Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Soldier's Prayer
The soldier stood and faced his God Which must always come to pass...He hoped his shoes were shining Just as brightly as his brass."Step forward now, you soldier, How shall I deal with you?Have you always turned the other cheek? To My Church have you been true?"The soldier squared his shoulders and Said,"No, Lord, I guess I ain't...Because those of us who carry guns Can't always be a saint.I've had to work most Sundays And at times my talk was tough,And sometimes I've been violent, Because the streets are awfully tough.But, I never took a penny That wasn't mine to keep...Though I worked a lot of overtime When the bills got just too steep,And I never passed a cry for help, Though at times I shook with fear,And sometimes, God forgive me, I've wept unmanly tears.I know I don't deserve a place Among the people here...They never wanted me around Except to calm their fears.If you've a place for me here, Lord, It needn't be so grand,I never expected or had too much, But if you don't, I'll understand."There was a silence all around the throne Where the saints had often trod...As the soldier waited quietly, For the judgment of his God,"Step forward now you soldier,Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,You've done your time in Hell."
Dedicated To All That Serve... God Bless America!
Dedicated To All That Serve... God Bless America!
Saturday, May 23, 2009
The Headlong Rush into Totalitarianism
This week many of us had the opportunity to witness what was deemed a spectacle of the greatest sort: The address of a sitting US President followed by the address of the most recently "retired" former Vice President.
I, as an American mother of a soon-to-be soldier, wanted to see something (anything, really) from President Obama that would set my mind at ease. You see, I have no problem with my son and his desire to enlist. This is going to be his choice. He will be a man of 18 when he enlists, old enough to die for his nation, but not old enough to buy a beer. I had hoped that amidst all of the bad decisions that had been made in recent weeks our Commander in Chief would say something, anything, to convince me that he has America's best interests at heart. What I saw was, once again, a showman, a master campaigner, a manipulator capable of contrived good-will and good intentions. We all know how the path to hell is paved, so I couldn't help but think back on what else Mr. Obama had done since his Presidency began in January, 2009.
He has, with the help of the spineless, hapless Democratic Socialists, thrust our nation headlong into totalitarianism. The U.S. government now owns the once proud and independent automobile industry. Hand in hand with the UAW, the President deftly and with little notice, changed the course of American history. Chrysler, and soon to be GM, will become the hammer and sickle bearing arms of the Democratic Socialists, all with the unwitting and unwilling financial backing of you, me, and future generations of Americans.
Before our children return to school in the Fall of 2009 Mr. Obama and his sycophants in the other branches of government will thrust the final sword into the body of American independence and liberty by FORCING a liberal, centralized health plan on every American. Mr. Obama has admitted that we, as a nation, are OUT OF MONEY, per the transcript below:
Saturday, May 23 2009 10:32:18 ETIn a sobering holiday interview with C-SPAN, President Obama boldly told Americans: "We are out of money."C-SPAN host Steve Scully broke from a meek Washington press corps with probing questions for the new president. SCULLY: You know the numbers, $1.7 trillion debt, a national deficit of $11 trillion. At what point do we run out of money? OBAMA: Well, we are out of money now. We are operating in deep deficits, not caused by any decisions we've made on health care so far. This is a consequence of the crisis that we've seen and in fact our failure to make some good decisions on health care over the last several decades. So we've got a short-term problem, which is we had to spend a lot of money to salvage our financial system, we had to deal with the auto companies, a huge recession which drains tax revenue at the same time it's putting more pressure on governments to provide unemployment insurance or make sure that food stamps are available for people who have been laid off. So we have a short-term problem and we also have a long-term problem. The short-term problem is dwarfed by the long-term problem. And the long-term problem is Medicaid and Medicare. If we don't reduce long-term health care inflation substantially, we can't get control of the deficit. So, one option is just to do nothing. We say, well, it's too expensive for us to make some short-term investments in health care. We can't afford it. We've got this big deficit. Let's just keep the health care system that we've got now. Along that trajectory, we will see health care cost as an overall share of our federal spending grow and grow and grow and grow until essentially it consumes everything... SCULLY: When you see GM though as “Government Motors,” you're reaction? OBAMA: Well, you know – look we are trying to help an auto industry that is going through a combination of bad decision making over many years and an unprecedented crisis or at least a crisis we haven't seen since the 1930's. And you know the economy is going to bounce back and we want to get out of the business of helping auto companies as quickly as we can. I have got more enough to do without that. In the same way that I want to get out of the business of helping banks, but we have to make some strategic decisions about strategic industries... SCULLY: States like California in desperate financial situation, will you be forced to bail out the states? OBAMA: No. I think that what you're seeing in states is that anytime you got a severe recession like this, as I said before, their demands on services are higher. So, they are sending more money out. At the same time, they're bringing less tax revenue in. And that's a painful adjustment, what we're going end up seeing is lot of states making very difficult choices there... SCULLY: William Howard Taft served on the court after his presidency, would you have any interest in being on the Supreme Court? OBAMA: You know, I am not sure that I could get through Senate confirmation...
