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Is There No Bottom to This Pit of Lies and Corruption?

by Doug on September 23, 2009 · 0 comments

in Barak Obama, Cowardice, Obama Administration, Official Lies, Politics, Socialism, The Constitution

politicalmavens.com published an article entitled “Dems will stoop to any depth to tar Obama critics”  By Mark Davis

In the article, the author brilliantly illuminates the pusillanimous effrontery of the slanderous attacks by leftist politicians, commentators and media on critics of the policies of the Obama administration. Mr. Davis skillfully develops the theme voiced by Thomas Jefferson when he said, “Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.”

…sometimes losing in the political arena brings out the lowest depths of behavior. This sad fact is on display now in the form of the slanderous mischaracterization of President Barack Obama’s critics.

Even before his election, there was speculation of how much negative reaction there might be to his ascendancy – and how much might be based on bigotry. Fair enough. It remains an intriguing question: What effect will a black president have on racism, and what effect will racism have on a black president?

But as soon as the Obama agenda met opposition, presumptions arose about racist motives.

Let’s stipulate that among Obama’s detractors are some folks who just don’t like black people. That’s self-evident. But it is a reckless leap to assert that his skin color is a major driving force behind the political challenges he faces.

I first heard this from black scholars and activists with an obvious agenda of painting America as far more racist than it is. ~~~

Guilt-ridden whites on the left soon joined the chorus, realizing this was a handy device to discredit conservatism as racially tinged.

When the president’s health care plan met strong opposition from town halls to tea parties, its advocates stooped first to insulting denial, asserting that the outpouring was not mainstream passion but some peculiar product of fringe paranoia. And that was only the beginning.

As it became clear that the number of Americans objecting not just to Obamacare but to other Democratic big-government urges was growing, guardians of that agenda brought out the big guns: It’s because he’s black.

The falseness of this ploy is exceeded only by its gutlessness. The last debate tactic of the scoundrel is to falsely wave off the opponent as unworthy of engagement. Tar the opposition as racists, and they don’t even deserve a place at the table of rational debate.

Jimmy Carter famously gave in to that temptation, joined by pundits like Maureen Dowd of The New York Times, who invented from thin air a racial motive for Rep. Joe Wilson’s infamous outburst as she sought to dismiss anti-Obama sentiment as bigotry-driven.

Anyone stupid enough to buy that argument is saddled with the belief that the Americans who have recoiled from the notions of socialized medicine, government-run banks and auto companies and trillion-dollar debt would have embraced such outrages if only they had come from a white president.

In a nation where black America loves Ted Kennedy and white conservatives love Clarence Thomas, it has long been clear that politics dwarfed race long ago.

Perhaps sensing that the race-baiting was not succeeding, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now seeks to ramp up the calumny with her forlorn recollections of the 1978 killings of Harvey Milk and George Moscone in San Francisco, seeing a similarly murderous flavor in the tone of opposition to Obama.

Shame on her and anyone engaging in this contemptible behavior. Whether it is exaggerating the prevalence of racism to explain the president’s troubles or using a few admittedly unhinged critics to smear the opposition as assassins-in-waiting, these are the tactics of desperate souls.

It’s curious, considering the one-party rule they currently enjoy. Even when these people are on top, nothing is beneath them.

It is very disorienting to discover that our government cannot be trusted.  I have, in times past, questioned the competency of our government, but never its intentions or motives.  It has become apparent that we are now governed by politicians who cannot be trusted to adhere to their oaths, and who share dark agendas that violate our Constitution and threaten our liberties.  Our country is now in the hands of those with no respect for the values upon  which it was founded and made us the greatest nation on the planet earth.  This realization, not the color of Mr. Obama’s skin, is what motivates the widespread dissent from the policies of this administration.

Please read Mr. Davis’ entire article at:
Dems will stoop to any depth to tar Obama critic

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Profoundly Immoral

by Doug on September 1, 2009 · 0 comments

in Barak Obama, Big Government, Broken Promises, Freedom, Government, Liberty, Obama Administration, Official Lies, Saving Our Country

jewishworldreview.com published this article by Thomas Sowell under the title “Suicide of the West?” In it, the author quotes Russian Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.”

He then explores how the Obama administration “epitomizes the ‘concessions and smiles’ approach to countries that are our implacable enemies.” He makes some great but frightening points:

Britain’s release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi — the Libyan terrorist whose bomb blew up a plane over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people — is galling enough in itself. But it is even more profoundly troubling as a sign of a larger mood that has been growing in the Western democracies in our time.

In ways large and small, domestically and internationally, the West is surrendering on the installment plan to Islamic extremists.

The late Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn put his finger on the problem when he said: “The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.”

He wrote this long before Barack Obama became President of the United States. But this administration epitomizes the “concessions and smiles” approach to countries that are our implacable enemies.

