So I have a suggestion to all you liberals who seem to think that everyone should pay taxes, and that it's ok to decrease health care for those of us who work for it to give health care to those who either don't or who cannot afford it:
Here's the thing...You are welcome to work as hard as you wish, but if you think that we all should pay more taxes, then please, set an example. Feel free to pay all of your income to the government, keeping only enough to keep you above the poverty line.
Feel free to take the time to claim an uninsured person as a dependent on your insurance....Hell, claim 6 or seven on the family plan.
Just leave my money and my health insurance alone.
For you liberals making 6 or more figures.....Please re-read the above. spend your income like you want the rest of us to. You really don't need that McMansion, or the three (or more) cars...The boat, the condo on the lake, etc..
Put your money where your politics are.
Or else just shut up and go away.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
So the right has made a statement.....Will anyone listen? We conservatives have, with our tea parties, and now the march on Washington of something in excess of 1.8 million people, made our first statement. Will the current officials take heed? Will the GOP party officials? One would have to estimate that each of those who attended could easily represent 10 or more people, perhaps as many as a hundred. If so, at least 18 million people and as many as 180 million dislike the current direction of more tax and spend and more big government. We want change, but not the kind that is currently in the wind. People are angry. They were unhappy with George W. Bush, and are even more unhappy with Mr Obama's ideas. Health care, Cap and Trade, Stimulus. Enough is enough. Stop, already.
Or will this die down and die before the 2010 election and will we as a people choose to elect more of the same?
One thing I hope that we can shout to our officials is that we are here, and we won't go away. We have been told that we, each of us, was alone in our anger and protest. We know better now. We know that each of us has tens (hundreds?) of thousands of sisters and brothers who feel the same anger, and the same frustration. Each of us now knows that we are not alone.
Will the GOP and the libertarians learn a lesson here? Will they give us more of the same....More RHINO's and more Democrat Lite? Will they learn and support those who would truly represent what the people want and seek? Or will they choose to again throw the opportunity away, and give the people an even less appealing candidate than the trash that the DNC throws to us for a choice of representative in 20 10 and 2012 and, in 2 years, president in 2012? Or will they present us with a choice that we can get behind, choose to support and campaign for, and who is electable? I mention the RNC and the Libertarians, because the DNC is apparently a lost cause....
Will the leadership in the Senate and the House decide to listen, or will they stubbornly choose the direction which they have taken lately....Ignore the constituents and make decisions according to party lines and politically traded favors? One would think that these men who have been elected to represent us are intelligent to make the choice that keeps them elected. Yet evidence shows otherwise. Will this protest make a difference? Or will it be ignored by incumbents and political parties alike?
We can choose to elect others, if we are given a choice, or if we choose to vote against the current party structure. Let us hope we can have a candidate (or candidates) for which we do not have to hold our nose, but rather one which we can enthusiastically support.
Before there is a revolution.
SRSLY.
Keep pissing us off, next time there will be 5 million. Then things might get ugly.
BTW, anyone notice that the trash left by this group is about 1% of the trash left by the attendees of the inauguration or that of the election party in Chicago? Perhaps the conservatives folks are really more green that the liberals...
Or will this die down and die before the 2010 election and will we as a people choose to elect more of the same?
One thing I hope that we can shout to our officials is that we are here, and we won't go away. We have been told that we, each of us, was alone in our anger and protest. We know better now. We know that each of us has tens (hundreds?) of thousands of sisters and brothers who feel the same anger, and the same frustration. Each of us now knows that we are not alone.
Will the GOP and the libertarians learn a lesson here? Will they give us more of the same....More RHINO's and more Democrat Lite? Will they learn and support those who would truly represent what the people want and seek? Or will they choose to again throw the opportunity away, and give the people an even less appealing candidate than the trash that the DNC throws to us for a choice of representative in 20 10 and 2012 and, in 2 years, president in 2012? Or will they present us with a choice that we can get behind, choose to support and campaign for, and who is electable? I mention the RNC and the Libertarians, because the DNC is apparently a lost cause....
Will the leadership in the Senate and the House decide to listen, or will they stubbornly choose the direction which they have taken lately....Ignore the constituents and make decisions according to party lines and politically traded favors? One would think that these men who have been elected to represent us are intelligent to make the choice that keeps them elected. Yet evidence shows otherwise. Will this protest make a difference? Or will it be ignored by incumbents and political parties alike?
