Now Americans Understand The Holocaust

As I was growing up through the fifties, sixties and on I heard the question asked over and over again, “How could the Jews have allowed that to happen to themselves?” The Holocaust. The rounding up and subsequent murdering of millions of Jews, gays, mentally challenged and others selected as enemies of the Fatherland during the reign of the Third Reich at the hands of Hitler and his cronies. ‘How could they have lined up and been herded off to the Final Solution?’ was the question I heard many times. No one could understand how it was possible. Why did the Jews allow it? How did the Germans stand by and let it happen to fellow Germans. No one understood.

Well, NOW we know the answer. THIS is how it happens.

It starts small and gains momentum until everyone FOLLOWS ORDERS. Our leaders today are bullying the American people just as the German people were bullied by THEIR leaders in the 1930’s and 1940’s. I’m sure many pundits will poo-poo this reasoning and try to tell you it’s “not the same thing” – but make no mistake, it’s EXACTLY the same.

Granted, the TSA exams are a long way from the murder of millions of our citizens, but this is how it starts – this is the beginning of the mental state necessary to march all those people to the trains and off to the camps. They were told the HAD to do it under penalty of law. Those in positions of authority told the Jews the HAD to be relocated. They complied. They complained, grumbled, some fought, but in the end they were taken away all the same. Today we are being protected from an enemy our current leaders won’t even call by name let alone allow our TSA people screen for – tomorrow we will be marching our seniors off to “take the pill” to bail out failed policies of a regime that feels they were “chosen” to “fundamentally change America.” That should echo eerily to students of the rise of Adolph Hitler. I feel like we are at the end of “Star Wars” when the emperor unleashes bolts of electricity on Luke Skywalker and says “…only NOW do you realize the power of the Dark Side…”

The Final Solution was not accomplished in a day and the abuses of the population were not achieved instantly. It took years of conditioning until the Third Reich was ready to start the furnaces.

Is this the “change” Americans were looking for? Is that TSA agent groping your kid the way to protect us? Or is there another way? You already know the answer to THAT question, too.

Don't Blame Bristol (Palin)

In Hollywood there is a hubbub over the success of Bristol Palin on “Dancing With The Stars.” The gist is: “How can this ignorant clod from Alaska who has done nothing with her life be winning every week?” That seems to be the composite consensus from the Hollywood media.

Let’s quickly start with the premise of “ignorant clod from Alaska who has done nothing with her life.” That’s easy, other than singing or playing a sport, what makes any of the other contestants any more intelligent? Based on their inability to put together coherent sentences on anything but their own careers, there is nothing that qualifies them more than Bristol. None of these “stars” who are supposed to be the spokesperson for any number of things has done anything to show they are worthy of being listened to beyond a recording studio. So, in that case, Bristol is on a pretty level playing field with any one of the contestants. Other than not being able to dance very well.

And I’m glad the media is able to recognize she’s from Alaska. Asking her critics in the media to find Alaska on a map would be much more challenging. They’re more likely to point to Greenland or Canada – and that’s presuming they can find the right continent.

The interesting thing that seems to be eluding the media is how the Palin name is so popular. Right now we are missing the candidates for the Republican run at the White House in 2012 and Sarah Palin is the only one who is stepping to the microphone to speak. We’re in a political vacuum right now. President Obama is EVERYWHERE speaking for the Democrats, but Palin is the only voice for the other side so far.

If you want to complain about Bristol winning you need to call the White House and complain to THEM for having such a far left president who is governing against the will of the people and causing such a reaction AGAINST him in American society that a little girl from Alaska is beating out “stars” who actually can dance. DWTS started during election season with the success of Bristol directly reflecting the success of the Republicans sweeping into the House of Representatives November 2.

What SHOULD be alarming Washington and the White House is that even after the elections Bristol continues to win – that’s an indicator they should heed. What this little television show SHOULD tell Washington is that the American voters are not taking the time after the elections for downtime this year. There’s no lull after the elections like in past election years where Congress can do what until they want until about January because no one is paying attention. The American voters are watching and are starting their march to 2012. America is speaking – the question is: Who is listening?

Apologizing To The World For Obama

The NEXT President of the United States is going to have a daunting task facing him/her. He/She is going to have to apologize to the world – possibly in a world tour – for President Obama, his failures and the vulnerable position he has left us all in. His short-sightedness and selfish focus on his agenda has shown a lack of compassion for the people he was elected to serve. At the same time he has endangered the United States and our allies.

In the first two years alone of President Obama we have cringed as he delivered apology after apology from HIM for the United States, our ideals, our Constitution, our history, our military, our position in the world, our economy and any other image that has made America great over the first two-hundred thirty-four years of our existence as a nation. He has bent the meaning of the Founding of this nation, he has misrepresented the articles of the constitution, he blatantly opposed the Supreme Court and ridiculed them for their decision in front of Congress and he has tarnished the image of the Office of the President of the United States of America with his insistence on associations with those who wish to undermine the country. Yet, the reality has been that as bad a Obama thinks the United States is, the American people and the rest of the world realizes we are still the greatest nation the world has ever seen.

Just apologizing for American greatness was not enough. After apologizing President Obama set about destroying the American Brand while the world and the country watched in shock. In the face of war, terror threats, oil spills and economic disaster Obama ignored the plight of his countrymen so he could carry out his grand social experiment dabbling in Western European Socialism – the same Socialism that Western Europe is trying to save itself from after it failed miserably – even as Obama is actively forcing that same socialism on the American people.

After apologizing for the arrogant mistakes Obama and his Congress made the NEXT President will then have to set about erasing them. Congress will have to impose economic balance to the out of control spending the Obama Administration inflicted on our future generations. That is going to require MASSIVE spending cuts to the entitlement programs Obama erroneously thought were a good idea and eliminating many programs that never should have been inflicted on us in the first place.

It will also require a ‘downsizing’ or ‘rightsizing’ of the American bureaucracy. Just as many businesses had to reduce their manpower to meet fiscal retractions and management realities in the 1990’s the government will have go through the same kind of reductions and streamlining to become effective in the future. There are literally millions of jobs in the American government that have either been eliminated by the implementation of computers or are redundancies that can be eliminated entirely. At the same time government management people are going to have to be trained in accountability tools. They will have to know how to hold their people accountable while being held accountable to produce production level numbers. That is going to be a challenge since it has never before happened in the public sector.

