Talk is Cheap

Is anyone else already tired of BO's voice and speech pattern? There is something very annoying about it. His inflection goes up at the end of every sentence. It should go down. Inflection only goes up at the end of a question. It is eerily robotic. Very condescending. It's like he's not really talking to the person asking questions; there's no conversational tone to him. He just searches the hard drive for the correct answer and starts shooting off bullet-points. The best word that I have found to describe it would be, smarmy. Sort of makes you want to take a shower after hearing him speak.

Time for Some Comic Relief

In the New York Post of December 18, Cynthia R. Fagen has an article about the just-released college pictures of B.O. Here is a small taste of her reporting:

"...Taken during a 1980 photo shoot by Occidental College pal Lisa Jack, the snapshots show that the freshman was already showing off the quiet confidence of a future president.
"He was very charismatic even then," Jack recalled of the brief encounter at her off-campus Los Angeles apartment.
"He was really cute. What else does a 20-year-old girl remember?" she told Time, which published the rare shots in its year-end issue that names the president-elect 2008's Person of the Year. "He was a little nervous," she said. "You can see he's just posing, initially, and as the shoot goes on, he starts to come out. ..."

Wow, careful Cynthia you may trip over your tongue.
Frankly, I think he looks like Ricky Ricardo. Can you say, babaloo??!!

Honey I Think We Took A Wrong Turn

Greetings Congressman XXXXXXXXX,

Thank you for your letter regarding the current automobile manufacturer crisis. I applaud your fortitude in opposing bailouts or loans and your thoughtfulness in offering a different tack. I am sure that local car dealers are frustrated with having too many unsold vehicles on their lots. This no doubt stems from the credit crunch precipitated by the Democrats’ mismanagement of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac and somewhat to the high price of many domestic vehicles, which is part of the broader automaker problem. Unfortunately I believe that offering a consumer tax credit to purchase those vehicles is only a short-term band-aid which will not cure the bigger disease in the industry. Additionally, it once again uses the federal tax code for social engineering, something that I loathe.
There is no doubt that cars made by the Big-3 are too expensive. The problem does not stem from corporate jets and bigwig bonuses. One factor is too much intrusive federal (and state) regulation of automobile standards. These ridiculous rules put too much of a burden on the carmakers, thus preventing them from making cars that people actually want to buy and can afford. The standards don’t really save lives or the environment. Secondly, union influence over the automakers’ business practices has become too onerous and too expensive. This has only happened because the federal government has empowered the unions thusly. The total benefit packages for autoworkers are insane and financially unsustainable. There is absolutely no reason for workers to have this much influence over private businesses. And they wouldn’t, save for the Congress- mostly liberal Democrats. Other than egregious safety violations or abusive tactics, workers should have no further say in how a private company runs its business. If they don’t like it, they can find a job elsewhere.
So both of the major reasons for the failure of the automakers falls back in the lap of the federal government. The last thing we need is for the feds to try and fix the situation! The best thing that they could do is to get out of the mess. Strip the unions of their unreasonable power and rescind the insane regulations. Then hands off! Let the automakers go through Chapter 11, reorganize, dump the old union contracts and get about building cars that Americans actually want at prices they can afford and that compete with other manufacturers. This talk about the Big-3 being too big to fail is silliness. We are not talking about failing; we are talking about reorganizing and emerging stronger and more competitive. Many airlines have successfully navigated this process. Maybe the federal government should consider it. When I was taking flying lessons the instructor taught me that when a plane is stalling and going into a spin I had to take my hands off of the controls to let the plane stabilize. That violates all of your natural instincts. But trying to fight the spin is certain death. We need the federal government to do the same thing in this, and many other situations. Unfortunately, the nature of the government and politicians is to always try to do something in every situation. After all, isn’t that what we hired them for? To simply do nothing seems irresponsible, right?
I seriously think that we would all be better off to send the President, Supreme Court, House and Senate home and pay them to sit there and do nothing for two years. For as we learn in medicine, first do no harm. The private market is a great thing when allowed to work unfettered. However, it has not been allowed to work freely in the automobile industry for many, many years. It’s time to get back on the right road.
By the way, I believe that these principles should also be applied to the health care system. Ah, but that’s another topic for another day.
Thanks for your service Congressman!

Doctor, Heal Thyself

(Responding to an emergency room physician letter-to-the editor asking Obama and the feds to provide more funds for emergency rooms to become the safety net for people needing basic medical care who do not have health insurance)
The federal government lacks the constitutional authority and power to fund or manage emergency rooms (not to mention that is is busted, it has no money). They are a horribly ineffiencient and expensive avenue for delivering family medicine to the needy. The feds have already made a wreck of the health care system and any further meddling by them will only greatly worsen the situation. Let's clean up the tort system, get malpractice premiums and product liability costs down and reduce the union driven cost of labor. Give people portable medical savings accounts which unties insurance from employment. Finally, relink payment between the actual consumer (patient) with the provider so that people can shop for insurance and shop for care to find the best care for the best price. Let the market actually work and get the artificial, inflationary constraints of government out of the equation. For those that still need help with basic medical care let the states figure out the best way to help deliver it, but not through emergency rooms.

Climbing Pyramids

When I heard that the feds had arrested former Nasdaq chairman Bernard Madoff for running a Ponzi scam, I thought that they were talking about Social Security! He has the ultimate defense, he was just using the federal government Social Security template. Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander. Do as I say, not as I do? Tsk, tsk.

No More Blood From Turnips

If the President directs Treasury to bail out the automakers in defiance of the Senate decision last night, then it is about time for the American people and corporations to start withholding their federal income tax payments. We must protest and starve this ersatz, unconstitutional federal government into submission.

Hello...Hello, Is There an Echo in Here?

So let's see, Barry didn't know his governor, Rod Blagojevich; didn't know his mentor, William Ayers; didn't know his realtor, Tony Rezko; and didn't know his pastor, Jeremiah Wright. How did some kid from Chicago get to be President-elect without knowing anyone?

Barry, We Hardly Knew You

So, Barry O will use his full name, Barack Hussein Obama at the swearing in ceremony (there's something fitting about that ceremony title). Will Fitzgerald be there to fill in the MF's every other word? He has also related that he plans to give a major speech in an Islamic capital shortly after the inauguration. Given his heritage and upbringing it seems to be coming clear that he may be a closet Muslim. Now, there's nothing wrong with that except for the fact that he denied it and subsequently lied to the American people during the campaign if it is in fact true. The church that he spent the last 20 years sitting in is based upon the doctrine of black liberation theology, closely affiliated with Islam and the anti-Semite, Louis Farrakhan. With his intransigence on releasing his birth certificate to clear up the mystery surrounding his birthplace and his proximity to the scandal swirling around Chicago politics right now, it is clear that he cannot be trusted and is not ready or fit to be President.

Please Wake Up Paul Revere!

The U.S. Constitution and the American experiment are truly dead.  This unconstitutional, neo-Nazi automaker bailout loan is just another of many nails in the coffin.  Over the last few months we have witnessed the surreal vision of the federal government nationalizing one private industry after another.  It has been fast and easy enough to make Adolph blush.  The American people don’t want it yet our moronic ‘public servants’ are trying to cram it down their throats.  I will not purchase a car made by the new Big-3 and will urge everyone I talk with to do likewise.  Take heed, the federal government is not too big to fail.  Hear the winds of the second American revolution beginning to blow. 

State of Stupidity

License plates in the state of Illinois have the tag line, "Land of Lincoln."  Some people in Illinois are beginning to clamor for an alternative plate, "Land of Obama."  OK, when Obama has been dead for as long as Lincoln I say go for it!

