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Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, January 1, 2013, 4:33 PM
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Josh Boston was a Marine deployed to Afghanistan between the years of 2004 through 2005. He is no longer in the Marines but penned this letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein following her announcement to outlaw 120 specifically-named firearms including certain semiautomatic rifles, handguns, and shotguns..
CNNi reported:
Senator Dianne Feinstein,
I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government’s right to know what I own. Nor do I think it prudent to tell you what I own so that it may be taken from me by a group of people who enjoy armed protection yet decry me having the same a crime. You ma’am have overstepped a line that is not your domain. I am a Marine Corps Veteran of 8 years, and I will not have some woman who proclaims the evil of an inanimate object, yet carries one, tell me I may not have one.
I am not your subject. I am the man who keeps you free. I am not your servant. I am the person whom you serve. I am not your peasant. I am the flesh and blood of America.
I am the man who fought for my country. I am the man who learned. I am an American. You will not tell me that I must register my semi-automatic AR-15 because of the actions of some evil man.I will not be disarmed to suit the fear that has been established by the media and your misinformation campaign against the American public.
We, the people, deserve better than you.
Respectfully Submitted,
Joshua Boston
Cpl, United States Marine Corps
2004-2012
Warner Todd Huston spoke with Joshua Boston about his letter.
by Don Fredrick, ©2012, blogging at The Obama Timeline
The Obama Timeline, Can It All Be Coincidence?
Don Fredrick
USA --(Ammoland.com)- As I noted in the introduction to my book, The Obama Timeline, a jury at a murder trial will often find the accumulated circumstantial evidence so overwhelming that a guilty verdict is obvious—even though there may be no witness to the crime.
“The jurors in the Scott Peterson trial believed the collection of evidence more than they believed Scott Peterson. Among other things, the jury thought that being arrested with $15,000 in cash, recently-dyed hair, a newly-grown goatee, four cell phones, camping equipment, a map to a new girlfriend’s house, a gun, and his brother’s driver’s license certainly did not paint a picture of a grieving husband who had nothing to do with his pregnant wife’s disappearance and murder.”
In the four years I have been gathering information about —and evidence against— Barack Hussein Obama, I have encountered hundreds of coincidences that strike me as amazing. None of those coincidences, by themselves, may mean much.
But taken as a whole it is almost impossible to believe they were all the result of chance.
Consider the Obama-related coincidences:
Obama just happened to know 60s far-left radical revolutionary William Ayers, whose father just happened to be Thomas Ayers, who just happened to be a close friend of Obama’s communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis, who just happened to work at the communist-sympathizing Chicago Defender with Vernon Jarrett, who just happened to later become the father-in-law of Iranian-born leftist Valerie Jarrett, who Obama just happened to choose as his closest White House advisor, and who just happened to have been CEO of Habitat Company, which just happened to manage public housing in Chicago, which just happened to get millions of dollars from the Illinois state legislature, and which just happened not to properly maintain the housing—which eventually just happened to require demolition.
Valerie Jarrett also just happened to work for the city of Chicago, and just happened to hire Michelle LaVaughan Robinson (later Obama), who just happened to have worked at the Sidley Austin law firm, where former fugitive from the FBI Bernardine Dohrn also just happened to work, and where Barack Obama just happened to get a summer job.
Bernardine Dohrn just happened to be married to William Ayers, with whom she just happened to have hidden from the FBI at a San Francisco marina, along with Donald Warden, who just happened to change his name to Khalid al-Mansour, and Warden/al-Mansour just happened to be a mentor of Black Panther Party founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale and a close associate of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and al-Mansour just happened to be financial adviser to a Saudi Prince, who just happened to donate cash to Harvard, for which Obama just happened to get a critical letter of recommendation from Percy Sutton, who just happened to have been the attorney for Malcolm X, who just happened to know Kenyan politician Tom Mboya, who just happened to be a close friend of Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., who just happened to meet Malcolm X when he traveled to Kenya.
Obama, Sr. just happened to have his education at the University of Hawaii paid for by the Laubach Literacy Institute, which just happened to have been supported by Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, who just happened to be a friend of Malcolm X, who just happened to have been associated with the Nation of Islam, which was later headed by Louis Farrakhan, who just happens to live very close to Obama’s Chicago mansion, which also just happens to be located very close to the residence of William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who just happen to have been occasional baby-sitters for Malia and Natasha Obama, whose parents just happen not to mind exposing their daughters to bomb-making communists.
After attending Occidental College and Columbia University, where he just happened to have foreign Muslim roommates, Obama moved to Chicago to work for the Industrial Areas Foundation, an organization that just happened to have been founded by Marxist and radical agitator Saul “the Red” Alinsky, author of Rules for Radicals, who just happened to be the topic of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s thesis at Wellesley College, and Obama’s $25,000 salary at IAF just happened to be funded by a grant from the Woods Fund, which was founded by the Woods family, whose Sahara Coal company just happened to provide coal to Commonwealth Edison, whose CEO just happened to be Thomas Ayers, whose son William Ayers just happened to serve on the board of the Woods Fund, along with Obama.
The Obama Timeline
Obama also worked on voter registration drives in Chicago in the 1980s and just happened to work with leftist political groups like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Socialist International (SI), through which Obama met Carl Davidson, who just happened to travel to Cuba during the Vietnam War to sabotage the U.S. war effort, and who just happened to be a former member of the SDS and a member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, which just happened to sponsor a 2002 anti-war rally at which Obama spoke, and which just happened to have been organized by Marilyn Katz, a former SDS activist and later public relations consultant who just happened to be a long-time friend of Obama’s political hatchet man, David Axelrod.
Obama joined Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC), whose pastor was Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a fiery orator who just happened to preach Marxism and Black Liberation Theology and who delivered anti-white, anti-Jew, and anti-American sermons, which Obama just happened never to hear because he just happened to miss church only on the days when Wright was at his “most enthusiastic,” and Obama just happened never to notice that Oprah Winfrey left the church because it was too radical, and just happened never to notice that the church gave the vile anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan a lifetime achievement award.
Although no one had ever heard of him at the time, Obama just happened to receive an impossible-to-believe $125,000 advance to write a book about race relations, which he just happened to fail to write while using the cash to vacation in Bali with his wife Michelle, and despite his record of non-writing he just happened to receive a second advance, for $40,000, from another publisher, and he eventually completed a manuscript called Dreams From My Father, which just happened to strongly reflect the writing style of William Ayers, who just happened to trample on an American flag for the cover photograph of the popular Chicago magazine, which Obama just happened never to see even though it appeared on newsstands throughout the city.
Obama was hired by the law firm Miner, Banhill and Galland, which just happened to specialize in negotiating state government contracts to develop low-income housing, and which just happened to deal with now-imprisoned Tony Rezko and his firm Rezar, and with slumlord Valerie Jarrett, and the law firm’s Judson Miner just happened to have been a classmate of Bernardine Dohrn, wife of William Ayers.
In 1994 Obama represented ACORN and another plaintiff in a lawsuit against Citibank for denying mortgages to blacks (Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Federal Savings Bank), and the lawsuit just happened to result in banks being blackmailed into approving subprime loans for poor credit risks, a trend which just happened to spread nationwide, and which just happened to lead to the collapse of the housing bubble, which just happened to help Obama defeat John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.
In 1996 Obama ran for the Illinois State Senate and joined the “New Party,” which just happened to promote Marxism, and Obama was supported by Dr. Quentin Yong, a socialist who just happened to support a government takeover of the health care system.
In late 1999 Obama purportedly engaged in homosexual activities and cocaine-snorting in the back of a limousine with a man named Larry Sinclair, who claims he was contacted in late 2007 by Donald Young, who just happened to be the gay choir director of Obama’s Chicago church and who shared information with Sinclair about Obama, and Young just happened to be murdered on December 23, 2007, just weeks after Larry Bland, another gay member of the church, just happened to be murdered, and both murders just happened to have never been solved. In 2008 Sinclair held a press conference to discuss his claims, and just happened to be arrested immediately after the event, based on a warrant issued by Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, who just happens to be the son of Joe Biden.
In 2003 Obama and his wife attended a dinner in honor of Rashid Khalidi, who just happened to be a former PLO operative, harsh critic of Israel, and advocate of Palestinian rights, and who Obama claims he does not know, even though the Obamas just happened to have dined more than once at the home of Khalidi and his wife, Mona, and just happened to have used them as occasional baby-sitters. Obama reportedly praised Khalidi at the decidedly anti-Semitic event, which William Ayers just happened to also attend, and the event Obama pretends he never attended was sponsored by the Arab American Action Network, to which Obama just happened to have funneled cash while serving on the board of the Woods Fund with William Ayers, and one speaker at the dinner remarked that if Palestinians cannot secure a return of their land, Israel “will never see a day of peace,” and entertainment at the dinner included a Muslim children’s dance whose performances just happened to include simulated beheadings with fake swords, and stomping on American, Israeli, and British flags, and Obama allegedly told the audience that “Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine” and there has been “genocide against the Palestinian people by (the) Israelis,” and the Los Angeles Times has a videotape of the event but just happens to refuse to make it public.
In the 2004 Illinois Democrat primary race for the U.S. Senate, front-runner Blair Hull just happened to be forced out of the race after David Axelrod just happened to manage to get Hull’s sealed divorce records unsealed, which just happened to enable Obama to win the primary, so he could face popular Republican Jack Ryan, whose sealed child custody records from his divorce just happened to become unsealed, forcing Ryan to withdraw from the race, which just happened to enable the unqualified Obama to waltz into the U.S. Senate, where, after a mere 143 days of work, he just happened to decide he was qualified to run for President of the United States.
Obama just happened to save $300,000 on the purchase of a $1.65 million Chicago mansion for which he deposited only $1,000 in earnest money, while the seller’s adjacent empty lot which was appraised at no more than $500,000 just happened to be sold at the inflated price of $625,000 to Rita Rezko, who just happened to earn only $37,000 per year working for Cook County government, and who just happened to be married to Tony Rezko, who just happened to be Obama’s main money man for his political campaigns, and who only days before the Obama mansion purchase just happened to obtain a $3.5 million loan from wealthy Iraqi Nadhmi Auchi, who just happened to have been kicked out of Iraq, and who just happened to have been convicted of corruption charges in France, and who just happened to ask Rezko to ask then-U.S. Senator Obama to help him obtain a visa to travel to the United States.
Rita Rezko just happened to borrow the money for the $625,000 empty lot from the Mutual Bank of Harvey, which just happened to be run by Tony Rezko’s pal Amrish Mahajan, whose wife Anita just happened to have been charged with fraudulently receiving $2 million in Illinois taxpayer dollars for drug tests never performed by her company, K. K. Bio-Science, which just happened to have a no-bid contract with the state, and whose computers just happened to disappear right before investigators arrived to take them away for evidence.
Obama just happened to obtain a $1.32 million mortgage for his mansion even though the payments of $8,000 per month (plus at least $1,500 per month in property taxes) exceeded 50 percent of his $162,100 U.S Senate salary income, and even though Michelle Obama was claiming that she and her husband were still paying off substantial student loans and were struggling to pay for piano lessons for their daughters, one of whom just happens to look remarkably like one of the daughters of Malcolm X.
