Together May 23, 2013

Considering the fact that this country hasn’t had a functioning, operational government governing according to the will of the people for over 5 years, I’d say we’ve actually not done too badly. I mean “we” to include the real backbone of the country, and not the users, thieves, and manipulators in Washington.

Since we are the ones being knocked down the stairs then kicked for falling, I think we have held up rather well. So far, it looks like our spirit is still intact. Our will to be free still shines as brightly as before, and our patience with a band of marauders usurping power and laying waste to as much of our heritage as they can manage in such a short time is still intact, so far. (Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have a vote of “no confidence” in this government?)

If we can continue to hold our heads high, stand strong, and stand TOGETHER, we can prevail. We CAN do this.

Where We Stand Now May 20, 2013

More facts come out daily regarding the scandals in Washington. Only ONE of these scandals was unintended, and that is the Benghazi massacre.

As I listened to Rush Limbaugh today, I heard him put together the only scenario that fit all the details: It’s the Chicago Way, and it is being employed on a nationwide basis against all Conservatives as a way to silence noise from the conservative press and to suppress donations to conservative candidates.

The democrats are deadly serious about stealing the 2014 election, and will stop at nothing to insure their success. Chicago style political pressure is all you need to know about how this administration will go about getting their jockeys on all the winning horses in every race between now and 2016.

This is just to get you thinking, which is what I plan to do. Rush began to give us an idea of how to stand against the pressure that will be brought to bear, but the donors are the soft spot in the Conservative belly, and if they dry up, there won’t be any money flowing in at all to fund any conservative campaigns. The Chicago way, remember?

Allen West On What We Need To Do May 18, 2013

This is a long video, almost an hour. Get a drink or a cup of tea, find a game of solitaire on your computer, and get TAUGHT. This HERO knows what we need to be doing.

The Worriers Were Right May 17, 2013

Years ago in Valdez, the little evangelical churches all tried to warn the rest of us that trouble was coming down the road, disguised as “secular humanism.” It was going to go into the grade schools, and it was going to propagandize our kids by introducing things like “values clarification,” “self-esteem,” and “peer pressure.” And, of course, we laughed.

Everybody knew those evangelicals were sweet but silly, and they were always finding Commies under the beds and crying, “Wolf!” all the time. We just patted them on the shoulders, said, “There, there…” and forgot immediately what they had been trying so desperately to tell us.

When our kids started coming home from school with stories of being shamed in class for not wanting to write things about their parents in their classroom journals, or made to sit out from special events because they didn’t “conform,” when they came home and told us that there was no such thing as “right” or “wrong,” or that they had the right to divorce us, report us for spanking them, or to do whatever they wanted, we were upset and angry, but we didn’t make the connection between that and what those sweet, silly evangelicals had wrung their hands about so emphatically and tried so desperately to make us understand.

Then, before we knew it, our kids were putting condoms on cucumbers, telling us that religion was a waste of time, that sex was nothing more than recreational fun, almost like sports, and that they didn’t need our guidance because the teachers had told them they were all grown up enough to do their own thinking.

And now, we have a whole generation of young people (and old hippies) who hate America, hate the rights, freedoms, and privileges she provides, think Cuba and North Korea are ideal places; and who think that they are entitled to be taken care of from cradle to grave by a government that is topheavy, intrusive, abusive, and ubiquitous. Unfortunately for us old-timers, we have been so disgusted and disappointed we have opted out of engagement in public life, willing to let somebody else do it, and we have turned our franchise over to the kids who were taught that there was no “right” or “wrong,” that all religions were equal (but that Christianity was “too judgmental”), that “government is good,” and that “only the government can take care of us.”

We are seeing in our lifetime, before any of us are even really creaky and old, the results of all the things those sweet and silly people tried to warn us about all those years ago. Looking back and remembering the condescending way we shone them on when they tried to explain that our children’s souls were in mortal danger, and that America was teetering on the brink of disaster, we can see now how those people we treated like children were really the canaries in the coal mine.

Our schools have banned God and all Judeo-Christian moral teachings. God is forbidden in all public venues and private venues that can be seen from public places. We have stopped dealing in absolutes: no truth, no right, no wrong. Without God anywhere in public life, moral behavior is scorned or ignored. “Fairness” is the new holy word of our culture, and we are reduced to toothless spectators who can only stand by and watch while the NEA foxes ravage the educational henhouses, the Call To Action coyotes steal the unchurched sheep, and our leaders are known criminals, thieves, and marauders.

