Friday, August 9, 2013
Why Can't We See
To paraphrase our anthem: "O say can't we see by the dawns early light what we so proudly once hailed; that flag and country are going down the tubes...?" It's beyond me how we can so carelessly ignore the preponderance of evidence that as a country we are in great peril. By our own governments statistics, our economy, no matter how spun, unequivocally advises we are in dire straights; our domestic problems appear near insurmountable; our international prestige seriously besmirched. Is it as simple as, the stupid are in the majority and are unaware or incapable of realizing the reality of it all, and in so empowered by their slim margin of numbers have the potential to do the rest of us in? My God what has happen to us! Unfortunately we know, don't we? We the concerned citizens of this country have become so divided and/or passive-, that we have become bystanders to our own imminent demise! Tell me how can anyone ignore: our unemployment, our anemic GNP, our poverty level, our national debt, our burgeoning welfare rolls, our falling standard of living, our shrinking once great middle-class, our governments domestic and international scandals: the IRS, NASA, Obamacare, misappropriation of stimulus funds, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, etc, etc... What is it going to take to convince our liberal Democrat and RINO brethren something is seriously wrong! Are our elected officials along with their cadre of so called public servants so entrenched in the bureaucracy of government that their personal interests of security and reward in their governing trumps the best interest of their country, of their constituencies-, it certainly appears that way. If that is indeed the case, is it not reason enough for us to put our differences behind us and pose a united front in taking back our country? Come on people the clock is ticking loud and clear!
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
I Do Go On
Aside from whether Edward Snowden is a well intended whistle-blower or a traitorous weasel, why should we be surprised Putin thumbed his nose at us over his harboring of this fugitive; further that al Qaeda is alive and well and still yanking on our chain, the cause for shutting down our embassies; that America, in spite of it's conspicuous military and economic might, is seen by it's adversaries as impotent. Why? Because we have demonstrated of late we are impotent! Our embassies in Libya and Egypt violated with impunity, our support of our steadfast allies faltering and dismissive; our UN presence mealy mouthed and submissive. And don't tell me we are tirelessly working behind the scenes, leading from behind, resolving our and others' international problems through diplomacy-, ameliorating all offended parties positions' fairly and equally. There is only one offended party here, only one party whose ambassador was killed, whose flag was desecrated, that was humiliated by inaction... that would be us-,The United States of America! I can't bring myself to cope with the frustration and embarrassment in being bullied by 2nd rate countries, disrespected by despots! Everything just seems to be piling up on us, futility to do anything about it palpable. All we hear from near every quarter is the dire consequences of our government's inadequacies in dealing with both international and domestic affairs. The very same government that has blatantly demonstrated a penchant for misinterpreting our constitution, flaunting our laws, appeasing our enemies, mismanaging our economy, oppressing we its citizenry. I know I said it all profusely in my previous rant, but it just goes to show you how these circumstances stick in my craw! Admittedly I'm immersed in a liberal, socialistic, politically correct bubble here in the Northeast and unmercifully subjected to the terrains' distorted impression of an America to be-, and If so offended I should just bail out! But, my circumstances prevent that alternative. So there you have it, you are stuck with my whining!
Saturday, August 3, 2013
A More Insightful Tom Swift Here
Admittedly my blogs for the most part are spontaneous, right off the top of my head responses to inquiries, statements, circumstances; events offered, observed, promulgated and/or transpired one way or another by my liberal antagonists. However on occasion I am prompted to be more thoughtful, more introspective in my observations, more wordy-, this is one of those occasions. A long read for me, but hopefully one of substance and merit for you:
It is becoming increasingly apparent that the White house thinks that we the public are stupid, or at the very least, so overcome by attention deficit disorder that they can get anything past us. We are sheep. And they may be right. Their consistent display of performance theater consists of denial, usually in the form of an outright lie, followed by amendment and outrage, followed by disinformation, followed by stalling that allows the story to drift back to page four, having been overcome by stories on the progeny of the British royals for example, until both the scandal driven media and the public have completely lost interest, at which time the story withers on the vine, or the ultimate discovery of wrongdoing is just not that damn interesting anymore. As Peggy Noonan astutely observed, this administration is more interested in campaigning with virtually no interest in actually governing:
“Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate sinister entity that’s at the root of all of our problems. Some of these voices also do their best to gum up the works.They warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.”
