Heroes

In my 44, ok 45, years on this planet, there have been those folks that have inspired me. When i was younger, admittedly, it did not take much. Prowess at acting, playing football or baseball would elevate someone to, if not god hood, at least demi-god status. As i aged my tastes evolved, or at least i hope that they have. In my mind, a parade of politicians, pundits and pastors have been elevated to that of hero. Thing is, I have noticed that no one is perfect. Time and again I have been disappointed in the integrity, or lack thereof, of those that we hold up as role models. There is not a week that goes by that we hear of Lance Armstrong doping to win Bike races or Roger Clemens using steroids. Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire may have been on steroids when they broke records. That does not mean that there are not athletes out there that do not deserve our respect. It seems that there is a concerted effort to bring them low and relegate them to mediocrity. Tim Tebow is one of these folks. (He should have never been sent to New York.)

I would bring to your attention that Soldier, Marine, Airman and Sailor are not on that list. This is not a slight by any means. There are acts of bravery and heroism every day in the Armed forces of any country. These men and women deserve the respect of the nation for the sacrifice they make whether or not our nation is at war.
For all the hardship and difficulty that the era was rife with, I almost wish I could have lived in the late 1700 to early 1800’s. Life was hard then but there were events that were in play that were historic in scope. Tomorrow is the 4^th of july. On this day in 1776 these words were penned;

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. (Copyright ©1999-2012 by the Independence Hall Association)

There was a lot of discussion and debate leading up to the signing of the constitution. To sign this document meant treason against Great Britton and the Crown. If there were ever a set of heroes that deserve our respect and honor, the 56 men that signed this document deserve our respect and honor, twenty-four lawyers and jurists, 11 merchants and tradesmen, and nine farmers. Ben Franklin was the only really old man. Eighteen were under 40; three were in their 20s.These were not agitators or community organizers. Most of these men were wealthy, with a couple of notable exceptions, such as Samuel Adams. John Hancock was one of the wealthiest men in the colonies. These were well educated men that had made their fortunes in the new world, but their desire for freedom was greater than their lust for wealth. They pledged their Lives, Fortunes, and sacred Honor all the while with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence. Did you ever wonder about what happened to those that signed the declaration? If you look here (http://www.baxtercountyrepublicans.com/founding_fathers.html) you will see an account of the fate of these men. Here are some examples;

Francis Lewis, New York delegate, saw his home plundered and his estates, in what is now Harlem, completely destroyed by British soldiers. Mrs. Lewis was captured and treated with great brutality. Though she was later exchanged for two British prisoners through the efforts of Congress, she died from the effects of her abuse.

John Hart of Trenton, New Jersey, risked his life to return home to see his dying wife. Hessian soldiers rode after him, and he escaped in the woods. While his wife lay on her deathbed, the soldiers ruined his farm and wrecked his Homestead. Hart, 65, slept in caves and woods as he was hunted across the countryside. When at long last, emaciated by hardship, he was able to sneak home, he found his wife had already been buried, and his 13 children taken away. He never saw them again. He died a broken man in 1779, without ever finding his family.

Edward Rutledge, Arthur Middleton, and Thomas Heyward, Jr., the other three South Carolina signers, were taken by the British in the siege of Charleston. They were carried as prisoners of war to St. Augustine, Florida, where they were singled out for indignities. They were exchanged at the end of the war, the British in the meantime having completely devastated their large land holdings and estates.

These men Pledged everything they had, Everything they were to the fight to free this country from oppression, and just the presence of their name on a document enough to send them to meet the hangman. These men and all those that sacrificed to win our freedom are the heroes we should place on pedestals, and anyone else that we seek to place on that pedestal should be compared to these.

Commie Smurfs?

I know, I know. you are telling yourself 'now he has gone off the deep end. i have read a couple of essays today that i would like to share that make the case rather well.

The Smurfs Were Communists! by Dave Morgan Says the following:

Smurfs shared everything. The food in the Smurf village was stored away in those mushrooms the minute it was harvested and then equally distributed to all the Smurfs throughout the year. No one "farmer Smurf" sold his crop to a "consumer Smurf," or saw his labor exploited by another. It was understood that the crop was for the entire Smurf population, not for the sale or profit of one Smurf alone.

