Happy New Year, America

The arrival of a new year is both hopeful and daunting. There are surprises of all sorts just around the corner.

My outlook on things over the past few years has not been good. Largely, I confess, it still isn't. There are challenges ahead of us. Great ones.

Yet, surely I do not need to be reminded again -- at 43 years of age -- the best way to overcome obstacles is to deal with them actively as best you can. If they are great, they cannot be overcome over night. If they are widespread, it may be necessary for many to work in unison with others to combat them. But no matter the size, small or large, ignoring them doesn't work, and, typically, neither does yelling at them. Though that approach keeps my blood pressure lower.

It's no secret to others who know me what a disaster I think the last few years have been under a disingenuous Administration more determined to undermine and weaken America than accent her strengths, celebrate her possibilities, inspire her to ever more. No, that is not the group we're now dealing with. And, yeah, I've been inclined to scream just that from the hill tops to anyone who might be willing to listen.

Perhaps some good came from it, still can . . . I hope, as I'm not apt to stop.

But something more is needed. Americans who care about America must now act, individually celebrate and become what and who it is they most believe can help to right the ship.

In this new year, in 2011, a year I'm not sure I personally have a lot of hope for, I will be starting my first ever small business. I'm excited about it, whatever is out there. I feel good about it because whatever surprises lie ahead, I'm going to be personally celebrating the free market, the individually opportunities I like to preach about. Taking part and doing, after all, is the best testimony to what you believe. It is, well, so very, very American.

I plan to not only practice what I preach, but work my ass off to turn my ideas into something. Something I can be proud of. Something which might inspire others. Something which will be a testament to and of the America I love.



The Power of the American Individual comes from a multitude of freedoms, manifests from an unique individual experience and point of view. Individual grains of sand constituting a beautiful beach.

It is my time to try to build a sand castle.

Happy New Year in 2011, America.

Old People With A Bullseye On Their Chest

This morning when I woke up it was cold. I hate cold. (HATE cold.)

So, I lingered in bed as long as I could do so with the cooperation of the three dogs burrowed in around me. I flipped on the radio for mental stimulation, hoping something in me would want to move, generate some energy.

What I heard on the radio was a former Brit talking about how government run healthcare in the United Kingdom killed his father and pronounced his mother dead seven years early. As he well put it, when you take profit out of health care it becomes all about cost, the older you are the more you are simply taking funds away from younger individuals who will be sending money in to government for many more years to come. When you budget for anything, certain items, efforts, LIVES, obviously take precedence over others.

Sad that so many Americans -- land of the free, home of the brave -- still are taken in by the b.s. that is government doing ANYTHING well for us, much less handing over decisions for their own health care.

Sarah Palin and Tea Party members over the last year have derided Obamacare for the "death panels" it will obviously lead to. Its Leftists supporters said that would not happen, but it's come up yet again, of course, because just as Simon Conway (the Brit) said this morning, once profit is removed from health care, it's all about cost. Some people will "cost" more than others. The older you are the more you have a target on your chest.



"Death panels" can't exist in this country. No way. That's what they say. Yet, they have already been with us.

Many now may know -- but more NEED to know -- the story of Barbara Wagner in Oregon. She was 64 years old when she found lung cancer, previously in remission, had returned. She filed with the Oregon Health Plan -- they've been doing it the socialist way in Oregon for some time -- for a potentially life-saving drug which would cost $4,000 per month. She was denied the drug, but, with the big hearts of bureaucrats, they did offer to help her DIE.



With a new more Conservative congress, there will be efforts to halt funding of Obamacare, if not repeal all together.

Americans who value freedom, who value their health, who value and appreciate our older Americans, who want this country to return to sanity, should maintain pressure on their elected representatives to ensure this happens.

This is important. If this legislation is not repealed, halted before full implementation, our country as we have always known it is done, a memory getting more distant in our rear view mirror.

The idea of life, our country under Obamacare makes cold and dreary weather seem attractive by comparison.

What IS The Purpose Of Government?

So, what do YOU think it is?

To me, it's to cover what the individual CANNOT. It does not include what the individual can do, but does not want to.

Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and most every other big government program is designed to simply leave a weaker individual desirous of more from big brother.

And with each new program, each new spending spree, the individual is weaker both for his own decrease in self-reliance AND for the increased tax burden he faces to pay for them.



This problem, of course, isn't owned exclusively by the federal government, but also by states, by counties, by cities.

New York City over the last year under the leadership of perpetual elitist nanny Michael Bloomberg has encroached on the choices and rights of its citizens by mandating what they can and cannot eat, making it illegal for fast food restaurants to locate within a certain distance of schools, and raising cigarette taxes yet again.

Yet, in the last few days, as a blizzard has halted much activity in the northeast, New York residents have found the city unable to fulfill an actual responsibility: CLEARING CITY STREETS OF SNOW! Now, of course, they're upset. You can take salt from a Liberal's food, apparently, but they do get upset when you fail to put it on their roads.

Now, because of government's failure to clear and salt streets, two are dead. Liberalism, as many have known, KILLS, both the spirit, the soul and the body.


And when government does 'work', watch out.

Too bad these idiot New York Liberals always fail to connect the dots which got them here, will lead to more and more problems down the road. And, eventually, bankruptcy.

The government you empower to run your life is the government you empower to ruin it.

And LOTS Of Surprises

When I was a kid there was a local television show every Christmas which featured area children sitting on Santa's lap and telling him all they hoped to find under the tree Christmas morning. Kids, no matter the year, the decade, internet, television or radio, they've got at least a few ideas. So, it usually started quickly with items highest on their list, those they could remember easily, then ultimately wound down to the proverbial . . . "and lots of surprises". That's the catch all, the "I want it, even if I don't remember it".

"And lots of surprises". Genius.



As we get older, maybe not a lot changes. We want the good stuff. The surprises, well, we say we want them, but we often find they are not quite as appealing.

Over the last few years, and maybe a bit longer, many Americans have found the surprises have outpaced, outnumbered the good stuff, often been a real challenge to deal with.

I like to pontificate, hop upon my soap box and let it all out. It's both a vent my doctor might appreciate because my blood pressure is not even higher, and a way for me to try to make sense of it all, ensure I'm not out there all alone, screaming at a wall, the only one who thinks as I do. It's been nice to know it's not just the wall, there are others like me.

Yet I've realized, through it all, that unlike those children, I've lost that ability and longing for the surprises. They're not always fun, yet they do keep it interesting. And sometimes, yes, sometimes, they prove we deserved all the nice things we asked for and got.

I still think of America as that shining city on a hill, my friends. But it doesn't stay shiny without the inhabitants cleaning the windows, sweeping the streets, taking pride in and appreciating all it has to offer. Sometimes we are tested, and must prove our worth to inhabit such a fine city.

While I wouldn't take back one word I have personally said over the past few years, in 2011, no matter my view for the outlook of the country on a macro perspective, I will work that much harder to make certain my micro view IS demonstrative of what I believe and want -- what I have often been found preaching about -- both for myself and for the nation at large.

The holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas are well placed before the beginning of a new year. While I take stock of my blessings and all that I need to work on personally, I am also looking to 2011 to do some window cleaning, some street sweeping, maybe even erect a few new buildings dedicated to what I love about this country most, to prove myself a worthy inhabitant.

Shining cities, after all, require upkeep.

Merry Christmas, and best wishes for a surprisingly good 2011, friends and American patriots.

Sad Times. Sadder President.

Just me?

Can you believe this guy so many Americans so enthusiastically voted for two years ago?

It would be funny to watch if what he's done, what he wants to do wasn't so destructive for the country, for our place in the world.

He's like a big baby up there WHINING. A true narcissist, he can't deal with any criticism, can't accept blame for his faults and inadequacies, which are many.

Waih. Waih.



Came across this video on youtube. It's a crying baby someone has tried to make sound better, like something other than what it is. And, well, isn't that what the media has been doing for this chump his entire public life?



