I have nothing profound to offer here, but it dawned on me that a site so keenly dedicated to the Descent of America under an Obama administration would offer some note of celebration or relief at having finally come to be out from under his reign. Consider this that.
It may also be worth mentioning that the end of Obama's term doesn't necessarily mean the descent has stopped. Trump's ascendancy seems in some ways to signal a turning around of the great ship of state, but at this very early juncture, that cannot be considered in any way a matter of fact. He is the Donald, after all.
And there's that little matter of an incredibly divided populace, with one side in the throws of a very petulant tantrum that Donald is not Hillary. That wasn't supposed to happen. It's still shocking, in fact, even for those of us who were willing to cast our votes for Trump in order to deny Clinton her victory. As such, Trump could pull off that hair, peel away his face to expose Jesus Christ Himself behind that weird facade and still the looney left would continue to lament her loss, criticize every action and basically, be themselves. I am left to wonder how much different the response would be if Ted Cruz had gotten to this point.
So far, with only about two weeks in, Trump seems to be moving in the right direction, albeit with his typical goofiness and self-promotion. But the actual moves are almost all correct, even if not perfectly implemented. I can't help but feel, though, that I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'm not keen on his "trade agreement" position, for example, and I believe that thus far he seems to be considerably off base on that issue. However, that's just one against all the pretty decent stuff that's been done thus far.
The point here is that what he has been doing must pay dividends of some noticeable degree, such to the extent that his opponents must recognize and acknowledge them, in order to hope that the American Descent is not simply slowed, but actually reversed to the extent that we will indeed have made American great again.
But even that does not mean that the culture is saved. If the character of the American people is not elevated, nothing else will really matter. THAT descent is more troubling than our economy, or border security or anything else about our "greatness".
But at least the incessant whining will have abated. That's a start.
Friday, February 3, 2017
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Doing The Work Of Radical Islam...
OBAMA.
WORST!
PRESIDENT!
EVER!
WORST!
PRESIDENT!
EVER!
And a genuine danger to the United States of America
Monday, June 23, 2014
Killing Them Softly... Real World
I was lent a movie last week called "Killing Them Softly." It's not a movie I'll endorse in so far as story is concerned; the film is rife with filth--particularly language. I felt very uncomfortable watching it, but I was told there was a pay-off at the end. And there was, of a sorts... a philosophical pay-off. In the very last minute of this film Brad Pitt's character, Jackie Cogan, a paid enforcer for the mob, is trying to get paid... but even the mob has had to cut back because of Obama's abysmal handling of the economy...
When I heard this I was torn between wanting to defend a great American patriot, and shouting 'Right on!' at the television. In that one moment I was both Conservative and Liberal. What Jackie Cogan says is the truth. Jefferson did write those words, that "...all men are created equal." Jefferson did own slaves, had children by them, and allowed those children to continue to live as slaves. In short Jefferson was as big a hypocrite as there is. And yet we laud him for giving us this great country of ours.
The America I knew... the one I was raised to love, the one to whom I swore to 'support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic' has ceased to be THAT America... the one I was raised to love.
We have been, and are being, lied to. We've been played like puppets into a managed, or rigged game no one wins but the political class. We are being 'killed softly' each and every day by men and women we ask to represent us.
Short of dropping two, not one, nuclear device on Japan, Barack Obama is America's greatest modern mistake. He claims to be Christian, but does nothing remotely Christian in his daily life. He claims not to be muslim, but participates in muslim holidays. He goes to Mexico to speak with President Enrique Nieto, but not once mentions or asks about our soldier being held in a Mexican prison, nor attemps any negotiation for his release, but he will negotiate with terrorists for the release of another.
Liberals like to believe we are all members of one community, dependent upon one another. But this is a lie. We are not a community. We are not a village. We are not a tribe. We are not a collective of any such sort, except to say we are a nation filled with people. If anything, we are all pawns.
As Republicans and Democrats we are both fed trope and tripe of a particular bent and told to wave them like banners of truth. But they aren't truth, in and of themselves. They are only half truths. You will never find truth in any one political party. There's a little bit of truth in both, but neither one owns a monopoly on truth. Even ideologically, truth will never be found exclusively in one camp. You will not find Conservatism nor Liberalism to be sole possessors of Truth. What you will find, however, are puppet masters in both camps manipulating their followers, pulling strings and sipping tea on the beach while their troops die in waves.
Jefferson wrote, "we find these truths to be self evident..." and so truth is. It cannot be truly manipulated; truth is truth, and falsehood, falsehood.
Many are saying this country needs to be woken up. Well, I disagree. I believe each and every individual needs to be woken up. You'll say I'm mincing words, but am I really? Our country is neither awake nor asleep; ideas and borders neither sleep nor eat. But individuals do.
And while we're sleeping, political enforcers (politicians and bureaucracy both) kill us in our complacency (beds).
More to come.
This post is not open to comments at this time. Members of this blog can comment within the post or, if they so choose, can open this post to comments. I'll leave it to them.
Barack Obama (on TV): ...to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one...
Driver: You hear that line? Line's for you.
Jackie Cogan: Don't make me laugh. One people. It's a myth created by Thomas Jefferson.
Driver: Oh, so now you're going to have a go at Jefferson, huh?
Jackie Cogan: My friend, Thomas Jefferson is an American saint because he wrote the words 'All men are created equal', words he clearly didn't believe since he allowed his own children to live in slavery. He's a rich white snob who's sick of paying taxes to the Brits. So, yeah, he writes some lovely words and aroused the rabble and they went and died for those words while he sat back and drank his wine and fucked his slave girl. This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community? Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America you're on your own. America's not a country. It's just a business. Now fuckin' pay me.
When I heard this I was torn between wanting to defend a great American patriot, and shouting 'Right on!' at the television. In that one moment I was both Conservative and Liberal. What Jackie Cogan says is the truth. Jefferson did write those words, that "...all men are created equal." Jefferson did own slaves, had children by them, and allowed those children to continue to live as slaves. In short Jefferson was as big a hypocrite as there is. And yet we laud him for giving us this great country of ours.
The America I knew... the one I was raised to love, the one to whom I swore to 'support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic' has ceased to be THAT America... the one I was raised to love.
We have been, and are being, lied to. We've been played like puppets into a managed, or rigged game no one wins but the political class. We are being 'killed softly' each and every day by men and women we ask to represent us.
Short of dropping two, not one, nuclear device on Japan, Barack Obama is America's greatest modern mistake. He claims to be Christian, but does nothing remotely Christian in his daily life. He claims not to be muslim, but participates in muslim holidays. He goes to Mexico to speak with President Enrique Nieto, but not once mentions or asks about our soldier being held in a Mexican prison, nor attemps any negotiation for his release, but he will negotiate with terrorists for the release of another.
Liberals like to believe we are all members of one community, dependent upon one another. But this is a lie. We are not a community. We are not a village. We are not a tribe. We are not a collective of any such sort, except to say we are a nation filled with people. If anything, we are all pawns.
As Republicans and Democrats we are both fed trope and tripe of a particular bent and told to wave them like banners of truth. But they aren't truth, in and of themselves. They are only half truths. You will never find truth in any one political party. There's a little bit of truth in both, but neither one owns a monopoly on truth. Even ideologically, truth will never be found exclusively in one camp. You will not find Conservatism nor Liberalism to be sole possessors of Truth. What you will find, however, are puppet masters in both camps manipulating their followers, pulling strings and sipping tea on the beach while their troops die in waves.
Jefferson wrote, "we find these truths to be self evident..." and so truth is. It cannot be truly manipulated; truth is truth, and falsehood, falsehood.
Many are saying this country needs to be woken up. Well, I disagree. I believe each and every individual needs to be woken up. You'll say I'm mincing words, but am I really? Our country is neither awake nor asleep; ideas and borders neither sleep nor eat. But individuals do.
And while we're sleeping, political enforcers (politicians and bureaucracy both) kill us in our complacency (beds).
More to come.
This post is not open to comments at this time. Members of this blog can comment within the post or, if they so choose, can open this post to comments. I'll leave it to them.
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Eric. The Prophet.
Take a look at the graphics above, folks. Read the early posts on this blog.
Eric Ashley is a modern day prophet. Of this I have no doubt. I am proud to have blogged with him!
Oh! And with Mark as well!
Eric Ashley is a modern day prophet. Of this I have no doubt. I am proud to have blogged with him!
Oh! And with Mark as well!
Monday, December 23, 2013
Had To Steal and Repost Here
thought this would be great for a rare post at this blog:
During the 3-1/2 years of World War 2 that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the Surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, the U.S. produced 22 aircraft carriers, 8 battleships, 48 cruisers, 349 destroyers, 420 destroyer escorts, 203 submarines, 34 million tons of merchant ships, 100,000 fighter aircraft, 98,000 bombers, 24,000 transport aircraft, 58,000 training aircraft, 93,000 tanks, 257,000 artillery pieces, 105,000 mortars, 3,000,000 machine guns, and 2,500,000 military trucks.
