Just be ready, is all I am saying. And practice prayer – which is the most subversive of liberties; it can never be taken from you, and is a source of power and strength. Train yourself in prayer. Begin now, so that you are a fit, skilled practitioner when the need arises.
Businessman Doug Hoffman is running in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. He’s running on a Conservative Party ticket, because the East Coast, inside-the-beltway Republican Party leadership is supporting ultraliberal, Republican-In-Name-Only Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava.
I’m donating money to get Hoffman elected.
I am a citizen of, and live and vote in Colorado. Why do I care who gets elected to the New York State Assembly? Because I care what happens to this country. Since before the last election cycle I’ve identified myself more as a conservative than as a Republican Party member. The Republican Party is no longer the party of Ronald Reagan. I will still give money to Republican candidates that support traditional values, a free market (i.e., capitalist) economy, States Rights, but not a thin dime to the party that nominates weak little sisters like John McCain and Dede Scozzafava.
Go to Doug’s website, click the red Donate Now button, and give whatever you can afford.
Bookworm Room asks a question I’ve been wondering about for some time – is Barack Hussein Obama anti-American? For awhile I was content to believe that he was merely incompetent, but the longer I watch, the more concerned I become for the future of our once-great nation. His penchant for alienating allies and abetting our enemies is disturbing. BHO’s words may say one thing, but his actions speak volumes:
He wants to remove any last vestiges of the marketplace from individuals’ control over their own health care, and put the government entirely in charge.
He’s willing to give government control over American businesses (i.e., Bank takeover ands Government Motors).
His administration, while on record as opposing the Fairness Doctrine, is aggressively exploring a backdoor regulatory scheme that would have precisely the same practical effect as the Fairness Doctrine: it would impose government restrictions on content, rather than allowing the market (that means us, the consumers) to control content.
Although he’s mostly erased the record, his dream is to create a civilian national security force, subordinate to the administration, which would be larger than the American military. The military, please note, is controlled by the Constitution and has traditionally existed as a separate entity from any government.
He wants to take away the right to bear arms. He’ll pay lip service to supporting the Second Amendment, but his fundamental goal is to use government to remove arms from individuals. I’ve never held a gun in my life, but I know that the Founders understood that, for individuals, their single biggest defense against an overreaching government, is the right to arm themselves. Statists never allow their citizens to bear arms. Indeed, the first thing the Nazis did was ban guns in citizen’s hands.
He wants to redistribute wealth. Without money, people have no choices. The more money the government siphons to itself, the fewer choices we, as individuals have, which makes us increasingly subordinate to the government.
He has turned against the only democratic nation in the Middle East (that would be Israel), in favor of the bloodied tyrannical theocracies on her borders.
By reversing his pledge to keep a missile defense system in place in Poland and the Czech Republic, he has favored Iran’s Muslim tyranny over these democratic nations only so recently freed from Communism.
Figuratively and literally, he bows to dictators (Saudis, Venezuelans, Russians, Iranians, Cubans). They ask, he gives. In other words, contrary to America’s hundred year history of siding with the people against their tyrants, he sides with the tyrants against their people.
In Honduras, he sided with the delusional Zelaya against the people and the Constitution.
In Iran, when the people took to the streets, he sided with the megalomaniac theocracy, against the people.
In his much-heralded speech to the Muslim world, in addition to grounding Israel’s right to exist solely on a Holocaust the Muslim world denies, he repeatedly and noisily trumpeted the right of Muslim men to control Muslim women, a trope he reiterated in subsequent speeches. This goes beyond the idiocy of multiculturalism and actively supports the subordination of an eighth of the world’s population. (If 1/4 of the world is Muslim, and half of those Muslims are women….)
In his speeches, he assures the tyrannies of the world that America is abandoning her century old role of America’s policeman. They are freed from any constraint.
By joining the farce that is the U.N. Human Rights Council, he is lending America’s imprimatur to the most violently anti-Semitic, authoritarian, dictatorial, anti-American political body in the world.
One of two people suspected of shattering 11 windows Tuesday morning at the [Colorado] Democratic Party headquarters has an arrest record and a history of helping a Democratic political candidate, public records show.
