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A Letter To The Deliberately Clueless

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Dear Mr. President,

I’m “waving my tea bag around” with both anger and with  pride because I, along with over a million other Americans willing to do the same, stand for something.  And that something is the Constitution and the Bill of Rights of the United States of America.

I’m “waving my tea bag around” because the principles upon which this country was built are what allowed you, Mr. President, and your wife to attend college.  In fact, it was MY money you borrowed and were given in grants as a result of my working hard and paying my taxes.  And it was then my money again that you used to pay me back because just who do you think was helping to pay your salary when you were supposed to be representing the state of Illinois in the Senate those 2 years you spent on the campaign trail?  And who do you think was the real source of those federal tax dollars used by those “community organizing” groups who paid you to hone the skills necessary to subvert the laws of this land?

I’m “waving my tea bag around” because despite their great publicity, you apparently could not be bothered to notice that an enormous outcry against yours and Congress’ self-serving, spendthrift ways was taking place on April 15th.  Even though it is your job to know what is happening in this country.

Which tells me that I wasted my money sending you to college.

I’m “waving my tea bag around” because just like the vitriolic drool running down the chins and spilling over onto the keyboards of your lapdog mainstream media reporters, you have the audacity to use their very same tactics when forced to acknowledge there is a great and growing groundswell against your ideologies and attempts to manifest them against the will of at least half of the American people.

I’m “waving my tea bag around” because when I say the pledge of allegiance, I am able to recite it clearly.  Unlike you, who were somehow unable to properly voice your oath of office in January; and it is irrelevant whether that was because the words were not given to you on a teleprompter or because you choked over having to actually say them out loud and really mean them after 20 years of listening to your chosen preacher tell you “God DAMN America”.  In that moment, you told those who have eyes to see exactly where you stand and it is NOT on the side of America.

I’m “waving my tea bag around” because the 1st Amendment’s the right to free speech still lives despite your efforts to silence anyone who disagrees with you, and I find it deplorable that a high school teacher would bully a student who chooses to read news at an outlet like Foxnews.com instead of what is, in their opinion, a more “acceptable” one.

I’m “waving my tea bag around” because I do NOT apologize for the actions taken by your predecessors to keep this country safe.  Nor will I apologize for their actions and the trillions of hard-earned citizen tax dollars sent by this “arrogent” society to other countries to help alleviate their poverty and help them create a similar republican form of government.

I’m “waving my tea bag around” because I will not bow down to anyone.  Not to you, and especially not to those who harbor or outright encourage people doing everything possible to wipe us off the face of the Earth.

I’m “waving my tea bag around” because your rights end where mine begin.  I pledged my allegiance to this country.  You, on the other hand, get only the respect due your office.  Anything further must be earned but during your first 100 days you have done nothing towards that end.

When all is said and done, I’m “waving my tea bag around” because I’m ashamed that there are people who will judge us by your hypocritical actions and because for the first time in my life I no longer feel safe in my own country.  The heart and soul that is America is something good and honorable.  It is not childish, petulant, lying, selfish, or blatantly stupid.  It doesn’t waffle or dissemble.

I’m “waving my tea bag around” because you owe the American people an apology.  If not your resignation.

Armchair Morality

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The old saying goes that “hindsight is 20/20”.  We’ve all done something and later come to see that it was either a spot-on choice or a horrible one as time continues to roll on past the point of that action.

Comedien Jon Stewart, who quite frankly isn’t even worth the effort it takes to type his name this morning, recently went on the record to call former President Harry Truman a war criminal for actions taken to force the Japanese to surrender during WWII.  After a couple of days, and likely prompted by both viewer outrage and someone filling him in on a fact or two that his lonely left wing-nut brain cell couldn’t spin or deny, he attempted to make a lame retraction cum apology or…something…in order to get back in the good graces of media consumers.

