In America, everyone with a brain laughed at Peggy Joseph during the past presidential campaign when she explained her joy at Obama’s promises. Now we have new respect for Ms. Peggy, as she indeed knew what was coming when whe exclaimed “Obama is Going to Pay For My Gas and Mortgage!” Ms. Peggy must really be jumping with joy now at the President’s latest “Stimulus and Recovery Act.” Peggy Joseph was right.
“The Economic Miracle” worked so well in Europe and the UK, that we are now giving it a go here in the land of the free. Whoopee! Now we Americans are more European than the Europeans.
There was Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan was the progeny that the Founding Fathers of America hoped for when they created, with their own blood, sweat and tears, our United States of America.
“We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and, ultimately, human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success — only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive, and free.
“Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire post-war period, contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development. The societies which have achieved the most spectacular broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly controlled, not necessarily the biggest in size, or the wealthiest in natural resources. No, what unites them all is their willingness to believe in the magic of the marketplace.” ~~Ronald Reagan, September 29, 1981
Ancient History makes interesting reading, but - Ronald Reagan is still dead. His progeny - those who went to Congress and the Presidency on his coattails, betrayed his legacy by behaving as god-awful as Democrats. Where are the “we who live in free market societies” today? I cannot think of any.
Where are the progeny of John Adams and the founders? Where is John Adams? I hear that Mr. Adams is now repenting in Heaven of his earthly deeds.
“Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.” ~John Adams letter to his wife Abigail Adams, 26 April 1777.
We The Sheep - John Adams’ Posterity
Surely John Adams Is Repenting in Heaven For the Sheep Who Are His Posterity.
Although it is sad to contemplate, it is the reality of today’s America, as more and more traditional Americans of faith, conservatives, small business owners, the military, are feeling disenfranchised from their own country and their government. I am one of them.
How can any American of old-fashioned honesty and character continue to believe in a government that is so blatantly corrupt? How can Americans trust greedy leaders who tax them to redistribute their hard earned money as rewards to other greedy politicians and overpaid and corrupt business executives? We have only to examine Congress’s own businesses, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that were plundered by that same Congress and their favored friends, resulting in the near collapse of the nation’s banking system. This is even before we ponder the now commonplace scenario of tenaciously clutching onto so-called elected positions until death do they depart, only to bequeath those seats in Congress to family members as though they were a part of an anointed Solon’s estate. Now we are discovering that in the former land of Lincoln, a United States Senate seat is offered to the highest bidder.
The church I have belonged to all of my life is being attacked and its members persecuted by my fellow countrymen and America’s vetted churches of Christendom. My traditional beliefs that were taught me long ago by my family, teachers and church are now lampooned by Americans of today who know little of America’s history. We are now described as uneducated and full of hate by “in favor” American Christians, when we are not being ridiculed. I have been publicly told by the now President-elect of the United States that the American flag I once proudly displayed at my home and wore on my clothing, was merely a sign of my own “false patriotism.” I have never felt a racist thought against anyone, and have lived closely with people of many different races including African Americans. However, for the first time in my long life, in 2008, I was repeatedly labelled a racist because I, a conservative, did not support a liberal black man as candidate for President of the U.S. At the same time, those very same Americans who labeled John McCain supporters as racists, now condemn the founders of this country because those who volunteered in 1776, to sacrifice their own blood, sweat and tears for our freedom, were rich white males.
“Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.” ~John Adams letter to his wife Abigail Adams, 26 April 1777.
We, the disenfranchised Americans, were taught that our vote was sacred; that it had been won for us with the blood of patriots. How can we continue to believe that when we see with our own eyes federally-funded groups such as A.C.O.R.N run ads on television against our preferred conservative candidate? Why would we continue going to the polls when we know that these same federally-sanctioned community organizations will be stealing our votes, with our own tax money, by overwhelming them with dozens or hundreds of ill-gotten illegal votes? How can our “one” vote stand up against the onslaught of criminality encouraged by our own government’s elected officials?