Obama just happened to obtain his mansion mortgage from Northern Trust Bank, whose Board of Directors just happened to include Susan Crown, who just happened to be part of the wealthy Crown family, which just happened to donate to Obama’s campaigns, and which just happened to have ownership in defense contractor General Dynamics Corporation, and the Crown family just happened to sit on the board of energy company Exelon, formerly known as Commonwealth Edison, which just happened to have had Thomas Ayers as its CEO, and the Crown family also owned the Maytag appliance company, which just happened to move its operations to Mexico, after its employees just happened to donate to Obama’s campaign, after he just happened to pledge that he would keep their jobs in Galesburg, Illinois.
In June 2005, just months after Obama became a U.S. Senator, Michelle Obama just happened to be named a “non-executive director” of the board of TreeHouse Foods, a supplier of Wal-Mart, for a salary of $51,200 in 2005 and $101,083 in 2006, and she just happened to be given 7,500 TreeHouse stock options, worth approximately $72,375, even though she just happened to know nothing about the private sector or running a business.
In 2006 Obama pushed for a $1 million earmark for the University of Chicago, and his wife Michelle just happened to be promoted to Vice-President of Community and External Affairs for the hospitals with a salary increase from $121,900 to $316,962, and she just happened to receive public relations help from Obama’s political strategist David Axelrod, whose mother just happened to write for a communist newspaper.
In 2006 Sarah P. Herlihy, an associate of the Chicago law firm of Kirkland and Ellis, whose employees later contributed $87,722 to Obama’s presidential campaign, and whose partner Bruce I. Ettleson just happened to be a member of Obama’s campaign finance committee, just happened to write a paper calling for the elimination of the “natural born citizen” requirement in the U.S. Constitution.
Obama just happened to visit Kenya in 2006 to support his cousin, Raila Odinga, a Muslim socialist candidate for president, who just happened to have ties to both al-Qaeda and Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi, and who just happened to have been educated in communist East Germany, and who just happened to name his son Fidel, and who just happened to plan on establishing Shari’ah Muslim law in Kenya, and whose activities prompted the Kenyan government to lodge an official protest of Obama’s passport abuse and misconduct, and Obama’s actions just happened to have been denounced by the U.S. State Department as being in direct opposition to U.S. National Security, and after Odinga, for whom Obama just happened to have raised $950,000, lost the election, his Muslim followers just happened to burn Christian women and children alive in a church where they had sought refuge.
In 2006 Obama endorsed Alexi Giannoulias in his race for Illinois State Treasurer and stated that he is “…one of the most outstanding young men I could ever hope to meet”—even though Giannoulias just happened to be only 29 years old and even though his family’s Broadway Bank just happened to finance Chicago crime figures like Michael “Jaws” Giorango, a Chicago thug with convictions for bookmaking and promoting prostitution, and even though virtually all of Chicago’s Democrat politicians were keeping their distance from Giannoulias, whose reputation was so questionable he even failed to get the endorsement of the Chicago Democrat Party—which just happens to almost never be concerned about questionable reputations.
Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, once worked for the Ford Foundation’s Asiaprogram, which just happened to be run by Peter Geithner, who just happened to be the father of Timothy Geithner, who just happened to neglect to pay Social Security taxes on much of his income, which just happened to somehow qualify him to be Obama’s Treasury Secretary.
During the 2008 campaign Obama’s passport records just happened to have been illegally searched by an employee of a firm headed by John O. Brennan, and Lt. Quarles Harris, Jr., who was cooperating with federal investigators in connection with the incident, just happened to be found with a bullet in his head, and the murder just happened never to be solved, and Obama later just happened to make Brennan his terrorism and intelligence advisor.
On election night in 2008 in Chicago’s Grant Park, Obama just happened to wear a black suit and a red tie, and his older daughter just happened to wear a red dress, and his younger daughter just happened to wear a stark black dress, and his wife Michelle just happened to wear an arguably unattractive black dress that appeared to have a giant red X design, which just happened to prompt some to wonder if their clothing just happened to denote black power, communism, and Malcolm X, and at the very least prompted others to wonder why anyone would have his daughter wear a jet-black dress for a celebratory occasion—or where one could even just happen to find a store that sells black dresses for little girls.
From election night forward there are hundreds of other “just happeneds,” not the least of which is the long-form birth certificate released by Obama in April 2011 which just happened to consist of multiple image layers, including various objects which can be separated and rotated with computer software—which just happens to be impossible if a birth certificate is merely scanned and not computer-constructed by a forger.
I could go on… but you get the idea.
Read more at Ammoland.com: http://www.ammoland.com/2012/10/03/the-obama-timeline/#ixzz2GblMVt4B
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Andrew Malcolm of IBD greets the new year with an appropriate degree of skepticism. Yes, that much. In a year that looks to be...shall we say, difficult, it is important to tell the truth and make it sting.
...the South Side president forgets to mention Chicago passing the 500-murder mark in 2012 during his painful paeans about the need for someone to do something about guns. Like many of his presidential responsibilities, Obama handed the violent gun issue over to Joe Biden to appear to do something about it.
Remember how Obama was going to erase the divisive partisanship of Washington? Well, the country reelected a divided federal government, which ensures divisive partisanship will continue. But voters can duck responsibility by pointing to D.C. and shaking their heads over elected members of Congress doing exactly what they were elected to do.
And American confidence in its institutions will wither more. Which is fine by Obama since he wants to change them anyway.
President Obama can call on all sides to please, pretty please, come together for the good of the country. Just before he ignites yet another self-serving, unnecessarily bitter crisis to keep opponents feuding. And then calls on all sides to reject their politics of division.
Which, by the way, is how the Democrat mayors of Chicago's machine have managed to rule the Windy City for eight decades, by keeping their party's feuding factions feuding and unable to coalesce behind an alternative to the Big Guy in City Hall. The Big Guy now is Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who's actually a tiny fellow who has what Chicago prizes, clout.
But the seeping Chicagoness of the nation's politics is probably coincidence.
Malcolm predicts excatly what I see happening:
And we'll all hear more overwhelming sums about the national debt being left for each of today's children to pay if they manage to find jobs as adults.
But by the time those bills come due, Obama will be making millions from his next autobiography.
His pals will be hitting up libs for big-money checks for the Barack H. Obama Presidential Library, which will not likely be located in Streator, Illinois.And No. 44 will be safely ensconced in his beachfront mansion playing golf with his old buds from the Choom Gang, while the rest of us enjoy the expensive fruits of his labors transforming America into something else.
We are being played; it's time we learned the game.
Conservatives have their Constitution. Progressives have their Narrative. The current battle for America is between these two concepts, and each side uses different rules to fight it.
One set of rules is consistent with an unchanging objective: limited government and individual freedoms. The other side's rules are as fickle as their goals, which are never fully disclosed beyond the equivocal references to fairness and hyphenated forms of justice. They will have to remain vague and deny their true allegiances until a time when American voters will no longer squirm at the word "socialism."
And yet spotting them isn't that hard. As a bird is known by his feathers, socialists are known by their Game.
First tried and mastered in the USSR, the Game has since been popularized around the world, assuming various forms, names, and colors -- from red to brown to green. It is now taking hold in the United States under the blue web banners of Obama's campaign infomercials.
The laws of society and human nature are such that socialism can only be achieved through a certain sequence of steps and manipulations. For instance, the only way to attain material equality is to confiscate someone's property and give it to others. That necessitates a centralized mechanism of coercion, redistribution, and control. Such a system gives extraordinary corrupting powers to a small centralized elite, while turning the rest of the citizenry into a compliant, obsequious herd.
All those who claimed they can do it differently were doomed to retrace the same path. Once you unleash the ancient powers of collectivism, you have only two options: control the human herd or be trampled underfoot.
Drawing blood is always an option, but there's also a "cleaner" way to control the crowds by manipulating their minds with the cattle prods of collectivist morals and a fictional narrative that supplants the reality.
Let's call it the Mind Game of Manipulative Illusions.
The Game existed since Cain and Abel, but it developed into an art form in the 20th century, with the rise of totalitarian regimes armed with state-controlled education, entertainment, and the media.
For a dictatorship to run efficiently, a sufficient number of people must give the regime a moral license to rule over them. The Mind Game of Manipulative Illusions secures and extends such a license.
Even the Soviet Communists, with all their tools of repression and fear, with all their power over anyone's life and death, were still pressed to play mind games to make the people feel good about the Party rule. Towards the end they went easy on the Game and relaxed their grip on the media, entertainment, and education, accepting the policies of Glasnost. Once they lost the ability to control people's hearts and minds, they also lost their moral license and, with it, the country.
The Game can mutate and adjust to different cultures, but its basic rules always remain as follows:
Socialism is not just about taking away your money; it's also about making you praise the takers as your saviors. You are expected to feel good about being robbed of opportunities, talents, and success. You must agree that "you didn't build that." There must be a popular consensus that the crumbs you are getting back from the government are a sign of caring and largess -- not a meager fraction of your actual earnings. Last but not least, you must sincerely believe that those who are trying to protect you from the thieves are really your enemies and deserve to be destroyed.
Building up and maintaining such an illusion on a massive scale requires participation of the media, education, and entertainment industries in a coordinated, long-term propaganda campaign.
Once the illusion reaches a critical mass, those afflicted by it become immune to facts, numbers, or rational arguments. Confronting them with logic will only cause more resentment, name-calling and, sometimes, violence.
The little game of illusions that President Obama is running under the name of "tax cuts for the middle class" is part of the larger Game; it contains all of the above elements.
The plan is to pass yet another extension of Bush's tax cuts - i.e., to keep the status quo for the most -while excluding families with a joint income of over $250,000. In plain speak, it's a tax hike. But calling things by their real names would be against the rules; this isn't how the Game is played.
This mass mailing from Obama's Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter shows us how to play it:
I hope you had a lovely holiday and all is well. I'm writing with a quick update on the "fiscal cliff" and how you can get involved.
Right now, President Obama is asking you to think about what $2,000 a year means to you and your family -- because Congress needs to hear it.
The Senate has passed a bill that stops taxes from going up for 98 percent of American families, and asks those who can afford it to pay a little more. If the House follows suit, President Obama is ready to sign it as soon as it hits his desk.
If they fail to do so, a typical middle-class family of four will see their taxes go up by $2,000 in just a few short weeks.
President Obama is asking Congress to do the right thing and act before the New Year, but he needs our help. We've got a good track record here: When we make our voices heard and urge Congress to take action -- whether it's about health care, student loans, Wall Street reform, or "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" -- they listen.
Watch this new video about the President's tax plan, and take a moment to share your story: What does $2,000 a year mean to you and your family?
Listening to Obama now, one could have never guessed that these are the same "Bush's tax cuts," against which he had vigorously campaigned in the past -- just like one could have never learned from his previous speeches that the reviled "tax cuts for the rich" had been saving middle-class families as much as $2,200 a year.
Until recently, the $2,200 amount was treated as classified information, which the Administration and the compliant media deemed unfit for consumption by the unwashed masses. Now that Obama wins reelection and needs to postpone the economic disaster caused by his first term, he "declassifies" the previously subversive amount and parades it on My.BarackObama.com as a centerpiece of his new glorious campaign for the people.
Simply put, Obama first discredits his predecessor's idea, then steals it, bundles it with a job-killing tax hike, and rebrands it as his own benevolent gift to the toiling masses. Judging by responses on Obama's official blog, WhiteHouse.gov, and Twitter, many of his supporters believe they are actually getting something out of it -- but in reality they are about to lose what they have due to the resulting cutbacks, layoffs, and price increases.
As the Game goes on, just feeling good about the imaginary gift is no longer enough. You are expected to participate in spreading this Orwellian fantasy by haranguing Congress with demands of a tax hike while calling it a tax cut.
