20 posts tagged “politics”
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.
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.
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)
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
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
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
Did you think to pray?
In the name of Christ our Savior,
Did you sue for loving favor
As a shield today?
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.
Those saying that Obama and his buddies are Socialists have vastly miscalculated this assumption. What's really happening is Obama is fascist and not socialist. Obama understands and knows the power that can come from a fascist state without the people really knowing what is going on. After all, the fascists of the past knew what he knows, and frankly, what his mentors knew (Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers, etc.). For example, Adolf Hitler once said, "The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one" and "what luck for rulers that men do not think". Now I'm not saying Obama is a genocidal maniac, I am saying his political methods are similar. Another fascist, Vladimire Lenin, once said, "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." Now, politicians have never been known for their honesty, nevertheless, I have never seen such a large group of them openly and without effort to disguise, lie over and over and simply say what people want to hear at the time to make them feel good. These lies have resulted in them becoming loved, almost adored, by those too ignorant or star struck to even bother to see the lies for what they are.
These star struck idiots would rather allow these fascists to take away their freedoms and rights just because their speeches make them feel good.
You see, where socialism requires exclusive government control of all means of commerce and business, including wages and the control of private ownership, fascism achieves the same results without the overhead. Instead of the government controlling everything like socialism requires, all fascism requires is to have government control of banks and the largest corporations. This gives them indirect control over everything else through extortionary means. If you own a company and need a loan, but don't want to run the business according to the government's ideas and sell the products they want you to sell, then you don't get the loan. Don't need a loan? Well, if you don't sell what they want you to, then they just raise your taxes so high that your only choice is to do what they say.
A fascist uses the art of distraction to gain power quickly. What they do is create a crisis, either a real crisis, or just one they think up. After this crisis becomes bad enough, they come forward offering to "fix" it and proceed to blame it on the rich and successful. They use class envy as a weapon, and as such conveniently shift the focus of how the crisis really happened and thus a lie told often enough becomes the truth. This works especially well with charismatic speaker that has the talen to charm the very stupid to the seemingly intelligent.
Once again, Adolf Hitler used this technique quite well. His Nazi brown shirts would cause trouble and maheim, the legislature would give him more powers to "fix" the problem, he used this power to take over large companies and banks, he'd then give "inspiring and emotion grabbing" speeches thousands would attend. He was called "the saviour of Germany", yet, most of the problems that were happening were a direct result of his actions and the actions of his brown shirts. People loved him because he preached that he would take care of them. He would punish those that were wealthy. He would "fix" education. What he did was indoctrinate children, not educate them. People would cry, get goose bumps, act as if they were listening to their favorite movie star. He would openly tell lies just to say what the people wanted to hear. It didn't matter if it was a lie, the people, being star struck believed him. It became "the truth" to them.
Hitler intended for Germany to be torn apart. This allowed him to build in his image, which was actually quite successful for him. This SAME techique is what Obama is doing, and like Germany of old, the legislature is willing to do his bidding, no matter what it is. The "crisis" is the excuse. The very congressmen that angirly shake their fists and fling spit all over the place are the very weasels that caused the crisis in the first place! That doesn't matter to the Obama fan, because Obama is going to fix everything. This is very dangerous.
There is a reason why thousands gave their lives willingly and freely in the Revolutionary war. It was simply for the liberty and freedom to live their lives as THEY chose to live them, and not what a bunch of bloated bureaucrats in government dictates. These idiots in Washington, including Obama, have never ever lived a life outside of the protective bubble of politics or a university. Barney Frank has never ran a business, tried to keep a payroll and pay ridiculous taxes and still have something left for himself. He doesn't know what it's like to earn a living, not have it given to you because some lobbyist made you a sweet deal for special consideration. With a small few exceptions, none of these idiots in government have any clue how the economy works, how everything is connected. They don't understand that liberty and entrepreneurism is what made this nation great. It's what raised the standard of living in the entire world and even this country. Our "poor" have cell phones and TV's because of this as well. This can be directly linked with the American system.
Obama is bound and determined to destroy the current economic system. That is plain to see through all of his lies. He intends to have a fascist oligarchy that answers to a world body and not to the people. It's all about power to a small elite group, because you're too stupid to take care of yourself.