Western Europe has gone down that path before us but we now seem to be trying to catch up.

Still, the release of a mass-murdering terrorist, who went home to a hero’s welcome in Libya, shows that President Obama is not the only one who wants to move away from the idea of a “war on terror” — as if that will stop the terrorists’ war on us.

The ostensible reason for releasing al-Megrahi was compassion for a man terminally ill. It is ironic that this was said in Scotland, for exactly 250 years ago another Scotsman — Adam Smith — said, “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”

That lesson seems to have been forgotten in America as well, where so many people seem to have been far more concerned about whether we have been nice enough to the mass-murdering terrorists in our custody than those critics have ever been about the innocent people beheaded or blown up by the terrorists themselves.

Tragically, those with this strange inversion of values include the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder. Although President Obama has said that he does not want to revisit the past, this is only the latest example of how his administration’s actions are the direct opposite of his lofty words.

It is not just a question of looking backward. The decision to second-guess CIA agents who extracted information to save American lives is even worse when you look forward.

Years from now, long after Barack Obama is gone, CIA agents dealing with hardened terrorists will have to worry about whether what they do to get information out of them to save American lives will make these agents themselves liable to prosecution that can destroy their careers and ruin their lives.

This is not simply an injustice to those who have tried to keep this country safe, it is a danger recklessly imposed on future Americans whose safety cannot always be guaranteed by sweet and gentle measures against hardened murderers.

Those who are pushing for legal action against CIA agents may talk about “upholding the law” but they are doing no such thing. Neither the Constitution of the United States nor the Geneva Convention gives rights to terrorists who operate outside the law.

There was a time when everybody understood this. German soldiers who put on American military uniforms, in order to infiltrate American lines during the Battle of the Bulge were simply lined up against a wall and shot — and nobody wrung their hands over it. Nor did the U.S. Army try to conceal what they had done. The executions were filmed and the film has been shown on the History Channel.

So many “rights” have been conjured up out of thin air that many people seem unaware that rights and obligations derive from explicit laws, not from politically correct pieties. If you don’t meet the terms of the Geneva Convention, then the Geneva Convention doesn’t protect you. If you are not an American citizen, then the rights guaranteed to American citizens do not apply to you.

That should be especially obvious if you are part of an international network bent on killing Americans. But bending over backward to be nice to our enemies is one of the many self-indulgences of those who engage in moral preening.

But getting other people killed so that you can feel puffed up about yourself is profoundly immoral. So is betraying the country you took an oath to protect.

That seems to describe the current administrations approach to everything from foreign policy to health care reform, to relations with Israel, to communication with the American people: “profoundly immoral”. Combine that with a pandering congress and an opposition that is afraid to stand up for what is right and call these abominations what they are, and America is in real trouble! This time, as it was the first time in 1776, and in every crises since, it is up to ordinary Americans like you and me to step up and preserve our liberties and save our Republic.

Please read this article as well as other great material at its source:
Suicide of the West?

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Warnings From the Grave

by Doug on August 27, 2009 · 1 comment

in Big Government, Freedom, Government, Hope for America, Liberty, Politics, Saving Our Country, Second Amendment, States' Rights

The men we have come to revere as our founding fathers were strong, opinionated, ordinary men. They didn’t think of themselves as heroes, yet they saw what needed to be done and did it regardless of the personal risk and sacrifice involved.

They must have wondered on many of those long lonely nights away from their lovers and their children if their sacrifices would ultimately be worth while. Surely in those lonely moments of doubt, they must have imagined the challenges, we, their posterity would face. Would we have the courage and the wisdom to face them and prevail? Would we be willing to pay the same price they did to preserve liberty for ourselves and our posterity?

They had charged ahead to the point of no return to the status quo. They had become criminals in the eyes of the lawful government of the land. They were condemned to lives as a fugitives and soldiers when they were really farmers and tradesmen.

I find their ability to imagine our future and plan for it in the constitution they adopted amazing. Clearly they saw our day and recorded warnings and encouragement for us to see at the times we would need it most.

Here then are some timely warnings from our firebrand forebearers, revolutionaries and trouble makers all. I will let them speak for themselves, warnings from the grave:

First and foremost these men feared the potential for evil that government holds. They mistrusted government in general and encouraged the same of us Government was to play a very narrow, controlled role in our nation:

George Washington:

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments

John Adams:

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill – little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Thomas Jefferson

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

And finally, Thomas Paine

That government is best which governs least.

They also generally mistrusted those who would step forth and seek to govern, understanding that by its nature the very power vested in government would attract the wrong kind of person.

George Washington

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

John Adams

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.
Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Thomas Jefferson:

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.

There was no mistake in the minds of these men the role that the second amendment was to play in keeping us free. The purpose of an armed citizenry is to protect itself from the tyranny of its own government!

George Washington

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.

