The Czars -#9 - Rosa Brooks

Rosa Brooks - Dept. of Defense Czar

1. A review of Ms. Brooks' published work reveals her hard-left, rabidly ideological positions on defense matters. She regularly referred to Mr. Bush as a war criminal, and argues that Bush-era policies on terrorism - which prevented any major attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001 - made America less secure. Referring to Mr. Bush and former Vice President Richard Cheney, she wrote, "They should be treated like psychotics who need treatment." She has called al Qaeda "little more than an obscure group of extremist thugs" and wrongly predicted that the surge in Iraq was "a feckless plan" that would prove "too little, too late." Putting her in the policy shop "is like Lyndon Johnson making Jane Fonda a senior adviser on Vietnam," the former Pentagon adviser says. She frequently criticizes what she sees as a pro-Israel bias in U.S. policy.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
OBAMA NOMINATES A VIRULENT AMERICA HATER, JEW HATER, ROSA BROOKS, TO KEY POSITION IN DEFENSE DEPARTMENT
Rosa Brooks is Obama’s latest enemy appointment — as adviser to Defense Undersecretary for Policy Michele Flournoy. This choice rips the mask off the traitor in the Oval office. Brooks is a rabid leftist journalist who, up until this appointment, wrote for the corrupt LA Times.
Brooks is a Soros cohort: she has been Special Counsel to the President at Soros’s Open Society Institute.
And Brooks worked for Honjou Koh, the pro Sharia lawyer and transnationalist now at the State Department.
She called Cheney and Bush psychos to be dealt with like psychos, referring to their “crimes”.
She is the most radical person to join the Obama revolutionary counsel so far.
This is like bringing Medea Benjamin into the Pentagon, or Michael Moore. (hat tip Amaros)
OBAMA CHOOSES ANOTHER DANGEROUS TRAITOR IN THE ADMINISTRATION RECENT APPOINTMENT AND NO FRIEND OF ISRAEL.

1. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/24/a-disaster-for-defense-its-like-making-jane-fonda-/

2. http://romanticpoet.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/the-rosa-brookskohobama-connection-another-radical-into-the-white-house-scheme-of-things-to-come/

The Czars - #10 - Carol Browner

Carol Browner – Socialist, “Global Warming” Czar

1. (Tuesday, February 24, 2009)
Obama's Climate Czar Will Rule Like a Despot
Czar is perhaps the perfect title for Carol Browner, the person President Obama chose to rule over his climate policy. The woman will run her kingdom like an autocrat, she will take no prisoners and she will hide all the "bodies" For Example:

Until early January Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama's pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group's Commission for a 2. Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change. Then Mrs. Browner's name and biography had been removed from Socialist International's Web page, though a photo of her speaking June 30 to the group's congress in Greece was still available. The group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, the organization's action arm on climate change, says the developed world must reduce consumption and commit to binding and punitive limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

1. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/02/obamas-climate-czar-will-rule-like.html

2. http://www.americanpolicy.org/more/teaparty.htm: Sustainable Development calls for changing the very infrastructure of the nation, away from private ownership and control of property to nothing short of central planning of the entire economy – often referred to as top-down control. Truly, Sustainable Development is designed to change our way of life. In short, it’s all about wealth redistribution. Your wealth into a green rat hole.
According to Sustainablist doctrine, It is a social injustice for some to have prosperity if others do not. It is a social injustice to keep our borders closed. It is a social injustice for some to be bosses and others to be merely workers.
Social justice is a major premise of Sustainable Development. Another word for social justice, by the way, is Socialism. Karl Marx was the first to coin the phrase “social justice.”

In other words Sustainable Development is the destruction of America by taking away wealth, freedom and innovation.

READ THE HEALTH REFORM BILL!

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL BILL

Look at what is in the Bill!:

Pg 22 of the HC Bill MANDATES the Govt will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self insure!!
Pg 30 Sec 123 of HC bill - THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get
Pg 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill - YOUR HEALTHCARE IS RATIONED!!!
Pg 42 of HC Bill - The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC Benefits for you. You have no choice!
PG 50 Section 152 in HC bill - HC will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise
Pg 58HC Bill - Govt will have real-time access 2 individs finances & a National ID Healthcard will be issued!
Pg 59 HC Bill lines 21-24 Govt will have direct access to you banks accountsts for electronic funds transfer
PG 65 Sec 164 is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in unions & community orgs (ACORN).
Pg 72 Lines 8-14 Govt is creating an HC Exchange to bring private HC plans under Govt control.
PG 84 Sec 203 HC bill - Govt mandates ALL benefit packages for private health care plans in the Exchange
PG 85 Line 7 HC Bill - Specs for of Benefit Levels for Plans = The Govt will ration your Healthcare!
PG 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill - Govt mandates linguistic appropropriate services. Example - Translationfor illegal aliens
Pg 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18 The Govt will use groups i.e., ACORN & Americorps to sign up individuals for Govt HC plan
PG 85 Line 7 HC Bill - Specs of Benefit Levels for Plans. #AARP members - your Health care WILL be rationed
PG 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill - Medicaid Eligible Individuals will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No choice
pg 124 lines 24-25 HC No company can sue GOVT on price fixing. No "judicial review" against Govt Monopoly
pg 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill - Doctors/ #AMA - The Govt will tell YOU what you can make.
Pg 145 Line 15-17 An Employer MUST automatiocally enroll employees into pubic option plan. NO CHOICE
Pg 126 Lines 22-25 Employers MUST pay for health care for part time employees AND their families.
Pg 149 Lines 16-24 ANY Employer with payroll of 400k & above who does not provide public option. pays 8% tax on all payroll
pg 150 Lines 9-13 Business payroll between 251k & 400k who doesn't provide public option pays 2-6% tax on all payroll
Pg 167 Lines 18-23 ANY individual who doesn't have acceptable health care according to Govt will be taxed 2.5% of income
Pg 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill Any NON-RESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay for their health care)
Pg 195 HC Bill -officers & employees of health care Administration (GOVT) will have access to ALL Americans financial/personal records
PG 203 Line 14-15 HC - "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax" Yes, it says that
Pg 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill Govt will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors, low income, poor affected
Pg 241 Line 6-8 HC Bill - Doctors, doesn't matter what specialty you have, you'll all be paid the same
PG 253 Line 10-18 Govt sets value of Dr's time, professional judgment, etc. Literally value of humans.

Obama's birth debate: It's about loyalty

By James Lewis

The birth debate about Obama is real enough, but it is legally complicated, as analyzed by legal beagle Andrew McCarthy at National Review. No judge is going to question the Constitutional qualifications of an elected president. I'm sorry, but that's the practical reality. The judge is going to follow stare decisis -- the sheer weight of commitments that cannot be reversed without creating chaos. Once the political system of the United States, the voters, the media, and the politicians themselves are all committed to the proposition that Obama is president, trying to reverse it would mean riots in every city in the nation. At some point even debatable claims become irreversible. That is why Al Franken is now the US Senator from Minnesota, even if his election was corrupt and wrong. It's water under the bridge. Leave it to history.

