1/30/2012

A Picture Post

Here are some pictures that I saw posted and in the comments over at the Blonde Sagacity blog that I liked and have blatantly stolen to post here:





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1/22/2012

All for One and One for All

Well it seems that Newt Gingrich managed to beat "Mr. Inevitable" in South Carolina last night by a hefty 25% points! That brings us to the curious situation where all of the remaining candidates (the serious ones at least) have won one state. Santorum won Iowa. Romney won Vermont and Gingrich won South Carolina.

Now we move on into Florida. All of the normal media outlets are of course prognosticating that Romney will take Florida. Personally I think that Gingrich will see a hefty bounce off of his decisive win over Romney in the Palmetto state.

If I were asked I'd still have to admit, that from the remaining pool of candidates, Santorum is the most appealing to me. He's the one that brings the least amount of baggage into the race.

Beyond Speaker Gingrich's tempestuous marital history, he is still weighed down by the results of an ethics investigation that cost him his speaker-ship. Nancy Pelosi has already threatened to release the details of that investigation. Doing so would cost her her job in the House, but I'm sure if it looked like Obama was headed for a loss against Mr. Gingrich that she'd happily fall on that sword for the "good" of her party.

Romney on the other hand has his own issues. He is not well loved by his base. Most of us know that he is just telling us what he thinks we want to hear. Then there's the issue of his tax returns and his maladroit handling of the demands that he release them. Obama has set this election up like it or not to be a contest between him and the senate, framed in the color of the "99%" versus the "1%" and Romney is certainly a card carrying member of the "1%". That is why the left and the mainstream media is pushing so hard for him to be our candidate. Their tactics have been expressly designed to target Romney and even under the mild fire of fellow conservatives on this front, he's shown himself to be less than prepared to weather that fire.

Now moving on a tangent from that topic...

We are going to need to help to derail the president's plan to shift the attention away from his own abysmal performance onto the Congress. We Tea Partiers sent our representatives to the House to thwart Obama's efforts to "fundamentally change" this country. We sent them there and then we sat back down in our easy chairs while they did our bidding and lapsed back into our staunch, traditional, conservative silence allowing them to flutter in the breeze. We need to cover their six! They're doing as much of what we asked them to do as is humanly possible in light of the circumstances.

We need to also defuse this whole 99% vs. 1%, class envy garbage that the democrats have artificially injected into this race. EVERYWHERE that an "Occupy" movement crops up, we Tea Partiers in the area should gather to counter protest. We should allow America to see that the Occupy Movement's selfish demands are not voiced on behalf of all of us. So far they have gone utterly unchallenged.

Do you remember how refreshing it was during our heyday to look around yourself and see that you were not the only one thinking these heretical thoughts? We need to reassure ourselves of that again.

We also need to continue to show the stark differences between them and us. How many rapes were ever reported at ANY Tea Party gathering? Now is our time to act again. If we do not act we may well see another harrowing 4 years of an Obama presidency. I know that all of this activism stuff is tiring. It's a pain in the ass... BUT it is what the other side is good at. If we stay silent, that silence will most assuredly be construed once again to be consent again. The left will be able to claim that their patchouli stinking operatives in the Occupy movement speak for all of us and I don't know about you, but that motley mob of selfish anarchists most assuredly do not give voice to my sentiments. Without our boisterous presence as a counterpoint how then can our candidate (whoever that may end up being) disprove the contention that Occupy is the only genuine American voice?

It is time now for us all to resurrect our ire and to step back out into the streets and make ourselves be heard once more. I know, we've been called all kinds of names and drawn the liberal's anger. We've been painted as out of touch and not the mainstream. We must ignore all of that and drive for the prize. Speak to your friends and help reinvigorate them. Pull your local groups back together and be the firebrand that rekindles the fire in the minds of men. Now is the time for our leader-less movement to provide counterpoise to their supposed leader-less movement. It is time again to march and be oh so joyfully inconvenient for the left so that this country can reawaken from the socialist nightmare we've been living for the last three years.

So dust off your Gadsdens, re-don you tricorns and remember, Solidarnosc my friends!

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1/19/2012

News Round up 1/19/12


Just part of the ploy cause energy prices to "necessarily skyrocket"... The left is so married to global warming... they think those that deny it are loons... why do they not see the national debt as an equal but more imminent crisis and that ignoring it is just as crazy if not more so. How do you plan to deal with global warming with no money? Jobs are needed to build the tax base, to pay down the debt to be able to afford your global warming peccadillo. We all knew he was going to make the wrong decision, at least he doesn't get to hide it away until after the election. So now he has to do the same thing he always does try to shift the blame off onto someone else... Standard cowardly liberhole tactics.