Join the herd and you will experience the collectivist sense of belonging, entitlement, and empowerment by engaging in quixotic class-struggle against the mythical windmills and all those mean-spirited capitalists who are conspiring to rob you of the rightful $2,200 disbursement. Forget the phrase "policies that got us into this mess"; these policies are now all about "doing the right thing."
You end up with a sincere belief that greedy corporations, Republicans, the Tea Party, and the rest of the profligates opposing Obama's policies are the perfidious enemy who deserves to be punished and purged.
If you're wondering what kind of ignorant, misinformed, and morally misguided fools would fall for this trick, look no further than Obama's most recent 56% job approval rating in the midst of a needlessly prolonged recession. The White House propagandist Stephanie Cutter knows her demographic and constructs simple phrases she believes they can understand. However, one question remains: if the Obama voters are the best and the brightest half of this nation, why does Ms. Cutter talk to them in the tone of a condescending kindergarten teacher?
The Game has a part for everyone, from top to bottom. As the top players obtain unprecedented powers, those at the bottom get high on the palliative illusion of safety and well-being.
That illusion is as powerful as it is addictive; a mere exposure to facts of life will cause the addict to writhe in agony. It is truly the Oxycontin for the masses. No presidential candidate can win on the promise of withdrawal; those who feel entitled to a pain-free existence will only vote for better and stronger illusions. The more the addiction spreads, the slimmer the chances of a realist ever occupying the White House again.
This can last for as long as there are enough productive taxpayers to support the habit. Once they also get hooked, stop working, or the system runs out of resources, expect a fearsome, excruciating withdrawal of epic proportions. Until then, keep rational arguments to yourself unless you crave losing friends and alienating people.
If you tell them that there is no such thing as a pain-free life, they'll think you are some sadistic fascist who thrives on pain and takes pleasure in hurting people.
The problem with that attitude is that pain is nature's way to warn us of danger. If it burns, don't touch it. If it hurts, don't repeat it. People who are born without an ability to feel pain are incapable of learning safe behaviors and are doomed to live a short life of bumps, burns, broken bones, and worse. A pain-free society would be even less viable.
The real choice, therefore, is between the occasional sharp pain of individual effort and the dull, permanent pain of collective misfortune, since redistributive economies always end in misery, shortages, and corruption. Western Europe's gradual introduction of socialism is directly proportional to its gradual economic and moral decline, as evidenced by violent riots in response to inevitable austerity measures.
In the U.S., the pain-free life will be even shorter if the country falls off a cliff.
When the painkillers become useless, The Game remedies it by directing the massive anger toward the opposition.
The perception of a relentless struggle with the opposition must be permanent and persuasive. Even in times of calm and prosperity the people must believe that the opposition is holding them hostage and only the firm, wise guidance of the People's Leader is saving them from imminent ruin. When the opponents are too few, too weak, and too disoriented to put up a real fight, their power and influence must be exaggerated.
The Game has its logic: for socialism to work, there has to be unanimity and compliance. Dissent leads to system malfunctions, causing hardship for all those in the care of the state. That effectively makes the dissenter a traitor and a public enemy. The need to suppress opposition necessitates a totalitarian form of government. While we aren't at that stage yet, the demonization of dissenters has already begun.
Until a time when the opposition can be eliminated completely, having opponents can still be useful: you can steal their ideas, take advantage of their desire to help the economy, and blame them for any of your own failures. In the meantime, certain rules must be followed to control the public opinion and, through it, the opposition itself.
Maintain the perception of being constantly under attack. Don't examine the opponents' beliefs, nor answer their arguments. Discredit any media channels that offer them a platform. Enforce the following media template: the opposition is evil, treasonous, unfathomable, and psychotic. They can't be reasoned with. They are inspired by fascism and financed by a conspiracy of shady oligarchs. Defame their donors. Whatever the mischief you're planning to pull off, accuse them of doing it first; then proceed as planned, describing your actions as a necessary intervention. And above all, ridicule, ridicule, ridicule!
Imagine a scenario in which a theoretical group of left-wing radicals takes over America by playing the Game as described; then answer this question: how would their actions be different from what Obama, the Democrat Party, and their allies are doing today?
The stated intentions and the feel-good, vague rhetoric are just words. If the result is the same, nothing else matters. We lose.
Oleg Atbashian, a writer and graphic artist from the former USSR, currently lives in Florida. He is the creator of ThePeoplesCube.com, a satirical website where he writes under the name of Red Square. He is also the author of Shakedown Socialism.
OK, my fellow American warriors, Christian brothers and sisters and everybody who loves this great nation under God, indivisible and ready to fight back against the enemy within and the foreign. This word is for you:
The French helped liberating their nation from the oppressive, diabolic enemy with what they called “La Résistance”. These were men, women and children who fought back from cloaks, basements, trees, bushes, etc. They knew they could die, but that was more dignifying than living in slavery. I had the opportunity to visit some of La Résistance sites and I could see the bullet holes and the plaques naming the heroes, the event that took place and the date.
Why I say this? Our war should be fought from our little trenches: Our homes, our blocks, our neighborhoods, our local schools, our churches, our local stores and our local media. We have to fight against the people who hate us, who hate our principles, who hate our country. We know who they are; we just to have to go after them by exposing them, by stopping the patronage of their businesses, by saturating them with e-mails and calls for supporting the ANTI-AMERICAN, COMMUNIST agenda, etc.
- For example, the NYT published a list of law abiding American citizens and portrayed them as bad people. The course of our action should be to publish the list of NYT advertisers including all those who post classified ads and to let those businesses know that they need to condemn the papers actions and threaten to pull their ads if the paper does not retract and apologize, or we, the American consumers will stop buying their goods and services
- At the local level, we HAVE TO stop hiring illegals to do our domestic chores!!! Let’s hire our high school American kid neighbor instead or let’s do it ourselves!! Let’s make that our number one new year’s resolution. We have to take responsibility for our country starting by cleaning our own house
- Businesses like Hobby Lobby and Chic-Fil-A need our special support. Let’s not shop or dine at places that hire those who hate us and let them know why. Is that racist? Well, who started it?
- Our schools are particularly important because of the leftist indoctrination: Let’s volunteer as classroom mom, coaching assistant, library help, reading club, school bus help, etc. Let’s INFILTRATE TO DEFEND AND PROTECT OUR CHILDREN!!!!
I will give you 2 examples:
My daughter, white and of Mexican ethnicity, was being harassed and bullied by two black students on the school bus when she was in 9th grade. They, the black girls, were throwing things at her and one of them pulled her hair. My daughter, a Tae Kwan Do brown belt at the time, fought back and hit one of the girls. Guess who got in trouble as the bus driver was black? My baby. Fortunately, the other students backed my daughter and all went to rest. Nothing was done to the black girls.
One day I was driving around my house when I saw a group of Mexican kids getting off their school bus chasing a younger and smaller white kid. There were eight or ten of them, bigger and older. They surrounded the white kid and the biggest Mexican kid started beating him while the others watched and cheered: I went to protect the white kid and walked with him to safety while the Mexicans took off running. The white kid was bleeding but told me he just wanted to go home. The bus driver, who was also white, yelled at me to hold the kid. She was defending the Mexicans. I let the kid go and she threatened to call the cops on me and called me a “jackass” for helping the white kid. Make your own conclusions.
Also, we have to continue the fight against the Bilingual Education Programs by communicating with the School districts, State Representatives and Senators and school board members!!!
- In our neighborhoods, let’s use the newsletters and bulletin boards to expose, communicate and promote our war, for example: good businesses that advertise in local media should include statements like: “We only hire workers legally authorized to work in the USA”, or “We use only American produced materials”, or “We are a Christian organization”, or “Yes, we built it”. And, please, avoid ridicule statements like: “Se habla Español”. Haven’t you noticed that the Hispanic yard workers or contractors do not advertise in Spanish on their trucks?
- Some of our local Guns and Ammo stores have offered free or discounted CHL classes for teachers. Every American warrior should own lethal force protection and the ones who are ready to carry should have their CHL.
- In our churches: Pastors are so afraid of “losing” their tax exempt status, that they have sold their souls by being “careful” not to talk about politics. What they don’t know is that the enemy is using the attack to our moral principles and values as political talk, so we can’t even mention it. Let’s hold our pastors accountable and remind them that Jesus Christ was not politically correct when He called His enemies by their names and sin by its name. Also, let’s volunteer more in our churches by expanding or starting after school and adopt-a-school programs.
- Gasoline: Let’s buy only where you see American attendants and let them know that we appreciate the fact that Americans are taking care of American businesses.
- Let’s remember: boycotts don’t always work, but support and patronage of the good people works!
- In our block: we know who posted yard signs supporting the enemy. Let’s talk to those neighbors, invite them to church, help them transform their minds and come back to their senses, in love.
As we can see, we can fight and win our war without leaving our zip code.
REMEMBER THE ALAMO! REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR! REMEMBER THE TWIN TOWERS! REMEMBER THE SS COLE! REMEMBER FORT HOOD!! REMEMBER BENGHAZZI! REMEMBER THE INVASION OF THE BARBARIANS “LOOKING FOR A BETTER LIFE AND WHO WILL DO THE WORK THAT AMERICANS WON’T DO”!!
REMEMBER WHO WE ARE!!
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
AT 46, I'm ineligible to enter the Veterans of Foreign Wars ( VFW ) Patriots Pen essay contest for sixth through 8th graders which inspired this brief article. It's a grateful gift from someone who loves America and urges others to do the same.
The 2013-2014 Theme is, " What Patriotism Means To Me "
Patriotism to me means the best possible anti-crime/counter-terrorism program.
My " Make Peace With America " activism targets urban males ( and females ) programmed by cynics and worse, socialists, to see themselves as outcasts.
Outcast attitudes fuel spiraling municipal crime rates committed by individuals and gangs who don't see America as their home to help and protect.
Internationally and even domestically in tragic cases, citizens seeing themselves as outcasts are recruited by terrorist organizations to wage war against their or other governments.
Patriotism is stops the outcast mindset in its tracks!
My freedom formula for this is simple: +P = -C & T.
Translation: The more patriots society has, the less criminals and terrorists it combats.
Patriotic organizations and youth contests like yours remind us that the best anti-crime/counter-terrorism program doesn't come only from the military; intelligence agencies and law enforcement.
The best anti-crime/counter-terrorism program are youth who see America as their home and fellow citizens as extended family members.
Patriotism is love of country and country men. Citizens who love their country and country men don't become criminals and terrorists.
Thank you for essay contests like this!
-Mr Nadra Enzi
Activist Name: " Cap Black The Hood Conservative "
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDivHkQ2GSg Formula to winning arguments against people with big mouths but small minds: knowing the facts.The next time your Idiot Friends tell you how gun control prevents gun violence, tell them all about England's handgun ban. When they tell you that we should copy the UK's health-care system, recount the horrifying facts And the next time an idiot tells you that vegetable prices will skyrocket without illegal workers, stop saying "no, they won't" "actually, eliminating all illegal labor will cause us to spend just $8 a year more on produce."
Idiots can't be identified through voting records, they can be found only by looking for people who hide behind stereotypes, embrace partisanship, and believe that bumper sticker slogans are a substitute for common sense. BRITISH Handgun crime 'up' despite ban A new study suggests the use of handguns in crime rose by 40% in the two years after the weapons were banned.