--Barack Obama, May 2013
Hypocrisy, thy name is Obama.We are in the midst of the slowest recovery in the history of recessions and yet, rather than seeking to grow the economy, this administration continues to bang the inequality drum and redistribute wealth. Waxing philosophical on his future legacy, Obama and his media lap dogs are now touting “Republican obstructionism”, the latest sound bite in a campaign of deflection. Whereas Reagan and Clinton sparked 3 to 4% rates of growth by crossing the aisle, cutting tax rates, and spurring business to grow and hire creating wealth for all, this administration continues to follow failed policy with more failed policy in an arrogant display of partisan politics, punishing business with punitive corporate tax rates and Obamacare penalties.The result is growth less than 2%, increasing food stamp rolls, increasing disability, continued unemployment, and a median household income that has plummeted during what is supposed to be a recovery.The middle class, Obama’s poster child for this recovery, continues to suffer under his policies while the scapegoated rich are doing just fine, thank you very much, with stock market rallies and easy money on artificially low interest rates. Obama stated himself that he believes in redistribution, the calling card of socialism, and he is reaping the rewards of failed policy as we mimic Europe’s slow descent into stagnation and social upheaval. It is misfortune to be the first lemming off the cliff, but it is stupidity to follow the rest of the herd over the edge.
The assault on our Constitutional rights continues to be worrisome. Obama remains dismissive of border security and interferes in the southwestern states attempts to control their porous borders with Mexico. Attorney General Holder, the highest ranking law officer in the land continues to behave abominably by inserting his Federal nose into Texas abortion laws (why is it that an abortion limit at 20 weeks is such an affront to a woman’s right to choose is beyond me. If a pregnant woman can’t figure it out in 5 months, then abort them both…but I digress), voter ID laws (how is it racism to demand identification for the privilege of voting in the United States?), Arizona border security (another racial profiling situation whereby looking for Mexicans is profiling if you actually stop a Mexican, as opposed to say, a Swede?), Florida’s racially charged Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case (a jury found Mr. Z innocent….end of story, whether the AG agrees with it or not, even after the justice department helped fund protests). All this after the phenomenal level of ineptitude in failing to acknowledge a screw-up of colossal proportion in the “Fast and Furious” debacle where guns were funneled into Mexican cartels in an attempt to sting American distributors, guns that eventually killed one of our own Border Patrolmen. All brought to you by the same group of mental midgets that staged Ruby Ridge and Waco (that was of course the FBI and the BATFE under the Clinton administration and Janet Reno, but all justice department). And while on the gun subject, this administration continues an incessant assault on the rights of Americans to keep and bear arms by banning firearms in common use, firearms that statistically are used in a miniscule percentage of crime. But this President never let actual facts or statistics get in the way of policy. All in the name of the people, the public weal, the whims of the masses. Our Constitution was specifically constructed to prevent just such a thing. Our founding fathers warned of succumbing to “mob rule”, but the warnings of old white men have been set aside in the progressive zeal for “equality”. What’s old is new again. Witness the following comments:
“These moral demands which the President places before every individual citizen of the United States, are also the quintessence of the German State philosophy which finds its expression in the slogan ‘The Public Will Transcends the Interests of the Individual."-Adolph Hitler 1934, praising then President Roosevelt for his efforts at restoring America’s economy by comparing Roosevelt’s governing philosophy to that of Nazi Germany.....Prompting: “We sought to sidestep the impression that the President was becoming a fascist” by Undersecretary Phillips, 1934 in his diary responding to Hitler’s comments.