And yet the Obama "birther" debate is important. What's important about it is the feeling a growing number of Americans have in their bones that Obama is foreign -- to our traditions, loyalties and shared understandings about the nature of America. In a way the legal debate matters less than that bone-deep sense that Obama is fundamentally "Other than American."
We all recognized George W as a prototypical American -- even if you didn't agree with him or even like him. There he was cutting dry brush around his modest West Texas ranch house, to keep down the fire danger, while the fat and foolish White House punditry stayed huddled back in the air conditioning. Or flying onto the aircraft carrier in a jet trainer after Saddam was overthrown. Or heading straight to walk Ground Zero with the cops and fire fighters right after 9/11. Bush looked at home with those cops, because he was. He likes those guys, and they like him. They are made of the same stuff. Obama isn't.

Obama is a socialist, which means that his deepest commitment is not to our nation but to the Internationalist Ruling Class. That is why the Left always has to argue that Americans' love of country will kill off the rest of the world -- by global warming, by overpopulation, any excuse will do. The fact that it's all lies proves the point: The Left must lie in order to convince millions of Americans that their normal feelings of patriotism are evil.

These facts are so obvious that they are not even worth arguing about. Obama's first international speech -- characteristically before getting elected -- started with the phrase "Citizens of the World!" Anybody on the Left has to think, "Workers of the World, Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!" That was the intended message to the left, of course -- that's how David Axelrod thinks, that's how Obama's mentors have always thought -- going back to his way-left mother and his Kenyan socialist father. The interracial affair between the Kansas anthropologist 20-year-old and the Kenyan socialist was itself a revolutionary act, the way these people think. It was a positive good to bear an interracial child, even if the kid was going to be abandoned by his father and mother. From that point onward the Old Left handled the whole chain of custody. Obama was passed along by leftie sponsors, one after the other. Frank Marshall Davis was the Communist Party guy in Hawaii, and wrote for the Hawaiian Communist Party rag. You can trace it link after link, following the Alinskyite chain all the way to the far left wing of the Chicago Machine, then 20 years of being preached at by Rev. Jeremiah Wright (whose brand of Christianity is only Marxism under a transparent layer of lies).
That's our Obama, and that's what he proudly proclaimed: Not Oh Say Can You See/ By the Dawn's Early Light, but Dreams from My (Kenyan Socialist) Father.

This is not a secret. Obama is foreign to America in a way that has little to do with his birth certificate. He could be American-born and still think in this very anti-American way. A lot of people are. But whatever he is legally, there is not a shred of doubt that he is steeped in an Anti-American way of thinking.

This is what I suspect the birther movement is about. Yes, the legalities are suspect. No, it will never make any practical difference. But most important, the birthers are aware of a deep intuition about Barry Soetoro Barack Hussein Obama: That he is profoundly out of tune with the meaning of America since the Founding. He is out of harmony with this country and this culture, like the dissonant scream of a power-saw biting into steel or concrete. He just grates on the American sensibility.

Obama is a Ruling Class Aristocrat -- by intuition, beliefs, and personal egomania. He was born to rule. It's partly that he has always gone to all the elite schools, from Hawaii to Harvard, just like Michelle. But he was put into those schools by the efforts of the left, which is a Socialist Ruling Class movement. The left in its own vision is always Ruling Class To Be that is being kept unjustly from taking over the world. That's why they hate real democracy, why they sneer at Coke and fries, and why capitalism is so bad: Because it constant caters to "vulgar" tastes.
(The fact that the left always claims to help the lowest of the low is just a political tactic. By digging up the most resentful victims -- by race, class or gender -- you bring out the most explosive revolutionary dynamite; it's the people who are the most envious and resentful, who want nothing more than to flip the world upside-down and watch destruction rain down. That's why the Left constantly appeals to the "idealism" of teenagers, the natural rebels. They all want to rock the world. And if it's not teens, it's illegal immigrants, sexual deviants, the homeless, drug addicts, criminals, the racially oppressed, those who hate themselves, the prostitutes, and the mentally ill. Karl Marx called them the Lumpen-Proletariat, the Eternal Underclass who want to smash whatever is. As the Nazi slogan said it, "Alles Muss Anders Sein" -- "Everything Must Be Different."

The left is about the overthrow of whatever is, whether good or bad. The Eternal Underclass is the cannon fodder of any revolution. They are the lowlifes who can be trusted to burn down the Reichstag, to smash the stores of the Jews -- or in Indonesia, of the Chinese -- and to hang the rich from the nearest lamp post. When blue collar workers started to make money the Left didn't rejoice in their new well-being and happiness. Rather, the left just looked for another Underclass: Those who felt oppressed by race, gender, sexual habits, whatever. For the left, any Underclass only exists to be manipulated by the Natural Ruling Class, the Aristocratic Vanguard, the Obamas of this world. That's the only political strategy of the left. That is why they constantly lie and still believe in their own moral superiority.)

So is Obama American-born? I don't know. I bet he never comes up with that vault copy birth certificate for us to examine. But it's never going to matter a hill of beans, because no judge wants to be accused of overthrowing a sitting President of the United States.
But is Obama in tune with the soul of this country as Americans have understood it since 1776?
I think we all know the answer to that.

That is what our political battles will be about, for years and years to come. Don't expect it to be solved soon. It's been going on for a century. It didn't end with American victory in the Cold War. It is most of all a battle for minds and hearts, not for territory -- although territory matters. Conservatives helped win the Cold War, but did not win the battle for the schools and universities. That is why Barry Soetoro Barack Hussein Obama is now President.
Gear yourself up, and don't stop fighting the battle for hearts and minds. It's all-important.

Time to De-Centralize American Power: Repeal the 16th & 17th Amendments

Amendment 16

Income taxes
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

February 3, 1913.

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Amendment 17

Senatorial elections
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature.
When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.

April 8, 1913.

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JB Williams
Time to De-Centralize American Power
July 7, 2009

Drastic situations demand drastic measures. Democratic Socialists running Washington DC have the American people on their heels as they launch a continuous barrage of attacks on all fundamental American principles, values and rights. Their strategy of attacking on every front all at once makes it impossible for the average American to keep up, much less defend against the daily attacks on an issue by issue basis.

Democratic Socialists are working at a fever pace to dismantle the United States of America before the people can mount a viable defense, and they are taking no prisoners. They are well organized and well funded and American patriots will not stop them one bill at a time.

In the year of our 233rd birthday, the United States of America has officially reached the moment in history when the centralized power vested in 546 career politicians no longer serves the best interests of more than 300 million legal American citizens.

The federal government no longer exists at the pleasure of the states and their people, but rather as a dysfunctional global dictatorship, an oligarchy of 546 career political thugs ruling with an iron fist over 300 million dissenting subjects.