John Adams

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion… in private self-defense.

Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

We must listen to these men and heed their warnings. The nature of men and governments is unchanging. Our founders experienced oppression, felt the chains and were determined that we never would!

Our precious liberty was fought for and purchased with the blood of men and women whose names we may never hear. And as Jefferson predicted, the tree of our liberty has been nourished with the blood of heroes and tyrants from time to time since then.

The soils of Europe, the sands of Africa the atolls of the pacific, the jungles of Asia, and now the rugged terrain and desserts of the middle east are all stained with the blood of brave Americans who stood with our founders and shouted “the liberty of my fellow countrymen and our posterity is more important than my very life!”

God help us to see clearly and honor their sacrifice. Help us to stand up to any would be tyrants that threaten our liberty and disdain our constitution. Help us to successfully crush any who would rob our children of the great legacy that has been bequeathed to them through the blood and sacrifice of patriots throughout the existence of our great land. Help us not to be the weak link that breaks this divine chain of liberty, the last great hope of the world.

What are you doing to protect your posterity and to save our country? Tell us here.

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Finally, Change We Can Believe In

by Doug on August 19, 2009 · 0 comments

in Freedom, Government, Health Care, Hope for America, Liberty, Obama Administration

JewishWorldReview.com published this article by Tony Blankley. The author sends chills down the spine as he describes how the nation and the world are hearing the peaceful but firm voice of the American people.

Those of us who are self-appointed advocates — who expend our efforts trying to persuade a few more people to our political point of view — must sit back in slack-jawed wonder when the great American public makes one of its great roars, as we all have been hearing in town hall meetings across the country.

In the animal kingdom, it is the lion that has the loudest roar. Scientists say it is made as a warning to advertise the animal’s presence. Are you listening, Washington? The current American public’s roar certainly is being heard around the world. Consider the following lead from Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper a few days ago:

“It was a scene of breathtaking political theatre. Arlen Specter, the veteran Pennsylvania senator, stood in stony-faced shock as one of his constituents delivered a furious tirade just a few feet away. ‘One day G0d is going to stand before you, and he’s going to judge you and the rest of your damn cronies,’ bellowed the senator’s grey-bearded adversary in an encounter replayed countless times on American television. ‘Then you will get your just desserts.’ Minutes later, a woman prompted a standing ovation with her emotional outpouring. ‘I don’t believe this is just health care. This is about the systematic dismantling of this country,’ she said, her voice quaking. ‘I don’t want this country turning into Russia, turning into a socialised country. What are you going to do to restore this country back to what our founders created, according to the Constitution?’”

Usually, for a nation’s public opinion to be heard so far and wide, violence must be involved. Earlier this year, the people of Iran were heard — but at the price of the government murdering its citizens, shooting demonstrators in the face and violently suppressing the crowds in its capital city. And voices were heard in Tiananmen Square in China in 1989.

But only in America does the political significance of a peaceful public voice reach such magnitude, because here we change power without violence. Yet the media and many Democratic congressional leaders have responded to this peaceful outpouring of passionate opinion by first claiming the crowds were hired by lobbyists. (So far, the only evidence of rent-a-mobs was a Craigslist ad offering up to $600 a week for pro-Obamacare demonstrators to turn up and demonstrate.)

Then, when it became obvious that no one can organize the size and the manifestly sincere passion of so many people (and the polls proved the public believed the people), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused those American people of being “un-American” and “carrying swastikas,” while The Washington Post ran an article making fun of the unstylish clothes the people were wearing.

On Sunday, administration officials started backing away from their demand for a public insurance requirement. That’s nice. But it is very possible that something much bigger is afoot. As the woman said at the town hall, “I don’t believe this is just health care.”

Bailouts to banks, huge stimulus payoffs to special interests, nationalization of auto companies, trillions in new debt, the ideological taxing of our great carbon energy supplies, unconscionable deficits stealing from our grandchildren, Washington talk of health rationing, forced abortions, compulsory sterilization, eugenics. Are you all Eurosocialists now? What the hell is going on in Washington?

Maybe, just maybe, the woman is right. Maybe the national roar is a cri de coeur from the heartland to the capital — just the beginning of a national vomiting of alien ideas being shoved down the national throat by a left-wing Congress.

To those congressmen who oppose the horror: This is no time for timidity and compromise. Let your political courage match the passion of the people.

And to all the Washington politicians in Congress, advice from another generation’s poet:

“Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside
And it is ragin’.
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’.”

The real change is to come home again, America.

Please read the article and other great material at its source:
Finally, Change We Can Believe In

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Mark Levin Absolutely Frustrated With the Government

by Matt on August 14, 2009 · 2 comments

in Big Government, Freedom, Health Care, Liberty, Politics, Revolution 2.0

Mark Levin, author, radio show host, and political commentator, sounds the frustrations of most Americans in the audio clip.