At the same time, the military will have to be rebuilt. In a time when the country is under constant threat of attack from terrorists, has combat troops in the field and our adversaries are nuking up and building up their militaries Obama CUT spending to the U.S. military as Presidents Clinton and Carter did before him in typical Democrat ostrich fashion. Somewhere in the thinking of the Left is the notion that if you show weakness to your enemies they will understand you mean them no harm and leave you alone. I can only assume that strategy worked well when they were kids on the playground to protect their lunch money because in the Real World where most of us live it’s a plan for disaster. The bullies of the world recognize weakness and exploit it. It’s no more complicated than that.

Rebuilding the image of the United States while controlling the domestic challenges will be difficult, but the onslaught from the haughty, affronted media snobs and their co-conspirators of the whining Democrat Party will be at top decibel from before the first day. They will be wailing they were wronged and be adversarial at every turn. Those in that group mistakenly think it was the collective groan from the Right that brought about the undermining of Barak Obama. They fail to grasp that it was the recognition by Conservatives and the like-minded that Obama was a hard Leftist who had lied to them and had a plan to work contrary to American values to get elected. THAT is what brought about the groundswell against the Left. It was not attacking for the sake of attacking, it was Obama opening the closet so everyone could see who he and his Congress were that brought about the revulsion with Washington and the Democrats. The Democrats actually gave the life force to the Conservative movement and Tea Parties by who the Democrats are and what they did to America.

America deserves better.

Democrat Accountability

It’s that time of year again. We are being inundated with standard political “elect me” commercials – or “don’t elect my opponent because they have some piece of dirt in their background I hope you’ll hate, just don’t ask me about issues because I don’t have any ground to stand on” ads. They are on every channel all the time. The one that always gives me a good belly laugh is the one about Democrats trying to tell us they want to bring “accountability” to government. What? Surely they jest.

For as long as I can remember politicians have used that same tired line of holding government accountable – and they never have. It’s especially hilarious after two years of the Obama Administration and the Democrat Congress running wild in Washington like drunk frat kids taking over their parent’s house for a sex party with strippers. Where was the accountability through all those bailouts and stimuli? Was it the ‘keep our boot on their neck’ moment when Obama was playing golf while BP and the people of the Gulf were trying to save themselves? Is that the kind of accountability we’re talking about? Or maybe it was the stellar job they did holding themselves accountable to the American voters when polls showed 70 percent of us disagreed with Congress when they pushed healthcare down our throats. Or maybe it was that bank bailout that was rushed through on a ‘crisis’ we have since found out did not exist. I suppose it could be how their leader ran around the world selling out Americans to the rest of the world – that certainly made us all a lot safer when we travel the world. Or was it the ‘beer conference’ when the president showed himself to be biased against our law enforcement people. We KNOW it’s not about the ‘transparency’ we were guaranteed by Obama and Pelosi to keep Americans informed. Neither have delivered on their promises. Or maybe it was rushing legislation after legislation through Congress before anyone had a chance to read it. Yeah, THAT was Democrat accountability in action.

I think Americans would have been a lot happier if they had seen a little accountability on spending. Find ANY action the Congress or White House took to control spending by anyone in Washington – outside the military. President Obama has whored out the American taxpayer to every union, bank, and piece of Congressional pork he could find to try to shore up votes for his re-election run in 2012 by creating a 14 TRILLION dollar debt for the taxpayers.

There is NO accountability in Washington. Everyone knows it, so for Democrats to run on an ‘accountability’ plank is outright ludicrous. It’s actually insulting to think Americans would believe it AGAIN.

We have seen NO accountability from the Democrats at any point over the last two years, so don’t insult us with these election time platitudes. They want the money of taxpayers so they can throw it at their contributors by the billion-dollar basketful. Washington is an all out brothel at the moment and they’re using our money to screw US. There’s no believing they’ll reform themselves, or they’ve heard the American people or that they can be trusted with our money ever again. In business we have a phrase for what we need to say to these people: “You’re fired.” THAT is the kind of accountability we need for Washington.

Americans deserve better.

Weak Leaders In Washington Leave The US In Peril

Certain axioms of leaders and leadership have been true throughout history. Numerous philosophers have stated them in various ways; and some axioms are simply understood. Great leaders inherently know the axioms and exemplify them every time you see them.

“For a country to be great it needs great people choosing great leaders, and great leaders are only as great as the people they lead.”

“Building a strong, educated citizenry is the obligation and duty of the current leaders.”

“The leaders of tomorrow will come from the citizens of today. The quality of tomorrow’s leaders is incumbent on current leaders to insure.”

“Great leaders lead by example.”

“Poor leaders cannot lead. Poor leaders are reduced to insulting, lying and force to influence their citizens.”

By all indications Washington has been seized by poor leaders.

Our leaders are weak-kneed, limp-wristed, hand-wringing whiners not worthy of the people they were elected to serve. None of the attributes of great leaders are characteristics of the power people currently inhabiting Washington. The people going to Washington – from the White House all the way down through Congress and the functionaries who populate the various bureaucracies – are as far from true leaders as we can get. They are as bland as wallpaper paste and have about the same backbone.

Through most of the Twentieth Century and now into the Twenty-First Century Americans were told we needed to elect or appoint people with a pedigree/resume that included graduation from a specific group of colleges that we now have come to recognize as the repositories of the most intense socialist thought on the planet. Not only have those colleges been taken over by professors that represent the thoughts of the Hard Left, they also are a bunch of blowhards incapable of working in the private sector. They are showing themselves repeatedly to be wrong in their theories and when those theories are applied to the Real World where most of us live those theories are destructive.

Maybe that was the plan from the outset.

Many of the models these theorists used to expand their own theories were radicals, terrorists, crackpots, narcissists, blowhards and liars. The people these pseudo-leaders idolize are reprehensible to the American people. The current crop of leaders have done their best to hide who they are for so many years, but now that they are in power they felt it was okay to come out of the closet. When they came out Americans were NOT happy with what had been hidden.