That in it's self is compelling even if you do not read the rest of the piece but, consider this:

The most compelling evidence that the Smurfs were communists comes from their relationship to the arch-villian Gargamel. If you remember, the only thing that Gargamel wanted the Smurfs for was for his own profit. In the first four or five seasons, Gargamel's master plan was to catch the Smurfs, boil them, and turn them into gold. For some reason, in the later years when the show was dying, they started saying that he wanted to eat the poor blue creatures, but for the most part he wanted to turn them into gold. He didn't care about the Smurfs themselves, their culture, or their well-being. All he cared about was getting gold. His only interest in how to get rich, and nothing, nothing would get in his way.

Gargamel was a capitalist.

There are other fine points on this page as well for example Kristen M. Sonntag, Esq said in Are the Smurfs Closet Communists?

In the Comunist Manifesto, Marx says, "In this sense the theory of the Communists may be summed up in a simple sentence: Abolition of private property." Well, all Smurf lands and territories belonged to all of the Smurfs, and there was no way in Hell that any single Smurf could even think of getting away with claiming a plot of land for himself or his own personal benefit or profit. Emphasis mine

Read the whole page there are bound to be other aspects of early morning cartoons that are little more than indoctrination of our children. (one reason why i didn't like Captain Planet or Barney and refused to let my Son watch either)We are entrusted with little skulls full of mush and, half the time, we do not know what gets put in thier brain.

Obama and Change

I have watched the events since the coronation of our new messiah with great vindication. You will have to take me at my word that I find no comfort in the fact that i and many of the Conservative pundits were right about this guy. In fact i think we were all wrong. This guy is more liberal than any of us would have ever dreamed. and one of the first things they do is pass a power grab so huge that Joe Stalin would blush. The sad part is we, the American people, are bending over and saying "give it to me! we NEED this enema" It seems we were wrong about the conservatives being the silent majority in this country. Of course toward the end of the 08 campaign, Obama sounded more like Ronaldus Magnus (Ronald Reagan) than the Republican candidate did.

I am disheartened at the level of complacency that we show toward our Government. We seem to have forgotten that WE, the people, elect the government. they work for us not the other way around. They should rely on us. Instead we have politicians saying what we want to hear in order to get elected. There seems to be no integrity in the process anymore. We rely on a national press core that pushes it's own agenda to vet our candidates for national office and, this election cycle, we have allowed them to choose the candidates they wanted to run. I am not sure that we will be able to elect anyone that will have the testicular fortitude to roll back the changes that will be made when the Spending bill gets through Congress.

I hate to sound defeatist. I REALY do but, I believe they will ignore the will of the people that put them there in the arrogant notion that they know what is best for you. Better than you know your self. I really think we could flood the halls of congress with calls, faxes and letters expressing our displeasure at the ‘stimulus’ bill they are trying to enact and it would make no difference what so ever.

That being said, I will not be one that will call for an armed revolt. There are many that think it is the only way to fix the mess. I do not think there is a need for that. For the last 200+ years we have had a peaceful transfer of power. I believe the Democrats will be beaten in 2012. If that happens and the transfer does not happen, we can talk about it. I do know that in 2010 the Republicans will make great strides in regaining the control we have lost over the last few years.

I do hope that we have learned a lesson and will run as what we are. Small Government, Strong National Defense and safe Homeland Conservatives. As far as a remedy, we are doing what we should be. Call Congress, your representatives, email them fax them. inundate the switchboard with messages that they are on the wrong track and we do not need socialized health care! I am just afraid there are not enough of us to make a difference.

The systematic suppression of political speech

Over the past months there have been many reports of Campaign signs being defaced, threats being made, albeit indirectly, and then we learn of a couple of assaults that have happened over campaign signs. I truly believe that there are those people that would suppress political speech for personal gain.