Buy Mark Levin’s Book: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

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Wolves, Bonfires, Vigilance, and Revolution

by Matt on June 18, 2009 · 4 comments

in Government, Hope for America

wolfpack2Many years ago, large packs of wolves roamed the countryside in Ukraine, making travel in that part of the world very dangerous. These wolf packs were fearless. They were not intimidated by people nor by any of the weapons available at that time. The only thing that seemed to frighten them was fire. Consequently, travelers who found themselves away from cities developed the common practice of building a large bonfire and keeping it burning through the night. As long as the fire burned brightly, the wolves stayed away. But if it were allowed to burn out and die, the wolves would move in for an attack. Travelers understood that building and maintaining a roaring bonfire was not just a matter of convenience or comfort; it was a matter of survival.

The founding fathers understood human nature and they especially understood the nature of man with power. In a speech at the Constitutional Convention, James Madison said, “All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.”  Joseph Smith, a 19th century pioneer religious leader, once wrote:

“We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.”


Our Apathy is at the Heart of the Problem
So how do we citizens of the United States of America protect ourselves from the wolves that govern us? First, we need to recognize that we all bear responsibility for allowing the wolves to govern us.  thomas_jeffersonThomas Jefferson said:

“We have the greatest opportunity the world has ever seen, as long as we remain honest — which will be as long as we can keep the attention of our people alive. If they once become inattentive to public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors would all become wolves.”

Jefferson also said, “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”

We are a nation that enjoys prosperity and freedom.  However, we take these blessing for granted.  Many go so far as to feel entitled to them. Most of us are far removed from the day when all lives were touched by evil men.  Some spent their days fighting for freedom in the halls of government.  Many gave their lives fighting for freedom on battlegrounds.  Many fought for freedom in their homes teaching their children the true price of freedom.  Today we enjoy the freedom that was bought and paid for by great women and men.

The words of Samuel Adams should haunt every American of our generation:

“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them samuel_adamsagainst all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”

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However, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. taught us, “Freedom is not free”.

The wolves are always lurking hungrily on the fringes of our liberty, impatiently waiting for us to fall asleep and let the fires of our vigilance burn low. Anxious to lull us into what promises to be a most fateful slumber, they make hollow promises as “evidence” of their good intent. What happens when the fires burn completely out? We are consumed by the wolves and the ashes of vigilance untended become cold comfort for generations to come.

Get Informed

After we recognize the problem and our part in it, we need to realize that we can and must be part of the solution.  So, what do we do to keep the bonfires burning and the wolves at bay?

Thomas Jefferson taught us to educate ourselves, our family, and each other. He said, “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” Successful vigilance demands knowledge. As a minimum we should all read the documents that define our liberty: The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution and become familiar with how our republican form of government works. We can learn valuable lessons by studying the lives of those who led the way in our Revolution of 1776. To fulfill our duty as citizens, we must be learned enough to stoke the fires and defend our freedom.

What is your duty as a citizen?  To protect and maintain the freedom that you enjoy for future generations.  Thomas Jefferson taught that, “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”  We cannot let those bonfires go out.

kennedyIn his inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy said, “my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”   It is important to remember that our country is NOT our government and that our government was created by the people that it governs. In his famous Gettysburg address, Abraham Lincoln said that our government is a “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”.

Patrick Henry teaches us a very important concept about our constitution which maps out our government. He said:

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”

Discuss

As we become more informed it is then our responsibility to educate our children, and inform our family, friends and elected officials.  As informed citizens, we can be true patriots and keep our government in line.   Once again, Thomas Jefferson counseled, “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”

Most people feel that they can change nothing by themselves.  This is not true.  Jefferson said, “One man with courage is a majority.”  However, you’re not alone. There are many people who feel the same way that you do; people of all political persuasions.  Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Libertarians, Conservatives, Liberals –all feel disenfranchised by their party and their government.  Most people sense that something is wrong with our government.

Meet with these folks.  Share your concerns, thoughts, and ideas with each other.  You will find that there is more that binds us than separates us.

Don’t start your discussions with issues that “divide” and remember that  disagreement is fine.  Debate is great. When dealing with stubborn people remember what these great quotes:

“It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. — Thomas Jefferson

Be Vigilant With Elected Officials

Write your elected officials. Tell them what you think about the issues of the day. Let them know when they make mistakes or overstep their bounds. They are less likely to step out of bounds if they know that we are watching and they need to know that we are watching all the time, not just on election day.  Said Thomas Jefferson, “That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.”

Time For Revolution 2.0


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Protecting our liberties is not something that we can put off. President Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”
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Irish author Edmund Burke professed, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”



We must combine our efforts to protect our liberties and save our country for future generations.  Thomas Jefferson said,  “Every generation needs a new revolution.”