We have learned that our centers of higher learning are not centers of higher learning – they have reduced themselves to centers of propaganda and indoctrination for Leftist thought. The ideas coming out of these schools are nothing more than a rehash of old Marxist ideas that were tried repeatedly and failed time and time again. We found that living in a vacuum where these professors live, work and pontificate has created nothing new that will make these theories any better or advance society, they have only wallowed in the failures and regaled students with fantasies of how it should have been done if THEY were in power. Now they have had their chance to apply their theories to American society and we found out one thing – the theories didn’t fail because they had never been tried in the United States as Leftists claimed for years, they failed because they were bad theories from the outset. Bad theories are bad theories no matter who tries them.

Now all the theorists are fleeing the sinking ship of the Obama Administration confused about why nothing worked to return to their classrooms where they can propagate and agitate for years to come. From their classrooms they will try to rewrite history using their opposition as an excuse for their failures – when it was their theories that were wrong from the outset. It was their own arrogance that kept them from seeing what was clear to the rest of us from the outset.

Americans deserve better.

Turning The United States Into Israel

Last week when President Obama spoke at the annual Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s Awards Gala he ran off a list of peoples who came to this country to form its fabric. The Dutch, French, Brits, Mexicans (to a cheer) and Native Americans. Then he explained that they all worked pretty well together with minor frictions here and there until the formation of the United States as a country. It was THEN that everything went to hell. Maybe the president never studied History, or maybe he likes to make things up as he goes.

In the president’s La-La version of American History here sat a pristine continent populated by loving Natives who were walking through life in some kind of peyote funk communing with nature and having a love-fest with each other. When Europeans came along, they all met the indigenous people and joined them in this peyote smoking bliss strolling through this wilderness paradise like kids in a romper room until the Ugly Americans showed up and destroyed it all. This is not the first time he has plundered history for just enough facts to interlace with his personal hatred of the United States to spin his conciliatory tale. Obama’s not quite clear about where these Ugly Americans came from, but why harsh the mellow?

Pardon my incredulity, but what the HELL is he talking about??

I know he gets a lot of his history from Reverend Wright who loves to bend all Evil in the world back to white America, but a little reality might help break them away from a bad kids’ movie approach to the history of this continent.

In the real world the native tribes of the Americas hated each other and were at constant war. They were famous for slaughtering their enemies, cannibalism, enslaving those who were not killed, pillaging villages, burning huge portions of the country, raping the women and being as base as their European, Asian and African counterparts. When Columbus and his boys came to the New World they got syphilis from the indigenous population and carried it back to Europe creating an epidemic that wiped out millions almost as tragic as The Plague – not the other way around. I have no idea who started all this idealistic history that is based in anger toward the United States, but they are living in another world – probably helped along by that peyote cloud I referenced earlier – and making this stuff up to fit their vision of the world.

The Europeans that came to the New World were at war with each other through most of their history here. They fought whenever they saw each other. If you go to any islands in the Caribbean or travel along the east coast there are old forts from the empires that came here. Those forts were built to fight against other empires who were trying to kill off those who built the forts. I wonder if Obama ever heard of the French and Indian War? Apparently not, or it didn’t fit into his fantasy tale.

I don’t know why I waste my breath, Obama does not care about reality – only his version of it.

The part of the speech that had me rolling my eyes was when he said the Mexicans came here and interacted with the Europeans. Mexicans?? Really? The Spaniards came here, not the Mexicans. In colonial times what is Mexico today was a colony of Spain. For those of you who are a product of our public school system, the United States declared independence from England in 1776. Mexico became a country in 1823. That means the United States had thrown out the empires before Mexico was ever created, so Obama’s version of history is incorrect (charitably speaking). There was no Mexico to come here and interact with the French, Dutch or English like Obama tells the story! Those people were from Spain. In spite of Obama’s fantasyland telling of the story, the Spanish came and destroyed the cultures they encountered in what is now Mexico and Central America. They did not come here and live in harmony with the natives or the other empires.

The problem with the Obama history of America is that it’s convoluted, indulgent and made up to fit the particular group he was speaking to, just as much of his material is ‘spun’ to fit his audience. His whole strategy is to make the United States look like the Israel of the New World. Here we are, plunked down in the New World “imposing” the country in the middle of a paradise that would be great without us. No one wanted us here and we should be removed. Nothing could be further from the truth – but we are talking about Obama who has no room for the truth when it doesn’t fit into his view of the world. It’s not just our history of Manifest Destiny that grew our country, had we allowed ourselves to remain part of the British Empire little would be different, just where we send our exorbitant taxes and where we get our leaders changes.

In Obama’s view the United States is imposed here in the New World and we should be punished for our presence. His view is narrow and racist. The history of the whole world is about conquest and the establishment of countries. That’s the way it is. All this hand-wringing namby-pambiness is nothing more than fantasy imposed over reality to make the country he leads into the bad-guy thus creating more victims. And THAT is what Obama is really about – creating victims and imposing divisions between people so he can carve them up into voting blocks for pandering. Mr. President, quit giving our enemies reasons to hate us and those who want to overrun our borders incorrect history lessons to fan their flames of hatred.

America deserves better.

Seat Belt Laws Gone Amok

Back in the early 1970’s we watched the slow march toward soft tyranny get started with a bunch of good Samaritan-sounding people telling us they wanted to make the world safer with a “Buckle Up” campaign. It seemed innocent enough at the time. Who doesn’t want to save lives? Who thinks it’s a good idea to exit the car through the windshield? Who wants to end up the bloody corpse in a “Buckle Up” commercial? The American people were slowly convinced through graphic highway fatality commercials and ads put together by slick marketing people that wearing our seatbelts would save our lives. So laws were passed to make us do it in spite of having spent all that time and money to convince us. For those who missed the commercials, endless ads and needed to be prodded to get in line here they came with the sledge hammers to make sure we got it whether we wanted it or not.

And that was just the beginning.

At the time I grumbled that I should have the right to decide whether or not I wear a seatbelt, but I was a lone voice. No one listened and the laws were put in place.

I should have grumbled louder. I should have drawn the proverbial line in the sand. I should have fought for our lives. I should have made it into the freedom and liberty issue it is.

We all should have.