Yes. Leftists need to tend to their baby. Much (most?) of America is growing tired of him and his constant crying.

A Bad Case Of Chicken Fox

Fox News is blasted by Leftists for a Conservative bias.

Yeah, right. Anything would look a bit more Conservative when all the other news stations out there are anti-American propagandists fully on board the Obama agenda to undermine and destroy America.

Fox, to my view, falls short of accusations of the Left, and the praise of many on the Right.

There are surely some Conservative opinions spotlighted on Fox, just as there are ones from the Left. You've got Sean Hannity, who seems to have a group of about four or five shows replayed over and over with a few topics of the day added in along with his same lame, uh, insights. Bill O'Reilly is no Conservative. Not sure he is a Liberal, either, more like a fan club of one for himself.



If there's one show on Fox truly doing what all of Fox is accused of, it is Glenn Beck's. Beck day in and day out confronts the radicalism of this Administration, the people in it and who are associated with it, those working behind the scenes. Beck and his obviously immense staff of researchers do what MORE of Fox should be doing.

Fox is portrayed as being a terrific source for news coverage, of exposing and investigating the serious topics of the day, but it's just not the case.

I believe we have a significant case of chicken Fox, bowing to the pressure of the Left, of their accusations, of the intense attacks by those radicals in the media who support Obama and his agenda.

On the show just after Beck each day, is probably the best news show on television, "Special Report" with Bret Baier. Alas, "best" may not be saying a lot. Topics deserving real scrutiny are often mentioned on the show in the 'Grapevine' and other segments never to be seen, heard from or covered again. Just a blip on the radar. Let's go back to more typical inside-the-beltway talking points, view points and pablum, ignoring the state of America and what is being done to her.



Glenn Beck often reminds viewers that he could not say what he says, expose what he does if it were not all true. Making the accusations that he does, he says, would get him immediately fired if there was not much evidence to back it all up.

Yet, in the next show after Beck's, it's largely business as usual in the nation's formerly great capital.

Last year James O'Keefe and Heather Giles became famous for exposing the corrupt group ACORN, which Barack Obama has worked with in the past. Earlier this year, O'Keefe took on the waste and sloppy ethics of United States census management.

At present, much attention is being placed on Julian Assange, an Australian who created the Wikileaks website. While Assange is surely an unscrupulous character who should be prosecuted for murder for any deaths of U.S. military who may result from his actions, with the government we have now, it's hard not to support a mission of finally exposing who is running this government, what they are doing to this country and why.

It does seem most everyone else is chicken.

Vote Palin in 2010

I’m definitely a Sarah Palin fan. If she runs in 2012, she’s got my vote. I voted enthusiastically for her in 2008. It was her running mate I had big problems with.

But I’m not waiting until 2012 to vote for a Palin. I’ll be casting my first ever Palin-specific vote for daughter Bristol – ‘The Pistol’ – on the ‘Dancing With The Stars’ finals.

She’s not the best dancer, I confess. But she is the only reason I have watched any of the show this year. Whether live or saved on the DVR, most times she’s the only one I watch. I have seen some others, but not a lot. The three left are, actually, the ones I like the most. But Palin is THE one I like most.



So, in the ‘Dancing With The Stars’ finale, I will be voting for Bristol Palin. It’s probably the closest to voting like a Liberal I’ll ever get. And it’s for a Palin!

Liberals tend to vote for the person they like the most. This time, that’s what I’m going to do.

Liberals like to vote for people based on who they are, rather than what they can actually do or accomplish. This time, that’s exactly what I’m doing.

Liberals especially like to vote for a “minority”, anyone they can identify as a “victim”. The way the Palin family has been treated by the media the last two years, that Bristol is female – still defined as a victim by the Left – and a young, unwed mother, yes, that’s exactly what I plan to do. I’m voting for the victim.

I’m voting for Bristol Palin because she’s so exceeded expectations, improved tremendously, wonderfully represented a portion of America rarely seen on that show. I’m voting for Bristol Palin because of the contestants who have been on that show who are in any way connected to the Conservative side of the political aisle, she’s definitely been the best. Admittedly, Tom Delay was embarrassing. But I never liked him in Congress either.

I AM going to vote for Bristol Palin and will be pushing every button on that telephone with a big smile on my face because I know if she wins, well, I know a lot of Liberals will need long, intensive therapy sessions. Some votes just keep on giving.

Palin 2010.

Beauty Lost

Societies, the times in which we live, everything, it all changes.

There have been songs on the subject.

Some changes are surely better than others. Some worse.

Change can't be stopped, but surely it can be managed, tailored, if a society so desires. Change can be big, and hard to miss. It can also be small, hardly noticeable until one day it's just there and you wonder how it all came about.

Of late, I've become interested in vintage tins. Yes, no question it's a sign of my own aging. Whether it was 'Antiques in the Attic' or 'Antiques Road Show' years ago, or 'American Pickers' now, I think we have a natural curiosity to wonder if something lying around the house might be worth a lot of money. Or, maybe just more than we'd initially suspect. It's been around a while, after all, it's got to be. What seems junk in the here and now always seems to be worth something later. I used to scold my mother for being a bit of a pack rat. Now, I wish she'd stored away more, it was still there to be rediscovered, enjoyed. Turns out it's not just 'stuff', but often times our history, both individually and all together.



These wonderful tins I've become interested in, developed an admiration and appreciation for, well, they're sort of amazing. Beautiful. So many produced for selling candy and cookies. Yeah, candy and cookies. So much time and effort to design, so much color and thought behind a landscape, a pattern. We've lost a lot of appreciation for real beauty, I think. A rush for this, a time table for that, we have to have it tomorrow because we needed it yesterday. The time and effort put into a candy tin once, it's symptomatic of much else, I believe. Often when a society, a culture, a world loses an appreciation for one thing, when you notice it, its a small piece of a larger puzzle. Life, love, relationships, perhaps much connected to something as simple as a candy tin. Lost, now missed and communicating -- whether intentionally or not -- something about us, the people who made the things, appreciated them and now make them no more.



A man who's often chastised in our society for his commentary on what we have lost, what we may be losing is Rush Limbaugh. In my opinion, his simple eloquence on what has made us great, how we could be greater, and what we still are losing is unmatched. If America has a voice of its national conscience, in my opinion, it would be him. His is the sort of common sense appreciation of America which is as simple, real and beautiful as the tins I've come to appreciate. I often wish more Americans listen to Rush, someone who speaks so eloquently of this country, possibly helping them better understand just how fortunate they are, instilling, reigniting in them that they can still be all that they can be as long as they have the freedom to do so. We have so many supposed leaders in this country who love to tell us why we can't and shouldn't, which makes it that much nicer to have someone like Rush who explains to us why we still can for ourselves, individually.

I listen to him religiously. One day, sometime over the last several years, he went off on an impromptu monologue as only Rush can do. He spoke of our society in soaring, yet somewhat regretful terms. I think it may have been around the time of the collapse of General Motors. He spoke of innovation and dreams, of appreciation and commitment, of an American spirit which saw nothing out of reach. He spoke of Americans' love of automobiles, of flying, of creating and inventing things and then MAKING them. No one speaks of this country with such a natural, easy and beautiful flow. I think it's because he so feels it, believes it, has experienced and seen it. It would be wonderful to have leaders who did such again.



But that, for now, may be lost, like these amazing, beautiful tins.

The Dangers Of Patriotism

Today was Veterans' Day. Thank you to all who have served.

You were surely dangerous to our enemies. I now find unabashed patriotism, which you often engender, is dangerous domestically.

I had the pleasure this morning of attending a Veterans' Day presentation at the Lake Highland Preparatory School in Orlando, Florida.

I was shocked. I wasn't sure such still existed in America: exuberant patriotism, celebration of America, of God, of all our blessings and those who have fought to ensure they continue.



There were probably 200 kids on that stage, dressed in red, white and blue, at times camouflage. There were no apologies for our country's greatness. Instead, a celebration of it.