Our own Declaration of Independence declares:

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

Our first president, George Washington seemed to have been speaking to Americans of today when he warned, “Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”

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The Trampled Rose

by Doug on June 14, 2009 · 1 comment

in Politics

If you aren’t familiar with the unlikely collaboration between Alison Krause and Robert Plant, the multi-Grammy winning “Raising Sand” CD, you should give it a listen. It is a masterpiece of synergy. The track entitled “The Trampled Rose” is a haunting vocal by Ms. Krauss showing the range or her wonderful voice. You can listen to it here: The Trampled Rose

It tells the plaintive story of a young woman who gives her lover a single rose that is emblematic of all that she feels. She expects him to treasure it, placing the importance on it that she does. Instead when she walks out on the street she finds a rose trampled into the mud. She slowly realizes that it was the very rose she gave him and he discarded it as soon as he was out of her sight. Her heart is broken at the magnitude of his betrayal.

There is a parallel story unwinding on a larger scale, even as you read this. We the people of the United States of America have bestowed upon Barak Hussein Obama the highest honor and the most sacred trust possible for us to bestow upon a human being: The Presidency of the greatest nation in the history of this planet.

According to Article 1 of our inspired constitution, there are only=2 0two duties that he, in return, is sworn to. The oath of office for the President of the United States of America taken directly from Article 1 of the constitution says it best:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

The stewardship of preserving, protecting and defending our constitution the charter of our liberty and the American way, is our most sacred rose, entrusted to only 43 other humans in the history of our country. Mr. Obama accepted our “rose” and swore that oath, with his hand on Abraham Lincoln’s bible, no less. There is evidence that as soon as he was out of our sight, he discarded this rose and trampled it into the mud. What betrayal! Think he had his fingers crossed? What about the members of congress who swore the same oath? Why do they go along?

Thomas Jefferson counseled: “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” To think that ours may be the generation that fell asleep on guard duty and failed to preserve America’s liberty for our posterity! After all the vigilance and sacrifice by previous generations in order to pass it intact to us, that would be shameful beyond words.

We have had forty three presidents before Mr. Obama, some good, some not so good, some were most excellent and some were disastrous. But none were traitors. We may have disagreed with how they handled their stewardship, questioned their honesty, competency, morality or even their sanity. But we as a nation have never had cause to question their loyalty. Have we come to that now?

Don’t worry; I will not drive us both into the dirt by reciting a litany of evidence of Mr. Obama’s disregard for this sacred document or his assaults on our liberties. What I would like to understand, however, is WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE? Why do you have to come to a blog like this to hear these thoughts expressed? Where the voice s of those public figures with ambitions to lead us? Why do these “leaders” pretend this is a case of partisan politics as usual?

Mitt? Sarah? Newt? Cat got your tongue? We need our leaders to step up and call this what it is! Timidity and fear of the spotlight will serve neither you nor your country! Dr. Alan Keyes, and Dr Ron Paul seem to display the courage for a lonely swim against the current.

I wonder what our founding fathers would think of us now. Are we all armchair patriots? If the signers of the Declaration of Independence had hesitated to step forth and condemn the then legal and lawful government of King George for fear of condemnation or capture, where would we be now?

I saw a fitting message for Mitt, Sarah, Newt and all the others who would lead us, in a twitter user Bio of all places! “Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow… Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead… Just go stand over there somewhere.” Put another clichéd way, Lead, follow or get out of the way!

I am not waiting for someone to get the courage to step forward. Consider this a “help wanted” ad:

Wanted, for a thankless and potentially dangerous job:

A real leader! Your gender, race, or religious preference doesn’t matter. You must, however, be willing to sacrifice your privacy, peace, career and family and even your life if necessary.

This job has been vacant for over 200 years. Although we have faced many crises as a nation since then, we have never since had to face a situation parallel to the American Revolution.

You will be mocked, reviled, ridiculed, spat upon and probably shot at. Though you must never break the law, you will be accused of crimes ranging from inciting riots, mayhem and insurrection to treason and who knows what else. When this happens you must be wise enough to take it as a sign of your success and keep pressing forward.

Those you will lead are a rag-tag bunch. Many are armchair patriots who will need to be motivated to stand up from their chairs and trade the rhetoric for action: strenuous, thankless, discouraging and sometimes dangerous action. We are an independent lot and can’t seem to agree on anything. Our civic duties, to date, have been primarily focused on the political process and casting our vote for the candidates of our choice. We don’t follow well and each of us has our own ideas of what needs to be done. We are a whiney lot and will question and complain about your solutions while not offering any better alternatives. We all love our country, but few of us have ever been called upon to sacrifice anything important or take any real risks for her. Our primary skill is talk and avoiding the limelight. We are Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians and Independents. We are the folks you will be leading!