Today, all over America, the military, conservatives and Christians are being publicly disenfranchised in the very nation that their predecessors created. Signs of faith of “out of favor” Christians are banned, outlawed, and destroyed. We see that a law-abiding “out of favor” group, the Mormons, cannot go to the polls and vote their consciences without violent ramifications and persecutions, whilst members of African American churches are praised for doing the exact same thing. When Christians cannot freely speak on public streets without police protection, or even with police protection, we see that not only is “Freedom of Religion” dead, but “Freedom of Speech” is too. (See the VIDEO.)
Just today, two weeks before our Christian holiday of Jesus’ birth, the Alaskan church of Sarah Palin was struck by arsonists. The smoke alarms of the church saved the lives of the women and children working inside, from evil would be murderers of innocent “out of favor” Christians. (Anchorage, Alaska) Governor Palin’s Church is one of those conservative churches that is now reviled by much of America, the media, late night comics and mainstream Protestantism. Her church believes in the same traditional Christian tenets that the Pilgrims and Puritans brought to this land; tenets which come from the Holy Bible.
However, these disenfranchised Americans who are being deprived of their Constitutional rights, are still expected to swear oaths supporting the Constitution that is not supporting them, to pay taxes which are then used in schemes to further bludgeon them, to send their children to schools to be indoctrinated to revile their own parents’ beliefs and culture, and to continue to raise their young people to believe it patriotic to fight America’s wars, although America will never fight for any of the reviled, out-of-favor, and disenfranchised ones.
Mainstream America, secular and progressive America, finds that fair and just, as they tell us that we are disenfranchised from their “changed” America because we are worse than Hitler and more frightening than Osama bin Laden and all of Al Qaeda put together.
Is This Poetic Justice for Billy “The Weatherman” Ayers?
The friend and Chicago neighbor of President-elect Barack Obama, William “Billy” Ayers has to flee to Canada to tell his sob story of how the terrorists in America are out to get him: The Star.com.
While writing blatant lies in his Canadian Op-ed piece, how can Bill Ayers expect that anyone will believe anything else he says? If a person would plan to murder his fellow countrymen, why would anyone believe any words coming from his mouth? If a person would tell his followers to murder their parents in the 1960s, why should anyone believe he is now a warm fuzzy-wuzzy because he is a grandfather? Fortunate it be for him that HIS children did not follow the teachings he taught to other parents’ children: “Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents.”
How rich is it to see this creepy man who was a member of a group that murdered policemen in the 1960s, now frantically call upon the Chicago police to protect him from a Fox News reporter? Did Bill Ayers think that “America is a great country”when he went to the very same polling place where both his friend Barack Obama, who wrote a blurb for Ayers’ 1997 book, and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan voted, considering that he, Bill Ayers, tried to destroy America and deny other Americans the right to vote by planning and executing 25 bombings against them, and attempting to kill American military officers. “America is a great country,” says Ayers, while stamping on the American flag, when all charges against him were dropped because of improper FBI surveillance.
“Our neighbors include Muhammad Ali, former mayor Eugene Sawyer, poets Gwendolyn Brooks and Elizabeth Alexander, and writer Barack Obama. Minister Louis Farrakhan lives a block from our home and adds, we think, a unique dimension to the idea of ’safe neighborhood watch’: the Fruit of Islam, his security force, has an eye on things twenty-four-hours a day.” ~~Bill Ayers from his 1997 book “A Kind and Gentle Parent.”
Bill Ayers repeats the vicious lie that Barack Obama told America in the Presidential Debates - that supporters at a McCain rally shouted “kill him.” That statement by Obama was a lie then and it is a double damnable lie now as it has been proven by all non-partisan attendees at the event, as NOT ONE HEARD IT! The only person who did hear it was the virulently partisan Washington Post “journalist” who made it up, and never corrected himself, Dana Milbank. And oh yes, Barack Obama, who was not there. (More Obama Lies)
American Terrorists and Obama friends, William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn were members of the Weather Underground, a group that plotted to murder Americans who were pro-America. Bill Ayers taught his young followers to “Kill all the rich people. … Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents.” When Bill Ayers escaped murder charges on a technicality, he gloated “Guilty as sin, free as a bird, America is a great country.” When the Attack on America happened in 2001, Bill Ayers applauded the success of Al Queda!