The research, commissioned by the Countryside Alliance's Campaign for Shooting, has concluded that existing laws are targeting legitimate users of firearms rather than criminals.
The ban on ownership of handguns was introduced in 1997 as a result of the Dunblane massacre, when Thomas Hamilton opened fire at a primary school leaving 16 children and their teacher dead. HORRORS of BRITISH HEALTHCARE;
Member of European Parliament Daniel Hannan warned Americans of the dangers of government-run healthcare.
Hannan, a Conservative who represents Southeast England in the European Parliament, said of the British National Health Service (NHS), “The most striking thing about it is that you are very often sent to the back of the queue.”
Beck noted the lengthy waiting times for care under Britain’s socialist National Health Service (NHS). These figures were provided by the BBC on May 27, 2009:
*cataract surgery – 8 months *hip replacement – 11 months *knee replacement – 12 months *slipped disc – 5 months *hernia repair – 5 months
Although to be fair, Hannan said, the NHS provides “not so bad” care with children but “the worst thing to be is elderly under a system like ours.” Said Hannan:
I could tell you horror stories about elderly people left starving in wards, and the amazing thing is, why do we put up with it? The reason we put up with it for so long is because it has become such a huge system. It’s got such an enormous bureaucracy based around it. We have 1.4 million people employed by the National Health Service.
The groundbreaking new film adaptation of the Broadway musical "Les Misérables" features desperate people suffering under soul-shattering unemployment, naive university students decrying the rich and stoking the flames of socialist revolution, an unyielding government official interested not in right and wrong but in following his government's rules, and one heroic individual who follows his faith in God to guide him from one success to another–all the while truly helping others by using his own private wealth rather than through the ineffective and neglectful government.
In short, it is the perfect allegory for Americans living in the Age of Obama.
In 1987, when "Les Miz" opened in New York, many liberal columnists and critics tried desperately to make a connection between the 19th century Victor Hugo story and Ronald Reagan's America. The best they could do was show pictures of homeless people in New York and juxtapose them with the desperate characters in the play who live on the streets of Paris. The comparisons never held water in a macro way, considering that Americans in the late 1980s enjoyed prosperity across most economic classes. Now that the film is premiering in Barack Obama's America, it's remarkable how the comparisons are much more appropriate.
The most important thing for a filmgoer to understand when viewing "Les Miz" is to realize that Jean Valjean and only Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) is the hero of this story. Do not get fooled by the heroic depiction of the mindlessly earnest students screaming for revolution and building barricades in the streets as a futile attempt to rally the people of France to their side. Watch Valjean's reaction to them as they choose to face certain annihilation as a symbolic gesture. Watch how he values life over their depraved narcissism and ends up making a real difference, not a symbolic one.
The students' cries for justice and freedom are not completely lost on a conservative viewer, however. They are protesting an out of touch and bloated federal government that is unresponsive to the people's wishes and uninterested in hearing any dissent from the rabble. Replace those red flags with Gadsen flags and you can see some important parallels in the struggle. But once they take to the streets and build junk-heap barricades, they end up just as selfish, ineffective, and destructive as the Occupy protesters, and they get the end-game they deserve.
In Obama's America, the government has all the answers, the people are pitted against the "wealthy," and a sense of hopeless doom permeates daily life. So many Americans feel like the best days of our nation are behind us, and Obama has begun the slow and inevitable decline of our society with taxation crippling the successful producers and multitudes enjoying government handouts with a sense of entitlement and even contempt for those who provide the tax money to pay for them.
It is in this spirit that one should view "Les Miserables" and draw a very important lesson. Jean Valjean begins at the lowest possible place a person can be. He is a desperate, angry criminal willing to let his rage at society destroy him. Instead, after being touched by faith in God, he brings himself up from the gutter and becomes wildly successful. He is constantly driven by his responsibility to his fellow man, his workers who relied on him, and his determination to right wrongs and seek justice--not through government action but by his own efforts. And over the decades, he continues to succeed and help those around him while the government prattles on, making things worse and never able to do anything effective at all.
Jean Valjean should be a model for all of us. It is too easy to be downhearted and angry over the direction in which our leaders are taking us. But we conservatives are not the ones who threaten to leave the country if an election doesn't go our way. We don't throw up our hands in surrender because our guy didn't win. If we stake everything in a four-year election cycle, we are doing it all wrong. We need to focus on our lives, our faith, and our families. We need to do whatever we can to provide for those around us. We need to do for our society what our government is incapable of doing. Through that model we will practice the conservative ideal we preach and the country will come along with us.
Even the hardest of hearts will soften to our side ... one Inspector Javert at a time.
And so the government takeover of our health care system begins:
Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, plans to begin denying health insurance to newly hired employees who work fewer than 30 hours a week, according to a copy of the company’s policy obtained by The Huffington Post. …
Walmart declined to disclose how many of its roughly 1.4 million U.S. workers are vulnerable to losing medical insurance under its new policy. …
Labor and health care experts portrayed Walmart’s decision to exclude workers from its medical plans as an attempt to limit costs while taking advantage of the national health care reform known as Obamacare. Among the key features of Obamacare is an expansion of Medicaid, the taxpayer-financed health insurance program for poor people. Many of the Walmart workers who might be dropped from the company’s health care plans earn so little that they would qualify for the expanded Medicaid program, these experts said.
By making the fine for not providing health care cheaper than providing health care, this was always the plan: to encourage employers to send us to the government.
Remember how Obama's big ObamaCare sell was, "You get to keep the health insurance you have"?
It was all a lie, a hustle, a con, a ruse…
But now it's the law of the land … forever.
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Will South Carolina Nullify Federal Gun Laws?
Will South Carolina Nullify Federal Gun Laws?
The South Carolina legislature will consider a bill that would nullify a considerable amount of assumed federal power over firearms – the Firearms Freedom Act.
Senate Bill 85 (SB85) states that, “A personal firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately in South Carolina and that remains within the borders of South Carolina is not subject to federal law or federal regulation, including registration, under the authority of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.”
The bill was filed by Sen. Lee Bright (R-Spartanburg) on Dec. 13
The bill rests on the foundation of the Tenth Amendment, correctly asserting that powers not delegated are retained.
“Whereas, the tenth amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees and reserves for the states all powers not granted to the federal government in the Constitution”
Whereas, Article I, Section 20 of the South Carolina Constitution clearly secures to South Carolina citizens, and prohibits government interference with, the right of individual South Carolina citizens to keep and bear arms. This constitutional protection is unchanged from the 1895 South Carolina Constitution, which was approved by Congress and the people of South Carolina, and the right exists as it was understood at the time that the compact with the United States was agreed upon and adopted by South Carolina and the United States in 1895.
“The federal power to regulate interstate commerce is probably the one most abused by the feds. They’ve stretched it to the point that they justify regulating pretty much everything. The framers never intended the power to extend to every imaginable economic activity.”
Tenth Amendment Center communications director Mike Maharrey said. “States need to stand up to the feds and tell them to butt out of areas where they have no authority. I hope the Kansas legislature gets this bill passed, and other states will boldly follow its example.”
With Montana leading the way, eight states have passed firearms freedom acts including, Alaska, South Dakota, Arizona, Idaho, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming.
Some states may consider taking the idea a step further. Tenth Amendment Center model legislation to nullify every federal gun law has just been released. Get it online HERE
To track firearms freedom legislation across the U.S., click HERE.
Following is a white paper that tea party members and leaders can use to hone their organizational and leadership skills. I hope you find it helpful.
Executive and management skills are often viewed exclusively as talents, things that some people just do naturally. But they are skills and anyone can increase their abilities to lead, manage and produce with a little effort. All organizational and individual efforts require 3 fundamental orientations, or viewpoints from which to view and engage the activity to a successful result. The skill with which one is able to apply these approaches to any endeavor determines your level of success. You use these tools well in all areas where you are very successful, and not so well in areas where you are frustrated.
You can use this logic model to evaluate and improve your performance in any area of life and to provide guidance and leadership to others.
Three Fundamental Orientations
– Task Oriented: A task is an action or series of actions. It is production. Workers are most comfortable with this work style, from assembly workers, to mechanics to pilots and doctors. People who like to “do” things.
– Process Oriented: A process is the methodology of production; it is coordinating and managing resources as well as directing the flow of production, the way things are produced. Managers are most comfortable with process oriented work.
– Results Oriented: A result is the end product of tasks executed to completion via an organized methodology. It is identifying and naming the goals and establishing the vision. Executives are most comfortable with results oriented work.
Orientation and Organization Analysis
Whenever an organization is experiencing frustration, discord, inefficiency or excessive emergencies, look for an imbalance in these three factors, and it will lead you to the source of the problem and help identify the solution to help increase efficiency, morale and results.
– While most jobs are dominated by one of the 3 orientations, every job encompasses components of all three orientations. Excellence requires the ability to use all 3 appropriately.
– Most people have a favorite work orientation, with which they are most comfortable, but everyone can increase their ability to apply any of the 3 orientations to a given situation. It is really just a point of view and anyone can change their point of view.
– Using judgment and your existing expertise, you can use this analytic logic model to identify and improve any organizational sphere, from a single job to a large multi-group organization.
Some General Guidelines
New or young organizations tend to be weak in Executive and Management areas of Results and Process Orientations. It is critical for the group to adopt and broadly publish vision and mission statements to identify the Results desired. Next, it will be necessary to develop programs and processes. Many tea parties have members who have considerable executive or management skills, but who do not have sufficient time to engage in a leadership role. Work to identify those individuals and see if they can provide consulting advice and guidance to the leaders. Always assess the skills of your membership and make every effort to help members find a role within the organization for which they are well suited. People always prefer to do things that they do well, and are much more willing to participate in activities outside their zone of comfort if they are also utilized in areas where they are already strong. You wouldn't use a sports car to move furniture, nor would you enter a moving van in a drag race.
More mature organizations can tend to get process heavy where people are changing too much for the sake of change. Very mature organizations can lose sight of the vision, or once the initial vision is fulfilled to fail to generate a new vision and goal that builds on previous success. The best example of this is the civil rights movement which has fallen so far as to start creating false civil rights violations to protest, and degenerated into race baiters from a once noble endeavor.
Examples of Misapplied Orientation
– Worker responding to request with obstacles and reasons why it can’t be done: Results orientation when task orientation is needed. The worker wants the answers to the issues it is his job to address, but is delegating up, asking the supervisor to do his work.
– Manager responding to request for necessary resources with demand for completion. Results orientation when process orientation is needed. If the worker does not have sufficient material, resources or authority to complete a task, it is the manager’s job to allocate the appropriate resources.
– Manager practicing micro-management: Task oriented when process orientation is needed. The manager is only addressing the tasks, rather than assigning resources and directing overall process.
– Executive engaging in debate over how a project should be executed: Process orientation instead of results orientation. The executive is doing the manager’s job instead of rejecting a proposal which is not defined clearly enough for an approval or rejection.
– Worker delaying production until it can be perfected to an unrealistic or unnecessary level. Process oriented when task orientation is needed. Sometimes, the job just needs to be done. The correct solution is to do the job and submit a report on problems with a recommendation for process improvement.
How Can I use this Information to become more effective
The best way to drill this information is to start with processes and tasks with which you are very familiar. Select anything at which you are already very expert and break it down into Results (vision), Process (methodology) and Tasks (individual steps).
Make a cup of coffee:
Executive: Vision of a steaming cup of hot coffee and the executive decision to obtain one.
