all of us!  How about America being ashamed of such conduct by these leaders and electing them right out of office.  Some comments by some leaders are borderline sedition if not sedition in fact.  Where is the outrage?  There is none, it's simply accepted.

So I ask again, how about focusing on saving this once great country, I think that is far more important than saving any political party.  Historically political parties are more concerned with power and control. Granted some political agendas want more power than others and in differing ways.  The core of this Nation is the Constitution and it is under its most sever attack right now today. Both Major Political Parties are guilty of abuse of the Constitution.  Elected officials are sworn to protect and defend the Constitution.  Yet, they ignore it in the name of power and buying more votes by providing programs and money they have no business getting involved in and is not in their Constitutional authority.  Unless of course, as they have done without our consent, voted themselves such power and authority.  The attack on the Constitution is dramatic if one takes the time to look into it.  America is far too accepting of using the government and expecting government to be the answer to any and all problems.  You live in a hurricane zone below sea level, common sense says you can expect to be hit hard by mother nature.  It is your decision, and responsibility, so why does America have to pay to get you out of trouble and rebuild your life??  The afore mentioned comment is meant in just general terms to make a point and nothing more.

So it goes.

Sarge

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty." -- Thomas Jefferson

Thus Spoke our Founding Fathers

There are some things I want you to know
These things I write are not just for show
This land we live on, full of beauty and space
Is a God given land of liberty for every race.

That all may earn, by hard work, personal responsibility and sweat
A place to call their own, where only God holds their debt.
A land where free commerce, family, worship, and charity
go unhindered nor dictated by those we place under authority.

A place where people gave their very lives with the determination to be free
A place where government was told "Don't Tread On Me!"
A place where the Governor, law maker, and average citizen
had to obey the laws given regardless of status or position.

A land where the people, the government must fear,
A land I truly still hold very dear.
A glorious republic, for all to live free.
Oh beautiful country!  What has happened to thee?

Where tyranny was once hated and feared for its guile,
Is now embraced for free handouts and a handsome smile.
Now a place where the "elite" tell you how to live,
And where the hard working and responsible to the slothful must give.

Our founding fathers were wise men who knew the histories of great nations, yea them all!
Who knew the successes and failures that caused their greatness and fall.

Monarchies, while a potential to be strong,
Had a great weakness if a tyrant came along.

Communism and Socialism, while seemingly good in their intent,
Misery, laziness, stagnation, and a government the people were left to resent.

Democracy!  Surely the people knew better!
Surely no, the individual is lost to the desire of the crowd.
No, democracy on its own, unrestrained, must not be allowed.

The individual with law and the government to fear
the very people who put them there.

Yes!  A Republic, the law, was the solution!
Checks and balances were placed to avoid pollution!

Yet here we stand, our government corrupt and bloated
Full of a clueless aristocracy and a budget overloaded.
Where a teleprompter rules and a press helps to cover up
The loss of liberty while you cheer it on and eat it up.

Keep you distracted is all they have to do,
Before you notice you have lost everything important to you.
Awake ye citizens!  Awake from your deep sleep!
How much of your future will you allow them to keep?

The deed is being done, there's no other to blame.
Our founding fathers would bow their heads in sorrowful shame.
Look at what you've done!  You've let it go!
The greatest and most successful nation the world would ever know.

Look at the world before this nation was here.
The poverty, the stagnation, the filthiness and bad health.
This nation pulled the whole world out of darkness and fear.
It brought innovation, technology, medicine and personal wealth.

Why would you ruin it, why tear it apart?
To history, this nation has been its very best part!
Peace we bring where there once was tyranny and oppression,
From 1812 and other wars, with tyrants, in like succession.

This nation saved the world as a whole,
And yet it is being flushed down the toilet bowl.
The Constitution is there a document from the divine,
Don't let it wither like rotten fruit on a vine.

That document is the key to success,
Be it business, commerce, liberty and happiness.
When man is left to himself without hindrance, regulation and government theft,
He can accomplish so much more than the collective liberal left.

Solve the problems of the world can he,
If only you give him his personal liberty.