Intimidation

The reports of campaign signs being defaced and stolen, The Democratic presidential nominee telling his followers to 'get in their face', speaking of people that do not agree or would not vote for him. He would like his followers to aggressively argue his case. In and of itself, this is not bad. I tend to get passionate about my political leanings, my Family and my God. I will try my best to get you to see my point of view and change your mind. If I cannot we will agree to disagree. At least I will. There is a story of a man being assaulted in a restaurant when he cut of a political discussion. The affiliations of those men are irrelevant. That was a violent attempt to silence an individual's political speech. A man was attacked because he disagreed with another’s political view point. A campaign manager's house was shot up; it is suspected, over the campaign signs in his yard in support of McCain/Palin. In the news for about a week, we have heard political Pundits warn us that since Obama has a ‘massive lead' in the polls that there will be 'trouble in major cities if the One is not elected. These are subtle attempts to intimidate people to vote in a certain way, to intimidate you and me into either voting for Obama or staying home. The news reports and poll results are all geared to get you to stay home and not vote. They tried this in o4 when we elected Bush by a narrow margin. They will do the same thing this year. They do not care that they are shooting their credibility to hell. A Socialist state is their goal and I think they may have a chance this year of electing another Jimmy Carter.

Suppression of free speech

As a case in point I would point out the Democrats discussion and apparent desire to reinstate the fairness doctrine. The fairness doctrine would move talk radio back to the era of shows on how to fatten cattle, your favorite carrot cake recipe and farm and market reports that dominated the news cycle. Another example was actually perpetrated a couple of years ago in the McCain Feingold campaign finance reform act. This act restricts the amount of money and who can give what. The SCOTUS (Supreme Court Of The United States) has since equated money and political speech and has struck down portions of the law.

Voter Fraud

This is another attempt to suppress political speech but, more than that, it is stealing. There are many allegations against the group ACORN for voter fraud. They have attempted to register Mickey Mouse and Nadda Realperson. They have claimed many times they cannot vet all of the registrations they receive. I see this as a transparent attempt to deflect blame to their employees, employees that the employer is ultimately responsible for. Now we get the word that GOP Election Board members have been tossed out of polling stations in at least half a dozen polling stations in Philadelphia because of their party status. This is a direct violation of a court order but, apparently, the law does not mean much in Philly.

Amil Imani - Telling the Truth is Islam Bashing?

You have got to read this piece from Amil imani exile in Persia. He is lone voice in the lion's den speaking truth about islam here is an exerpt.

Question: Does Islam get a pass because it is a religion? Who says Islam is
a religion? Millions do? What is the evidence? The words of masses of
brainwashed carriers of the Islamic virus, transmitted to them by their parents,
are worthless as evidence. What counts is the irrefutable fact that this creed,
claimed to be the one and only religion of Allah, has been and continues to be a
source of great suffering for non-Muslims as well as the ignorant masses of
Muslims themselves.

I will share with you just a few of thousands of
horrific things that Muslims do to people of other religions or those without
any religion at all. In model Islamic states such as Saudi
Arabia and Iran, for instance, women don’t dare complain about their
Allah-decreed chattel status. If they protest in the least, they are beaten by
their husbands. And if they dare to demonstrate in public for equal family
rights with men, they get severe beatings by the police and hauled to jails for
additional indignities and violence.

Please read the rest of this here and pass this on.
http://www.amilimani.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=112&Itemid=2

The OBAMASSIAH

Have you seen the cover of New Yorker Magazine? It is hillarious!

But wait!!! Obama is out raged! he does not like this depiction of his extreamest views. Well Phooey. He needs to lighten up and learn how to laugh at himself. This is quickly becoming the public perception of him and his wife. and i am sure there will be more of this in the future. One can only hope that Democrats do not take to the streets and riot as the Islamists have done when their Profit has been depicted in Satire. I would not think they would, to become violent at protesets and destroy the personal property of others is to.... umm... never mind, what was i thinking?

Of Men and Mice

Ok… ok… OK….

You cannot even call the inactivity on this blog a lapse since there is no track record. That and the folks that I have tapped to write for us have dropped the ball. Pete has a GREAT article in the development stages. Course it has been for 3 weeks now.

