After thinking about it, the title for this column isn’t accurate. It isn’t just the homosexual left supporting hypocrisy; it is every member of that side of the aisle, regardless of their sexual proclivity.
Think back during the last couple months of the 2008 presidential campaign. Obama stated that he felt that “marriage should be between a man and a woman.” The record is very clear on this, he did say exactly that. Does anyone remember even a whisper of controversy from the media or even one homosexual rights group? No, of course not. Obama can say anything whether it be pure or profane and his supporters will swallow it as if it came from on high. But let a woman who seems to be a Christian say such a thing and she is spewing hatred from the very depths of hell.
Sarah Palin has to be conflicted right now. Carrie Prejean, Miss California 2009 has become the new ground central for every last drop of far left hate speech, and do not mistake it, what is being said qualifies as hate speech. If the same were being said about Rosie O’Donnell or even Ellen DeGeneres, calls would be issued for an in-depth investigation at the Congressional level. I doubt even the most strident opponent of Prejean can dispute this...honestly. They will dispute it, but a close examination of all their arguments will reveal the lie behind the words.
Both of these women have committed a gross sin in the eyes of the press, they spoke their minds without asking whether or not what they were about to say was politically acceptable to the media at large. The press lives each day sheltered behind the first amendment. I doubt many are capable of even quoting that passage accurately much less describing the conditions under which it was written. According to those who are currently heading our political system, Carrie Prejean and Sarah Palin do not have the same rights as an O’Donnell or a DeGeneres because they choose to live outside of what has become the mainstream. They choose to honor their spouses and choose to bring their children up to respect virtues such as personal responsibility...and that flies in the face of what is acceptable, and is the lifestyle lived by most who deliver our news today.
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
We do not need Ideologues, we need Idealists.
I have found that it is an understanding of the subtleties of the English language that is the last item on the learning list, especially if that learner is a member of the media; doubly so if that learner is a political pundit who believes their own hype.
This lesson is no more apparent than in the ramblings of the right wing fringe that piloted the ship of the GOP onto this last election’s iceberg. The general topic of conversation from these ideologues has been about how the so-called moderate republicans were the ones who caused the current situation. For the life of me, I cannot see how those who thought the Bush agenda of talking conservative while spending and acting like Harry Reid’s evil twin was the wrong way to go, could be the source of the GOP’s current lack of power.
It must be pointed out that these same ideologues were the one’s who saw no dichotomy in proclaiming John McCain their perfect candidate, even though the good senator’s voting record and bills suggest he is far from what any intelligent observer of history would call conservative. These same pundits saw no hypocrisy in supporting McCain while in the background they worked overtime to trash the reputation of his running mate, Sarah Palin. In my opinion, it was the Alaskan Governor’s unfailing and effective opposition to corruption, even when it arose within her own party, which set these so-called bastions of conservatism against her.
In my own state of Nevada, I experienced a similar reaction. As a freshman State Assemblyman, I was attacked by my own party leadership because I wrote a bill that would have forced a business leader to obey an existing law protecting employees from theft by those employing them. For those reporters reading this, I will restate it in simpler language. My bill would have stopped the boss stealing from his workers. Because of this bill, every leading member of the Republican Party in Nevada began working to remove me from my Assembly seat. I was even warned by a sitting State Senator, a State Senator who attends nearly ever bible study held during session, to remove my opposition to this businessman’s theft. My Canadian readers will notice the obvious hypocrisy.
An ideologue will follow the party line regardless where it leads. Corrupt, illegal, even immoral actions are of no consequence. Only party loyalty matters. Those who step out of line, especially those who effectively clean up corruption within the party, are considered traitors to the cause. An idealist is an anathema. An idealist cannot be corrupted and is therefore untrustworthy to the corrupt. Even worse, an idealist cannot be bought. The phrase, “He’s too honest, we can’t trust him,” was spoken by the Nevada Republican Party Chairwoman concerning my own political future after I proved I wasn’t for sale at any price. This was the same chairwoman who violated both state and federal law by ordering the state convention closed before the final vote could be counted. This order came after Ron Paul won the majority of delegates. His wasn’t the prevailing ideology the leadership could afford to support.