Members of the military, current and past, were profiled, celebrated, shown in person and in video. Patriotic songs were sung with glee. A pledge to the flag was given, including that "one Nation, under God" part. God showed up a few times. I think he was pleased with the casting call.

Yes, patriotism is dangerous. To the Left. They likely wouldn't have so enjoyed this soaring, amazing, very traditionally American show.

If anyone there needed it, it was a terrific reminder of how fortunate we are to live in this country. It served to remind us to be thankful, to be proud, to be resolved, that others before us have encountered obstacles, difficult times and situations and persevered. No, many who are on the Left in this country would surely not have liked it.

Patriotic types such as myself no doubt loved it. Maybe even some who hadn't seen themselves as that before. And that's why such is so dangerous to the Left.

My Apologies

I would like to apologize.

After this week's elections, with "historic" results, I'm obviously supposed to be in a better mood, look to the future of this country with a more positive view.

I've tried. It's not working so well.

We're still in a hole and going deeper. I wanted a landslide, winners so emboldened they would immediately begin sounding the emergency horn, current office holders now convinced of our problems, called to action.

Maybe I'm wrong. But maybe I'm right. If we are moving in the right direction, we are not moving nearly fast enough.



I still can't help but see Thelma & Louise hitting the gas and going over the side, flying high above the canyon until, well, until they started plummeting downward. You could have placed a few stop signs for T & L to stop at on the way to the edge, but they still went over. I can't help but feel like we're all still in that convertible, screaming to the edge.



Mitch McConnell's words this week helped. I even liked John Boehner's speech, his crying episode, as I took it to mean he's serious, understands the weight of our times and truly appreciates the country we are losing. I've read and heard other good comments. There, and then not there, as so many simply seem NOT to get it.

We still face debt we can't individually imagine, piling on more. We have a growing number of homeowners in this country who are choosing to cease paying their mortgages because either others they know have stopped are still living in their homes, and / or because they believe the government will come to their aid if they join the distressed masses. Not paying, I've read in a number of accounts, gives them an increased amount of spending money. I've read some amazing examples of this. Yet, it sets off a whole new wave of dominoes, more and more uncontrollable, never-ending.

All of this, for anyone paying attention, with even a slight grasp of what is going on, creates more unease, more concern for where we are going. The problems may not have happened overnight, but many of the solutions now, I believe, must be implemented overnight, or at least now reasonably discussed and planned for.

But they are not. We are supposed to pretend, listen to a media which is pretending, misleading, none of it is there. All is fine.

I'm supposed to feel better, be ecstatic, I guess. I am not.

My apologies.

Ms. Kosmas, It Is Time For You To Go

Suzanne Kosmas is my current Congressional Representative and a LIAR. Below is my 'open letter' to you, a version of which will be sent to EVERY newspaper in her district.

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Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas –

One week from tomorrow I hope your constituents give you a resounding kick to your backside, sending you out of office in a manner commensurate with the degree to which you have voted against their best interests, against the best interests of this nation.

I see that recently you began running ads claiming Sandy Adams supports a 23% sales tax. Your ad, of course, does not include any facts which would explain such a claim, such as a support of the ‘Fair Tax’, a national sales tax which would replace ALL other federal taxes. Yeah, you left that out, sought to lie and distort.



After all, you cannot run on your record. You cannot run on your vote for Obamacare. You cannot run on your vote in the House for cap & trade legislation. You cannot run on your willingness to support anything and everything Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi have asked you to. You cannot run on weakness and duplicity, which you excel at. Cannot claim you are interested in individual freedom and liberty, when you constantly take positions to the contrary.

On November 2, your constituents will have their say. I suggest you start looking for property in San Francisco or Berkeley, where, perhaps, you may fit in much better.

It is time for you to go. Few will be sorry to see it.

Clyde Moore
Winter, Park, Florida

P.S. A version of this will be sent to EVERY newspaper in your district.

I Will Be That American I've Been Waiting For - It's Now, Or Truly Maybe Never

I am tired of it all. It feels now like this country, what is important to us and what has always helped us to stand above in the world has been under assault for decades.

And then, yes, it has. It’s only picked up pace in the past two years. That we didn’t fight earlier, correct what we knew was wrong, that has allowed it to all get so much worse.

I am tired of it. I know others are as well.

Yet, that is exactly what they – those who wish to forever change and transform this country, make it into something, increasingly, we do not recognize – that is what they are counting on.



So, with the spirit of America in your heart, with the love of freedom as your energy, I hope all who prize what is at stake will reach down within and rejuvenate, revive.

Many Americans are used to hoping for the best, still not used to getting involved to ensure that the best happens. Now, we must. I, for one, resolve to be that American I have been waiting for, knowing I must. If each of us does just that, we are unstoppable.

It is important to understand that that does not have to mean much more than simply incorporating your concerns into the interactions you have in everyday life. Share your concerns with others, tell them what you know. You are a walking source of information, a fountain of knowledge best shared. Do not assume others know what you know. Engage them in conversation. Educate and inform. Be for them that American they may be waiting for, need now more than ever.



Just last evening I was talking on the phone with my mother. She said she planned to go today to vote early. My mother has endured versions of my rants my entire life. Still, she maintains her sanity. And they’ve picked up steam in the last few years.

Still, she was planning to vote to re-elect her current congressman, Heath Shuler, because of an ad in which he claimed his opponent wanted a national 23% sales tax. It is a claim being made by a number of Democrats across the country, playing on their opponent’s support of the ‘Fair Tax’. Anyone remotely familiar with the Fair Tax knows it would be a REPLACEMENT of all other federal taxes, and meant to more ‘fairly’ capture tax revenue from all citizens based on consumption. It would eliminate tax loopholes, the ability for special interests to impact tax policy and much, much more. There are surely cons for such a plan and honest debate is legitimate. But misrepresenting it simply as a 23% national sales tax is disingenuous and a purposeful distortion. A lie.

That simple discussion, talking about issues, as we do, changed her vote, resulted in my letters to the editor of every publication in Western North Carolina to highlight Shuler’s misrepresentation of the facts and at least a few – as I understand a cousin was following suit – votes for his opponent. Shuler is one of those supposed “Blue Dog” Democrats, moderate, or maybe even Conservative. We’ve seen in the last year that these people do not exist.

The next few weeks are very important. They are perhaps as important as any such period in your life for impacting the future we desire for this country.

I am tired, but I will continue to speak out at all reasonable opportunities. The volume will increase, just in case others nearby might be waiting for an American just like myself.

Pledge To America

Republicans took a stab at it this past week.

Some great stuff in there. As I've heard others comment, my personal favorite is that each new piece of legislation must contain information which specifies WHY it is Constitutional.

THAT would surely be progress.

But let's be honest. We are at a very important, crucial time in this country. We do not need a band-aid on a bruised elbow, but more like major heart surgery.



It's taken us decades to get here; but, I am one of those who believes our time to correct the errors of our past are short before our challenges become that much more obvious, that much more challenging to overcome. We need to admit what we face as soon as possible, begin a dramatic and severe reworking and downsizing of government.

I like a lot of what Republicans have had to say. Yet, it was not nearly enough.

Turning government back to 2008 levels is like throwing a thimble of water on a house fire. We need serious conversations among serious people, with attentiveness from serious and patriotic Americans.

A few suggestions . . .

- End ALL foreign aid. All of it.

- Admit that we have a number "Departments" in Washington which need to be shuttered. Among those, Education, Energy and Environment would seem real possibilities. That doesn't mean we don't have people at a national level who are involved, but it does mean they are a waste of time, energy and money.

- Have all departments, areas of government come before a panel of select elected representatives (maybe others) and give them 10 minutes to justify themselves. Put it on CSPAN. Then, have people who can prove they have paid taxes in the past 5 years vote on what stays and goes.

Any of these three possible? Yes. Doesn't mean it's got to be just this way, but it's time to be serious, to understand the challenges before us and how we bring this country back to being the envy of the rest of the world.