We can choose to elect others, if we are given a choice, or if we choose to vote against the current party structure. Let us hope we can have a candidate (or candidates) for which we do not have to hold our nose, but rather one which we can enthusiastically support.
Before there is a revolution.
SRSLY.
Keep pissing us off, next time there will be 5 million. Then things might get ugly.
BTW, anyone notice that the trash left by this group is about 1% of the trash left by the attendees of the inauguration or that of the election party in Chicago? Perhaps the conservatives folks are really more green that the liberals...
Friday, September 11, 2009
Yet another commentary on 9-11
This is, I know, long. I hope that you read it. I hope it makes you think.
The day was 9-11-09. It was a beautiful morning. A normal day. No one knew that this would be
the day that we in the US finally took notice of the war the Islamist radicals had declared on
us years ago.
A war it had been, just an ineffective war. Like flies buzzing around us, we ignored them,
occasionally swatting at them, neither side having much effect on the other. We as a nation
took no real notice of the danger, and we ignored those who would harm us. The warning signs
were there, and we had been given plenty of notice by the other side in their previous
attacks. But ignore them we did.
No more. On that day, we learned, we took notice. But did we, as a nation, learn?
I remember thinking that it was a terrible accident, that morning, seeing the pictures on TV.
But knowing nothing, I left for work, not realizing that we were at war. I though it was just
another day, albeit one in which a errant airliner had had an accident.
At work about an hour later, I remember my employee telling me..."another one! Another plane
just hit the other tower!". I knew then, that very moment, that we were at war. I said to my
staff "the world as you know it has just changed, nothing will be the same after this day".
Was I right?
Have we changed? For a few months after the attacks, we pulled together as a nation, as a
people.
But how soon we forget.
Sadly, 8 years later, most have forgotten the horror that we all felt that day. Sadly, we
forgot the fear and anger that pulled us together. Islamic radicals are far away, being bled
and distracted by our finest young men and women, in a place most of us don't really care
about. We care little that our soldiers are undergoing deprivation and are under constant
deadly danger in order that we might have the luxury to forget.
And forget we have.
The additional security at airports, while probably ineffective (we really don't know or have
any way to measure), is just an additional irritation to the ordeal of flying somewhere.... No
one has really cared about the changes in the alert level...green, orange, yellow, red... We
really pay little notice and care even less. Do you know, right now, what the current "color
of the day" is? Do you care?
No one knows what the Bush administration has done to protect us, or the Obama administration either....How many successes have they had, of which we know nothing? How many plots foiled? All we know is that there have been no major attacks on our soil since that day.
Yet.
All that they (the islamists) have to do to succeed in elevating our fear and terror is to
succeed one more time. Until then, we might never know how many times our government has
successfully guarded us. We will only know if they fail.
Perhaps then we as a nation will remember, and pull together once more, forgetting our petty
squabbles and turning as one people to face a common enemy.
From where I sit, we have forgotten. We as a nation have let the lessons of that day slip from
our consciousness, and fall away to the abyss of obscurity. And for that, I am ashamed.
Individuals may still remember, many, such as myself, will never forget. But most, fed drivel
by the mainstream media, have indeed forgotten the horror and anger of that terrible day.
I have not forgotten. Have you?
Have your forgotten the day where we, the most powerful nation were attacked by a few men
using our own airplanes against us? Have you forgotten the fear, the anger (and yes, the hate)
that flowed like water that day? Have you forgotten that while on the first two planes people
(as far as we know) did not fight back, when the truth became known to the third set of
passengers that instead of being sheep, some occupants of that third airplane became wolves
instead and fought back? Can you remember the fact that for a short time, we became one people instead of blue or red, and for once, acted as a nation instead of a bunch of selfish, childish, individuals?
I have not forgotten. I remember those days with horror, and anger, and pride. Many have
forgotten, and many more will in the years to come.
I won't. Ever.
Will you?
The day was 9-11-09. It was a beautiful morning. A normal day. No one knew that this would be
the day that we in the US finally took notice of the war the Islamist radicals had declared on
us years ago.
A war it had been, just an ineffective war. Like flies buzzing around us, we ignored them,
occasionally swatting at them, neither side having much effect on the other. We as a nation
took no real notice of the danger, and we ignored those who would harm us. The warning signs
were there, and we had been given plenty of notice by the other side in their previous
attacks. But ignore them we did.
