Having left California a little more than a year ago I still find it intriguing to follow the news there. For example, the spate of new laws going into effect January 1 always top news reports in the Tarnished State (it’s not appropriate to call California the “Golden State” anymore since the elected representatives there seem hell-bent on doing all they can to destroy the state’s economy).
I recall several years ago when California voters fired one governor then hired another with promises that things would turn around. At the time California fired Gray Davis California’s economy was arguably the 5th or 6th largest in the world. Now it’s closing in on third-world status as businesses leave, residents escape and state lawmakers set up laws to exacerbate problems.
Take for instance the second-to-last paragraph in this ABC story. With a young daughter in California public schools this worries me greatly.
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While test scores in California schools continue to decline and kids there are kicked along to the next grade without the necessary skills to master last-year’s lessons, the political plantation owners that run the California Legislature have decided that Martin Luther King Jr.’s ideals of a colorblind society, where people are judged on the “content of their character,” are no longer vogue. Then again, it’s patently apparent to most residents the value of California’s political character, particularly when this kind of debauchery is pushed.
When California eighth graders read below a second-grade level and can’t perform simple math problems from the first and second grade, why must students be taught the sick and offensive biases of the rabid homosexual lobby? Apparently students don’t need to know how to read, write and do their arithmetic, but they do need to know ”the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, persons with disabilities, and members of other cultural groups.”
What happened to the values that made America a great nation? It would seem this kind of teaching would go much farther to promoting and preserving the kind of American exceptionalism that is responsible for creating and spreading vast amounts of wealth and prosperity across the globe.
Let’s see if I understand this correctly: I can own a private enterprise that is quite profitable and makes lots of money for me; those who choose to invest in my company and my employees. I can play by the rules and still get hauled before a bunch of self-important, pious egotists masquerading as esteemed Senators to defend my business acumen because somehow, somewhere, the premise was proffered that my legal business, which pays millions of dollars in taxes to support these government hacks, is somehow evil.
Meanwhile, the same government hacks that I support with the taxes generated from my private business, can support programs that run guns across international borders so that foreign agents can then execute a war against the country that my taxes support, but when I ask my congressman why he won’t assume his constitutional authority to declare war against the people firing at my neighbors from across the same international border, I’m laughed at as if my suggestion is ludicrous. Imagine if we’d had the same attitude on Dec. 7, 1941.
Some more questions and observations:
What’s the difference between what Bernie Madoff did to private investors and what the United States government is doing to its citizens via Social Security?
When George W. Bush sent troops to the Middle East to fight a war the media called him a warmonger and wanted to drag him to his death.
When Barrack Hussein Obama sent troops to the Middle East to fight a war the media called him brave.
The George W. Bush tax cuts were gifts to corporate cronies and the rich until Obama was given the choice to let them expire, then they were the right thing to do.
Exxon is chastised for not paying its “fair share” of taxes while General Electric can pay no taxes on billions in profits and its CEO receives presidential treatment and access.
The same communist regimes that we once touted as our enemies are more profitable, more capitalistic and run their governments with lower tax rates than we do? Did you know that Russia has a flat tax and collects more money than it ever did because of it, or that China regularly visits American businesses in order to learn how to replicate our capitalistic successes?
How did health care become a right and the ownership of firearms by free citizens become outlawed? What constitutional amendment covers health care?
Who decided that it was more important to pay people to literally dig through the trash of a former governor than it was to dig into the past of the man who would soon become President of the United States? Why weren’t more people alarmed when two veteran news journalists openly admitted that they knew nothing about the background of Barack Hussein Obama, or what his thoughts and motivations were?
Did you know that children who attend American Independence Day celebrations are more likely to vote Republican (gasp!) when they grow up?
Don’t tell the Obama regime, otherwise they might concoct a scheme to ban the celebration altogether.
Oops! Too late: the media arm of the Obama regime has already posted the story.
It’s true. Well, almost… Not really. ABC News admits that even the study’s co-author, David Yanagizawa-Drott of Harvard University can’t match up the thesis with the facts. Not to worry folks; like the Christmas stories that proclaim Jesus wasn’t really born on Dec. 25th or that what he said and did can’t be authenticated, this is just another attempt by the anti-American media to belittle you for waving your American flags and celebrating the moral convictions of those who risked life and livelihoods to declare themselves and others free and independent from the tyranny of King George by signing the Declaration of Independence.
According to the story’s author:
One thing not addressed in the report is that nearly every kid in America attends Fourth of July celebrations, but the Republican Party is a minority party.
Minority party? So what’s the problem? If most kids grow up to be Democrats who cares?
Let’s apply a little Philosophy 101 here… If there are fewer registered Republicans in America then certainly the premise must be that there are more registered Democrats.
US voter registration in 2004.