Police said that about 2:20 a.m., 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler, now in custody, and an at-large accomplice took a hammer to the picture windows displaying posters touting President Barack Obama and his health care reform efforts. Early Tuesday, Democratic Party chairwoman Pat Waak said the damage to her building in Denver’s art district was a consequence of “an effort on the other side to stir up hate.” She tempered her statement after Schwenkler’s political history was revealed.
Schwenkler is charged with criminal mischief and is to make his first appearance in Denver County Court today. He is accused of doing an estimated $11,000 in damage and could face a felony conviction.
On the last day of the 2008 Republican National Convention, he was charged with misdemeanor unlawful assembly in St. Paul, Minn. Court records provided through the St. Paul Pioneer Press show he was jailed about 2 a.m.
Schwenkler received $500 in November 2008 to walk door-to-door in support of Democrat Mollie Cullom, who lost her race to Republican state Rep. David Balmer of Centennial.
Waak, who was not involved with the group that paid Schwenkler, said she’s never heard of the suspect and pointed out that just because he canvassed “doesn’t mean he’s a good Democrat.”
Schwenkler was one of dozens of paid canvassers bankrolled by the Colorado Citizens’ Coalition, a political 527 committee funded by labor groups and well-known, wealthy liberal donors. In those disclosures, Schwenkler’s address is listed as Derailer Bicycle Cooperative, a free community bicycle collective that operates just around the corner from the Democratic headquarters. Multiple volunteers at the collective declined to discuss Schwenkler, though they said he was affiliated with the group.
Balmer said he suspects the vandalism might have been aimed at making the GOP look bad.
Why can’t we do this? I think it’s time for a No Confidence vote and new elections. Let’s dissolve Congress, remove the President. take another vote and start over. Hey, if it woorks in Japan, Israel, Italy and other places, why not here?
While half the population is in awe of our president’s multi-phase Apology Tour 2009, no one is minding the store. In the last eight months, the Federal Reserve has made $9 trillion (okay, that’s $9,000,000,000,000) in off-the-books, unaccountable transactions. Anyone concerned? This video is courtesy of The Daily Bail.
In the video, House Democrat Alan Grayson questions Elizabeth Coleman, Inspector General of the Federal Reserve on the ever-expanding im-balance sheet of the Fed. If you or I played fast and loose with a bare millionth of that amount we’d be in the slammer for years. Who is minding the store?
Things Overheard at the National Council for a New America (HT: Frank at IMAO)
A lot of people say the GOP needs to take a new direction and be less radical to attract independents. That’s why such trend-setters as Eric Cantor, John McCain, and Mitt Romney recently launched the National Council for a New America at a pizza parlor to figure out how to rebrand the Republican Party. Here’s some of things overheard at the meeting:
“Freedom, liberty, small government, individualism, personal responsibility… these are the stale ideas that have been holding back the GOP!”
“The key to victory is principles – we need to avoid those. They scare people.”
“Let’s not say ‘Republican’ – that has has negative connotations. Let’s call ourselves ‘the other Party.’”
“If we criticize the spending too much, then it comes off as us being too critical of Obama… and we already have enough problems with racism.”
“Actually, I don’t know about this name ‘National Council for a New America.’ Do you really need the ‘America’ in there? A lot of people are turned off by jingoism. Can’t we just be ‘National Council for Newness’?”
“We should never be afraid to praise a Democrat when he does something right. I wouldn’t praise Republicans, though; that just makes you look intolerant.”
“I think we’ve had enough talk about ‘Reagan’ in this party. We need a new Republican leader to rally behind. Like Chuck Hagel.”
“We need to get away from things that are scaring young people from our parties, like social issues. Also, he can try handing out meth.”
“Without Arlen Specter in this Party, it’s like we’ve lost our soul.”
“Maybe me need a new symbol. An elephant is big and lumbering and threatening. How about a hamster?”
“If people like Democrats right now, I bet they’ll love a watered down version.”
“We have to be careful of our image. If you’re at a rally and someone mentions ‘illegal immigration’, you then need to get as far away from those racists as possible.”
And my favorite…
“Anyone you ever figure out what those ‘Tea Parties’ were about?”
Someone sent me a link to an article about President Obama with the title ‘100 days in office, coronated Messiah‘. I wasn’t sure that ‘coronated’ was proper usage, so I looked it up. Sure enough, it means “encircled by a row of spines or prominent nodes, especially at the shoulder of the last whorl in gastropods.”
It’s probably a defense mechanism, so maybe it’s a good thing our president is coronated.