The assault on our individual rights has been well documented. Our government spies on its citizens, tracks the telephone records of journalists and in California police are tracking the movements of innocent civilians with license plate trackers. Recent releases by the NSA have proven our worse fears realized, that ordinary citizens are now being tracked via the internet with the government analyzing our email correspondence, web sites visited and Google searches. Although dismissed as being banal information gathering and only temporarily cached, consider how much information about you can be garnered through analysis of your interests, habits, hobbies, acquaintances and correspondence. Should you visit a sporting goods store that sells firearms, search for information about hunting, contact your physician about treatment of a disease or substance abuse, converse unknowingly with a subversive or a drug dealer, search for a local mosque, send an email to family in Pakistan, research investment opportunities in foreign markets, contact your accountant about taking advantage of tax loopholes, have a picture posted of you at a party with a bong (Michael Phelps take note) or alcohol, join a conservative organization, contribute money to a conservative group, or just post a conservative blog……..are these key search words identified and tracked by the government? And if so, does that flag your email for further study or in cases that are well documented, subject you to harassment by the most brutal arm of government ever conceived, the IRS? And you cannot dismiss this as conservative paranoia. This is reality, this is happening now, and the liberal establishment continues to dismiss the public’s concerns with the usual spate of finger pointing, misdirection, lack of responsibility, and ultimately the purposeful failure to release information in a timely fashion knowing the public’s attention deficit disorder and complicit mass media will cause us to become distracted by the next scandal. Witness the IRS. With over 13000 pages of documents flagged as potentially incriminating, the agency has released to date a mere 1500 pages, many of which are duplicates (Peggy Noonan, WSJ). This leaves us with the unsettling feeling that in McCarthy-esque fashion, we are all under scrutiny by our own government, an environment that has in the past, led to no good. And it is all eerily familiar:
“One can evade a danger that one recognizes, but a police working in the dark becomes uncanny. Nowhere does one feel safe from it. While not omnipresent it could appear, search, arrest. The worried citizen no longer knows whom he ought to trust.” -Historian Friedrich Zipfel, quoted in Gellately, 129, referring to the Gestapo in 1933*
"Let us not be sheep, lulled into complacency.That rarely works out to the benefit of the public. We have been down this path before, told by a voracious, expansive government that our concerns are trivial, and our needs will be satisfied by sacrificing a little freedom for security under the protection of an omniscient, all powerful state. Let’s not allow history to repeat itself!" As quoted in “In the Garden of Beasts”, Erik Larson, Random House 2011
It is becoming increasingly apparent that the White house thinks that we the public are stupid, or at the very least, so overcome by attention deficit disorder that they can get anything past us. We are sheep. And they may be right. Their consistent display of performance theater consists of denial, usually in the form of an outright lie, followed by amendment and outrage, followed by disinformation, followed by stalling that allows the story to drift back to page four, having been overcome by stories on the progeny of the British royals for example, until both the scandal driven media and the public have completely lost interest, at which time the story withers on the vine, or the ultimate discovery of wrongdoing is just not that damn interesting anymore. As Peggy Noonan astutely observed, this administration is more interested in campaigning with virtually no interest in actually governing:
“Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate sinister entity that’s at the root of all of our problems. Some of these voices also do their best to gum up the works.They warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.”