The only reason for mentioning this is because Bill Whittle has a simple yet brilliant piece at PajamasTV that presents the facts surrounding the United States dropping atomic bombs on Japan.  These are facts available to anyone and after some 60-odd years you’d think it would all be common knowledge.  While adroitly proving Jon Stewart is little more than a bad comedian playing an illiterate pundit, more importantly it also points out a few things that the Obama administration also refuses to acknowledge as it continues to waffle and try to obscure facts about actions take by the Bush administration after 9/11 to keep America safe.   As it continues to pander for voter support for its fascist ideology instead of dealing with facts in order to “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”.  You know, those simple yet profound words upon which that acclaimed “great orator” Barack Hussein Obama choked during his inauguration.

This should be required viewing by everyone.

Have a look by clicking here.

Replacing Justice Souter

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Supreme Court Justice Souter has advised he is going to retire when the Supreme Court recesses for the summer.  The media is buzzing with speculation as to how President Obama is going to fill this vacancy, though it is acknowledged that any replacement for left-leaning Souter may not shake up the makeup of the current bench, unless Obama’s choice is from the far-left wingnut camp. 

A hint of what may be coming in terms of nominees can be found in previous statements made by the President during his pre-election campaigning:

“I want people on the bench who have enough empathy, enough feeling, for what ordinary people are going through.”  (March 2008, in Ohio)

“I will look for those judges who have an outstanding judicial record, who have the intellect, and who hopefully have a sense of what real-world folks are going through.” (October 2008 presidential debate in New York)

My question is:  exactly how does President Obama think he will recognize such people?  These statements were made by someone who has absolutely NO clue about what it means to be an “ordinary person”.  With no experience in business, no real-world use of his law degree, his only adult experience that of being tucked deeply inside the enclaves of left-wing radicals (translation:  homeland terrorists; at best one could perhaps call them merely divisive) and self-serving politicians, and now with a laundry list of tax cheats chosen for his cabinet nominees, President Obama’s choice to replace Justice Souter on the Supreme Court promises to be as bad for the future of this country as was his own election.

Texas, It’s A Whole Other Country

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It’s now official.  The State Department even says so!

 

State Department 100-Day Report

 

 

BUREAU OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Washington, DC
April 29, 2009
OVERALL DEPARTMENT POLICY ACCOMPLISHMENTS, REGULATORY INITIATIVES, AND INTERAGENCY EFFORTS

In the first 100 Days of the Obama Administration, Secretary Clinton and the State Department have made significant progress in advancing America’s national security goals and promoting America’s values around the world.

Secretary Clinton is already the most traveled Secretary of State in a new Administration. The Secretary’s trips have included her inaugural trip to Asia, the Middle East and Europe, Mexico and across the border to Texas, the Hague in the Netherlands, Europe with President Obama, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago with President Obama, and to Iraq and Kuwait.

 

(Note that the above text is a copy & paste right off their website.  It’s a pretty big gaffe so I won’t be surprised if it disappears when the mainstream media finally takes note that those not wearing rose-colored glasses are laughing at their savior and therefore gets the attention of the administration.)

Fare Thee Well, Chrylser

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I suppose it’s par for the course.  The company that was first overhauled by Walter P. Chrysler in 1925 is now undergoing a metamorphasis the likes of which no American company has ever seen.  Forced onto life support by President Obama, it will now be owned jointly by the United States government, Canada, Fiat, and the UAW, while GMAC will handle its financing to customers.  Chrysler stockholders and its major debt holders, who aren’t beholden to the government’s TARP, have been handed the very short and pointed end of the stick, while the rest of America will join them in pouring more good money after bad.  Though with all of Chrysler’s auto manufacturing being idled as part of this government takover…errrr…”bankruptcy restructuring”, I can’t imagine how the government thinks Americans involved in the auto industry won’t be negatively impacted to the point their contributions in the form of taxes becomes a moot point?

With its long and storied history, the company is far more deserving of a dignified death.

