Why Bother With Elections and Laws?

With every passing day we hear of another "regulatory adjustment" being instituted by "fiat".  The latest is simply a refusal by our elected and appointed officials at the Department of Justice (Who are the chief law enforcement arm of our government) to quit "defending" cases that involve the marrage act.  Which, I am sure, is a direct result of an order from the POTUS himself.  What a sad state of affairs.

 

Now we have states, Wisconsin being in the lead, who are trying to clean up their fiscal mess only to be stymied by a bunch of idiot democrat legislators who don't want to "play" the game if they can't get their way.  So they just leave the state and hide out and allow the legislators back home to sit idle until they decide to come home.  No quorum, no legislation.  It's unfortunate that these here-to-fore happy democrats, who helped to vote for all the spending that is driving the state into bankruptcy, don't have enough brains to understand that the voters of their state have spoken.  They elected a republican governor and a majority of republican legislators for a reason, and that reason is that they don't want the democrats running things anymore.

 

What's the answer?   It's simple.. These idiots need to just man up and go to work and hope the heck the voters in their districts don't come up with enough names on the recall petitions to recall them and put someone up there that can and will do the job.

 

The voters around the country aren't dumb, they aren't idiots, but for the most part they  are a little slow to get the big picture because they are generally out there hustling for enough dollars to feed themselves and their families.  But now they are waking up.. It's been a long sleep... but it's over and there will be hell to pay for all the corruption that these many politicians, for these many years, have wrought on the backs of the guys paying the bills.  The party is over!

Obama's "Guarantees"

A few hours ago I happened to catch a short "blurb" on Fox News Channel where the run up to the story showed a portion of an Obama interview with one of the many "left wing" hacks that produce "Obama News" for their audience.  I am not sure if it was Matt Lauer or Bill Moyer, but that doesn't matter.  They are both left wing nuts anyway.

 

The focus of the FNC report was Obama's answer to some softball question about what would happen if the Senate didn't pass the massive health care bill that is currently being debated there.  What struck me about Obama's answer was not the answer itself, but his emphatic, theatrical delivery of the answer.  To paraphrase, he said, "I can GUARANTEE the American People that if this bill does not pass the cost of their health care will go up, they will be dropped from their employers plans, and insurance premiums will be so high that no one can afford to pay for insurance".  With the booming voice and demeanor that was, and still is, present during his many campaign oratories, Obama made crystal clear his "GUARANTEE".

 

Does anyone remember Obama's "guarantee" of transparency in government?   Does anyone remember Obama's "guarantee" of "cleaning up" Washington, D. C.?   No more lobbyists.  No more "politics as usual" for his administration.  No sir!  Not in his Presidency.  His administration would "open to the American People" and "clean".

 

Did he back up those GUARANTEES?  I think the answer to that question is as clear by now as it ever will be.  He never intended to keep those promises.  He's nothing more than a "political hack" for the left wing extremists who have taken over the Democrat Party.  A "mouth" that spews the rhetoric.  Nothing more, nothing less.  I think it would be safe to say that this man is a very convincing BALD FACED LIAR!

 

With the super majority that now exists in the House and Senate, there is little hope that anyone or anything can stand in the way of these outrageous spending bills, the Cap and Trade Bill, global warming "giveaways" to third world countries, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and God only knows what else they will foist upon the backs of working Americans.  Now with the Fed printing money so fast that they are burning up the printing presses, Americans will loose buying power at an unprecidented rate when the "chickens come home to roost".  More dollars for less product.  That's what inflation does.

 

Do  you think another three years of this kind of reckless fiscal behavior will be sustainable?  I don't. And if you agree, then I suggest that you make a decision right now, that you and your family will have to make sacrifices you never dreamed of when it comes to pass and prepare your children and grand children for their loss of liberty and freedom.

 

Alternatively, you can make another decision.  Make whatever sacrifice you have to in order to help stop the Obama Express.  I urge you to visit this link and watch a brief video.  If this video doesn't inspire you to action, then nothing will.  It is time to get involved.  Help save America!

 

 

What If?

I get a weekly newsletter from Congress.org. This week there was a little video in it explaining the proposed "Cap and Trade" system to curb the emission of greenhouse gases. It's a very short video that will give you the general idea of how the plan might work.

The interesting thing about the presentation was that about half way through, when the presenter was trying to show how effective the plan might be, he used a term that seems to be the watch word of most political types. He said, "If it works".