It's all a game, a grand illusion. The march to fascism started with Woodrow Wilson, got a boost with FDR slowly but surely over the years it gained momentum, from Johnson to Carter and finally Obama. When more an more people realize what is happening to their liberties and freedoms, they, hopefully, will finally wake up.
This isn't a Democrat or Republican issue. This is an American issue. The idea that Europe has a better way is a vastly flawed idea. History has shown that the way Europe operates always ends with the loss of liberty and development. Stagnation and frustration are the result. Since when has a government lasted longer than 50 years in that region for the past 300 years? Since when has that government shown progress and development for the human standard of living even remotely like the USA has done in 200+ years?
The "Republican" (not Republican party) form of government has the only historical evidence to show that it is the most successful, the best for the human spirit and lifestyle, and the best for the world around than any other form of government ever. When Rome was a true Republic is was the most magnificent of societies. When it started to deteriorate and they created "intitlements" for people (sound familiar?) people got lazy and started expecting more from the government. It deteriorated into a mob democracy, which eventually needed a "saviour" to turn it into a oligarchy or dictatorship with the reign of the emperors. That was the beginning of the end for Rome. The people gave up their prosperity and freedom for handouts and "security". They lost it all.
Communism for every country that has tried it has shown to destroy inventiveness and the incentive to make things better. The promise of "equality" in class is a lie. It only succeeded in eliminating the rich and making everyone poor except party members. Cuba is an exccellent example of this everyone is poor and there's no incentive to make things better.
Socialism, much like the Europe of today, has shown much like Communism, it doesn't inspire entrpreneurship and the improvement of the nation as a whole. Things stagnate because those with ideas get punished for them and anything they gain for their ideas is distributed to those too lazy to work for themselves. After all, why work hard if the government is going to take care of you. Because everyone starts to be content and lazy, the government remains as it is and their economy doesn't grow because of it.
Remember, people that ignore history are destined to repeat it. What you see happening right now has happened many many times before. Socialism isn't new, its a proven failure. Fascism isn't new, it just ends up in an oligarchy and the misery of the people. Communism only results in equal poverty and the misery of the people. The only system that has ever shown success in history is thus:
- A benevolent monarchy that gave the rules of law and allowed the people to live in liberty and without interference. This is very rare, because absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- A republic, which gives a set of laws and allows the people to live in liberty and without government interference. There are just enough laws to hold back anharchy and to preserve the rights and property of the individual. Yes, the INDIVIDUAL, not the group. This is the form of government people died for.
The idea that government solves all problems is a dumb and misinformed idea. A big government only brings misery and a loss of personal liberties. Governement is only there to provide for a common defense, to only PROMOTE (not provide) the general welfare, in other words ENCOURAGE commerce, not stifle or regulate it. Government is there to PRESERVE LIBERTY not only for us, but our children. This is not what Obama and the Congress is doing. They are violating our highest law, the Constitution, and with hypocrasy demand we obey theirs and trust them.
This march to fascism will be tested when enough people have come to the realization that they have lost their liberties to a bunch of tyrants that say what people want to hear.
The only problem our founding fathers did not address, was a provision in the Constitution for the government to fear the people, other than the second amendment.
Anyone that has been following my various articles will soon realize that I'm a religious man and a strong conservative. Some of my articles have concentrated on religious matters and some have been strictly political. Well, this one is going to heavily combine both. First, a little about why there is good and evil and how evil accomplishes its purpose with good people. Second, I'll use that foundation to illustrate my points. I'm not here to convert people, nor to exercize political correctness, nor will I express anything here as theory or "my opinion". This may sound unacceptable to some and perhaps arrogant by others, as the world is too used to debating religion and truth. What I'll be addressing here is what I know to be true. If you have a genuine interest in knowing why I say "I know", then feel free to private message me. I could not express these topics, of things I know to be true, and water them down to "my opinion". I feel I would offend God if I did.
Nevertheless, I do respect your religious beliefs. You have a right to believe (or not believe) in a manner you see fit. Nevertheless, if I have piqued your curiosity and want to know more, then read on.