Whether discussing the House, the Senate, the Oval Office or the Supreme Court, the story is the same. Combined, they make up 546 national leaders who fit in to one of two equally unacceptable categories. Either leftists who don’t care at all about the people or their Constitution, or spineless faux conservatives who don’t care enough to stop the leftists.

The Founding Fathers knew that this day would come and they prepared accordingly.

“...whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, [life, liberty and the individual freedom to define and pursue happiness] it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government” – Declaration of Independence

546 politicians are ignoring the fact that the American people and the states do not exist or serve at the pleasure of the Fed.

Unlike any other nation on earth, our unalienable rights are not arbitrarily distributed or redistributed by some centralized cast of elitist Ivy League lawyers interested only in feathering their own nests at the expense of the people. Our rights are endowed by our Creator and they are unalienable by men, including all false messiahs.

In America, every man is free to govern his own life. Only God is trusted with dominion over the affairs of others. The Founders never entrusted freedom to 546 self-absorbed career panderers. They entrusted freedom to the people and as a result, the power as well.

But over 232 years, specifically the last 100 years or so, the people have neglected their duty to keep a tight reign on politicians driven only by greed and an unquenchable lust for power. As a result, Americans are waking up in a country they barely recognize today and they don’t like what they see.

Destructive of These Ends
“Destructive of these ends” is a gross understatement today!

As Americans awaken from their deep slumber, they find that the federal government has become so destructive of these ends that life has been replaced with a right to kill -- individual liberty replaced by a false promise of some greater communal good, -- and happiness is defined by 546 career politicians rather than 300 million citizens.

Americans have not only lost their unalienable right to life, liberty and happiness, they don’t even have a right to a constitutional president anymore and not one member of the House, Senate or Supreme Court gives a damn.

Ideally, the time to have saved our free-market economy would have been before 546 politicians bankrupted it. The time to have saved the private banking and auto industries would have been before the Fed bankrupted them and confiscated control. The time to have defended freedom would have been before we traded it in for a false promise of free-stuff. The time to worry about constitutional qualifications for president was before Obama became an unconstitutional president. And at this late date, the time to protect our Second Amendment rights is before they register and confiscate our guns.

The time for serious action has arrived.

The People Must Alter or Abolish
Too much is too far gone now. It took politicians seventy years to put the most prosperous nation on earth a trillion dollars in debt. It took our nations least productive citizens less than four months to increase that to more the ten trillion in debt. At that rate, six months is more than we can afford of this illegitimate regime.

Before we have no choice but to abolish it all and start over again from a state of complete anarchy, the people must take the necessary steps to alter that which has gone wrong and right this ship before 546 career criminals finish sinking it and we don’t have a moment to waste...

The People Are the Answer
Washington DC must be stripped of the power it uses to abuse the states and the people. The federal government was contracted to function at the pleasure and benefit of the people and their states. They have breached that contract and broken that trust. They now expect the people and the states to exist and function at the pleasure and benefit of the Fed.

Don’t waste another phone call or email on one of the 546 elitists in DC - all of whom are part of the problem. The people are the ONLY solution and they don’t need the approval of career political criminals to retake control of their country.

They only need their silver bullet and the will to use it!

Over 60% of the federal budget is now nothing more than unconstitutional waste. It will end the minute the people take back control of the money used to fund it.

The 16th Amendment is the silver bullet, but do we have the will to use it?

The Single Shot Solution
Complex problems require a simple solution! Complex solutions are never successfully implemented. The clock usually runs out before you can get everyone on the same page.

I refer to the single shot solution as the Donald Trump solution. Trump is a well known successful American business man. His true claim to fame is the fact that he has perfected the art of selective bankruptcy.

Non-productive entities are saddled with unwanted debt and liability, while productive assets are shifted to “keeper” entities worth saving. Then the debt and liability loaded entity is bankrupted, leaving Trump’s personal wealth intact. It’s brilliant! Our Fed is doing it with Chrysler and GM as we speak.

The same plan must be implemented to save our country. In order to save our union, we will have to dump some liabilities and some non-producing assets.

It’s now clear even to many Obama supporters, that the leftist Fed is going to bankrupt every American unless the people bankrupt the Fed first. The tide is shifting... As of this morning, only 33% of Americans polled still “strongly approve” of Obama’s leftist leap. 35%, a small majority now “strongly disapprove.” (see trends)

The people have no choice but to bankrupt the Fed before the Fed finishes bankrupting every American with a laundry list of unfunded leftist spending bills.

De-Centralize the Power
97% of the federal budget is funded by unconstitutional income taxes made possible by the 16th Amendment of 1913. Repealing the 16th Amendment means instantly removing 97% of federal funding and eliminating the Feds means of directly confiscating personal earnings and assets to fund their Marxist agenda.

Prior to the passage of the 16th in 1913, the Fed operated at the pleasure of the states. The states collected and donated funds to the Fed for initiatives approved and assigned by the states. After passage of the 16th, the Fed no longer needed to serve the states or the people in order to receive funding. With or without the people’s approval, the Fed was free to confiscate whatever it wanted from the states and the people.

That hasn’t worked out in the best interest of the people or the states.

To reverse it all, we simply reverse the 16th which made it all possible. Without 97% of its funding and no means to confiscate any more private wealth, the Fed is instantly out of business.

The Power is Returned to the States and the People
Less than 10 states are in so much fiscal trouble that they cannot survive without federal funding. All of them are bastions of leftist leadership, rotten with leftist policies that have bankrupted their local and state governments, leaving them dependents of the Fed, or more accurately, the other 40 states.

The other 40 states will be far better off without heavy handed federal intrusions. Saving the 40 states is as easy as letting the Fed and the other 10 states that have already bankrupted themselves with leftist policies. Belly up! It’s the Trump Solution.

As the Constitution will be reinstated by this move, the states will once again hold the power and the Fed will once again be forced to operate at the pleasure and benefit of the individual states. They have no money, no power, to do otherwise.

The REAL Power of the People
The real power of the people is not in their vote or even the money they send politicians at election time. It’s in their ability to use their local state legislators to force the Fed back into compliance with the contract between the states and the central power in Washington DC, the Constitution. Read Obama Re-Unites the States!

The Founders opposed unbridled centralized power, and now modern Americans can see why with their own eyes. So, it’s time to de-centralize American power. To remove all power from the runaway federal ape and place it back into the hands of the people at the state level.

He who controls the money controls the power. The Fed’s ability to tyrannize the people and the states is only possible under the 16th Amendment, which gives the Fed the power to confiscate private wealth at will. Without that amendment, without unfettered access to the earnings of others, the Fed is powerless and the people are back in charge.

Do We the People have the Will?
Sooner or later, the people will muster the backbone to do what our nation’s Founders would have already done. The open question is - must every American be bankrupted by the Fed before they will get in the mood to let the Fed belly up?

The people have known for some time that defunding the Fed would force the Fed into constitutional compliance, or put them out business. But fearful of their government and its IRS, they dare not defund it directly and risk tax debtor’s prison. It’s no secret that the IRS has more statutory tyrannical power than the FBI, CIA, ATF and DOD combined. That’s because without robbing the people of their money, none of it can exist.