To be fair, both major parties are rife with corruption. In fact, corruption has become the common state of affairs; the recent Senate Seat for Sale affair in Illinois is an example of Democrat corruption. Ted Stevens’ 30 year reign of selling his vote in Alaska is a prime example of GOP corruption. Between these two towering infernos of graft stands the thinning herd of idealists. To the idealist, the constitution should be the final arbiter of any concern within and without this country. The Founding Fathers set up hard and fast rules as to how this country should treat its citizens and how the citizens should act out their citizenship. Party ideologues find the constitution an inconvenience at best, and an enemy to be thwarted at worst. They will place the welfare of governments openly hostile to America before that of Americans if there is money to be had in the deal. The ongoing negotiation with Mexico in regard to the US/Mexico super highway is an example. The arrest and conviction of Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean because they had the audacity to stop a Mexican drug runner from completing his mission, is another. The Bush Administration’s firing of every federal prosecutor who appeared to be competently honest, is a glaring third. For an ideologue, honesty is not a virtue.
We need Idealists in this country, not Ideologues…whether they be right wing or left wing makes not difference. The past eight years has shown us the result of ideologue leadership. Ronald Reagan asked a very pertinent question of America when he was debating Jimmy Carter, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” I can ask the same now, but let’s change the number from four to eight. Carter’s ideology evaporated the last vestiges of a robust economy like the summer sun on a snowflake. Bush’s ideology has produced an even more devastating result simply because he was granted twice the amount of time.
An idealist functions within the framework of what should be, not what is. The Founding Fathers gave us a template of what should be. Within that framework is the principle of fairness regardless of you circumstances. Everyone, regardless of sex, race, age, or position should be given the same consideration and the same opportunity. Position, power, wealth…none of these should matter in the eyes of the law. That is the world of the idealist and it is adamantly opposed to that of the ideologue.
At least, that’s how it should be.
This lesson is no more apparent than in the ramblings of the right wing fringe that piloted the ship of the GOP onto this last election’s iceberg. The general topic of conversation from these ideologues has been about how the so-called moderate republicans were the ones who caused the current situation. For the life of me, I cannot see how those who thought the Bush agenda of talking conservative while spending and acting like Harry Reid’s evil twin was the wrong way to go, could be the source of the GOP’s current lack of power.
It must be pointed out that these same ideologues were the one’s who saw no dichotomy in proclaiming John McCain their perfect candidate, even though the good senator’s voting record and bills suggest he is far from what any intelligent observer of history would call conservative. These same pundits saw no hypocrisy in supporting McCain while in the background they worked overtime to trash the reputation of his running mate, Sarah Palin. In my opinion, it was the Alaskan Governor’s unfailing and effective opposition to corruption, even when it arose within her own party, which set these so-called bastions of conservatism against her.
In my own state of Nevada, I experienced a similar reaction. As a freshman State Assemblyman, I was attacked by my own party leadership because I wrote a bill that would have forced a business leader to obey an existing law protecting employees from theft by those employing them. For those reporters reading this, I will restate it in simpler language. My bill would have stopped the boss stealing from his workers. Because of this bill, every leading member of the Republican Party in Nevada began working to remove me from my Assembly seat. I was even warned by a sitting State Senator, a State Senator who attends nearly ever bible study held during session, to remove my opposition to this businessman’s theft. My Canadian readers will notice the obvious hypocrisy.
An ideologue will follow the party line regardless where it leads. Corrupt, illegal, even immoral actions are of no consequence. Only party loyalty matters. Those who step out of line, especially those who effectively clean up corruption within the party, are considered traitors to the cause. An idealist is an anathema. An idealist cannot be corrupted and is therefore untrustworthy to the corrupt. Even worse, an idealist cannot be bought. The phrase, “He’s too honest, we can’t trust him,” was spoken by the Nevada Republican Party Chairwoman concerning my own political future after I proved I wasn’t for sale at any price. This was the same chairwoman who violated both state and federal law by ordering the state convention closed before the final vote could be counted. This order came after Ron Paul won the majority of delegates. His wasn’t the prevailing ideology the leadership could afford to support.