We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services, invaded Africa, invaded Sicily and Italy, won the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb and ultimately conquered Japan and Germany.
It's worth noting, that during the almost exact amount of time, the Obama administration couldn't build a functioning web site.
During the 3-1/2 years of World War 2 that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the Surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, the U.S. produced 22 aircraft carriers, 8 battleships, 48 cruisers, 349 destroyers, 420 destroyer escorts, 203 submarines, 34 million tons of merchant ships, 100,000 fighter aircraft, 98,000 bombers, 24,000 transport aircraft, 58,000 training aircraft, 93,000 tanks, 257,000 artillery pieces, 105,000 mortars, 3,000,000 machine guns, and 2,500,000 military trucks.
We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services, invaded Africa, invaded Sicily and Italy, won the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb and ultimately conquered Japan and Germany.
It's worth noting, that during the almost exact amount of time, the Obama administration couldn't build a functioning web site.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
This Is Going to Sound Insensitive to Some
Captured from the Drudge Report a couple days ago...
Here is a young man, new to the world of professional football. And he's admittedly Christian. Like Tebow. Is his stand as a Christian the reason for all the nastiness being thrown his way? Few, if anyone, are going to come out and admit that such is the case, and I can't say definitively that it IS the case. All I can speak to is what I see, and what I believe.
What I see is a cancer that has metastasized in the bones and deep tissue of our nations soul... a spiritual vacuum. Many will deny that it exists, but that doesn't change the fact--the FACT--that there is a growing disdain (to put it mildly), and a growing hostility for anything and anyone that "pushes" a belief that calls for a separated life; that asks its followers to live holy and separated lives unto God. The accusation is, invariably, that such people are hypocrites because so many of "them" commit sin. But here's the rub. It is impossible to NOT commit sin, and especially for Christians, because they are under far greater spiritual pressure AND attack than are the unsaved. After all, what need do the forces of evil have, truly, of attacking the unsaved? They are already dead-- spiritually speaking. Those who attack Christians for being "holier than thou" and "hypocrites" only demonstrate their ignorance in matters of grace. Those who attack Christians are actually trying to extinguish any light that may shine upon their own lives.
So, the lost have the temerity to mock, decry and defame anyone of, or anything proposed by faith in God, yet they call out to God in grief (as they rightly should) when a young man enters a school and murders twenty-six living souls. They call out to God on the one hand...
...but live as though he doesn't exist on the other.
Jesus said to the religious hypocrites of his day, paraphrasing... 'you claim that had you lived in the time of the prophets you would not have been partakers in their murders; but you proudly claim descent from those same men who murdered the prophets, and even now plot to kill me!' In other words, you play at righteousness by putting on an outward robe, but do nothing in your heart, let alone your consistent actions, to demonstrate there is any validity in your outward claim.
Jesus, then, said, "You who murdered the prophets...," but he could just as easily say today, "you who slaughter the innocent... tens of millions of them and still counting!"
Not a single one of those slain Sandy Hook children are in hell. I know that's small comfort to anyone with a heart, and especially the victim's families. I know it sounds insensitive, but I can't worry about that right now. There's a reason I'm writing this, and that is to point out something most of you have missed. This nation has spent the last several decades pushing God away, especially from our schools. Is it then any wonder that someone, some twenty year old young man, felt the need to walk into a school and murder children?
No... not a single one of those children are absent from the presence of God. That cannot, however, be said of a certainty of any of the adults who also died, even those who shielded the children with their bodies. Jesus said 'wide is the road to destruction, but narrow is the path to salvation, and few there are that find it.' It is my sincerest hope that not a single adult died without Christ, but...
When entire generations grow up within a godless system of education, what can we expect but godlessness? Many are questioning God's love because of what has happened, but few if any are questioning themselves. Take God out of the equation and something will, invariably, fill the vacuum. If we don't train our children up to fear and reverence God, they will grow up to be empty, and eventually bitter. They will look to find something to fill the void. For a few, when that search leaves them emptier still, they will resort to the unthinkable.
We mock those who fear God. And when we deny our children the right to carry Him with them to school, Sandy Hook Elementary is the result. In response to Sandy Hook America won't think to institute a bible reading program into the nation's school curricula. Instead, this nation will seek to deny firearms to its people. It was the gun which killed all those innocent people at Sandy Hook, not the shooter. Instead of teaching our children to fish, we're blindly lashing out and simply giving them a fish to eat... taking away the gun. We haven't taught them how to cope with the hopelessness that is living in a godless vacuum... we haven't taught them how to fish.
We claim to be Christian, but we don't do anything 'Christiany'. We drink, we smoke, we "sleep" around, we steal, we lie, and we kill. We allow abortion to continue unabated for decades. We allow just about every immoral penchant imaginable into our eyes, ears, hearts, minds, and homes. Then we get up on Sunday morning, put on church clothes, listen to the pastor preach for approximately twenty minutes, and think ourselves good Christians for sacrificing our Sunday mornings for the appearance of Godliness. In other words, we white-wash the sepulchers of our bodies without bothering to clean out the dead and rot contained therein.
Men who claim to be holy-- who choose to acknowledge God publicly --are ridiculed and discounted, while others who merely pretend at holiness, hold themselves up as paragons of virtue... all the while standing up for nothing but political parties, and the socials mores they defend.
To fix what is wrong with America would require teaching our students love and reverence God. The students have the ultimate say, of course, as to whether they want God or not, but they need to have a moral compass implanted into their hearts, or at the very least have some directions installed in their minds. Because what we saw at Sandy Hook can be traced directly to a lack of faith in the classroom. It can be traced all the way back to when prayer and the Bible were removed from the classroom.
As Jeremiah Wright was one heard to have said... "America's chickens have come home to roost."
And God help us all.
Here is a young man, new to the world of professional football. And he's admittedly Christian. Like Tebow. Is his stand as a Christian the reason for all the nastiness being thrown his way? Few, if anyone, are going to come out and admit that such is the case, and I can't say definitively that it IS the case. All I can speak to is what I see, and what I believe.
What I see is a cancer that has metastasized in the bones and deep tissue of our nations soul... a spiritual vacuum. Many will deny that it exists, but that doesn't change the fact--the FACT--that there is a growing disdain (to put it mildly), and a growing hostility for anything and anyone that "pushes" a belief that calls for a separated life; that asks its followers to live holy and separated lives unto God. The accusation is, invariably, that such people are hypocrites because so many of "them" commit sin. But here's the rub. It is impossible to NOT commit sin, and especially for Christians, because they are under far greater spiritual pressure AND attack than are the unsaved. After all, what need do the forces of evil have, truly, of attacking the unsaved? They are already dead-- spiritually speaking. Those who attack Christians for being "holier than thou" and "hypocrites" only demonstrate their ignorance in matters of grace. Those who attack Christians are actually trying to extinguish any light that may shine upon their own lives.
So, the lost have the temerity to mock, decry and defame anyone of, or anything proposed by faith in God, yet they call out to God in grief (as they rightly should) when a young man enters a school and murders twenty-six living souls. They call out to God on the one hand...
...but live as though he doesn't exist on the other.
Jesus said to the religious hypocrites of his day, paraphrasing... 'you claim that had you lived in the time of the prophets you would not have been partakers in their murders; but you proudly claim descent from those same men who murdered the prophets, and even now plot to kill me!' In other words, you play at righteousness by putting on an outward robe, but do nothing in your heart, let alone your consistent actions, to demonstrate there is any validity in your outward claim.
Jesus, then, said, "You who murdered the prophets...," but he could just as easily say today, "you who slaughter the innocent... tens of millions of them and still counting!"
Not a single one of those slain Sandy Hook children are in hell. I know that's small comfort to anyone with a heart, and especially the victim's families. I know it sounds insensitive, but I can't worry about that right now. There's a reason I'm writing this, and that is to point out something most of you have missed. This nation has spent the last several decades pushing God away, especially from our schools. Is it then any wonder that someone, some twenty year old young man, felt the need to walk into a school and murder children?
No... not a single one of those children are absent from the presence of God. That cannot, however, be said of a certainty of any of the adults who also died, even those who shielded the children with their bodies. Jesus said 'wide is the road to destruction, but narrow is the path to salvation, and few there are that find it.' It is my sincerest hope that not a single adult died without Christ, but...
When entire generations grow up within a godless system of education, what can we expect but godlessness? Many are questioning God's love because of what has happened, but few if any are questioning themselves. Take God out of the equation and something will, invariably, fill the vacuum. If we don't train our children up to fear and reverence God, they will grow up to be empty, and eventually bitter. They will look to find something to fill the void. For a few, when that search leaves them emptier still, they will resort to the unthinkable.