Many people do not understand evil and the source of evil. I have found many preachers of religion with misconceptions of evil. Evil, is the art of distracting people from what is good for them. Evil, has only one grand purpose, and that is to spread misery. The author of evil is an individual named Lucifer. Without getting into details, Lucifer used to garner power and influence in God's kingdom; until he decided to usurp God's glory and power for himself, and as a result of his choice and actions, he was forever cast out from God's presence and before he and his minions get their final judgement, they remain here on earth to try and make us miserable. He bacame "the adversary" or "Satan". He's pissed and has vowed to take everyone down with him. He and his buddies have been here since then and have become very very good at what they do.
The tools of evil are:
- Subtle deception. Which is the art of mixing a lot of truth with just enough lies to get you to believe the lies, because the truth gives it pliable credibility. The more and more Satan can get you to believe the lies, the more lies he replaces the truths he hides them in. Pretty soon, he can feed you a lot of lies without the truthful foundation because now he has you as a fanatical believer.
- Counterfeiting. We see this every day, but can read about a great example of this in the Old Testament where Moses used his staff to perform miracles and the Egyptian magicians mimicked them with counterfeits. This is a very clever means to deceive.
- Reversal. He only acheives this goal after the previous methods have proved successful. It's the art of actually getting people to believe that good is evil and evil is good. Counterfeiting is key in this goal. He uses the counterfeits of happiness, which is pleasure, and the counterfeit of liberty, which is anarchy.
- Envy and Jealousy. The art of convincing people they are entitled to things they didn't earn or work for.
- Pride and Vanity. The counterfeits of honor and charity are selfishness and narcissism (demanding respect instead of earning it).
Now I'll cover each tool in detail using real examples:
Subtle Deception
The entertainment industry today is an excellent example of subtle deception. They numb your repulsive response by slowly and constantly "pushing the envelope". What once was labeled by society as pornographic or repulsive, is now shown as "normal" in prime time. Sexuality, being a very powerful instinct and tool (God needed us to multiply quickly) is the catalyst to how this is accomplished.
The public education system is also another means of subtle deception. Indoctrination and convenient absence of key truths being taught to children make for a fast track of misery. The entertainment idustry and education are subtle partners here.
Ask yourself why things such as teen pregnancy, divorce, and higher crime rates climb higher and higher with each generation, if you need proof.
Counterfeiting
Communism and its intermediary Socialism is the counterfeit to God's idea of having all things in common. To have a society where everyone has everything in common only works when all people choose to live that way and have the freedom to leave any time they desire. It requires a great deal of love and charity to accomplish such a society in a successful way, where the concern and love for each individual takes precedence. Such a society is doomed to fail with the presence of evil, pride, envy, jealousy, those hungry for power, etc. The counterfeit to this United Order is Communism, which forces people to give up everything, and their lives are governed by those with their own interests and power in mind. The only way even a short period of success is possible is, to actually prevent people from leaving, and punishing those with a desire for the freedom to exit the system. The subtle deceptions are "for the good of the people" or "spreading the wealth", and the care for the individual is lost to mob rule. Charity cannot be forced on anyone, nor can you steal from the talented and hard working and give to the lazy and slothful. What always happens in a socialist to communist society, is those that work hard finally give up, because their extra hard work is not rewarded; in fact, the extra hard work is usually punished because it makes others (the people) look bad, and you're accused of being selfish. The back side of the coin is that hard work is no longer required, and the government provides everything they used to have to work hard for. So all they do is the bare minimum asked of them. Did you ever see a quality product come from a Communist nation? The cars were poorly manufactured, the buildings were of poor quality, even the USSR's space vehicles of the space program were of considerably lower quality than that of the USA. Socialism and Communism do not succeed in their claims of eliminating poverty, but instead they do eliminate the rich in favor of making everyone, except high government officials, poor. Everyone is "equal" that is true, but they are equally miserable in their poverty.