The opposition is well organized, extremely well funded with the financial might of the US government. They have the power to raise and deploy trillions of dollars in their service! They have the might of the US military and the forces of Homeland Security on their side. They are supported by millions of unquestioning zombie-like automatons, and their leader is very charismatic and effective.

Any applicants?

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Time For Some Backbone

by Doug on June 4, 2009 · 7 comments

in Action, Boycott

Here’s a fact for you: Conservatives are the backbone of America. We say that because we conservatives constitute the majority of those who carry the weight in our country. We make good things happen. We are the majority (not the totality) of those who:

  • Still think for ourselves instead of relying on the irresponsible media to tell us what to think
  • Work for a living, build industry and commerce, pay our taxes
  • Truly love America and understand our heritage of liberty and its immense cost
  • Fill our places of worship, donate to charity and live by a moral code
  • Are devoted to our children and take care in their mental and spiritual development

If the above is true, which it is, why is our country in the mess it is in? Why are we standing helplessly on the sidelines watching as America falls from glory and our liberties are quickly devoured by those who trample our constitution in pursuit of their own power?

The answer is too complex to fully tackle here, but the reality is that this has been building up for decades. Conservatives enthusiastically believed the tide had turned with the advent of the Reagan administration, but in reality it was just a pause. When we lost President Reagan we quickly returned to our destructive course. We are like the proverbial frogs in the pot. It has happened around us so gradually that while we may have felt uneasy, we were not alarmed until Mr. Obama was elected president and the decline seemed to accelerate to warp speed.

The truth is, while conservatives are in the majority, we appear to be independent and self-directed with no clear leader. Like a laser with too diffuse a beam, we have not focused our passion or power. Nor have we acted together to maintain the America that was bequeathed us by our forefathers. Many conservatives have confined their civic duties to voting for those that most reflected their views. The political party that supposedly most represented conservative views, consciously “widened the tent” to accommodate a broad range of doctrines and values, thereby diluting its message, power and influence. The GOP simply homogenized itself out of relevancy. “RINOs” (Republican In Name Only) have dominated and given the party the appearance of the cowboy who jumped on his horse and galloped off in all directions.

While the GOP may, in time, redeem and re-brand itself, conservatives need a united voice now! We don’t have time to wait for 2010 and 2012 elections. We seriously doubt if the considerable work that must be done within the GOP can be completed by then, anyway. Where does this leave us, America’s conservatives?

While Republican office holders arrogantly gloated and behaved like tax and spend liberals, conspiring men and women stepped forth with a plan to seize and wield power effectively for their own purposes. These power hungry politicians recognized that an uninformed ballot cast by someone incapable of independent thought was equal in value to the vote cast after careful evaluation by a principled citizen. As an added bonus, since the Great Unthinking derive their deepest thoughts and opinions from television and celebrity gossip, they are easily manipulated. A brilliant plan was devised to exploit this weakness. The task was relatively simple: motivate these lightweight, star struck, uninformed, drooling zombies to go to the polls on just one day every couple of years! Accomplish this, and the conspirators could legally take over our country and have their way with her. Thus the rise of ACORN.

Unfortunately, though we are in the majority among responsible citizens, the Great Unthinking outnumber responsible citizens altogether. Look good in a bathing suit, master the art of the sound bite, have a functioning teleprompter and promise what the Great Unthinking want to hear, and the country falls into your hands like a ripe fruit.

How do we, the conservative majority, including Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians and Independents, retake our country and preserve our liberties? Benjamin Franklin’s remarks as patriots gathered in Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776 are just as applicable today as they were then: “We must hang together, or we will assuredly hang separately.”

We MUST unite, and focus our passions, our power and our efforts. We must start with an objective that is relatively simple around which to organize ourselves and make our connections. Then, building on initial successes, move on to greater issues. It is time for some backbone!

Are you surprised that we have a suggestion for an initial project? It is time to lawfully use our combined economic power and leverage to strike back at the large media players that seem determined to ruin our country. These treacherous titans have been the biggest single factor in the deterioration of our society to the terrible place we find ourselves occupying today. They have destroyed our culture and created the Great Unthinking masses that have become a tool for consolidation of power for those who ignore our constitution. And, they all have major weak spots where they are vulnerable to our united action!

There are so many potential targets for our righteous wrath, but none more deserving than the NBC media empire, NBC Universal. The latest example of their outrageous irresponsibility occurred recently when MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, with his most solemn sanctimonious face and using his most unctuous voice, announced he had “proof” that Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly had incited the murder of late-term abortion doctor Tiller. Dramatically, he stated that O’Reilly and Fox had Tiller’s blood on their hands. Olbermann used several out-of-context video clips from O’Reilly’s show. Although O’Reilly was clearly reporting the truth, when one is talking about “partial birth abortions”, the truth is very upsetting. Olbermann then went on to call for an “indirect Boycott” of Fox News, asking viewers to refuse to patronize establishments that displayed TV’s on premises tuned to Fox. The video of this atrocious broadcast is included for you to watch should you have the stomach for it.