We mock those who fear God. And when we deny our children the right to carry Him with them to school, Sandy Hook Elementary is the result. In response to Sandy Hook America won't think to institute a bible reading program into the nation's school curricula. Instead, this nation will seek to deny firearms to its people. It was the gun which killed all those innocent people at Sandy Hook, not the shooter. Instead of teaching our children to fish, we're blindly lashing out and simply giving them a fish to eat... taking away the gun. We haven't taught them how to cope with the hopelessness that is living in a godless vacuum... we haven't taught them how to fish.
We claim to be Christian, but we don't do anything 'Christiany'. We drink, we smoke, we "sleep" around, we steal, we lie, and we kill. We allow abortion to continue unabated for decades. We allow just about every immoral penchant imaginable into our eyes, ears, hearts, minds, and homes. Then we get up on Sunday morning, put on church clothes, listen to the pastor preach for approximately twenty minutes, and think ourselves good Christians for sacrificing our Sunday mornings for the appearance of Godliness. In other words, we white-wash the sepulchers of our bodies without bothering to clean out the dead and rot contained therein.
Men who claim to be holy-- who choose to acknowledge God publicly --are ridiculed and discounted, while others who merely pretend at holiness, hold themselves up as paragons of virtue... all the while standing up for nothing but political parties, and the socials mores they defend.
To fix what is wrong with America would require teaching our students love and reverence God. The students have the ultimate say, of course, as to whether they want God or not, but they need to have a moral compass implanted into their hearts, or at the very least have some directions installed in their minds. Because what we saw at Sandy Hook can be traced directly to a lack of faith in the classroom. It can be traced all the way back to when prayer and the Bible were removed from the classroom.
As Jeremiah Wright was one heard to have said... "America's chickens have come home to roost."
And God help us all.
Monday, November 26, 2012
INSANE.... Spiritually speaking...
When half a nation divests itself of commonsense; when half a nation has no fear of God, blasphemy is not far behind.
I don't care to see blasphemy laws enacted here in the US; especially the one fronted by the U.N. (The only religion it would defend, primarily, is Islam). I believe everyone has the right to say what he wants provided it doesn't cause harm; the right to swing my fist, for example, ends at the tip of your nose, or crying 'fire!' in a crowded building.
So what can we say about Jamie Foxx who asked a crowded auditorium to "give an honor to...our lord and savior Barack Obama"? He was only joking? Who jokes about such a thing? A fool. A fool with no reverence for, or fear of, God.
This is what comes of removing all vestiges of God in our education and judicial systems, and public square. We are a nation who has forgotten God.
But Jamie Foxx was only joking!
I believe he was, but this is nothing to joke about. Barack Obama didn't die a painful and humiliating death on the cross to save us from our sin. God didn't so love the world that he gave his ONLY begotten son, Barack Obama, that whosoever believed on him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Barack Obama is not God!
That's right, Jesus IS God, and God is Jesus.
Now, what man is it the bible says will be revered and worshiped as God? Do I really need to answer that? Do I believe that man which the bible describes is Barack Obama? Certainly not. But neither do I believe Obama is a born again believer of Christ. And I can't imagine any born again believer saying what Jamie Foxx did, unless he was seriously backslidden, and his conscience dramatically seared.
This country is sick. It needs a healer. It needs a Godly prescription. Otherwise the cancer which has already metastasized in America's soul will surely kill it. And soon.
I don't care to see blasphemy laws enacted here in the US; especially the one fronted by the U.N. (The only religion it would defend, primarily, is Islam). I believe everyone has the right to say what he wants provided it doesn't cause harm; the right to swing my fist, for example, ends at the tip of your nose, or crying 'fire!' in a crowded building.
So what can we say about Jamie Foxx who asked a crowded auditorium to "give an honor to...our lord and savior Barack Obama"? He was only joking? Who jokes about such a thing? A fool. A fool with no reverence for, or fear of, God.
This is what comes of removing all vestiges of God in our education and judicial systems, and public square. We are a nation who has forgotten God.
But Jamie Foxx was only joking!
I believe he was, but this is nothing to joke about. Barack Obama didn't die a painful and humiliating death on the cross to save us from our sin. God didn't so love the world that he gave his ONLY begotten son, Barack Obama, that whosoever believed on him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Barack Obama is not God!
That's right, Jesus IS God, and God is Jesus.
Now, what man is it the bible says will be revered and worshiped as God? Do I really need to answer that? Do I believe that man which the bible describes is Barack Obama? Certainly not. But neither do I believe Obama is a born again believer of Christ. And I can't imagine any born again believer saying what Jamie Foxx did, unless he was seriously backslidden, and his conscience dramatically seared.
This country is sick. It needs a healer. It needs a Godly prescription. Otherwise the cancer which has already metastasized in America's soul will surely kill it. And soon.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
It's Your Fault
by Ben Kinchlow (formerly of The 700 Club)
It’s your fault! Yes, yours! Don’t look around, look in the mirror. It’s your fault, you hard-working nine-to-fivers, small business owners, corporate staffs, factory owners and workers. You are to blame for the current state of affairs in America, for the liberal (now “progressive”) oriented 49 percenters who voted Obama in for another four years. You are to blame.
Yeah, I know some of you are asking (some a little less polite but just as hot), “How in blazes can you say this is my fault? I worked my tail off to get where I am, and I don’t care what Obama says, I did build it!” Yes you did, and that’s the problem.
Let’s set the “way back” machine to the “revolution” of the ’60s. Remember? Hippies, free love, “make love, not war,” acid trips, the Jesus movement, sit-ins, etc.; some of us were right in the middle of it. “Yeah, yeah, that was then, this is now. What does that have to do with anything, especially what is going down in America today?” Just everything.
Let me make this short, sweet and to the point for you. This is what happened; yesterday, after the last “toke on the doobie,” the last acid trip and the “Jesus freaks” off in church somewhere, we all started down the road to today.
All you hard-working nine-to-fivers, small and large business owners, corporate staff, factory owners and workers, what did you do? Let me guess – in pursuit of the American dream, you finished school and/or joined the service or went to work or into business. You knew that while there might be a free-love scene (maybe even participated. I mean, it was free, right?), you knew there was no free lunch, and so you hung up your “tie dyes” and went out and hit it.
You had learned from Mom and Pop, Grand-père or friends and relations that, despite the long hair’s rhetoric, there was no free lunch (“You don’t work, you don’t eat”) and besides, “This is still America, the sky is the limit!” So you graduated, grabbed a briefcase or a lunch pail, punched the time clock and got with the program.
Oh yeah, what about the long haired, anti-American, sit-in types? Wonder what happened to them? After all, they weren’t into all this “work hard, succeed and make dreams come true in the land of opportunity” jazz. Well, guess what? They really did believe “your” America was faulty and needed to be changed. None of this “nine-to-five working stiff” jazz for them; they were determined, committed to changing the system. So, while you went into the market place, they went into academia and the media. While you were at work attempting to make life better and provide college for your kids, they became the teachers and professors in those self-same colleges you were struggling to put your kids through. (Lest some forget, all Ivy League colleges like Yale, Harvard, Princeton, etc., were founded as schools dedicated to educations based on biblical, not religious but transcendent, principles.)
Would you like to hazard a guess as to what many colleges/universities are teaching your kids today? While the president of Fordham University “scolded” a campus group for inviting Ann Coulter (whom they subsequently uninvited) to address the students, Bill Ayers (yes, that Bill Ayers) was warmly welcomed by the staff of an Oregon university campus.
This new “progressivism” (nee liberalism) isn’t really all that new. President Woodrow Wilson is reported to have said the purpose of modern education was “to make men as unlike their fathers as possible.” By the way, did you happen to notice the Democratic National Convention video which proclaimed, “Government is the one thing we all belong to”? Truth is, it is the other way around: Government belongs to us, not us to the government.
Here is what another individual had to say about the state:
“When there is state, there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom, there will be no state.” (Lenin)
Early feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman wanted the state to destroy “the unchecked tyranny … of the private home.”
It is interesting to discover that colleges (and the media) are subtly (or not so subtly) indoctrinating your kids with a different worldview. You know, the one that says America is all wrong; that rich isn’t right (unless you are a movie star, rock star or you are endowing leftist college funds); the other rich folks, the “stinking capitalists” (the ones that worked for it) should take care of the less fortunate – you know, the unmarried “baby mamas” and their “baby daddies” (new correct terminology for unmarried women who get knocked up by men they aren’t married to – neither of whom is working, by the way).
A professor at the University of Rochester, in an article widely read by many college students, has argued that Romney’s success in life is based not on hard work, sacrifice and opportunities available to all, but on “privilege” – “white privilege” – and here you thought it was about study, preparation, hard work and commitment.