If you would like to hear the presentation you can watch the presentation here. I doubt that seeing it will make you want to run right out and join either of the factions of our electorate that is either for or against what I consider to be total insanity. But there is something that you should consider.

This monstrosity of a TAX mechanism... (You can draw your own conclusions), I believe, will become the 'back breaker' for the American Consumer if it is pushed through by the nutcases that are in charge of our executive and legislative branches of government currently. Why? The answer is pretty simple. Let's do some simple as it gets, Redneck math.

First, there is a finite amount of money that is earned by the WORKING people in this country every week. They take the money, and spend it for goods and services that are necessary to exist in our society. If there is a little left over they either save it or add it to the economy with a discretionary purchase. But for the most part, all the money gets spent. GET IT? The money is earned and then it is spent. That's what makes the American economy go!

Now, fast forward a few years into the "Cap and Trade" debacle. Do you think the companies that have to pay the fines or spend profits on credits they need to stay under the "Cap" are going to go broke in the process? If not, then how will they survive? Very simple. They will raise the price of their goods or services to make ends meet, and guess who gets to pay the bill? The American Consumer.

With the pressure on most of our industy to pay the "Tax", most all of the goods and services will go up. Some of the worst "polluters" are oil companies. Do you think they are going to NOT pass the added cost of the "Tax" on to the driving public? Sure they will.

They pay the "Tax", and the American Consumer gets the "Bill". But what happens to the American Consumer? Can he simply raise his labor rates because all his costs of living went up? No, certainly not. In fact, with the burdens of the extra taxes on businesses all across the country, the American Consumer will probably be lucky to just keep the job he has at the current wage that he is earning. So what will happen? Well, that's when Mr. and Mrs. America will have to start making choices about what or if they will buy anything other than the necessities of life. And if there isn't enough to get those necessities, who knows what will happen? Crime will probably increase. Welfare rolls will swell. There will be fewer workers paying the taxes that feed the entitlements that will be demanded.

Here's my opinion. Ultimately the opression that is coming with the "Cap and Trade", "Health Care Reform", and God only knows what else the idiots in Washington D. C. will come up with, will cause precipitate a political upheavel that will eventually cause the end of this wonderful experiment we now know as America.

Sad isn't it?

Another Hypocrite Identified!

Okay.... Let me see if I have this right. 

 

The leftist crowd has been pushing a radical environmental agenda for years under the widely touted assumption that all the ills that we might be suffering from time to time, whether its tied to "global warming" or "global cooling", are caused by the industriousness of human beings.  That is to say, in a little different way, that we humans, as an element of the earths population, are destroying our planet in our attempts to improve and advance civilization. 

 

In a concerted effort that has spanned over 4 decades, these self-righteous, ideological nutcases have been attempting to prove their "theory" by trotting out the opinions of so called "environmental scientists" (only the one's whose opinions support their theory) in a overt and blatant attempt to brainwash as many of our children and young adults in government run schools and left leaning universities as they possibly can.  They have been very successful in cramming their "one sided views" into the minds of the masses who were simply taking them at face value without question.  Of course they must be right, many thought, because they have the "scientific data" to prove their point.

 

Now we have a new development coming to light that raises questions as to their motives and veracity.  Emails from inside the small cluster of "scientists" (please note that I am using that term loosely) who have been at the epicenter of these "global warming theories" that have been made the basis for a massive piece of legislation in the United States (Cap and Tax) and other worldwide environmental initiatives, are being made public (leaked is the leftist terminology).  These emails show that there has, at the very least been an inside effort to "hide" certain data that would be harmful to the environmentalist nutcase' agenda, and beyond that, to poison the well of data that would debunk their theory. 

 

One would think that most "right thinking people", and by that I mean those who employ logic and common sense, will gladly welcome this new information that has come to light on the eve of a great push for legislation that will, by all accounts, literally put the brakes on the American economic engine, as it could lead to a more sensible non-emergency approach to curbing whatever polluting indulgences our industry might have been guilty of since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.  And I believe that most "right thinking people" will react just that way.  But not the leftist nutcase ideologues.