UPDATE: Now the Marxist Ayers is Capitalizing on Capitalism While There is Still Opportunity! Bill Ayers is a great American!
Happy Birthday United States Marine Corps. On November 10th, 1775, the Second Continental Congress resolved to raise two battalions of Continental Marines. The rest is history.
In March of 1785, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were in London to meet Ambassador Abd Al-Rahman of Tripoli and inquire of him why it was that Barbary states felt a right to impede American ships, pirating their cargo and enslaving their crews and passengers. America’s two most illustrious Founding Fathers were told by the “Mussulman” Ambassador: “it was written in the Koran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make Slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”
Jefferson’s new nation found itself immediately at war with North Africa’s Islamic potentates who occupied the lands that are today Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. No longer under the protection of the British Royal Navy, the Founding Fathers had to decide how to secure free navigation of the seas for the new United States of America. In 1801, when Thomas Jefferson became president, he refused to accede to the Barbary pirates of Tripoli’s demands for an immediate payment of $225,000 and an annual payment of $25,000. This refusal brought about the first “war” the U.S. would fight as a country. The first line of the Marine hymn, “from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli,” references the 600-mile march across the Libyan Desert of a group of Navy men and others to capture the port city of Derna, Tripoli. It took a concerted effort by England, France, Spain, and the United States to end over 400 years of Muslim piracy on the Barbary Coast.
It seems that it was our beloved Democrat Thomas Jefferson who first decided to make war upon the Muslim Barbaries, instead of appeasing them. President George W. Bush has been struggling to follow in Jefferson’s mighty footsteps as the ancient battle continues. Give thanks for Jefferson’s foresight and courage and say a prayer for George W, who has a much tougher task than Jefferson. Commander-in-chief George W. Bush has had to fight against his own nation’s enemies, as well as many of his own countrymen, who wish America to fail.
“TJ and the Barbaries” by Kerfuffles
“Jefferson’s War on Terror” by Edna Barney
There is no other explanation as to why Google’s YouTube woud ban this video. The man speaking in the video, Alfonzo Rachel, expressed his personal opinion and his religious beliefs. He believes that it is wrong to compare black people to gay people. He expressed himself using no vulgar words, no profane language, no blasphemy, and there are no obscene scenes such as are rampant on YouTube. Yet this video was BANNED by Google, because Google did not agree with his speech about homosexual marriage! Apparently, Google permits only PRO homosexual speech.
Google is a Book Burner! Video BANNED by Google
However, at YouTube you can freely watch a Video entitled “My President Is Black” which praised Barack Obama with lyrics filled with hate speech, vulgarities, the “N” word and blasphemy. In fact, at Google’s YouTube I counted at least one dozen of these “Google-Approved ‘My President Is Black’” videos. Why does not Google find this speech offensive? Is it because the videos praise Barack Obama? Or is it because the “My President Is Black” video does not concern homosexuality. Why is discussing homosexuality, as opposed to praising it, considered hate speech by Google?
Why does Google burn “out of favor” books here in the twenty-first century? Remember all the recent condemnation by Obama’s campaign calling Sarah Palin a “Book Banner,” which was a blatant lie, for she never did such a thing? However, Google does believe in banning books, and Google actually does ban books. Where’s the condemnation, Obama supporters, if you are so concerned about book banning?
Google’s collusion with keeping dissenting views from having a voice on the Internet world of Google has resulted in those that Google protects and supports, the pro-homosexuals, believing that casting a democratic vote against their perverted desires is hate speech. Today, Google’s protected constituency, gay marriage activists, are refusing to accept the passage of California’s Proposition 8, the traditional marriage initiative. They are marching in Los Angeles and targeting the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City. They are threatening to burn down the churches and hunt down the people of faith who supported the ballot measure, according to Michelle Malkin. That is the lesson of the stifling of “freedom of speech,” Google. Google is obviously not concerned with the voices of the Founding Fathers either, as long as Google’s protected group is protected from “hate speech” and “hate voting.”
Wikipedia Definition of Book Burning
“I’m standing up for the principle of democracy. I’m standing up for moderation. And I’m standing up for hope for all the people in Pakistan who today are poor and miserable and really quite desperate..” ~~ Benazir Bhutto, CNN Interview of 28 September 2007.