If there is ever a “next time,” and I am accosted by sweet and silly evangelicals trying to tell me the wolves are in the sheepfold, I am going to pay attention. And I hope, that as old as I am, that I am able to actually DO something about it. And one thing is certain: I absolutely will NOT be wasting time patting them kindly and telling them, “There, there…”

Chicago-Style May 15, 2013

Doesn’t the information that is coming out about the IRS scandal sound like a HUGE Chicago-style corruption system? A juggernaut of cronies, operatives, thugs, and party hacks is rampant in Washington. NOW I SEE WHY THE PRETENDER IS SO EAGER TO GET THE IRS IN CHARGE OF O-CARE. If you are a conservative, you will be given a one-way ticket to the death panels. As Rush says, “Don’t doubt me in this…”

The Corruption Of Power May 13, 2013

Power over others is intoxicating, but it is a fragile thing, best held lightly and with humility, with an eye to relinquishing it at the least suggestion. A velvet glove is much more effective than a mailed fist. “Hope springs eternal” is not an empty platitude. Hope and the desire to live free are built into the hearts of rational people, and no petty despot or trivial tyrant can kill the spark.

Our founding documents talk about the “consent of the governed.” America is a land of laws put into place to protect the rights, property, and lives of individuals. Suddenly, we find ourselves with an administration that believes that the currently-corrupted laws exist to protect the presumed “right” of the government to abrogate and intrude upon the rights of the individual. Through the manipulation of the original law, the desire for elitists to control others has become the main reason for laws enacted in today’s congress. The situation results in such a multiplicity of petty, niggling little regulations and laws that no one can live their lives without being in violation of some law, somewhere; turning us from a nation of free individuals to one of violators and miscreants. What is the drive, the apparently innate urge in humans to control others? “Silva” mind control, propaganda, media manipulation, malevolent cults, all boil down to the need in some people to control the largest number of individuals they can, by any means necessary to achieve that control.

For many years in America, people were happy to let everybody else get on with their lives and do whatever they believed was necessary to succeed in achieving the American Dream. There were occasional needy people who popped up from time to time who hungered for power over others, but they were quickly enough stopped in their quest. Freedom, to Americans, was fresh enough in their experience and important enough to their way of life that anybody who held delusions about suppressing that freedom were simply voted out of office, ignored, sent to prison, or made laughingstocks or objects of scorn.

But these days, it seems like we have rounded up every one of those once-ridiculous power-seekers and would-be despots and sent them to Washington on our dime to have their way with us and our money and rights. I don’t know what we have been drinking/sniffing/smoking, but in our deranged hallucinations, we have imagined these people to be “leaders,” with our “best interests” at heart, when in actuality, they are all petty little despots, (like dingy, hairy reid), and tinpot dictators with inflated opinions of themselves and their worth. They can’t stand the thought of not being in control of all the rest us, or as many of us as they can manipulate, bribe, or coerce.

Despotism isn’t just for political monsters like Stalin and Pol Pot. Many people have the urge to command others to their will without ever having the opportunity to wield it over large groups of people. When they get into positions of power in American government, like fetishists or voyeurs, they cannot control their lustful desires.

Bastiat’s first sentence in “The Law” is, “The law, perverted!” He quotes the would-be despots at some length. It is apparent from the quotes he chose that the people he is using as examples are elitists who believe firmly that they are the only ones with the intellect and the “quality” to be able to show those sweating masses of people in the “lower classes” how to live correctly; and that the only ones entitled to hold power (and receive largesse) are THEMSELVES, of course…

It even becomes amusing in a couple of instances, because it is so obvious that none of the quoted individuals has ever had the slightest experience building a society, let alone dealing with the varieties of personalities, beliefs, and needs of anyone “beneath” them. It’s one thing to desire a perfect society and to work to that end, but it’s a different one altogether to belive that one is entitled to bend another’s will to his own in order to create that perfect society according to one’s own vision, with oneself set up at the apex as the perfect example of righteous perfection. Taken to extremes, as we have seen in China, Russia, Cambodia, and North Korea, it will be implemented and maintained with deadly force.

The patterns that repeat are the elitism of the despots, their contempt for the rights of others, their greed for the fruits of others’ labors, and their pride and self-aggrandizement. The United States government is full of these people these days, having purchased their staying power by buying votes and greasing the appropriate palms. They have gotten themselves elected and are pressing forward under this administration in a bold move to usurp the rights and income of all the rest of us without our consent, often without our knowledge. Elitists are drawn to this power over the lives of others like addicts to their drugs, and insist the rest of us have no right to exist without their control or to even complain when these actions are taken against us.

Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, the current resident, Barbara Boxer, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, George Soros, etc. All condescending elitists bent on enslaving the rest of us to provide themselves with status and fortune and garner as much power as they can amass.

The problem is that they don’t understand that the human soul is not something they can control. It was not created to be enslaved. They would be the first to complain, obviously, should their plans be reversed and they be the ones enslaved. In a way, they already are, and their Master is no friend to freedom or individual rights. No matter how much power they manage to achieve over the physical and material lives of Americans, they will never be able to enslave the spirits and souls of their victims, but their Master lashes them with the whip of greed, beats them with the cudgel of envy, and tortures them with hot coals of conceit.