I have worn a seatbelt since they were available in cars. Back when I started driving there were bench seats across the front of the car or truck that would allow you to slide from one side of the car to the other in a sharp turn if you were not locked in. There’s nothing like trying to hold onto a steering wheel to stay in the driver’s seat while the car is sliding on a road – it’s not a position you want to find yourself in. Professional drivers wear seatbelts to stay in their seat and in control of their vehicles when they are in motion – that’s good enough for me. It’s just good common sense to wear a seatbelt – and it’s that common sense that all this over-nannification of society is taking out of us.

What was NOT good common sense was a law that forced us all to wear them.

The American people are big-hearted generous people who truly care, so it’s easy for us to be played by these charlatans who come with an agenda they want to shove down our throats. Those “feel good” laws were the beginning of a move away from freedom toward laws that now limit what we eat, where we smoke – if we can afford to smoke from all the taxes heaped on tobacco products – the cars we drive and a long list of regulations on our lives that are nothing less than oppressive and dictatorial. All of it was done from the same perspective of protecting lives, saving the planet, making sure we were safe, taking care of each other and being good citizens. In their push to make us better citizens they made us all into weaker citizens incapable of making decisions without direction from the government.

Slowly a tide of laws and supplemental taxes to control behaviors crept into our lives gradually boxing us in at every turn in our lives. Now there are numbers to call for the Green Police or the Doggie Poop Patrol. Really? What happened to the world? What happened to citizenship? What happened to responsibility? What happened to people who believed we should stand on our own two feet and we should not have a lawyer on speed dial?

We are still here. Yes, there is a very vocal minority that loves to scream they are offended at the drop of a hat and try to force more regulations down our throats. The pushback has begun. The drive to retake our country is underway. It can be mischaracterized by the media all they want, old warhorses can be trotted out to give bad advice until they turn blue in the face, the people have learned and see the light at the end of the tunnel.

America deserves better.

Progressives Are Not Progressive

Where are Progressives getting the notion they are saying or doing ANYTHING that is progressive? Or that what they are saying has a positive relevance to American society that will advance our nation? There’s no fresh thinking from these people. All these theories they are trying to inflict on the American economy, healthcare system, banks, business and so on are old theories that have been around for CENTURIES, tried repeatedly and failed every time they were tried. These theories have only worked for a limited time when they were tried and only worked at the point of a gun – or a spear. When the population is cowed into submission because they have no way to fight back against an armed central government and forced to do what the government insists they do, anything can work – for a short time. Eventually, all those governments who followed the strong central command and control system collapsed under the weight of the burden they placed on society in spite of holding the citizens hostages.

The growth of the central government to oversee a nation is not a new idea. Maybe the Progressives were absent from school the day they taught about the Roman Empire – or in today’s schools they may not even cover the subject. It has probably been replaced with ‘Why Men Are Bad.’ Maybe Progressives missed the whole history of the world up through the Twentieth Century. Countries have been using central command and control for millennia. The result is always the same as trying to overcorrect a car on an icy street with a heavy hand. Instead of being free to react to the changing conditions under the wheels, heavy-handed corrections tend to put the car- and governments – in the ditch. In the end they all end up on the scrap heap.

Equally alarming is the arrogance of our emerging Ruling Class. They are sure what they are trying to push onto the American people is what is best for us all in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. They sat in their classrooms and think tanks and talked about these theories as if the whole world exists in a vacuum. If that was the case all the plans for all the battles fought in wars would have worked like a charm and the planners never would have lost. The problem all strategists understand – which seems to escape Progressives – is that as soon as the first person steps on the battlefield all the plans go out the window. The same applies to governments. That is why when we get these massive entitlement programs they are an endless list of addendums to handle the contingencies that keep coming up.

Propping up the Ruling Class is their favorite propaganda lap-puppy – the mainstream media. The same mainstream media that in recent days has demonstrated their lack of touch with the American people by their reaction to the primary elections. Over the last couple years they have gone out of their way to show their bias and their lack of touch with the current mood of the people they are supposed to be reporting for in their papers. Instead of being the eyes and ears of the American people, they have become the attack dog of the Ruling Class against anyone who opposes Washington establishment.

Recruiting and training for the Ruling Class are the universities and colleges who are vying for positions closest to the throne by funneling some of the best and brightest minds into what used to be considered ‘dead-end government jobs.’ Those people will then be indoctrinated to work ‘at court’ for the Ruling Class until they are ready to be moved into positions of power. The indoctrination period also serves as a vetting opportunity for the Ruling Class to weed out those who lack ‘proper thinking’ and advance those who show promise.

It all adds up to the Ruling Class setting themselves up like old-time medieval kings, taking the crops and treasure of the serfs as if it’s their own, making decisions for the people as if they have no brains to make their own decisions, spending the treasure on their own agendas and living off the treasure of the people in rock-star lavishness that few of the people supporting them with their taxes could afford. Yet, the Ruling Class feels somehow entitled to this lifestyle on the government dime. In the private sector they never would be allowed to abuse the company expense account to that extent. That’s probably why they went into government – they can abuse their expense accounts and no one is holding them accountable.

Now along come the people movies are made about – those willing to throw it all out there, fight the fights, take the blows, take on the Rulers for the cause of Freedom. This is as good as it gets. The added attraction is they are under attack from the Left and from their own people. Odds have been against these people who are rising from nowhere to challenge ‘The Establishment’ from the start. Two years ago they were living in obscurity – today they are American heroes. This is the kind of action/patriotism inspired story people would be on their feet cheering if they were in movie theaters. All of the elements are here; it’s simply a matter of going up against ‘The Machine’ driving on into November.

This is the stuff of Legends.

Americans deserve better!!

Inventing Scandals To Hide Behind

You can’t make this stuff up…

So the EPA and Coast Guard – under pressure from Washington to ‘plug the damned hole’ – approved the use of a chemical dispersant by BP on the Gulf oil spill. TV feeds trying to create panic and destroy the oil drilling industry showed oil puking incessantly into the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana for three months while President Obama was matching the gusher in volume pumping out BS about being on top of the situation. Dispersant that has the same chemical composition as the dispersant used in laundry detergent was put on the Gulf to break up the oil slick in an attempt to prevent as much damage as possible.