Of course, you must understand you can’t expect today’s “free thinkers” to work in some unfulfilling job at a measly minimum wage for some “capitalist pig” or learn some demeaning blue-collar skills. Anyway, “Society owes me, the government has all that money, let the fat cats pay a little more. Besides, if the government (you) had paid for my birth control pills, or abortion (you prudes), I wouldn’t be in this mess. It’s all your fault.”
Wonder where this sort of thinking came from? Perhaps these interesting quotes by Vladimir Lenin may give us some additional insight:
“Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.”
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
So, as they say south of the border, and now in many Western states, “Que paso?”
That’s what happened. Both of you – husbands and wives – were so busy making a living you had to turn your children’s education and your media over to the “professionals.” From local school boards to the PTA to university faculties, the “pros” took over.
When they took God out of the classroom, we submitted to their wisdom. As they transformed our basic “old fashioned” (American) values into thinly disguised “modern” (socialist/communist) principles, we were too busy watching the “news” and/or Archie Bunker (our favorite replacement for “Father Knows Best”) to notice.
Instead of telling us who we are, they have focused on telling us who we are not. Emphasis was/is on what we do not have, instead of what we do have.
Guess what? If you (and I) don’t step up and begin to take back our “old-fashioned” America and we end up like most of the “new modern” European Common Market countries, guess whose fault that will be.
It’s your fault! Yes, yours! Don’t look around, look in the mirror. It’s your fault, you hard-working nine-to-fivers, small business owners, corporate staffs, factory owners and workers. You are to blame for the current state of affairs in America, for the liberal (now “progressive”) oriented 49 percenters who voted Obama in for another four years. You are to blame.
Yeah, I know some of you are asking (some a little less polite but just as hot), “How in blazes can you say this is my fault? I worked my tail off to get where I am, and I don’t care what Obama says, I did build it!” Yes you did, and that’s the problem.
Let’s set the “way back” machine to the “revolution” of the ’60s. Remember? Hippies, free love, “make love, not war,” acid trips, the Jesus movement, sit-ins, etc.; some of us were right in the middle of it. “Yeah, yeah, that was then, this is now. What does that have to do with anything, especially what is going down in America today?” Just everything.
Let me make this short, sweet and to the point for you. This is what happened; yesterday, after the last “toke on the doobie,” the last acid trip and the “Jesus freaks” off in church somewhere, we all started down the road to today.
All you hard-working nine-to-fivers, small and large business owners, corporate staff, factory owners and workers, what did you do? Let me guess – in pursuit of the American dream, you finished school and/or joined the service or went to work or into business. You knew that while there might be a free-love scene (maybe even participated. I mean, it was free, right?), you knew there was no free lunch, and so you hung up your “tie dyes” and went out and hit it.
You had learned from Mom and Pop, Grand-père or friends and relations that, despite the long hair’s rhetoric, there was no free lunch (“You don’t work, you don’t eat”) and besides, “This is still America, the sky is the limit!” So you graduated, grabbed a briefcase or a lunch pail, punched the time clock and got with the program.
Oh yeah, what about the long haired, anti-American, sit-in types? Wonder what happened to them? After all, they weren’t into all this “work hard, succeed and make dreams come true in the land of opportunity” jazz. Well, guess what? They really did believe “your” America was faulty and needed to be changed. None of this “nine-to-five working stiff” jazz for them; they were determined, committed to changing the system. So, while you went into the market place, they went into academia and the media. While you were at work attempting to make life better and provide college for your kids, they became the teachers and professors in those self-same colleges you were struggling to put your kids through. (Lest some forget, all Ivy League colleges like Yale, Harvard, Princeton, etc., were founded as schools dedicated to educations based on biblical, not religious but transcendent, principles.)
Would you like to hazard a guess as to what many colleges/universities are teaching your kids today? While the president of Fordham University “scolded” a campus group for inviting Ann Coulter (whom they subsequently uninvited) to address the students, Bill Ayers (yes, that Bill Ayers) was warmly welcomed by the staff of an Oregon university campus.
This new “progressivism” (nee liberalism) isn’t really all that new. President Woodrow Wilson is reported to have said the purpose of modern education was “to make men as unlike their fathers as possible.” By the way, did you happen to notice the Democratic National Convention video which proclaimed, “Government is the one thing we all belong to”? Truth is, it is the other way around: Government belongs to us, not us to the government.
Here is what another individual had to say about the state:
“When there is state, there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom, there will be no state.” (Lenin)
Early feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman wanted the state to destroy “the unchecked tyranny … of the private home.”
It is interesting to discover that colleges (and the media) are subtly (or not so subtly) indoctrinating your kids with a different worldview. You know, the one that says America is all wrong; that rich isn’t right (unless you are a movie star, rock star or you are endowing leftist college funds); the other rich folks, the “stinking capitalists” (the ones that worked for it) should take care of the less fortunate – you know, the unmarried “baby mamas” and their “baby daddies” (new correct terminology for unmarried women who get knocked up by men they aren’t married to – neither of whom is working, by the way).
A professor at the University of Rochester, in an article widely read by many college students, has argued that Romney’s success in life is based not on hard work, sacrifice and opportunities available to all, but on “privilege” – “white privilege” – and here you thought it was about study, preparation, hard work and commitment.
Of course, you must understand you can’t expect today’s “free thinkers” to work in some unfulfilling job at a measly minimum wage for some “capitalist pig” or learn some demeaning blue-collar skills. Anyway, “Society owes me, the government has all that money, let the fat cats pay a little more. Besides, if the government (you) had paid for my birth control pills, or abortion (you prudes), I wouldn’t be in this mess. It’s all your fault.”
Wonder where this sort of thinking came from? Perhaps these interesting quotes by Vladimir Lenin may give us some additional insight:
“Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.”
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
So, as they say south of the border, and now in many Western states, “Que paso?”
That’s what happened. Both of you – husbands and wives – were so busy making a living you had to turn your children’s education and your media over to the “professionals.” From local school boards to the PTA to university faculties, the “pros” took over.
When they took God out of the classroom, we submitted to their wisdom. As they transformed our basic “old fashioned” (American) values into thinly disguised “modern” (socialist/communist) principles, we were too busy watching the “news” and/or Archie Bunker (our favorite replacement for “Father Knows Best”) to notice.
Instead of telling us who we are, they have focused on telling us who we are not. Emphasis was/is on what we do not have, instead of what we do have.
Guess what? If you (and I) don’t step up and begin to take back our “old-fashioned” America and we end up like most of the “new modern” European Common Market countries, guess whose fault that will be.
Friday, November 16, 2012
Budget to Further Reduce U.S. Military Edge
Red Flag Over The Atlantic
China is angling to take over a U.S. airbase in the Azores.
--Gordon G. Chang
With the threat of sequestration looming, could the loss of a strategic airbase in the northern Atlantic damage the U.S.'s ability to both defend itself and our allies, and remain a superpower?
So what's the big deal? Portugal just get's another tenant? The island doesn't suffer.
Unfortunately, that tenant could likely end up being China.
On a personal note, I spent a year on Terceira. It's beautiful... dormant volcano at the center; a volcanic attraction called the Calheta dos Biscoitos to the island's north; black basalt rock everywhere, especially shoring up the terraced agricultural fields. I had lot of fun on that island.
The island is only 240 square miles (roughly 18 miles long and 11 miles wide)... lush vegetation, and hedgehogs. I remember seeing hedgehogs up in the forested hills across from where I lived. If you have the time here's the island on Google Maps.
China is angling to take over a U.S. airbase in the Azores.
--Gordon G. Chang
With the threat of sequestration looming, could the loss of a strategic airbase in the northern Atlantic damage the U.S.'s ability to both defend itself and our allies, and remain a superpower?
...Pentagon budget cutters, according to some observers, are planning to make Lajes a “ghost base.”
At one time, the facility was critically important. During World War II, the airfield was instrumental in hunting U-boats, and in the Cold War the base helped the West track the Soviets. Lajes was a busy transit point in the Gulf War. It was one of the spots where the Space Shuttle could have landed in an emergency.
Now Lajes is home to the USAF’s 65th Air Base Wing, which supports American and NATO aircraft transiting the Atlantic, and it hosts various other American military units. Its role, nonetheless, is greatly diminished. Peace in the North Atlantic and advances in air-to-air refueling have decreased the importance of the strategic runway, which is now rarely used by the U.S.
So from a purely military point of view, the decision to cease operations at Lajes makes sense. The effective closure of the field, however, would send Terceira into a tailspin. While agriculture forms the basis of the island’s economy, the base directly accounts for about one in 20 jobs there.
Unemployment is already high, about 10 percent. If Terceira is to have any future, the Portuguese government will have to find a new major tenant for Air Base No. 4.
