Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Do You Smell What Barack is Cookin'?

still cooking...

Thursday, April 17, 2008

The Vision of The Left: TEOTWAWKI


The End Of The World As We Know It.

That's the vision of the left.

Call them visionaries. They have big plans for America and they have big plans for us.

They tell us they envision a perfect world. A world where the skies are blue, the earth is green, people never shoot each other because they have no guns, there are no terrorists because we quit creating them and everyone is all the same. Everyone is happy because we've done away with capitalism, we live longer, richer lives and everything is free. Nobody is overweight or underweight, no one smokes, there's no "junk food" or saturated fat and the government basically runs everything.

The scenario I've written above probably doesn't even sound remotely possible to anyone with any common sense. You look at yourself and realize that you wouldn't achieve success if you didn't have some competition. What would be the point of Olympics, sports, art, music if there weren't winners and losers? Without competition, humanity follows the law of thermodynamics in which things progressively deteriorate. So no matter what government does, there will be always be "winners and losers," even if the government is the one who decides who those winners and losers will be. But is this even government's job is? To create winners and losers based on who they decide should be? Is this really what we want?

This world that the far left envisions is the very antithesis of what the founders of America envisioned. The first 10 amendments of the constitution where all created to restrict government, not to restrict the people. Individual liberty and freedom is the core principle upon which "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" are created.

Are these people really pro-choice? Nope. They don't really believe that you can do what you want. If they think that your actions are creating pollution, even though they have no evidence of pollution being created, then they reserve the right to tax you or force you to buy carbon credits. They want to destroy the best health care system in the world. The system that all the other medical systems around the world have relied upon for resources and research and the system to which people all around the world flock to for care and education.

The left wants to take us back to the 15th century. This is the wrong direction for America and the wrong direction for The World as We Know It. Defeat the left and move on too a better world with more freedom and more liberty for all!

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Does Barack Obama Want To Make "White Slaves"?

Lately it seems that people have been starting to see a little different side of Obama than they had formerly seen. Instead of the charming personality that was presented to us for the last number of years, we, through Rev. Wright and through comments that Michelle has made and also the most recent gaffe by Obama himself have been seeing a very different picture.

We're beginning to see the emergence of an extremely liberal senator who supports the ideology of the far left. This version of Obama refuses to condemn terrorists. Instead, he seems to sympathize with their cause.

So is the Obama that we don't know yet one that really does believe in affirmative action in a very extreme way? I'm not saying that it's definitely true that he does believe this, but his willingness to trash his own grandmother in an attempt to save himself politically does make me wonder if he might be more than willing to accept affirmative action in an extreme that we've never seen it before.

Perhaps he believes that the original sin of slavery that so many liberation theology talk about has not yet been atoned for; perhaps he believes that in order for America to be redeemed from this sin white folks must get a dose of their own medicine and become slaves.

Again, not saying I think these are true, just speculating. After all, wasn't it Obama himself that quoted his pastor in saying that "white folk's greed runs a world in need"(source here)? Wasn't it Obama himself that stated that many small town folks are bitter and cling to their guns and religion for hope? Barack seems to think that he's got white folks all figured out and I tend to think that it wouldn't be a far cry for him to believe in a sort of retribution where whites become slaves in order to atone for the sins of their forefathers.

Maybe Micheal Savage isn't so far out in his description of Barack Obama after all!

Friday, February 29, 2008

Obama's "Bully Pulpit" -- very scary!

Do we really want a bully preacher for a president?

"As your President, I will use the bully pulpit to urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws," he wrote. "I personally believe that civil unions represent the best way to secure that equal treatment. But I also believe that the federal government should not stand in the way of states that want to decide on their own how best to pursue equality for gay and lesbian couples — whether that means a domestic partnership, a civil union, or a civil marriage."


Obama pledges to use a "bully pulpit" to overcome states' rights in choosing to recognize marriage. He seems to be saying that he will fight for states' rights to make their own decisions re guarding marriage, but in reality he is on the opposite side of states' rights, since he will essentially force states to recognize the marriage laws of other states. Whatever your take on the issue of gay marriage, this should continuance of the patter of the Democrats to trample over every remaining state right left should scare you badly. The Federal government under Democratic control next year will continue to usurp authority, taking more and more ground, becoming less and less efficient, tax more and more until the American people are pretty much stifled out of existence as a nation.