At the time the decision was made to use the dispersant all the networks were screaming that the oil would be around for forty or fifty years destroying the environment, despite what cooler heads were saying about it being a light crude that would mostly break down or evaporate in the warm Gulf waters. Intentionally, the media and Washington were creating massive chaos and confusion while putting up roadblocks that helped prolong the capping and clean up in the Gulf while destroying thousands of jobs and revenue. Washington and the media NEEDED the disaster to continue indefinitely to fit their template and create an eco-disaster they could hide behind going into the fall elections. Let’s face it, without SOMETHING to hide behind the electoral chances of Democrats in the fall are slim.

Then BP found a method that worked and screwed it all up for the media and politicians. They put a cap on the leak that worked and was just as effective on the media story.

The news moved on to cover ethics violations by two prominent Democrats – Congress people Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters – who were trying to side-slip the charges leveled against them by DEMOCRAT leadership. Suddenly the focus was off an eco-disaster and onto the ‘culture of corruption’ in the Democrat controlled Congress heading into election season. No longer could the Democrats point the finger at “evil oil” once THEY were the focus of anger in the country again.

Panic ran through Washington.

How do you take the attention off the SLEAZINESS and backroom deals of the Pelosi Congress? It’s pretty difficult since Congress has been ‘in your face’ aggressive for over a year, but they tried. They started by attacking people trying to defend themselves against an onslaught of illegal immigrants. The White House, even though forty-four other states are supporting Arizona, threw out the first distraction. The Obama announced the pullout of the troops from Iraq trying to ‘snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.’ Rep. Anthony Weiner (Dem-NY) even threw a temper tantrum when even his fellow Democrats found the addendums he was trying to slime past Congress in his First Responder Bill too devastating to pass. That tantrum hit the Internet with a splash when Weiner went off on the floor of the House when he was called on his underhandedness.

Then along came the ‘over-dispersant’ non-scandal. It turns out the hoopla is about a relatively small amount of dispersant BP was authorized to use by the EPA and the Coast Guard to break up the oil slick. At the time the dispersant was used it was considered the least offensive choice between the oil washing up on the shore for “fifty years” according to “experts” or a chemical like laundry detergent. The same kind of “experts” that caused BP and other oil companies to have to drill for their oil in mile deep water were running around screaming “the sky is falling” about the oil destroying the Gulf, so the Coast Guard and BP did their best to take out the spill.

The “dispersant non-scandal” is starting to look like another attempt by Democrats to turn attention away from THEIR sleaziness, by using the old magicians’ trick of ‘watch the right hand while we do what we want with the left.’

Americans deserve better.

Facing A Hostile World Unarmed

Tensions with North Korea are rising daily. We sent an aircraft carrier and support vessels to the peninsula for maneuvers with our ally South Korea. North Korea has threatened to retaliate with nuclear weapons. For the first time since the Cold War nuclear arsenals are pointed at each other ready to do war.

All this is happening at a time when we were promised we would be loved in the world if Obama were in the White House. Yes, I know it is all going to be blamed on George W. Bush and his “cowboy diplomacy,” but during the election we were promised that all these things would be better if all we did was vote Obama into the office of president. Not only is the world degrading quickly, our enemies know we are not to be feared and are trying to figure out the best way to take whacks at us.

North Korea has been a bunch of nutbags for decades, but they have been contained since the 1950’s. What I mean is North Korea has kept their country in poverty unlike any in the U.S. so they can use their money to keep their army standing. While South Korea has flourished and built a thriving economic machine, the North has kept their focus on protecting their border to prevent prosperity from rushing in and putting the lie of Communism to the test.

This conflict SHOULD be a slam-dunk for the United States. We have an industrial complex second to none, we have a military that is the best in the world and we have enough nukes to make all of North Korea into a glowing ashtray. North Korea barely has electricity in the big cities and has to use almost all their treasure to pay for a million-man standing army. At the head of their government they have a half-wit, sex-addicted lunatic.

Unfortunately for us, WE are going into the conflict with our hands tied behind our backs. Not to say we don’t have the weapons to destroy the entire peninsula or lack a military that is more than capable of handling North Korea and any other threat that might arise. We do. What we lack are leaders who have the backbone to stand up to the maniacal dictator of North Korea who is making threats that in normal times would get him wasted and has his finger on the nuclear trigger. Because Kim Jung (Mentally) Il knows, as do all our enemies, that we have a leader that is WEAK they are willing to make those kinds of threats and some are crazy enough to try to back them up – like North Korea and Iran. All they have to do is look to Afghanistan and the “Rules of Engagement” in place there that are placing our troops in jeopardy so a bunch of panty-wastes in Washington can feel good about themselves for saving lives. Once again, the Obama Regime is willing to sacrifice the American people to preserve face with those who hate us. It is truly baffling.

For US the situation could not be much bleaker in terms of leadership. Our entire upper echelon in the civilian sector is a disaster. President Obama has NO experience with standoffs and lacks the backbone to stand up to anyone but the American people. His entire career has been dedicated to opposing the established AMERICAN government where he could hide behind courts and protesters. Standing up to real “bad guys” as opposed to a manufactured one is a whole different situation. To the rest of the world he apologizes for who we are as he undermines American interests. Obama’s backed up by a less than stellar cast of incompetents. In the critical slot is Hilary Clinton as Secretary of State who outspokenly hates the military and feels it’s a good idea to negotiate away everything to avoid conflict. Behind Obama and Clinton are Vice President Joe Biden who is still looking for a clue (he reminds me of the Mel Brooks character in ‘Blazing Saddles’) and leaders in Congress who are too worried about their re-election campaigns to be concerned about something like a nuclear war.

At every turn we are led further down the path toward our own destruction and the current group of Democrats leading us are joyfully taking us there. We are watching the intentional destruction of our way of life and the undermining of our position in the world. There is no doubt Obama and his circus of followers are intent on tearing down our nation and putting a Soviet-style socialist government in its place, one that is not only totalitarian in nature but also subjugated to the other powers on the planet. We are being punished from within. The treatment we are getting is what normally happens when one country is conquered by another and the people are punished. The United States never lost the war; we just had a big heart, were lied to and were taken advantage of for our efforts.

America deserves better.

