What you should know about public option.

I need to rant, cause I'm getting a little ticked off that a public option is still being debated. According to Rasmussen poll(10/19/09) 54% of Americans oppose a public option. That's more people than voted for Obama! The results keep going up, from 52%. The Dems tactic of hoping the American public will get bored and forget about it isn't working.

For the sake of this argument I will forgo the usual. I won't harp on the fact we'll be spending more money we don't have. I won't talk about how it will put citizen in front of a comparative effectiveness research panels(or in layman's terms death panels). I won't even talk about how it will overload the system, because we don't have enough doctors(or people wanting to become doctors). What I want to talk about is something many people don't realize. That is the government will be deciding on what is good for you.

They are already toying with an idea to tax the 1/3 of Americans that are obese. It won't stop there. They will also tax the 25% of Americans that smoke. Most alarming of all they will tax any American that owns a gun. All of this is because its bad for you to be overweight, smoke, and own a gun. God help the man that does all three! Now with anything the government touches it won't stop there. Soon you will be taxed if you own a car(carbon emissions), motorcycle(their death traps don't you know), eat bacon(artery clogger), or drink beer(kills your liver). This will be a great money maker for D.C. Just think of the possibilities. Plus the added benefit of dividing the nation more. The Department of Health can get a bigger budget by finding more things that are bad for us. On the other side food companies can lobby D.C. with big bucks to make sure that their product doesn't end up in THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED. D.C. will feel they need to do this, because we're too stupid to know whats good for us.

Like everything Democrats do its filled with hypocrisy. They are the party of pro-choice, but only if its their choice. All of this for the greater good!

No its not the onion news, its reality

Yesterday when I woke up to the news Obama won the Nobel peace prize I thought "What?!" then thought "How long was I asleep?!" I couldn't believe a man who hasn't accomplished anything other than divide a nation could win a prestigious prize. Then as I looked up past winners I realized how ridiculous the prize is. Yes they gave medals to Martin Luther King Jr., Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Lech Walesa and Mother Teresa. All of these people are deserving of this as they actually worked for peace their whole life. However lets look at others that won it: Arafat, for his middle east peace effort...huh?, Gorbachev, for ending the cold war(take that Reagan!), Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter(both make Jews squeamish)and of course Al Gore(for inventing global warming). Looks like he's in good company.

I think I should have won. I've done about the same as Obama in the efforts towards world peace. Plus I've never met a terrorist(Ayers) or a communist(just about everyone else he knows). This alone should have vaulted me past Obama!

So kudos to you Nobel prize committee for giving a ego maniac an award for something he hasn't done. Maybe next week you can give a match and a gas can to an arsonist and go for the hat trick!

BREAKING NEWS: Obama's acceptance speech has been awarded the Nobel prize in literature!

Obama care will overload the system

This past weekend I saw two great examples of the problem when the government messes with things they don't understand. I was at my local watering hole and one of the regulars and his wife was nursing a beer. I struck up a conversation and he told me he just got back from WV. Why? Because he had to go to the VA. So I asked him why would he drive 2 hours away to the VA when there's one the next town over. He informed me that he needed to get a test. The results are sent to the one in WV, read, interpreted and then shipped back to our local VA. Then read, make sure its interpreted right call and ask you to make an appointment for them to tell you the results. So he decided to cut out the middle man and drive 2 hours so he wouldn't be worrying for 2 weeks while waiting. He also informed me that before doing this they had lost his tests in the mail already. I'm sure that kind of bureaucratic stupidity won't happen with Obamacare.

The second one is about Pennsylvania's version of Obamacare, Adult Chip basic. Its purpose is to give the poor folks that can't afford health care, or lost health care coverage. I mosied over to their website to see how it rated vs my health insurance. The website informed me about how great it is, and it already has covered 90k Pennsylvanians. I went through the quiz to see if I was eligible and at the end I was told yes I could get it. However they've can't cover me or anyone else because they didn't figure that a lot of people would want cheap health care. In other words they don't have enough money for everyone. So if we get Obamacare what makes people think the same thing won't happen to it? I'm sure Pa isn't the only state that has the same problem. So if the states drop it to save money and all those people rush into Obamacare it will short circuit the system! But I guess whiz-kids in DC already thought of this and have planned for it. Probably has something to do with running the money presses again.