So what's the big deal? Portugal just get's another tenant? The island doesn't suffer.
Unfortunately, that tenant could likely end up being China.
Terceira, however, has one big attraction for Beijing: Air Base No. 4. Better known as Lajes Field, the facility where Premier Wen’s 747 landed in June is jointly operated by the U.S. Air Force and its Portuguese counterpart. If China controlled the base, the Atlantic would no longer be secure. From the 10,865-foot runway on the northeast edge of the island, Chinese planes could patrol the northern and central portions of the Atlantic and thereby cut air and sea traffic between the U.S. and Europe. Beijing would also be able to deny access to the nearby Mediterranean Sea.
And China could target the American homeland. Lajes is less than 2,300 miles from New York, shorter than the distance between Pearl Harbor and Los Angeles.
On a personal note, I spent a year on Terceira. It's beautiful... dormant volcano at the center; a volcanic attraction called the Calheta dos Biscoitos to the island's north; black basalt rock everywhere, especially shoring up the terraced agricultural fields. I had lot of fun on that island.
The island is only 240 square miles (roughly 18 miles long and 11 miles wide)... lush vegetation, and hedgehogs. I remember seeing hedgehogs up in the forested hills across from where I lived. If you have the time here's the island on Google Maps.
In a Nation Grown Indifferent Toward God
Franklin Graham:
'We Have Turned Our Backs on God'
Thursday, 15 Nov 2012
By Todd Beamon and Kathleen Walter
The Rev. Franklin Graham charged in an exclusive Newsmax TV interview that America is in a deep economic quagmire because “we have turned our backs on God.”
“The more we turn our backs on God, the bigger our problem becomes,” Graham, the son of world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham, tells Newsmax in a wide-ranging interview. “I didn’t hear any of the candidates say that we needed to call our nation to prayer. I didn’t hear any of the candidates say that we needed to ask God for help.
“We still think that we can work our way out of this problem – and I don’t think we can,” Graham added. “I don’t have confidence in the Republican Party right now, and I don’t have confidence in the Democratic Party.
“I don’t believe there is leadership in Washington that can solve this problem. We just deal with it as issues for the day, and it kicks the can further and further down the road. We need God’s help to solve this problem – we can’t go without God.”
Last week’s election results, which sent President Barack Obama back to the White House for another four years, put the nation further along a “path of destruction,” Graham said.
“There is no question that America has been a nation that has been blessed by almighty God. There is no other nation in the history of mankind that has done what his nation has done – and it’s because of God’s hand and his blessing.
“In the last four years, we have begun to turn our backs on God,” Graham reiterated. “We have taken God out of our education system. We have taken him out of government. You have lawyers that sue you every time you mention the name of Jesus Christ in any public forum.
“What has happened is we have allowed ourselves to take God out everything that we do – and I believe that God will judge our nation one day.”
And, “maybe God will have to bring our nation to our knees – to where that we just have a complete economic collapse” to do that, Graham said. “Maybe at that point, people will again call upon the name of almighty God.”
Unintended Consequences of Bad Ideas
Florida Denny's, Dairy Queens, Putting
'Obamacare Surcharge' on Bill
Thursday, 15 Nov 2012
Bill Hoffman
Financial fallout from Obamacare will spur dozens of eateries in South Florida to tack a five-percent surcharge onto all meals, one restaurant mogul says.
John Metz — who runs 40 Denny's and Dairy Queens and owns the Hurricane Grill & Wings franchise — says his business will be hit hard by the January 2014 start of President Barack Obama’s healthcare mandate.
And his only alternative is, “I’ve got to pass on the cost to the customer,’’ he told the Huffington Post.
When patrons see they have to cough up a five-percent surcharge, one possibility is they could end up reducing the amount of the tip they leave for their server.
In addition, Metz will reduce the hours of his employees.
“I think it's a terrible thing. It's ridiculous that the maximum hours we can give people is 28 hours a week instead of 40,’’ the West Palm Beach businessman said. “It's going to force my employees to go out and get a second job.'’
Metz plans to hold meetings at his restaurants next month to tell his staffers of the upcoming changes.
Obamacare will make businesses or franchises with more than 50 workers to offer a government-approved insurance plan.
Either that or they will have to pay a penalty of $2,000 for each full-time worker in businesses with more than 30 workers.
Other restaurant chains including Papa John's, Olive Garden and Red Lobsters have already announced that they will have to reduce employees’ hours.
Despite the potential turmoil to Americans’ wallets, a recent poll for Kaiser Health Tracking found 43 percent Americans had a favorable opinion of Obamacare as opposed to 39 percent against it.
The decision to tack on an Obamacare surcharge has caused plenty of reaction on Twitter, such as MPH Unlimited, who wrote: "Denny's to feature new 'Obabam Slam', you order one meal but you have to pay for every Taker currently waiting in the restaurant."
Only 43% of Americans have a favorable view of Obamacare. Just a few months ago some 63% of Americans wanted the law repealed and replaced with something more sensible. But 43% is hardly a majority, and of that number how many would rather see the law rebuilt altogether?
Here's the problem. Government hacks on both sides of the political fence routinely write and manage to pass bills that sound good on paper but strike a cacophony of discordant notes in implementation like, as detailed above:
- Surcharges for services
- Redefinition of 'full-time' work hours
Don't believe for a moment that additional surcharges at restaurants will be the only unintended consequence of the implementation Obamacare. The cost of everything is going to go up (I'd add "at least for a time," but the truth is, 'for a time' simply means 'that space between implementation and the moment when everyone gets used to the 'New Normal''), and stay up for the foreseeable future.
Making this even harder is the unintended consequence of the redefinition of 'full-time' hours. With everything costing more, people will soon have less money to throw around, unless they take on second-- and even third -- jobs to make ends meet. Law makers will likely then see the need to raise the minimum wage, which will in turn create even more problems.
In short, Americans are going to have to learn to live with less. And they'll learn to grow bitter about it. People almost always grow bitter over long periods of drought; especially of the financial and personal liberty variety. And their bitterness will inevitably be misdirected toward those people and enterprises who are themselves victims of Obamacares' unintended consequences.
In order to save themselves financially, many businesses will cut back on the number of employees they employ or raise their price point to cover the added cost of Obamacare, as well as cut everyone's hours, forcing most people to jump onto the 'government health plan' rolls... which was government's intention all along... to create more government dependents, thereby bolstering the rolls of the ne underclass-- the new Slavery.
Universal health care is not a bad idea.
Let me say that again. Universal health care is not a bad idea. The bad ideas are all in the implementation. Force enough people onto the government roll and more than a few private insurance outlets will shrivel up and clatter down the road like so many dead leaves in winter. Meanwhile, none of our congressmen or senators will have to be burdened with the hassles of government run healthcare-- of Obamacare --or the indignities it will foist on everyone else who can't afford a private insurance plan.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Where We're at, or Going... now... right this minute
In October of 2009 I posted the following article: A Second American Civil War? Liberal commenters complained about its length and supposed "false-logic chains". There was nothing false about the logic, merely disagreement with said logic. The point then was to illustrate that we are all puppets to government and media, more specifically to politicians and ideologues within mainstream media (it should go without saying that politicians are likewise, by and large, ideologues). Will there be another civil war? Not likely, we as a nation are too cowed by promise of cradle to grave care. We have, most of us at least, returned to the plantation.
September of last year, 2011, I posted another "Questions to Consider" entry. The main thrust of the post? What happens when 50% or more of Americans are getting a handout of some sort from the government? The answer? President Obama's victory last night.
To quote Rush Limbaugh today,
Despite my anger last night, and before closing my eyes, I thanked God for answering my prayer.
More on that later, as well.
September of last year, 2011, I posted another "Questions to Consider" entry. The main thrust of the post? What happens when 50% or more of Americans are getting a handout of some sort from the government? The answer? President Obama's victory last night.
To quote Rush Limbaugh today,
"One of the greatest misunderstandings in this country, if you boil all this down, is what creates prosperity. The Romney campaign was essentially about that, and the Romney campaign was devoted to the traditional American view and history -- vision, as well -- of what creates prosperity. The old capitalism, the old arguments of hard work, stick-to-itiveness, self-reliance, charity, helping out in the community.I firmly believe America is lost, though not for anything Rush said today. I've talked about that in the past, and I'll remind you in posts to come, but for now, we have, as I stated in my 'Questions to Consider' from last year,
"All of these things that define the traditional institutions that made this country great, that's what the Romney campaign was about. It was rejected. That way, or that route to prosperity was sneered at. That route to prosperity was rejected. The people who voted for Obama don't believe in it. They don't think it's possible. They think the game's rigged. They think the deck is stacked against them.
"They think that the only way they're gonna have a chance for anything is if somebody comes along and takes from somebody else and gives it to them. Santa Claus! And it's hard to beat Santa Claus."