No more. On that day, we learned, we took notice. But did we, as a nation, learn?
I remember thinking that it was a terrible accident, that morning, seeing the pictures on TV.
But knowing nothing, I left for work, not realizing that we were at war. I though it was just
another day, albeit one in which a errant airliner had had an accident.
At work about an hour later, I remember my employee telling me..."another one! Another plane
just hit the other tower!". I knew then, that very moment, that we were at war. I said to my
staff "the world as you know it has just changed, nothing will be the same after this day".
Was I right?
Have we changed? For a few months after the attacks, we pulled together as a nation, as a
people.
But how soon we forget.
Sadly, 8 years later, most have forgotten the horror that we all felt that day. Sadly, we
forgot the fear and anger that pulled us together. Islamic radicals are far away, being bled
and distracted by our finest young men and women, in a place most of us don't really care
about. We care little that our soldiers are undergoing deprivation and are under constant
deadly danger in order that we might have the luxury to forget.
And forget we have.
The additional security at airports, while probably ineffective (we really don't know or have
any way to measure), is just an additional irritation to the ordeal of flying somewhere.... No
one has really cared about the changes in the alert level...green, orange, yellow, red... We
really pay little notice and care even less. Do you know, right now, what the current "color
of the day" is? Do you care?
No one knows what the Bush administration has done to protect us, or the Obama administration either....How many successes have they had, of which we know nothing? How many plots foiled? All we know is that there have been no major attacks on our soil since that day.
Yet.
All that they (the islamists) have to do to succeed in elevating our fear and terror is to
succeed one more time. Until then, we might never know how many times our government has
successfully guarded us. We will only know if they fail.
Perhaps then we as a nation will remember, and pull together once more, forgetting our petty
squabbles and turning as one people to face a common enemy.
From where I sit, we have forgotten. We as a nation have let the lessons of that day slip from
our consciousness, and fall away to the abyss of obscurity. And for that, I am ashamed.
Individuals may still remember, many, such as myself, will never forget. But most, fed drivel
by the mainstream media, have indeed forgotten the horror and anger of that terrible day.
I have not forgotten. Have you?
Have your forgotten the day where we, the most powerful nation were attacked by a few men
using our own airplanes against us? Have you forgotten the fear, the anger (and yes, the hate)
that flowed like water that day? Have you forgotten that while on the first two planes people
(as far as we know) did not fight back, when the truth became known to the third set of
passengers that instead of being sheep, some occupants of that third airplane became wolves
instead and fought back? Can you remember the fact that for a short time, we became one people instead of blue or red, and for once, acted as a nation instead of a bunch of selfish, childish, individuals?
I have not forgotten. I remember those days with horror, and anger, and pride. Many have
forgotten, and many more will in the years to come.
I won't. Ever.
Will you?
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Watching Mr. Obama's speech
I am torn between :
Damn, he sure talks purty....("gee, Mr. Taggart, you use your mouth better than a twenty dollar whore")
And:
Liar! Liar!... pant's on fire!
Smooth delivery of a very carefully parsed speech, that leaves out a lot of details, and skips over a lot of things that are legitimate concerns. Skipping over the issues that are concerns, he highlights the good, while glossing over the details that are unpalatable to most Americans who care. He did downgrade the number of uninsured from, IIRC, 47 million to 30 million. Must have decided to not count those illegals he now has promised he won't cover...for today.
"Trust me" still remains the best thing he can come up with..."I can fix this for all of you" and "it won't cost anyone anything. I promise"....."I don't want to get rid of insurance companies, but I will undercut them with government backed plans".
No matter how you slice it, it is socialism. If he and his cohorts really wanted to fix things, they could. But they won't. They want socialized health care. Insurance reform isn't enough. Tax reform for health insurance purchased without your employer isn't even on the table. It's all about control. All the rest is empty promises, twisted truths, and outright lies. If you don't see that, then you are blinded by His light. And a fool.
If his plan is worth anything, he will present a plan and let the public review it for 90 days....rather than try to shove it down our throats. Betcha he doesn't.
Hats off to the man who cried "liar!" during his speech. Hope the Secret Service and Capitol Police don't stick the nightstick too far up hurt him too badly. That took balls.
More here
Damn, he sure talks purty....("gee, Mr. Taggart, you use your mouth better than a twenty dollar whore")
And:
Liar! Liar!... pant's on fire!