Article: Newt Gingrich to South Carolina: You’re my (and America’s) only hope

Article: Sarah Palin: 'I'd Vote for Newt'

Look, I don't care. The three of you please discuss this out and two of you walk away. I don't care which two. It is more important to not have Romney be our nominee than to quibble over which of the three of you takes the nod in the end. Stop splitting the non-Romney vote. Why can't we have a candidate like David Petraeus or Ray Odierno that we can all unite behind?

Article: Gov. Haley: Romney doesn’t have to release his tax return

Nikki, the tea party put you where you are and the tea party can certainly remove you from that position. Please remember that. Romney is NOT tea party, he's Dom Perignon party...

Article: Arkansas family loses second son in Afghanistan

I honor both of your service. May you rest forever more in the memories of your brothers in arms as an honored comrade and in the hearts of a thankful nation. I also honor the sacrifice of your family. May they know that our hearts and thoughts go out to them in this terrible time.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition; and gentlemen in England (or America for that matter) now-a-bed shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.


Article: GOP campaign rhetoric raising racial concerns

How does this pass for News? Seriously? You have a Berkeley Professor commenting on the Republican nomination race. There is no way you could EVER get an objective opinion there. Everyone knows that the vastest majority of blacks voted for Obama in 2008 and we're quite aware that they will do it again in 2012. They will do it specifically because he is black... yet that is not racist. Gingrich didn't even mention race, and as any liberal will be happier than a clam to tell you, the majority of welfare recipients are white. Now I ask you. Where's the racism? Who's practicing it? This is all an effort to prevent the voters from actually protracting Obama's abysmal record.

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4/16/2011

Reawakening

Many voices, mine included have fallen silent from weariness and disillusionment during this long dark winter of the current president's rule. Perhaps we rose briefly during the 2010 elections when we saw that there was some hope of staving off the total destruction of our nation and way of life. The time however, is now my friends to speak again and raise your voices in a concert of discontent!

Life has taken me away from writing frequently on this blog, but I feel a need again to write. I believe that in years past many of us spoke and that low volume, but constant dull roar helped seat and then re-seat George W. Bush in the Whitehouse. It is for that reason that I feel we must again become involved, raise our chorused voices and help some worthy candidate to unseat Barack Obama.

The fight is yet young. 2012 is not even here yet. But! We must become involved. We must speak and strive. We must because if we do not, our nation is likely to never recover.

Gasoline is now pushing $4.00 a gallon again. The last time that happened the discontented roar that came out of the mainstream media was deafening. This time... The crickets are deafening. The difference you see is that the current president desires high energy prices. He desires it as a means to enact his radical environmental agenda. This administration banned deep water oil drilling in our waters while sending billions to Brazil to fund their deep water oil drilling.

Our nation's deficits are stifling our economy and swamping our future. Forty cents out of every dollar that the government takes in is spent servicing our national debt. Imagine all of the things we could do with 40% more liquid money in our national budget. If president Obama's past actions are any indication of future performance our national debt will soar to 19 - 20 trillion dollars by the time he leaves a second term.

Our troops are over seas. Now fighting three wars. This in spite of being saddled with rules of engagement that deny them the ability to preemptively defend themselves. What does that mean? If a group of soldiers is being surrounded by a group of armed men, they may not act aggressively to prevent the encirclement until the enemy actually fires at them, and then they may only fire at those who are firing at them. Snipers set up with impunity and aim at our troops, knowing full well that they may not be engaged until they have actually fired their first shot.

Meanwhile a bloody war is being fought directly across our Southern border and violence is spilling over into this nation. This war is financed by the liberal American drug culture and illegally armed by our own administration. Weapons our government sold to drug cartels have been implicated in the deaths of our own law enforcement officials. The provision of these weapons was an underhanded scheme intended to provide a means to infringe upon the second amendment rights of law abiding gun owners across this nation.

Inflation is on the rise and we're teetering on the edge of super-inflation. The only thing that prevents us from seeing the true effect of the inflation we're experiencing is the fact that the Fed pulls those things from the calculations that would produce an undesired result... things like energy and food. The Federal Reserve is printing monopoly money, driving the value of the dollar lower and lower in comparison other currencies. Manufacturing jobs are bleeding overseas at an accelerated rate. As a result our markets are flooded with substandard imported goods draining wealth from here back to the countries where they are manufactured. How often have you heard of cheap Chinese products being recalled because of high lead content or other such deficiencies? Unemployment is still at record levels. The economy they tell us is growing yet all of us know that that growth; if indeed it does exist, exists in spite of not because of the government's programs. 800 billion dollars were thrown who knows where with the promise that the wave unemployment would be held to 8% and that millions of jobs would be created. We now know that neither promise was true.