Obama's heart is as cold as Fairbanks

First a little history, in case you went to public school. Back in June of 1942 the Japanese attacked the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Alaska had no national guard, it was called up and moved to Washington state in August 1941. So the 34,000 miles of coastline would be defended by a volunteer group of men(and women). Their ages ranged from 12-80. Even the territorial governor was a member. They were trappers, prospectors, and hunters. Their backgrounds were Aleuts, Yupik, and European Americans. They were all patriots. They were invaluable to the military as the majority of troops were unprepared for Alaska's brutal terrain and climate. They served as scouts, special forces and also helped forage for food for the troops. One year after the Japanese took over two of the islands the military was able to retake the islands.

The veterans of America's forgotten battle never asked for kudos. Most went back to their small villages after the war. Some went on to join the Alaskan guard. Some helped bring Alaska to statehood. In 2000 Senator Ted Stevens' bill passed granting full veteran status to all members of Alaska's territorial guard. Of the 20,000 that protected Alaska, only 300 are still alive today. Of the 300, 26 have the required 20 years of military service to qualify for retirement benefits, that is until Obama got into office. He had the Army stop payment to these 26 and throw out the other 37 applications. He did stop short of asking for the money back they already received. Mighty nice of them. Alaska's senators(one a Rep, the other a Dem) wanted to fix this with the current defense bill. The white house has sent a message saying it disproved of including pensions for these heroes.

"its not appropriate to establish a precedent of treating service performed by a state employee as active duty for purposes of the computation of retired pay."

Apparently fighting for your country is "state service", nothing more. They are no more important than a DOT worker! Once again Obama has proven he holds the military in contempt. Please contact your senator and tell them to vote against Obama's hatred for WWII veterans. Or better yet call Obama and ask him why he wants to eliminate the pensions for brave veterans of Alaska's Territorial Guard.

http://tinyurl.com/eskimo-guard

White house phone number:(202) 456-1414

*Update* The senate passed the defense bill yesterday, and kept the provision to pay the Alaskan vets. We'll see if Obama will use a line item veto on this.

Attention Mainstreet Media

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth, and shame the devil*

For all you journalist I want you to think back. Way back when you got out of college and wanted to do hard hitting journalism. Remember how you had a distrust for the government? Remember how you were gonna save the world by reporting the fraud? What happened? In the last couple weeks a radio talk show host, and two 20 something amateurs exposed corruption, while you mentioned nothing about this. Last Saturday over a million people marched on Washington to protest our expanding government, and you either buried it, or blatantly lied about how many and why people were there. The fact that a newspaper from the U.K. was the only one reporting actual numbers and the reasons, should make you hide your head in shame. You have become the same elitists that you wanted to bring down. These are the reasons that you are becoming bankrupt. However you can change this, and I hope you will. You have the power to shut down talk radio, Fox news, and bloggers by doing one simple thing...your job! I would never have started a blog if I thought my views were being told elsewhere. That goes with all your advisories. To be honest I'd much rather watch one of the big three news networks than spending time writing a blog, but I can't. When you spend months reporting about Micheal Jackson's death, and how weird he was, you do a disservice to your trade. We all new he was weird, my God he took a monkey to the grammys! If you followed politicians(on both sides) as much as you follow Hollywood stars we'd never have a dishonest public servant! You are the voice of the people, all people, not just one side. So I am asking every Democrat that is a journalist, clean up your side of the aisle. Every Republican clean up your side of the aisle. Independent go after both sides. Question every bill, every earmark, every appointment to any office, follow the money wherever it leads. You do this and you'll see your viewership/subscriptions skyrocket.

*Walter Lippmann

Remembering 9/11

Today marks the first national service day. Obama made 9/11 a day of service because I guess he didn't think Patriot Day or a day of remembrance was enough. In my opinion not remembering 9/11/01 is the BIGGEST disservice this country can do to itself. So for service day I'm going to write about my personal story of 9/11.