The 2004 census statistics even bear this out. So, if nearly ever kid in America attends an Independence Day celebration in the United States as declared in the story, simply philosophy would suggest that celebrating Independence Day would make one more likely to be Democrat than Republican, even though ABC News declared the exact opposite?
Halfway through the story ABC News printed this joke: “Calls to Democratic officials were not returned because they had left their offices early to celebrate the Fourth of July.”
Really? How did the author of the story know they were out celebrating Independence Day? Come on now: George Stephanoloulos works for ABC News and is one of the Democrat Party’s biggest apologists around! Isn’t he one of the author’s colleagues? Even if he was reluctant to make up a quote I’m sure he could find someone out there to make up some lies about Republicans and Independence Day.
Of course that isn’t why they printed the paragraph. For Liberals, the time off for patriotic or religious holidays has nothing to do with celebrating the memory of the holiday. You don’t believe for a moment that Liberals actually go out and celebrate Independence Day, Christmas, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving or Easter for the rememberances that they are? That’s not the purpose of a holiday for these folks. The purpose of a national holiday for these people is just another paid vacation on the taxpayer’s dime.
As an aside, I thought that children weren’t affected by the things they watched, did or played? We’re always told that the violent video games kids play are perfectly harmless, that they don’t lead kids to violent tendencies, or that the music they listen to doesn’t encourage them to act out in ways that are counter to the morals of a good and just society.
So what’s the worry Mr. and Ms. Liberal? These kids at the Independence Day ceremonies will likely continue the practice of drinking the kool aid you serve up to their older brothers and sisters in college and continue to vote with the premise that government is good, politicians are the only people in America who have your best interests at heart and that freedom and liberty are the archaic, evil and racist outcomes of a bunch of hooligans who dared to break away from the theocratic and despotic regime of King George.
Poor John McCain: he must really be feeling irrelevant in his advanced age, what with real conservatives and Tea Party folks commanding more respect from more Americans than the senior Senator from Arizona.
Not to disrespect Mr. McCain’s service to the United States as a Naval officer, nor to diminish his time as a prisoner of war, but isn’t it a bit ironic that a man who suffered physical harm at a time when traitors such as Hanoi Jane were openly and actively criticizing his service to America now seems to be slinging the same kind of propaganda just two years after he failed miserably to promote American exceptionalism and conservatism when America needed him the most?
Of course McCain’s criticism of Republicans fits well with the template created by the propaganda arm of the American government, otherwise known as the American media. That’s why they chose him to be the Republican nominee in 2008, and that’s why they still love him.
So McCain is worried that America not repeat the lessons of the 1930′s, where the United States stood by while the National Socialist Party in Germany rose to power and exterminated millions of people based solely on their religion. Does that mean we need to be concerned about the ascension to power of Islamic extremists in the Middle East, or should we wait until after they build the ovens and force Sharia Law upon the rest of the world?
Maybe Senator McCain forgot that little part of history that records which political party was in power in the United States and stood idly by during that period of time.
I had to laugh at the article by the “American Pravda” where the authors (no longer are our media workers “reporters”) suggested that of all the GOP candidates currently announced, only former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney agrees with the Obama regime that we need to “bring our troops home as soon as we possibly can.” Then again nobody every accused Mr. Romney of being a conservative. I wonder if when Romney speaks McCain’s mouth moves, or vice versa?
It’s comforting to know that Sen. McCain is so concerned that America not become an isolationist nation or that the GOP become an isolationist party that helping Obama out politically has become his stated purpose in life. Thanks Mr. McCain, but we already knew that you preferred Obama to yourself as President!
When did American victory and success become so offensive to our elected leaders that they have to actively seek the political destruction of those trying to fix America’s problems? I’ll bet that’s a question Ronald Reagan would more likely be apt to ponder.
The following is a copy of the e-mail I was encouraged to send to House Speaker John Boehner.
I am completely disgusted with the GOP and its policy of giving into the Democrats every time they whimper, whine or threaten.
While the enemy does always get a vote in war, the objective is to always work to veto that vote by utterly annihilating the enemy! To be perfectly clear, the Democrats and anyone else who stands in the way of freedom, liberty and doing what’s best for the United States of America is an enemy, even if they call themselves Republican!
I was absolutely amazed that something like this was produced for television in America today. I am extremely pleased that it was produced on a day when millions of people around the globe were watching television. I can only hope that this was not censored anywhere it was broadcast.
President Ronald Reagan did not have a Conservative majority in the House or Senate, nevertheless, he managed to advance conservatism in ways today's Republicans seem impotent to do. Image via Wikipedia
If ever there were something I could be jealous that I didn’t think of first, this could be it.
The thesis that Conservatives are good at complaining about Liberal policies while even fewer of them can actually articulate conservatism, has not been lost on my Conservative friend here.