 

No... The leftist nutcase ideologues are having a much different reaction to this "leaked" information and the damage that it will undoubtedly cause to their push for more government control of every aspect of American Freedoms.  Their reaction is currently being "showcased" by one nutcase U. S. Senator Barbara Boxer of California as she calls for an "investigation" into the "criminal acts" of the "leakers".   Doesn't that seem to be a strange position for a U. S. Senator who is sworn to "uphold and defend the constitution" of the United States? 

 

In the context of our political history over the last 40 or so years, Boxer's leftist outcry seems to me to be a little hypocritical.  Perhaps we should think back a few years to a time when Barbara Boxer was likely a very young, still wet behind the ears, leftist nutcase in training in the mid 1970's when the Democrats (whose party was in the process of being hijacked by the left wing nutcases of the day) were ever so gleeful that President Richard Nixon was in the thick of an illegal cover up of the break in of the Democrat Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel.  Wasn't that scandalous event perpetuated by "leaked" information by an informant who was only identified as "Deep Throat"?

 

If anything, Ms. Boxer should be nominated as an all time champion "political gymnast" for this demonstration of back flipping ability.  Otherwise, she and others like her should be awarded their rightful place in American Political History as the back stabbing, power grubbing, special interest hypocrites that they are.

 

Yes... I think I have it right...

Why?

As I pen this post, I am wondering if there is any limit to the stupidity of the established elite in Washington, D. C.? 

 

For many years now we have been attempting to deal with Islamic aggressors who have been attacking our facilities at home and abroad.  Whatever their grievance is seems to have become manifest with the take over of our U. S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran in 1979, and has not ceased since that time.  I could, but won't, recreate a long list of attacks that are all aimed directly at the heart and soul of America, American, and the American way of life, which to this point, has been liberties and freedoms known nowhere else in the world.

 

The way that we have chosen to deal with those who were caught and blamed for the aforementioned attacks has alternated between treating them as combatants on the one hand because they have chosen to "declare" war... not us, or as criminals who have acted against the established laws of our country, which then causes us, according to our U. S. Constitution, to be required to extend to them the same rights as "citizens" of the United States.  In the case of the latter, they have the full power of the court system at their disposal, including their right to be represented by counsel for which we may be required to pay.  This is an absurd position regardless of any context. 

 

It is very clear to me, and many other Americans, that these operatives are terrorists by their own admission and their goal is to destroy not only our government, but all of our other freedoms under our constitution, including that of religion.

 

Now we have the "liberal elite", who happen to be in power in Washington, D. C. at the moment, calling for the the admitted mastermind of the attacks of 9/11 to be tried in New York City, in a Federal court.  Why?  That is the simple question that screams for an answer!  Why?

 

Why give the terrorists the same standing as a U. S. Citizen in a Federal Court?

 

Why give the terrorists the full power of the mostly misguided American media?

 

Why give the Citizens of New York City and New York State the bill for the cost of security for such a trial?

 

Why give the terrorists a much needed forum in which to declare their disdain for our culture?

 

Why create a litteral propaganda juggernaut that the terrorists can use to further forment hate and discontent among their legions?

 

Why set up a mechanism  with which the terrorists can enhance their recruitment of other Jihidists?

 

A long list of "why's" could be called for here... but ultimately there is only one question in my mind...

 

Why give the terrorists anything other than about 5 minutes to spew their hatred just prior to tightening a noose around their neck and hanging them?

 

In my opinion, a trial of these terrorists should be a Military Tribunal and shouldn't last more than a day at the most with hanging to commence within 48 hours or sooner if the gallows can be built before that time.  They have already admitted guilt in most cases, and if not explicitly, then by their knowledge of the events of 9/11.  That is enough! These operatives are "soldiers" in a jihad that has been declared and is currently being carried out around the world against anyone who does not subscribe to their beliefs.

 

If we continue to allow our elected and appointed officials to attempt to deal with these terrorists as part of a civilized society, then we will loose this war eventually, because the terrorists have no such respect for civility.  By the actions that they take on a regular basis, IE; bombings, etc, they demonstrate that they care not about any "convention of war".. such as the Geneva Convention.  Their targets are innocent civilians enmasse as a means of creating an atmosphere that will stifle the economies of the countries that they target.  They don't care if there are women, children and other innocent non-combatants whose lives are destroyed... they only want to acheive one thing and that is total Islamic dominence of the world.  We should be reading their "play book".  Why tie one hand behind our backs in the name of civility and eventually loose the war?  The only way to win is to seek them out, no matter where they are, and totally destroy them, not capture and try them.