The day started out like any other day. I drove my wife to work, and was on my way to the bank to deposit the left over money from our vacation. I was listening to Howard Stern as I pulled up to the bank. He was reporting that a plane hit the world trade center. I figured it was a small Cessna type plane, as I went into the bank. By the time I got to the teller I found out the truth. The AM station in the bank suddenly broke into a live ABC radio report. It reported that a commercial airline crashed into the north tower. When I got back in the car, I did something I never did before, I changed the radio to AM. I have never changed back. At the time I worked for my dad at his gas station. I remembering walking into the station, and asking my dad if he heard that a plane crashed into the world trade center. He thought I was messing with him. So I turned on the radio and a minute later we heard about another crash into the south tower. The guy that worked for us said "you think this has something to do with Y2K?" and my dad said "its terrorism, not Y2K!". That day was hard, having to wait on customers and trying to listen to the radio at the same time. We told every customer that didn't know about it. It was easy to see who knew and who didn't, the ones that didn't know were still smiling. Somewhere around 9:45am we heard that a plane had crashed into the pentagon(actually first reports said an explosion). We were talking about some of our customers that commute to D.C. every day, and hoped that they were alright. Suddenly live on the radio we heard the south tower collapse. You could have heard a pin drop. My dad turned to me and said "you know how you always wondered how I felt when Kennedy was shot, its just like this" I can't describe how I felt. I was angry, sad, scared all rolled into one. Its a feeling that I hope my son will never have to feel. A little after ten I remember a Marine came in frantic. He was on his honeymoon and was called back to his post at Camp David. After he left another customer came in to tell us he heard there was another plane hijacked and headed our way. He thought they were aiming for either Camp David or the Gettysburg National Military Park. After he left my father said to me "Today you will learn how dumb people can be when they are scared". The phone rings, its my wife, a travel agent. She told me that its like a ghost town in her office with the exception of one person that came in around 9:30 for airline tickets. They had no idea what was going on around them. She also told me her mom wanted her to go home for the day, for fear a plane could crash into her office. I reassured my wife that no plane would crash into a strip mall in a small town in Pennsylvania, they have bigger plans in mind. I get off the phone with her and hear about the north tower collapsing. Not long after that we learned about flight 93. I walked outside to have a smoke and try and relax. As I was standing there I realized there was no sound. Hardly any cars were driving by the interstate next to us, but more importantly there was no noise from any plane above. Our location is on the outer most circle of flight plans going into BWI. It was eerily quiet. Through out the morning the news would tells us unverified news about explosions in DC, another plane being hijacked heading for DC, more proof that my dad was right. Later that afternoon a truck load of local firefighters came in for gas. They were heading for NYC in the hopes they could help. They didn't know anyone that was in either world trade center. They felt it was their duty to try and see if they could help rescue anyone that might be alive in the rubble. These wouldn't be the only firefighters we would see that day. The National Firefighter Academy is in Emmitsburg, MD about 10 miles away. We saw over a dozen cars and trucks filled with firefighters heading to NYC, some of their colleagues were heading to DC to help with the Pentagon. The rest of the day we stood by the radio hoping that we wouldn't hear about more planes being used as missiles. I got a phone call from my other job(I worked part-time on the local radio station). My boss told me that I wouldn't have to come to work tonight, they decided to just simulcast CNN news instead of other programming. Days later I would find out that the news anchor I was friends with owned part of the property in Shanksville that flight 93 crashed on. I called my wife to tell her I didn't have to work that night and I was going to pick her up after she got off. The ride home was completely silent. We just listened to the radio all the way home. When we got home we turned on the TV, and after seeing the famous scenes of the carnage, and how people chose to jump out of windows instead of burning to death, it sunk in even more. We never ate dinner that night, as we just stared at the TV and tried to reason why someone would do this.

Until 9/11 I thought that the space shuttle explosion was the worst thing I would have witnessed. After 9/11, I hope that nothing will surpass it.

Obama lied not Rep. Wilson!

Last night Rep. Joe Wilson spoke for most of us that have read the health care bill when he yelled "YOU LIE"! I wasn't surprised when all the news wanted to talk about was how terrible it was that a congressman would yell at the president. I didn't even bat an eye when they failed to mention the fact that democrats booed President Bush. I am shocked(although I shouldn't be) is that they didn't ask the question "why does he feel this way?" If they did they would look at the ways and means committee that struck down an amendment that Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV) that actually would have used the IEVS(Income and Eligibility Verification System) and SAVE(Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) to make sure the people using Obamacare would 1. need it, and 2. be legally able to!

Lets look at some other lies our President said last night.