It’s time as Conservatives we go on the offensive and set our own agenda, promote what’s right for America and stop playing prevent defense with the Liberals. It’s not enough that we simply prevent them from scoring points: they must be summarily destroyed.
I’m frankly tired of hearing Republicans, for example, say that there might be some good things about the Obama Health Care Bill, and thus, we must somehow find a way to keep some of the less egregious parts of the bill while trying to repeal the rest of it. NO! America didn’t want it, doesn’t want it, and most certainly doesn’t need it!
For more than two centuries the United States has been a beacon of hope to the rest of the world, providing a place to come and make a better living for one self, helping some seek solace and security from rogue regimes.
Over this period of time we’ve liberated nations from the iron fist of despotism, stopped a holocaust, provided food, medical support and other aid to nations suffering from famine and natural disasters, and today continue to help sovereign nations by providing cash and military protection.
It would appear that our ability to provide this sort of humanitarian aid will run out, not because we don’t want to anymore, but because we can’t. The money is running out.
Current fiscal policies in America, including the forthcoming program called Quantitative Easing Two (QE1 already failed) are devaluing the US Dollar to the point that other nations are seriously concerned that our financial mess here will affect the rest of the world in ways we can’t even imagine.
Where will these nations turn when their next natural disaster happens and the United States doesn’t have the money or the ability to even feed its own people? We’re not that far from discovering the answer to this question folks. Current policies to simply print more money in order to pay down our debt has nations like Germany and China — China currently owns much of our debt — seriously concerned, and rightfully so.
America has always prided itself on being able to feed itself and much of the world with our agricultural output. Furthermore, our industrial might has not only helped fuel our economy, but has provided the ability for our military to fight world wars and liberate entire continents from tyranny.
Experts say the rise in commodity prices, such as in gold and oil, are such that the economy can’t sustain it. We’re more than halfway back to oil prices at such where gasoline will once-again be over $4 a gallon — the apparent tipping point that we discovered last year has the ability to completely shut down the US economy.
While there are some who bemoan the fact that the United States was once a mighty super power — including our own President — the fact remains that the United States is solely responsible for, and to be credited with, expanding the world economy through the export of all sorts of goods and services (not to mention help develop the ability to efficiently transport these goods and services), and with rescuing nations from the military might of dictators and despots.
While major industrial nations around the globe are beginning to seriously worry that America’s decline will lead to their own demise, it’s disappointing to say the least that many of our elected leaders don’t see what folks like the Germans and Chinese see, and once we fail, it won’t simply be those two nations left holding the bag.
I had a question posed to me the other day that got me to thinking. I’ll expand the question somewhat to fill in some of the thoughts that ran through my mind as my friend and I talked about this.
Where are all the loud and avowed Conservative artists and how do we support them? The question really comes from a lament by a friend of mine that people might not be supporting Conservative artists as they do those who seem to loudly proclaim their Liberal ideals.
Take some of the more popular musical artists over the past 20-30 years. I’m sure some of us have been to concerts where at some point the great music stops and the tirades start regarding the latest political issue of the day. Sting did this in the late 80’s at a concert I was at. I wanted to yell, “shut up and sing!” I wasn’t there to hear his rant on why he thought Conservatives are simply the doormen at the Gates of Hell, I was there to hear him sing.
So maybe I shouldn’t have been there, but I liked his music, so I went.
I think this helps illuminate the main question: Where are the Conservative artists out there and what can we do to support them? After all, they seem to speak for many more Americans than do the Liberal artists who’s cause du jour has nothing to do with making America a better place to live and work. Just look at the rise of conservatism on social media, the Internet and through large events such as the Tea Party movement. There’s a groundswell of conservatism going on out there that can’t be ignored.
I came across one such artist recently who, in my own opinion, seems to have captured the sense of the rising anger in America: a righteous indignation over the principles and morals of a depraved Liberal society that believes people who work hard for what they have ought to be stripped of what they’ve earned so those who’ve sat on the proverbial couch and ate from the Liberal tray of chips can have more chips because somehow it’s not right to require them to work for a living so they can buy their own food, health care, houses and other things.
A visit to http://www.joedanmedia.com/ doesn’t take one long to discover that the Liberal mindset is one worthy of scorn, ridicule and contempt, if not simply an ideal who’s only worth is to spur laughter. It’s this mindset that has helped plunge the American economy into a massive recession. Certainly the similar Liberal policies that have plagued Europe for decades is the reason why the economy of Greece collapsed recently, and will likely be the cause of America’s ultimate collapse in the very near future if we can’t wrestle away the control of Congress from those who’s spending-spree attitude is nothing short of evil.
Many of these short video spots — the shortest is a 39-second spot that decries the desire of Liberals to confer US citizenship rights to terrorists captured on the battlefield, rather than dish out the appropriate punishment via our military — call attention to the utter degradation of America under Liberal rule. The site’s owner, Joe Dan Gorman, simply uses the statements of and facts surrounding those Liberal politicians who’s sole purpose is to remake America into their own fiefdom where the controlling authority is not democratic but authoritarian.