It's Time to Pay the Piper

If you think about the current economic mess in which we find ourselves and all of the talk about a 40% loss of value in the stock market, nothing has really gone away. Dirt, buildings, cars, trucks, houses, television sets and shoes are all still here. None of that has disappeared. Credit and the money value of business have decreased, but those are not actually real. They are only psychological constructs. Money is not based upon anything like say, gold. Money and credit are only agreements between people. They only exist in people’s minds and imaginations.
The real culprit here is easy credit and the false demand driven by it. This is true for individual families, corporations and government at every level. The current collapse has been inevitable for decades. And there is plenty of blame to go around. Those responsible for extending such credit are culpable as are the people and institutions who kept lapping it up and spending this fake money like there was no tomorrow. With regard to the national debt we would say, well we just owe it to ourselves. When that was actually true it was still a bad thing because it would strap our children and grandchildren with a horrendous tax burden to service the debt. But now, we actually owe a huge chunk of our national debt to foreign powers such as China, not necessarily good friends and who certainly don’t have America’s best interests foremost in their plans.
This addiction to credit and wild spending is every bit as powerful a force as addictions to tobacco, alcohol, drugs, sex and gambling. And every bit as hard to shake. It sneaks up on you so gradually and by the time you realize that you have a problem you are probably past the point that you alone can do anything to stop it. For decades our society has been driven by the relentless push to achieve and acquire, achieve and acquire. Keep up with the Joneses. We are bombarded constantly and everywhere by Madison Avenue marketing exhorting us to buy, buy, buy! More, more, more! You deserve it-NOW! Don’t wait, use the plastic. Have it today. Pay for it, well, never. Tomorrow never comes. Twelve months same as cash. No payments no interest for a year. We are pressured by our co-workers, neighbors, friends, relatives, children and their peers. We must keep up appearances. We have to have the newest, flashiest and fastest. This easy credit has put people in houses, cars, big-screen televisions and clothing that they cannot really afford and should not be buying. This same mind-set also applies to corporations and governments. The sky-rocketing demand for all of these goods and services has been built upon a precarious house-of-cards for many years. Fake credit providing fake money driving fake demand creating fake business growth creating fake jobs with fake income and resulting in fake tax revenues culminating in a fake economy with a fake GDP and fake growth rate. Well, the predictable explosion of the comical mortgage market was the card on the bottom. When it was pulled out the whole house has come tumbling down. Sadly, this has been obvious for years. It had to happen. It needed to happen. Like a drug addict, at some point someone has to take the needle away and let the patient go through the horror of withdrawal. It’s ugly and painful, but it’s the only way to ultimately survive. Then, after it’s over someone must always watch out to stop the addict from going back to the drug.
For many years the hole in the bottom of the boat was small enough that we could just bail the water out and stay afloat. Adding more fake money and credit to cover the bad worked for a while. Now the hole in the bottom of the boat has become so large that bailing will no longer work. We have to plug the hole first. That means no more easy credit, no more borrowing. We must cut back on spending and go to a cash-only, pay-as-you-go basis. That applies to individuals and families, corporations and governments from your city all the way up to the federal government. We cannot print any more funny-money lest we risk creating hyper-inflation which will only greatly exacerbate the problem, not solve it. People must go back to my grandparents’ budget strategy. You live below your means, save money and pay cash for the things that you really need and at a level that you can really afford. That will mean smaller homes, modest cars, fewer vacations, smaller television sets and non-designer clothes for many. It will also mean understanding delayed gratification. You save for things that you really want and put off buying them for years until you can pay cash for them. That’s right, 23 year-old college graduates don’t deserve to buy a BMW, a 5-bedroom house, Fila sneakers and 70-inch home theaters for probably another 20 years. So sorry. These federal bailouts and loans must stop. They only serve to forestall the inevitable correction that our businesses and economy must go through. If we don’t, the problems will only fester and grow bigger beneath the surface to erupt later in a much bigger disaster. Let’s get our national withdrawal over with and reset the economy on saner foundations. Pay now or pay later. The price will be much greater and more painful if we wait until later.

Little Green Men

I understand that the polar ice cap is melting...on Mars!
I hereby nominate Algore as Ambassador Plenipotentiary of Global Warming for Life to the planet Mars on behalf of all of the people of Earth.
Enjoy the trip and your stay!

Who's Coming to Town, Santa or Scrooge?

Donald Trump nonchalantly misses a $53 million interest payment for one of his casinos. The federal government is passing out trillions of non-existent dollars to an endless line of panhandling corporations, running up the federal debt well beyond the stratosphere (if you think any of that will ever be paid down I would love to sell you some beachfront property in Arizona). The feds can’t consistently run a balanced budget, much less a surplus. There are untold trillions of unfunded commitments to future Social In-security and Medicare ‘recipients’ just waiting to bust the budget. So what is our brilliant president-elect planning? Trillions of dollars for new federal programs all paid for by raising tax rates on the wealthy. And of course they will dutifully pay them. No, they won’t shift their income off-shore or into tax-deferred instruments. Of course not. That would be unpatriotic. Hehehe.
And with all of this going on, if Joe the Plumber misses one payment on his credit card they call out the National Guard to haul him in. Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander? How is he supposed to look his children in the eye and explain why this will be a bleak Christmas? The feds are passing out money like candy. Dad, go get some for us! We average Joe’s are supposed to pay for all of these bailouts, keep our family budgets in balance and dare not delay, much less miss any payments. Don’t do what the feds do, do what they say. Don’t follow their lead. Duh, McFly, they’re not leading! They’re not following. They are floundering. How on Earth are we supposed to teach our children fiscal responsibility when our esteemed ‘public servants’ are completely reckless and irresponsible with our cumulative national milk money? In the corporate world they would all be hauled up on charges for gross negligence, mismanagement and embezzlement.
Can anyone, or everyone say Enron?

Dinosaur Death Groans

The U.A.W. believes that the Big Three automakers are too big to be allowed to go out of business and are demanding a federal bailout for them. How generous. Does anyone buy this? The bailout is really for the U.A.W., not the Big Three. The U.A.W. is a dinosaur that needs to become extinct. Because of their contract terms the Big Three cannot make quality cars at prices that people can afford and compete with foreign manufacturers. The U.A.W. has priced itself out of the market. Its high salaries, gold-plated bennies and cushy retirements will be its undoing. American tax dollars should not be used to bail it out. Automakers should file for chapter 11 reorganization and jettison the heavy-handed union contracts. The U.A.W. has made its bed, now it must lie in it. It is not too big to be allowed to fail. You know, when the dinosaurs became extinct they became the oil that powers our cars. Hmmmm, if the U.A.W. becomes extinct the money put back into the auto manufacturing industry may just power the future of that industry. How poetic.

Belly Up To The Bar

To the Congress of the United States of America,
I would like to formally apply for a $1,000,000.00 personal bailout. This amounts to only 0.000013513% of the total $7.4 trillion committed federal bailout money to date. This bailout will allow me to stabilize my personal finances and remain solvent while I continue to make my mortgage and other debt payments. That in turn will help prevent these institutions from going under and requiring further federal assistance. In addition I will be able to continue my federal income tax payments to fund your $7.4 trillion bailout of these institutions.
God Bless America!

Get Thee Behind Me satan!

Christianity is not a suicide pact with the devil.

Cutting Noses To Spite Faces 101

"Cutting costs: Reducing wages of high-paid bosses could save local jobs
(Letter to the Editor, November 22, 2008)
In regard to the changes and layoffs due to the failure of the county sales tax issue, I have a suggestion. It is probably not going to happen, but if you took the 100 highest-salaried people in both the city and county governments, including M******l Hospital and Utilities, and reduced their salaries by 25 percent, they would still have very comfortable incomes, and it would help many of their co-workers keep their jobs.
With the economy down, I do not know why governments should not share in the slowdown, as the people affected are the people paying the salaries."

Yet another envy letter in the class-warfare rage so accelerated by the most recent election. I believe that this poisonous tone set by the election of Barack Obama will greatly eclipse any up tick in racism, real or perceived. His proposal comes with no hard numbers from any financial analysis or substantiation of any of his assertions. It is merely an uninformed knee-jerk response born of a ‘have’ vs. ‘have not’ mentality.