Digging Deep

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Someone sent me the link to the website where you can see President Obama’s spin on how the stimulus money is affecting life in each state.  It also has “heartwarming” stories about how all of the stimulus is positively impacting people’s lives.  One tidbit caught my attention:

“The immediate tax cuts showed up in my husband’s bi-weekly paycheck, an extra $35. That doesn’t sound like a whole lot, but that’s an extra $70 per month. With that, my husband and I can take a vacation to Pennsylvania for the weekend, something we haven’t been able to do in two years. “

Wow!  Somebody had better alert the media.  We never saw anything like this when the $1,000+/year tax breaks under President Bush were in effect.

Now THAT’S transparency.

A Picture-Perfect Hypocrite

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A perfect example of how Congress has lost sight of its prime directive – defending our basic rights and freedoms – can be seen in the media-lauded actions of Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter.   After 29 years, Senator Specter is changing parties and turning Democrat.

Why?  In a nutshell it is because he can no longer win election in the upcoming primary as a Republican.  Over the years, his self-perceived “independent” nature has slid more and more towards the Democratic left and his signing the TARP legislation was the icing on the cake for many of his conservative supporters.  So like any self-respecting rat on a sinking ship, he jumped.

Which tells me that Senator Specter does not belong in Washington at all.  He is selfish and self-serving; more interested in being a Senator than doing the work required of a Senator.  He has no principles.  He has no loyalty.  I honestly hope he fails to get on the ballot in 2010, and I hope that anyone now in Congress who are supporting him also loses in 2010 or 2012.  We, the people, do not need, nor did we ask for this kind of misrepresentation.

“I changed my mind about that.”  (Senator Specter, now,  about telling Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell several months ago that he wouldn’t need his help when the Democratic governor offered to help him raise money if he switched parties)

Democrats are thrilled because this now puts them within dizzying, drooling, tantalizing closeness of having complete control over the House, the Senate, and the Oval Office:

“You have my full support.”  Democrats are “thrilled to have you.”  (President Obama)

“If the president is asked to raise money for Sen. Specter, we’re happy to do it.  If the president is asked to campaign for Senator Specter, we’ll be happy to do it. As the president told Senator Specter on the phone, he has our full support.  I think the president is quite pleased. Understatement of the day.” (White House press secretary Robert Gibbs)

“I welcome Senator Specter and his moderate voice to our diverse caucus, and to continuing our open and honest debate about the best way to make life better for the American people.”  (Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid)

“…a great party left him, not the other way around.”  (Senator Patrick Leahy)

“This has been a long time coming.  He’s been having this conversation with Specter for half a dozen years. They’re close. You’d be hard-pressed to find a senator he’s co-sponsored more bills with.” (a senior official about Specter’s relationship with Vice-President Joe Biden, who spoke to FOX News on condition of anonymity)

“It’s a huge change for labor and for progressives everywhere.  This provides the room, it provides space for him to continue this discussion and pass a meaningful bill.”  (AFL-CIO legislative director Bill Samuel, talking about

This is just pouring grease on an already dangerous and slippery slope, of course.  Our government was designed to contain inherent checks and balances.  Whatever agenda the left-wing Democrats decide to push can go sliding downhill through with what will be at best lip-service given to any discussion about it.  No matter how bad, no matter how harmful to the American people.  No matter if the American people don’t even want it, whatever the left-wing wants, the left-wing will now get.

Unless every single one of us who doesn’t feel entitled to things we haven’t earned begin to voice our wishes loudly, clearly, and regularly – and do it right now by reminding the idiots wandering the halls of Congress that they work for us – I believe this is a clear sign that you may now kiss the American dream goodbye.  Though I’d previously applauded his taking a stand against “card check”, if it means getting elected by the Democrat-controlled unions I am quite sure that Senator Spector will now vote for it.  He’s as much said he’ll consider an EFCA “compromise”.  With just a little encouragement, the Constitution is going to be ripped to shreds.