It's time to get serious. That would be my favorite pledge to America.

America Is Pissed Off

Am I being sensational?

I don’t think so. Not if my mood is typical of what is going on in this country. Not if the mood of many I now interact with is common. I believe it IS common.

We are pissed off. We’ve got good reason to be. REASONS to be.

Is it Washington? Yes.

Is it the media? Yes.

Is it the economy? Yes, but now we’re nearly going in circles. The first two sort of cover it. No need to call crap by many different names. It all smells bad.



Barack Obama isn’t just the worst President ever. Many compare him to Jimmy Carter, but let’s be honest, Jimmy Carter was just a ridiculous fool. Barack Hussein Obama HATES this country. When you accept that, that’s the only time what he does and says makes sense. So, accept it.

And with the media covering his ass every step he takes, I’m going to assume most of them do as well.

Let’s deal in a few specifics.

Last Thursday night a sitting Senator of the United States, Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, said on a CNBC financial news and commentary show that the federal government of the United States is PURPOSEFULLY spending us into oblivion (“into a ditch” his words) to overwhelm our economic system to put yet more power and control into the hands of government, with a European (Soviet?) style system, including a massive VAT. (The Cloward-Piven Strategy? You bet.) The host of the show, Larry Kudlow, who likes to say he’s pro free market and but needs a set of Pollyanna braids to cover his bald head, had nothing to say after. Kudlow and his fellow imbeciles on GE / Obama TV regularly sweep inconvenient statistics and news under the rug so that they can continue their moronic Obama / Socialist cheering. Rick Santelli . . . . you really need to find a real company to work for. Surely Fox Business has a space for you. Any place would be better. Maria Caruso-Cabrera, Joe Kernen, you too.



Tonight, on ‘Special Report’ with Bret Baier on Fox News, another Wall Street commentator, commenting on an increase in foreclosures of 25% year over year in August, said that all the efforts of the Administration have made THINGS WORSE! Really? Ya think. Astounding . . . . armchair quarterbacks may not have a great reputation but we armchair economists have been kicking ass for the past year over inane, idiot sacks misguided economist crap! Seriously. Are you people supposed to have a CLUE? It is obvious you do not.

Obama and crew are out to DESTROY this country, as we know it. Glenn Beck is not the lunatic. The lunatics are the crap elected to run this country AND the people who have forgone the responsibilities of citizenship, voted them in 2008 on “hope” and “change”. And let’s not let the McCain people off the hook. Why did Republicans select one of the leaders of the immigration “reform” bill of 2007 – when the public went nuts – to be their nominee? Because the biased liberal media told you to do it. After all, if they weren’t going to get a Marxist nouveau Democrat, at least they could have a useless, wannabe RINO like McLame. Wow. Impressive, people. How about paying attention and understanding what is at stake next time?!!! I respect John McCain's past, I deplore his present. It's time to put this RINO out to pasture. (Thanks for skipping that opportunity, Arizona! And, please, whatever the daughter's name is . . . . GO AWAY.)



Now, we’re in a big damned hole and the people who are supposed to be our leaders have backhoes, jack hammers, and shovels, going deeper and telling us all along the way how warm it is down below as it gets darker and darker.

America is pissed off. Beyond pissed. And, yeah, taking some action via the normal channels. Elections have proven that we are prepared to take the trash out. Yet, now we hear so much pissing and moaning from the Washington insiders telling us how stupid we are, how the people we are electing have no place in politics, I guess it’s supposed to deter our momentum, but it’s only increasing my blood pressure, along with my DETERMINATION to have real and meaningful change come to the United States of America.

I’m trying to ignore the idiot talking heads, with little success. I respect these peoples’ opinions like I want to be water boarded. Bottom line, I am sick and tired of them and this 180-degrees-away-from-SANITY surreality has grown old. Yeah, I am pissed off like never before.

I’m not alone. There are many of me. I may even be a mild case.

Poor, Poor Michelle

Poor, poor Michelle Obama. She confided to her French counterpart, Carla Bruni, when asked what it’s like to be the First Lady of the United States: “Don’t ask! It’s hell. I can’t stand it!”



Poor, poor Michelle. While her husband has been busy destroying the country’s economic prosperity, millions have lost their jobs and their homes, all the White House parties they’ve thrown, jetting off here and there, that 5 star vaca in Spain, it’s amazing she can carry on at all.

Poor, poor Michelle. And all of this just when she’s started to feel a bit better about her country. We all remember her announcement that for the first time in her adult life she was “proud of my country”. Given her hellacious circumstances, surely that’s an advancement which has rolled back down hill. How selfish of Americans, those who have lost their jobs, lost their homes, been consumed with fear of the future, that we couldn’t somehow help her cope. How selfish of us.



Poor, poor Michelle. You’ve obviously endured too much, more than we could ever, should ever ask of you.

So, please, poor, poor Michelle, GO.

Don’t let the White House door hit you in the ass on the way out.

Thanks Much, But I Already HAVE A Mother . . . .

WHAT is it with these idiot liberals / leftists?

Oh yeah, they want the STATE to control everything.

We're the idiot masses who can barely tie our shoes, go to the bathroom by ourselves, need THEM, the smart people to help us, guide us, show us the way.

Michelle Obama now wants to NUDGE us to eat apples and carrots, rather than fries.



Well, Michelle, you can pry my fries from my COLD, DEAD FINGERS.

I already have a Mother, thanks. I respect her. YOU? No way. NO way.

By the way, your husband is an idiot who can't speak without a teleprompter and he SMOKES. And, according to your own comments, your mothering skills have led you to throw your own children under the bus as being "fat".

Stay out of my life. Stay out of Americans' lives.

We are not in the mood for changing our lives, our history, or the food we like.



Now, watch out before someone drops a house on you.



Spend your time at home, girl. You've got some real mothering to do.

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NOW, can anyone detect a sea change of a mood swing after the Delaware results?!!! Howard Dean scream, if you please . . . . .

Time To Spike Political Correctness

Ines Sainz turns heads and likes it. She refers to herself as “the hottest sports reporter in Mexico”. She’s appeared on the front of the Spanish version of Sports Illustrated in a bikini. She dresses to accent her, uh, assets.



On Sunday, September 12, she shows up on the sidelines of the New York Jets game to interview quarterback Mark Sanchez. Not surprisingly, she was noticed by the other players. During warm up before the game, many passes (with a football) were sent in her direction so that players could get closer to her. Later, in the locker room, during her (absurd) presence, there were comments, hoots and hollers. Now we have charges of “unsportsman like” conduct because of players’ actions.

Someone PLEASE save America from this IDIOCY!

It’s called football. It’s played by BIG guys with BIG egos. No matter how much wussy metrosexual men and frigid, frumpy women who hate their own bodies and reproductive abilities might like, that is not going to change. Thank God.

Once upon a time, sports was a zone free of the idiocy of Leftists who had already ruined so much else in our society. It was better then. We should not allow them to continue its destruction with the idiocy of political correctness and a denial of human nature, good natured fun, the freedom to be ourselves.

There are men in our society, and we are lucky they still exist, despite the Left’s efforts to make them extinct. They’re actually the ones who are typically much more respectful of women, appreciate their mothers, say “yes ma’am” and “no, ma’am”, open doors for them, make the best fathers, fill the ranks of our military and have protected the freedoms many take for granted or are eager to surrender.

Boys will be boys. Men will be men. The indoctrination received during so-called higher education doesn’t always take as desired, skewing reality in one’s mind. I remember being taught about “Baby X” during my freshman year. The story was of a baby who was never told of its gender, was dressed androgynously, played with trucks and dolls. The baby grew up to be the happiest little “it” in the world.

Blah, blah, blah. Bull crap.

The people who harp on humans developing from apes and monkeys are always the ones who strive to diminish human nature. It’s time to start telling them what they can do with their opinions, bring back common sense and an appreciation of what is real and good in this world. Football players getting excited over a beautiful woman strikes me as natural, and sure as hell more compliment than insult. If she didn’t want it, she wouldn’t have given herself the title she did and she would dress differently.