Dishonoring America

I know almost nothing of his politics, but what little we in the outside world have come to know of Nelson Mandela is that he was a man who tried to unite his country as South Africa changed over from a history of white leaders to majority black rule. Mandela was the first black man to lead his country – much like Barac Obama is the first black president of the United States – but with much different outcomes. Mandela went out of his way to prove that he was not vindictive for the years he spent imprisoned and tried to bring his nation together. He truly tried to unite his people after the ugly history of apartheid. Mandela was a man of honor working hard to demonstrate to the world that all his people were South Africans and he was the leader of ALL South Africans.

If only we had that kind of leader in the United States as we have OUR first black president. One who strives to unite all Americans rather than continually forcing wedges down our throats, one who loves the country and the people and saw a bright future for us, a president who included us in the process rather than hiding it from us, one who was open and honest about his intentions – one who believed in America and our dream as one people.

When Mandela became president his country was JUST emerging from apartheid. There was every reason in the world for Mandela and the South Africans blacks to have hatreds in their hearts. Yet, Mandela went to extensive lengths to include all the people in the formation of the new country. History was unchangeable, it was the future over which he had control and he did all in his power to mend his people.

When Obama became president slavery had been abolished for 145 years. There is no one left alive who was a slave nor slave owner. Slavery – like apartheid – was an institution almost everyone on the planet agreed was obsolete and needed to be part of museums not part of society – and was done away with. Not that anyone at the White House has noticed. The White House thinks it still goes on and sees everyone as pushing it. The reality is it’s nothing more than a political hot-button Obama and others in the Race Industry keep picking at like an unhealed scab to keep long dead hatreds alive. Never once did it occur to any of them that it was their own attitudes and hatreds that were causing negative reactions toward them, just like any other jerk you meet on the street who has a chip on his shoulder. It had nothing to do with the color of their skin. It was all about them hating the world. The haters don’t WANT to let it go.

We have another mindset along those lines that I, personally, would like to see put in the same museum with other obsolete mindsets – racism. Unfortunately, we are wallowing in hatreds Washington is squeezing for every vote they can wring out of it. It is a shield that is being used for many in Washington to hide behind while being racists at the same time. The very fact that their minds go to race with every issue that comes up indicates they are racists. There is no such thing as only one race being racists. It is a small-minded attitude shared by morons the world over. We see that now pouring out of the White House from every level right now. Racists are flooding in from all corners of the country as if the White House is a magnet attracting haters. Those people are entrenching themselves in every bureaucracy they can get into. It will take generations to weed out the haters.

Instead of following the South African model and uniting as a people we have a deep-rooted racist who hates what the United States is and what it has stood for in the world. He sees us as a nation of racists who have not left the Slavery Era where all white Americans are KKK members or some other form of racists determined to subjugate blacks and other minorities. He hates the principles of this country – mocking them when speaking to those he considers his allies – hates our freedom and will do all he can to tear down our national security and make us vulnerable on all fronts. To show his hatred for us, Obama has put racists in positions of power and pushed racist/socialist/totalitarian agendas into every corner of our society. He has failed to do his job to protect Americans and our rights – trying to make us feel as if it is America that has been in the wrong all these years and the tyrants of the world were the true heroes. It takes some SERIOUSLY warped, hate-filled thinking to get to that point, but that is where our president has taken us. He has led us down a path toward dishonor among the nations of the world – and, more importantly, dishonor to ourselves.

Americans deserve better.

Where Did We Lose The Boys?

The other day I was picking my daughter up at her college – which will go unnamed for now – and I looked around at the other kids. As a man literally old enough to be the father of ANY of these kids I could not help but notice the little girls running around in barely enough to cover their vital parts. I looked at my daughter and wanted to throw a blanket over her, but I restrained myself. Fathers are not supposed to lose their cool every time their over-eighteen daughter turns heads.

And then I became acutely aware of something else. There was something missing from the days when I was in school. The little girls were out there showing off their bodies, but… where were the guys? Oh, there were boys running around, at least I think they were boys, but mostly they looked like male versions of the females. It was just difficult to tell which ones were boys. Being a ‘problem solver’ by nature I quickly improvised a system of looking for something that looks like facial hair or unshaved legs, but the system was far from perfect – I was wrong about a third of the time. That’s not a good percentage if I was in a bar looking for love. The guys were missing the swagger, boldness and just plain bulk of the guys I grew up with. From what I saw, it looked like we have succeeded in creating a unisexual society where men and women are indistinguishable. The horror of it all!!

On the way home I asked my daughter, as calmly as I could manage, if it was just that my random sample was narrow – since it was only the whole campus – or if she thought it was the case, too. She said that has been the case since she was a little girl. Boys have been taught to be sensitive, in touch with their feelings, less competitive, less aggressive and willing to work toward resolving conflicts rather than fighting for their beliefs, competing, learning to be men… This discussion ran on for well over an hour, but the bottom line is we have a generation of boys who are… cream puffs.

I got a little lesson in what has been going on in schools for the last thirty or so years as we drove. While I was off working on a career the kids were off being indoctrinated in Feminist hate-propaganda teachers decided was the mantra they were going to use to build up girls while tearing down the boys. Those teaching and administering the schools designed a curriculum to make girls more assertive and less the ‘femme fatale,’ and in the process they weakened the boys into wimps. My daughter told me it probably started out innocently enough in trying to bring the girls out of ‘second-class citizen’ mentality while teaching the boys to respect women, but along the way someone realized that strengthening the girls was not enough, the only way to protect them from the larger males of the species is to make the men much less aggressive – make them into a generation of eunuchs. The solution these teachers came up with was to make the men more ‘touchy-feely.’

The result of their grand experiment is another disaster of ‘unintended consequences.’ That seems to be the cornerstone of that group of ‘do-gooder schoolmarms.’ Never look at their results, only look at their ‘good intentions.’ Yet, their strategy comes in segments. At the same time they were trying to make girls stronger and boys weaker they were making sex an everyday event. I have no idea how that fits with their ‘respect’ scenario, but I’ll bet they could talk themselves into all kinds of circles trying to explain it. Kids can now get their condoms for free from the nurse’s office or from the bowl in the counselor’s office. Talk about mixed messages. While they are trying to teach boys about respect for women they are cheapening relationships by giving them condoms to have as much sex as they want. That message to the kids is: Have at it and have fun!!! But remember, if the girl says no it’s no, but since we know she’s going to say yes, wear a condom. What??