Those that try to say socialism or communism are good, tend to be those that live isolated lives in universities having their livelihood already guaranteed. So they sit and think about these things all day long, and they claim their superior intellect knows better. The problem with this, is they have removed themselves from the responsibilities and experiences of society, thus they couldn't possibly understand it. There are also great flaws in the arguments for socialism and communism. They usually make comparisons in a fixed class society, which only existed in ancient Europe during the monarch period. After the USA appeared and offered a better form of government and the concept of liberty for all, it eliminated the barriers of poverty and wealth. This means those that are rich can become poor, and those that are poor can become rich. This is all based upon personal responsibility and ingenuity governing their lives. This is how our nation changed the world. The USA has brought a higher standard of living to the world, and has the highest standard of living of any country. This was all accomplished in less than 200 years with just ingenuity and liberty, the freedom to develop and the freedom to fail. Socialism doesn't reward ingenuity and it protects you from failure. Thus, the government controls your life, and it's usually a miserable one. Why? The "people" take precedence over the person.
Pleasure is the counterfeit to happiness. Pleasure is being taught as a means of gaining happiness and it always brings misery. Rampant and uncontrolled sexual behavior brings the greatest misery filled with brief occurrences of pleasure. You have young women losing their educational futures due to pregnancy because they chose pleasure over common sense, and becoming mothers whilst barely finishing their lives as a child. Self respect and the respect of each other has been completely lost. You have boys running around like chimpanzees in heat humping every willing partner mistaking partying and pleasure as happiness. No longer do men and women have respect for each other's purity, but there's nothing to look forward to and appreciate in marriage for them. A woman offering herself to her new husband is one of the greatest gifts and acts of love and trust in the world. This is why the wedding dress is white, symbolizing purity. Now days, that has been minimized and downplayed to a mere pleasurable animal act.
Once upon a time a man's word (or oath) was as strong as a written contract. In fact, honor was the most important element a human could possess, and dishonoring one's self meant losing their ability to function in their society. They couldn't do any business because everyone would know their word didn't mean anything. Those that were successful, were those you could trust in their words and oaths. Satan has succeeded in ruining this aspect of humanity, and replacing it with the substitute of anarchy claiming it as "freedom", which it is not.
Reversal
This is accomplished through ridicule, mainly. The concepts of being "cool" or "hip" or the "new thing" are excellent ways of achieving reversal, especially with our children. All children want friends and to be liked. Well, if Satan can have enough willing participants in the entertainment industry to make evil look cool or hip, then he has an easy job. Concepts of fornication being "normal" or "natural" or even expected if you want to be "cool" he introduces through those vehicles of fame. Fame is popularity on steroids, and children mistake fame for the ideal life. So they try to pattern their lives with the image projected in that fame. Everything from piercing, to tatoos, to music, to clothing, all have had their changes from normality to their reversal. Clothing was once a means to be modest and protect ones self from the elements. Now it's to look most like the whore on the TV or movie screen (look up whore in the dictionary, they are being paid a lot to do it).
Fighting reversal requires good and responsible parenting. If you think public schools run by the government are going to teach your child what is right and what is wrong, and what brings misery and what is real deception etc, then you are in for a big surprise. You need to take responsibility for your child's upbringing. You need to make sure they have the character and moral strength to recognize evil and deception when they hear it and see it. They need to understand the lies of pleasure being happiness. The counterfeit is the order of these two. Happiness brings pleasure, the counterfeit says pleasure brings happiness, which is a lie. Examples can see pleasure always ends up bringing misery.
Hitler recognized how powerful reversal works on crowds. He went from community organizer to German Fuhrer (emperor) in a few short years by saying what people wanted to hear, blaming the rich (which were usually Jewish) for their problems, promising change, promising he'd eliminate their poverty, give them homes to live in, cars to drive. The third Reich would be the socialist utopia. NAZI, afterall, stood for "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' Party)". Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, promised to "fix the economy". He proceeded to have the government take over companies, he then took over the banks, finally in a claim to "finally fix it all" he requested special powers to accomplish this miracle. He was given full authority and named Germany's first (and last) Fuhrer (he added "of the Third Reich"). He promptly used his new authority to dissolve the parliament and appointed "Governors" over regions to replace mayors and town councils. He did all of this because he caused people to cry and get emotional at his speeches. People thought of him as the Saviour of Germany. He loved the media and the media loved him. In fact Time Magazine featured Hitler in a positive manner. He carefully controlled what the media would and could say and the media didn't care. They just loved him. He started government work programs to build roads. In fact, the modern freeway is a Hitler Germany invention. Big problem, the rich were now slaves (or dead), conveniently relieved of their riches, and the poor were still poor but taken care of. Members of the Nazi party were the only privileged and you had to be invited into the party to be a Nazi (you also had to be of the "pure race" as well).