Power over others is intoxicating, but it is a fragile thing, best held lightly and with humility, with an eye to relinquishing it at the least suggestion. A velvet glove is much more effective than a mailed fist. “Hope springs eternal” is not an empty platitude. Hope and the desire to live free are built into the hearts of rational people, and no petty despot or trivial tyrant can kill the spark.

Facts Of Life, The Old Fashioned Way May 8, 2013

Dear Children: For some time now, I have been wanting to tell you some of the real facts of life. Please read these carefully, and refer to them frequently as you go through life:

1. You will receive a body. You may like or hate it, but you’re stuck with it for the duration. Please try to take care of it, because it is the only one you get.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time, informal school, called “LIFE.” Each day in this school you will have many opportunities to learn, and some days will be easier than others, I promise. But you will learn something every day.

3. Growth is a process of trial and error. The physical growth depends on your attention to promise #1 above, and more or less proceeds without your knowledge. Interior growth, on the other hand, will be entirely up to you and the effort you put into that growth. You will have to live with the results, so choose wisely here.

4. A lesson is repeated until learned. Any lessons turned in as “Incomplete,” carelessly done, or fed to the dog will be repeated until the lesson is learned. Just so you know.

5. If you are alive, you will be learning. This process will continue until you die. Take your time and do it right.

6. “There” is no better than “here.” When your “there” becomes your “here,” you will begin to look for another “there.”

7. Others are your mirrors. Hate them? Love them? What do you hate or love about yourself?

8. What you make of your life is up to you. In this lesson, it is permissible to ask for assistance. You might not like the assistance you get, which will also be part of the lesson.

9. God has ALL the answers. You can ask an unlimited number of questions. The chances are, however, that His answers will often be those of most good parents and teachers: “Pray,” and, “Use your resources.”

10. You will forget ALL of this. That is why it is repeated.

Oh, Susannah! May 6, 2013

If there was ever a time when I wished that American Thinker had a big “BUMP TO THE MOON!” button on it, it was when I saw, and read with great nostalgia, Do You Remember Sweet Betsy From Pike?.

It almost brought a tear to my eye. We sang these songs regularly in all our school years. What other Junior-High kids got a whole fifty minutes in the afternoon to sit and listen to the glories of Rimsky-Korsakoff’s “Capriccio,” or the “1812 Overture” by Tchaikovsky, or learn the history behind “The Erie Canal?” Fortunately, a lot of those old songs are still preserved in books like American Folk Songs

Negro Songs and Spirituals

or, American Ballads

This is just a small sampling of what’s available for those of us who want to teach these songs to our children and grandchildren. They are so “politically incorrect” that they would NEVER be taught in today’s schools anywhere, but, as the writer of the article expresses so well, they are true slices of the cultural history of America.

The Limbaugh Theorem May 2, 2013

RUSH IS RIGHT!

For those of you who don’t listen to Rush Limbaugh, there is something you might be interested in hearing.

Rush proposed an idea last month that is prescient. Briefly put, it goes like this: the Pretender intends to force his agenda through at all costs, but will do nothing that might put his “fingerprints” on anything that he can use against the Right. Not only will he not govern in fact, he will not even appear to be governing. Once this declaration from Rush was made, the entire cover on the Machiavellian manipulations in the government was blown. It’s one of those times when pundits should smack themselves on the forehead for not seeing it sooner.

The Divine P has determined that there are ways to eliminate competition (meaning any person, place, thing, entity, body, organization, etc. on the Right) and to place the blame squarely on the GOP in order to make himself appear as a beleaguered leader attacked on all sides by malcontents and destroyers.

In reality, as Rush has so clearly stated time and again, the entire strategy is to destroy the Right by blaming them for every single negative thing that comes from his administration while carefully avoiding any evidence that he is the one behind the destruction, in order to clear the way for the 2014 winner-take-all, do-or-die elections. Without the election, O is poked.

Craftiness on such a scale is difficult for regular folks like us to comprehend fully, but now, we can see that this scheme has been in the works since before the 2008 election, when the P made all his soaring promises about “not one dime!” and “if you like your doctor, you can keep him,” and, “insurance premiums will go down by $2500!”

The goal of the entire project has been to undermine, calumniate, malign, and blame the GOP for every single negative aspect of his agenda he wants to accomplish, and all the while, he goes before the people and pitifully complains to them how hard he’s fighting, that he’s trying, but he just can’t prevail against those wascally Wepublicans.

The Chechen Chiselers May 1, 2013

How many times across this country is THIS CRAP going on every day, for every cheapskate fake “refugee” who lies their way across our borders??

There are a lot of chumps in this country, and right now, I’m thinking they are probably US. The taxpayers are picking up the tab for these swindlers: Swindlers who hate us and are just waiting for their opportunity to drive another plane into another skyscraper on our dime.