So you can kiss goodbye your right to work and your right to vote for unionization in secret and give a kiss hello to the government bureaucrats who will determine what businesses will pay their employees.  You can kiss goodbye your 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.  You can kiss goodbye your 4th and 5th Amendment rights to privacy and due process when the government watches everything you do and does whatever it wants to control actions you take that it doesn’t like.  You can kiss goodbye more of your paycheck (if you are still getting one) so that nationalized health care can be implemented and you can later kiss goodbye any treatment you need when the government decides you aren’t worth it.  You can kiss your Social Security goodbye because there won’t be any money to pay it to you, while kissing 22 million illegal immigrants hello as they become citizens and are given entitlement to take what you’ve worked so hard to earn.  You can kiss the 22nd Amendment goodbye while kissing Barack Obama hello as he emulates his new BFF Hugo Chavez and becomes “president for life” if he so chooses.  You can kiss the 1st Amendment goodbye when the government controls the media and dissenting opinions are outlawed, and the “Fairness Doctrine” makes sure everyone gets to hear what only special interests want us to hear. 

But don’t worry.  The government will take care of everything for you.

Don’t Spit Too High

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I have a hard time dealing with stupidity before I’ve had my first cup of coffee.

Has society come to just blindly accept as “business as usual” that politicians, like lawyers, eat their young?  No one is very surprised any more when what used to be headline scandals involving Democrats are now little more than “look at me!” Twitter twitches traipsing like tiny Tinkerbells across the national conscience.  Certainly, the left-wing bias of the mainstream media will be reluctant to shine light on even the most blatant cheating and  indiscretions of Democrats currently bragging and bullying their “progressive” take-down agenda around Washington like a bunch of drunken high school rebels with a dangerous cause, but where, oh, where is the collective voice of the American people?

GOP consultant Joe Gaylord, an aide to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, recently told FOXNews.com he believes GOP values and principles played a role in getting more attention paid to ethics accusations against Republican lawmakers.

“Republicans who have generally used the ethics process become much more susceptible to the hypocrisy charges because they set a high standard for how people should behave,” he said. “Then when a Republican doesn’t behave properly, it becomes a bigger story.”

No, Mr. Gaylord.  The fact is that nobody likes a hypocrite.   Period.

It’s that very same decided air of snobbish moral superiority, used to cover up the reality many Republicans are just as outright corrupt as the majority of today’s Democrats that causes them to think they’re strung up higher when caught.  And about as effective as that Saran Wrap covering yesterday’s Republican TARP pork sitting next to the dish of Democratic TARP pork in the refrigerator.

I have a suggestion.  Both parties need to clean up their act.  Then we, the people, need to put the media in its place and go clean the House.  And the Senate.

Another Look At Global “Warming”

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Once upon a time, when I was just a child, I used to think that those who were bigger than me were therefore somehow also wiser. You know, people like mom and dad, scientists, and even the President. But as my adult years have passed, I’ve come to know that age is no guarantee of wisdom and that everyone has their own agenda.

It used to be that the agenda of scientists was a collective agenda to pursue an understanding of reality, a search for the truth of how things are and how they work. It was both a sacred and a noble task, this search; done for the sake of truth and truth alone.

But somewhere, somehow, the field began to be dominated by those who wouldn’t know a truth if it sat down beside them and introduced itself. Like a hamster on a wheel, many parts of the scientific community have become only never-ending churn in order to keep grants and funding coming in; as if busyness alone was enough to command respect.

It also used to be that the President of the United States was a leader. The one person who stood for the best this country had and could be, and who would die in defense of the freedoms upon which She was founded. We elected this leader to watch over the collective and keep us safe, and we sent representatives to work with the President for the same purpose.

But somewhere, somehow, being elected to the White House and to Congress began to be dominated by those who thought that being sent to serve meant they were smarter or somehow “above” those whom they represent. They, too, became like hamsters on a wheel, churning out more and more legislation that only restricts our freedoms and our rights instead of seeking to defend them; giving away what they, themselves, have not earned to those who have not worked for it either, solely to gain votes to stay in Washington.