But working behind their state legislators, who have also grown sick and tired of the federal abuses of power, there are no such risks for the people.

Read What Difference Can One TRUE Patriot Make?

The People Must Work through State Legislatures
The people only have to move their state legislatures into action. They don’t have to deal directly with the runaway Fed at all. Just cut them off like a child addicted to self-destructive behavior. Stop enabling... If the people move their state legislators to action, the states will take care of the Fed.

More than 40 states are already working on reclaiming state sovereignty and rights. The next logical step is to cut off Fed power at the state lines. The most complete and immediate means of cutting off Fed power is cutting off their funding by repealing the 16th Amendment, state by state if we have to.

Repealing the 17th Amendment would be the next natural order of business, re-establishing a Senate that represents States rights again. Passage of the 17th - also in 1913, ended state representation in Washington DC. To regain state representation, state legislatures must reclaim their representative house, the Senate.

The states could then revamp their tax codes to manage their states without federal intrusions and the people will be much better off with local governments solving local challenges.

At the moment, the Fed is operating as a dysfunctional dictatorship running roughshod over the states and the people with the “strong support” of only 33% of the population. How long did 546 career political fools think 300 million Americans were going to sit quietly on their hands and fund this nonsense?

Obama’s Fed is wasting trillions in taxpayer funds that they don’t have, to bailout (buy up) private industry, all to benefit their union buddies and international socialist friends. They are able to get away with it only so long as the American taxpayer is willing to bailout the Fed via punitive taxation.

No! - The time to de-centralize American power and eliminate DC dictatorship over the people has arrived. The people and the states are fed up and there isn’t time to defend this country one ill-conceived bill at a time, being rushed through congress before anyone can even read the bill.

The people don’t have to stand alone against this federal gorilla run wild in DC. They can stand together behind their state legislatures. It’s the constitutional thing to do! It’s the single shot solution to a runaway Fed.

And once the people have control of the government again, we can institute a new federal government that exists and serves at the pleasure of the people and the states once again.

It is the peaceful solution to an otherwise dangerous situation that will only grow more violent as the people are pushed against the wall. The time for serious peaceful action has arrived, before only violent solutions remain!

Contact your state legislatures today and begin to work towards saving this nation while we still can! It’s up to the people to make it happen at the state level. If you want your country back, you will have to take it back. The left will never give it back!

(Reprinted by permission from the Author) http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/williams/2009/07072009.htm

10 Rules To Govern By

1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong
3. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
4. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
5. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
6. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
7. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
8. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
9. You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
10 You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they will not do for themselves.

-From 'Lincoln on Limitations' by William Boetcker, Presbyterian Minister, 1942

See our sidebar on the right, down below, for more on this theme.

What you sow in the Spring, you reap in the Fall.

Tonight I saw a grown liberal ‘man’ crying. It was California socialist-democrat congressman, Sam Farr. He was literally crying about the lifting of the gun ban in our National Parks and Forests. Another California loon, Barbara Boxer, cried in her beer, lamenting, “It is a shame!”

How did this happen? Thanks to the ingenious tactics of Senators Coburn, Crappo, other blue dog democrats and the NRA. The authors larded the National Park rider into the Credit Card Reform bill.

(The National Park carry provision won't become effective until **9 months** after the President signs the Credit Card bill. That means it will be effective sometime in February of 2010.

Hopefully the judicial order blocking the current National Park regulation that allows carry in National Parks will be overturned soon. That way we can start carrying in National Parks sooner than February. There is a good possibility that such a thing will happen.)

In 1994 the NRA went to political war against members of congress who voted for the then so called ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban. Democrats passed the ban into law in the Spring. By late Fall democrats lost 54 seats in the house as a direct result. Democrats are a lot of things, but they are not stupid.

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The liberal, socialist, elite are looking forward to even more loss of innocent life.

In addition to being the party of the slaughter of the unborn and sometimes the recently born, democrats are drooling for another reason, another hope for the additional loss of innocent life.

This time the other reason has to do with gun control. They have legislation, locked, loaded and ready to be shot from their butts, all designed to reinstate the AWB, or to even rescind (de facto) the Second Amendment. Dianne Feinstein said, she is just waiting for 'the right time' to bring forth her bills.

The fact is, when she says, 'the right time', means she is waiting for another mass killing by some lunatic with a firearm. She is hoping it happens and soon. Because if and when her 'right time' does happen, she and the other liberal elite will use the emotions of the moment to influence the weak-minded into agreeing to a bad law gun ban. In addition. you know the Pocket Press has the anti-gun articles ready to go, too.

We have to be ready to meet this challenge head-on.

But for now, the irony is great and gives one pause to smile. B-Ho wants the Credit Card Reform bill, but along with it he has to also sign into law the end of the gun ban in the National Parks. He will hold his nose at that time. It also means he will have a harder time with future gun bans. He has to realize that his credibility for further gun restrictions goes out the window.

Poor B-HO.

What other ways can we can circumvent their unholy, un-American, Communist agenda?

Harden Your Bunker

The extreme shortsightedness of the Oh-bummer voters has put us on an exactly wrong path. Private Free Enterprise and Freedom are what is needed to turn our country away from this precipice. But the dumbed-down population in their stupidity and their what-can-I-get-from-big-government values are marching lockstep, blindly right into it.

As just one person, what can you do?

Start by joining like minded folks and organizations. Write your Representatives and raise a stink about what is wrong. Now is the time, before it is too late. Vote out those who don't represent your values. Examine their voting records. There are links on this Blog that will point you to the information. Your opportunity to vote for right thinking candidates, is coming. Be sure to register to vote and vote.

Also, think about what you need to do to protect yourself and your family from the looming economic and political disaster. Be ready to bring your main skills to bear in non-traditional ways. Be prepared to make use of all your alternate skill sets as well. Stock up on essentials. Store things you can trade. Be ready to barter. Pay off all debt. Harden your bunker. As much as possible, be ready for the fall .

I guess you have already figured, I have NO confidence in our elected officials. I have MINUS ZERO confidence in the current democrat regime. They are only out to consolidate their power and increase their coffers. And as they lead the country down the wrong path, they keep telling the ignorant about hope and change.

The Republicans are not much better. During the Nixon administration we left the Gold Standard. I have always lamented this fundamental change in the strength of our currency. Gold was a bedrock foundation. It's worth is intrinsic! There is no question of it's value, much like our Constitution, declaring our God-given , inalienable rights. The value of each is beyond mere government sanction or government backing.

We must not let them destroy what so many have fought for, and have died to defend.

During the trouble ahead, keep your principles high and your faith close.

Be prepared.