Manager: Ensure the necessary materials and supplies are available.
Task: Prepare the coffee.
If you ask someone who is totally task oriented to get a cup of coffee, you might not get one.
If they only know the Corey coffee maker they can only get a cup of coffee if you have the equipment they are already familiar with.
A person who is totally task oriented will do the following:
- Put the coffee pack into the coffee maker drip container.
- Pour cold water into the water cavity of the coffee maker.
- Put a cup or pot onto the hotplate beneath the drip container.
- Push the Start button.
Someone who is totally task oriented and does not understand the process will be unable to make coffee if he/she doesn’t have one of the familiar tools, coffee maker, coffee pack, electricity. But someone who truly understands what it takes to make a good cup of coffee will not be stopped by a lack of materials.
Some things are essential. In order to make a good cup of coffee, you need coffee grounds, water, a fireproof container and sufficient heat to boil the water, a means of filtering out the grounds.
You can boil water in a pan, pour in the grounds and let it steep then filter it through a loose weave cloth into a cup or pot. And, you can do this with a camp fire and a pan, or you can get an espresso maker and go all high tech.
And someone who is really stumped with missing resources/supplies or broken equipment, will simply get in the car and drive to the nearest Dunkin’ Donuts, Starbucks or 7/11 and buy a cup.
There are a lot of ways to solve the problem, and the better versed a person is in the nature of coffee and availability of materials and resources, the greater the certainty that he will actually obtain the result.
In the areas where you are highly expert, you shift from Results Oriented, to Process Oriented to Task Oriented fluidly as necessary, without even thinking about it. It has become second nature. To learn these orientations, for 1-2 weeks, stop what you are doing 5-6 times a day and identify which orientation you are using at any given time.
Following are a set of drills to work on for 2 weeks each. The assumption is that you will not be focusing your attention on this for more than a few minutes a few times a day. A little attention a few times a day over a period of weeks will give you far more skill than drilling it intensively examining everything that you do against this logic. Over-analysis of your own behavior will have you second guessing yourself and undermine the very skills and abilities the drill is supposed to enhance.
Week 1-2
Applying this logic to areas where you are already expert, will increase your ability with the subject matter. You should feel confident that you can always identify which work orientation you are using at any given time.
Determine which orientation you enjoy the most. Start paying attention to opportunities to utilize the orientations you don’t like as much. The more familiar and comfortable you are with all 3, the more effective you will become at any endeavor.
Week 3-4
Start observing others’ activities and behavior. What orientation are they employing in their various activities? Before you can even consider identifying which orientation they should use, you must first become proficient in identifying which IS being used.
Again, do not over apply this information lest you become hyper-critical. Everyone is doing their best most of the time. You are observing periodically throughout the day not constantly. The idea is to develop a skill, not a habit.
Week 5-6
Start paying specific attention to problem areas and identify which orientation is being used, and which would solve the problem. Now you can start troubleshooting activities based on this information.
When people tell you their problems, start applying this logic. Is there a vision or an end result? Does the person know what the result would look like if the problem were solved? Has the person identified the proper resources and materials to achieve the result? What needs to actually happen to produce the result?
If nothing else, using this methodology for problem solving will enable you to rapidly identify the person who revels in his/her unsolvable problems. As you start breaking it down with the appropriate questions, the person who is savoring and enjoying their problem will start to obstruct and refuse to participate in identifying the solution. You can breathe a sigh of relief…this is not a person in distress who needs your aid. This is a person who uses problems to get attention or to delegate their personal responsibility to you, or society, etc. You don’t have to worry about them, they are already in 7th heaven, and you can go about your more productive business with a clear conscience and light heart.
HillaryDillaryObamaSmuck!!!
Come on people! No recorded visual of her falling! Yeah right!!
Hillary well on her way to outdoing Chaplin and Biden for pratfalls and goofiness!!
Perhaps Dog Numero Uno,Bo, ate her homework or at least the part about Benghazi...
Americans never give up your guns
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/28-12-2012/123335-americans_guns-0/
By Stanislav Mishin
These days, there are few few things to admire about the socialist, bankrupt and culturally degenerating USA, but at least so far, one thing remains: the right to bare arms and use deadly force to defend one's self and possessions.
This will probably come as a total shock to most of my Western readers, but at one point, Russia was one of the most heavily armed societies on earth. This was, of course, when we were free under the Tsar. Weapons, from swords and spears to pistols, rifles and shotguns were everywhere, common items. People carried them concealed, they carried them holstered. Fighting knives were a prominent part of many traditional attires and those little tubes criss crossing on the costumes of Cossacks and various Caucasian peoples? Well those are bullet holders for rifles.
Various armies, such as the Poles, during the Смута (Times of Troubles), or Napoleon, or the Germans even as the Tsarist state collapsed under the weight of WW1 and Wall Street monies, found that holding Russian lands was much much harder than taking them and taking was no easy the park but a blood bath all its own. In holding, one faced an extremely well armed and aggressive population Hell bent on exterminating or driving out the aggressor.
This well armed population was what allowed the various White factions to rise up, no matter how disorganized politically and militarily they were in 1918 and wage a savage civil war against the Reds. It should be noted that many of these armies were armed peasants, villagers, farmers and merchants, protecting their own. If it had not been for Washington's clandestine support of and for the Reds, history would have gone quite differently.
Moscow fell, for example, not from a lack of weapons to defend it, but from the lieing guile of the Reds. Ten thousand Reds took Moscow and were opposed only by some few hundreds of officer cadets and their instructors. Even then the battle was fierce and losses high. However, in the city alone, at that time, lived over 30,000 military officers (both active and retired), all with their own issued weapons and ammunition, plus tens of thousands of other citizens who were armed. The Soviets promised to leave them all alone if they did not intervene. They did not and for that were asked afterwards to come themselves and their weapons: where they were promptly shot.
Of course being savages, murderers and liars does not mean being stupid and the Reds learned from their Civil War experience. One of the first things they did was to disarm the population. From that point, mass repression, mass arrests, mass deportations, mass murder, mass starvation were all a safe game for the powers that were. The worst they had to fear was a pitchfork in the guts or a knife in the back or the occasional hunting rifle. Not much for soldiers.
To this day, with the Soviet Union now dead 21 years, with a whole generation born and raised to adulthood without the SU, we are still denied our basic and traditional rights to . Why? We are told that everyone would just start shooting each other and crime would be everywhere....but criminals are still armed and still murdering and to often, especially in the far regions, those criminals wear the uniforms of the police. The fact that everyone would start shooting is also laughable when statistics are examined.
While President Putin pushes through reforms, the local authorities, especially in our vast hinterland, do not feel they need to act like they work for the people. They do as they please, a tyrannical class who knows they have absolutely nothing to fear from a relatively unarmed population. This in turn breeds not respect but absolute contempt and often enough, criminal abuse.
For those of us fighting for our traditional rights, the US 2nd Amendment is a rare light in an ever darkening room. Governments will use the excuse of trying to protect the people from maniacs and crime, but are in reality, it is the bureaucrats protecting their power and position. In all cases where guns are banned, gun crime continues and often increases. As for maniacs, be it nuts with cars (NYC, Chapel Hill NC), swords (Japan), knives (China) or home made bombs (everywhere), insane people strike. They throw acid (Pakistan, UK), they throw fire bombs (France), they attack. What is worse, is, that the best way to stop a maniac is not psychology or jail or "talking to them", it is a bullet in the head, that is why they are a maniac, because they are incapable of living in reality or stopping themselves.
The excuse that people will start shooting each other is also plain and silly. So it is our politicians saying that our society is full of incapable adolescents who can never be trusted? Then, please explain how we can trust them or the police, who themselves grew up and came from the same culture?
No it is about power and a total power over the people. There is a lot of desire to bad mouth the Tsar, particularly by the Communists, who claim he was a tyrant, and yet under him we were armed and under the progressives disarmed. Do not be fooled by a belief that progressives, leftists hate guns. Oh, no, they do not. What they hate is guns in the hands of those who are not marching in lock step of their ideology. They hate guns in the hands of those who think for themselves and do not obey without question. They hate guns in those whom they have slated for a barrel to the back of the ear.
So, do not fall for the false promises and do not extinguish the light that is left to allow humanity a measure of self respect.
Stanislav Mishin
The article reprinted with the kind permission from the author and originally appears on his blog, Mat Rodina
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8 minutes ago ·A liberal oriented person posted 20 things about Democrats on our guest wall earlier today, of course from their perspective. We thought they deserved a response so here you go. Their position is in lower case and our conservative response is in caps:
1. Democrats believe in higher education.
SO DO CONSERVATIVES. CONSERVATIVES JUST BELIEVE THAT THE INDIVIDUAL SHOULD PAY FOR IT AND NOT GOVERNMENT BY TAXING OTHER AMERICANS AND REDISTRIBUTING THEIR HARD EARNED MONEY.
2. Democrats believe in preserving the environment.
SO DO CONSERVATIVES BUT CONSERVATIVES USE LOGIC IN WHAT DECISIONS REGARDING THE ENVIRONMENT ARE RIDICULOUS, LIKE SHUTTING DOWN THE MAJORITY OF LOGGING IN OREGON OVER A SPOTTED OWL THAT TURNED OUT NEVER TO BE IN DANGER AND ALSO SHUTTING DOWN FARMERS WATER IN CALIFORNIA OVER A MINNOW IF YOU CAN ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT.
3. Democrats believe in science.
SO DO CONSERVATIVES. BUT MOST CONSERVATIVES BELIEVE THAT GOD AND SCIENCE CO-EXIST IN THE UNIVERSE AND THAT FAITH PLAYS A HUGE ROLE IN INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN LEADING MORALLY STRONG HEALTHY LIVES. CONSERVATIVES ALSO BELIEVE THAT SINCE THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A FOSSIL LINK FOUND THAT LINKS HUMANS WITH ANY OTHER ANIMAL, THAT AT MINIMUM THERE IS NO PROOF THAT MEN AND WOMEN WERE CREATED EITHER WAY AND THAT IS WHAT FAITH IS ALL ABOUT. AND WE ARE IN THE MAJORITY BECAUSE OVER 85% OF AMERICANS SAY THEY BELIEVE IN GOD.
4. Democrats believe that carbon dioxide is dangerous.
REALLY? HAVE YOU EVER CONSUMED A COKE OR PEPSI? IT IS FULL OF CO2. THE MOST IS CAUSES IS A BURP OR TWO. IF YOU ARE REFERRING TO THE GLOBAL WARMING SCAM, THERE ARE JUST AS MANY SCIENTISTS WHO SAY THE EARTH HAS GONE THROUGH NORMAL HEATING AND COOLING OVER MANY MANY YEARS TO THOSE THAT SAY MAN’S SUV’S ARE CAUSING THE EARTH TO WARM. RIDICULOUS AND ARROGANT TO THINK MAN CAN CHANGE THE EARTH’S CLIMATE BY DRIVING AUTOMOBILES. AND IT WAS PROVEN THAT MORE CO2 GASES COME FROM COW FLATULENCE THAT FROM MAN'S CARS OR FACTORIES.