Smooth delivery of a very carefully parsed speech, that leaves out a lot of details, and skips over a lot of things that are legitimate concerns. Skipping over the issues that are concerns, he highlights the good, while glossing over the details that are unpalatable to most Americans who care. He did downgrade the number of uninsured from, IIRC, 47 million to 30 million. Must have decided to not count those illegals he now has promised he won't cover...for today.
"Trust me" still remains the best thing he can come up with..."I can fix this for all of you" and "it won't cost anyone anything. I promise"....."I don't want to get rid of insurance companies, but I will undercut them with government backed plans".
No matter how you slice it, it is socialism. If he and his cohorts really wanted to fix things, they could. But they won't. They want socialized health care. Insurance reform isn't enough. Tax reform for health insurance purchased without your employer isn't even on the table. It's all about control. All the rest is empty promises, twisted truths, and outright lies. If you don't see that, then you are blinded by His light. And a fool.
If his plan is worth anything, he will present a plan and let the public review it for 90 days....rather than try to shove it down our throats. Betcha he doesn't.
Hats off to the man who cried "liar!" during his speech. Hope the Secret Service and Capitol Police don't stick the nightstick too far up hurt him too badly. That took balls.
More here
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
"cause we know what's best for you....
Fines for those who do not purchase or otherwise obtain health insurance....
That's the new proposition.
Despite promises to the contrary, we all knew that it would come. The only good thing is that they let it out sooner, rather than later.
More here
If this is a surprise to you, then you really haven't been paying enough attention....
SRSLY
That's the new proposition.
Despite promises to the contrary, we all knew that it would come. The only good thing is that they let it out sooner, rather than later.
More here
If this is a surprise to you, then you really haven't been paying enough attention....
SRSLY
Via RobertaX comes another reason why Britain, Europe, (and, at the rate that we are traveling in their direction) the US will soon stope circling the rim, and take the plunge as a culture.
Go here to learn about the latest reason to leave Britain, especially if you have kids.
Instead of solving the problem, the Brits just hide from it. And they fail to address the real issues behind their problem.
Thus leading to a lessening of their culture and country.
To think "that the sun never set on the British empire", and now they have only this as a legacy.
Sad.
Go here to learn about the latest reason to leave Britain, especially if you have kids.
Instead of solving the problem, the Brits just hide from it. And they fail to address the real issues behind their problem.
Thus leading to a lessening of their culture and country.
To think "that the sun never set on the British empire", and now they have only this as a legacy.
Sad.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Taught a new rifleman yesterday. Honed my skills as well.
But most importantly, taught the safe handling, rules and skills that were passed to me by my father, his father, and others, to another generation that he might be ready when and if he is needed. Nothing like passing knowledge on to another. That sharing leaves both teacher and student richer for the experience.
Tough decisions....Or, who are the enemies of the constitution?
The oaths begin the same way....
Enlisted men's oath
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;.... "
Officer's oath
"I, _____ , having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic....."
Both of these oaths state that the taker of the oath "will defend and support the constitution. So what does a military man do when the people giving orders (the lawfully elected and sworn government) may well be the domestic enemies of the state? When the president (and congress) has trampled on the constitution (and I am not just talking about the current president, lest there be any question about that)? When the government from which they take their orders is the entity destroying and violating the constitution which they swore to defend.
I ask because I am not sure how the members of the military can follow orders of the president, or not depose the Senate or the House members...They (the government officials) have become the enemies against which the military has sworn to defend...
Make no mistake, I am glad that they don't. But, they do have justification.....
What would you do if you were a general? The right thing? or follow the leaders who have violated the very thing you swore to defend?
Enlisted men's oath
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;.... "
Officer's oath
"I, _____ , having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic....."
Both of these oaths state that the taker of the oath "will defend and support the constitution. So what does a military man do when the people giving orders (the lawfully elected and sworn government) may well be the domestic enemies of the state? When the president (and congress) has trampled on the constitution (and I am not just talking about the current president, lest there be any question about that)? When the government from which they take their orders is the entity destroying and violating the constitution which they swore to defend.
I ask because I am not sure how the members of the military can follow orders of the president, or not depose the Senate or the House members...They (the government officials) have become the enemies against which the military has sworn to defend...
Make no mistake, I am glad that they don't. But, they do have justification.....
What would you do if you were a general? The right thing? or follow the leaders who have violated the very thing you swore to defend?