-- SuperSparky
   http://supersparky.vox.com

Andrew McCarthy, a man with genuine BALLS.  A well respected former Federal Prosecutor by both parties, who served under two Presidential administrations (Clinton & Bush), received the Attorney General's Special Service award (by Janet Reno), author of "Willfull Blindness" (a book about his prosecution of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman the leader of the first World Trade Center attack), poignantly turns down an in invitation by Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama administration to participate on the "roundtable" Presidential Task Force on Detention Policy for enemy combatants.

Mr. McCarthy says it plainly, cites law, and gives logical and intelligent reasons for his refusal.

Now if only we had Congressmen this willing to stand up for their country.  If anyone questions the Tea Party movement, we'd honestly say that this man should be leading it.  His sentiments and reasoning are exactly why there is a Tea Party movement.  We are sick and tired of a government running afoul of the highest law of the land, the U.S. Constitution.  It is the very document that gives them their authority, and yet they disregard it, thinking their newer laws trump it.  No, they are governed by it.  The pigs have broken into the garden and are gorging themselves.  They need to be put back in the pens where the Federal government belongs.

The Federal government answers to the US Constitution and the States.  It is clearly written down and is clearly the LAW.  A law the Congress and Administration clearly ignore.  That is incompetence and blatantly tyrannical.

The US Constitution is this country's Highest Law, not the Congress, not the President, and most certainly not any foreign law.  It is what made this country great.  It is not a "living" or "breathing" document.  It's just as valuable now as when it was conceived, and conceived by much more intelligent men than are in our society now.  It is what brought the world out of the dark ages.  It is what made our modern world possible.  It was the liberty that document guarantees.

Andrew McCarthy knows this better than many people, as the law is his specialty, and representing the people was his duty.  Duty to the people, a concept the current Federal government has no grasp or concept of.

Here is Mr. McCarthy's reply to that invitation:

Andrew McCarthy's Letter to Attorney General Holder

May 1, 2009

By email (to the Counterterrorism Division) and by regular mail:
 
The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr.
Attorney General of the United States
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.  20530-0001
 
Dear Attorney General Holder:
 
This letter is respectfully submitted to inform you that I must decline the invitation to participate in the May 4 roundtable meeting the President’s Task Force on Detention Policy is convening with current and former prosecutors involved in international terrorism cases.  An invitation was extended to me by trial lawyers from the Counterterrorism Section, who are members of the Task Force, which you are leading.
 
The invitation email (of April 14) indicates that the meeting is part of an ongoing effort to identify lawful policies on the detention and disposition of alien enemy combatants -- or what the Department now calls “individuals captured or apprehended in connection with armed conflicts and counterterrorism operations.”  I admire the lawyers of the Counterterrorism Division, and I do not question their good faith.  Nevertheless, it is quite clear -- most recently, from your provocative remarks on Wednesday in Germany -- that the Obama administration has already settled on a policy of releasing trained jihadists (including releasing some of them into the United States).  Whatever the good intentions of the organizers, the meeting will obviously be used by the administration to claim that its policy was arrived at in consultation with current and former government officials experienced in terrorism cases and national security issues.  I deeply disagree with this policy, which I believe is a violation of federal law and a betrayal of the president’s first obligation to protect the American people.  Under the circumstances, I think the better course is to register my dissent, rather than be used as a prop.

Moreover, in light of public statements by both you and the President, it is dismayingly clear that, under your leadership, the Justice Department takes the position that a lawyer who in good faith offers legal advice to government policy makers—like the government lawyers who offered good faith advice on interrogation policy—may be subject to investigation and prosecution for the content of that advice, in addition to empty but professionally damaging accusations of ethical misconduct.  Given that stance, any prudent lawyer would have to hesitate before offering advice to the government.

Beyond that, as elucidated in my writing (including my proposal for a new national security court, which I understand the Task Force has perused), I believe alien enemy combatants should be detained at Guantanamo Bay (or a facility like it) until the conclusion of hostilities.  This national defense measure is deeply rooted in the venerable laws of war and was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in the 2004 Hamdi case.  Yet, as recently as Wednesday, you asserted that, in your considered judgment, such notions violate America’s “commitment to the rule of law.”  Indeed, you elaborated, “Nothing symbolizes our [administration’s] new course more than our decision to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay….  President Obama believes, and I strongly agree, that Guantanamo has come to represent a time and an approach that we want to put behind us: a disregard for our centuries-long respect for the rule of law[.]”  (Emphasis added.)