We made ourselves watch it all and actually became physically ill. We advise you to take our word, but watch it if you must. Olbermann, by the way, characterized Tiller as a hero, never mentioning the 60,000 babies he murdered for $5,000 each – - – babies who could have lived outside the mother’s womb. You can see our feelings regarding Tiller’s murder posted as a comment under “The Trust of a Child” (short version: it was murder, set the pro-life cause back and saved not a single life. The clinic still exists and others will step forward and take Tiller’s place. Tiller will not be the last multi-millionaire to build his business on the bones of babies.)

The payback opportunity we see is this: The parent company of the NBC Universal media empire is GE. GE lives in a glass house when it comes to boycott vulnerability and should not allow its “children” to throw stones. We call upon all true conservatives to unite and boycott all things GE. Let’s use this as a warm-up round to build unity and discipline among conservatives. The patriots of the American Revolution gave up home and hearth and their very lives in order to wrest our liberty from the hands of tyrants.

Do we love America enough to give up “Heroes”, “30 Rock” or “Mad Money”? Enough to shop for alternatives to GE light bulbs and appliance brands?

If not, America is simply lost.

When we unite and wield our lawful power as one, the battle is all but over. We can legally and lawfully take our country back and banish all would be oppressors if we hang together.

Remember, that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. OK, let’s take that step but let’s do it quickly. Let’s start by stopping NBC from spawning zombies. Let’s tell “Mamma GE” she is responsible for the behavior of her children and she had better cause them to behave responsibly and cease destroying America!

Coincidentally, Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of NBC Universal parent GE, serves as a member of the Obama Regime’s new economic advisory board. This board played a big role in designing the “Obama Economic Recovery Plan”.

Remember Albert Einstein’s definition: “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” We have voted over and over and depended on “our party” to be our voice. Let’s try something effective! Let’s employ the power of focused passion and unified action! Let our economic voices rise as one and throw the bastards out! Let’s Boycott all things NBC and GE!

Please join us in this first simple, lawful step and help us spread the word to Conservatives of all party labels. Whether you agree with us or not we would value knowing your opinion.

IT IS TIME FOR ACTION TO REPLACE TALK! Let’s pass our hard won liberty on to our descendants.

Its time for some backbone!

We need to act together. Please let us know if you have a better target. We WANT your feedback.

Below is information on the GE worldwide empire:

The General Electric Website outlines their diverse worldwide empire. Most GE products carry the GE brand but there are many others, especially in the entertainment industry.

NBC Universal Brands:

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The Harlot Of The Harbor

by Ray on May 22, 2009 · 7 comments

in War

We could wander, perhaps whistling, past graveyards all over the globe this Memorial Day— in Vietnam; in Europe: France, Italy, England, Belgium; in the Pacific:  Hawaii, Guam, the Philippines; in the Middle East: Iraq, Afghanistan; and in the U.S.: Concord, Valley Forge, Arlington, and so many more. We might pause to ponder the enormity of the sacrifice attached to each one of those ever-so-neatly arranged little white crosses. Row upon row ––– an endless stream of very still, very young Americans. Children who never had the chance to be remembered for their special talents or their craft, or even for their loves and foibles. Special talents and abilities, loves and lovers, follies and foibles – –all those “might have beens” – – were entombed with their young bodies. They sacrificed their all to protect the freedom they’d been raised to hold dear. The very freedom about which we, the living, often so glibly speak, but so seldom actually comprehend.

As we tiptoe by, a chorus of bewildered voices may well up from that hallowed earth to plaintively ask, “Is this what it was all for?” “Is this that for which I laid down the only life I’ve ever had or ever will have? Tell me – - how goes it with my ‘Land of the Free?’ Does the flag I vowed to protect still fly head and shoulders above all others? Does my country remain the Hope of the world? Tell me, please! Though I’ve lost touch, I feel an unease in the land.”

While kindness pleads for a place in my response, a sense of duty and an allegiance to forthrightness ultimately commands the day.

“Although I’ve no desire to alarm you . . . I must report that that very selfsame ‘unease’ of which you speak, is running rampant throughout the land. There’ve been some changes.

The Grand Lady in the harbor –– you know, the one that symbolized that which was best about America? Her once proud head is now bowed in sorrow. She thinks her vision impaired, for she sees less of the familiar landscape that once was  her purview. Rubble stands where once there was life. Yet the leader of the land frolics about, vapidly apologizing to the world for the collective ‘sin’ of our refusal as a nation to allow such transgressions to go unpunished!