The only valuable thing
from sipseystreetirregulars
I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken
I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken
Sunday, September 6, 2009
It's all about power...Theirs over ours. If we allow it.
"We will not disarm.
You cannot convince us.
You cannot intimidate us.
You can try to kill us, if you think you can.
But remember, we'll shoot back.
And we are not going away.
Your move."
and:
It's not about health care, taxes, guns, or any other single issue.
It's about freedom from further government oppression, and a rollback of previous tyranny.
They insist on pushing forward.
We will not fall back.
War -- actual shooting war between freedom-loving Americans and those who would expand the life-by-theft modus operandi of both Looter and Moocher -- is therefore inevitable.
Come to Washington on September 10-13 and join us in defying those who would presume to be our masters.
Not my words, but I wish that they were. But the sentiment is one with which I can agree.
More.. (the rest of the article) here. Worth the read.
If, of course, you are serious about freedom.
Are there enough of us? Enough who care? Enough willing to do something?
Or are we all armchair quarterbacks...?
I spent the day at the range today. Practicing for "the day" should it occur. Polishing skills passed on to me by my father and his father. Honing the one skill I might offer my country and its citizens in their time of need. Passing those skills onto another as well. I may not be good for much, but I can shoot. Not as well as some, but better than most.
Men are not deer, nor are they paper. They may however, be targets.
I hope that day never comes.....If it does, are you ready?
Or will you hide in your home and let others do the dirty while you cower?
You cannot convince us.
You cannot intimidate us.
You can try to kill us, if you think you can.
But remember, we'll shoot back.
And we are not going away.
Your move."
and:
It's not about health care, taxes, guns, or any other single issue.
It's about freedom from further government oppression, and a rollback of previous tyranny.
They insist on pushing forward.
We will not fall back.
War -- actual shooting war between freedom-loving Americans and those who would expand the life-by-theft modus operandi of both Looter and Moocher -- is therefore inevitable.
Come to Washington on September 10-13 and join us in defying those who would presume to be our masters.
Not my words, but I wish that they were. But the sentiment is one with which I can agree.
More.. (the rest of the article) here. Worth the read.
If, of course, you are serious about freedom.
Are there enough of us? Enough who care? Enough willing to do something?
Or are we all armchair quarterbacks...?
I spent the day at the range today. Practicing for "the day" should it occur. Polishing skills passed on to me by my father and his father. Honing the one skill I might offer my country and its citizens in their time of need. Passing those skills onto another as well. I may not be good for much, but I can shoot. Not as well as some, but better than most.
Men are not deer, nor are they paper. They may however, be targets.
I hope that day never comes.....If it does, are you ready?
Or will you hide in your home and let others do the dirty while you cower?
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Flying too high.....
with wax wings....
You can't say it much better than that.
But THIS is funny...and, sadly, somewhat representative of reality.
HT: The blogfather
You can't say it much better than that.
But THIS is funny...and, sadly, somewhat representative of reality.
HT: The blogfather
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you....
Protests Protests Protests!
Seems Mr Chavez isn't all that well liked as the press would have had us believe a few months ago....
I expect serious dissatisfaction to break out here in the US about Feb. of 2010. And it will be expressed at the ballot box and perhaps in other ways.
Seems that socialist policies don't make everyone happier and better off...
Would that Mr Obama, Ms Pelosi, and all of the other socialist Democrats realize this sooner rather than later.
Before we begin circling the rim like Britain and Venezuela. Before it's too late for us... as, I fear, it is for them.
Seems Mr Chavez isn't all that well liked as the press would have had us believe a few months ago....
I expect serious dissatisfaction to break out here in the US about Feb. of 2010. And it will be expressed at the ballot box and perhaps in other ways.
Seems that socialist policies don't make everyone happier and better off...
Would that Mr Obama, Ms Pelosi, and all of the other socialist Democrats realize this sooner rather than later.
Before we begin circling the rim like Britain and Venezuela. Before it's too late for us... as, I fear, it is for them.
The new meme:
"We are socialist already"
Yep, I have heard it 4 times now from liberals.
Once from my brother, a state away, who is not so much a liberal as a follower....His wife was an academic who had to get a job in the private sector to pay her bills, but an unrepentant liberal nonetheless.
Once from a union man. A Teamster. Salt of the earth kinda guy, but a Teamster.....He regurgitates all of the liberal cant that is repeated at union hall meetings.