DHS: Conservatives Are Now The Enemy

Did you see Diane Feinstein on 60 minutes’ Sunday night ? She is itching for a gun ban. She is ‘ready to do it as soon as the time is right’. Americans knew this was coming, why else the lines at the Gun Shows. The rapid fire power grab by the Federal Government in all areas once protected by Constitutional law has thinking Americans happily clinging to their guns and their religion. Why do leftists think we would not react now? For an insight on how the left perceives Conservatism read BHO's Dept.of Homeland Security Report on Right-Wing Extremism.

In their opinion: If you have been storing food and/or weapons, you are an extremist! If you have religion in your life, you are an extremist! Their new tactic is to attack Conservatives and conservative protest, like the Tea Party phenomenon, calling it ‘extremism.’

The tremendous volume of gun and ammo purchases are not being done by extremists, as stated in this report, but by everyday Americans who are afraid of what they see happening to their country. Just check your local Sporting Goods store or a Wal-Mart. The demand for guns and ammo is tremendous. Been to a Gun Show lately? The lines to get in go around the building. Are these Americans extremist? Or are they a People afraid of a runaway federal government that is hell-bent on removing constitutional restraints and guarantees? A government determined on nationalizing the private sector, turning us into a socialist third world nation. We are not the extremists! The extremists are the ones running the federal bureaucracy including BHO and the other socialist-leftist elite.

If you follow what is stated in their report; Is it extremism to be against an even larger government with even greater control? Is it extremism to fight against losing second amendment rights, to fight against the loss of American sovereignty, to fight for freedom of religious expression, to fight for the restoration of the Constitution and the for the achievement of the underlying founding principles of the Declaration of Independence? Is it extremism to fight for the right to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness? Are Conservatives now the enemy?

Conservatism espouses the ideals the Founding Fathers wanted for this nation, because they were moral, religious, God-fearing men. If that is what it means to be extreme, and I don't think the leftists should be calling the shots on this, if that is what it means, then I will accept their term, but knowing full well, that I am a Patriot who wants freedom and liberty to remain and remain strong, and ingrained in our national soul.

Tea Party Turning Tide?

The blogs are all buzzing with the news of the upcoming Tax Day Tea Party show of resistance.  Patriots from across this nation are seeing this as perhaps their first opportunity to make this new Marxist/socialist administration see that we will NOT be intimidated.  This is still the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and we are free citizens of a sovereign republic.  But, what next?

This is only the beginning of what will be a long and protracted conflict of ideologies.  It is up to all of us as Patriots to not sit silently by.  We MUST make opportunities to be heard, and take each and every opportunity to speak out.  Your voice is the voice of FREEDOM and if you don't use it you will certainly lose it!

I had an opportunity yesterday in the local post office.  I was standing in line with my four year old grandson, who knows exactly how I feel about our teleprompter-in-chief.  The postal clerk at the counter asked the customer what type stamps she wanted, and the "useful idiot" answered that she wanted Obama stamps.  My grandson picked up on that hideous conversation and said "Paw-Paw, she said Obama."  I said "yes she did," at which time he shouted, as an excited four year old is apt to do "YOU DON'T LIKE OBAMA!"  I had a choice to make as everyone in the line immediately turned and looked at me, and I said, and proudly I might add, "Nope, I don't like anything about him."  Some in the crowd looked away, or looked at the ground, BUT several looked at me and smiled.  

When I exited the building one woman met me and asked my name.  I told her, and she thanked me for standing up for my convictions.  This gives me some hope.  There are more of us than we might think.  We have simply been the silent majority far too long.  It is time we STOP worrying about who we might offend, or the sensitivities of the evil and/or idiots that support this new regime.  Speak out!  It is your right!  It is your obligation!

Join in on a Tea Party near you.  I believe you will be amazed at what you witness.  You will also be amazed at how the MSM will ignore what you see UNLESS the numbers are so great it can't ignore them.  That part is up to you and me.  BE THERE!!! 

Join The Tea Party

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt."
-Thomas Jefferson

Nationwide Tea Party Rally April 15th.

http://www.taxdayteaparty.com/

Choose your state on the website and make plans to attend.

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ISI: Antidote to Leftist Rot In Higher Education

We all know how leftist rot permiates and perpetuates itself at college campuses today. The left's thought-police are stifling a generation to explore critical, free, thinking. That is why I am mentioning how blessed and lucky we are to have the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a conservative organization for college students and academics.

To quote them:

"The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) is a non-profit, non-partisan, tax-exempt educational organization whose purpose is to further in successive generations of college youth a better understanding of the values and institutions that sustain a free and humane society.

Founded in 1953, ISI works "to educate for liberty" — to identify the best and the brightest college students and to nurture in these future leaders the American ideal of ordered liberty. To accomplish this goal, ISI seeks to enhance the rising generation's knowledge of our nation's founding principles — limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, the rule of law, market economy, and moral norms.

A National Campus Presence Through its integrated program of lectures, conferences, publications, and fellowships, the Institute annually works with hundreds of thousands of students and faculty from coast to coast. An array of free publications and other resources is available to students and teachers."

This ideal is so rare. It needs to be fostered and nurtured. Visit ISI: http://www.isi.org/ .

Explaining Limbaugh to a Liberal Rush Hating Obamaniac!

Today I got another one of those emails we get from an Obama "kool-aid" drinking liberal. She forwarded an excerpt from some lefty-blogger that was ridiculing Rush and his speech at CPAC last week. I'm not going to include that typical Rush bashing blog, but I spent time trying to explain to my liberal friend why Rush has the influence he does in the Conservative world.

"Dear Liberal Linda,

Obviously you miss the major points of the attraction 20,000,000+ people have to Limbaugh.