Given your policy of conducting ruinous criminal and ethics investigations of lawyers over the advice they offer the government, and your specific position that the wartime detention I would endorse is tantamount to a violation of law, it makes little sense for me to attend the Task Force meeting.  After all, my choice would be to remain silent or risk jeopardizing myself.

For what it may be worth, I will say this much.  For eight years, we have had a robust debate in the United States about how to handle alien terrorists captured during a defensive war authorized by Congress after nearly 3000 of our fellow Americans were annihilated.  Essentially, there have been two camps.  One calls for prosecution in the civilian criminal justice system, the strategy used throughout the 1990s.  The other calls for a military justice approach of combatant detention and war-crimes prosecutions by military commission.  Because each theory has its downsides, many commentators, myself included, have proposed a third way: a hybrid system, designed for the realities of modern international terrorism—a new system that would address the needs to protect our classified defense secrets and to assure Americans, as well as our allies, that we are detaining the right people.

There are differences in these various proposals.  But their proponents, and adherents to both the military and civilian justice approaches, have all agreed on at least one thing:  Foreign terrorists trained to execute mass-murder attacks cannot simply be released while the war ensues and Americans are still being targeted.  We have already released too many jihadists who, as night follows day, have resumed plotting to kill Americans.  Indeed, according to recent reports, a released Guantanamo detainee is now leading Taliban combat operations in Afghanistan, where President Obama has just sent additional American forces.

The Obama campaign smeared Guantanamo Bay as a human rights blight.  Consistent with that hyperbolic rhetoric, the President began his administration by promising to close the detention camp within a year.  The President did this even though he and you (a) agree Gitmo is a top-flight prison facility, (b) acknowledge that our nation is still at war, and (c) concede that many Gitmo detainees are extremely dangerous terrorists who cannot be tried under civilian court rules. Patently, the commitment to close Guantanamo Bay within a year was made without a plan for what to do with these detainees who cannot be tried.  Consequently, the Detention Policy Task Force is not an effort to arrive at the best policy.  It is an effort to justify a bad policy that has already been adopted: to wit, the Obama administration policy to release trained terrorists outright if that’s what it takes to close Gitmo by January.

Obviously, I am powerless to stop the administration from releasing top al Qaeda operatives who planned mass-murder attacks against American cities—like Binyam Mohammed (the accomplice of “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla) whom the administration recently transferred to Britain, where he is now at liberty and living on public assistance.  I am similarly powerless to stop the administration from admitting into the United States such alien jihadists as the 17 remaining Uighur detainees.  According to National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, the Uighurs will apparently live freely, on American taxpayer assistance, despite the facts that they are affiliated with a terrorist organization and have received terrorist paramilitary training.  Under federal immigration law (the 2005 REAL ID Act), those facts render them excludable from theUnited States. The Uighurs’ impending release is thus a remarkable development given the Obama administration’s propensity to deride its predecessor’s purported insensitivity to the rule of law.

I am, in addition, powerless to stop the President, as he takes these reckless steps, from touting his Detention Policy Task Force as a demonstration of his national security seriousness.  But I can decline to participate in the charade.

Finally, let me repeat that I respect and admire the dedication of Justice Department lawyers, whom I have tirelessly defended since I retired in 2003 as a chief assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York.  It was a unique honor to serve for nearly twenty years as a federal prosecutor, under administrations of both parties.  It was as proud a day as I have ever had when the trial team I led was awarded the Attorney General’s Exceptional Service Award in 1996, after we secured the convictions of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and his underlings for waging a terrorist war against the United States.  I particularly appreciated receiving the award from Attorney General Reno—as I recounted in Willful Blindness, my book about the case, without her steadfastness against opposition from short-sighted government officials who wanted to release him, the “blind sheikh” would never have been indicted, much less convicted and so deservedly sentenced to life-imprisonment.  In any event, I’ve always believed defending our nation is a duty of citizenship, not ideology.  Thus, my conservative political views aside, I’ve made myself available to liberal and conservative groups, to Democrats and Republicans, who’ve thought tapping my experience would be beneficial.  It pains me to decline your invitation, but the attendant circumstances leave no other option.