--Barack Obama, May 2013
Hypocrisy, thy name is Obama.We are in the midst of the slowest recovery in the history of recessions and yet, rather than seeking to grow the economy, this administration continues to bang the inequality drum and redistribute wealth. Waxing philosophical on his future legacy, Obama and his media lap dogs are now touting “Republican obstructionism”, the latest sound bite in a campaign of deflection. Whereas Reagan and Clinton sparked 3 to 4% rates of growth by crossing the aisle, cutting tax rates, and spurring business to grow and hire creating wealth for all, this administration continues to follow failed policy with more failed policy in an arrogant display of partisan politics, punishing business with punitive corporate tax rates and Obamacare penalties.The result is growth less than 2%, increasing food stamp rolls, increasing disability, continued unemployment, and a median household income that has plummeted during what is supposed to be a recovery.The middle class, Obama’s poster child for this recovery, continues to suffer under his policies while the scapegoated rich are doing just fine, thank you very much, with stock market rallies and easy money on artificially low interest rates. Obama stated himself that he believes in redistribution, the calling card of socialism, and he is reaping the rewards of failed policy as we mimic Europe’s slow descent into stagnation and social upheaval. It is misfortune to be the first lemming off the cliff, but it is stupidity to follow the rest of the herd over the edge.
The assault on our Constitutional rights continues to be worrisome. Obama remains dismissive of border security and interferes in the southwestern states attempts to control their porous borders with Mexico. Attorney General Holder, the highest ranking law officer in the land continues to behave abominably by inserting his Federal nose into Texas abortion laws (why is it that an abortion limit at 20 weeks is such an affront to a woman’s right to choose is beyond me. If a pregnant woman can’t figure it out in 5 months, then abort them both…but I digress), voter ID laws (how is it racism to demand identification for the privilege of voting in the United States?), Arizona border security (another racial profiling situation whereby looking for Mexicans is profiling if you actually stop a Mexican, as opposed to say, a Swede?), Florida’s racially charged Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case (a jury found Mr. Z innocent….end of story, whether the AG agrees with it or not, even after the justice department helped fund protests). All this after the phenomenal level of ineptitude in failing to acknowledge a screw-up of colossal proportion in the “Fast and Furious” debacle where guns were funneled into Mexican cartels in an attempt to sting American distributors, guns that eventually killed one of our own Border Patrolmen. All brought to you by the same group of mental midgets that staged Ruby Ridge and Waco (that was of course the FBI and the BATFE under the Clinton administration and Janet Reno, but all justice department). And while on the gun subject, this administration continues an incessant assault on the rights of Americans to keep and bear arms by banning firearms in common use, firearms that statistically are used in a miniscule percentage of crime. But this President never let actual facts or statistics get in the way of policy. All in the name of the people, the public weal, the whims of the masses. Our Constitution was specifically constructed to prevent just such a thing. Our founding fathers warned of succumbing to “mob rule”, but the warnings of old white men have been set aside in the progressive zeal for “equality”. What’s old is new again. Witness the following comments:
“These moral demands which the President places before every individual citizen of the United States, are also the quintessence of the German State philosophy which finds its expression in the slogan ‘The Public Will Transcends the Interests of the Individual."-Adolph Hitler 1934, praising then President Roosevelt for his efforts at restoring America’s economy by comparing Roosevelt’s governing philosophy to that of Nazi Germany.....Prompting: “We sought to sidestep the impression that the President was becoming a fascist” by Undersecretary Phillips, 1934 in his diary responding to Hitler’s comments.