He does not tell us how much money would be saved by reducing the salaries of 100 people by 25% relative to the loss of revenues and budget shortfalls. Would it really make much difference at all? And his argument does not take into account how many people would leave and what the cost of replacing them and training the new employees would be. People who have based their lifestyles on a certain income are not going to just sit by and do nothing if that salary is arbitrarily reduced by 25%. Would he? An organization cannot attract, hire and hold on to quality people if it pays well below the prevailing market rates. If positions can be eliminated, then do so; but don’t try to hold on to people on the cheap. It won’t work. If you look into the budgets of the organizations referenced you will find that many cuts and changes have already taken place. These organizations and their employees are doing their part and feeling the pain, even though their financial plight is due to national and global economic realities totally beyond their control.
The most telling comment was his remark that after reducing these salaries by 25% he feels that these people would still have comfortable incomes. This idea that one person has the right and authority to determine would someone else ought to earn is downright heinous. This mindset has infected far too many in this country and it will do us in. People who study hard, work hard and take risks many times wind up doing very well financially. I don’t understand why people think that by punishing them all the rest are somehow magically benefited. If you kill the locomotive the train stops and everyone riding in the passenger cars get nowhere. Folks with disposable income invest some which creates and grows businesses thus leading to jobs for all the rest. Not to mention paying more taxes for government to dole out to others. They also spend some of that income on consumer goods, which again creates jobs for people who sell those products, manufacture those products and ship those products. If you take disposable income away from people who have earned it, you may be insuring your own unemployment in the process. A rising tide does indeed lift all boats, all of the liberal caterwauling to the contrary notwithstanding.

The Name's Not Bond, Not James Bond

Saw "Quantum of Solace" last Friday. It's a great action film. It's not a Bond film. This is two strikes now for this franchise. I'll give them one more chance to make a real Bond film and if not I am done with this bunch and will hit the DVD's.

A Fixed Point of Reference

Can morality exist without God? Can there be absolute truths, good and bad, right and wrong without edicts from an Almighty? If not, who is to say which Almighty and which religious books we believe and follow? Hmmm, good questions. The answers should be even more interesting. Let’s think this through. For the sake of argument let’s stipulate that there is no God and no body of heavenly directives. When a group of people come to live in close proximity and form a society, human nature being what it is; there will be crime. Some people will take property from others and do bodily harm upon them. The victim will say to the aggressor that I don’t like that, it hurts me and it is wrong for you to do this. Yes, we can all agree that the victim doesn’t like it. We can also agree that it harms the victim. But, how do we say that it is wrong. Maybe the aggressor likes it, he gets a perverse satisfaction from the act and he is not harmed but rather rewarded with the stuff that he has stolen. He might say that what he did was not wrong, but very right for him. So how do we resolve this clash of right vs. wrong? Remember, there is no God or Bible and there are no laws yet. It’s just one person’s word and preference against another’s. So, the victim goes to his neighbors and exhorts them to band together to pass laws proscribing such behavior and punishing those who violate the laws. But, they ask; upon what basis do we make our decisions about which activities shall be deemed illegal and which shall not? Well, those activities which harm others should be illegal he responds. But the aggressor says that he was not harmed, but improved but his activities against you. So if we simply put to a vote of the people (pure democracy) it comes down to how many victims vs. aggressors happen to live in the society at the time of the vote. The determination of what is to be defined as right and wrong is merely left to the number of people lined up on either side. Too many aggressors and right is wrong and wrong is right, sort of. This is the tyranny of the majority over the minority in a pure democracy (devoid of a constitution or overarching set of guiding principles, e.g. The Holy Bible). Morality thus becomes relative and potentially ever-changing. A fixed point of reference that it always moving.
OK, we could say that only encounters and activities that harm neither party are allowed. If either or both parties are harmed the activity is illegal. We are now faced with defining harm. And we are now right back where we started from. How do we define harm? Remember, the aggressor in our scenario argues that he was not harmed. His concern for his victim is nil. If there are enough of these aggressors in the society, when the vote on the definition of harm comes, how do we think they will vote? We have made no progress.
Well, let’s look to our history and traditions for guidance. Oops, this is a new society with no historical tradition. Well some things are just so heinous that they are obviously wrong. Based upon your opinion that may be the case. And it may be the opinion of most members of society, but probably not all. And I would agree that some things are so bad that it just seems to make sense that they should be disallowed. But we are still relying upon the vote of the majority. It’s that tyranny of democracy thing again and such decisions don’t have real lasting power. They are relative and change over generations. It’s hard to order society when the targets keep getting moved around.
It’s beginning to look like we need some sort of outside supreme force to set some absolute truths and guardrails to guide our lawmaking process. These would be non-changing non-negotiable tenets. The only rules which meet those requirements that I know of come from God. But now we must decide whose God and which spiritual writings we accept. The good news here is that most of the recognized religions of the world have many similar absolute teachings on the basics of human life. That’s not to say that people and people groups over the years have not distorted and misapplied these teachings and caused harm to come to people. However, that is not a failing of the teachings but rather of human nature. That we sometimes abuse the doctrine does not indict or nullify the usefulness of the doctrine.
So I say that the only and best solution is for our society to select (yes by popular vote understanding the whole democratic tyranny thing but realizing that there really is no bad choice here for the reason stated in the last paragraph, whew) one of the religious doctrines, base their constitution and laws upon it and stick with it. Period. There really is no other rational choice. It’s the best path available to imperfect human beings in my opinion.
For the United States of America that choice is the Christian religion, derived from Judaism. These are the principles codified in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

Class is in Session

When conservatives talk about the federal judiciary and the importance of who appoints those judges I believe that we are shooting way over most people's heads. We talk about judicial activism, legislating from the bench, original intent and strict constructionists. Most folks hear our candidates talking like that and say, 'huh?' The liberals' candidates come out and talk about appointing judges who will use the law with compassion in order to help out the little guy and make things more fair for the average working stiff. Hurrah!, scream the masses. We are technically right and they win the election. Brilliant. Our discourse must be based upon an understanding that education has failed our people in the last 40 years. Most people voting today do not have a good grounding in their understanding of our history, heritage and workings of government. They just don't know how the courts work and why. They don't understand the constitution and how our freedoms, liberties and rights are established and protected and even why that is and should be so important to them. The concept of a large intrusive federal government simply does not frighten them. They see it as better able to give them more and do more for them. They don't understand why the Framers were so skittish about a strong central government and enamored with the idea of the States holding more power and authority. This is why so many people are confused about the role of the Electoral College and clamor for its abolition. I fear that far too many people believe that our rights come from the federal government. They don't realize that our founding documents clearly point out that the Founders believed that our rights come from God and the government is charged with the duty of protecting those rights. If rights come from government they can also be taken away by government. Rights conferred by God cannot be taken away by government. If government attempts to usurp our God-given rights it is then the right of the people to alter or abolish such a government. That's what the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War were all about. We conservatives must assume the role of educating the American populace about these fundamental principles and functions of the federal government and courts. We must do this in an engaging fashion, meeting people on their level and explaining these things in ways that people can understand simply and apply directly to their daily lives. Only then can we make the case to the American people in elections that our candidates really do have the common man's best interests at heart. Ring the school bell!

The Wedding is Over, Time to Toss the Rice

So Secretary of State Rice thinks that the election of B.O. is a good thing. (Speech in Houston, 11/16/08) A great triumph for her African-American people. Never mind the fact that it's a disaster for all American people. She thinks that it's time for new faces and new ideas. Well, that I can agree with. She has been a disappointment as S.O.S. along with many other milquetoast members of the Bush administration. Big spending Democrat lite, that's us. This philosophy has infected the Republican party and is responsible for our recent losses. She also pined for comprehensive immigration reform (read: Amnesty, path to citizenship for 20 million illegal aliens and 20 million new Obama votes in 2012; and 100 million new votes in 10 years as they bring in their families and relatives). She whined that we need to get over our anti-immigration mindset, quit fearing people unlike us and making them live in the shadows (while sucking up free health care, education, housing, food, etc.). Why have elections anymore? McCain and B.O. are already chatting each other up to ram through as much of this nonsense as possible. (In a bipartisan manner, you understand) We true conservatives must put the Republican party on notice that the nomination process for 2012 will not be by primary, but by coup if necessary.