                                                                                    Very truly yours,

                                                                                    /S/      

                                                                                    Andrew C. McCarthy
cc:        Sylvia T. Kaser and John DePue
National Security Division, Counterterrorism Section

Way to go Andy!  You are a true American, not a Republican, not a Democrat, just a loyal American with honor and integrity.

The First Amendment to The U.S. 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.

The New School Prayer

Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.

If Scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.

Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.
The law is specific, the law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.

For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all.
In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the state.

We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.
They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.

We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.
It's "inappropriate" to teach right from wrong,
We're taught that such "judgments" do not belong.

We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd.

It's scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot; My soul please take!

Amen

The Second Amendment to The U.S. Constitution

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.

The Wisdom of Those in History

"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." -- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

"Men trained in arms from their infancy, and animated by the love of liberty, will afford neither a cheap or easy conquest." -- From the Declaration of the First Continental Congress, 1775

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them" -- Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story

"Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." -- Senator Richard Henry Lee, 1788

"To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them." -- George Mason, speech of June 14, 1788

"The great object is, that every man be armed. [...] Every one who is able may have a gun." -- Patrick Henry, speech of June 14 1788

The Ten Commandments (or how to live a happy life)

Commandments Are Like The Kite String

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:  For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Thou shalt not steal.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

-- Jehovah

A Very Famous Sermon

Sermon

And again, blessed are all they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

And blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

And blessed are all they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled with the Holy Ghost.

And blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

And blessed are all the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

And blessed are all the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.

And blessed are all they who are persecuted for my name’s sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

And blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake; For ye shall have great joy and be exceedingly glad, for great shall be your reward in heaven; for so persecuted they the prophets who were before you.

Liberty And The Old Soldier

Friberg's Title Of Liberty

And now it came to pass that when Moroni, who was the chief commander of the armies of the Nephites [people Moroni just fought many years, and lost many friends, to gain their liberty and freedom], had heard of these dissensions, he was angry with Amalickiah.

And it came to pass that he rent his coat; and he took a piece thereof, and wrote upon it—In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children—and he fastened it upon the end of a pole.

And he fastened on his head-plate, and his breastplate, and his shields, and girded on his armor about his loins; and he took the pole, which had on the end thereof his rent coat, (and he called it the title of liberty) and he bowed himself to the earth, and he prayed mightily unto his God for the blessings of liberty to rest upon his brethren, so long as there should a band of Christians remain to possess the land.

Great Wisdom & Humor

"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first" -- Ronald Reagan

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help." -- Ronald Reagan

"Liberals love America like O.J. loved Nicole." -- Ann Coulter

"Teach the people correct principles, and they will govern themselves." -- Joseph Smith Jr.

Songs and Poems

Prayer

When your heart was full with anger,
Did you think to pray?
Did you plead for grace, my brother,
That you might forgive another
Who had crossed your way?

When sore trials came upon you,
Did you think to pray?
When your soul was full of sorrow,
Balm of Gilead did you borrow
At the gates of day?

Oh, how praying rests the weary!
Prayer will change the night to day.
So, when life gets dark and dreary,
Don't forget to pray.

-- Mary A. Pepper Kidder

Musings

Bail 'em Out?

Back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it.  They failed and it closed.  Now we are trusting the economy of our country and our banking system to the same nit-wits who couldn't make money running a whore house and selling whiskey.

U.S Lawmakers at work:

In 1999...

• 29 members of Congress have been accused of spousal abuse.
• 7 have been arrested for fraud.
• 19 have been accused of writing bad checks.
• 117 have bankrupted at least two businesses.
• 3 have been arrested for assault.
• 71 have credit reports so bad they can't qualify for a credit card.
• 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges.
• 8 have been arrested for shoplifting.
• 21 are current defendants in lawsuits.
• And in 1998 alone, 84 were stopped for drunk driving, but released after they claimed Congressional immunity.
  

Now in 2009, it's hard to find any Democrat, in Washington DC that has paid their taxes.  Many of them are in the Presidential cabinet.  Which is why it is so easy for them to raise your taxes and spend it as if it is theirs.

Today ... 75% of them can't pass a simple high-school level test on the Constitution, the organization and purposes of the three houses of the Federal Government, and (get this) Congressional ethics rules.