"A permanent underclass dependent upon government handouts and a permanent party power-structure in Washington... "I wish to God that this weren't true. But I don't have the same level of faith in human nature as my liberal friends-- I know what's in me.
Despite my anger last night, and before closing my eyes, I thanked God for answering my prayer.
More on that later, as well.
What I Don't Understand
What I don't understand is why so many otherwise intelligent American citizens don't get a simple concept:
People who earn over $250,000 a year are the business owners; the ones that create the jobs. If taxes are raised on these business owners/job creators, they will not continue to offer their goods and services at the same prices. They will not accept losses in their bottom line, no matter how patriotic they are! And, that bottom line is profit.
There are only two ways a business can recoup the loss of profit due to higher taxes:
1. They will raise the prices on their goods and services. They will have to to keep their profit margin at the same levels as before the higher taxes were levied upon them.
Do you think they will give themselves a cut in pay? Dream on, little Liberal.
And, when they raise the prices on their goods and services, the consumer will not buy those goods or services as readily as they would have if the prices were still low, thus, making it necessary for the business owner to raise the prices yet again to compensate for the loss of sales. This cycle will continue on and on and on until the business goes bankrupt and/or out of business, or,
2. The business owner will begin to lay off employees because he can no longer afford to pay them. If that happens, there are less people employed and, consequently, less people who can afford the higher prices started because the business owner had to pay ever increasing higher taxes. This will undoubtedly happen to enough business owners that it will have a lasting impact on each and everyone of us, the taxpaying public.
In the end, due to ever increasing taxes, higher and higher prices on goods and services, and more people on the unemployment rolls, the Government is all that is left to provide for the people.
Now, here's a question for all you big Government loving Liberals:
How does the Government provide for the ever increasing number of newly unemployed and newly impoverished citizens? Where do they get the funds?
Naturally, by increasing taxes on the rich again, which merely exacerbates the problem the Government was trying to solve in the first place.
Then, what do we have? Government trying to stretch all the revenue generated by less and less taxes collected from the few businesses fortunate enough to still be in business despite such a heavy burden of taxes and redistributed to take care of the hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, that the Government itself put out of work.
It will mean breadlines every bit as long as those that afflicted the Soviet Union in the mid 20th century.
Do you understand, Liberals? If you do, will you be so anxious to vote for a tax and spend Liberal again?
Sadly, I still don't think you get it yet.
That's what I don't understand.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
OBAMA WINS
America,
The Constitution,
Freedom/Personal Liberty,
AMERICA...
LOSES!
Assuming Obama proves to be the same ideologue he's shown himself to be throughout his first term.
The man has lied about Libya. He's lied about "Fast and Furious". He lied about cutting the deficit in half-- doubling it in fact. He's increased the amount of food stamp recipients by some 15-plus million. He has failed on so many fronts, and he's managed to keep the top job in this country, and managing it with the complicit help of a wholly corrupt main-stream media.
His policies-- unless, now that he'll never run for office again, he moderates his positions on a number of things --will utterly bankrupt this nation. But America didn't care enough to apply the brakes, to see the fiscal cliff looming large on the horizon. He doesn't care about the middle class; EVERYONE's taxes are going up, despite his lie to the contrary. But, again, he doesn't care. And America should have known better.
To say I am deeply disappointed would be an understatement. Echoing somewhat the first lady from four years ago, for the first time in my adult life I am ashamed of my country.
I am ashamed that more people than not would wish this man another four years. Truly, America is lost. This isn't something we can recover from four years from now. By 2016 Obama will have kept the only promise he intended to keep when he ran for the White House in '08: He will have succeeded in fundamentally changing this once great nation.
Some conditions, like the economy, will get stronger-- I must have some hope --but the American psyche is changed forever, but that's not his fault... it's ours.
I believe Michael Savage said it best, "liberalism is a mental disorder." I mean, it really takes a messed up ideology to see nothing wrong with abortion, and ever-growing ranks of people on public assistance; there is no stigma now on accepting a handout-- Government, in fact, encourages us to accept them. There is now no incentive to pick yourself up by your own bootstraps; entrepreneurship in America is going to dry up fast. Who will want to work eighty-hours a week to build a business when men like our president and senator Elizabeth Warren say "you didn't build that"? Who will want to work eighty-hours a week to become successful when Obama and liberals will require you to pay more of your blood, sweat and tears, so the government can support freeloaders-- defined as: those who could do well for themselves, but see no need to do so since government will provide for them.
I am myself in the beginning stages of building a business; one I would like to see become hugely successful, and it galls me to think that there are those which will shrug off the sacrifices I'll have to make in order to be successful in this brave new world, believing it's my responsibility to support, with all my hard earned success, those who won't even try to support themselves, let alone strive for success, or anything for that matter.
There is something seriously wrong with Liberalism when its mendicants [and yes, I know what the word means] applaud Bill Clinton who, a couple of days ago, told a crowd of walking brain-dead, paraphrasing, 'You don't want a president that'll lie to your face!" --This from a president who lied to our faces on national television. They excused Clinton for lying, but they sought to hang Bush out to dry with the meme, 'Bush lied, people died.' Years later trotting out a genuine liar in chief (who lied about having 'sex with that woman, Miss Lewinski,') to tell their supporters to not vote for a man who will lie to their face. Liberalism routinely crucifies conservatives for doing the very things liberals engage in... routinely. And it's mendicants slavishly nod their heads and cheer, conveniently forgetting and excusing their own of the very same sins. Only this time around it was the Obama campaign dealing and spinning lies throughout from start to finish.
I have to agree with Miss Coulter who describes liberalism, and those who have sold their souls to it, as Demonic. There is something foul, and stomach turning, to liberalism... something fundamentally evil about it. Don McLean sang about the day the music died. It's up to someone now to sing about the day America died.
America's descent is now complete.
.
The Constitution,
Freedom/Personal Liberty,
AMERICA...
LOSES!
Assuming Obama proves to be the same ideologue he's shown himself to be throughout his first term.
The man has lied about Libya. He's lied about "Fast and Furious". He lied about cutting the deficit in half-- doubling it in fact. He's increased the amount of food stamp recipients by some 15-plus million. He has failed on so many fronts, and he's managed to keep the top job in this country, and managing it with the complicit help of a wholly corrupt main-stream media.
His policies-- unless, now that he'll never run for office again, he moderates his positions on a number of things --will utterly bankrupt this nation. But America didn't care enough to apply the brakes, to see the fiscal cliff looming large on the horizon. He doesn't care about the middle class; EVERYONE's taxes are going up, despite his lie to the contrary. But, again, he doesn't care. And America should have known better.
To say I am deeply disappointed would be an understatement. Echoing somewhat the first lady from four years ago, for the first time in my adult life I am ashamed of my country.
I am ashamed that more people than not would wish this man another four years. Truly, America is lost. This isn't something we can recover from four years from now. By 2016 Obama will have kept the only promise he intended to keep when he ran for the White House in '08: He will have succeeded in fundamentally changing this once great nation.
Some conditions, like the economy, will get stronger-- I must have some hope --but the American psyche is changed forever, but that's not his fault... it's ours.
I believe Michael Savage said it best, "liberalism is a mental disorder." I mean, it really takes a messed up ideology to see nothing wrong with abortion, and ever-growing ranks of people on public assistance; there is no stigma now on accepting a handout-- Government, in fact, encourages us to accept them. There is now no incentive to pick yourself up by your own bootstraps; entrepreneurship in America is going to dry up fast. Who will want to work eighty-hours a week to build a business when men like our president and senator Elizabeth Warren say "you didn't build that"? Who will want to work eighty-hours a week to become successful when Obama and liberals will require you to pay more of your blood, sweat and tears, so the government can support freeloaders-- defined as: those who could do well for themselves, but see no need to do so since government will provide for them.
I am myself in the beginning stages of building a business; one I would like to see become hugely successful, and it galls me to think that there are those which will shrug off the sacrifices I'll have to make in order to be successful in this brave new world, believing it's my responsibility to support, with all my hard earned success, those who won't even try to support themselves, let alone strive for success, or anything for that matter.
There is something seriously wrong with Liberalism when its mendicants [and yes, I know what the word means] applaud Bill Clinton who, a couple of days ago, told a crowd of walking brain-dead, paraphrasing, 'You don't want a president that'll lie to your face!" --This from a president who lied to our faces on national television. They excused Clinton for lying, but they sought to hang Bush out to dry with the meme, 'Bush lied, people died.' Years later trotting out a genuine liar in chief (who lied about having 'sex with that woman, Miss Lewinski,') to tell their supporters to not vote for a man who will lie to their face. Liberalism routinely crucifies conservatives for doing the very things liberals engage in... routinely. And it's mendicants slavishly nod their heads and cheer, conveniently forgetting and excusing their own of the very same sins. Only this time around it was the Obama campaign dealing and spinning lies throughout from start to finish.