It’s time for sane Americans to put their collective foot down. Perhaps the football field is an excellent place to do it.

I Hate New York

I just watched two idiots from New York City arguing on television about why New Yorkers – including those on Wall Street – overwhelmingly supported Barack Hussein Obama for President in 2008. Because they’re all idiots? No, not according to them.

One said it’s because they saw him as “one of them”. He said what he meant by that is they went to the same ivy league schools, he was the “smart choice”. If you want to insert “sucker’s” for “smart”, WE are in the same camp.



I’m sorry, New York City is full of complete and total classless morons who like to look down their noses at others because they think they are better, are smarter than every one else. Are they? Again, just think Obama. That Kurt Russell movie “Escape from New York” had a very smart title.

Do I hate all New Yorkers? Of course not. There are some smart, normal, real Americans there. I might be able to name the ones I know on two hands. Okay, maybe one.

I first traveled to New York City in 1986. It was dirty and nasty. I remember watching some Midwesterners being chased around The Village by some fool yelling expletives and later watching a transvestite being pelted with fries outside a McDonald’s in Times Square by a group of thugs who proceeded to chase him (her) down the street. I’ve yet to see heels move that fast again.



When I traveled back to the city on business in the 90s, it was a total transformation. Rudy Guiliani had left his mark; and, the difference was amazing. Times Square was night and day. I didn’t want to leave. Many of the New Yorkers I knew, of course, thought he was a horrible mayor for the city. See? Idiots.

In the late 90s, when the New York Yankees played the Atlanta Braves in the World Series (I lived in Atlanta), I remember fans throwing BATTERIES at Braves players in the outfield. Yeah, that’s some class.

September 11, 2001, occurred and on that day, it seemed we were all New Yorkers. As most of the nation, I watched in horror. I cried. I couldn’t imagine being there, yet, in some ways I wanted to. I didn’t even want to see the horror, but I did want to help, to hug, to comfort, to pitch in. I wanted to help share their pain because I truly did feel their pain. (Unlike the other fool they STILL support.)

September 11, 2010, I’m disgusted as many New Yorkers – along with their city leaders who approved it – are supporting a mosque to be built just blocks from Ground Zero. Honestly, I don’t give a damn where mosques are built. Except for that one. As has occurred around the world, Muslims often like to declare a victory with placement of a mosque. It’s their way of demonstrating power, they WON. If you do not wish to send that message, if that is not your goal, great: MOVE IT. The mosque backers wanted to put up this 14 story structure in just over a year when first announced. This while nearly 10 years later most of Ground Zero is still a blank space. Priorities, priorities. Quite a tribute to those whose lives were forfeited that day.

In the times in which we live we face many challenges, obstacles. Personally, I believe they get bigger from here, not smaller. New Yorkers, stop being such weak, appeasing pansies. (. . . Said the gay man.) Seriously, you people like to think you’re so tough, snap out of the idiot liberal funk you've been in, stand up to the insanity promoted by the morons you have elected. CHANGE the people you have elected, truly be smart going forward, be as strong as you like to think you are. No one attacks the bully on the school yard, but the weak kid, the obnoxious kid, the arrogant kid, they’re the first targets. Right now, you're one good damned target.

Start showing your best side again and I will possibly love New York once more. Even consider no longer looking down my nose at you.

Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Muslim?

Who's afraid of the Muslims in American 2010? Seems like everyone. You can do and say anything about or to Catholics, Jews, Christians. Muslims are off limits. Protected or feared, they’re not like everyone else. The people who love to provoke, well, they know a mad Muslim means business, often times with a knife. You’re granted special status when people are afraid of what you’ll do if another does or says something to them they do not like. Like the crazy old aunt you’re not supposed to set off at Thanksgiving, you've got to speak softly around Muslims as at least a portion of them are always a hair away from some violent act from which we’re supposed to help them refrain. If they go there, it was your fault.

A Danish cartoonist found that out in 2006. He had threats on his life, there were attempts to kill him. In riots which followed, others did die. It was, of course, the cartoonist’s fault.



Now we have a religious man and his 50 followers planning to ceremoniously burn a Quran in Gainesville, Florida, on Saturday. It’s provocative, no question. It’s meant to be so. And, yes, it's stupid. Everyone’s warning that he’ll endanger the lives of others if they go through with it. Muslims, I’m left to assume, are beyond Pavlov and his dog. They’ll tear themselves away from their prayer rugs to bomb, kill, destroy yet again when provoked. Guess if Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and others got violent when crossed, as the bully on the play yard, everyone would fear them, too.

Humorous? No. None of it. Just pathetic, idiotic, ridiculous. Oh yeah, and the guy in Gainesville, too.



In America 2010, liberals are fighting to remove a large cross placed on government land out in the desert where few liberals would dare go. Christmas is only a few months away, and we all know what that brings: Lots of excitement and anger over such dangerous things as Christmas trees, nativity scenes, hateful well wishes like “Merry Christmas”. Hideous attacks followed by murderous Christians hitting the streets. Oh wait, strike that last part. They don’t do that. Wrong group.

In New York City in 1999 there was an uproar over a few pieces to be included in an art exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Two pieces specifically, “Holy Virgin Mary” and “Piss Christ” were at the center of the controversy. “Holy Virgin Mary”, by Chris Ofili, included close-ups of female genitalia cut from pornographic magazines, along with elephant dung. Lovely. “Piss Christ”, which many will likely remember, featured a crucifix submerged in the artist’s urine. Classy. Did Christians riot? Was the American left concerned with their feelings? No. In fact, it was just the opposite. Christians were to chomp on the proverbial chill pill.



I took a class in college once called “What is art?” Looking back, I’m pretty sure the intent was the same as with many college courses: BLUR the lines, make anything acceptable. Whatever art is, what makes it appealing is surely different from person to person. Art, at some point, must be commercial, desired, or it is simply some idiot idea no one wants or would consider parting with their own money in exchange for the “art”. One man’s art, another’s junk.

I myself am an aspiring artist, mostly mosaics. I’ve started doing some mixed medium pieces of late also. Perhaps future projects might be “Piss Muhammed” (no need to explain) or “Pork Quran”, a Quran wrapped in bacon.

Would the American left pay tickets to see my creations? No. Would I have to go into hiding because of Muslims who threaten me? Maybe. All so prone to beheadings, violent attacks, yet so delicate and frail.

Who's afraid of the big bad Muslim boogeyman? Still looks like most.

Restoration

While Glenn Beck seeks to lead America in a restoration of honor, there are many in our country who may need to focus on restoring sanity first.



The “Restoring Honor” rally on August 28 came off just as billed, for those who were paying attention, not attempting to distort the event before it even happened. It was without politics. It was heavy on religion, appreciation and celebration. Yet, reality and truth have never gotten in the way of a liberal on a mission. As hurdlers in full sprint, facts, hearing and excellent eyesight are merely to be overcome, dismissed in pursuit of agenda.

Sanity, along with truth, was sacrificed on the altar of liberalism long ago.

Religious or not, who could take issue with such an event?

Of course, the answer is easy: Leftists. Under this broad umbrella we’ll find all of the usual suspects . . . statists, socialists, Marxists, feminists, anyone who eagerly sent in their paperwork for consideration for a lifetime of victimhood.



Parents will sometimes use reverse psychology on their children to get them to do what it is they want them to do. Children, you see, will often do the exact opposite. It might be useful to consider this approach when dealing with the Left. If it is something truly positive, truly good for the country, these people will be dead set against it. Leftists will intensely dislike something or someone in direct opposite proportion to its benefit or desirability to patriotic Americans. If those Americans are Christian, the rule applies that much more.