The assault on our individual rights has been well documented. Our government spies on its citizens, tracks the telephone records of journalists and in California police are tracking the movements of innocent civilians with license plate trackers. Recent releases by the NSA have proven our worse fears realized, that ordinary citizens are now being tracked via the internet with the government analyzing our email correspondence, web sites visited and Google searches. Although dismissed as being banal information gathering and only temporarily cached, consider how much information about you can be garnered through analysis of your interests, habits, hobbies, acquaintances and correspondence. Should you visit a sporting goods store that sells firearms, search for information about hunting, contact your physician about treatment of a disease or substance abuse, converse unknowingly with a subversive or a drug dealer, search for a local mosque, send an email to family in Pakistan, research investment opportunities in foreign markets, contact your accountant about taking advantage of tax loopholes, have a picture posted of you at a party with a bong (Michael Phelps take note) or alcohol, join a conservative organization, contribute money to a conservative group, or just post a conservative blog……..are these key search words identified and tracked by the government? And if so, does that flag your email for further study or in cases that are well documented, subject you to harassment by the most brutal arm of government ever conceived, the IRS? And you cannot dismiss this as conservative paranoia. This is reality, this is happening now, and the liberal establishment continues to dismiss the public’s concerns with the usual spate of finger pointing, misdirection, lack of responsibility, and ultimately the purposeful failure to release information in a timely fashion knowing the public’s attention deficit disorder and complicit mass media will cause us to become distracted by the next scandal. Witness the IRS. With over 13000 pages of documents flagged as potentially incriminating, the agency has released to date a mere 1500 pages, many of which are duplicates (Peggy Noonan, WSJ). This leaves us with the unsettling feeling that in McCarthy-esque fashion, we are all under scrutiny by our own government, an environment that has in the past, led to no good. And it is all eerily familiar:
“One can evade a danger that one recognizes, but a police working in the dark becomes uncanny. Nowhere does one feel safe from it. While not omnipresent it could appear, search, arrest. The worried citizen no longer knows whom he ought to trust.” -Historian Friedrich Zipfel, quoted in Gellately, 129, referring to the Gestapo in 1933*
"Let us not be sheep, lulled into complacency.That rarely works out to the benefit of the public. We have been down this path before, told by a voracious, expansive government that our concerns are trivial, and our needs will be satisfied by sacrificing a little freedom for security under the protection of an omniscient, all powerful state. Let’s not allow history to repeat itself!" As quoted in “In the Garden of Beasts”, Erik Larson, Random House 2011
Thursday, August 1, 2013
How Can He; How Can They?
What say ye Abraham Lincoln? How about a thunder bolt or two to bring this ultimate recipient of your Emancipation Proclamation to his senses. He has more than once claimed to be Lincolnesque in his governing! Can you believe it? It's from him all our strife, confusion and dissension seems to be emanating these days! Most of us see him as the antitheses of anything remotely resembling Lincoln, yet he campaigns on, buoyed by a socialist, liberal, racist, anti-constitution, godless rabble-, until hell won't have it! When subjected to the rhetoric the likes of his acolytes, Legislators: Rangel, Pelosi, Reed, Durban and their legislating ilk, Governors: Bloomberg, Brown and Cuomo and their gubernatorial ilk, the Reverends: Jackson, Sharpton and Wright and their religious ilk, one has to question where are they coming from and why. Can any true, responsible American in mind and spirit grasp the intent and purpose of their actions or inactions as being other than subversive, mean spirited and divisive.Their common denominator seemingly to undermine the very essence of our country's founding, existence, the sanctity of our constitution; accentuating our differences, bringing us to our knees in class warfare, promoting a malaise of disorder in debilitating social conflict, all the while with great success, diverting our attention from critical issues of state and country-, fertile ground for the Sol Alinsky seeds of civil unrest to be sowed. I cringe in disbelief and dire apprehension of the fate awaiting us if this diabolical and insidious direction we are heading continues. We seem to be participants in a horrible morality play where vices are glorified over virtues, where the bad guys are the winners, the good guys the losers! The '14 mid-terms may be too late or in themselves denote the beginning of the end for these United states of America. I'm just saying, I hope.....
Friday, July 26, 2013
Hypocrisy Run Rampant
...do you hear him, this great divider, this committed socialist, this perpetrator of immeasurable harm to our nation's economy, pride and leadership-, its citizens! He is back on the campaign stomp advising we must disregard all the dissension and misdirection his administration has wrought on this Republic of ours these past, near five years and reinvest in his vision of the America to be (reinvest, his code word for tax more spent more!). His hypocrisy cup runneth over! He has indeed lent a new dimension to the deniability gamut. Does he honestly believe like the rest of us he has been but a chagrined spectator to his own impropriety as President of the United States!? The polls certainly would lead him to believe he is above the fray with his popularity unwavering while the results of his governing highly suspect and generally abhorred. He certainly is the Poster-boy for this age of celebrity is he not: a mile wide and an 1/8 of an inch deep! As I once said here before like Sancho, fumbling stumbling Don Quixote's faithful squire's retort to those who questioned his loyalty.."but I like him". What a sad analogy for the President of the United States!