Our international clout is vastly diminished. No one takes us seriously any more. NATO is leading our troops in Libya. We react to one uprising against a minor tyrant but quite puzzlingly leave the uprisings against other tyrants; those we really need removed, absolutely at the mercy of their blood thirsty rulers.

Our nation's health system is in absolute crisis. I can say this with authority as I am involved in the health industry. It is struggling to deal with the unconstitutional constraints that will inevitably hamstring efforts to provide care. Government bureaucracies will tell your doctor what treatments he or she must use. These dictated treatment regimens will remove any discretion your physician may have into your condition. Not everyone responds the same to the same treatment. Sometimes there are extenuating circumstances that will require the physician to actually have to fight the system to provide you with the personalized care that you will need.

The government is subsidizing one corrupt organization after another to subvert our national sentiments and erode the integrity of our election process. How often does ACORN have to be discredited and indicted for voter fraud before we stop feeding them our tax dollars?

I can continuing pointing out the myriad dilemmas that face us. But I'm no doubt simply restating the obvious.

We need to rise up now and we need to do it because we need a candidate. A REAL candidate. I'm tired of pinching my nose and voting for one simpering semi-conservative after another. We need a candidate we can get behind. Someone who speaks plainly not in never-ending carefully woven platitudes. We are the people who help form the opinions of our peers. We are now equipped with our Tea Party momentum, an existing grassroots organization that can help sweep a suitable candidate to power.

If you want to know what happens when we run a TRUE conservative, have a look at this election results map:



That my friends is what happens when we run a real conservative! (...Really makes you wonder what drugs the Minnesotans and those freaks in DC were on.)

At the moment I'm rather enamored with the idea of a Trump candidacy. Can you imagine the press conferences? How confused would they be to receive an answer as simple as "yes" or "no". They'd be over in record time. It'd be really sweet if he picked someone equally effective as his running mate. How about someone like Joe Arpaio?! That would be a ticket I could vote for with GUSTO my friends. Could you imagine the heart palpitations such a ticket would induce in our namby pamby liberal population? It would be like pure armageddon! I can imagine the effete, annoying nasal whines already!

Does Trump bring baggage with him? Sure, but he knows how to pull a ship headed for the waters of bankruptcy back on course and that is exactly what we need. The liberals are already frothing all over themselves because he's deigned to mention the fact that Obama has spent millions to prevent the release of his real birth certificate. On a related and interesting note, Arizona's Jan Brewer has signed a law requiring any candidate to prove his eligibility for president before his name can be placed on the ballot in Arizona! Way to go Jan!

Am I stuck on Trump? No just at this early juncture he's the one man I can get behind. Mitt Romney... Um puhlease... Ever hear of Romneycare? Pawlenty? Who? Huckabee? I truly like the man, but he's too nice to run the bare knuckled kind of campaign that is going to need to be run to succeed this go 'round. Ron Paul? LOL! Are you serious? You know the dude's a gynecologist... So tell me ladies, could you ever picture yourself letting that creepy troll face peek at your hoo-hah? Besides, his policies are impractical and untenable and his white-supremacist, poll spamming followers just put a cap on it. So that pretty much leaves Trump.

At any rate, I hope to be more active on this blog and to do my part to contribute to the national debate that we will be having approaching the 2012 elections.

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8/06/2010

The ICE is melting

Thousands of ICE Officers have cast a unanimous no confidence vote in their appointed "superiors". Where the hell are we going and what the hell are we doing in this hand basket?

An excerpt from the above linked letter:

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3/22/2010

What Now?

237 years ago, Bostonians boarded three ships in Boston harbor and tossed 342 chests of tea into water. They didn't do so because of any animus for tea. In fact, they like most British subjects enjoyed their tea. They did it as a demonstration of righteous indignation over taxation without representation. It was one of the first acts that led invariably through a chain of fateful events. That chain stretched through years of war and deprivation that eventually saw triumph and the creation of a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Some time ago I made a post about a quote of mine that is posted in the right margin of my blog:
"While it is true that a government rules only by the consent of the governed. Too many of us have not considered that silence might easily be construed to be consent."
My words in that post have been heeded. We have made our voices heard. We jammed the phone lines in the capital. We've firmly spoken our minds at town-hall meetings. We marched on Washington. We sent letters and e-mails to our congressmen. We have done everything to make our lack of consent abundantly clear. We know they've heard us.