1. " Nothing in our plan requires you to change what you have"

This is actually a half-truth. The reason is he used the word "requires". No it doesn't require it, however it puts so many taxes on your employer that they have to decided on profits(and re-investing in their company) or cutting costs and putting you on the public plan. However if you have a high deductible with an HSA plan, this plan would eliminate it! What's more unless you are enrolled in a private health plan before 2013 you CAN'T get private health care!

2. "I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to the deficit now or in the future"

The CBO has stated it adds 220 billion to the deficit over the next 10 years. However, this might work out for him. Friday he told congress he needed the deficit ceiling raised to over 12 trillion dollars. I guarantee this is how he can justify not adding to the deficit.

3. "Under our plan no federal money will be used to fund abortion"

Another half truth. All health care bills will mandate all private insurance companies to have abortions covered in their plans. Rep. Johnson(R-TX) and Rep. Canton(R-VA) tried to pass amendments against this. Canton specifically wanted to add an amendment to make sure no taxpayer money went to funding health care. It was defeated.

4. "A claim made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but by prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens. Now, such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie, plain and simple"

No sir you are lying! H.R. 3200 wants to increase CER(comparative effectiveness research) to determine which treatments are the most cost and/or clinically effective in handling particular cases. Back in 2003 France was in a heat wave. Over 17 thousand people died, because the government could save money by letting doctors go on vacation, instead of saving lives. Just like the evil insurance company it came down to the bottom line.

5. "Requiring insurance companies to cover preventive care like mammograms and colonoscopies makes sense, it saves money, and it saves lives."

1/3 of this is a lie. It makes sense and it saves lives, however it does not save money. The reason being not every person needs this preventive care. For instance lets say you check 1 million people. Only 100 have a disease. The check up costs $50. You've just spent 50 million dollars. The treatment costs 50 thousand dollars, that adds up to $500,000. So how can you say this saves money?

The problem with a half-truth is its still a lie!

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/08/03/the-house-health-bill-the-house-ways-and-means-amendments/

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g5ewCvsGcSPBeHJurb6qYZLVU8OgD9AKAF902

Great quote

I have a great quote for you today:

"Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren, America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.”

Sounds good right? What staunch conservative said this? Goldwater? No. Regan? No. Perhaps its a Friedman quote? No. Give up its a quote from a plucky young Senator from Illinois in response to Bush raising the deficit ceiling. That's right I'm talking about the big O here, and I don't mean Oprah. Now I know this may come as a shock that he's done an about face and now wants to raise the deficit ceiling yet again! I'm sure this has nothing to do with the fact he has stated time and time again that his "hellcare" won't raise the deficit. Of course not, you're moving it so it won't!

I plan on being in Washington D.C. on 9/12, and I think I'll use Obama's quote on my picket sign!

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/57493-senate-must-raise-debt-ceiling-above-12t

Comrade Obama

More proof that our President is a communist. According to china daily website (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-07/13/content_8422505.htm) our President, and his administration, will allow the Chinese flag to be flown at the White house on Sept. 20th! Why....to celebrate 60 years of the People's Republic of China. Chen Ronghua, chairman of Fujian Association of America told reporters that:

"their application was approved not only because of sound Sino-American relations, but also China is a responsible country"

Responsible? Ask those students in Tienanmen square, a Christian, Muslim or Tibetan or Taiwanese people how responsible they are!

Maybe this is Obama's way of thanking China for allowing a joint venture with GM(now Government Motors) and China's FAW auto group.* You see while GM is closing plant here, they're bolstering China's economy. Maybe its a thanks for buying GM's hummer line**. Obama and his "greenies" could never allow his company to build an anti-eco monstrosity, however allowing China to do so is ok to them. Maybe its a thank you for staying communist for so long, proving to Obama(and his administration) communism can work! Or maybe its a way to thank them for giving our government more money to print worthless paper. If anything the Chinese should be thanking us, for showing them how they can defeat capitalism(something the Soviet Union couldn't do). Lenin once said "the capitalist will sell us the very rope to hang them with". It looks like comrade Lenin misspoke. In fact we'll buy the rope from the communist and vote in a comrade to hang us all with it!