So while Al Sharpton lambasts Beck for an event scheduled easily six months ahead of his own event, points go to Sharpton for perpetual victimhood. When anyone on MSNBC attacks attendees as “racists” or “tea baggers”, Leftists are of course suppose to score points because “racism” has always been a sure thing. For “tea baggers”, remember the child psychology techniques again; and, well, what is a Leftist but a fully grown child? When Leftists come up with a name they think is both cute and insulting, it’s t-shirt bound, shall be repeated at any and every opportunity. Washing a child’s mouth out with soap might be a good option, and sounds good here, but not recommended, as it would only establish new victims. We don’t need those.

While it may be at times frustrating to witness the insanity of the Left, best for patriotic Americans to keep their focus, our mission to return America to greatness once again. The more success in that vein, the more obvious their insanity will become to any who have not already recognized it for what it is. In that way, they may strangely be our best weapon, their own greatest enemy. Yeah, that child psychology thing again.

Our Reality TV President

In 1992 MTV launched a new kind of show. A strategically picked group of young people – the nerd, the good-looking guy, the girl next door, etc. – all selected to live together in “The Real World”. There wasn’t much real about it, of course. It was contrived, manufactured for desired confrontations and interactions, social commentary, potential attractions and repulsions. Over the years, as they rolled out yet one more group of young people after another they gave them jobs, businesses, things for them to do to make it more real.

“Reality TV” was born. America’s been a little different ever since.

We now have shows in which marriage proposals are foregone conclusions in the final episode, after contestants (stars?) selected for the show compete for attention and, supposedly, love, declaring it as each is ceremoniously removed, hopefully in tears. It is about ratings, after all. We can also be treated to “real housewives” who do not do housework, but proclaim gleefully of their intense materialism, one I remember saying she always knew she was destined for greatness – which, in her case, meant marrying an NBA athlete. These days, many of these women, so obsessed with all their money, are finding themselves in foreclosure, homes and all that stuff they were so obsessed with on the auction block. Reality can, after all, get ugly.

Over the past few decades we’ve learned that apparently everyone wants to be on television. Many will do almost anything to make it happen. Young women used to care about their reputations. Now, some will lift their shirts to expose themselves to be included on a “Girls Gone Wild” video. Sex sells. So, naturally, a staple of the reality show is the “hook up”. It’s a reality show mainstay, right behind backstabbing. Some are even specifically about the hook up.

With such show’s ever increasing popularity, it should come as no surprise that America was so anxious to put all common sense aside and elect its first reality TV President in 2008. He was, many thought, perfectly cast, a good orator with a multicultural background, an inspiring story, two cute kids, he talked about hope and change and when he did, some seemed to faint. That’s good TV. We were told how perfect he is again and again and again. No surprise so many decided to believe. This reality TV President loves to be on television. At times, it seems he gets his wish 24/7. It’s like Ed TV, but different. He’s as detached from reality as a “real housewife”, trumpeting his accomplishments on the economy as his “Recovery Summer” looks more and more like Fear Factor.



Unfortunately for America, this IS reality. It sometimes seems like “Biggest Loser” and other times “MTV Cribs”, but, we never get to say “You’re Fired” like in “The Apprentice”, or vote him off like they do on “Survivor”.

A good cast is always important, but perhaps this show might best be called “Reality Sucks”.

Are Americans Ready For What’s Ahead?

I hope so. I want to think so. Jury’s still out.

Okay, before I go on, confession . . . . I am a weak American. I’m so addicted to modern conveniences, our 2010 way of life, when the electricity goes out I can’t function. It’s pitiful. Astoundingly so.

I’ve always said that if I’d been alive during the American pioneer times, they would have decided my best use was bait for wolves or grizzlies, an effort to save others while having one take it for the team. Largely still think so. Of course, if I was in pioneer times surrounded by a large sampling of other Americans transported there along with me from 2010, I’d be a hell of a lot safer, looking pretty good in comparison, I think.

What’s happened to this country? To us?

The election of 2008 wasn’t the beginning. It was just an example so blatant, so pathetic – “hope” and “change” . . . my diaper – it’s woken many from a comfortable slumber. Gets worse from here I’m pretty certain, so prepare.



Is America ready for it? Are Americans ready to support real leaders who will tell you the truth and be prepared to make the hard choices, to DO the hard things, to FIGHT and articulate what must be done; and, yes, inspire others so that they will want to take part, willingly take part. Again, I’m not sure.

Florida had its primary election yesterday. Among the seven Republican hopefuls seeking to take on the unstable embarrassment that is Alan Grayson were two tea party types who said things I personally liked a lot. They talked about the deficit and out of control government spending, our loss of freedom, this old piece of paper called The Constitution. One came in second, the other dead last. The candidate who won is a long-time politician who said in each of his ads that he “wants to save America”. GREAT that he wants to save America, but say it like you mean it, with conviction, STRENGTH. Each time I heard him timidly utter the words I envisioned him hiding beneath his mother’s skirt, on the verge of tears. Surely it’s all tear worthy, but not very inspirational. Overall, his ads sounded like so many I’ve heard before, during less crucial times. Maybe he’ll surprise me, others. I’m skeptical.

Yet, I’d vote for that guy a thousand times before I’d ever vote again for the slimy, yet-oh-so-tanned governor who now lies as strategically as possible, hoping to appease previous supporters while taking enough Democrats to win himself a senate seat in November. Charlie Crist is to Florida politics what sexual predators are to the internet. He cares only about himself, his personal gratification and betterment, to hell with Florida. And yet, in some polls he leads in the three-way race. He swore he would only run as a Republican. Then, when it was obvious he would lose, he bolted. This guy should disgust Floridians, not have their support.

Outside of Florida, Arizonans just re-elected John McCain as he spent $21 million to defeat former congressman J.D. Hayworth, who spent $2.6 million. Maybe Arizona voters can be bought. Or, maybe it was the impassioned spot about building “the dang fence”. Silly me, I still think back to his support of the amnesty bill in 2007. Short term memories perhaps brought on by the heat. Whatever the case, there’s something to be said for a “throw the bums out” mentality. It keeps them on their toes, keeps them honest, makes them feel vulnerable. McCain, despite the respect owed for his past, is no longer honest. That’s the McCain Arizona voters will likely see for five or so years after his re-election.



All in all, what I’ve seen so far seems America’s desire and preparedness for real change, for facing the hard times ahead is inconclusive. Many have talked a good game, gotten angry and said they're on board for action, sounded certain. The truth is out there, ahead of us.

Not yet sure America is ready for what must be done. Maybe I'm not entirely either, but in this case, I still feel like a real pioneer.

Funk, Hopelessness and Change

Do you feel it? It’s all around. Hope and change has evaporated and there’s an unpleasant residue. After being drunk on “Yes We Can”, America has a hangover, experiencing the vile after taste of gullibility. Others, the resentment of “yes we KNEW”, but were not listened to.

America is in a funk.

Everyone makes mistakes in life. Some are worse than others. But the ones you look back on and say to yourself, “Yeah, I could have done more”, or, “Wow, what a fool I was”, they hurt. They hurt a lot.

Where did we go so wrong? There’s not a point in time; and, no, this isn’t simply about the last year and a half. This is about Americans who stopped paying attention, and began caring more about the Super Bowl – even the commercials – about BMWs and other status symbols than ensuring the freedoms long enjoyed in this country would be guaranteed for future generations the way they were ensured for us.



I was walking down the street in front of a restaurant earlier today. An elderly gentleman with a walker with wheels, dressed in old sweat pants and in his socks, scooted up to the edge of the street. Two women were watching from one of the restaurant’s tables. I moved slightly past him, observed momentarily to see if he was waiting for someone or about to move onto the street. There was no ramp, and the difference in elevation was easily six or so inches. I came around to one side and asked him simply, “Sir, would you like any help?” He said no and sort of laughed, then followed it up with, “Thank you. Now that’s the American spirit!”

Sad that we have arrived at a time when simple courtesy, truly looking out for one another in our day to day lives must be “the American spirit”. Or, if it is, that it’s so shocking when displayed. Of course, I did get the idea the two women at the table thought I might hurt him. Sadder still.