Tidbits

• It's time to celebrate America's first half-white president.
• With the slide toward the all-encompassing nanny-state cradle-to-grave federal government I do believe that Barack Obama would like to come and hold my penis for me when I pee.
• If 67 million people cast a foolish vote, it is still a foolish vote.

Hey Buddy, Get a Bucket and Bail!

Bail out Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, A.I.G., Wall Street, mortgage banks, insurance companies and now the auto manufacturers. The federal government has no constitutional authority to purchase ownership positions in private businesses. So I now own a portion of these companies, get the 'pleasure' of paying for their bailout but get no dividends or capital gains. Huh? Who is next? Starbucks' profits are down 97%, how about big coffee? When do I get bailed out? No, I will get stuck with the bill for these failing businesses that should be allowed to fail and be replaced. Actually, if Washington would get out of their lives they might be able to survive. It's these ridiculous regulations and unholy public/private partnerships that have lead to this sad state of affairs. This is nuts. The world turned upside down. Government of, by and for the C.E.O.'s. Heads up D.C., if this continues much longer the winds of revolution will begin blowing.

Obama's Thugs Have Come Home to Roost

If another person tells me what a brilliant and formidable politician B.O. is I swear I will put a drill in my other ear. I have been hearing comparisons to F.D.R., J.F.K. and even Ronald Reagan in the media. Good grief! This guy is an empty suit and an empty head. You get him away from his handlers, speechwriters and teleprompter and he is a bumbling dunce. He can't put together a coherent sentence. No, it is the wealthy, powerful, radically sinister people behind him who have been shepherding him through his short, uneventful political career that I fear. People like George Soros, Michael Moore, William Ayers and the like. These people are merely using him as their puppet for their diabolical agenda. The entire den of vipers must be exposed and defeated in order to save the republic.

Nothing Succeeds Like Success

If I hear one more person tell me that I must, without preconditions come together and unite behind Obama and pray for the success of his administration I swear I am going to put a drill in my ear. Just what would success look like? If he succeeds in doing what he said that he wants to it will be the end of our republic, freedoms and Constitution, as we know them. I will not and cannot hope for that brand of change. Certainly I pray that no misfortune befalls him or his family, but I must pray that his stated plans come to nothing. Those plans must be opposed and defeated at every turn. I will pray for the successful survival of our nation through his one-term (God-willing) foray on the Presidential stage. Hopefully no external force will prevail against us, though rumblings in the Middle East, Russia and Venezuela don’t bode well. Likewise I pray that no internal mischief rears its head during this term. Our economic, cultural and institutional foundations should be strong enough to endure four years of Jimmy Carter redux, and then some; barring some catastrophic event. So let’s pray against catastrophic events and for 41 ‘no’ votes in the Senate.

Signs of the Times

During the months leading up to the election we had the Obama Campaign Seal (an offshoot of the Presidential Seal). Now at his first press conference we have the sign of the Office of the President Elect. Is there also a sign for the Bathroom of the President Elect? How about an insignia for the BVD's of the President Elect? Does anyone see a pattern here? Dr. Phil call your office.

Speaking of Birth Certificates...

OK. now that the election is over. let's have a look at that mysteriously sealed BHO Hawaiian birth certificate. Does it refute the claim of his paternal grandmother that she was present in the delivery room when he was born in Kenya, Africa? Is it a forgery? Are there matching records at any hospital in Hawaii? Let's clear the air of this once and for all. What's to hide or be afraid of?

Obituary or Birth Certificate?

R.I.P. United States of America
1776-2009

Our 220 year experiment in constitutional republicanism is now drawing to a close. We face a ‘fundamental transformation’ into some vague poorly defined brave new world. After 40 years of pathetic public education and welfare payments we will now reap the results of government of the uninformed, by the uninformed and for the uninformed. The ‘something-for-nothing’ crowd has succeeded in selecting the most liberal, radical, socialist and inexperienced president in American history. The prospects for the safety and well-being of the ‘New America’ are chilling. Rather than uniting the country this election has the potential to be drastically polarizing, further accentuating the divide between producers and takers, haves and have-nots and, yes black and white. The Obama team constantly raised the race issue, while all the time claiming it was McCain. I do not believe that this issue is now settled, but rather heightened. I lost count of how many times I heard the chant, “He’s black, it’s our turn, we don’t care (or probably even know) what he stands for.” Unity my…as…k me later.

Please know that I have no intention of playing the dutiful role of ‘loyal opposition.’ The only thing that I am loyal to is Truth. I do however absolutely oppose the new administration. I firmly believe that Barack Hussein Obama is evil and evil must be vigorously opposed at every juncture. His personal belief about abortion and babies born alive after failed abortions is sufficient for me to clearly brand him as evil. No other issue is needed. And no other belief mitigates or negates that position. As such I must fight to utterly and completely politically destroy him and his policies as fast as I can. There is no virtue in dancing with the devil. While I pray for his and his family’s safety and that he would have a genuine transforming encounter with Christ, beyond that I must pray that his administration succeeds no more than the builders of Babel. The damage which could be done in the next few short years could take decades to undo, if at all. The legacy which he could leave in the federal judiciary will last for generations.

So who now protects and defends the Constitution?

Here is what we face:

-Further abridgement of the First Amendment: The ‘Fairness Doctrine’
-Further abridgement of the Second Amendment: Confiscatory taxes and registration requirements on the purchase and ownership of guns and ammunition with the intent of ultimately disarming the citizenry
-Abridgement of the Fourth Amendment: Unreasonable search and seizure and not being secure in our homes as witness the unprecedented assault on ‘Joe the Plumber’ and various media figures and outlets that dared to speak against the O
-No guarantee of life for unborn children and even children born alive after failed abortions
-Further Abridgement of the Fifth Amendment: The Kelo decision revisited?
-Further ignoring the Ninth and Tenth Amendments
-Open borders and unfettered illegal immigration leading to an invasion and assault upon our sovereignty and treasury of unparalleled proportions
-Gutting our national defense making us more vulnerable in a dangerous world
-Negotiating with and appeasing terrorists
-Socialist economic policies which will destroy the engine that pulls the train of prosperity
-An acceleration of the blatantly unconstitutional policies of the federal government including socialized healthcare, Medicare, Social In-security, a federal minimum wage and most federal programs and spending
-A federal judiciary filled with judges who legislate from the bench and shred the Constitution with no check or balance by the Congress and President

I hereby withdraw any allegiance, respect, loyalty and recognition for the new Obama administration, Congress and the federal judiciary. I consider myself a citizen of the ‘Old America’ living in exile within the borders of my sovereign state. Barack Hussein Obama is NOT MY President; he is the President of the thugs and hoodlums who elected him. I know; I stood on a major street corner last night waving McCain signs while carloads of young thugs and hoodlums drove by flipping us off and shouting obscenities about John McCain. These are the people you can thank for putting B.O. in the White House. Just another reason to raise the voting age to 25, and maybe require property ownership to vote, as well as not allowing people to vote who don’t pay taxes or receive welfare. Well, just a fleeting thought.

So, as our freedoms and liberties dissolve, wealth, business and jobs flee offshore, our enemies circle the wagons, the takers fleece the producers and the feds nationalize and bail out everything in sight; I urge the true American patriot remnant in exile to keep their collective powder dry. We once fought a war to overthrow tyranny and retain the right to do so again if, God forbid that is ever necessary. Short of that we must do everything within our power to retain and regain our Constitutional guarantees. And may God have mercy upon us all. God Bless you and God Bless America. God save the republic!

“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God”
--Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

ps

Just joined the N.R.A. and went out and bought some extra ammo. Just because I still can.

The Suitcoats are Coming, the Suitcoats are Coming!

So, if McCain wins we will have a second Civil War and if BO wins we will have to have a second Revolutionary War to retake the country.

Up in Smoke

If BO smokes a ciagrette and nobody sees him, does he need free healthcare?