I know how can I say that our President is a communist? That's crazy talk! Let's look at the facts; his mother was a communist sympathizer(a fellow traveler), his mentor Frank Marshall Davis a communist, his community organization in Chicago was molded from Saul Alinsky's(communist sympathizer) book, he was hand picked by outgoing incumbent Alice Palmer(executive of the US peace council, the US affiliate of the world peace council a communist front group funded by USSR), and backed by weather underground terrorists and communists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. He has now put a communist in charge of creating green jobs, Van Jones. The real question we should ask Obama is "why'd it take you so long to show your true colors?"

*http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ge-omd3Vre_gXjdLDjlAtuW8JHkwD9ADRTB00

**http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/02/news/companies/gm_hummer/?postversion=2009060216

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/what_barack_obama_learned_from.html

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html

Quotes for July 4th

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government

.-Edward Abbey

Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments: rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the universe

-John Adams

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

-John Quincy Adams

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.

-Samuel Adams

That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression

-Alabama Declaration of Rights section 35

The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.

-Winston Churchill

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free

-Charles S. Darrow

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

-Justice William O. Douglas

Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you.

-Ben Franklin

Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

-Barry Goldwater

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

-Germaine Greer

Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government there is tyranny.

-Thomas Jefferson

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

-Andrew Johnson

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty

-John F. Kennedy

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls

-Wayne LaPierre

It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.

-Richard Henry Lee

The Shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as a destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

-Abraham Lincoln

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power

-Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

-James Madison

From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree

-Thomas Paine

Man is not free unless government is limited.... As government expands, liberty contracts

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on them to do the same.

Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.

-Ronald Regan

Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in history text books

-Jimmy Stewart "Mr. Smith goes to Washington"

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

-Dorothy Thompson

...So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men

-Voltaire

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action

The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend on God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

-George Washington

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government

Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.

-Daniel Webster

Obama doesn't like oppressed people

I always felt that one of America's best qualities was that it was that we spread the hope of liberty to all oppressed people. We showed that the common man could throw down the shackles of oppression to form a government of the people. We stood up to the most powerful nation(twice) and beat them. We are the first country in history that has not used our superior armies to conquer foreign nations. We have stood up to tyrants throughout history before they could conquer the world, and when we couldn't(or wouldn't) stand up we gave aid to our oppressed brothers and sisters. We started VOA(voice of America) to get our message of freedom and liberty to oppressed nations. Maybe this is a Frank Capra-ish view, but it is my view. The last 2 weeks however America has changed, thanks to the Obama administration.

First was the Iranian election. For those of you that don't know how Iran works, here's a brief rundown. The supreme leader(Khamenei) has the final say over all matters, he decides if the person elected is the one that is best for Iran's(and more importantly HIS) ideas. After the June elections Ahmadinejad was declared the winner. His opponent Mousavi and his followers cried "foul"! They took to the streets in the 100's of thousands. There were brutal crackdowns on these peaceful protests that included the now infamous killing of a young woman. After a week of protests, killings and beatings our President finally spoke to the people of Iran to give them hope by saying to the government of Iran "stop all the violent and unjust actions against their own people" Wow that's pretty harsh, what's more interesting is he made this weak statement after being pressured by his own staff to make a statement. Nothing saying America will stand with the oppressed, or anything else to give support to the Iranian people.

Now lets look at Honduras. The president (Manuel Zelaya) wanted to become a dictator by being allowed to be president longer than the constitution says. The supreme court and congress of Honduras said no to this, however he wasn't going to let his dreams of a dictatorship rest. The congress contacted the military to "get rid" of the president. Now here's the interesting thing. The military arrested the president and took him to the airport to go to Costa Rica. After doing this the military gives power BACK to the congress! They in turn vote in an interim president, who is from the same party as the ousted president! The interim president says the January elections will go on as planned and he WILL NOT run for president. This has to be the most peaceful and democratic coup of all times! When was the last time you heard of a coup that the military didn't want to control the country, and that congress put the same party back in power? Now here's how Obama reacts. He says that Zelaya is the democratic president and the coup was illegal! He does however have some people that back him on this, most notably Chavez, Ortega and the Castro bros. That's some good company for an American president to have. Take that Honduras how dare you oust a would be dictator!

What does this say to our neighbors? America will no longer stand with the just and right, and will stand with dictators and tyrants! Sorry world Obama doesn't care about your right to freedom and liberty.