It’s painful now to be an American who “gets it”. Sad to see the vile lot now leading this country, and having any idea where it is they'd like to take us. I could never vote for these people. I am suspicious of my fellow citizens who helped to elect them, who still support them, who sit by while they tell us bills they vote on can’t be read, that they must be passed for us to know what is in them.



No, this did not happen overnight. Nor did it all happen in the last few years.
Most are familiar with the video of the woman who, overjoyed after Obama’s election in 2008, proclaimed she would no longer have to worry about paying her mortgage or putting gas in her car. Not, I believe, an extremely bright individual, yet she knew where we are headed. So many smarter people I know, however, were either in denial, or oblivious. Now many of them are residing with me and most of America in our funk. It’s not a pleasant place to be.

I do not have children, but I fear for the future. It pains me to hear my mother tell me of conversations she’s had with my sister, ones in which my sister expresses fears for the future of my niece. I see people with children who must worry, I see older Americans who knew very different times, many of them who’ve known many others who gave their lives for this country and so much which came to be taken for granted. I feel for them, worry with them. Often times, I hate to even now talk about the future, as I do not wish to add to their angst. I haven’t written here for many weeks for that same reason.

Now, however, I feel my own “funk” starting to fade. Underneath there is an anger which continues to build.

Of All The Nut Varieties, Constitutional Nuts Are My Favorite

When the United States is so upside down, you’d think all the “nuts” would fall out.

Naih, our supply is deep. In fact, there are plenty of new “nuts” around.



Congressman Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania – as in, WHAT has happened to that once great state? – commented as lawmakers were heading home for the July 4 recess that he wished to avoid those pesky constituents who prize such old-fashioned notions as small government, lower taxes and, yikes, the Constitution. Wow, how foolish, and, well, as he describes them, “nuts”, especially approaching Independence Day, we must surely be. Again, if you’re keeping track, we’re the nuts, not him.

This weekend, also, if you missed it, Lindsey Graham, the almost distinguished Senator from South Carolina, announced via a New York Times magazine piece that the tea parties would soon go the way of the dinosaurs. No staying power there. Move along peasants, we’re doing good work for you, moving your country closer to the edge of a cliff, you have no idea how smart we are, the great works we’re doing. Eat some cake, or tofu, or government cheese, and be glad we’re here for you. You're in good hands with the likes of us.

Anyone else royally PISSED OFF?

This damned fools do not know what they are in for; and, I believe, it’s significant.

The arrogance, the condescension, the duplicity is astounding. Nauseating. Marie-Antoinette had little on these aloof malcontents posing as reasonable stewards of our great country.

Make no mistake, it’s not just Democrats. Look to the idiot out-of-touch comments of Graham and his buddy in maverickville, the amnesty leopard John McCain who now seeks to change his spots as he wants to build “the dang fence”. How gullible do they think we are? And, well, ARE WE? I sure as hell hope NOT. I am not. I know many others who are not. Not gullible. Not nuts.

America, you are at a crossroads. Sitting back and thinking everything will simply work out is no longer a plausible strategy to ensure any sort of future you’d wish to be a part. Your tomorrows are getting bleaker while the people who are supposed to represent you and your best interests are looking down their noses at you despising that you challenge them, that you even have a voice.

Prepare America. If you are a nut, as I, difficult days are ahead. Difficult days are ahead, no matter.

If I take any solace, it is that I believe there are an increasing number of pissed off nuts in our bowl.

Happy Birthday, America

Two hundred and thirty four years ago today a country declared its independence, and the United States of America was born. In the last century, America has moved further and further from the ideals cherished by the founding fathers, the desire for true freedom unencumbered by an oppressive ruler or government, free to succeed or fail, to truly make his or her own path wherever he may wish it to lead.

Today, words of mine would surely pale in comparison to their's. So, this blog is simply about revisiting them. Happy Birthday, America.

Declaration of Independence

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.



We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.

He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.

He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:

For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing taxes on us without our consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:

For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:

For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:

For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Source: The Pennsylvania Packet, July 8, 1776
from www.EarlyAmerica.com

Who Was Ronald Reagan Waiting For?

Before the election of 2008 you would hear it on talk radio, in conversations with others, “It took Carter to get Reagan”. Even before then, it was a popular mantra among conservatively-minded Americans to proclaim: “We need another Ronald Reagan.”

Ronald Reagan, Great American Individual

Then, we can assume, they commenced waiting, one part passive observer, one part perpetual excuse-maker, an invitation for progressives to do as they wish as Conservatives waited for someone else to step up and correct the wrongs. Not exactly what Conservatives are supposed to be about, or a great showcase of that rugged American individualism spoken about by Reagan. Surely not how Conservatives -- strong believers in the individual – are supposed to behave. Yet it echoes from the television, the radio, and shows up on the internet: We need another Ronald Reagan.

While they may believe they are lauding who Reagan was and what he meant to the country, I suggest instead they are insulting the man and everything he stood for. Who was Ronald Wilson Reagan waiting for? No one.

When Reagan realized what was being done to his country, the blight of progressivism and political correctness taking hold on the American landscape, he stepped up and began re-landscaping. He stopped waiting and started doing. He was elected governor of California and went on to win two presidential elections, including a 1984 landslide election in which only one state, his opponent’s home state of Minnesota, would go for Robert Mondale. He did this on Constitutionally-based Conservative American values of freedom and opportunity, of smaller government and lower taxes. When his country needed him, Ronald Reagan started doing, battling for his ideals, for his vision of America.

No new images of Reagan have been printed or televised recently, no newly recorded audio or video has been played on youtube. The individual who was Ronald Reagan is gone. However, the principles he stood for, his vision of America, we’ve seen that, heard that, witnessed that more in the last year than maybe ever before in our nation’s history. From the participants at tea party rallies, to those marching last September 12 in our nation’s capitol, to youtube videos of them confronting their elected officials at town hall meetings, we have seen them. We have seen them doing, taking action on beliefs they may not have previously understood were so dear to them, until they were threatened.

And, yes, we now see many of them running for office at their local and state level because they are determined to make the change they seek, no longer waiting for others to do it for them. Some of them have been amazingly inspirational, spoken so poignantly you might get the feeling they’ve done this before. Yet, it is new to them. Yesterday, maybe they were waiting for someone else to step up. Today, they’ve stepped up, started doing, inspiring others to do the same. They’re not Ronald Reagan. But they share the principles which were dear to him. They are the ones who truly celebrate Ronald Reagan because they are raising their own voice and taking part in the American system, doing instead of waiting for others to do.

Wide Awake American Katy Abram

The mantra of “we need another Reagan” is more insult than compliment. It is not the celebration of the American individual and what it is each of us can do to impact our future. The true patriot, in the spirit of Ronald Reagan, waits for no one, does what he or she can to impact the future using his best skills and talents.

Ronald Reagan was just one such individual who embodies that ideal. He was one American who had strongly held beliefs, an amazing and quick wit, an ability to get to the crux of often purposefully overly-complicated matters with an unexpected comment or insight which was shocking because it removed the mask which had been placed upon it to make you think it was too difficult for the average citizen, more than you could handle on your own. You need government to help you do that, don’t you know? Rugged American individualism is as outdated as the Constitution, which has now been printed with a disclaimer alerting you to such. Patriots of all sorts are stepping forth to belie the lie, make real change, restore real hope.

The man who spoke about America as a shining city on a hill didn’t wait around for the windows to be smudged, her streets to be littered, her shine to be dimmed. Millions of individual Americans now realize the falsehoods they’ve been asked to buy into, the real freedom and lost opportunities which have been incrementally taken away over the years, and, in turn, the emboldening of the progressives to do more, do it faster. They know the truth and they are taking part in protests, organizing for candidates, making donations to candidates they believe in, writing to newspapers and in blogs, writing their representatives and calling them out on specifics, speaking up and educating their friends, family and neighbors. Millions of individual Americans have now stopped waiting for another Reagan, and have begun acting on the deeply held principles they share with him.

