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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