EVERY one is talking about oil prices and generally the cost of getting by. Ok so it is expensive. Every thing else will catch up at some point. Yes we need to drill for more oil and find more efficient ways of using it. We also need to find alternative forms of energy and, when they are economically feasible, they should come to the market and then the free market will decide if they are worthy. With one candidate advocating the policies that got us to this point(not encouraging local energy exploration) and the other flip, flopping on the same issue (McCain now would like to open the outer continental shelf to drilling but still opposes drilling in ANWR) the choice is getting clearer in the POTUS race. I REALLY wish Rush Limbaugh would run but he has said many times he does not want the pay cut. Sean Hanity I am not sure would run and Newt has turned into a tree hugger. ‘Our list of allies grows thin’

The supreme’s (SCOTUS) has confirmed an individual’s right to own a fire arm to protect them selves and their families. That is a good thing though the margin was a little closer that I would have liked. It is like the left in this country has decided that we peons deserve only the rights they say we can have. We should eat what they tell us, believe what they tell us, possess what they tell us we can possess. When the reality is, the Bill of Rights is a list of rights the Government has no right to limit or take away. Justice Joseph Story(Appointed to the supreme court in 1811 at the age of 32) said – Consider the right to keep and bear arms “the palladium of the liberties of the republic,” which enables the citizenry to deter tyranny.

Lets see what else happened since my last post… Rush Limbaugh has signed a contract through 2012 for $400Mill everyone is jealous and many want to shut him up just for his beliefs and his audience base. The FCC looks at the fairness doctrine again. So now we are looking at officials that are not elected, curtailing our freedom of speech. Just like the bureaucrats at the EPA can tell you what you can and cannot do with your private property. NICE....

Common Sense

I think I have a good title for posts on this Blog. THINK. If there is anything I would have you take away from reading these few words on this piece of the net it would be that I made you think. I do not necessarily mean you thinking hmm... he’s right on the money but, maybe also to challenge you to dig deeper. Such as there has been a series of posts over on 7.62mm justice called Kyoto – A Perspective (Hat Tip TonyfromOz) about how we in the USA generate electricity and how, if we were to adopt the principals of the Kyoto treaty, our nation would be drug, rather quickly, back into the 1800’s. That has made me think about how we as a nation use energy and what we could do different and that has lead to MANY ideas about energy efficiency and alternative fuels.

Ideas will always lead to discussion and discussions will always lead to some type of discourse and THAT my friend is one of many things that have made this nation great. The 56 original members of congress did not sit down on July 4th, 1776 and write out and sign the document that has shaped our nation. This did not just happen! We all know or, rather, should know the story of our fight for independence. There were years of subjugation to the crown in England. There were unjust searches and seizures, Taxes levied with out the input of the Americans (Taxation with out Representation), forced billeting of troops in private homes. When the fighting actually started in April of 1775, the shadow governments that had been in place in all of the 13 colonies took control of their colonies and deposed the royal officials. The desire for full independence grew and in January 1776, Thomas Pain published his well known pamphlet ‘Common Sense’. The second Continental Congress appointed 5 men to draft what would become our founding document those men included Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and Samuel Adams. Many changes and additions were made to this document, for example Franklin himself made at least 48 corrections, including changing the slogan "Life, Liberty and Property" to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness before it was presented to the main body of the Congress on June 28th 1776. I was not until July 4th 1776 that the document was approved and sent to a printer. John Hancock was the first to sign as the elected President of the Congress. It was not till August of that same year that the rest of the delegates signed the Declaration of Independence.

I went through that short history lesson to show you that the idea that all men were created to be free created a discourse and that discourse led to the birth, with all the pain and suffering I cannot call it created, of the United States of America. But to have that discourse, you have to have ideas, to have ideas you have to be able to think. Now there are those that say that thinking should be left to the experts. Some say I am not paid to think, I am paid to follow instructions. Anyone that has a brain can think. I believe it is a sad state of affairs when someone in TV or radio studio has to tell us what a speech just made by this politician or that world leader means and how mad or happy we should be because of it. Think for yourselves! I believe there is a nefarious scheme behind the decline in our ability to think for ourselves but that is for another post. Think! Read! Learn! This is how we will retain our freedom. This is how we come up with ideas that make us money and keep our economy strong. This is how we keep informed and know when to stand in support of or against ideologies that threaten our liberties or our way of life. In America we live in the greatest secular country on earth. There are few that even compare.

Thanks to all the veterans for the sacrifice they have made, God Bless you everyone!