I have to agree with Miss Coulter who describes liberalism, and those who have sold their souls to it, as Demonic. There is something foul, and stomach turning, to liberalism... something fundamentally evil about it. Don McLean sang about the day the music died. It's up to someone now to sing about the day America died.
America's descent is now complete.
.
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Why, Mr./ Obama? Why?
I have not been posting blog entries for quite some time now, and that is because I've been posting my thoughts on Facebook. This morning, I posted the following comment on Facebook, and I thought I'd share it with those who don't follow me on Facebook. Besides, we need to get the word out in all forms of media we have available to us:
I know I promised my wife and my Facebook friends that I would try to be less political, but now, in the last few days before the general election, it is becoming more and more important (for me, at least) to get the word out on what we may expect should Obama be re-elected. Many "experts" are predicting a Romney win next week, but I can't be that sure. Because the main news networks, CBS, NBC, and ABC are not forthcoming on the essential facts surrounding the tragedy in Benghazi, Libya on Sept 11, of this year, I feel it's imperative that I do my part to educate those who would rather not know these "unpleasant facts", be they Democrat or Republican. It is a sad fact that some registered voters, regardless of party affiliation, would just rather let the politicians fight it out among themselves and let the chips fall where they may.
I can't do that.
People need to know, and they need to ask questions. Questions like, Why did our President refuse to help the besieged in Benghazi? We now know he was aware of the ongoing 7+ hour conflict in real time, and we know he was asked at least three times to send help, probably in time to rescue Ambassador Stevens and the others, but he refused.
I have to ask why. And, as freedom loving American citizens, all of us need to ask the same question.
Why did he stand down and do nothing to help our people in Libya?
I've heard the opinions of those who oppose him, and I've also heard the explanation from those who were privy to the decision, and none of them make sense to me.
Republicans say he did it to improve his chances to win re-election. But, in what universe would refusing to save dying American citizens help win an election?
Democrats say they didn't send in help because they weren't sure what exactly was going on and didn't want to act until they were. That explanation sounds plausible. Yes, it sounds plausible --- until we learn that later reports reveal they (Obama included) knew exactly what was going on while it was happening.
Here's something else that should make an Obama supporter ask questions:
Why did Obama blame an obscure Youtube video for the attacks in Libya when it is now clear that he knew all along the video had nothing to do with it? If I was an Obama supporter, that one fact alone would make me wonder if 4 more years of Obama would be worth the risk of voting for him again.
Why, Mr./ Obama? Why?
I have not been posting blog entries for quite some time now, and that is because I've been posting my thoughts on Facebook. This morning, I posted the following comment on Facebook, and I thought I'd share it with those who don't follow me on Facebook. Besides, we need to get the word out in all forms of media we have available to us:
I know I promised my wife and my Facebook friends that I would try to be less political, but now, in the last few days before the general election, it is becoming more and more important (for me, at least) to get the word out on what we may expect should Obama be re-elected. Many "experts" are predicting a Romney win next week, but I can't be that sure. Because the main news networks, CBS, NBC, and ABC are not forthcoming on the essential facts surrounding the tragedy in Benghazi, Libya on Sept 11, of this year, I feel it's imperative that I do my part to educate those who would rather not know these "unpleasant facts", be they Democrat or Republican. It is a sad fact that some registered voters, regardless of party affiliation, would just rather let the politicians fight it out among themselves and let the chips fall where they may.
I can't do that.
People need to know, and they need to ask questions. Questions like, Why did our President refuse to help the besieged in Benghazi? We now know he was aware of the ongoing 7+ hour conflict in real time, and we know he was asked at least three times to send help, probably in time to rescue Ambassador Stevens and the others, but he refused.
I have to ask why. And, as freedom loving American citizens, all of us need to ask the same question.
Why did he stand down and do nothing to help our people in Libya?
I've heard the opinions of those who oppose him, and I've also heard the explanation from those who were privy to the decision, and none of them make sense to me.
Republicans say he did it to improve his chances to win re-election. But, in what universe would refusing to save dying American citizens help win an election?
Democrats say they didn't send in help because they weren't sure what exactly was going on and didn't want to act until they were. That explanation sounds plausible. Yes, it sounds plausible --- until we learn that later reports reveal they (Obama included) knew exactly what was going on while it was happening.
Here's something else that should make an Obama supporter ask questions:
Why did Obama blame an obscure Youtube video for the attacks in Libya when it is now clear that he knew all along the video had nothing to do with it? If I was an Obama supporter, that one fact alone would make me wonder if 4 more years of Obama would be worth the risk of voting for him again.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Romney will be the 45th United States President
Why I Think Obama Is Toast
--Dan McLaughlin
...Two things stand out:
One, Mitt Romney has a consistent, significant lead among independent voters, which increasingly looks like a double-digit lead. This is especially clear in national polls, but can also be seen in the key swing state polls. It’s been a hard enough number for the past few weeks now, even as the last of the debates gets baked into the polls, that there’s little chance that Obama can turn it around in the [8] days remaining in this race. In fact, Obama has been underwater with independents almost continuously since the middle of 2009.
Two, to overcome losing independents by more than a few points, Obama needs to have a decisive advantage in Democratic turnout, roughly on the order of – or in some places exceeding – the advantage he enjoyed in 2008, when Democrats nationally had a 7-point advantage (39-32). Yet nearly every indicator we have of turnout suggests that, relative to Republicans, the Democrats are behind where they were in 2008. Surveys by the two largest professional pollsters, Rasmussen and Gallup, actually suggest that Republicans will have a turnout advantage, which has happened only once (in the 2002 midterms) in the history of exit polling and probably hasn’t happened in a presidential election year since the 1920s.
Those two facts alone caused me to conclude at the end of last week that Obama will lose – perhaps lose a very close race, but lose just the same. That conclusion is only underscored by the fact that, historically, there is little reason to believe that the remaining undecided voters will break for an incumbent in tough economic times. He will lose the national popular vote, and the fact that he has remained competitive to the end in the two key swing states he needs to win (Ohio and Wisconsin) will not save him.
There is much more analysis-- including beaucoups of charts -- at this opinions' link; there's simply too much of it to post here. As to whether or not McLaughlin is right, only November 7th knows for certain. But I'm content to wait.
The Obama Ground Game Myth
--Jonathan S. Tobin
In the last week, there have been two consistent themes being sounded by the Democrats. One is the assertion that Mitt Romney’s momentum has been halted and even reversed. The other is that their ground game is so good that the president is bound to win the election no matter what the polls say. These two talking points are closely related, since the polls that liberal analysts cite in order to assert that the president is edging back into the lead are based on assumptions about the composition of the electorate that are only possible if the Democrats match or even exceed the massive turnout they achieved in 2008.
Why pollsters would assume that a correct sample for the 2012 election would mirror the 2008 results when Obama rode a wave of disgust for the Bush administration and belief in his promise of hope and change is a mystery that demands an explanation that has yet to be forthcoming. Yet Democrats say the question is irrelevant since their ability to generate turnout is so expert and so superior to that of the Republicans they believe there is little doubt that once again the number of their voters will outnumber those of the GOP.
I see little to no evidence of democratic voter enthusiasm. I believe Democratic pollsters are touting Obama's inevitability because they have no choice (just as their Republican's had no choice last election) unless they seed fear into their party's rank and file.
But again, only November 7th knows for certain how this is all going to pan out.
Election 2012: Ohio President
Ohio: Romney 50%, Obama 48%
The race for Ohio’s Electoral College votes remains very close, but now Mitt Romney now has a two-point advantage.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Ohio Voters shows Romney with 50% support to President Obama’s 48%. One percent (1%) likes some other candidate, while another one percent (1%) remains undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Ohio remains a Toss-Up in the Rasmussen Reports Electoral College Projections. Based on the current projections, Romney would have to win Wisconsin if he loses Ohio in order to move into the White House.
The most accurate pollster in 2008 has Romney up by 2. Not much, really, to crow about, but it does put to lie (or "wishful thinking" status) the Democratic line that the Mittmentum is over, that the Obama camp has halted the surge toward and for Mitt Romney.
I'll be up all night next Tuesday, or until one or the other candidates makes his concession speech. Personally, I believe that candidate will be out going President Barack H. Obama.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Atlas Shrugged: Best quote from Part II
"If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders--what would you tell him to do?"
"I … don't know. What … could he do? What would you tell him?"
"To shrug."
Simply beautiful. I hope they are able to hang on to their present cast for the last film. Somehow, I have to find time to drag the book out again for a reread.
Monday, October 22, 2012
The kind of Conservative thinking that makes good policy sense...