Obama Logos

Flush twice, it's a long way to D.C.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Two for the Road

Two quick suggestions for the good of the Republic.
First: The voting age should be raised to at least 25. Based upon the discussions that I have had with kids in the 18-24 voting demographic and interviews that I have heard on the radio, I don't think that they are ready to vote. That's not a slam at them, they just don't have the life experiences yet to understand what is at stake and how things work. They haven't bought a house, started a family, really paid income taxes or held a job for very long. Many are still in school, not always the best training ground for life. At this age many are still struggling with their religious philosophy. I have heard the argument that we shouldn't send kids off to fight in a war if they can't vote. I don't buy it. If they can vote and go to war at 18, why can't they drink until 21? We have our kids do things all the time without allowing them to participate in the decision process. And now the military is all-volunteer, not draft-based. Each one of these policies should be based upon its own merits.
Second: We must, as a first step in tax reform (hopefully culminating in a national sales tax, not a V.A.T.) abolish the temporary emergency WWII policy of employer income tax withholding and have people actually write the checks and mail them in every year to pay their federal income taxes. The cry for reform would instantly drown out everything else. And we will instantly discover that the politicians don't really trust the people to pay their own taxes. Well, guess what, we don't trust the politicians to do much of anything!
So there, that's a start.

Love is in the Air!

Hey Chris Matthews, would you and BO please get a room! At least he does probably smoke after sex. Let us know!

Now is the Time for All Good Men

I have written extensively about the federal government’s drift away from its constitutional moorings over the last forty years, culminating with President Bush signing the patently unconstitutional mortgage take-over bill several weeks ago. Now the prospect of a President Obama (God forbid) yoked up with Pelosi and Reid looms large on the Republic’s horizon. Such an unholy troika would devastate what remains of our constitutional liberties and protections. He would pack the federal judiciary and Supreme Court with far-left radical activist judges who would change the legal and cultural landscape for generations for the worse. Barry has even voiced his support for a long-touted second Bill of Rights which would include a federal constitutional right to a job, a home and health care. Not to mention the backdoor disarming of the citizenry and a no-holds-barred abortion juggernaut. On top of these abominations he would gut the military, one of the few legitimate and critical federal functions thereby ceding our vital positions around the globe to those who would cut off our oil and our heads.

This anti-constitutional orientation infects all three branches of the federal government and sadly both political parties, though I would judge that there is a much greater dose of it in the Democrat party. Lord Acton was quite right when he observed that, “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Judge R. Barclay Surrick of the federal district court in Philadelphia stated in his dismissal of Democrat Philip Berg’s suit questioning the birth certificate of Barack that we mere people have no standing to raise constitutional issues about our candidates running for President. His belief is that only the Congress has such standing. Are you kidding?! So our only recourse against constitutional infractions is to wait for Congress to bring the issue forth? They are as guilty and complicit or more of such heinous constitutional infractions as Obama. That’s tantamount to me handing a pistol to a thief breaking into my home in the dead of night and begging him to arrest himself! We the people through our states own the Constitution. We do indeed have standing. The federal government does not own and is not a party to the constitution. The states wrote it and created the federal government to serve the needs of the states and at their pleasure, not vice versa. The states are not mere governmental subdivisions of the federal government. The federal government is charged to provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare of the states and the people through the very specific enumerated powers and restrictions within Article I, Section 8 and the various amendments. And that’s it! It is NOT carte blanche for the federal government to tax, spend, regulate and run every minute aspect of American life.

Now is the time for the people acting through their states to rise up and enforce the absolute tenets of the constitution upon the federal government. We must not be intimidated. The states can amend the constitution and call a constitutional convention. I hope it does not come to a convention. Let me say that I am not an advocate of state secession, but I do think that states should consider ways that they can reign in a rogue federal government and perhaps operate as more sovereign, independent states while remaining within the republic. States choosing not to participate in unconstitutional federal programs would become laboratories of liberty which would attract or repel people and industry based upon their success or failure. As a parting thought I pray that we do not take up arms over these issues as we did in 1775 and 1860. That course of action though is the final recourse of a people oppressed by tyranny. It is for this reason that the Second Amendment was written into the Bill of Rights. History teaches that one of the first actions taken by a despot is to confiscate the people’s arms. What better way to protect himself from forced removal? The American people must never cede that right. Let’s look back to our very own Declaration of Independence for guidance from our Founding Fathers:

…”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”…

And a few final thoughts from Thomas Jefferson, the liberal’s favorite Founding Father:

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants."

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

God save the Republic!

October 29, 2008

When Judges Won't Judge--Punt

Hey "Judge" R. Barclay Surrick of Philadelphia, if the American people have no standing to enforce the U.S. Constitution upon a rogue government then who does and what is the point of a Constitution? The Constitution is a covenant between the People and the Federal Government it created. We cannot rely upon the Congress as you suggest to bring suit to enforce the Constitution when Congress is a primary violator of its tenets. The Federal Government, the Congress, the Supreme Court, the President do not own the U.S. Constitution; the People own it. And the People have every right to enforce it! Your arguments in dismissing Mr. Berg's case are specious and disingenuous. Actually they are downright cowardly. The People demand the truth not some legal mumbo-jumbo technicality. Shame, shame on you. Mark my words, this question is far from resolved.

What Happened?

U.S. Constitution - Preamble
The Preamble

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

(The Preamble is a general statement of purpose and intent for the document that follows. It confers no authority or power.)

U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 8
Article 1 - The Legislative BranchSection 8 - Powers of Congress

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
(“Welfare” in this clause does not refer to what we think of today as welfare. It is not a handout or redistribution of wealth. )
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

(Regulation of commerce among the several States referenced in this clause does not empower the Federal Government to micromanage every facet of every business transaction in the country. It does not empower the Federal Government to buy private businesses or assets. It does not empower the Federal Government to set up government owned, managed, mandated or run business enterprises.)

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

U.S. Constitution - Amendment 16
Amendment 16 - Status of Income Tax Clarified

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

(The above language is the full extent of powers and authorities granted to the Federal Congress. Period. There are no more. Any other power or authority to act is reserved to the People acting through the States, as below.)

U.S. Constitution - Amendment 9
Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

U.S. Constitution - Amendment 10
Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

(There is no authority or power to be found above for the Federal Government to establish, run or mandate such things as Social Security, Medicare, welfare, a federal minimum wage, health care or spending for a huge majority of the things in the current federal budget.

So what are We the People (referenced in Amendments 9 & 10) going to do? Nothing? I pray to God, no.)

Prescription for Healthcare

The debate about healthcare has been going on for some time and will continue long after this election. Unfortunately, most of the dialog has focused on who should pay for it and how. And while I agree that there are some artificial constraints that pervert the payment system which should be addressed (read more freedom and choice=less government), but the underlying issue driving this problem is skyrocketing cost. Without addressing this underlying cost problem any reforms dealing only with payment structure are…spitting… in the wind.
One factor in cost is the high price of labor in the United States, driven to a large part by the labor union movement. It’s fine for people to organize and negotiate for the best salaries and benefits they can get. But they must then understand that these costs of business must be passed along in the price of the product or service of their industry; in this case healthcare. As William F. Buckley, Jr. would exhort, “He who says A must say B.”
Another factor is the expense of discovering and developing new medications and treatments. This is a very lengthy and costly process driven partly by government regulation and oversight (which does help to protect us). It is also driven by the fact that the easy drugs and treatments have already been discovered. The new ones are more complex and much more costly to bring to market.
Finally, is the cost of liability protection built into every level of the healthcare system. This includes doctors’ malpractice insurance and product liability protection for pharmaceutical companies, medical equipment manufacturers and hospitals. These costs are driven to astronomical levels by trial lawyers and the tort system. Fair compensation for bona fide errors is one thing; headline grabbing settlements are quite another.
So while we evaluate better ways of paying the healthcare bill, let’s not lose sight of the factors driving the rising cost. Labor unions, government regulation of research and development of new drugs and treatments and liability tort reform must be part of the equation or we are simply putting a bandaid on a gapping wound.

Historic Election

I'm voting for the WHITE GUY because I think it would be HISTORIC to elect a WHITE MAN as PRESIDENT.