Once from an academic at VU....this is the sort of thing that one might expect from an academic at a state run university, but from a Lutheran university???
And once today, Saturday....I had business downtown, and, just for fun, stopped to laugh and point at the 6 (rather pathetic looking, I might add) folks waving signs (no longer pre-printed, but actual handmade signs so that we might think that they weren't astroturf or anything...) promoting government option health care. After watching them for a few minutes, I engaged the brightest looking one in conversation, asking him how he could stand behind such a socialist agenda as government run health care....His first response was "well, we are halfway socialist anyway....Medicare, roads, military, and police and fire and interstate highways are "socialist" endeavors, paid for by all for the "common good".... so why not health care?"
I did try to discuss the ideas with him, but it became apparent that he was not willing to discuss things, but rather was just going to repeat his memorized lines, so I politely thanked him for his time and wandered off. He returned to the group, no doubt thinking and crowing that he had chased away another conservative...Let him think so. It doesn't hurt me to have him feel good about his failure.
But the point of all of this is that this appears to be the new meme....."We are halfway socialist already, so what is one more socialist program or agenda item?"
Just wondering if others have come across this meme, and have you any good way to crush the assumptions that are so erroneous? Roads are paid for (at least in my state) by fuel taxes, as are the highways. Police and fire I can sort of understand, and couldn't argue with and the same with military, (except they are all part of the "common defense" mentioned in the Constitution.)
But is this going to be their next theme that they shall use to convince a few more people that socialized medicine is a good idea? Just another step down the road to pure socialism? Am I supposed to think that that is a good thing?
Please let me know.
Yep, I have heard it 4 times now from liberals.
Once from my brother, a state away, who is not so much a liberal as a follower....His wife was an academic who had to get a job in the private sector to pay her bills, but an unrepentant liberal nonetheless.
Once from a union man. A Teamster. Salt of the earth kinda guy, but a Teamster.....He regurgitates all of the liberal cant that is repeated at union hall meetings.
Once from an academic at VU....this is the sort of thing that one might expect from an academic at a state run university, but from a Lutheran university???
And once today, Saturday....I had business downtown, and, just for fun, stopped to laugh and point at the 6 (rather pathetic looking, I might add) folks waving signs (no longer pre-printed, but actual handmade signs so that we might think that they weren't astroturf or anything...) promoting government option health care. After watching them for a few minutes, I engaged the brightest looking one in conversation, asking him how he could stand behind such a socialist agenda as government run health care....His first response was "well, we are halfway socialist anyway....Medicare, roads, military, and police and fire and interstate highways are "socialist" endeavors, paid for by all for the "common good".... so why not health care?"
I did try to discuss the ideas with him, but it became apparent that he was not willing to discuss things, but rather was just going to repeat his memorized lines, so I politely thanked him for his time and wandered off. He returned to the group, no doubt thinking and crowing that he had chased away another conservative...Let him think so. It doesn't hurt me to have him feel good about his failure.
But the point of all of this is that this appears to be the new meme....."We are halfway socialist already, so what is one more socialist program or agenda item?"
Just wondering if others have come across this meme, and have you any good way to crush the assumptions that are so erroneous? Roads are paid for (at least in my state) by fuel taxes, as are the highways. Police and fire I can sort of understand, and couldn't argue with and the same with military, (except they are all part of the "common defense" mentioned in the Constitution.)
But is this going to be their next theme that they shall use to convince a few more people that socialized medicine is a good idea? Just another step down the road to pure socialism? Am I supposed to think that that is a good thing?
Please let me know.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Start with them when they are young....
"When an opponent declares, `I will not come over to your side,' I calmly say, `Your child belongs to us already.. . . What are you ? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else"
Adolph Hitler, 1939
See also this: I PLEDGE (ESPECIALLY FROM ABOUT 3:54 ON !) " I pledge allegiance to Obama"??
If this doesn't make your hackles stand up, then you are either drugged into senselessness, brain dead, drunk, or were born with the intelligence of a rutabaga.
I mean, damn, this is scary. Very. Disturbing even.
What will be the Obama salute? Hitler had one....One arm raised...
I will, of course, salute him thusly, using only one finger....
She lets 'em have it.
This lady got her say....Wonder if anyone listened? (HT TB2K)
More of this is needed, until they get the message.
Until and unless, of course, we as citizens decide to buy some rope, and find a few handy trees for those who don't....