Such video messages can be very powerful if done right. Consider the “Daisy Girl” television ad, which ran one time on Sept. 7, 1964 during the NBC Movie. The advertisement was very likely the reason why Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater lost in a 44-state landslide to incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson. It certainly helped cement the Liberal mindset that Goldwater was an extremist who would destroy America, when a careful study of his ideas suggests that had he succeeded, the Vietnam War might not have drug on for another decade like it did.
While it’s easy to agree with television producer and former Nixon campaign consultant Roger Ailes when he said: “Television is no gimmick, and nobody will ever be elected to major office again without presenting themselves well on it,” I find myself somewhat agreeing, if somewhat nostalgically, with Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, who in 1956, said: “The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal is the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”
Nevertheless, mass media being what it is, especially today, means that candidates will continue to be defined by sound bytes and notable video spots, whether on television in the form of slick commercials, or on the Internet via YouTube or some other yet-to-be-invented medium. Personally, I think the Internet is the future of political advertising and marketing.
That’s why I like what I see coming out of the Conservative movement in America, and why I think that these talented media artists need to be supported, financially and otherwise, for their efforts. Folks with a flair for media or the ingenuity to capitalize on social media and other forms of Internet media are taking advantage of the Internet in ways that will forever change the political marketing landscape in America. I just wish I had a great idea for how to create the business model that turns this passion into profit. I’m hopeful that this change will be good as the stranglehold that the mainstream television networks have had on American politics for decades is forever broken, dismantled and defunded.
I’m glad I’m not the only one with such an opinion: The Second Amendment isn’t about hunting, or even protecting ourselves against street thugs, though firearm ownership does afford us those abilities. It’s much larger, and much more important than that.
Any government capable of disarming its citizens is not only capable of, but is also very likely preparing for the day when those in power plan to rule by despotism and inflict all sorts of evil on their subjects. History bears the proof in this from the smallest of insurrections in third-world countries to the larger and more historically notable regimes ruled by dictators who’s names are widely published in history books.
There are countless examples of such thoughts not only running through the mind of President Barack Hussein Obama. Given his public statements and rhetoric that we currently have at hand, it’s not a stretch to believe that reports are true of his wishes to amass his own police force and establish martial law sometime within his first term. Stories in the Washington Times and even in the European Union’s online newspaper The European Union Times bear witness to such reports.
I came across a YouTube video taken from what appears to be a US Senate committee or subcommittee meeting (Sen. Chuck Schumer is visible in this hearing) from the mid 1990’s. The gist of the video is of Dr. Suzanna Gratia Hupp sharing a personal story with some Senators about a gunman who killed her parents and a host of others in a massacre in Killeen, Texas in October 1991. One would guess that the discussion before this committee of the self-important was over the assault weapon’s ban.
The most poignant comment made in this video clip, as Sen. Schumer sat with his head in his hand, staring smugly at Dr. Hupp, was when she told the senators that “the Second Amendment is not about duck hunting… but it’s about our rights, all of our rights to be able to protect ourselves from all of you guys up there.”
Wow! Someone with the guts to say that to a bunch of self-righteous senators should be held up to high esteem and lauded for openly speaking such truth. I’d vote for her for President of the United States based on that belief and statement alone!
Consider the man who was President about the time Dr. Hupp made this statement to the senate committee. In 1994 President Bill Clinton said this on MTV:
“When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly. …However, now there’s a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there’s too much freedom. When personal freedom’s being abused, you have to move to limit it.” (http://www.featherlessbiped.com/)
The Second Amendment is truly the linchpin to our inalienable right to self-government and our ability to, in the extreme, force a tyrannical government aside and start afresh. The Declaration of Independence bears this thought out in the second paragraph. To place some context to the phrase, I’ll include the sentences leading up to this point:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”
Did you catch that? “…that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government…” (emphasis added).
The Second Amendment is our trump card, so to speak, against government’s desire and ability to grow larger and assume powers not afforded them under the Constitution. Contrary to the opinion of President Barack Hussein Obama the Constitution constrains government; it does not constrain the governed.
Above all others, the Second Amendment holds in itself the ability to enforce the rest of the Constitution — but only if those willing participants stand up and assume the awesome responsibility that comes with liberty and freedom to challenge those who would oppose those rights through tyranny and oppression.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
Charles Finney
"[T]he time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them. . . . Christians have been exceedingly guilty in this matter. But the time has come when they must act differently. . . . Christians seem to act as if they thought God did not see what they do in politics. But I tell you He does see it - and He will bless or curse this nation according to the course they [Christians] take [in politics]."
[Charles G. Finney, Lectures on Revivals of Religion (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1868), Lecture XV, pp. 281-282.]