5. Democrats do not believe that minimum wage created our nation’s unemployment.
MINIMUM WAGE DIDN’T CREATE THE MASSIVE UNEMPLOYMENT WE HAVE NOW. THAT IS DUE TO THE HIGH TAXATION AND REGULATION THAT SCARES OFF BUSINESSES FROM INVESTING. ALL FIXING A WAGE DOES TO MAKE EMPLOYERS HIRE LESS PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY ONLY HAVE SO MUCH TO SPEND. LABOR UNIONS HOWEVER WITH THEIR EXTORTION THROUGH THREAT OF STRIKING HAVE CREATING WAGES AND BENEFITS THAT COMPANIES LIKE THE AUTO INDUSTRY CANNOT MAINTAIN WITHOUT BANKRUPTCY. THIS CAUSES COMPANIES TO OUTSOURCE THEIR LABOR TO COUNTRIES THAT ALLOW THE FREE MARKET TO DETERMINE WAGES AND NOT LABOR UNION EXTORTION.
6. Democrats do not believe armed rebellion is a viable alternative to elections.
ARMED REBELLIONS ARE NOT AN ALTERNATIVE TO ELECTIONS UNLESS THE LEADERS BECOME TYRANNICAL AND TAKE AWAY CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS. THAT IS WHY THE SECOND AMENDMENT WAS PUT IN PLACE BY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS. AN ARMED CITIZENRY IS THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE IF A GOVERNMENT EVER BECOMES TYRANNICAL AND TAKES AWAY THE CITIZENS PRIVATE PROPERTY AND FREEDOMS AND THANK GOD FOR THAT.
7. Democrats do not believe that corporations are people too.
REALLY? LAST TIME I CHECKED MY 401K I AM PART OF SEVERAL CORPORATIONS VIA THE STOCK I OWN IN THEM. CORPORATIONS ARE OWNED BY PEOPLE AND RUN BY PEOPLE THEREFORE THEY ARE PEOPLE. CORPORATIONS PROVIDE THE GOODS AND SERVICES WE NEED WANT AND DESIRE LIKE FOOD, CLOTHING, HOUSING AND FUEL AND PROVIDE THE MOST JOBS IN THE USA SO I CAN EARN A LIVING TO PAY FOR THOSE GOODS AND SERVICES THEY CREATED LIKE MY IPHONE AND MY SUV.
8. Democrats do not believe that the sexual revolution created AIDS.
HALF WRONG. A REVOLUTION DIDN’T CAUSE ANYTHING AS INDIVIDUALS MAKE CHOICES BUT AFTER THAT LIBERAL FREE LOVE REVOLUTION HIT IN THE 60’S, IT BECAME ACCEPTABLE FOR MANY AFTER TO HAVE PROMISCUOUS UNPROTECTED SEX WITH EITHER SEX. IT IS A MEDICAL FACT THAT THE FAR MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WITH AIDS CONTACTED IT FROM MALE TO MALE UNPROTECTED INTERCOURSE AND SHARED IV DRUG USE. IT IS ALSO WHY BI-SEXUALITY AMONG WOMEN HAS INCREASED OVER 300% IN THE PAST 15 YEARS IN THE USA. IT IS A VERY SAD STORY THAT CONTINUES TODAY.
9. Democrats do not know the proper height for trees.
I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO GET TO HERE BUT I AM ASSUMING IT IS ANOTHER ENVIRONMENTAL WACKO STATEMENT. IF YOU DON’T LIKE TREES BEING CUT DOWN THEN MOVE OUT OF YOUR HOME AND SELL THE MAJORITY OF YOUR FURNITURE AND NEVER USE PAPER AGAIN. THEY ALL COME FROM TREES. TREES ARE A RENEWABLE CROP AND VITAL FOR SUSTAINING A MODERN SOCIETY. GET OVER IT.
10. Democrats do not understand decent God-fearing Americans need missile launchers at home.
THE 2ND AMENDMENT PROTECTS LAW ABIDING AMERICANS RIGHT TO POSSES ANY ARM THEY WANT AS LONG AS THEY ARE LAWFUL. AGAIN, THESE ARMS ARE PRIMARILY NOT FOR HUNTING AND NOT EVEN FOR HOME PROTECTION BUT TO PROTECT THE CITIZENS FROM A POTENTIALLY TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT. THE CITIZENS DESERVE TO BE EQUALLY AS ARMED AS OUR GOVERNMENT TO KEEP THEM IN CHECK FROM SUPPRESSING THE CITIZENRY. IF ASSAULT WEAPONS ARE NOT NEEDED TO DEFEND ONESELF, THEN WHY DOES THE PRESIDENT SURROUND HIMSELF WITH DOZENS OF SECRET SERVICE AGENTS ARMED WITH COUNTLESS ASSAULT WEAPONS? WHY SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT BE ARMED BETTER THAN ITS CITIZENRY?
11. Democrats do not understand that banning abortions for high risk pregnancies can be a positive experience for women.
MOST CONSERVATIVES DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW SO MANY WOMEN CAN CARELESSLY HAVE UNPROTECTED INTERCOURSE AND THEN WHEN A LIFE IS CREATED WITH A LIVING HEARTBEAT, CAN ORDER A DOCTOR TO JUST SUCK THEIR BRAINS OUT BECAUSE THE MOTHER DOESN’T WANT TO TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO RAISE THE CHILD SHE CREATED OR AT MINIMUM GIVE IT UP FOR ADOPTION SO A LOVING FAMILY CAN DO SO. OVER 1 MILLION BABIES ARE EXTIGUISHED EVERY YEAR IN AMERICA AND THE MAJORITY ARE NOT FROM RAPE, INCEST OR THE MOTHERS HEALTH. THEY ARE BECAUSE THE MOTHERS EITHER DIDN’T ABSTAIN FROM SEX OR WERE CARELESS IN HAVING UNPROTECTED SEX AND THEIR SOLUTION FOR THEIR CHOSEN ACTION IS KILLING A BABY INSIDE THEMSELVES RATHER THAN GIVING IT UP FOR ADOPTION WHERE THOUSANDS WANT ADOPTED BABIES.
12. Democrats do not understand that intelligent design is a proven scientific theory.
SINCE THERE IS NO ACTUAL FOSSIL LINK BETWEEN ANIMALS AND MAN, THERE IS NO PROOF EITHER WAY. IF YOU WANT TO BE AN ATHEIST AND BELIEVE THAT ALL THIS GRANDEUR HAPPENED AS A COSMIC ACCIDENT YOU ARE FREE TO DO SO BUT KEEP IN MIND THAT 85% OF AMERICANS BELIEVE IN THE ALTERNATIVE THAT THERE IS A HIGHER BEING AND THEY HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH CREATING THIS UNIVERSE AND LIFE.
13. Democrats do not understand that marriage is related to national security.
DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO GET TO BUT I ASSUME IT IS ABOUT GAYS. FIRST OF ALL, MOST OF AMERICANS ARE AGAINST TWO PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX MARRYING AS A MAN AND WOMAN MARRY AS IT IS A 5000 YEAR OLD TRADITION ACROSS ALL RELIGIONS. HOWEVER MOST OF AMERICANS ALSO DON’T MIND OF TWO PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX JOIN TOGETHER IN A CIVIL UNION SO THEY GET THE SAME MARITAL BENEFITS OF MARRIED COUPLES. FORCING CHURCHES TO MARRY TWO PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX WHEN IT IS AGAINST THEIR BELIEFS IS A CLASSIC VIOLATION OF SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE WHICH YOU LIBERALS LOVE TO BRING UP.
14. Democrats do not understand that the media is a threat to national security.
WHEN A MEDIA BECOMES SO BIASED IN ONE DIRECTION IT IS A THREAT TO A NATION AS A TRUE REPUBLIC. CASE IN POINT, IN CUBA, VENEZUELA AND RUSSIA THE MEDIA IS PRETTY MUCH RUN BY THE STATE AND SUPPORTS THE STATE. THERE ARE NO BALANCING SIDES TO KEEP GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE. HERE IN THE USA THE MAJORITY OF THE MEDIA ASSAULTED PRESIDENT BUSH FOR 8 YEARS AND HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT PRAISE PRESIDENT OBAMA FOR 4 YEARS. ALL OF THIS WHILE THE COUNTRY IS 50% LIBERAL AND 50% CONSERVATIVE YET THE ONLY MEDIA FOR CONSERVATIVES TODAY IS FOX NEWS AND A LITTLE ON TALK RADIO. LIBERALS CONTROL ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, NEW YORK TIMES, LA TIMES, WASHINGTON TIMES AND MOST OF THE NATIONS NEWSPAPERS. THIS IS NOT A MEDIA THAT TAKES CARE OF BOTH SIDES.
15. Democrats forgot that Hitler coined the phrase “separation of church and state”. HUH? LAST I CHECKED THOMAS JEFFERSON WROTE ABOUT THE NEED TO KEEP A GOVERNMENT FROM IMPOSING A RELIGION ON ITS PEOPLE BUT AS MOST AMERICANS DO NOT UNDERSTAND IS ACTUALLY NOT WRITTEN IN THE CONSTITUTION ITSELF. THE CONSTITUTION INSTEAD PROTECTS AMERICANS RIGHT TO PRACTICE ANY RELIGION THEY WOULD LIKE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT INTERFERING IN IT. IT HOWEVER DOES NOT GIVE GOVERNMENT THE RIGHT TO BAN THE SPEAKING OF “GOD” IN SCHOOLS AND THE PUBLIC SQUARE OR NATIVITY SCENES AT SCHOOLS, PARKS, ETC. THE CONSTITUTION GUARANTEES FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN THE USA NOT FREEDOM FROM RELIGION.
16. Democrats seem oblivious to the fact that most good Americans oppose gay marriage.
YES YOU GOT THIS RIGHT. 1 OUT OF 20 ISN’T BAD. MOST AMERICANS SUPPORT CIVIL UNIONS FOR GAY PEOPLE AND LEAVE THE SANCTITY OF THE 5000 YEAR OLD MARRIAGE TRADITION ACROSS MAJOR RELIGIONS TO THAT BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN AND DON’T FORCE CHURCHES TO MARRY TWO PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX THAT IS AGAINST WHAT THEY BELIEVE.
17. Democrats seldom bring guns to crowded public events. REALLY? LAST TIME I CHECKED, EVERY TIME OBAMA WENT OUT CAMPAIGNING, HE WAS IN VERY CROWED PLACES AND DOZENS OF HIS MEN AROUND HIM WERE CARRYING NOT ONLY GUNS BUT ASSAULT WEAPONS INTO EXTREMELY CROWDED PLACES.
18. Democrats want to force innocent mufti-millionaires to pay taxes.
NO, IT IS BETTER SAID THIS WAY. DEMOCRATS WANT WORKING AMERICANS TO PAY TAXES SO GOVERNMENT CAN SPEND THEIR MONEY BETTER THAN THE INDIVIDUAL CAN. DEMOCRATS WANT TO BUY VOTES BY PROMISING THEIR CONSTITUENTS LOTS OF FREE THINGS THAT ARE PAID FOR BY SEIZING THE PRIVATE INCOME OF AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO WORK FOR IT AND AT THE POINT OF A GUN MIND YOU. THE IRS IS THE ONLY ENTITY IN THE US THAT CAN FORCE YOU TO GIVE THEM YOUR MONEY YOU WORK FOR AND IF YOU DON’T THEY CAN COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND ARREST YOU AT THE POINT OF A GUN AND PUT YOU IN JAIL FOR IT. NO OTHER CREDITOR IN THE USA CAN DO SO. MOST AMERICANS ARE FINE WITH LIMITED GOVERNMENT SERVICES LIKE BRIDGES, AIRPORTS, ROADS, POLICE, FIREMEN, NATIONAL DEFENSE BUT THAT’S ABOUT IT. THERE WERE NO SUCH THING AS WELFARE, FOOD STAMPS, PELL GRANTS, MEDICAID AT THIS COUNTRIES FOUNDING AND FOR THE NEXT 150 YEARS AND THE US CITIZENS PROSPERED AND BUILT THIS COUNTRY WITHOUT GOVERNMENT GIVING THEM FREE HEALTH CARE ALONG THE WAY.