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Detroit Bankrupt?
Detroit the liberal Democrat's shining Emerald City, unspoiled by those deterring conservative Republican slants, a bastion of union lead socialism, the model of what could be if liberalism, socialism prevailed through out the nation.Tell me it isn't so!
So goes Detroit, so goes the United States of America was foretold by the Democrat Party pundits. In reality-,ain't it the truth! How many more examples do we need, this one in our own backyard, to tell us collectivism, socialism, communism and all of it's infinite variations on excessive government intervention in the workings of a society doesn't work! Government control has never, will never trump individual freedom and enterprise of a true democracy. A society dominated by takers as opposed to makers is doomed to drown in its own social and bureaucratic excesses! The solution? In Detroit's case, but one: it's Obama to the rescue! After all isn't it just another "money shortage" to deal with in his peerless inimitable fashion? Crank up the presses at Treasury and run off ole struggling Detroit a couple a billion dollars or so.That should do the trick. shouldn't it.Yeah right! How can the most passive of us witness such tell-tale signs of pending calamity and suspect there is light at the end of this liberal Democrat tunnel.The lingering death of our socialism preferences has ensued! Are we stupid or what!
So goes Detroit, so goes the United States of America was foretold by the Democrat Party pundits. In reality-,ain't it the truth! How many more examples do we need, this one in our own backyard, to tell us collectivism, socialism, communism and all of it's infinite variations on excessive government intervention in the workings of a society doesn't work! Government control has never, will never trump individual freedom and enterprise of a true democracy. A society dominated by takers as opposed to makers is doomed to drown in its own social and bureaucratic excesses! The solution? In Detroit's case, but one: it's Obama to the rescue! After all isn't it just another "money shortage" to deal with in his peerless inimitable fashion? Crank up the presses at Treasury and run off ole struggling Detroit a couple a billion dollars or so.That should do the trick. shouldn't it.Yeah right! How can the most passive of us witness such tell-tale signs of pending calamity and suspect there is light at the end of this liberal Democrat tunnel.The lingering death of our socialism preferences has ensued! Are we stupid or what!
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
The Tragedy of Trayvon Martin
When are we going to realize for some, racism is a thriving "business" in the United States. Taking full advantage of our diverse ethnicity, racist trade on our differences to promote dissension,ferment biases and prejudices for their financial, social and/or political gain! What purpose do organizations of race or color membership specificity have, other than to promote separation, division; gain rewards in that separation and division?And who gets the most ink, the most media network attention, the most notoriety? The most radical of course! I'm not saying the oppressed should not unite to be better seen and heard in light of blatant injustice, but not trumped up opportunities to propagandize, to foster unrest and violence for the expressed purpose of perpetuating unrest and violence, for perpetuating bigotry and prejudices for their own gain. Who does that? We all know who; while we for the most part stand silent for fear of being labeled racist our selves Odd they have no fear of being so labeled. Why is it we shuffle our feet, divert our eyes, fall silent in awkwardness? Most of us, certainly most of our parents before us had/have experienced prejudices for one reason or another in our collective life times, but here we are, as a whole none the worst for wear. We have survived, some even thrived on the adversity-, of course others have fallen by the wayside, but as American's we have moved on. We don't need to hear a constant din of past social injustices even atrocities; of present and future accommodations to remind us of what we have overcome. Shame on those who want to make the tragic death of a teenager a race issue when it was not.You so called religious and government leaders alike who misrepresented the circumstances to fan the flames of racial unrest are despicable. You've done it before and no doubt, if afforded the opportunity will do it again. You have no scrupulous, no moral compass!
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