...and the kind of thought that, for the most part, seems outside the Liberal ken.
When I was growing up, we had chickens. They were called game birds, wild and independent birds, which, given the chance, would simply “fly the coop.” So, my dad would go out and clip one of their wings so they couldn’t fly.
The liberty of those birds was completely restricted by clipping that one wing, so we kept those chickens penned, and my job was to feed them every day. Those birds never had to worry about storms, foxes, dogs or any other risks that wild birds face. They had all the food and shelter they wanted – but they were not free.
As sovereign beings, made in the image and likeness of God, we have the freedom to succeed, and this freedom to succeed always carries with it the freedom to fail. If one is not free to fail, one cannot truly succeed.
A historian named Alexander Tyler is reputed to have predicted that the American way of life could not endure because people do not want to take responsibility for their own choices. In a democratic society, he said, “people will invariably hand over their sovereign responsibility and freedom to that government which promises the most benefits.” He further observed “a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority only votes for candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship.” Tyler made this chilling statement more than 200 years ago.
Recorded history seems to indicate that civilizations rise and fall in 200-year cycles. America is almost 40 years past that point and apparently ready for collapse and dictatorship, because the signs of dependency and imminent bondage are all around us.
This dependency (leading to bondage) is encouraged today by politicians, bureaucrats, social workers and think-tank elitists who pontificate, “We don’t want anyone to fail, so we’re going to make sure everyone has a safety net. It doesn’t matter whether you work hard, sacrifice and struggle, or if you just sit on your blessed assurance and take it easy. We want everyone to share equally. We want everyone to have everything they want. The government will take care of you. If you don’t want to struggle and sacrifice to succeed, that’s OK; and just to make sure the success of other people don’t make you feel bad, we will punish the achievers. We will take from those who have and give to those who have not. The government will take care of you cradle-to-grave. That way nobody fails. What could be more fair?” Didn’t I hear one of the candidates say “the rich must pay their fair share”?
That kind of thinking produces socialism, communism and runaway welfare states. The irony is these so-called safety nets don’t actually keep anyone from failing; in fact, they guarantee mass failure by removing the incentive to work hard, take risks and succeed. Safety nets eliminate the rewards of the Judeo-Christian virtues of hard work, sacrifice, personal responsibility and thrift.
When no one excels, everyone fails.
Eventually the people begin to say, “What’s the use? I get the same result whether I work or not. I might as well lie back in my hammock and join the non-achievers.”
Social engineers eliminate competition and traditional letter grades from the education system and then wonder why students are no longer motivated. They provide welfare and food stamps and call it “a right” or “an entitlement.” They make these programs better and more inclusive, and then they wonder why we can’t get anyone to take entry-level jobs anymore. Socialism has invariably failed. Yet the bureaucrats, pseudo intellectuals and social engineers keep trying to make it work in America.
They keep expanding the social bureaucracy and pouring money into a failed welfare system. According to Heritage Senior Research Fellow Robert Rector, the cost of all military wars in U.S. history, from the Revolutionary War to the current war in Afghanistan, has been $6.98 trillion. Rector further states that since Johnson launched the War on Poverty in the 1960s, the government has spent $19.8 trillion (in inflation-adjusted 2011 dollars). In other words, the War on Poverty has cost almost three times as much as all other wars combined, and we are further than ever from winning that war.
You don’t encourage people to achieve and become productive by taking away their incentives and sovereign responsibility and eliminating the freedom to fail. However well-intentioned, this elitist, socialist approach to solving the problem of poverty actually makes the situation worse. It is a horrible, malignant and degrading thing to take away a person’s right to fail. It is an active enslavement and an insult against a person’s sovereignty.
Yes, we pledge our allegiance and our fair share of taxes to our government, but not our sovereignty, not our “decisionability” (the power to make our own choices). Once we surrender our sovereignty to the government, government becomes our master and we deserve just what we get – or don’t get.
However, when we all take responsibility for our own lives, our own success or failure, then “We the People” become the sovereign masters, not the government.
Fight for your freedom to fail
by Ben KinchlowWhen I was growing up, we had chickens. They were called game birds, wild and independent birds, which, given the chance, would simply “fly the coop.” So, my dad would go out and clip one of their wings so they couldn’t fly.
The liberty of those birds was completely restricted by clipping that one wing, so we kept those chickens penned, and my job was to feed them every day. Those birds never had to worry about storms, foxes, dogs or any other risks that wild birds face. They had all the food and shelter they wanted – but they were not free.
As sovereign beings, made in the image and likeness of God, we have the freedom to succeed, and this freedom to succeed always carries with it the freedom to fail. If one is not free to fail, one cannot truly succeed.
A historian named Alexander Tyler is reputed to have predicted that the American way of life could not endure because people do not want to take responsibility for their own choices. In a democratic society, he said, “people will invariably hand over their sovereign responsibility and freedom to that government which promises the most benefits.” He further observed “a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority only votes for candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship.” Tyler made this chilling statement more than 200 years ago.
Recorded history seems to indicate that civilizations rise and fall in 200-year cycles. America is almost 40 years past that point and apparently ready for collapse and dictatorship, because the signs of dependency and imminent bondage are all around us.
This dependency (leading to bondage) is encouraged today by politicians, bureaucrats, social workers and think-tank elitists who pontificate, “We don’t want anyone to fail, so we’re going to make sure everyone has a safety net. It doesn’t matter whether you work hard, sacrifice and struggle, or if you just sit on your blessed assurance and take it easy. We want everyone to share equally. We want everyone to have everything they want. The government will take care of you. If you don’t want to struggle and sacrifice to succeed, that’s OK; and just to make sure the success of other people don’t make you feel bad, we will punish the achievers. We will take from those who have and give to those who have not. The government will take care of you cradle-to-grave. That way nobody fails. What could be more fair?” Didn’t I hear one of the candidates say “the rich must pay their fair share”?
That kind of thinking produces socialism, communism and runaway welfare states. The irony is these so-called safety nets don’t actually keep anyone from failing; in fact, they guarantee mass failure by removing the incentive to work hard, take risks and succeed. Safety nets eliminate the rewards of the Judeo-Christian virtues of hard work, sacrifice, personal responsibility and thrift.
When no one excels, everyone fails.
Eventually the people begin to say, “What’s the use? I get the same result whether I work or not. I might as well lie back in my hammock and join the non-achievers.”
Social engineers eliminate competition and traditional letter grades from the education system and then wonder why students are no longer motivated. They provide welfare and food stamps and call it “a right” or “an entitlement.” They make these programs better and more inclusive, and then they wonder why we can’t get anyone to take entry-level jobs anymore. Socialism has invariably failed. Yet the bureaucrats, pseudo intellectuals and social engineers keep trying to make it work in America.
They keep expanding the social bureaucracy and pouring money into a failed welfare system. According to Heritage Senior Research Fellow Robert Rector, the cost of all military wars in U.S. history, from the Revolutionary War to the current war in Afghanistan, has been $6.98 trillion. Rector further states that since Johnson launched the War on Poverty in the 1960s, the government has spent $19.8 trillion (in inflation-adjusted 2011 dollars). In other words, the War on Poverty has cost almost three times as much as all other wars combined, and we are further than ever from winning that war.
You don’t encourage people to achieve and become productive by taking away their incentives and sovereign responsibility and eliminating the freedom to fail. However well-intentioned, this elitist, socialist approach to solving the problem of poverty actually makes the situation worse. It is a horrible, malignant and degrading thing to take away a person’s right to fail. It is an active enslavement and an insult against a person’s sovereignty.
Yes, we pledge our allegiance and our fair share of taxes to our government, but not our sovereignty, not our “decisionability” (the power to make our own choices). Once we surrender our sovereignty to the government, government becomes our master and we deserve just what we get – or don’t get.
However, when we all take responsibility for our own lives, our own success or failure, then “We the People” become the sovereign masters, not the government.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
At Best a Fleeting Tie for Obama.
The Reality is a Cancer on His Campaign
--Erick Erickson,
The Reality is a Cancer on His Campaign
--Erick Erickson,
An undecided voter who voted for Obama in 2008, asked Barack Obama why he should vote for Barack Obama now. Stunningly, Obama offered no new plans, no new proposals, and no new ideas. The voter clearly said he wasn’t impressed with the past four years, but that’s all Obama had to offer. Then Romney countered. It was a magical moment of fact telling, just hitting the low notes of Barack Obama’s record. Obama clearly wanted to respond, but he could not. There was no time.
One last point — Obama seemed very angry last night throughout the debate. “Stern,” one friend called his expressions. Several times, on the stage, Mitt Romney commanded and the President followed. Romney led the President and I think it showed to undecided voters. Romney, at one point, commanded the President shut up and sit down and the President did so like a dog told to sit. It was masterful.
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