My personal theory is that we lost the boys when they no longer had to ‘man up’ and go into a pharmacy to buy condoms. It was a rite of passage for men to go get the condoms under the gaze of the pharmacist, their neighbors and sometimes their family. It was an uncomfortable few minutes for any guy, but learning to ‘man up’ and ‘suck it up’ was an experience all boys should have to endure. By robbing the kids of experiences it does not prepare them for life – in much the same way helping a butterfly get out of a cocoon will destroy their ability to fly. The act of freeing themselves strengthens them to where they can fly – and boys need to be able to face up to the world that is about to hit them in the face like a runaway train. Protecting boys from experiences makes them weaker – and ultimately weaker citizens.

Our boys in that generation are carbon copies of the weak male characters of the sitcoms the boys watched. For a generation our television shows have had male characters that were always wrong, weak and a mess – with the female characters being the smart, strong examples that are always the ones who nag the men into line. Now what we have are kids who are confused about their roles in society and are going to be weaker in the end. I have this mental image of cowering men sitting on the roof of their homes waiting for someone to come rescue them as waters rise around them, but since all the men are cowering on the roof no one is coming to get them… well, except for the strong women who will protect their weak little men.

The reality is that not all the boys of that generation could be brainwashed and not all are wimps. I’m sure MY generation seemed like wimps to my father’s generation as we were growing up, too, but we grew into our roles as men. I hope this current generation will find their way as well. Our military kids from that generation are a shining example of those who were able to survive the ‘KGB-Gulag Style’ treatment. Yet, those boys who have gone on to populate our universities and colleges are shining examples of the success the teachers are having brainwashing our kids – and what we have to look forward to as these guys get older and start to step into positions of power and responsibility.

Over the last few decades the percentage of boys who have gone on to college has dropped dramatically. Many of the boys see what the teachers are pushing and decide they can do better without the whining drivel. Yet, those pushing that agenda continue on in our schools, movies, media and anywhere else they think they can use their position to influence thoughts.

Americans deserve better.

The Audacity of Lying

I grew up in the time America was changing. In those days Democrats were trying to be the party of the little guy, unions and those who wanted to promote social issues with as little government interference as possible. Republicans were the party of the fat-cat bankers, big business leaders and pushing Capitalism to the extreme making as much money as possible in the most creative ways on the planet. Times have changed.

I remember when our current political leaders were young, had long hair, beards, ran around naked, took more drugs than they will ever remember and had free sex with anyone who came along – the music of the time even celebrated loving "the one you're with" when you can't be with your mate. They regularly protested the Vietnam War, the industrial-banking-consumer establishment and the American government. Their mantra was to trust no one over the age of thirty.

Now, those same hippies who are well over the age of thirty have cut their hair (some have added implants to try covering their baldness), put away their frayed jeans, quit running around naked where the rest of us have to look at them (thankfully) and they changed their mantra to trust no one UNDER the age of thirty. The drugs and sex we’d have to take on a case-by-case analysis. I thought I knew who these people were way back in the Sixties, but over the years they morphed into something totally different.

Seemingly, the most confusing part of this change is their move from radical anti-American Government-ism into radical BIG government freaks. They want to change into this huge totalitarian government on steroids that oppresses The People with crushing regulations and overreaching agencies. There seems to be NO agency or regulation they find distasteful – unless it is the military or in some way keeps the people of this country safe. In their protest days they were all about tearing down the American government – today they are about building it up into a bloated version of government two-thirds of the citizens are against. They are building a monstrous bastardization of what they were protesting AGAINST. Those same people are all in favor of building a more massive government than has ever existed on these shores – one that reaches into lives for control in ways far beyond what the Founders fought agaisnt. They still hate the industrial-banking-consumer driven establishment which their followers took over, but they no longer hate the government. It is now their Deity.

There’s no REAL confusion on my part. As the days pass we see more and more clearly where these people who masquerade as American leaders are headed and what they’re all about. Those who have hijacked the Democrat Party are exactly what THEY have been since the sixties. I remember them on campus when I was in school. They were the radicals in the army garb who always passed out leaflets decrying the awfulness of American Freedom and how they had they answers that would set us all free. They were the socialist radicals. They were on every campus in the country, but most of us ignored them. They were idiots not worth the time to read their pamphlets. Nothing has changed. The people we have as leaders now are those same socialists that wanted to tear down what we have in the United States and replace it with the totalitarian socialism of the Soviet Union or China. They LOVE what those countries had – and eventually dide away with – BUT, they failed because they didn’t have our current crop of BRILLIANT American leaders. If they had OUR leaders they’d still be Workers’ Paradises. Or NOT. They probably would have failed much sooner than they did. These socialists wanted a communist state in the United States then and they are trying to bring it about now. Totalitarian dictatorships are the government style they have idolized their entire lives and they think they can bring it about here today. The real audacity of the whole situation comes from the misdirection they are throwing at the American people – that can easily be read as “lying” instead of “misdirection.” The Democrat party is no longer the party of the people. They are stepping up and becoming dictators and in order to make socialism work here they will have to do it the same way it has worked all over the world – at the point of a gun.

It’s not their slavish devotion to the Deity government that is confusing – that’s who they are and what they have done for fifty years – it’s their attempt to make government huge as if they will never lose power again that has me scratching my head. Logic is right out the window with this group. And that’s what has me worried. No one puts that kind of effort into building up power to hand it off to their opposition. There has to be more to the plan.

Americans deserve better.

The Destructive Hyphen

Hyphenated-America is as outdated as the horse and buggy, and not nearly as quaint. The time has come for Americans to let go of the politically incorrect “sacred hyphen” our politicians and media have been desperately clinging to as a divider and let us get on with being equal partners in solving the problems of Our Land as one people.

The hyphen in our social lexicon is a throwback to the 1960’s when people were trying to define themselves, which I’m sure, is a heartwarming reminiscence for a lot of Baby Boomers, but it is demeaning to all the People who have contributed to the tapestry of American society. The dirty little secret about the hyphen is it’s also a throwback to the original wording of the Constitution where Americans were counted as “Three-Fifths” of a person. That same pesky hyphen in the Constitution had the same diminishing effect then as now – it denied our People full equality.