I heard one senator explain that "sometimes you have to vote your conscience" (as if any of them could even conceive of such a thing).

Excuse me, but that is not your job. We don't pay you to have your own thoughts. We pay you to voice OUR thoughts you deluded egomaniac! Your conceited voice is absolutely irrelevant. Your voice reflects just one opinion among the hundreds of thousands that you were hired to represent. Who the hell do you think you are?

There is no more consent. There is just taxation WITHOUT representation... and this time they aren't taxing a damned beverage. This time it is your very life and limb! You, congress, have crossed a crucial line. Do not be surprised by our vivid, righteous anger!

There are efforts to sue based on the unconstitutionality of the law. I'm afraid that won't go too far. There are states passing Constitutional amendments or laws exempting their citizens from the compelled compliance. I'm afraid that too will be fraught with failure. If federal law countermands a state's constitution their only recourse is secession and we've played that gem of a game before. We all know the end of that story.

No one, me included wants to replay the bloody events surrounding the birth of this nation, but it is high time for the citizens to take our nation back from the hands of the greedy professional politicos. They insist that their power is greater than ours. It is not. They have ignored us, let's ensure they pay the price. We still hold the power of our vote. Let's exercise it before that too is taken and we are left with no other options. Mark my words, a comprehensive immigration reform bill, featuring an amnesty for all illegal aliens (i.e ringer voters) will be the next thing forced through the congress.

It is time now for a Constitutional amendment limiting the terms that ALL politicians may serve. There are two Constitutional routes to amend the Constitution. The first is the only one that has thus far been used. That is for a bill to pass both houses of congress with a two-thirds majority. Clearly that certainly will NEVER happen as these power grubbing bastards will NEVER loose the reins of power.

So that means we must pursue the second Constitutional method of revising the Constitution... Two-thirds of the state legislatures must call for a Constitutional Convention to be convened. (that's 34 states BTW for those of us who know how many states there are). This convention would then need to propose amendments and those amendments would need to be adopted by the state legislatures of three-fourths of the states (38 states). If our national representatives will not hear the voices of their constituents, then how about our local ones... Let's rattle their doors off the hinges before it's too late! Let's hope that they still have an ear unhardened to their people's voice.

Oh and while we're at it... how about a Constitutional fix to the question of illegal aliens and anchor babies?

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3/04/2010

My Proposal

I think that the up coming election cycles will be VERY interesting. In order to affect the affirmative changes we require, I think that us Tea Party folks should require an affirmative response to up hold and espouse the following items from each and every candidate we support:
  1. Term Limits - It is time that we eliminate "politician" from the pool of potential professions to which one can aspire. Our founding fathers never intended political service to be one's life's work. There should be a two term limit to all federal elected offices and a 16 year lifetime maximum for service in any combination of political offices in any venue.

  2. Federal Referendum for Tax Increases - Congress has had unfettered access to our wallets for far too long. Tax referendums have been popular and approved in many states. It is time for a federal version of such a referendum.

  3. Balanced Budget Requirement - I must balance my budget. It is time for the fed to do the same.

  4. Reaffirmation of the 2nd Amendment - There has been a very long streak of progressives in government infringing upon the rights of the people to keep and bear arms. It is high time to right those wrongs and reverse that trend. Any Tea Party supported candidate should pursue a full repeal of ALL federal gun laws and the abolition of the BATF's tyranny over their fellow countrymen.

  5. Abolition of Obamacare - Should the dems manage to ram Obamacare through the Congress we need our candidates to dedicate themselves to abolishing this abomination.

  6. Government Motors No More - A bill must be passed abolishing the government's control of private businesses and subsidies to them. Further a law must be passed to prevent any further attempts to do such things again. There is no such thing as a business that is too big to fail.

  7. Across the Board Tax Relief - As long as Uncle Sam is thieving from our pockets we will not have the means to bail ourselves out of the economic mess the government has put us in. Therefore, substantial tax relief must take a front seat even to reducing the deficit and balancing the budget. Besides, it's been proven that reducing tax levels increases government receipts.

  8. Spending Cuts - Trust me, we can do without a LOT of the pork barrel things that the government is paying for. End them. Stop paying UN dues. End foreign aid. Until we have our own house in order, why do we need to worry about other folks' houses? No more turtle tunnels.

  9. Border Enforcement - It is time that we end the flood of illegal aliens flowing into our country. Give the border patrol everything they need to patrol and protect our borders. All illegal aliens should be sent home every time they are caught. Employers who hire them should be punished and suffer the steep consequences.
What have I missed from my list? What should I remove? I want to hear all of your suggestions,

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