Would he transform her into the Harlot of the Harbor? ‘Arrogant’, he calls us! Was it ‘arrogance’, I ask, that provided you your wee slice of eternal foreign real estate? I think not. ‘Twas the currency of your blood that financed the current crop of Freedom – – not just in America, but throughout the world. That is one American currency which must never be devalued”

“Surely you jest!”, say they who’ve given their best. “Change for the sake of change has no value. Has he forgotten our address? Have you all forgotten? The only reason we provide sustenance to French flowers, rather than to the daisies of our mothers’ liking, is our love of that which is quintessentially American: freedom. Given a choice, we’d rest a bit closer to home. But we make no apologies for our addiction to air that is free, to governess that empowers rather than enslaves. We coddle not our enemies. We curry not the favor of the world at the expense of our principles. ‘Don’t tread on me!’ is a way of life, not just an historic slogan!”

Cowed by their vigor, somewhat abashed, I meekly say, “Sorry – - – I guess I let it happen.”

“We ask but one favor….”, say they. “Spread the word: Freedom is never free.”

In solemn and loving memory of those who have provided me my freedom, I spread their word.

7,992 Young Patriots Far From Home

7,992 Young Patriots Far From Home

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One Hundred Frightening Days

by Doug on April 30, 2009 · 2 comments

in Barak Obama, Government

I have lived through many frightening periods in my life, most of them mercifully short.

The years of WWII were very scary for a child.  The men all gone.  Searchlights scanning the skies of Houston endlessly to illuminate enemy bombers for the anti-aircraft batteries that stood silent and ready.

My Dad made a small wax record of his voice with a message just for me, in a booth in San Francisco before he shipped oversees.  I didn’t remember him, but the ladies assured me, pointing at the Victrola that was making scratchy noises and emitting almost unintelligible words, that it was my daddy.  I went the rest of the war thinking that my dad was a shiny black disk that spun around in circles.

I remember in elementary school the cold war “duck and cover” drills that were supposed to save us from becoming crispy, courtesy of a Russian H-bomb.  We all figured we would eventually be toast, literally.

Later, as a young married man with my wife and new son tucked safely away back in Houston I was swept away from our home by the Air Force to serve on the front lines during the Cuban Missile Crisis.  I remember playing chess while on duty in the wee hours one morning, when for a brief moment, we went from the scary DEFCON 2 to the terrifying DEFCON 1.  I couldn’t believe my eyes as I watched the big bombers, loaded with nuclear weapons, taxi from the alert line to the runway to take off for real bombing missions.  The doctrine of deterrence (called mutual annihilation) kept ringing in my head.  Turned out the Russian bombers were not really flying over the pole coming our way, it was a human error at some Radar center.  But, damn! It was scary!  Never got back to that chess game.

Service in Viet Nam, Scary!  Again, During the Nixon administration when the Arab oil embargo showed us what our world would be like without oil and we wasted hours in lines at gas stations on alternate days to purchase a maximum of ten gallons, (unfortunately we learned exactly nothing from this); then, in the last year or two of the Carter administration when home mortgages were over 20%.  Frightening times all, and I happily survived them all.

The most frightening hundred day period in my life however has been the first 100 days of the Obama administration.  Rather than staring my own mortality in the face, I have been starkly confronted with the concept of the mortality of our nation, our constitution and our freedom.  Most of us have taken these treasures for granted all our lives.

I have lived confident that these sacred things could never be taken from us by an invading foreign power.  We would always prevail and make them sorry they had tried.  It had never occurred to me that they could be taken in a bloodless internal coup while we slept!  We as a people have taken this liberty that has been purchased with the blood of millions of patriots for granted and have been lulled into a sleep of apathetic arrogance.

For the last 100 days, I have seen evidence that it is indeed not only possible to loose our liberty, but it is actually happening before our eyes and we seem powerless to do anything about it.  I had taken the freedom of my progeny for granted.  America would always be great and free.  In the last 100 days I have watched Liberty slip right through our fingers with hardly an audible protest from those of us to whom our sacrificing fathers and mothers have passed the torch and the duty of vigilance.

OK, Mr. Obama, you have our attention, and yes we are afraid.  Anyone with half a brain should be.  Remember this, however.  There are many just like me in every state.  We may be frightened but we are not dead.  Our founding fathers provided a lawful way for us to deal with situations like this.  You have underestimated us.  You are in for a big surprise.  Your supporters were only activist enough to spend an hour at the polls before returning to their TVs and video games.  The real patriots of America who see you for what you are are activist enough to do more than just vote.  We will present you with the specter of a Constitutional Convention.  The Same body, the sovereign states, that originally created the Federal government and gave it its charter (the Constitution) have the power under that inspired document to retake the reigns of power from you and the entire Federal government and amend and clarify your Charter. And, so help me we will do it!

I don’t blame this all on you as this has been building for decades.  In fact, you are doing our country a favor.  Had it not been for your arrogance and your impatience to seize power we may have continued sleeping for decades.

Thank you, Mr. President, for the wake up call.

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