Can we really afford to stand aside, stoned-faced and silent, as our "leaders" lay our nation to ruin?
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Today's Bad News!
Social Security Collections will barely break even with payouts! Ooops! Looks like Obama is spending our past, our present, and OUR FUTURE at a higher rate than the Congressional Budget Office first realized.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
How has your world CHANGED? Is there more HOPE?
Obama has been the President for a little over 100 days. In that short time, his administration has quadrupled our national debt, something that members of the Democrat party ridiculed George Bush for doing at one quarter of that amount. In this short time he has increased the size of government, mandated "service" of young people to HIS ideology, and made the first of many apologies for what was the dominant force of the United States of America.
In this short time the Obama administration has almost completed a socialistic coup of our banking system and has threatened bona fide investors in our automotive industry (private businesses) with ruin if they try to regain even one dollar of their investment. Coincidentally, many of us are unwittingly invested in these bonds, if we are invested in a 401(k). For anyone who doesn't know, a BOND is a loan made to a government, individual, or corporation which GUARANTEES a return on the investment, in the form of interest, by a specific maturity date. The Obama administration has broken the law, but who will fight them?
In the last week private citizens protesting against the slaughter of innocent unborn children have been arrested on the University of Notre Dame campus - for peacefully demonstrating - against the University's granting of an honorary degree to Barack Obama. Barack Obama, who could not define when life begins during a pre-election interview with Rick Warren, cited this answer as "above his pay grade". Now, however, we're all supposed to accept that Obama is "the Annointed One", the new Messiah, if you will, of the human race. What these brave souls at the University of Notre Dame did was to exhume the ghosts of double standards present in many of our larger universities and colleges today. That double standard is glaring in its simplicity, yet oddly the champions of free speech and tolerance seem to be under a gag order to stifle the opinions of ordinary citizens who feel passionate about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
On April 15th, hundreds of thousands of hard-working individuals took to the streets demanding a reduction in government spending only to be ridiculed by the press for doing so. They were referred to as "rednecks" and "teabaggers" in the most vile and pestilent manner. The so-called leaders of journalism even went so far as to join in on the banter, not even caring to veil their obvious adoration of the new Dear Leader of the Free World. They attempted to marginalize the opinions of the few, the outspoken, the freedom loving members of our society in ways that would make Al Franken proud.
And then, the people of Minnesota, either willingly or with the help of ACORN, elected a foul mouthed, closed minded, Fascist-Communist to the United States Senate. Of course, he will join the majority party of Fascist-Communists already there.
Soon Obama, an advocate of larger, more intrusive government, will appoint a new Supreme Court justice. He aims to find someone younger, one who can stay on the court for decades, who can change the very charter of our Nation.
To "my" fellow Americans I emplore you: get active, be vocal, start writing, calling, and pestering your elected representatives until they hear you, see you, and start representing you! Get onto TWITTER, FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, everywhere, and start letting people know that WE ARE HERE.
In this short time the Obama administration has almost completed a socialistic coup of our banking system and has threatened bona fide investors in our automotive industry (private businesses) with ruin if they try to regain even one dollar of their investment. Coincidentally, many of us are unwittingly invested in these bonds, if we are invested in a 401(k). For anyone who doesn't know, a BOND is a loan made to a government, individual, or corporation which GUARANTEES a return on the investment, in the form of interest, by a specific maturity date. The Obama administration has broken the law, but who will fight them?