We have had several stories with “hyphens” in them lately. Pakistani-American is a recent hyphenated label that has worked into the news cycle thanks to a lunatic trying to kill hundreds of Americans in Times Square, but we’ve seen the hyphen in African-American, Irish-American, Mexican-American, Native-American, Canadian-American and an endless list of countries, ethnic groups, territories, geographical areas, religions and continents that can be used to label Americans by their ancestors. The hyphen serves as a form of shorthand making it easier to manipulate groups by the media and those with political agendas without having to look at them as individuals with individual needs.

There is only one appropriate application of the hyphen in American society: First-generation Americans who have been naturalized. They actually are of another land and are joining the American experience. From the children of those naturalized first-generation Americans’ on there should be no need for a hyphen. Americans are Americans are Americans… are Americans. They came here to be Americans and should be allowed to be part of the culture.

There is no such thing as African-French or Chinese-British in distinguishing people of those countries. What about French-Germans or Turkish-Italians? Of course not… Their African-ness or German-ness or whatever-ness is obviously not part of their identity once they are part of their new country. They are never referred to as anything other than French or Brits or Germans or whatever land they live in once they become part of that society. The same should apply to Americans.

Forcing Americans into hyphenated groups is stereotypical labeling that borders on racism and bigotry. It allows politicians and their related anger-mongers to propagate grievances, widen separations, create anger, break down justices and ultimately build manufactured stereotypical hatreds the destroy the shared similarities of our people. Politicians and the media love hyphens – it makes their jobs easier. The hyphen allows them to put us into cubbyholes for them to label us as groups with needs particular to a specific group. Politicians can then throw themselves up as some kind of champion of causes for one group or another and pander to that group for their votes – rather than as leaders for all the people. Hyphenating allows “haters” to use the differences between groups to drive wedges between us rather than fixing actual problems of society and in the process they are weakening the Republic and the Dream that is America.

The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were ratified to remove the hyphen the “Three-Fifths” created. Here we are some 140 years after the passage of those amendments and some in our society – the bottom-feeding Political Class and the Media Underclass – are still trying to force the hyphen back into our names and separate our People in the name of ‘political correctness’ – a phrase that has become synonymous with undermining America. This is the Land of Opportunity for all of our People. Those wishing to diminish that creed need to step aside and allow people of vision to take over.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had a dream that all our people would be equal, that we would all be able to walk down the streets together and see the American Dream the same way. He did not dream of equality of outcomes – he was a realist and understood each of us will achieve what we can in our own ways – only that everyone have the same chance to take part in the American Experience as Americans. We are still being denied that Right by the leaders forcing “hyphens” down our throats.

Our political leaders and the media need to learn from Dr. King and the echo in America that we are ALL the American People and want Washington to lead as Americans rather than pander as Dividers – that’s what We The People demand of our future leaders.

Remembering The Golden Age Of Democracy

I wonder if in a few hundred years when people look back on these times anyone will believe there ever was such a place as ‘the United States of America?’ If you think about us we sound too impossible to be true. Freedom. Liberty. Democracy. A society where there are no limits, no bounds to what a person can achieve except those we put on ourselves. Imagine how that must sound… ‘America’ sounds like a fairy tale about a place made up of lore.

How will storytellers of future generations tell the story of ‘America,’ what we did, how we got there and the trials we went through against all odds that made us the leaders of the world for a short while after WWII?

I can see the weathered fifty-year-old storyteller – an elder in the community who has survived the grueling coalmines where he worked eighteen-hour days for the ‘Masters’ who repossessed what was the United States to repay debts. They use the coal to fuel their dirty-coal generators in China and India to drive their juggernaut industrial complexes. He speaks to a circle of kids keeping warm in front of a pot of flaming animal dung. They’re spread in front of him as he spins the tale of how it ‘used to be.’ He has to speak in a low, conspiratorial because the ‘Masters’ do not allow History lessons.

“America was a magical place,” he’ll tell them. “It was a country of dreams… peoples around the world could only imagine getting to a place so wondrous... Millions fled no opportunity and the tyranny of their homelands to get to this place that was so... magical. They came in boats, they came on planes, they swam if they had to… they risked their lives escaping murderous dictators or the lives they had that they wanted to make better for their kids. It was THAT good… It was SO great that people were willing to risk dying to get there. Immigrants were able to start with nothing more than the clothes on their backs and a dream in their hearts and build a life like nowhere else in the world.”

You can almost hear the kids oo-ing and ah-ing as if they’re listening to a story of Neverland. After all, who ever heard of such a magnificent place on Earth? Well… maybe Camelot, but that was a place of fable… maybe the United States of America was, too…

“They had a rich history by throwing off the bonds of a powerful king and establishing a government like none other – ever,” his rasping voice says between hacking cough spasms from the black lung. At least The Leaders gave him pain pills, many others were not so lucky – they were not going to waste money on the underlings. “The people chose their leaders and ruled themselves through those leader. Those fortunate enough to be born there lived in a society that was open and free,” Others around the globe who were oppressed by their leaders were liberated by these Americans. Americans were a people of great generosity and virtue. And that made them hated.”

Yet that Golden Land disappeared…

And that is where the elder will tell the children the ‘cautions’ they had to learn should there ever be another land of that caliber again.

“The system broke down because those charged with listening to the people and acting in their best interest grew too full of themselves and took matters into their own hands.” You can hear the children gasp again. Little hands shot up all around the group asking how they could let that happen. It seems so obvious to the little ones that mistakes should not have been made… steps should have been taken to protect the way of life… to prevent them from lives in the coal mines as slaves for The True Leaders.

The elder tried to explain… “Those who were supposed to question the leaders for the people… the media they were called… fell in love with the leaders and failed to do their job. The judiciary… those who were supposed to protect their Constitution… thought they knew better than the people and their representatives and rewrote the Founding Document to fit THEIR views rather than the views of The People.”

More gasps.

“The structure of the country was sound, but through a couple hundred years there were those who thought they could make it better by changing it piecemeal.”

“Where can we go to find a place like that today…” one of the children asked. “How can we escape the mines mommy and daddy are dying in?” the little one asked with tears in her eyes.

“There is no place like that anymore,” the elder admitted, the tears in his eyes, too. “America was the last, best hope for mankind… They were the shining country on the hill…” Gasps and more tears…