Notice anything similar in that historical account to the happenings of today? Satan uses techniques that usually work. He's had thousands of years of practice to get it down. You're smart, you can do the math. Yes, it's where George Lucas got his ideas for the rise of the Emperor and fall of the Republic, but that's not what I mean.
Summary
You cannot think that Satan's counterfeits can ever accomplish anything good, even with good intentions. Good can only have its roots in liberty and freedom of choice. Charity, can only work when love is behind it, as it's only theft if it is forced. Poverty can only be overcome with charity and hard work. A free handout only results in a hand expecting more. A hand-up teaches that person how to fill their hands themselves. Charity is a means to give a hand up and not the never ending handout of government welfare.
The commandments of God weren't given by a divine tyrant. They actually protect us and give us a means to live our lives to the fullest with happiness. If everyone lives according to the ten commandments, to the letter, then the natural form of society would be a United Order in the end, but because people are not perfect, they will always fall short of that ideal.
It is my belief that the USA and the land it sits on was blessed and started with God's influence. A place for the imperfect to live in liberty. It finally pulled the world out of the dark ages, which started when evil destroyed and killed the Apostles. Seriously, think about it. A bunch of rag-tag farmers (many without shoes!) defeated the greatest army and navy in the world! This happened because God caused miracles to happen (not coincidences). Great men were brought together, a grand council to which we have never seen again; our founding fathers! Do you know of any man today, in the world, that would turn down the opportunity to become a king or emperor of a growing nation in favor instead of "just" being it's first President? These founding fathers actually believed what they preached! George Washington was one of the greatest men to be born in hundreds of years. He wasn't perfect, none of them were, but they had honor and integrity.
To throw this all away because of Satan's counterfeits is a sad sad statement for the last two hundred years of growth and accomplishment. Today things aren't Democrat versus Republican anymore. Those days disappeared years ago. It is now good versus evil and all of its counterfeits. You hear Glenn Beck speak of 9 values and 12 Principles. You have Rush Limbaugh speaking of Conservatism. You have Mark Levin speaking of the coming tyranny. You have Sean Hannity warning about the mob that is government. All are good and well. All are valid podiums to preach from. All are legitimate cases. However, though I support them and participate in their concern and activism, I cannot help but think that the root of the problem is simply Satan's distractions from God. The principles we need to live by are contained as both the Ten Commandments and Jesus' beatitudes. If people simply applied those principles and values to their lives, these issues and problems would be non-existent.
I honestly feel, these patriotic movements are treatments for the symptoms of the disease, not treatments for the elimination of it. If you want liberty and freedom, then live the type of life from where those gifts are given. Set an example, you cannot force others to live as you choose to. You can only offer to share what you know if they accept the offer. Be who you should be. Turn off that questionable TV show. Don't watch that questionable movie, even if edited for TV. Don't buy that video game if it's immoral or encourages immorality. Stand up for what is right, and don't put up with Satan's "political correctness". Point out lies when they are told, regardless of venue. Vote for honest people in government. Voting for the best speaker or best looking is irresponsible and part of Satan's plan of misery. George Washington was not a good speaker, nor was he a good looking man, but he was a great President and General. Vote for those with integrity and morality, not a good haircut.
Don't take your education and basis for knowledge from the news media. Learn for yourself. Read more good books. Always gain in knowledge and experience. Never be "too good" to teach others when they ask for help. Be humble and kind. Be loving, yet firm. Be knowledgeable, yet not arrogant.
I realize this is a wordy post, but something that has been bothering my conscience for a while.