The Silent Scream for Justice

The one issue in this presidential election that should be absolutely disqualifying is BHO's support for letting babies born alive after botched abortions be ignored and left to die. Once a human fetus leaves the womb, has its umbilical cord severed from its mother and draws a single breath of air, it is then a human baby; an American citizen and entitled to the full protection of its constitution and laws. His position on this horrid issue makes him complicit in the crime of murder and complicit in the sin of murder. That he is not in prison is an injustice. That he is a serious candidate for President of a major U.S. political party is an abomination. God save us from ourselves.

Klaatu Barata Nikto

The robot man is coming! Yes, the debate last night was dreadfully dull. The blame falls squarely on Tom Brokaw. The questions were a repeat of the last debate and totally uninspired or revealling. This was nothing but a series of campaign television commercials. It was a rerun of the first debate. We learned nothing new about the candidates, their lives and experiences and background. Barack I swear looks like a robot doll that you pull a string in his back and he flatly recites a list of boring platitudes. That man never smiles, laughs or even blinks. He has no emotion or passion. He never even attempts to crack a joke or slip in a sly one-liner. You look into his eyes and there is nothing there. He is utterly soulless. And if you listen to his reasoning on the topic of babies born alive after botched abortions you realize that he is not just soulless, but sinister. Why couldn't we have some discussion of abortion, immigration, judicial nominees, gay marriage or gun rights? Why not some insight into the candidates' personal backgrounds, the things that inform and motivate and inspire them? Couldn't we hear about their greatest successes, failures and fears? What have they learned in life and what are their core values and beliefs? What is their overarching vision for the future of America in the world? I have been watching exerpts from the speeches of Ronald Reagan of late. No matter the topic of the talk he always seems to come back to the idea that our government Of, By and For the people exists to serve the people, at the pleasure of the people. He exorts that the people do not serve the government and the government must not abuse it's position granted by the people. He believed in minimal taxes only as needed to fund the absolute necessary functions of government; that the government should protect the people, and otherwise get off their backs and out of their way so that they can flourish and live their lives to the fullest extent. He believed in the basic greatness of America and its people and that our best days are ahead. He believed that we are the beacon of hope in a dark world, that shining city on a hill. And it wasn't phony or corny, people really related to his vision. He made us believe in ourselves and our neighbors. He made us feel good about America. We would get that chill up the spine and tear in the eye when the flag and the troops paraded by while playing the National Anthem. He wasn't a policy wonk, he was a visionary. That is the true role of a leader. The President is not a corporate manager, he hires them to get his things done. He casts the vision and then sells it to the American people. I believe that the American people are desparately hunger for that kind of leader. John McCain are you listening? Are you hearing?

Sign of the Times

Well, in the last week I have had a McCain sign taken from my yard and a bumper sticker ripped off of my car. So this is change we can believe in? It seems more like typical Chicago-style dirty politics. I'm sure that Senator Obama would insist that he does not encourage or condone such behavior. However, the mindset of the followers belies the mindset of the movement. We simply cannot abide this in Washington.

Wake Up! The Empty Suits are Coming!

The fact that Barack Hussein Obama has garnered more than 20% of the national vote is a sad commentary on the state of our country and people. This hollow, neo-communist street hoodlum from Chicago should never have even made it onto a national ticket. That he has beguiled millions into following his bizarre, dangerous and reckless radical left agenda speaks volumes about the deleterious effects of 40-odd years of sub-par public education. People just don't know what they don't know. The class warfare strategy has turned friends and neighbors into jealous enemies and turned people against the very businesses and institutions that provide the income to fuel their lifestyles. The cult of greed has overtaken far too many of us. William F. Buckley, Jr. once said that when the people of the middle class discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury the country is doomed. We are nearly there. Barack's ascendence on the national political scene is a frightening harbinger of things to come. The more sinister reality is that he is not the primary architect of this movement, but rather a hapless pawn in this deadly chess game. The dark forces behind the scenes pulling his puppet strings and plotting the strategy are those who must ultimately be reckoned with. On fundamental issues of governance, the economy and morals this country must find wide-ranging agreement if we are to survive. A house divided cannot stand. Let's hope saner heads prevail before we pass the point of no return.

Is Anybody There, Does Anybody Care, Does Anybody See What I See?

On the Third Day of October in the Year of our Lord Two Thousand & Eight,
At one o’clock in the afternoon, Mountain Daylight Time;

With the flourish of his pen President Bush dissolved the political bands which have connected this federal government to the Constitution which formed it. What was for over two centuries is no more. The United States of America no longer exists in the form into which we born. Our elected servants have jettisoned our Constitutionally based representative Republic and what will replace it is anyone’s guess. All that can be said is that our freedoms, liberties and Constitutional protections have vanished before our very eyes today. The constraints placed upon the federal government by Article 1, Section 8 of the now defunct U.S. Constitution have been nullified and tossed out with the rest of the document. Truly we are now sailing dangerous stormy seas with no rudder. We don’t even have a skiff made of paper.
Who will constitute the new government to replace the one which just passed away? When will it be created? What form of government will it be? Our best guess based upon the private market take-over bill that was enacted today is that it will be a socialist collective state. No doubt people of a liberal redistributionist mindset will seek to form and control the new government. Beyond that we cannot speculate at this time. The coup d’etat is still too fresh in our minds.
One must surmise that all of the laws and institutions of the old government are now null and void. The federal court system, Social Security, federal income taxation and the Internal Revenue Service no longer actually exist. Who now commands our military assets and personnel? These are sobering questions which must be quickly and thoughtfully resolved so as to attempt to maintain peace and order among the people.
The next few months and years will be a time of uncertainty and ideological struggle among the differing factions within the populace as we attempt to find our way in the dark with no light, save the One from Heaven to guide us. Let us fervently pray for peace and wisdom to prevail during the coming conflict. As we look forward to a new government we should pause to look back and reflect upon the guidance of those who formed our first government upon this continent. While we have now tossed out their handiwork it would seem prudent to a least feign deference to their collective knowledge and wisdom to inform us. The States, which formed the first federal government now hold the highest power in the land and they must act collectively in the best interests of the People to maintain stability and lay the framework for a new federal government, if they so choose.
May God have mercy upon us all.

Wake Up!

A country that permits abortion and bans incandescent light bulbs cannot be called free, democratic and sane. The American sheeple have surrendered their constitutional rights to a federal government run amok. It is recklessly out of control and no longer gives even a passing nod to the specific constitutional restraints that are supposed to absolutely control and limit its powers. Discussion of constitutionally limited government in D.C. leads to rolling of the eyes and polite snickers and sneers amongst the brie and Chablis ruling elites. They view the Constitution as that old piece of paper over in the National Archives that tourists gawk at. It is an arcane, ancient document with no real relevance in today's enlightened society. How in the world could something like that stop them from doing whatever they choose? Ban light bulbs, pay for abortions, bail out private companies, steal private property, squash speech, relegate their religion to the shadows and for God's sake take away their guns! Who or what is to stop us? The Constitution? Piffle! It is up to the People and the States to reassert their rightful power and bring this madness to an abrupt end. We are already well down the road to a socialist debacle that our Founder's never dreamed possible. Our very survival as a nation is at stake. Turn off your cell phones, iPods and TV's. Roll up your sleeves and let's get to work before we pass the point of no return. May God have mercy upon us all.

Mad Hatter's Disease (Ban CFL's!)

I am currently in the process of buying up thousands of 60w incandescent light bulbs for my own personal use and to sell to any other Americans who are left after 2014. If you are in need please contact me. It's time to put Congress' lights out!

Pass the Tea and Hold the Tax

Greetings Congressman Lamborn,
The federal income tax code is an abomination! The amount of non-productive, non-wealth generating time and expense wasted to keep records and receipts, fill out and return forms and comply with this monster is a national disgrace! The sense of fear and intimidation that the I.R.S. instills in good American citizens is a crime. The federal tax code is nothing more than a vehicle for slimy, filthy, corrupt and crooked politicians to manipulate the economy and redistribute wealth. Mark my words, the Boston Tea Party was a result of tactics very similar to these. Please do something before the American people have to forceably overthrow a rogue federal government!
Please save us from ourselves!!!!!!!!!!!
May God have mercy upon us all.