Minnesota elects a comedian, and I'm not laughing!

Yesterday Norm Coleman conceded the election in Minnesota. After 8 months of recounts, and court room drama, Al Franken is now the junior senator of Minnesota! This means that King Obama now has complete control of both houses of Congress. With the cap and trade bill coming up in the Senate in a couple weeks, there is a better than good chance that the capitalist system we have all enjoyed all our lives will be gone overnight. We will be paying anywhere from 100-300% more in utilities. Not to mention prices for everything else will rise to help companies pay for the strangling yoke of cap and trade. Fraud will run rampant, as the government will decide who gets the "coupons". Fake businesses will pop up selling their "coupons" to other business that are in need of them or face fines from Uncle Sam. Other companies will realize its easier to just move outside the United States to escape restrictive government in the private sector. Smaller business that don't have this option will be forced to close. Either way millions will be out of jobs. All of this(and more) just for some pseudo-science that is global warming.

Pedophile Protection Act debated tomorrow (5/12/09)

Tomorrow the Senate will be discussing a new hate crime bill(H.R. 1913/S. 909).  This bill was originally intended to add homosexuality to the hate crime bill already enacted.  However, because of its broad definitions every fetish will be protected.  Rep. Louis Gohmert(R-TX)fought in committee and in the House to define "sexual orientation" but the democrats refused.  I guess they want to add to their base and shore up that all important necrophilia vote!  The same Democrats rejected an amendment to the bill that included the military who may be harassed for their service.  I guess they don't need that vote!  As Gohmert said on a recent radio talk show:

"You see someone spying on you changing clothes and you hit them, they've committed a misdemeanor, you've committed a federal felony under this bill. It is so wrong."

It will also ban hate speech towards these sexual orientation.  This will include churches, synagogues, and mosques(although they never mention mosques).  Therefore if a preacher/priest/rabbi/cleric(or what have you) is preaching about the sins of homosexuality and someone in that congregation ends up killing a homosexual the preacher could be prosecuted for 'conspiracy to commit a hate crime'!  Whole passages of the Bible/Torah/Quran will have to be blackened out for fear of prosecution.    

Liberals love to yell "separation of church and state", however they don't understand that goes both ways!  I urge everyone to write to your senators, and tell them that you don't want pedophiles to be protected by the federal government!   As Rep. Gohmert said: 

"If you guys put up a strong enough fight, that will give backbone enough to the 41 or 42 in the Senate to say we don't want to have our names on that."

I leave you with a video of  Rep. Alcee Hastings(D-FL) reading a list of fetishes protected.  At around the 2:40 mark he states:

 "This bill addresses our resolve to end violence based on prejudice and to guarantee that all Americans regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability or all of these 'philias' and fetishes and 'ism's' that were put forward need not live in fear because of who they are. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this rule…"

Tea Party round up

By now you have probably heard that Obama's homeland security department sees you as a threat.  Basically if you vote republican, served your country, feel that illegal immigration is just that ILLEGAL, and have a moral opposition to abortion you will become a terrorist.  I know that may shock you.  Most of you probably don't think you have enough time to plan let alone execute an attack on the country you love!  So if you went to a tea party and wondered "who's that guy in the suit with sunglasses, and why is he talking into his cuff link?" don't worry....its just Homeland Security making sure you weren't buying a copy of the anarchist's cookbook.  

It's bad enough that the Obama administration thinks this, but now Janeane Garofalo is sounding off.  In case you don't know who she is she's a b-lister that is now on 24.  She was on MSNBC's "The Countdown with Keith Olbermann" in which she said:

"Let's be very honest about what this is about. This is not about bashing Democrats. It's not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea party was about. They don't know their history at all. It's about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. There is no way around that."

Since Ms. Garofalo is a fan of history, here's a quick history of the word redneck.  The first time it was used in print was as an adjective during the Battle of Blair Mountain.  You see when the pro-union miners marched on the mine they wore red handkerchiefs around their neck.  That way their union brother's would realize who they were, and aim their guns elsewhere.  That's right rednecks were pro-union democrats.   Oh and p.s. Janeane a little more history...conservatives make a majority of the viewers of 24.  So if you want to give back your "dirty money" I'll understand.