Recently, the jackass the slight majority of voters in the United States of America voted into the office of President (you know, the one that didn't have any executive experience, that said he was going to "repair our image in the world" etc.) did what no other President in our history has done to date. He successfully and without regret or sorrow insulted and offended our greatest and strongest ally in the world, the United Kingdom.
What did he do? Well, considering our mainstream media molly-coddles this President and tries everything to protect him, you wouldn't have heard the story here in the United States. However, we have other means and a lone honest media called FoxNews which reported it plainly. Our new President didn't make one "simple" mistake, oh no, he layered insult on top of insult.
First, he snubbed Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, not once, but twice; by refusing a joint press conference which is traditional and a sign of friendship and solidarity, and by refusing the customary respect and honor by throwing a state sponsored dinner or banquet.
To add insult to injury, he asks (tells) that the UK take back the gift of a bust of Winston Churchill given to the USA as a symbol of solidarity after the attacks of 9/11. This was the equivalent of telling France to take back the Statue of Liberty!
Finally, Prime Minister Brown offers the United States of America (not just our President) a gift full of historical meaning, a hand crafted pen made out of the wood from the USS Resolute to match the desk in the Oval Office. This desk and that ship have grand historical meaning. The USS Resolute was a symbol of two nations turning from enemies or fighting sisters, into two friends with grand respect for each other. The time the USA and the UK became allies and were reconciled. What did our President do? He offered him a box of DVDs some guy got at the local video store at the last minute. These DVDs don't even play on equipment in the UK. What an insult!
Prime Minister Brown had to have been shocked. He thought Obama to be a kindred liberal spirit like himself. What he didn't understand about Obama, is that he is so liberal and so indoctrinated with Marxist teachings that Prime Minister Brown represented a country Obama has been taught to hate from those he had associated with, like Bill Ayers etc. Obama would rather talk to and give gifts to the Taliban, Iran, Cuba, etc. They represent the types of society Obama believes reflects his Marxist ideals. Anyone that does not support his socialist/communist agenda are just in the way.
Obama is loved in Europe. Simply because of their liberal media. They only get one side of a story. It always seems that Europe falls in love with the worst types of leader, especially Germany. The UK has always been a Europian anomoly with their support of the USA and its Presidents. Unfortunately, instead of seeing through the B.S. like they were usually good at doing, they got suckered into the image of "saviour" that Obama's PR team has been so successful at projecting, even to where Obama himself believes it. This time the UK learned a lesson the hard way. Fortunately, they learned early enough and can finally see what the right in the USA has been trying to show people that Obama is not what he claims to be, and is a wolf in saviour's clothing. He's not just trying to force socialism on our nation, but the whole world.
With all of that said, I know that there are at least 54 million citizens of the USA that want the UK to know, we appreciate them and their heart felt gifts of friendship and solidarity.
To:
Her Royal Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
His Excellency, Prime Minister Gordon Brown
The Great and Wonderful People of The United KingdomWe the People of the United States of America offer our deepest and sincerest apology for the rude and inconsiderate behavior of our President, who's duty it is to represent us, the people and not his own personal agenda. He has clearly fooled everyone, which is our fault and responsibility. However, we want you to know how your gifts of solidarity and friendship have meant a great deal to us, despite his rude and inconsiderate behavior. We also ask that instead of keeping your gift of the bust of that magnificent man, Winston Churchill, that you please preserve it until we have earned it once more and can appreciate it properly. We first must clean our own house of the scum and rabble we have allowed into it, in all three of our major houses of our Federal government.
We ask for your understanding and patience, and we make only one simple request. That is, to help expose those that would want to bring down both of our forms of freedom and liberty. We have never needed an ally more than now. Previously we have come to your rescue on more than one occasion, and have stood together, resolute in our friendship many times after. We now ask for your help to keep us free from tyranny this time. We have allowed the wolves into the barn, and now they are gorging themselves on power and making changes and policy we're afraid may not only damage our nation, but the world.
With heartfelt thanks and appreciation,
The People of The United States of America (at least 54 million of them)
Congratulations on your coup. You have successfully convinced a bunch of idiots about how you are going to rescue them in their irresponsibility and stupidity, give them money they did not earn from those that worked hard for their money, and made promises you immediately broke in your first week of office. It's amazing how charisma, charm, and articulate speech, which makes some liberal newscasters get tingling in their legs, got you, a Chicago sleaze-bag politician nobody, into the most powerful position in the world.