In the last week private citizens protesting against the slaughter of innocent unborn children have been arrested on the University of Notre Dame campus - for peacefully demonstrating - against the University's granting of an honorary degree to Barack Obama. Barack Obama, who could not define when life begins during a pre-election interview with Rick Warren, cited this answer as "above his pay grade". Now, however, we're all supposed to accept that Obama is "the Annointed One", the new Messiah, if you will, of the human race. What these brave souls at the University of Notre Dame did was to exhume the ghosts of double standards present in many of our larger universities and colleges today. That double standard is glaring in its simplicity, yet oddly the champions of free speech and tolerance seem to be under a gag order to stifle the opinions of ordinary citizens who feel passionate about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
On April 15th, hundreds of thousands of hard-working individuals took to the streets demanding a reduction in government spending only to be ridiculed by the press for doing so. They were referred to as "rednecks" and "teabaggers" in the most vile and pestilent manner. The so-called leaders of journalism even went so far as to join in on the banter, not even caring to veil their obvious adoration of the new Dear Leader of the Free World. They attempted to marginalize the opinions of the few, the outspoken, the freedom loving members of our society in ways that would make Al Franken proud.
And then, the people of Minnesota, either willingly or with the help of ACORN, elected a foul mouthed, closed minded, Fascist-Communist to the United States Senate. Of course, he will join the majority party of Fascist-Communists already there.
Soon Obama, an advocate of larger, more intrusive government, will appoint a new Supreme Court justice. He aims to find someone younger, one who can stay on the court for decades, who can change the very charter of our Nation.
To "my" fellow Americans I emplore you: get active, be vocal, start writing, calling, and pestering your elected representatives until they hear you, see you, and start representing you! Get onto TWITTER, FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, everywhere, and start letting people know that WE ARE HERE.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The World That "Change"d Overnight
So, the election is over, and obviously the results were not what I had wanted, but were pretty much exactly what I expected.
Obama "The Annointed One" took the election, though not as handily as the members of the media and the Democratic Socialists of America would want the rest of the country to believe. Sadly, too many Republicans have been apologizing for the loss.
I'd like to offer my suggestion of how to win the next time: Get Back to the Base! We, the Conservative Party of America, need to write a new Manifesto of the American Conservative. We need to begin to teach our children about self-reliance, self-responsibility, and self-respect that comes from achievement, and the joy of "earning" rather than "getting".
We need to reaffirm what marriage is. We need to find a way to do away with the system of progressive taxation and come to a fair, flat tax that ALL people who enjoy the fruits of this country will need to pay.
If we, the right, can stop with the progression toward the left we can and we will win elections. It's happened in the not so distant past. Over 74% of the population define themselves as "not liberal", and we need to capitalize on that. Too many republicans stayed home and did not vote on November 4th. Why? Because John McCain has never been a true conservative. McCain was picked by primary voters who crossed the party line in order to provide the GOP with an unviable candidate.
So now we have two years of massive rebuilding that we need to undertake. We can take back the Congress and the Senate, and in 2012 we can dismantle what is left of the Clinton-Obama team.
Obama "The Annointed One" took the election, though not as handily as the members of the media and the Democratic Socialists of America would want the rest of the country to believe. Sadly, too many Republicans have been apologizing for the loss.
I'd like to offer my suggestion of how to win the next time: Get Back to the Base! We, the Conservative Party of America, need to write a new Manifesto of the American Conservative. We need to begin to teach our children about self-reliance, self-responsibility, and self-respect that comes from achievement, and the joy of "earning" rather than "getting".
We need to reaffirm what marriage is. We need to find a way to do away with the system of progressive taxation and come to a fair, flat tax that ALL people who enjoy the fruits of this country will need to pay.
If we, the right, can stop with the progression toward the left we can and we will win elections. It's happened in the not so distant past. Over 74% of the population define themselves as "not liberal", and we need to capitalize on that. Too many republicans stayed home and did not vote on November 4th. Why? Because John McCain has never been a true conservative. McCain was picked by primary voters who crossed the party line in order to provide the GOP with an unviable candidate.
So now we have two years of massive rebuilding that we need to undertake. We can take back the Congress and the Senate, and in 2012 we can dismantle what is left of the Clinton-Obama team.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Where will we be in two weeks?