Anyway as a person that was at a tea party I didn't notice the Klan, or Nazi's.  I didn't see anyone burn Obama in effigy, nobody was goose-stepping up the street.  What I saw was 2500 people that believe that bailing out companies and mortgages are wrong.  People that feel that our government is becoming a bloated monster that is getting involved in areas it should never be.  I also so people that feel that the constitution should be the law of the land, not any person or group of people.  I saw people that feel that our government is giving up this nation's sovereignty to the U.N.  I saw people that feel if the government would step back we can fix all our own problems.  I saw people that know that this stimulus package will put our children and grandchildren in the chains of debt. 

So if it makes liberals sleep better at night to label me a threat, or a racist...then go ahead.  I know who I am and what I believe.  If anyone gets a liberal in secret Santa, don't buy them a label maker, apparently they already have one!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/back-story/2009/apr/17/liberal-actress-says-tea-parties-were-racist/

Tea Party 2009

Tomorrow is the nationwide tax day.  I'll be heading to Harrisburg, Pa(my capital) to join in the protest.  It will be a soggy day, but I hope that won't deter anyone from going out.  For those of you going to a "tea party" if I may give some advice.

1. Do not make this a Republicans against Obama rally.

   This is counterproductive.  The media wants to hear us scream about Obama, makes a good sound byte.  They are trying to tell people that this is because we're upset "our guy" didn't win.  This has to be because Washington isn't being a good steward to the money we let them use.  Replace the word "Democrats" with "Washington"

2. Do not identify yourself as a Republican!

Again this goes back to number 1.  They want the people watching at home to think this is all sour grapes after losing in November.  Instead identify yourself as a conservative. Be sure to mention you're upset at all parties for spending like drunken idiots. 

3. Stay on the message of taxes and bailouts!

This is not the time to spout off about how you think Obama is going to take away your guns, create a new world order or that he hasn't proved that he's a U.S. citizen.  This is not the purpose of the tea party.  There will be time to address these issues later.  For this to be a productive protest you need to win the minds and hearts of Joe Six pack watching at home.  As near as I can tell no one likes taxes!

4. Puff your numbers up! 

This is an old protesters trick.  For instance, if you only have 20 people and they ask how many are there say "We are proud to have close to 100 people out today, not to mention the 100's more stopping by in support of this".  I realize this may create a moral dilemma for some.  So in that case mention that you are only a small part of a movement that is over 6000 city strong.

5. Smile and be polite!

This is the most important thing.  If you are screaming, yelling, and looking ticked off you will come across as a wack-job!  Think about when you see some liberal protesting acting like this...what do you think of them?  If someone is trying to "get your goat" come back at them with kindness.  Don't be surprised if this happens.  ACORN  and Huffington Post have already said there will be counter protests and citizen journalists at the rallies.  

6. Follow up afterwards!

Write a letter to your local paper mentioning how much of a success this was.  Talk about how you sent a message to Washington that they have to be better stewards of our money.  Talk to your neighbors and colleagues about the rally.  Keep the buzz going about this.  Tell them about future protests if there are any in your area.

7. Check your spelling!

This is one of the most important things.  Nothing can ruin a protest like some idiot that can't spell.  This will be the one thing that the media zooms in on!  So when you make your signs, t-shirts, etc. check it and have someone else look as well.  Also take some time on your signs, don't make it look like a 3rd grader with a crayon did it!

Finally remember that protests and rallies are new things to conservatives.  Liberals have been doing the whole grassroots thing for over 40 years now, this is their bread and butter! 

Giving props

I just want to give Obama his props for having the courage to take care of the Somali pirates that were holding an American merchant captain hostage.  To be honest I really didn't think he'd give the red light to the Navy Seals.  I only hope he can use this new found chutzpah towards Kim Jon Il.  As we speak he has thrown out the U.N. nuclear monitors as it revamps its attempt to become a nuclear superpower. 

Let the Obamagic envelop you!

I'm sure by now you have seen the video where our president is bowing to the Saudi king.  This was a big deal, as protocol says that a sitting president should never bow to a foreign dignitary.  The reason being, as a fellow blogger reported:

"Our ancestors believed that all men are created equal and did not bow to kings out of dedication to that principle. They understood that bowing was a societal gesture designed to acknowledge and highlight the fundamental inequality between different men in a social hierarchy"-moderncounterculture.com

What is interesting in the bow, is how far he bows.  You see the farther you bow the more you are submitting to the other person.  Back in the day people carried swords, so when you bowed and showed your full neck you were saying "I know I'm not worthy.  I only hope in your infinite mercy don't cut my head off".  If you notice he bows so far he actually has to bend a knee.  If more amazing is that the Saudi king has his hand out awaiting a handshake!  Even he knows protocol!  