19. Democrats want to let gays vote.
SINCE WHEN CAN GAY PEOPLE NOT VOTE? CONSERVATIVES SUPPORT ANY AMERICAN WHO SUPPORTS CONSERVATIVE VALUES OF LIMITED GOVERNMENT, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY OR FREE MARKETS AND COULD CARE LESS WHAT SKIN COLOR THEY HAVE OR WHAT THEY DO IN THEIR BEDROOM. CONSERVATIVES BELIEVE THAT A PERSON’S SEX LIFE IS PRIVATE AND SHOULD BE KEPT IN THE BEDROOM ANYWAY.
20. Democrats want to let immigrants vote.
1. Democrats believe in higher education.
SO DO CONSERVATIVES. CONSERVATIVES JUST BELIEVE THAT THE INDIVIDUAL SHOULD PAY FOR IT AND NOT GOVERNMENT BY TAXING OTHER AMERICANS AND REDISTRIBUTING THEIR HARD EARNED MONEY.
2. Democrats believe in preserving the environment.
SO DO CONSERVATIVES BUT CONSERVATIVES USE LOGIC IN WHAT DECISIONS REGARDING THE ENVIRONMENT ARE RIDICULOUS, LIKE SHUTTING DOWN THE MAJORITY OF LOGGING IN OREGON OVER A SPOTTED OWL THAT TURNED OUT NEVER TO BE IN DANGER AND ALSO SHUTTING DOWN FARMERS WATER IN CALIFORNIA OVER A MINNOW IF YOU CAN ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT.
3. Democrats believe in science.
SO DO CONSERVATIVES. BUT MOST CONSERVATIVES BELIEVE THAT GOD AND SCIENCE CO-EXIST IN THE UNIVERSE AND THAT FAITH PLAYS A HUGE ROLE IN INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN LEADING MORALLY STRONG HEALTHY LIVES. CONSERVATIVES ALSO BELIEVE THAT SINCE THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A FOSSIL LINK FOUND THAT LINKS HUMANS WITH ANY OTHER ANIMAL, THAT AT MINIMUM THERE IS NO PROOF THAT MEN AND WOMEN WERE CREATED EITHER WAY AND THAT IS WHAT FAITH IS ALL ABOUT. AND WE ARE IN THE MAJORITY BECAUSE OVER 85% OF AMERICANS SAY THEY BELIEVE IN GOD.
4. Democrats believe that carbon dioxide is dangerous.
REALLY? HAVE YOU EVER CONSUMED A COKE OR PEPSI? IT IS FULL OF CO2. THE MOST IS CAUSES IS A BURP OR TWO. IF YOU ARE REFERRING TO THE GLOBAL WARMING SCAM, THERE ARE JUST AS MANY SCIENTISTS WHO SAY THE EARTH HAS GONE THROUGH NORMAL HEATING AND COOLING OVER MANY MANY YEARS TO THOSE THAT SAY MAN’S SUV’S ARE CAUSING THE EARTH TO WARM. RIDICULOUS AND ARROGANT TO THINK MAN CAN CHANGE THE EARTH’S CLIMATE BY DRIVING AUTOMOBILES. AND IT WAS PROVEN THAT MORE CO2 GASES COME FROM COW FLATULENCE THAT FROM MAN'S CARS OR FACTORIES.
5. Democrats do not believe that minimum wage created our nation’s unemployment.
MINIMUM WAGE DIDN’T CREATE THE MASSIVE UNEMPLOYMENT WE HAVE NOW. THAT IS DUE TO THE HIGH TAXATION AND REGULATION THAT SCARES OFF BUSINESSES FROM INVESTING. ALL FIXING A WAGE DOES TO MAKE EMPLOYERS HIRE LESS PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY ONLY HAVE SO MUCH TO SPEND. LABOR UNIONS HOWEVER WITH THEIR EXTORTION THROUGH THREAT OF STRIKING HAVE CREATING WAGES AND BENEFITS THAT COMPANIES LIKE THE AUTO INDUSTRY CANNOT MAINTAIN WITHOUT BANKRUPTCY. THIS CAUSES COMPANIES TO OUTSOURCE THEIR LABOR TO COUNTRIES THAT ALLOW THE FREE MARKET TO DETERMINE WAGES AND NOT LABOR UNION EXTORTION.
6. Democrats do not believe armed rebellion is a viable alternative to elections.
ARMED REBELLIONS ARE NOT AN ALTERNATIVE TO ELECTIONS UNLESS THE LEADERS BECOME TYRANNICAL AND TAKE AWAY CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS. THAT IS WHY THE SECOND AMENDMENT WAS PUT IN PLACE BY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS. AN ARMED CITIZENRY IS THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE IF A GOVERNMENT EVER BECOMES TYRANNICAL AND TAKES AWAY THE CITIZENS PRIVATE PROPERTY AND FREEDOMS AND THANK GOD FOR THAT.
7. Democrats do not believe that corporations are people too.
REALLY? LAST TIME I CHECKED MY 401K I AM PART OF SEVERAL CORPORATIONS VIA THE STOCK I OWN IN THEM. CORPORATIONS ARE OWNED BY PEOPLE AND RUN BY PEOPLE THEREFORE THEY ARE PEOPLE. CORPORATIONS PROVIDE THE GOODS AND SERVICES WE NEED WANT AND DESIRE LIKE FOOD, CLOTHING, HOUSING AND FUEL AND PROVIDE THE MOST JOBS IN THE USA SO I CAN EARN A LIVING TO PAY FOR THOSE GOODS AND SERVICES THEY CREATED LIKE MY IPHONE AND MY SUV.
8. Democrats do not believe that the sexual revolution created AIDS.
HALF WRONG. A REVOLUTION DIDN’T CAUSE ANYTHING AS INDIVIDUALS MAKE CHOICES BUT AFTER THAT LIBERAL FREE LOVE REVOLUTION HIT IN THE 60’S, IT BECAME ACCEPTABLE FOR MANY AFTER TO HAVE PROMISCUOUS UNPROTECTED SEX WITH EITHER SEX. IT IS A MEDICAL FACT THAT THE FAR MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WITH AIDS CONTACTED IT FROM MALE TO MALE UNPROTECTED INTERCOURSE AND SHARED IV DRUG USE. IT IS ALSO WHY BI-SEXUALITY AMONG WOMEN HAS INCREASED OVER 300% IN THE PAST 15 YEARS IN THE USA. IT IS A VERY SAD STORY THAT CONTINUES TODAY.
9. Democrats do not know the proper height for trees.
I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO GET TO HERE BUT I AM ASSUMING IT IS ANOTHER ENVIRONMENTAL WACKO STATEMENT. IF YOU DON’T LIKE TREES BEING CUT DOWN THEN MOVE OUT OF YOUR HOME AND SELL THE MAJORITY OF YOUR FURNITURE AND NEVER USE PAPER AGAIN. THEY ALL COME FROM TREES. TREES ARE A RENEWABLE CROP AND VITAL FOR SUSTAINING A MODERN SOCIETY. GET OVER IT.
10. Democrats do not understand decent God-fearing Americans need missile launchers at home.
THE 2ND AMENDMENT PROTECTS LAW ABIDING AMERICANS RIGHT TO POSSES ANY ARM THEY WANT AS LONG AS THEY ARE LAWFUL. AGAIN, THESE ARMS ARE PRIMARILY NOT FOR HUNTING AND NOT EVEN FOR HOME PROTECTION BUT TO PROTECT THE CITIZENS FROM A POTENTIALLY TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT. THE CITIZENS DESERVE TO BE EQUALLY AS ARMED AS OUR GOVERNMENT TO KEEP THEM IN CHECK FROM SUPPRESSING THE CITIZENRY. IF ASSAULT WEAPONS ARE NOT NEEDED TO DEFEND ONESELF, THEN WHY DOES THE PRESIDENT SURROUND HIMSELF WITH DOZENS OF SECRET SERVICE AGENTS ARMED WITH COUNTLESS ASSAULT WEAPONS? WHY SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT BE ARMED BETTER THAN ITS CITIZENRY?
11. Democrats do not understand that banning abortions for high risk pregnancies can be a positive experience for women.
MOST CONSERVATIVES DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW SO MANY WOMEN CAN CARELESSLY HAVE UNPROTECTED INTERCOURSE AND THEN WHEN A LIFE IS CREATED WITH A LIVING HEARTBEAT, CAN ORDER A DOCTOR TO JUST SUCK THEIR BRAINS OUT BECAUSE THE MOTHER DOESN’T WANT TO TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO RAISE THE CHILD SHE CREATED OR AT MINIMUM GIVE IT UP FOR ADOPTION SO A LOVING FAMILY CAN DO SO. OVER 1 MILLION BABIES ARE EXTIGUISHED EVERY YEAR IN AMERICA AND THE MAJORITY ARE NOT FROM RAPE, INCEST OR THE MOTHERS HEALTH. THEY ARE BECAUSE THE MOTHERS EITHER DIDN’T ABSTAIN FROM SEX OR WERE CARELESS IN HAVING UNPROTECTED SEX AND THEIR SOLUTION FOR THEIR CHOSEN ACTION IS KILLING A BABY INSIDE THEMSELVES RATHER THAN GIVING IT UP FOR ADOPTION WHERE THOUSANDS WANT ADOPTED BABIES.
12. Democrats do not understand that intelligent design is a proven scientific theory.
SINCE THERE IS NO ACTUAL FOSSIL LINK BETWEEN ANIMALS AND MAN, THERE IS NO PROOF EITHER WAY. IF YOU WANT TO BE AN ATHEIST AND BELIEVE THAT ALL THIS GRANDEUR HAPPENED AS A COSMIC ACCIDENT YOU ARE FREE TO DO SO BUT KEEP IN MIND THAT 85% OF AMERICANS BELIEVE IN THE ALTERNATIVE THAT THERE IS A HIGHER BEING AND THEY HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH CREATING THIS UNIVERSE AND LIFE.
13. Democrats do not understand that marriage is related to national security.
DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO GET TO BUT I ASSUME IT IS ABOUT GAYS. FIRST OF ALL, MOST OF AMERICANS ARE AGAINST TWO PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX MARRYING AS A MAN AND WOMAN MARRY AS IT IS A 5000 YEAR OLD TRADITION ACROSS ALL RELIGIONS. HOWEVER MOST OF AMERICANS ALSO DON’T MIND OF TWO PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX JOIN TOGETHER IN A CIVIL UNION SO THEY GET THE SAME MARITAL BENEFITS OF MARRIED COUPLES. FORCING CHURCHES TO MARRY TWO PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX WHEN IT IS AGAINST THEIR BELIEFS IS A CLASSIC VIOLATION OF SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE WHICH YOU LIBERALS LOVE TO BRING UP.