Or we water the tree of liberty. Any of the three works for me.
Lets hope that they listen so we don't have to take other measures.
More of this is needed, until they get the message.
Until and unless, of course, we as citizens decide to buy some rope, and find a few handy trees for those who don't....
Or we water the tree of liberty. Any of the three works for me.
Lets hope that they listen so we don't have to take other measures.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Just like Mao
http://servicewire.org/node/6620
Mr Obama will address the schoolchildren and exhort them to "do more, do something for your country....." and "Obama will address students "about the importance of persisting and succeeding in school" at 1 p.m. Eastern at the WhiteHouse.gov website. The announcement said the federal Department of "is encouraging educators, students and parents to use this opportunity to help students get focused and begin the school year strong." The government also is publicizing a list of suggestions for students and teachers to do in preparation for the speech, including studying Barack Obama's writings and presidency. Obama had announced the speech during a child reporter's visiting the White House.
Not everyone is happy about it though....."You can call it what you will but Obama Youth or Hitler Youth … This is much too slippery a slope, this day and age with the role of government becoming more invasive the last thing I want is for 'them' to get a tooth into my kids,"
More HERE
He might just want to try and make a difference in kids education by persuading them to do well in school......But then again, his record so far makes one wonder...what will he say? The NEA has already indoctrinated so many children already, so what will he say to make a real difference?
"Obama Youth Corps" anyone?
One wonders....
Mr Obama will address the schoolchildren and exhort them to "do more, do something for your country....." and "Obama will address students "about the importance of persisting and succeeding in school" at 1 p.m. Eastern at the WhiteHouse.gov website. The announcement said the federal Department of "is encouraging educators, students and parents to use this opportunity to help students get focused and begin the school year strong." The government also is publicizing a list of suggestions for students and teachers to do in preparation for the speech, including studying Barack Obama's writings and presidency. Obama had announced the speech during a child reporter's visiting the White House.
Not everyone is happy about it though....."You can call it what you will but Obama Youth or Hitler Youth … This is much too slippery a slope, this day and age with the role of government becoming more invasive the last thing I want is for 'them' to get a tooth into my kids,"
More HERE
He might just want to try and make a difference in kids education by persuading them to do well in school......But then again, his record so far makes one wonder...what will he say? The NEA has already indoctrinated so many children already, so what will he say to make a real difference?
"Obama Youth Corps" anyone?
One wonders....
Things never change....
and somehow....we never learn.
Same mistakes, over and over and over.
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." ~ Cicero - 55 BC
Sound familiar?
Thought so.
Same mistakes, over and over and over.
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." ~ Cicero - 55 BC
Sound familiar?
Thought so.
Via TB2K I bring you THIS:
FOXNews.comWednesday, September 02, 2009
Van Jones, the Obama administration's "green jobs" adviser, told a group of listeners earlier in the year that the reason Republicans are stonewalling the president is because they're "assholes."
Jones' remarks were recorded in a video from February that was posted to YouTube.
He made the remark during an energy lecture in Berkeley, Calif., after a woman in the audience asked him why President Obama and congressional Democrats were having trouble moving legislation -- even though Republicans, with a smaller majority, didn't have as much trouble earlier in the Bush administration. "Well, the answer to that is, they're assholes," Jones said, to uproarious laughter. "That's a technical, political science term."
Apparently, it was ok to block the Bush administraation's legislation, but not the Obama administration's.
These people act like children. Poorly raised children at that.
The scary part is that they are nominally in charge now.
"Hope and Change" and all that.
FOXNews.comWednesday, September 02, 2009
Van Jones, the Obama administration's "green jobs" adviser, told a group of listeners earlier in the year that the reason Republicans are stonewalling the president is because they're "assholes."
Jones' remarks were recorded in a video from February that was posted to YouTube.
He made the remark during an energy lecture in Berkeley, Calif., after a woman in the audience asked him why President Obama and congressional Democrats were having trouble moving legislation -- even though Republicans, with a smaller majority, didn't have as much trouble earlier in the Bush administration. "Well, the answer to that is, they're assholes," Jones said, to uproarious laughter. "That's a technical, political science term."
Apparently, it was ok to block the Bush administraation's legislation, but not the Obama administration's.
These people act like children. Poorly raised children at that.
The scary part is that they are nominally in charge now.
"Hope and Change" and all that.
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