Like Pictures in a Museum

Have you ever wondered why the more things change the more they stay the same? Why after all of your hard work and pleading on your knees for things to change they don't? I have asked myself those same questions after almost every election where the candidates that I have supported have failed to win. This time I am backing off of the emotional backlash that I usually rely on as I felt the hurricane force of someone laying into me because of my personal and political views and so will not spew more vitriol into the current climate. What I came to realize is that it really is up to me to do something. No wailing and crying and gnashing of teeth will ever move the voters one iota. With only 23% of registered voters in the state taking the time to cast their ballot, it appears that they are too busy watching Lady Gaga on YouTube (over 300,000,000 views) to get off their collective *s to take part in what well could be the last battle for freedom and liberty in this nation.

So for me I will continue to fight the good fight, preserve the principles of the Founders, and look to November as the next battle in the war for Freedom. When David Letterman asked "Who do they want to take the country back from?" I thought of Pilate's famous line "What is Truth?"
Now wanting Freedom from an oppressive federal government, the New American Plantation, where all your needs womb (if you make it out alive) to tomb are taken care of as long as you give your allegiance to the slave daddies in Big Government, is considered a radical stance, un-American, unpatriotic. Letterman is representative of the New Aristocracy where a subhuman can earn over $20 million a year by pushing the company line. "If you're a good boy, Dave, you can have Barry join you on the set and we will see to it that those pesky sexual harassment charges disappear."

So will it be that the very idea of a Republic disappears and the only remnant of it is a series of portraits hung in some dusty museum where few ever go as it is so passe?

As for me, this day, I choose Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. What do you choose?

RINOs, DIDs and other Endangered Species

If you have any doubts about the fact that we have a toothless Republican Party, just take a gander at the results of the Senate Judiciary Committee vote on Kagan. There is the spineless Lindsay Grahmnesty refusing to do his constitutional due diligence and filter out the unfit from a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. Harriet Miers had more qualifications! But the go along to get along Senator from South Carolina betrays all conservatives in this country with his vote. Again I want to ask the good people of South Carolina to come to the aid of your country by getting rid of this man who will not support or represent the people of this land. He represents the worst aspects of the ruling class as he no longer cares about the people. He is a member of the club. As a Senator he has all the benefits and perks he will ever need. He doesn't ever need to look for a job, worry about paying a bill, or for that matter partake of Obamacare as he is exempt. Will the people wake up and send good representatives, citizen candidates to Washington before it is too late? Or will this grand experiment in representative government fail for lack of vigilance?

Here We Go Again!

Don't you just love it when a guy blows a hole through the fortress that took a year to build from the inside? Goldwater called it treason. I call it progressive politics. John McCain's best friend has just created a pact with the devils in the DemocRAT party. Selling out the average American on tax day by moving ahead with a cap and trade bill....How dare he look the American people in the eye and tell them that raising their energy bills by a $1,000 a year is good for them, that it will restore jobs, that it will be good for their lifestyle? I hope that if he has the nerve to show up at a Tea Party event that those patriots show him the door....if only there was a harbor near by to dump him in.

November is a day of reckoning for those who betray the oaths they took to defend and protect the US Constitution. Too bad Graham isn't up for re-election. Only the arrogant who disdain the people act because they believe they are out of reach of the voters. Is there anyone in South Carolina who will start a recall of this guy? Or in the least send money to support JD is his bid to unseat the other progressive Senator who believes that he has to make continual deals with the devil in order to satisfy some mythical bi-partisan stance. I don't think there has ever been one of these deals that has included any conservative principles. Just wait until the amnesty train leaves the station. I'm sure Graham and McCain will be all over that one as well.

Lockbox 2010

For those of you liberal loving progressives who bought into the Al Gore social security “lockbox,” you will love the new version brought to you by Obamacare. In some mysterious place within the hallowed halls of the Treasury Department, (Think basement of the Smithsonian as portrayed in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”) the health care fines and taxes collected by the 16,500 newly hired IRS agents will pack away the dough until sometime in 2018 when it will flow to the “uninsured.” If you buy into that, I’ve got some farmland in Northern Arizona that you will just love!