Ronald Reagan, no doubt, would be proud.

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I would like to celebrate a long list of individuals I have met through facebook who are now doing, not waiting for others. They have my admiration and my appreciation for stepping up, for really being among the people who inspired this blog entry. I wish them well as they seek to impact the direction of our country in various roles. We need them. We need more like them. Just remember, if Barack Hussein Obama can be elected President of the United States, YOU can do whatever it is you set your mind to. Again, THANK YOU, American patriots for stepping up!

* Cathie Adams - Running for the U.S. Congress – from Texas - On the web @ cathieadamsfortexas.com

* Paul Avella - Running for State Representative in Massachusetts

* Matthew Burke - Running for U.S. Congress – from Washington - On the web @ matthewburkeforcongress.com

* David Carlson - Running for State Representative in Minnesota - On the web @ carlsonforsenate.com

* Don Castella - Lake Cty FL Republican Chair - Find him via facebook page

* Tex Christopher - Running for U.S. Congress from Texas - Find him via facebook page

* Tom Cole - Running for U.S. Congress from Oklahoma - On the web @ tomcoleforcongress.com

* Ari David - Running for U.S. Congress from California - Find him via facebook page

* Alexandra Dubart - Running for State Representatives in Pennsylvania - On the web @ alex4pa20.com

* Wade Emmert - Running for Judge – Dallas County, Texas

* Jason Fischer - Running for City Commissioner in Jacksonville, FL - Find him via facebook page

* Rick Green - Running for Supreme Court – Texas - Fine him via facebook page

* Dean Grose - Running for Republican Central Commmittee in California

* Deborah Honeycutt - Running for U.S. Congress from Georgia - On the web @ honeycuttforcongress.com

* Chris Howell - Running for U.S. Congress from Florida - Find him via facebook page

* Bill Hunt - Running for Sheriff of Orange County CA - Find him via facebook page

* Jeremy Hutchinson - Running for State Representative in Arkansas - On the web @ hutchinson4senate.com

* Patricia Lightner - Running for U.S. Congress from Kansas - On the web @ patricialightner.com

* Charles Lingerfelt - Running for U.S. Congress from Texas - On the web @ lingyforcongress.com

* Todd Long - Running for U.S. Congress from Florida - On the web @ toddlongforcongress.com

* Tom Lucero - Running for U.S. Congress from Colorado - On the web @ lucero2010.com

* Edward Lynch - Running for U.S. Congress from Florida - On the web @ electlynch.com

* Matt McCormick - Running for State Representative from Michigan - On the web @ macfor23.com

* Ron Miller - Running for U.S. Senate from Maryland - On the web @ teamronmiller.com

* Patrick Miranda - Running for U.S. Congress from Tennessee - On the web @ patrickmirandaforcongress.com

* Shawn Olson - Running for State Senate in Indiana

* Star Parker - Running for U.S. Congress from California - On the web @ starparkerforcongress.com

* Melissa Pehle-Hill - Running for State Representative in Texas

* Jeff Perry - Running for U.S. Congress from Massachusetts - On the web @ jeffperryforcongress.com

* Darryl Perry - Planning to run for President in 2016 - Find him via his facebook page

* Gerry Purcell - Running for Insurance Commissioner Georgia - Find him via his facebook page

* Bill Randall - Running for U.S. Congress from North Carolina - On the web @ randallforcongress.com

* Steve Rathje - Running for U.S. Congress from Iowa - Find him via his facebook page

* Wendy Rogers - Running for State Representative in Arizona - Find her via her facebook page

* Ron Schalow - Running for School Board in Leroy, Michigan

* Bob Schwartz - Running for U.S. Congress from Tennessee - On the web @ electbobschwartz.wordpress.com

* David Schweikert - Running for U.S. Congress from Arizona - On the web @ david10.com

* Brian Simpson - Running for State Representative in Kentucky - On the web @ changefrankfort.com

* Alexander Snitker - Running for U.S. Senate from Florida - On the web @ snitker2010.com

* Aaron Snodderly - Running for Republican County Chair, Cumberland County, Tennessee

* Anthony Tolda - Running for U.S. Congress from New York - Find him via his facebook page

* Israel Vasquez - Running for U.S. Congress from Illionois - On the web @ israel2congress.com

* Corrogan Vaughn - Running for U.S. Senate from Maryland - Find him via his facebook page

* Alberto Waisman - Running for State Representative in California - Find him via his facebook page

* Eric Wargotz - Running for U.S. Senate from Maryland - On the web @ wargotzforussenate.org

* Chris Widener - Running for U.S. Senate from Washington - Find him via his facebook page

* John Wieder - Running for U.S. Congress from Texas - On the web @ johnwieder.net

Rise of the American Novice

These are frustrating days for those plagued with common sense.

Perhaps tea party gatherings are one part protest, another part about being a support group for those who have been listening, paying attention to the “experts”, the politicians, and NOT surprised when these others seem to be nothing but. All these “unexpected” results, from dramatic increases in the number of jobless Americans to the further eroding of housing prices to plummeting confidence in the direction of the country, these results are not unexpected to those who exist in the real world and look at decisions being made through the very non rose-colored glasses of common sense. However common it may have once been, it is now less so in our nation’s capitol, on news shows, in so much financial commentary, on Wall Street. More common sense would lead to fewer unexpected results.

Common sense proponents know we now have a President who is at best a disastrous fool, at worst a deceptive liar intent on destruction of the American economy. (He doesn’t like this country, admit it.) Job growth, opportunity, a vibrant private sector, a bright national future, those apparently do not qualify for his definition of “fair”, a favorite Obama word, however warped his personal definition may be. You simply do not propose, do not support all that he has and expect anything but disaster. It’s been clear since his early days in office, if not even before his election. When he made his comment to Joe the Plumber about spreading wealth around, Joe heard his comments through the filter of common sense, knew that was bad for him and anyone else who would create American jobs by simply pursuing his own best self-interest. A boot to the throat of job creators, a wrench to the neck of a plumber or a nail to the neck of a contractor is no strategy for economic health.

Spending $3.4 million on a turtle crossing, nearly a half million designing video games for senior citizens, nearly one million dollars to develop “machine generated humor”, waste sold as “stimulus” destroys real jobs, does not create them. Federal money sent to states and municipalities which are massively over-leveraged only postpones the inevitable, doesn’t force needed downsizing and reprioritizing, puts current taxpayers – and future generations – on the hook for more and more staggering debt sums. Resulting unease, curtailed spending and layoffs should not be unexpected. On Main Street, they surely are not. Those symptoms, those realities are now what they see, what they are experiencing first hand.

Today, June 29, a consumer confidence number was reported to have plummeted nearly 16% in one month. While the figure was yet again “unexpected”, the experts and financial gurus’ reaction now comes off like clockwork. Pity the people who attended Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and paid tremendous sums to have their heads filled with idiotic notions of Keynesian economics, to have what is true and obvious replaced with what is false, contrived, and silly. Their track record spottier than the worst weather forecaster, their jobs still, seemingly, just as secure, these well educated “experts” plug on to be surprised another day. The education most Americans have received via owning their own business, by simply existing in society and seeing in themselves, their friends and neighbors what motivates and what discourages is knowledge obtained by doing, not lecturing or reading from a teleprompter. Many things in life may be complex, this is not.

Americans across the country have been participating in tea party events and marches over the past year to protest massive government spending, legislation such as the healthcare bill, cap and trade, ‘card check’ and others they know are contrary to a growing economy, a vibrant society with a bright future. They know that every dollar spent by government is one removed from the private sector where it was created. They understand such uncontrolled spending leads to more taxation and at best stagnation of the national economy, and potentially catastrophe.

The common sense of the average American -- novice they may be – those people understand things because they react and deal with them every day. They do not find any of this to be unexpected. Nor, the developing disaster such policies naturally lead us to.