The No-Humor Man

Barack Hussein Obama looked like a Ken doll with a string coming out of his back for his handlers to pull and have him regurgitate lines in the debate last Friday. He was devoid of emotion; he never cracks a joke or delivers a funny line. It's as if he had a teleprompter imbedded in a contact lens. He did not even comment on the hospitalization of Ted Kennedy that John McCain brought up at the opening of the debate. As Joe Biden said, BHO is clean and he can read a speech rather smoothly. But one still gets a sense that there is no there there. There is nothing in his eyes. There is no music behind his words. Can you say, Manchurian Candidate?

Has the Ship-of-State Sprung a Leak?

NO BAILOUTS, NO SOCIALISM!

Can You Hear Me Now?

Okay, P.C.’s have been around for about 20 years. Not to mention fax machines, cell phones, PDA’s, Blackberries, Blueberries and Strawberries. Are we really better off? Maybe they all deserve a big Raspberry. All of this technology was supposed to make our lives simpler, better and happier. Bill Gates prophesied the paperless office years ago. Problem is, someone invented printers. Do you have less paper around the office than you did 20 years ago? Do you have less stress? Do you feel less harried and rushed? Hehehe. I didn’t think so. Instead of enjoying the paper over a cup of morning coffee or after work in the recliner, we are constantly checking the internet on our handheld devices for news and stock market reports. We’re plugged in minute-by-minute. E-mail’s flying back and forth around the globe 24-7. Texting on the interstate while trying to talk to Hong Kong, listening to a podcast on the MP3 player all the while juggling a bagel and Starbucks. Oops, try not to hit the guardrail. Maybe your life is hitting the guardrail. The more connected we are the more disconnected from what really matters in life we really are.

I maintain that these devices really have not delivered on their promise of simplifying our lives. Think about your P.C. There’s enough computing power in a modest priced home P.C. to easily manage a manned trip to the moon, but what has it really done for you lately? Does it free up all of those mundane, time-consuming tasks so that you have more leisure time to spend recreating with your family? Be honest. Most people spend mindless hours checking silly emails, surfing the internet for useless news or occasionally writing a paper. Not to mention the hours a week spent just to keep the darn thing running right. Quick, how many unread emails do you have in your inbox? 3421? When are you going to get around to reading all of that riveting information? Think of all of your P.C. applications. Every time you want to try to do something you have to run out and buy another application. There’s no guarantee that it’s actually going to do what you need done. It takes weeks of studying the manual (if you can find one and if it’s not full of typo’s and if it’s written by someone in the U.S.A. who actually can compose a complete sentence in English) and experimenting with all of the complex ‘shortcut keys’ and ‘keystroke combinations.’ (Shift-Alt-Z, while tapping your right foot and sticking out your tongue) Then you get to manually enter your three years worth of data because of course it doesn’t talk nice with other applications or even earlier versions of itself. Then you discover that it doesn’t really generate the report that you need. These applications are written by geeks from Mars who have never seen daylight and design them like an M.C. Escher painting, stairways going ever upward in perpetual circles but never actually going anywhere. They are mind-numbingly complex but in the final analysis don’t do much for you that you couldn’t do quicker and better with a legal pad, calculator and #2 pencil. The end result is always mediocre and lacking some important component that you really wanted included. Not to mention that they don’t talk to each other very well at all or to other computers and applications out there in the internet. Why can’t we just tell the computer in plain English what we need and have it do it? Let it go out on the internet and find some way of getting the job done without our time, input and oversight. Let us know when it’s done and give us a result in the format that we want.

While we’re at it can we please eliminate the cryptic messages and nonsensical keys on these devices? What happened to ‘On/Off?!’ Eliminating that was simply un-American. Does anybody know what that triangle with a vertical line in the middle means on my fax machine?? Who dreamed up this stuff? How about my favorite internet browser message, ‘Done, but with errors on page.’ What are the errors? Are they important? Is something important being left out? Do I need to fix it? Can I fix it? Ballpean hammer please. Why does Windows give me those error messages with numerical codes? Where is the secret decoder book? I have called Microsoft and they don’t even know what they mean. And for us baby-boomers could someone please make screen text that can be read without a giant magnifying glass?! And what’s with those microscopic keys that can only be operated by using a sewing needle to tap them? I sense a conspiracy between the manufacturers, optometrists and physical therapists. OK, take a breath.

Bottom line; we have become slaves to our technology rather than making our technology serve our needs and make our lives better. We blindly chase after the newest, smallest, fastest devices with the most functions per cubic inch. We’re so overwhelmed and frazzled with the dizzying onslaught of information that we can’t sleep at night. We take Ambien to fall asleep and Red Bull to wake up. Headache, heartburn and high blood pressure medication flies off of the shelves hand-over-fist. So ask yourself; with all of this techno-help are you making more money, enjoying more leisure time and having more fun? I didn’t think so. Here’s my parting advice, TURN IT OFF! (if you can find the right button, lol)

Fire When You See the Whites of His Eyes!

While Ahmadinejad is at the U.N. in New York City, would someone please show some manhood and have the U.S. military take him into custody. Why do we let sworn enemies of the United States anywhere within 3 miles of our shores without blowing them away???!!!

There is No There There

Junior, part-time Senator Barack Hussein Obama is the emperor who has no clothes. He is an empty suit with no original thoughts who quite frankly is not really all that bright. All his life other people have told him how smart and special he is. And sadly he believed them. Throughout his college years, his time at Harvard law school and his short, unproductive political career people have been whispering sweet nothings in his ear and ushering him through the system. These unseen forces were simply using his attractive facade for their ulterior motives. Unfortunately, he believed the siren song and now is trying to fly on his own. But the jig is up. Whenever he is off script his true inner self breaks through and reveals that there is nothing there. He is bitter, angry and mean. Why else would he tell his supporters to get in the opposition's face and argue. That's a presidential political strategy to win over the undecides? Obama is the evil counterpart to Peter Seller's character Chance the Gardner in Being There. He is a puppet cut loose from its master's strings and run amok. The people behind the scenes who put Obama up to this charade for their own sinister ends have lost control of their puppet. It's a train wreck just waiting to happen. Let's just hope that he derails before the election. His election would be a disaster for this nation and could lead to consequences too horrible to fathom.

BOO!

Liberals have a tendency to see problems where there are none and then draft solutions to these non-existent problems. The solution tends to create a real problem, thus leading to the need for another 'solution'...a downward spiral. It's the boogey man behind every tree syndrome. They really need to get out more.

Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian, U.K.

Mr. Freedland,
Yes, we Americans are about to elect John McCain & Sarah Palin.
Thank God!
Barack Hussein Obama is not running for President of the World.
Please keep your pig-headed ideas out of our election. We yankees do not want to be anything like you people in the old, decrepit world which neither produces or accomplishes anything. And then when you get in a pickle you hide and wait for us to come pull your collective chestnuts out of the fire.Your socialist/communist day has passed.
Get the hell out of our way or be rolled over!

It's 3 A.M.--Who is Your President?

It's 3 A.M. and the phone rings in the President's bedroom. There's a big ugly happening somewhere in the world. Who is answering the phone, Obama or McCain? Does it matter? You bet it does! If one thing is certain in this race, John McCain clearly has the edge over Barack Obama when it comes to national defense. And isn't that really the primary, fundamental and crucial issue when choosing a President? Protecting our citizens and borders from outside aggression is indisputably the most critical role of the federal government. Everything else pales by comparison. If the government does not keep us safe then debates about taxes, spending, abortion and health care are moot. Barack Obama simply does not clear the first and most important hurdle to be President. That's an absolute no-go; he is not qualified by that measure alone. For that one reason it is just too great a gamble to put someone as inexperienced and unsure on national defense as Barack Obama at the end of that telephone. We just can't take that risk in a dangerous world governed by the aggressive use of force. As someone said (Governor Palin I think), 'The presidency is not a journey of personal discovery.'

Anarchists Organize Protest March!