We all know you don't care that your cabinet selections all should be in jail for tax evasion, because of your example, they know they are better than the rest of us. They have succeeded even where Al Capone failed. Good work!
Now that you got the rest of your comrades with enough power to do whatever you tell them to do, you can now begin to form this country into something you, and your teachers (Bill Ayers, Saul Alinski, Reverend Wright, etc) taught you to do. You've been following Saul's formula to the letter, and so far it has been successful. Your plans of ruining the capitalist economy to force a global currency is well on its way. The technique's that Saul taught you to convince people to allow you to turn over private ownership to the government looks to be succeeding as well. We all know that in order for this to succeed, you have to get it done before everyone realizes what you are really doing; and that's socializing America. After all, you know better than some primitive idiots back in the 1700's about how people should live and be allowed to live. Everyone know that intellectuals that sit in Univerisities all their lives know more about the world than those that actually have to work in the system.
Now of course there's the constant preaching of comrades to force the rich to pay more taxes and allow that money to be given to those that didn't earn that money. It was a good idea to make them look like the bad guys, even though it's the rich that give jobs to others. It's almost funny how they preach about this and yet don't pay taxes themselves. Al Capone would be impressed!
You have succeeded in having been the first President to have more sleaze-bags and crooks in his administration than any previous, including the Clinton and Nixon administrations combined! Well done!
However, what impresses me the most, is how you are paying off those that funded your campaign and carreer, by calling it a "Stimulus Package". How masterful! You have been able to put together a veritable Christmas bags worth of useless liberal gifts to organizations and other things that have absolutely nothing to do with stimulating the economy. You have successfully put together a full pork package, without anything useful to hide that pork other than a name! You have, with sweet talking, and emotion, been able to tell the citizens of the United States of America to go to Hell, and yet are making them look forward to the trip! Genius!!
If the country is still around after your first term, I'm anxious to see what other methods you'll use to sieze power from the people. Heck, Joseph Stalin did it, and the people cheered for him. Adolf Hitler did it, and the people would cry at his speeches even get tingling up their legs when he spoke. If you can keep this up, then surely you can sieze even more power and property to finally make this a socialized Utopia, and since the UN and world population depends so much on America, they'll fall right in, and then you'll finally be able to prove that socialism works, even after it has always failed previously. The key here being there will not be a competing system to destroy it. How clever!
I am also impressed at how you have, with your comrades, distracted the populace from religion by supplanting it with a false religion. The religion of Global Warming and environmentalism. A very clever way to gain control of private enterprise while distracting the populace with fear and lies. I mean seriously, you've got them convinced that small cars and wind power will solve all problems. I was impressed with your statements claiming people had to get rid of their gas guzzlers, turn the heating down to 68 degrees, use florescent bulbs, and use tire gages to combat the climate demons. I love how you put yourself above everyone else by driving a brand new GM limo with super heavy metal plating and the largest gasoline engine GM makes that barely will get 6 miles to the gallon, then you crank up the heat in the oval office to 85 degrees because you're from Hawaii and as we all know, all Illinois politicians from Hawaii deserve special treatment and don't have to live the standards they preach. I mean, you're the President and they are just the people clinging to their religion and guns. They couldn't possibly think for themselves. They need someone to tell them how to live and what to do. It was Vladimire Lenin that said, "A lie told often enough becomes the truth", and you have the news media in your pockets. Well played!
I love how your minions are blind to the obvious truth and have chosen to unconditionally follow you to the ends of the Earth. They have a knack for excusing criminal behavior in their fellow comrades and call it forgivable mistakes, yet when one opposes them on the radio, for example, they will try every means they can to shut them up and censor them. We both know the truth must never be exposed. After, one of your contemporaries of the past, Adolf Hitler, said, "The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one. ... What luck for rulers that men do not think!" Your friends in Hollywood have been quite successful at distracting the populace from thinking.