When you put the two of these together, the scientists who value their titles more than their work and a President and Congress who see the people they represent as nothing more than an ignorant trough from which they are entitled to feed, you end up where we are today. Bad science dominates our government’s decisions, and whether it is due to the scientists need to pander for money from the politicians or the politicians seeking a convenient excuse from the scientists to pry more money and freedoms from America’s citizens, the result is the same: the monstrous myth of global warming.

It’s like watching a bunch of sheep go into a tailspin over the unexpected waving of a single blade of grass in the field and the hypocritical administration is now pulling out all the stops to pull the wool over the eyes of the American people. If the TV commercial of late isn’t about some drug or another to correct erectile dysfunction, it’s about “green energy”. It makes me think about the impotence of tilting at windmills (that no one wants in their own backyard, mind you.)

I was sent this video today and decided to post it here. Trust the late George Carlin to put things into perspective.

Anyone up for sheering some sheep?

Who Brings Good Things To Light?

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It’s not GE.

GE is the parent company of NBC and MSNBC.  You know, the commentary…errrr…news network that continues to broadcast like it’s 2008 and they’re a founding member of ACORN?  The network that aired an interview with Hollywood’s newest self-proclaimed political analyst, Janeane Garofalo, who told the handful of viewers on April 16th that the people who attended the Tea Parties were racists and “nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks.”

Ever wonder what could possibly cause them to forsake reporting and journalism?

Bill O’Reilly connected the dots quite nicely on “The Factor” today.  It’s no secret that the financial arm of GE has received a bailout so would want to curry favor with the Feds, but that’s just smoke & mirrors.  And small change.  The real carrot that has created little more than an Obama pimp network is the money GE stands to make from cap & trade.

The Washington Examiner explained the game plan last month:

GE — a member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, which advocates cap and trade — leads the push for greenhouse gas restrictions.

In the fourth quarter of 2008 as the company’s stock fell 30 percent, GE spent $4.26 million on lobbying — that’s $46,304 each day, including weekends, Thanksgiving and Christmas. In 2008, the company spent a grand total of $18.66 million on lobbying.

Reviewing their lobbying filings, you might think you were looking at Al Gore’s agenda. GE’s specific lobbying issues included the “Climate Stewardship Act,” “Electric Utility Cap and Trade Act,” “Global Warming Reduction Act,” “Federal Government Greenhouse Gas Registry Act,” “Low Carbon Economy Act,” and “Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act.”

This isn’t altruism or public relations. GE has started a joint venture called Greenhouse Gas Services, which invests in — and hopes to manage the trade in — greenhouse gas credits. But these investments and this trading floor are of basically no use and nearly no value without government restrictions on greenhouse gases.

Hence the lobbying, buttressed by generous campaign contributions: Employees and executives gave $1.35 million to politicians in the past election while GE’s political action committee shelled out $1.55 million. About 64 percent of this $2.9 million went to Democrats, with Obama easily the top recipient of GE money.

Obama’s budget includes the payoff, promising to start a multibillion-dollar greenhouse gas industry by 2012. In a letter this week, GE’s (CEO) Immelt told shareholders that current events present an “opportunity of a lifetime,” because “capitalism will be ‘reset.’ ”

Immelt wrote: “The interaction between government and business will change forever. In a reset economy, the government will be a regulator; and also an industry policy champion, a financier, and a key partner.”

In short, GE plans to get rich by being one of the government’s closest partners — which it has always been, thanks to its unmatched lobbying efforts.

GE is also partnering up in Florida with Cisco and FPL Group Inc.’s Florida Power and Light Co., planning to create a “smart grid” system.  Which will, of course, be sticking its hand out for a piece of the stimulus pie.  Because, according to Jeffrey Immelt, “There’s a lot of money out there.  We’ve got the chance to get more action in 2009.”

Of course, when GE fails as its products aren’t being bought by all the people who have no jobs and their media numbers plummet as people become more and more disenchanted with the continuing missteps by those in Washington, the government will move in as it did with Wall Street and the banks, and Pater Obama will finally begin to feel like an equal with his buddy, Hugo Chavez.

Enlightening, isn’t it?