1. There is a fundamental difference in the view of Limbaugh between his supporters and detractors. Limbaugh does NOT tell his supporters WHAT to believe, rather he VERBALIZES what they already believe. That scares those who support big government and are looking for someone to lead them.
2. The author of this particular article obviously does NOT listen to Limbaugh. If he did, he would realize that racism is NOT part of the Limbaugh shtick. It is funny/frightening to many that ANY sort of criticism of your exalted BHO is labeled RACISM. To call a Marxist Socialist a Marxist Socialist does not refer to his RACE.
3. The man (Rush) is overweight, deaf (he has a cochlear implant), certainly not a slave to fashion, he has been fired from multiple jobs and started with next to nothing to build his own radio network probably worth a billion or so dollars.
4. He is called sexist racist bigoted homophobe since he identifies the activists groups of the democrat/liberal party and makes fun of them, in very much the same way that conservative religious patriotic common Americans are referred to as all being redneck toothless beer-bellied inbreds by the media elites who are at the center of pop-culture.
5. He has become the “de-facto” leader of the CONSERVATIVE movement – he refuses to be called a Republican since they have let down the conservatives by not standing up to the BHO loving socialists.
6. Say what you will about Limbaugh, but until you spend some time listening to him yourself you will not be able to understand his appeal to some 20,000,000+ VERY loyal listeners.
7. FYI - Bobby Jindal is someone that Limbaugh praises regularly as being a REAL conservative. Jindal may not give a good speech, but he appears to be governing the correct way in Louisiana, and Limbaugh holds him up as a example.
8. On the Steele issue, you might want to get the scoop from something other than the lefty blogs, MSNBC, and the other propagandists. You are buying into the left-handed spin. Limbaugh has praised Steele over and over. The BHO White House is simply using the Steele issue, and some others to attempt to divide the conservatives from the Republicans; they are NOT one in the same. The Republicans, or at least the ones your buddy refers to as the “smart republicans” HATE Limbaugh, because he calls them out for NOT being conservatives.
9. On the issue of capitalism being a failure, nothing can be further from the truth. Deregulation of the banking system is a red-herring argument from your buddies on the left. Government oversight would be welcomed by the free-market lovers, but government INTERVENTION is feared and despised since it always squelches the operation of the markets. When the government orders banks to give loans to people they KNOW would not normally be eligible they are concocting a recipe for disaster. This typifies the type of intervention that kicked off the economic "free fall" we are now in. Socialist want to blame it all on greed. Well, they have a valid point, but achievement is not always greed, and punishing success and achievement as evil greed will destroy economic prosperity. Our system of justice will allow some guilty to go free to keep from sending an innocent person to prison. “Innocent until proven guilty” is the operative phrase of our justice system. Perhaps we should use “successful until proven greedy” might be an operative phrase for our economic system. These CEO’s would not get the big bucks unless someone was willing to pay them. Sports figures get paid big bucks because someone is willing to pay them. What is the difference? The government should PUNISH the criminals and leave the rest of us alone. They need to start with the criminals inside the beltway, such as Barnie Frank, Chris Dodd and of course BHO the magnificent, and his cronies.
10. I think what puzzles me more than anything else is the venom which your buddy spills into his article for Limbaugh AND his listeners. He does NOT understand that Limbaugh does NOT tell those 20,000,000+ what to think. Limbaugh in a very significant way, regardless of his appearance, is using his voice to speak the thoughts of that 20,000,000+ Americans, which is certainly NOT an insignificant number. Your buddy doesn’t get that the release he feels by insulting Limbaugh is also taken personally by Limbaugh’s listeners.
11. The craziest of all is that if he hates Limbaugh so very much all he has to do is change the channel. He can always find NPR."

I do hope that this may give you some help defending El Rushbo against any of the liberal friends you may have left. Most of mine are EX-friends, because I am finished being attentive to their sensitivities.

PG

An FEC Observation

Thanks to my brother, I discovered http://fec.gov/, the Federal Election Commission’s web site. In there you can find, by name, those who contributed to candidates running for President in the 2008 election cycle.

I searched by my home zip code. I was wondering how much my neighbors up the street, with the Obama yard sign, contributed.

In the web site listings, there is a field for ‘Employer/Occupation’. You can sort the data by fields, as well.

One thing I found interesting. All of those who put down that they were ‘Unemployed’, with-out exception contributed to Barack Obama, or to Hillary Clinton. It seems the quality of these candidate's followers speaks volumes.

For those unemployed, I had to think about exactly where those contributing funds came from in the first place. I am aggravated that at least some of my tax money was spent this way, lining Obama’s and Clinton’s campaign coffers. That much is just too much.

It is also noteworthy, that not one unemployed person, at least in my zip code, voted for McCain.

Just an observation.

How He Did it . . .

by Paul Shlichta

READER WARNING: If you are presently taking medication for blood pressure, or if you have a tendancy to stress related migrane headaches you will want to make certain you are sitting quietly and are fully medicated before reading the article linked . . .

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/how_he_did_it_a_diagrammatic_a.html

"Something of Historic Proportion is Happening"

by Pam Geller

I am a student of history. Professionally. I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied it all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes, these exist but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus. Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it becauseI know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it.

Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about 10 - 15 years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two. We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people whom we know can never pay back? Why? We learn just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000)over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclosethe terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the$700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailableto us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a governmentof "We the People," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.

We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why? We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically,read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing,and school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why? We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?). We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?

Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, Social Security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about.) The list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x 10. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so. And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska . All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosenfields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than ourmilitary for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would neverplay that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more important.)

Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why? I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now. This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.And that is only the beginning. I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he wasa great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers,were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully them into submission. And then he was duly elected to office, with a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression].

Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by person, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name ,where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once a gain in the country, across Europe, and across the world. He did it with a compliant media - Did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and .. . . CHANGE. And the people surely got what they voted for. (Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.) Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. Don't forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And in less than six years - a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency - it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road toHell is paved with them. As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong, close my eyes, have another latte and ignore what is transpiring around me. Some people scoff at me; others laugh or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe - and why I believe it. I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am.

About the author via Google...Pamela "Atlas" Geller began her publishing career at The New York Daily News and subsequently took over operation of The New York Observer as Associate Publisher. She left The Observer after the birth of her fourth child but remained involved in various projects including American Associates, Ben Gurion University and being Senior Vice-President Strategic Planning and Performance Evaluation at The Brandeis School. After 9/11, Atlas had the veil of oblivion violently lifted from her consciousness and immersed herself in the education and understanding of geopolitics, Islam, terror, foreign affairs and imminent threat s the mainstream media and the government wouldn't cover or discuss. Her website, AtlasShrugged.com, winner of the "Best New Blog" 2005 Jewish and Israeli Blog Award and finalist in the 2005 Weblog Awards, is a counterterrorism site fighting the great fight, changing the world one word at atime. Leading authorities are regularly interviewed. She routinely confers with leading scholars on the Middle East, Islam, Eurabia, China and Russia. The objective of her website is to cover related but little reported events of great import. She provides an unblinking, glaring examination of global affairs and is a member of Pajamas Media.

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb." - Benjamin Franklin

The Rattlesnake as a Symbol . . .

The following letter was published in the Pennsylvania Journal on December 27, 1775. It was signed by "An American Guesser," recently identified as Benjamin Franklin. Written after the Revolution began but before the Declaration of Independence was signed, it offers a unique glimpse into Franklin's observant mind.