 

Consider this an appeal to every right thinking American, and I don't mean "right" in the sense of the far political right.  I am referring to just common ordinary everyday thought.  It is called common sense.  Then apply a little extrapilation to see where that will take us.  We must fight back and we must do so now.

 

There are two enemies of our attempts to save our way of life... One is the terrorists themselves and you already know what I think should be done with them.  The second enemy of our success in saving the American way of life is the misinformed, misguided elite establishment in Washington D. C. who are, through their distorted vision of this time in the history of the world, allowing the enemies of freedom everywhere to gradually win their battles by intimidation tactics.  Simply put the terrorists are attempting to "bully" their way to their goals and our stupid officials in Washington D. C., no matter their political allegiance, are helping them.   Therefore, part of the solution to the world's terrorism problem is to "change" the thinking of the officials who are making these insane decisions.  It must be done quickly before they are allowed to implement their intentions.  I suggest that can be accomplished peacefully through a very strong POPULAR UPRISING of the electorate in America.

 

America is the last bastion of hope for freedom  and we are currently loosing the battle. Join with me to encourage your neighbors and friends to engage the idiots in Washington DC and make known our demand for a change in the "rules of engagement" in this war to destroy us.

 

 

A Timely Message (1961)

In 1961 I was just graduating from high school.  Politics was the last thing on my mind.

 

At the same time, Ronald Reagan was already being called upon to use his many talents to help spread the warnings that we have been given over the last 50 or so years.  The message you will hear in this 11 minute 45 second radio broadcast by a younger Ronald Reagan couldn't be more appropriate to the debate that is raging currently about "healthcare".

 

Please listen.

 

And Then There Was The Second Amendment

Following The Progression

You're sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door. Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers. At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way. With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun.. You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it. In the darkness, you make out two shadows.

One holds something that looks like a crowbar. When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire. The blast knocks both thugs to the floor. One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door and lurches outside. As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you're in trouble.

In your country, most guns were outlawed years before, and the few That are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them useless. Yours was never registered. Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died. They arrest you for First Degree Murder and Illegal Possession of a Firearm. When you talk to your attorney, he tells you not to worry: authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter.

"What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask.

"Only ten-to-twelve years," he replies, as if that's nothing. "Behave yourself, andyou'll be out in seven."

The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper.. Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are represented as choirboys. Their friends and relatives can't find an unkind word to say about them. Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both "victims" have been arrested numerous times. But the next day's headline says it all: "Lovable Rogue Son Didn't Deserve to Die." The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type pranksters. As the days wear on, the story takes wings. The national media picks it up, then the international media. The surviving burglar has become a folk hero.

Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he'll probably win. The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several times in the past and that you've been critical of local police for their lack of effort in apprehending the suspects. After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be prepared next time. The District Attorney uses this to allege that you were lying in wait for the burglars.

A few months later, you go to trial. The charges haven't been reduced, as your lawyer had so confidently predicted. When you take the stand, your anger at the injustice of it all works against you. Prosecutors paint a picture of you as a mean, vengeful man. It doesn't take long for the jury to convict you of all charges.

The judge sentences you to life in prison.

This case really happened.

On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk , England , killed one burglar and wounded a second. In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term.

How did it become a crime to defend one's own life in the once great British Empire ?

It started with the Pistols Act of 1903. This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a license. The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except shotguns.

Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.

Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the Hungerford mass shooting in 1987.. Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed Man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw.. When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.

The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun control", demanded even tougher restrictions. (The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a rifle.)

Nine years later, at Dunblane , Scotland , Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public school.

For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable or worse, criminals. Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners. Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns. The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, Sealed the fate of the few sidearm still owned by private citizens.

During the years in which the British government incrementally took away most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism. Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun.. Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real criminals were released.

Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying, "We cannot have people take the law into their own hands."

All of Martin's neighbors had been robbed numerous times, and several elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who had no fear of the consequences. Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen most of his collection trashed or stolen by burglars.

When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns were given three months to turn them over to local authorities. Being good British subjects, most people obeyed the law. The few who didn't were visited by police and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn't comply. Police later bragged that they'd taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.

How did the authorities know who had handguns? The guns had been registered and licensed. Kinda like cars.

Sound familiar?

WAKE UP AMERICA ; THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.

"..It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." --Samuel Adams