Seriously, has the government ever done anything other than tax and spend? As one staffer in the Roosevelt administration put it: “tax and spend, tax and spend, the people are just too damn dumb to understand.” Really? Dumb? Evidently the DemocRATS have bought into this. They really believe that you are too dumb to follow what they are doing and hold them accountable. How about it? Are you? I don’t think so. I think you have had enough and are ready to throw the bums out. The only lockbox that I want to see is a lockbox on the congressional democratic offices that keeps them from destroying what is left of our Republic.

Revolution 2.0

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04

WE are 233 years into the world’s oldest experiment with freedom based on individual rights—not the rights of kings, or generals, or gods. And yet those who have benefited the most from this Republic are the very ones who cry loudly for rights not for individuals but for groups. Our system of government emerged from the belief that mankind are created in the image of God, the one God embraced by our ancestors who unashamedly declared that each one of us is endowed, that’s right, “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Through a lengthy series of legislative slight of hands, the individual has been superseded by special interest groups. But, I wonder, who assigns you to a group? Who or what bureaucracy is the labeler-in-chief that lets each of us know that we have no meaning or purpose in life unless we can be seen as a member of a protected class?

History is a cruel teacher as it points out what results from certain choices. Centuries of tyranny cannot hide from the historian’s eye. So it is no wonder that it is critical to decouple the current generation from that record if one wants to embrace a new age of tyranny. Fools who have made of themselves gods believe that with their superior intellect and communication techniques they can wash away the historical records with a little rewrite here and little deletion there. In that fantasy world, tyrants can be redressed in the new clothes of progressivism. Even Hitler can be redrawn as a conservative Christian in their eyes in order to avoid seeing the similar roots of Nazism and the progressive “empathy” they profess.

So in case you missed it, here is a little “change” history. If you do not realize that July 4^th is a tribute to the American Revolution that has given you your current world, you may not know what caused regular folks to rise up and challenge a government knowing full well they could lose their lives, fortunes and sacred honors. So what caused that first Tea Party? Much of what we are experiencing today.

Current circumstances in our country and its leadership are reminiscent of themes, emotions, and challenges leading to the American Revolution. Unless you're a history buff, you may not know that the original revolution was eerily similar to what we're going through at this moment, down to the roots. According Gordon S. Wood, a professor at Brown University, it was the economy, stupid. Adding intrigue is the fact that it wasn't just the economy, but SPECIFICALLY A HOUSING BUBBLE that made the American Revolution unfold the way that it did.

In an article that appeared in the New York Times:

For the colonists, as for us, first came the boom. During the height of the French and Indian War, which lasted from 1754 until 1763, money flooded into the colonies, especially New York, where the British Army was headquartered. At the same time, the New York Legislature issued large numbers of bills of credit.

All that cash sloshing around resulted in lavish displays of wealth— notably by British officers, who’s opulent living, was emulated by the locals, especially in New York.

Housing prices soared during the war. But when credit tightened afterward — thanks in no small part to a prohibition on the issuance of paper money by the colonies under the Currency Act of 1764 — real estate owners who could not pay their debts lost their land.

In that era, the citizens demanded accountability from their leaders. Instead of having their grievances addressed, they were taxed more on items that they depended upon for daily life and commerce. The tax that broke the apathy of the colonists was the tea tax, thus the Boston Tea Party. (No Janeane, it wasn’t about discrimination!) What they objected to the most, was the disregard for the individual. No matter their status, they were all placed in the group called colonists. And as such were subjects of the Crown. This led to the organizing document of this country, the Declaration of Independence. In the body of that document, the plaintive established a legal case for separation. “The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.”