14. Democrats do not understand that the media is a threat to national security.
WHEN A MEDIA BECOMES SO BIASED IN ONE DIRECTION IT IS A THREAT TO A NATION AS A TRUE REPUBLIC. CASE IN POINT, IN CUBA, VENEZUELA AND RUSSIA THE MEDIA IS PRETTY MUCH RUN BY THE STATE AND SUPPORTS THE STATE. THERE ARE NO BALANCING SIDES TO KEEP GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE. HERE IN THE USA THE MAJORITY OF THE MEDIA ASSAULTED PRESIDENT BUSH FOR 8 YEARS AND HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT PRAISE PRESIDENT OBAMA FOR 4 YEARS. ALL OF THIS WHILE THE COUNTRY IS 50% LIBERAL AND 50% CONSERVATIVE YET THE ONLY MEDIA FOR CONSERVATIVES TODAY IS FOX NEWS AND A LITTLE ON TALK RADIO. LIBERALS CONTROL ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, NEW YORK TIMES, LA TIMES, WASHINGTON TIMES AND MOST OF THE NATIONS NEWSPAPERS. THIS IS NOT A MEDIA THAT TAKES CARE OF BOTH SIDES.
15. Democrats forgot that Hitler coined the phrase “separation of church and state”. HUH? LAST I CHECKED THOMAS JEFFERSON WROTE ABOUT THE NEED TO KEEP A GOVERNMENT FROM IMPOSING A RELIGION ON ITS PEOPLE BUT AS MOST AMERICANS DO NOT UNDERSTAND IS ACTUALLY NOT WRITTEN IN THE CONSTITUTION ITSELF. THE CONSTITUTION INSTEAD PROTECTS AMERICANS RIGHT TO PRACTICE ANY RELIGION THEY WOULD LIKE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT INTERFERING IN IT. IT HOWEVER DOES NOT GIVE GOVERNMENT THE RIGHT TO BAN THE SPEAKING OF “GOD” IN SCHOOLS AND THE PUBLIC SQUARE OR NATIVITY SCENES AT SCHOOLS, PARKS, ETC. THE CONSTITUTION GUARANTEES FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN THE USA NOT FREEDOM FROM RELIGION.
16. Democrats seem oblivious to the fact that most good Americans oppose gay marriage.
YES YOU GOT THIS RIGHT. 1 OUT OF 20 ISN’T BAD. MOST AMERICANS SUPPORT CIVIL UNIONS FOR GAY PEOPLE AND LEAVE THE SANCTITY OF THE 5000 YEAR OLD MARRIAGE TRADITION ACROSS MAJOR RELIGIONS TO THAT BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN AND DON’T FORCE CHURCHES TO MARRY TWO PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX THAT IS AGAINST WHAT THEY BELIEVE.
17. Democrats seldom bring guns to crowded public events. REALLY? LAST TIME I CHECKED, EVERY TIME OBAMA WENT OUT CAMPAIGNING, HE WAS IN VERY CROWED PLACES AND DOZENS OF HIS MEN AROUND HIM WERE CARRYING NOT ONLY GUNS BUT ASSAULT WEAPONS INTO EXTREMELY CROWDED PLACES.
18. Democrats want to force innocent mufti-millionaires to pay taxes.
NO, IT IS BETTER SAID THIS WAY. DEMOCRATS WANT WORKING AMERICANS TO PAY TAXES SO GOVERNMENT CAN SPEND THEIR MONEY BETTER THAN THE INDIVIDUAL CAN. DEMOCRATS WANT TO BUY VOTES BY PROMISING THEIR CONSTITUENTS LOTS OF FREE THINGS THAT ARE PAID FOR BY SEIZING THE PRIVATE INCOME OF AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO WORK FOR IT AND AT THE POINT OF A GUN MIND YOU. THE IRS IS THE ONLY ENTITY IN THE US THAT CAN FORCE YOU TO GIVE THEM YOUR MONEY YOU WORK FOR AND IF YOU DON’T THEY CAN COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND ARREST YOU AT THE POINT OF A GUN AND PUT YOU IN JAIL FOR IT. NO OTHER CREDITOR IN THE USA CAN DO SO. MOST AMERICANS ARE FINE WITH LIMITED GOVERNMENT SERVICES LIKE BRIDGES, AIRPORTS, ROADS, POLICE, FIREMEN, NATIONAL DEFENSE BUT THAT’S ABOUT IT. THERE WERE NO SUCH THING AS WELFARE, FOOD STAMPS, PELL GRANTS, MEDICAID AT THIS COUNTRIES FOUNDING AND FOR THE NEXT 150 YEARS AND THE US CITIZENS PROSPERED AND BUILT THIS COUNTRY WITHOUT GOVERNMENT GIVING THEM FREE HEALTH CARE ALONG THE WAY.
19. Democrats want to let gays vote.
SINCE WHEN CAN GAY PEOPLE NOT VOTE? CONSERVATIVES SUPPORT ANY AMERICAN WHO SUPPORTS CONSERVATIVE VALUES OF LIMITED GOVERNMENT, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY OR FREE MARKETS AND COULD CARE LESS WHAT SKIN COLOR THEY HAVE OR WHAT THEY DO IN THEIR BEDROOM. CONSERVATIVES BELIEVE THAT A PERSON’S SEX LIFE IS PRIVATE AND SHOULD BE KEPT IN THE BEDROOM ANYWAY.
20. Democrats want to let immigrants vote.
YOU LEFT OUT ONE WORD “ILLEGAL”. DEMOCRATS WANT “ILLEGAL” IMMIGRANTS TO BE ABLE TO VOTE. WHY? BECAUSE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS KNOW DEMOCRATS WILL GIVE THEM LOTS OF FREE STUFF FROM THE US TREASURY LIKE FREE MATERNITY CARE, FREE MEDICAL, WELFARE, FOOD STAMPS, EDUCATION, YOU NAME IT BECAUSE THEY KNOW THOSE PEOPLE WILL VOTE FOR THEM IN RETURN. AND ALL THOSE PEOPLE HAVE TO DO IS BYPASS ALL THE “LEGAL” IMMIGRANTS TO THIS COUNTRY WHO SPEND AN AVERAGE OF 10 YEARS TO LEGALLY GET INTO THIS COUNTRY AND JUST CHEAT AND SNEAK ACROSS A LOOSELY PROTECTED BORDER WITH LOOSE FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS. CONSERVATIVES GLADLY WELCOME LEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO HAVE HELPED BUILD THIS COUNTRY OVER THE PAST 100+ YEARS.
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12/31/12
Howdy all! I MISS YOU!! I’ve been so busy, and at times lazy, true. The last time I wrote to you was December 2. Well, I am still the guy who you might remember. At least I think I am. Probably am. I guess I should do this more to help me remember something. Any guesses what that is? Well, if I go too long please forgive me.
Any hoo,..
Only fools say in their hearts, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; not one of them does good! ~ Psalm 14:1
[T]he people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them. ~ Zacharia Johnson, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788
Today is the end of a very hectic year; highs, lows, successes and tragedies. Sometimes I read a news article that pops up on my screen and I just want to cry, or shout out loud. Sometimes I jump for joy, and yes, sometimes I yell out “it’s about darn time they got what’s coming!” But none of it helps. Because it’s just me saying. So, what really matters? To me, I can say family, friends, fiscal freedom, etc. But it truly lies in three things. Sorry I wasn’t going to say God, Family and Friends. Well they are part of it, but they are captured in these three things – Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Sound familiar? Remember these three things? Those who said the words first were willing to give of their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. They were willing to give everything for us. Yes, us. We are their legacy. We are their descendants. Because of them, we are Americans. We have the life of free men and women. We have the ability to strive for our own successes, AND failures. And above all, we are Americans; US citizens.
These things also carry a great burden. We must ensure that what the founders gave us is preserved for those who are to be our American descendants. The most important part of our preservation comes in the manner we have for protection - the second amendment. To take away the Constitution, the way of life we have and to transform it into something else, the right to bear arms must be ended. This is an historical fact, proven time and time again. So, what is the argument against guns? They can cause serious bodily harm, and even death. But do they do it themselves? Obviously not, guns don’t go off on their own. Even if there is a discharge from a weapon too close to heat, a person put it there to allow it to self-discharge. The founders knew from their own personal experiences, and their pledge in the Declaration of Independence that they needed to protect what was to be preserved. We need to protect what is to be preserved. Not only the nation, but our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor need to be preserved, and therefore protected.
Horror is horrible. Loss of life is horrible, especially when innocent children are lost. Worse, the innocent children who witnessed the loss of their friends will have to suffer the visual memory. It is horrible, and something needs to change. But what to change? Guns? Assault weapons? Hmm, ok, why guns? Is there anyone out there who truly believes that if a ban or restriction on any type of gun is set in motion, that the evil people who wish to do horror will obey it? What is the definition of an assault weapon? Does anyone know? I have what I believe is the closest to correct. An assault weapon is that weapon which is used to assault. And what is the definition of assault? It is the threat of violence towards another. So, an assault weapon is that weapon of any type that is used to threaten another with violence. Can a gun be used for that horror? Sure. Would it be any less horrible if the same people are killed with a knife? How about a high speed car? Sarin gas? Timothy McVeigh used fertilizer and diesel. Jeffrey Dahmer ate his victims. Cain had no gun when he killed Abel. 9/11/01 was not perpetrated by guns. These were evil people. EVIL PEOPLE. And what about those innocents killed in a school in China, by a person with a knife? Do we do what has been proposed in England? Ban all long, sharp pointed kitchen knives? Even today, New Year’s Eve, we hear of someone who potentially wanted to kill, and without a gun! A pregnant 27 year old woman, and her 31 year old boyfriend were arrested in NYC with explosive materials and papers titled “The Terrorist Encyclopedia”. And the guy is a Harvard graduate and an OWS idiot! Guns? GUNS?? Should we also get rid of knives? Let’s also get rid of Harvard Graduates.
Emotions will always run very high when a tragedy occurs. It is then, that knee jerk reaction becomes the ‘fix’. They never work as intended. They are Band-Aids on a broken arm.
I don’t want to pontificate, (even if I am a little). There is a reason why these things are happening. It is not the presence of guns. These people who commit horror needs to be stopped. And they need to be stopped BEFORE THEY ACT. The focus must be on the people who would act. If you focus on the guns, these people of horror will watch the guns be turned in while they get a knife, a car, some diesel and fertilizer, or whatever they can get their hands on –LEGALLY OR NOT- to commit their horror. Don’t buy the headlight when the transmission is broken. We need to protect what we wish to preserve. And we need to stem the horror. But we don’t need to make these mutually exclusive.
Take care, God bless and especially, ESPECIALLY at this time in history,
STAND WITH ISRAEL!!!
Tom Kiley
Evidently everyone thinks that GOD isn't trying to warn us, that it past time for the Christians of this Nation, to bow their knees in repentance, and pray according 2Chr. 7:14! So that GOD will hear our prayers; and change HIS Mind; then heal our land.................
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How many more Catastrophies and Tragedies must we suffer, before we begin to respond to GOD?
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The past should be fully embraced...
Because it can never be erased.
We should LEARN instead of moan...
From others' mistakes AND our own.
If we change our point of view...
It makes things easier to live through.
Teach our children to do the same...
And then, we'll be ahead of the game.
We should remember our soldiers & our Constitution.
Look back at the past BEFORE there's a new revolution.
We fought the British over too much control,
And now, this government is digging the same hole.
War has personal, global, and economical loss.
It teaches nothing by not seeing the true cost!
This New Year's Eve poem was written to be seen...
...Let's hope for a better world in 2013!
By: Joyce Lynn Chandler 12/31/2012 :)