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Thursday, February 28, 2008

American Dream Fading Fast?

Is the American dream a dying breed?

The American dream is a dream I've had for a while. I'd love to have a nice car, nice house, family... all the things that have been long associated with the American dream.

But is this dream fading away?

I know very few peers who even have the ability to reach this dream. Most of those that I know who even have the financial stability and security to be able to start a family, continue to delay it.

Will we soon be saying, "it was just a dream"?

America has long been based on principles of family and freedom. Slowly but surely politicians have been chipping away at those principles until they've become so faint that the ability to trace and find them has all but nearly disappeared. A few Americans still know what it means to be free but are they passing those principles on down to their children? Where has freedom gone? Is it just a pipe-dream? A lost reality that no one any longer can embrace or hold with pride?

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

A New Generation: Hope (but not in the government)

Hope. Change. Hope. Change.


Such is the slogan of a presidential candidates. It sounds so "hopeful." Apparently, since this candidate's campaign really has taken off, American's are quite hungry for a message of hope and change. Yet this politician has hope in all the wrong places. He's placing it entirely in the fact that he is a politician and can give people what they want for their hope... "free" healthcare, more government support of education, more entitlements.


This type of change may be welcome by many but for those who possess common sense realize that there's "no such thing as a free lunch" even when it is the government that's making the promise. The government can't just create money (without inflation anyway) so the resources have to come from somewhere. The government gets it's money from the people.


So obviously, the people's source of hope is the government and the government's source of resources is the individual taxpayers. There's something wrong with logic that goes in circles like that. The people end up as the resource of their "hope" in the long run anyway.


So why have the middleman government to begin with? Why not just get the big middleman government out of the way and let the people determine their future? America is great because it was founded on a principle of individual people exercising individual freedom. That's commonsense politics.



Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The death of common sense?

The Death of Common Sense
Lori Borgman
www.loriborgman.com

Three yards of black fabric enshroud my computer terminal. I am mourning the passing of an old friend by the name of Common Sense.

His obituary reads as follows:

Common Sense, aka C.S., lived a long life, but died from heart failure at the brink of the millennium. No one really knows how old he was, his birth records were long ago entangled in miles and miles of bureaucratic red tape.
Known affectionately to close friends as Horse Sense and Sound Thinking, he selflessly devoted himself to a life of service in homes, schools, hospitals and offices, helping folks get jobs done without a lot of fanfare, whooping and hollering. Rules and regulations and petty, frivolous lawsuits held no power over C.S.

A most reliable sage, he was credited with cultivating the ability to know when to come in out of the rain, the discovery that the early bird gets the worm and how to take the bitter with the sweet. C.S. also developed sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn), reliable parenting strategies (the adult is in charge, not the kid) and prudent dietary plans (offset eggs and bacon with a little fiber and orange juice).

A veteran of the Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression, the Technological Revolution and the Smoking Crusades, C.S. survived sundry cultural and educational trends including disco, the men's movement, body piercing, whole language and new math.

C.S.'s health began declining in the late 1960s when he became infected with the If-It-Feels-Good, Do-It virus. In the following decades his waning strength proved no match for the ravages of overbearing federal and state rules and regulations and an oppressive tax code. C.S. was sapped of strength and the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband, criminals received better treatment than victims and judges stuck their noses in everything from Boy Scouts to professional baseball and golf.

His deterioration accelerated as schools implemented zero-tolerance policies. Reports of 6-year-old boys charged with sexual harassment for kissing classmates, a teen suspended for taking a swig of Scope mouthwash after lunch, girls suspended for possessing Midol and an honor student expelled for having a table knife in her school lunch were more than his heart could endure.

As the end neared, doctors say C.S. drifted in and out of logic but was kept informed of developments regarding regulations on low-flow toilets and mandatory air bags. Finally, upon hearing about a government plan to ban inhalers from 14 million asthmatics due to a trace of a pollutant that may be harmful to the environment, C.S. breathed his last.

Services will be at Whispering Pines Cemetery. C.S. was preceded in death by his wife, Discretion; one daughter, Responsibility; and one son, Reason. He is survived by two step-brothers, Half-Wit and Dim-Wit.

Memorial Contributions may be sent to the Institute for Rational Thought.

Farewell, Common Sense. May you rest in peace.