The eerie similarities to today have many of the same ingredients, but the most egregious is the failure to uphold individual freedom. As the dominoes for the “remaking of America” continue to be put in place by the ideologue-in-chief along with the creation of a non-elected group of czars who hold allegiance only to him, it is important to dust off our founding documents, re-read them along with Common Sense and The Federalist Papers, make your signs, attend a local Tea Party and fax without ceasing.

The Last Man Standing

What do American Idol, Survivor, and the Duel in the Sun have in common? The winner is always the last man standing. Logic would dictate as well as personal experience that this model would have a correlation in all successful endeavors. But then there is government. All rules of logic seem to disappear when one enters this realm(Al Franken is a US Senator? In what sick, twisted world?). It is almost as if we have entered an alternate universe where right is wrong, black is white, and debt is stimulus.

No economic model throughout history (yes, that even includes the imperial presidency of one FDR) has successfully moved an economy forward by strapping trillions of dollars of debt on the backs of its citizens. In fact, the great unwashed will tolerate just about anything until the products and services they need become too costly. Remember last summer? $4 gas--no way bro--Drill here, drill now and drill, baby, drill rose above the din. Even Pelosi and friends had to back down until the noise died down.

History does record the bloody impact of revolutions instigated by debt as a driver to force currency to diminish in value. The French Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the American Revolution were not so much a dissatisfaction with monarchy as it was starvation and onerous tax burdens. The Wiemar Republic's inflationary practices paved the way for "change that you can believe in" in the form of the Nazi Party's serious stimulus program. Shovel ready projects such as roads, stadiums, and monuments provided little economic recovery for most workers but did feed the need until the Nazi's launched what would become the solution to the global Great Depression, WWII.

So today everyone knows that with the US fractional monetary policy you can only tease out the value of a sawbuck so far. Right now the Federal Reserve is running its printing presses non stop and the amount of gold to paper is in the one one hundredths. Rumors are flying through the international money markets about the concerns of our major lenders as to the soundness of our currency and the serious consideration of dethroning the dollar as the standard bearer for the world marketplace. And yet, with this serious threat to our ability to function economically, the leaders inside the Executive Branch insist on recommending more spending and more printing. You would think that they want this to happen.

Step it down to Arizona. Same thing: an out of control budget and an unwillingness to make serious cuts, sacrificial cuts, belt-tightening cuts on the part of state legislators. If they could, many would print funny money so they could keep spending.

My question for those who claim to be our representatives: Who among you is willing to stand in the gap for the average guy and demand a balanced budget regardless of the political consequences? Is there anyone who is willing to risk it all to pick up the gauntlet of Jefferson, Washington, and Franklin? Who will be that last man standing?

Genocide American Style

Leave it to the compassionate, enlightened leadership of the liberal pretender to the office of the President of the United States who with a stroke of a pen, condemned millions of unborn persons throughout the world to a painful death. In Laura Hollis’s January 27th article, “Obama’s First Export: Abortion,” she points out the inherent racism of the policy: “African-Americans make up less than 15% of the U.S. population, but over 35% of abortions are performed on African American women.” According to the Center for Disease Control—hardly a pro-life organization—1400 black babies are aborted each day in America. That means over 438,000 African-Americans are sucked out of their mothers’ wombs and “disposed of” each year. Using that as a baseline, in the 36 years that Roe vs. Wade has been the law of the land 15,768,000 have been clinically disposed of. This is more than double the horrific holocaust that sent over 6 million Jews to their death at the hands of the Nazis! And yet, the intelligentsia applauds the notion of the expansion of this policy of death as “family planning” or “reproductive choice” to world’s vulnerable poor.

What is even more ironic is that the first black to hold this office is exporting death to countries to which he can trace his own heritage, sub-Saharan Africa and Indonesia. One wonders if this action reveals brokenness in the psyche of this great pretender. Does this deliberate call for planetary genocide of the most vulnerable bespeak an inner conflict with his tribal roots? If he can only kill enough of these traces of his past, will he finally find resolve between his white and black ancestry? One only wishes he was resolving his identity crisis on the psychiatrist’s couch and not with the free and deliberate misuse of the power of the presidency.