Thinking Can Be Taxing

I just concluded a discussion (debate) with a friend regarding the question of the federal income tax. He was whooped but refused to admit it. The question was on the fairness/constitutionality of the ‘progressive’ federal income tax where the more income one makes the higher percentage tax is paid on it. My point is that the 16th Amendment authorizing the federal income tax does not speak to tax brackets or percentages. Given that, the next place to look for instruction is the 14th Amendment which guarantees that all citizens will be treated equally under the law. Anyone with passing knowledge of logical deduction would conclude that within those constraints all citizens taxed on their income would be taxed at the same percentage rate. Right? But, he replied if you make more you should pay more! Eureka, he just discovered the mother-lode. Egad, how many times have I heard that tired bromide? From each according to his ability, to each according to his need…ooops, wrong country wrong constitution. I desperately tried to explain the scenario that 10% of a million dollars is substantially more than 10% of fifty-thousand dollars. Not enough, he snapped. Says who, says I? Well, the Congress. So is 20% of a million enough, compared with 10% of fifty-thousand I ask? Maybe. Again I remind him of the 14th Amendment and the equal protection concept. He is not moved to enlightenment. So rather than obey the actual letter of the Constitution we should let the Congress arbitrarily set the tax brackets based upon the prevailing political winds of the day. And change them constantly. How’s that for equal treatment? Now the 10th Amendment becomes relevant. If the Constitution does not specifically empower the Congress, it cannot act; but rather must defer to the States acting as agents of the People. So, in carrying out its 16th Amendment power to levy income taxes on the citizens, the Congress must also be guided by the equal protection concepts of the 14th Amendment. To do otherwise would be acting extra-constitutionally or even un-constitutionally. Passing legislation to set progressive tax rates does not and cannot amend the Constitution. Gotcha, I cry! He is unfazed. Ah well, pearls before swine.
The rub is that he really knows that I am technically correct, but that to admit so would begin unraveling a huge quilt leading to the undoing of 50 years of progressive chinks (chunks) in the Constitution. The result would be a federal government about 10% of its current size and power. The States’ power would thus grow proportionally. And it’s much easier to control one capital than it is fifty. Also, under this scenario the importance of Presidential, Congressional and Senatorial races would be greatly diminished. The importance of which party controls the federal government is likewise less critical. There would be very little mischief for them to meddle in and much less damage that they could do to our pocketbooks and our freedoms.
What we are rapidly approaching is a return to simple democratic majority rule, which is of course tyranny of the majority over the minority. Since we have strayed so far from the actual text of the Constitution it has become almost meaningless to many politicians. Why not just take out a lighter and finish the job? Without our constitutional moorings the federal government is free to do anything it pleases without repercussion. That is why it does matter so much these days which party is in power and why these national elections matter so much. Conservatives tend to meddle less than liberals in our pocketbooks and freedoms, but it would be far better to remove the ability and temptation altogether.
Let’s return to the actual Constitution as it is written. And at the same time return to the constitutionally required flat-tax rate for all citizens equally under the law; or just pass a Constitutional amendment to institute a national sales tax (not a V.A.T.).

Barack Hussein Obama/Biden

Barack Hussein Obama, the candidate formerly known for change.

Boss, I Demand a Raise!

With so many tasks beyond Obama'a pay-grade it's no wonder that the Democrats are always trying to increase the minimum wage.

Obama Bumper Snickers

Obama-nation=abomination

Monk for McCain
No Change, Never

OCD’s Against Obama:
Because Change is Just Too Scary
Because Change is, Well, Change
Anything but Change
Because Change is Too Unpredictable
Why Would Anyone Ever Change?
Because Change Changes Things
Change is Just Too Much to Bear

The Stated Case for the States

I have asked many times in this forum how the people can reign in a rogue federal government. The answer of course is that the state legislatures are the true reservoirs of that power. Consider, the states existed before the federal government, they created the federal government and their constitutions existed before they wrote the federal constitution. So why won't the states exert their power and bring the feds back within their limited boundaries? Just follow the money trail. The federal government has diverted the tax flow away from state capitols and instead to D.C. That money is then doled back out to the states as subsidies and federal projects based upon state compliance with federal mandates. Naturally, the federal bureaucratic machine extracts its pound of flesh first, thereby diminishing the return to the states. How clever. It would be much more efficient and responsive to the local needs of the people if the states took responsibility for these tax dollars and projects. The level of government closest to the people (and typically the smallest) that can deal with an issue is usually the best. Think about it, there really are very few problems that demand federal solutions. Maybe a dozen, if that many. So let those of us who yearn for a return to a small, constitutional republic ponder how we can convince the various states to flex their muscles and bring sanity back to the federal monster.

Krispy Kreme Krusade

Governor Arnold, a ban on trans-fats? Good grief. There is not a scintilla of evidence that trans-fats harm or kill anyone. However, yesterday people died in California because of alcohol and tobacco, they will die today and they will die tomorrow. Where is the ban on alcohol and tobacco?? I thought not. There is too much money and power politics involved with those. So pick on wimpy trans-fats. They have no lobbyists. Boy this takes courage. Why don't you grow some gonads (destroyed by steroids?) and do the right thing? This is just more of the nanny state run by you girlie men. You are nothing more than a cowardly neo-communist. If I ever come back to your pathetic excuse for a state I am going to bring in tons of trans-fats and walk down the street eating donuts. You gonna' arrest me sheriff? You frauds are eroding our personal freedoms and liberties one by one. But mark my words, you and your ilk's day of reckoning is coming. The people are going to take our country back from the likes of you.

Don't Shoot Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes

It is sad that the liberals seem more comfortable killing an innocent unborn baby in its mother’s womb than killing terrorists, or even treating them harshly at Gitmo. How reckless and pathetic. They are simply not mature enough to govern. In this dangerous world we must have the resolve to go after terrorists wherever they hide around the world and before they strike us. This means we must be ready to carry out pre-emptive defensive strikes around the globe. Unfortunately the libs think that the term ‘pre-emptive defensive strike’ is an oxymoron. If a bad guy has a gun to my wife’s head and I shoot and kill him before he pulls the trigger I have taken a pre-emptive defensive action. Would the liberals demand that I wait until he pulls the trigger before I shoot? Well, that is no different that terrorists telling the world that they are acquiring weapons of mass destruction and intend to use them against us at the earliest opportunity. We must go to them and kill them first. Simple.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It is an embarrassement and a total insult to the intelligence of the American voter for the Democrat party to put forth this incompetent racist moron as a Presidential candidate. Come back Hillary!

Double-Talk

Liberals are all for Big Government, but not Big Business, Big Oil, Big Pharmaceutical or Big Tobacco. They are all for Choice when it comes to abortion but not for schools. They are all for Fairness when it comes to the media but not with regard to affirmative action.

The Right Rights

I am more interested in the federal government respecting my rights than the "rights of the planet and the environment."

It's a Race Race!

According to Comrade Junior Senator Barack Hussein Obama it is de facto racist for the Republican Party to even run a candidate against him. This sounds more each day like a high school student council presidential election. He is becoming a pathetic, silly, comical cartoon caricature. It's hard to take him or this race seriously any more. What's next, free candy in the lunchroom? He's not qualified for hall monitor. I truly believe that the Clinton's are behind the scenes egging the media on to provoke him to make these goofy remarks. By the time Denver rolls around I think that there will be enough delegates who won't be able to stomach this guy and the thought of losing the White House that Hillary will be able to stroll in and 'save' the day, claiming the Democrat nomination at the convention.

The Tiger Roars!

Why is Tiger Wood's such a champion? The video clips of him and his father which aired during the U.S. Open talked of mental toughness. Saturday evening at the post-round press conference Tiger was asked about his knee. His short reply was an encyclopedia on success. He simply said, "yeah there's pain, but so what, it's only pain." Champions control their circumstances rather than being controlled by them. For the vast majority of the rest of the world it's just the opposite. Tiger has pain but continues to act according to his plan. His plan was to win the U.S. Open. Knee pain was not going to get him off his plan. The rest of the world has pain and immediately begins to react to the pain and get completely off of their game plan. Their plan now is no longer to win but to try to control the pain. That's why there are so few Tiger's.