I may want to point out something though. Americans have a reputation for not accepting authority forced upon them for a long period of time. You see, unlike Europe, whos population, until recently, was used to a dictator or socialist oligarchy running their country for centuries. They lost the will to fight it. Americans, on the other hand, are famous for not putting up with such crap, at least not for long. I predict to you, Mr. President, that if a peaceful and civil means is lost to the American people to fix this mess (that's being able to vote the change), that the revolutionary war of 1776 will be nothing compared to a second revolution to restore the Constitutional government as it was originally. This, by no means is a personal threat, but is a result of historical observation and my opinion. History tends to repeat itself. The USA as it is today, has turned into the country those earlier revolutionists originally fought against. It stands to reason that unless major changes are made to restore the country as it was originally, that a revolution will happen again.
John F. Kennedy, a predecessor of yours, did say that when a government removes the means for the people to change it peacefully, then an unpeaceful method is all that is left to emerge. Let's hope your actions don't cause this to happen.
Sincerely,
SuperSparky
The Women Love Me
This is a rather unusual article today. I spent a great many hours today reading the articles of other bloggers on the Internet, both professional and amateur. The read the likes of Ann Coulter, Newt Gingrich, Chuck Norris, etc. and of course many unknowns. I even read the comment sections. Usually with the pros the comments were only from the readers without response of the author. This, usually, is a good thing, to isolate the author from the public, for the high profile authors. However, I would like to see the occasional reply or debate from these professionals. Such debates tend to be interesting and revealing.
I did, however, read many more of the amateur blogs and thought how interesting and different some were. I could easily spot the ones completely living off of gossip and the FUD of the world, sucking up all of the available BS and propaganda as if it was gospel; obviously without any research whatsoever. I also saw some carefully thought out and researched articles, some I didn't agree with, but I could certainly see and respect how they came to their conclusions.
One common thing I found interesting was the comments sections of the good articles tended to keep with the subject of the article itself. The vague or bad articles, if they had comments, typically was full of flaming tirades having nothing to do with the topic at hand. There were lots of "you suck!" or "Bush lied!" or other such well worn excuses to blather or jump to when you can't put together a coherrant and intelligent argument. One even turned into a "yo mama's so fat" back and forth! Oddly enough, more interesting than the article itself.
When I write an article, I know it's a good one based upon the type of comments I receive, if any. It doesn't matter if those comments are an argument against my opinions or for them. I find if the person is passionate and thoughtful about their response, I know I have done my job. I've written articles along many topics so far, not all politically based, although I tend to lean in that direction. Some had 100% positive comments full of "way to go!" and such, and others have been controversial enough to have well thought out debates and contrary opinions in the comments. Both I consider successful.
Sure, I don't get the readership I want, but those that do read deem it worth their time to offer their opinions in the comments section. This is my ultimate goal, is to get people to think and talk about topics I find important enough to spend the time to write.
Finally, I get to the sad part. It's those bloggers who, even though it's their right, have no business wasting bandwidth and our time. These are the complainers, the ones who just barf their FUD all over the place without any sort of research or even reality as their foundation or basis. It's like reading a post by one of those people on the Tonight Show's "Jay Walking" shorts. These are people who somehow floated through school but couldn't show you where they lived on a map, or tell you who the Vice President is, or even tell you how the government works (if writing about such a topic); but could certainly tell you who won and lost on American Idol or what happened on the lst episode of Lost. It is those kind of posts where you have realized that you wish you could have that wasted experience sucked from your brain and that wasted time back. It's like those people that say they voted for a candidate because they promised "change", but couldn't tell you what that change was. You know the type.
Then there are the new bloggers, those are the ones I mainly thought about when writing the headline for this article. It takes a lot of courage to write a blog and let people know your opinions. There are people out there that are like ravenous wolves that can tear you to pieces, verbally, if you do not have a good foundation in what you write about.
If someone gives you a "wound", don't whine and moan about how you were deceived or tricked into getting it. Learn from it and press on. If you can't then perhaps you may want to try another hobby or form of expression.
You have a right to express your opinion, and your readers have every right to prove you're a moron / genius / visionary / idiot etc. if your foundation is poor. Don't cry about it. Show a little backbone you weenie!