As the election draws closer and closer, I can't tell if I'm beginning to get really angry, or just really disgusted. I think that I may just have to watch the Food Channel until the Obamamamia Frenzy has run its course. I'll also have to leave the radio off and simply use my CD player or finally go out and buy one of those MP3 players and load it up full of music that makes me happy.
Many of you don't know this, but I am a crazy, fanatical student of history. History excites me, invigorates me, enlightens me. Sure, there are all kinds of academic snobs out there, but for me...give me a good book about history and I couldn't be happier unless I was trapped in a bakery overnight!
One thing I've learned from all of this historical reading is that there have been many, many leaders who have claimed to be The One, The Messiah, the Deliverer, The Redeemer. Today we're witnessing no less of a spectacle than have our friends of the past.
Napolean, for instance, was so self-important that he proclaimed himself a dictator for life. Well, I think we all know how that ended up.
Hitler, too, was thought by his people to be sitting at the right hand of God. Sad how that turned out, as well. Because of newsreels, we have the benefit of watching the awestruck faces of the crowds when they would watch Hitler, and I am struck by the similar frenzy I am seeing today.
I was recently in a line at a local market and, of course, CNN was playing overhead on the plasma TV while shoppers waited in line. When Obama came on the TV a woman in the lane next to mine started yelling out, "Quiet! Can't you see that the President is speaking?" I watched her face for a moment, and then I looked at the other people around me. Even the cashier stopped what she was doing to listen. They were mesmerized by this man. This man of flesh, blood and the same self-importance that I've read about in history books. I left my cart full of groceries and walked out, going to a store with no overhead TV's, and resuming my marketing. Nobody noticed that I had left, so transfixed on their Savior were they.
Throughout history we've been witness to the cruelty of despots and to the vicarious nature in which certain segments of the population of nations have "served" their earthbound dieties as if a simple glimpse will transport them to The Promised Land.
Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Mao Tse Tung, Mugabe, "The Dear Leader" of Korea, Eva Barone - none of these self-important and self-proclaimed messengers of God have done much of anything good for their people. I doubt that Obama can deliver anything good to us, either.
I know my Redeemer, my Messiah, my Deliverer, and I know that when He does return I won't be here to write this stupid blog. My castle is not of this earth.
Many of you don't know this, but I am a crazy, fanatical student of history. History excites me, invigorates me, enlightens me. Sure, there are all kinds of academic snobs out there, but for me...give me a good book about history and I couldn't be happier unless I was trapped in a bakery overnight!
One thing I've learned from all of this historical reading is that there have been many, many leaders who have claimed to be The One, The Messiah, the Deliverer, The Redeemer. Today we're witnessing no less of a spectacle than have our friends of the past.
Napolean, for instance, was so self-important that he proclaimed himself a dictator for life. Well, I think we all know how that ended up.
Hitler, too, was thought by his people to be sitting at the right hand of God. Sad how that turned out, as well. Because of newsreels, we have the benefit of watching the awestruck faces of the crowds when they would watch Hitler, and I am struck by the similar frenzy I am seeing today.
I was recently in a line at a local market and, of course, CNN was playing overhead on the plasma TV while shoppers waited in line. When Obama came on the TV a woman in the lane next to mine started yelling out, "Quiet! Can't you see that the President is speaking?" I watched her face for a moment, and then I looked at the other people around me. Even the cashier stopped what she was doing to listen. They were mesmerized by this man. This man of flesh, blood and the same self-importance that I've read about in history books. I left my cart full of groceries and walked out, going to a store with no overhead TV's, and resuming my marketing. Nobody noticed that I had left, so transfixed on their Savior were they.
Throughout history we've been witness to the cruelty of despots and to the vicarious nature in which certain segments of the population of nations have "served" their earthbound dieties as if a simple glimpse will transport them to The Promised Land.
Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Mao Tse Tung, Mugabe, "The Dear Leader" of Korea, Eva Barone - none of these self-important and self-proclaimed messengers of God have done much of anything good for their people. I doubt that Obama can deliver anything good to us, either.
I know my Redeemer, my Messiah, my Deliverer, and I know that when He does return I won't be here to write this stupid blog. My castle is not of this earth.
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