Now here's the real puzzler...the white house is denying that he bowed.  According to an anonymous white house aide:

"It wasn't a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he's taller than King Abdullah,"

Really?  Then why later on does he only shake hands of a leader who is the same height as the king?  More importantly why even try to cover this up?  With the fact that you are destroying the foundation of America taking away rights, and capitalism altogether...why not save your lies for more important things?

The bow comes at the 50 second mark, the handshake around the 1:45 mark

Two tales of political asylum

Today I will discuss two tales of political asylum.  But first a definition of what political asylum is and who can apply for it.  This comes from immigration.lawyers.com:

"Political asylum is available to people already in the United States who fear returning to their home country due to actual persecution or have a well-founded fear of actual persecution because of: race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion."

So now that you know the definition, lets discuss the cases of two women that are seeking political asylum.  One women is from a country in Africa, the other is from Nicaragua.  The African came to America, asked for political asylum and when denied in 2004, stayed in America even living in public housing.  The Nicaraguan fled her country last year after being beaten by sticks, shot at, and nearly raped and murdered.  The Africans relatives are actually in government back in Africa, her tribe is the ruling party.  The Nicaraguan is pretty much doing this all on her own(although if enough people find out about this she'll probably have a good lawyer), the other has one of the top immigration lawyers representing her.  Both should be open and shut cases: one is an obvious political asylee, the other not.  The Nicaraguan was denied political asylum status, the African had her deportation reversed and can now stay for a year until it all gets cleared up!  So what is the difference?  The African is Obama's aunt!  Now I'm not going to suggest that our President had anything to do with the fact his aunt is doing an end around on immigration laws.  I'll not even suggest that the fact that a woman who is living in public housing suddenly has a great team of lawyers is suspect.  I'll let you come to your own conclusions.  

Let me give you a little background on our Nicaraguan.  Her name is Auxiliadora Martinez, she's 23, and worked as a campaign manager for Eduardo Montealegre the former constitutional party candidate for mayor in Managua.  Because of this she(and her family) was put on a "torture list" by the Sandanistas.   She found out about this but did not flee, instead she fought harder for freedom.  She was beaten with sticks, had mortars launched at her house, and even shot at.  After the sham elections in November she was protesting the results.  On her way back to her friends house she noticed some CPC(Daniel Ortega's Citizens Power Council) talking about her.  They had pictures of her so they knew she was an "enemy".  She overheard one say "Let's kill her". After running they grabbed her and were going to rape and kill her.  She managed to get away when one reached for a walkie-talkie.  She came to the U.S. in December and filled for political asylum.  The day came to meet with an immigration official.  She had one hour to state her case.  She brought pictures, videos, buttons and anything she could think of to prove that she worked with the opposition party to the Sandanistas.  She was told that she did not show enough proof that she was part of the demonstration, or that she was almost raped or killed.  She was given only 16 days to file an appeal.  If ever there was a case of political asylum this is it!  I only hope that someone in the immigration office has a little common sense and see that this woman needs to stay in the U.S.!  If you'd like to help please contact: George Mihalko, director of the Los Angeles Asylum Office at (714) 808-8000 or write to: 1585 South Manchester Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92802  

If Obama's aunt can stay here with little proof that she is in any harm, then surely Ms. Martinez should be able to as well.

Ms. Martinez case:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93690

Zeituni Onyango's(Obama's Aunt)case:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/04/judge_allows_ob.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed6

UPDATE: Ms. Martinez was just granted asylum.  Although she was terrified of being deported she is quoted as saying:

"Let me say this clearly: I never wished to abuse the U.S. visa process, and I never once did for a moment. I have never once been to the U.S. illegally," and also "I thank you for making this country the last best hope. And thank you, America, for taking this stranger into your beautiful home."

The office of immigration in Los Angeles was overwhelmed with calls urging them to grant asylum for Ms. Martinez.