In 1775, Patrick Henry declared “Give me Liberty or Give me Death,” at Saint John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia. That declaration set the course for revolution and independence for Americans. It was the cry that has reverberated in the hearts of mankind ever since. Many freedom lovers around the world have met death in their quest for liberty for themselves and others.
Today it was the American educated, woman freedom fighter, Benazir Bhutto, who was martyred in the name of freedom in her own native land of Pakistan. Today, it was a Muslim woman, murdered in a Muslim land, by her fellow male Muslims.
The news story is at BBC News; Christopher Hitchens names her “A Daughter of Destiny
The image, Benazir Bhutto last moments-5, is subject to copyright by PAKlSTAN. It is posted here with permission via the Flickr API by Kerfuffles.
As the first “freedom fighters” of long ago soon discovered, “FREEDOM IS NOT FREE”. It was not free then, nor is it free today. In fact, freedom is a costly commodity in terms of blood, sweat and tears.
In the Year Two Thousand and Five, AN ACT DESIGNATING CAPTAIN SAMUEL WHITTEMORE THE OFFICIAL STATE HERO OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS AND PROVIDING FOR AN ANNUAL PROCLAMATION OF A DAY IN HIS HONOR:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Section 44. Samuel Whittemore, born in 1694, when not engaged in numerous wars and conflicts in America and Canada during the eighteenth century, was a hard working farmer in Menotomy, now Arlington, Massachusetts. On April 17, 1775, while working in his fields, Whittemore became aware of the retreating British army which had fought the militia men at Lexington and Concord. Although then over 80 years old, he immediately armed himself with his weapon; disregarded warnings of onlookers, and stationed himself behind a stone wall directly in the path of the troops which were being harassed by our militia. When the British army came into point blank range, Samuel Whittemore stood up, opened accurate fire, and killed three soldiers before he collapsed from numerous wounds inflicted by the enraged English combatants who then left him for dead. However, Whittemore recovered from his ghastly injuries and lived to be 90 years old. Samuel Whittemore is the oldest known Patriot to fight in the Revolutionary War. And most recently, the United States never had a braver warrior. (SENATE BILL, NO. 1839)
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As I surf the blogosphere, I often come upon comments by young people from Western nations who believe it is wrong for the West to have so much wealth, while in Africa people are dying of hunger and disease. They write that it is evil for the West to consume as much as we do, as if somehow our abundance is the cause of the misery of the undeveloped world. Of course, these young writers never seem to find the correlation between the two greatest causes of death in Africa, AIDS and politically motivated murders, and how it is that those killers are caused by the West. One young blogger wrote:
“Doesn’t it make you angry? I’m angry today about the state of the world, Ive seen some weird things recently, I’ve been and worked in a very poor country this year and coming back to the UK I’m alarmed at what I see. Massive consumption excessive, it’s disgusting people have so much more than they need, whilst people in Africa are dying of disease everyday, It makes me so sad and also so angry, how can we just let it be like this, how can we let the world be in such a mess.”
I couldn’t help responding - they need to be educated: No it does not make me angry. It makes me grateful for the legacy we received from our forebears. Our wealth comes from our liberal Western beliefs and ideas. Because we consume much has nothing to do with the cause of poverty and death in Africa. In fact, without our riches, which enable us to contribute to their relief, they would be much worse off. Everything that we consume helps someone economically. You say that you feel powerless to help. That is indeed sad, because there is much you could do. However, you will not help the less fortunate and miserable, by killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. So many wonderful ideas of economic freedom were taught by great thinkers of your own country, long ago. Study your history. The nations today that espouse the greatest economic liberalism are the same with the highest per capita incomes. There is a cure for the misery of these unfortunates, and to put it simply, its name is economic freedom. Go forth and teach Africa and other repressed peoples about the marvelous ideas of your own homeland and the Western world and explain to them, that they can become prosperous too. Do that if you truly want to help.
Or help feed and clothe one child in Africa:
Christian’s Children Fund
http://www.christianchildrensfund.org/
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