The Rattlesnake as a Symbol of America
I observed on one of the drums belonging to the marines now raising, there was painted a Rattle-Snake, with this modest motto under it, "Don't tread on me." As I know it is the custom to have some device on the arms of every country, I supposed this may have been intended for the arms of America; and as I have nothing to do with public affairs, and as my time is perfectly my own, in order to divert an idle hour, I sat down to guess what could have been intended by this uncommon device — I took care, however, to consult on this occasion a person who is acquainted with heraldry, from whom I learned, that it is a rule among the learned of that science "That the worthy properties of the animal, in the crest-born, shall be considered," and, "That the base ones cannot have been intended;" he likewise informed me that the ancients considered the serpent as an emblem of wisdom, and in a certain attitude of endless duration — both which circumstances I suppose may have been had in view. Having gained this intelligence, and recollecting that countries are sometimes represented by animals peculiar to them, it occurred to me that the Rattle-Snake is found in no other quarter of the world besides America, and may therefore have been chosen, on that account, to represent her.
But then "the worldly properties" of a Snake I judged would be hard to point out. This rather raised than suppressed my curiosity, and having frequently seen the Rattle-Snake, I ran over in my mind every property by which she was distinguished, not only from other animals, but from those of the same genus or class of animals, endeavoring to fix some meaning to each, not wholly inconsistent with common sense.
I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids. She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage. As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shown and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal. Conscious of this, she never wounds 'till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of treading on her.
Was I wrong, Sir, in thinking this a strong picture of the temper and conduct of America? The poison of her teeth is the necessary means of digesting her food, and at the same time is certain destruction to her enemies. This may be understood to intimate that those things which are destructive to our enemies, may be to us not only harmless, but absolutely necessary to our existence. I confess I was wholly at a loss what to make of the rattles, 'till I went back and counted them and found them just thirteen, exactly the number of the Colonies united in America; and I recollected too that this was the only part of the Snake which increased in numbers. Perhaps it might be only fancy, but, I conceited the painter had shown a half formed additional rattle, which, I suppose, may have been intended to represent the province of Canada.
'Tis curious and amazing to observe how distinct and independent of each other the rattles of this animal are, and yet how firmly they are united together, so as never to be separated but by breaking them to pieces. One of those rattles singly, is incapable of producing sound, but the ringing of thirteen together, is sufficient to alarm the boldest man living.
The Rattle-Snake is solitary, and associates with her kind only when it is necessary for their preservation. In winter, the warmth of a number together will preserve their lives, while singly, they would probably perish. The power of fascination attributed to her, by a generous construction, may be understood to mean, that those who consider the liberty and blessings which America affords, and once come over to her, never afterwards leave her, but spend their lives with her. She strongly resembles America in this, that she is beautiful in youth and her beauty increaseth with her age, "her tongue also is blue and forked as the lightning, and her abode is among impenetrable rocks."

An American Guesser

I copied this post from the Franklin Institute website: http://sln.fi.edu/qa99/musing3/index.html

I belive that symbols are powerful tools, and I hope you will take the time to ponder their meanings. Our founders were brilliant and Divinely inspired men . . .

ATTACK! (Part 2)

At this point I ask you to take a moment to review 'Part 1' and consider that our freedom and the freedom of our posterity is dependant on our ability to stand up to the tyranny that is now emerging all around us. We MUST stand as opposition . . . there is NO ONE else. As individuals we are most often ineffective and our voices and actions are ridiculed, most often ignored, and soon to be silenced if those presently in power prevail. However, as the founders of this and other free nations understood, 'UNITED WE STAND.' If we can become individually less dependant on others we miraculously become a strength to all. This is a primary objective in this fight to recapture our freedom.

(Items 1,2 & 3 discussed in ATTACK! (Part 1))

4. The next objective for the new, and ever increasingly socialist, regime is to work every conceivable path to even MORE socialism. Freedom loving Americans MUST be resolved that the majority of Americans have CHOSEN to invert the relationship with government defined by our founders. This last election did NOT choose servants of the people . . . it chose new MASTERS. However, even though schemes are at work to take away our representative republic, to date we still have the ballot, and at least the right to attempt to speak with our elected representatives.

Socialists want to be viewed as the saviors of the people, you must let them know you don't need them to save you. You just need them to represent you.

Speak to them we MUST. Make every opportunity to communicate with your elected representatives at ALL levels of government. Face to face is the very best way. Without breaking any laws and turning into stalkers research their schedules by contacting the offices and asking the questions. Show up at the events, and make your voice heard. Signs, posters, t-shirts will all get their attention. Stand along the ropes and confront them with the questions.
They may ignore you, but no matter how they react you will get the attention of others in the crowd which may at least start a discussion, or perhaps even more. Be as respectful as the situation will allow. Do not create a scene where you will be viewed as a kook. It usually helps to have a group with you. Remember that there is always safety and power in numbers. Look for opportunities to create a debate, not a riot. These tactics seem to have worked for years by the Saul Alinsky, Castro, Mao, Hugo Chavez and BHO supporters, so let's use it against them although they always worked to create the riots and violent confrontations. Let's hope it doesn't come to that, but be prepared for it all the same.

Understand that each form a communication has weight. Phone calls, emails, postal letters and cards each represent a different number of constituents. Communications spurred by talk radio, or cable news outlets still merit consideration, but the steady and regular contact will be discounted less. Steady grassroots efforts are powerful in the eyes of elected officials. If they gain a sense of these efforts gaining momentum they will speak to you directly. You must make noise to get their attention, and you must show political power to get their interest.

Take the Offensive . . . ATTACK! (Part 1)

Most Americans, even the minimally observant, realize that things are transforming at an ever increasingly frightful pace. Even the blissfully ignorant who chose this new type of 'hope and change' are coming to understand that the promises and edicts of our newly elected want-to-be god-king BHO, his high priests and courtiers, are NOT going to be delivered to the true believers as expected. I am not a conspiracy theorist, but I do sincerely believe the plans of some very secret, and some not so secret combinations are beginning to come into full effect. The schemes designed in the marbled halls of world capitals, the dirt floors of caves and hovels of the Middle East and surely elsewhere have similar goals. Sadly, our collection of cheats, creeps, criminals, egomaniacs and perverts, elected and appointed, seem to be in sync with many of our avowed enemies. Although their intent may not have the sinister undertones of recognized terrorists and thugs, their ideological self-absorbed Utopian fantasy world view puts our nation, society and citizens in the same jeopardy. BUT, their goals; now much closer, have NOT yet been reached, and 'We the People,' as helpless as we may feel, must pull together and resurrect the fight started by the founders.

Fellow citizens you are not helpless or alone. Do not buy into the FEAR that the BHO gang is trying to instill. This sort of crisis is not new, although this post cold war generation has not faced it, nor anything akin to it. History chronicles the rise of the totalitarian regimes of the first half of the last century. Americans of the WWII generation and before faced it and defeated it on foreign shores. It took it another fifty years to wither and almost die. The difference today is that unfortunately we see it rejuvenating and taking hold all around us here in the 'land of the free, and home of the brave.' That greatest generation paid the price to give us our freedom, and now we must pay the price to pass it on to our children and grandchildren.

Let's begin to explore some of the options that free people have to combat the tyranny that is mustering forces against us. This is only the beginning of the conversation, and the ideas and experiences of others are certainly welcome. To format this discussion we will first examine the tactics being used against us. These are certainly not hidden tactics and any student of history, warfare, propaganda, philosophy and/or psychology will see these same tools used repeatedly to manipulate individuals, and thereby the masses. After identifying the tactics being used against us we will discuss our counter-actions. Keep in mind that we MUST NOT remain in a defensive posture, rather we must immediately go into the attack mode. No enemy has been or ever will be vanquished totally by a defender.

1. The first tactic being used against us is perhaps the oldest and most effective. You are being beaten down mentally and emotionall by being ISOLATED from others causing a feeling of hopelessness and helplessness. Not feeling part of a group will certainly erode any feeling of security and remove the will to resist. I have spoken to many who are feeling this way about the present situation, and simply do not know how to change it.

To counter this 'divide and conquer' tactic is quite simple, and although it may take some effort on the part of the individual, finding a group of like minded supporters is simply not that difficult to do. Talk to people, join in with groups, face to face, not all on the Internet. Participation in churches, civic, and fraternal groups will help immensely. Find your band of brothers and sisters wherever possible. Get active with these groups, and if you can't find one close by then work on starting one yourself. Also, and perhaps most importantly find your local political party organizations and take a leadership role. Patriotism is not something to keep hidden. Follow the examples of those that risked their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. They did not stay hidden. They found one another, stayed loyal to one another, and built this magnificent nation. Why should we think we have any less a responsibility in responding to our challenges today? We are fighting an even more insidious tyranny, but we must not shrink from our duty. Our shrinking will dishonor those who have sacrificed all for our liberty!

2. This new regime is not hiding their intent to make each and every citizen dependent on the government to some extent. It has been recently reported that for the first time in our history a majority of Americans are receiving some sort of government subsidy or outright support. Our founding fathers knew that government was a necessary evil, but evil all the same. Our constitution made the government subservient to the people, but our present rulers, elected and unelected, now seem to have an inverted view of this. Once they enslave the people with perks and promises they can control them.

This is difficult for some to overcome. Many in our nation are second and third generation dependents on government, and for some reason many have developed a sense of entitlement to the stipend. Our task here is one of moral education. It must become apparent to every citizen that there is no 'free lunch.' Anything we receive from government had to come from the labor of another. If you find yourself to be addicted to the government dole, you must break your addiction. Now, this does not necessarily apply to those who have served our nation and are receiving pensions, or other compensation that was most certainly earned by their labor and sacrifice, but even with this there is a risk of being manipulated into supporting wrongheaded government initiatives. If we find ourselves in this situation we must make all attempts to become self sufficient. If we know people in this situation it becomes our responsibility to teach them the correct principle and help them to break free of the dependency. You might work within your established group to help individuals find solutions. It has taken a couple of generations for this nation to get into this situation, and if the proper attitude is going to ever be restored it will take a constant effort for years to come. We must not turn from teaching the correct principles by word and personal example.

3. The one weakness of the new BHO Reich that seems to be driving them crazy is the inability to COMPLETELY control the flow of information. HOWEVER, they are feverishly working on silencing ALL opposition speech. The main stream media (MSM) is for all practical purposes simply the ministry of propaganda for the almighty BHO and his acolytes. Although, recently some are realizing they were duped and are looking to regain at least a smidgen of credibility.

Your solution to this is to keep talking. Observe, study and learn. There are great Internet sites, and ubiquitous records to be researched. Become familiar with the websites and publications from your elected representatives, but if your particular elected official will not provide the information go to another. To date we still have access to he raw data before the MSM propaganda machine filters it. You MUST become a source of knowledge, or find other sources you can trust. Once you have established a trusted source of information plug others into it. If you have not already had the experience you will soon find that your fellow patriots are out there. Many of them have not discovered what you know, and once you show them you will be amazed at their passion. Stir it up in yourself and then in others. Write letters to the editor of you local newspapers, and get to know local radio, TV, and newspaper reporters. The smaller the community the easier it is. Start working the local media since they are much more accessible than you may think. Call the local radio talk shows, but make certain you have accurate and timely points to discuss. Engage the opposition whenever possible in public with a well crafted and fully understood argument.

More to come . . .

The Power Grab Continues

So now the Obama administration wants to co-opt the U.S. Census Bureau. That’s right, BHO, Rahm, and friends want the U.S. Census under their control and oversight in an unprecedented power grab.

Why do you think they would want to do that now? Land grab for one. The anointed one and his minions know that in two years the political landscape could change against them and they want to make sure the fix is in now.

The Census has tremendous political importance determining how political parties create or redraw their districts and this has direct effect on the Electoral College. Also, the census determines where federal funds are disbursed.

The Obama regime is taking steps to assure that their power and their continued nationalization of the economy will remain unfettered by political opposition and the discourse of dissent. Taking control of the US census is another attack on freedom.

Contact your Senators, your Congressmen and tell them you do not want this policy to become reality. It is time to understand what is at stake and accept the nature of the threat before us.

By controlling the census mechanism, a leader could manipulate the makeup of congress and ensure one party rule. The current resident of the White House has proven by this single proposal that he is not a friend of the Constitution, or the values and God given freedoms it espouses.

1776/GW

And so it starts

From the In-Box:

Are you ready for the House Bill titled 'HR 45, Blair Holt Licensing and Record Act of 2009? It will make it illegal to own a firearm unless it is registered in the Washington, D.C., database. Gun owners will be finger printed, required to provide DL#, SS#, maintain a valid address at all times, submit mental and physical health records, submit any address changes and any ownership changes even if the sale is private. Updates will cost $25 each, and noncompliance will result in losing your right to own firearms. This bill and its language mirror almost completely one defeated last year in the House of Representatives proposed by White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Will we the people be as lucky this time? Take time to pass this on to everyone who believes in our Constitution, and remember that laws truly only apply to those who choose obey them. Criminals choose to ignore the law anyway. New laws and restrictions will not change this. Firearms regulations are not about simply increasing prosecutions of individuals, they are about removing guns from the people so that the people are unable to defend themselves. One last item to note, when assuming power and creating a fascist state, Hitler was a proponent of strong gun laws because a disarmed populace was much easier to control than an armed one. The kings of old also outlawed weapons of any kind in any region that they conquered to quell the ability of the citizens to up rise against them.

The Founding Fathers of this nation understood all of the above and because of this they included the second amendment in the constitution. In fact, they knew that at some point in every society's life span the need for the population to arise would come. To this end they recognized the right to keep and bear arms to use against a tyrannical state as absolute and not to be infringed upon. They did this because the first thing tyrants and despots do is to abolish the population's right to self defense. With this the tyrants have no problem with the destruction of the free society, and rebuilding of a new one they can control. Send this on to all true patriots! Protect your Second Amendment! Read the whole bill, you'll find it will effectively preclude the ownership of ANY firearms by law-abiding people unless licensed by the Attorney General. How long do you think THAT would take??

Read the whole bill:
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/show

Firearms Facts

1. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
3. Colt : The original point and click interface.
4. Gun control is not about guns, it's about control.
5. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords ?
6. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
7. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
8. If you don't know your rights, you don't have any.
9. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
10. The United States Constitution (c) 1791. All Rights Reserved.
11. What part of ' shall not be infringed ' do you not understand ?
12. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
13. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
14. Guns only have two enemies, rust and politicians.
15. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
16. You don't shoot to kill, you shoot to stay alive.
17. 911: Government sponsored Dial-a-Prayer.
18. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
19. Criminals love gun control, it makes their jobs safer.
20. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.
21. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
22. You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.
23. Enforce the gun control laws we ALREADY have, don't make more.
24. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.
25. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.