To be fair, both major parties are rife with corruption. In fact, corruption has become the common state of affairs; the recent Senate Seat for Sale affair in Illinois is an example of Democrat corruption. Ted Stevens’ 30 year reign of selling his vote in Alaska is a prime example of GOP corruption. Between these two towering infernos of graft stands the thinning herd of idealists. To the idealist, the constitution should be the final arbiter of any concern within and without this country. The Founding Fathers set up hard and fast rules as to how this country should treat its citizens and how the citizens should act out their citizenship. Party ideologues find the constitution an inconvenience at best, and an enemy to be thwarted at worst. They will place the welfare of governments openly hostile to America before that of Americans if there is money to be had in the deal. The ongoing negotiation with Mexico in regard to the US/Mexico super highway is an example. The arrest and conviction of Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean because they had the audacity to stop a Mexican drug runner from completing his mission, is another. The Bush Administration’s firing of every federal prosecutor who appeared to be competently honest, is a glaring third. For an ideologue, honesty is not a virtue.
We need Idealists in this country, not Ideologues…whether they be right wing or left wing makes not difference. The past eight years has shown us the result of ideologue leadership. Ronald Reagan asked a very pertinent question of America when he was debating Jimmy Carter, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” I can ask the same now, but let’s change the number from four to eight. Carter’s ideology evaporated the last vestiges of a robust economy like the summer sun on a snowflake. Bush’s ideology has produced an even more devastating result simply because he was granted twice the amount of time.
An idealist functions within the framework of what should be, not what is. The Founding Fathers gave us a template of what should be. Within that framework is the principle of fairness regardless of you circumstances. Everyone, regardless of sex, race, age, or position should be given the same consideration and the same opportunity. Position, power, wealth…none of these should matter in the eyes of the law. That is the world of the idealist and it is adamantly opposed to that of the ideologue.
At least, that’s how it should be.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
So Obama may not be a native-born U.S. citizen, so what?
Over the past few months a quiet controversy has been brewing about the possibility that the President-elect, Barrack Obama may not be entitled to hold the office. The reason is not that enough people did not vote for him or that he is guilty of any exclusionary crime. No, the reason is that the circumstances of his birth may exclude him from being able to take office.
The Constitution requires presidents to be natural-born citizens of the United States who are at least 35 years of age and have resided in the United States for 14 years. Though earlier versions had restrictions for race and sex, those have long since been removed. The birth thing, however, is still in force.
World Net Daily has a story up with a very disturbing embedded video. It can be found at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=82503 The item I find most disturbing in watching it is I know how to produce counterfeit documents like that. In the days before digital technology, such fakes were far more difficult to make and detection of professional quality counterfeits even more so. Now, anyone with a good quality scanner and a decent graphics-ready computer can get in on the action.
Every scanned image is made up of “pixels”. A pixel is a tiny square that can either be in grayscale or color. The size of the pixel depends on how fine the scan, or how high the camera definition is set. It is not inconceivable that President Obama’s birth “proof” was faked, if what World Net Daily reports is accurate. An image that is pasted into Photoshop will show a border, even if done in the highest of definition. Only an expert in such techniques could mask that pasting with any surety of no detection. It must be noted that the liberal left tried, convicted and hung Sarah Palin on far more flimsy evidence than that, and they were not gentlemanly about it at all.
So what happens if this is true? Nothing. Obama has a legislative branch that is overwhelmingly on his side. Congress will not overturn the election and the Attorney General will go right along with them. Even if they have knowledge of the fact, they will continue on with business as usual. Is this surprising? Not at all. Our constitution has been shredded by our politicians so often that it more closely resembles a collection of knitters' mistakes. Would Obama have done this? Would he have run for our highest office with the full knowledge that he was not qualified to legally do so? Of course he would. As a Nevada Assemblyman I saw far worse done for far less power. The only thing more attractive to both sexes than money is power.
Now I know that there are those out there who will consider this column to be a direct attack on Barrack Obama and nothing more than hate-filled sour grapes rantings from a sore loser. All that will be said even though a search of the text will show only a reporting of the controversy. The liberal left does not want equality, they want domination. President-elect Obama can silence the controversy by simply producing an original hard copy of his birth certificate, college transcripts and the other assorted documents he has steadfastly refused to show. If McCain had won and had committed the same refusal, we would still be watching every single evening news program with a lead off story concerning what the Republican President-elect is hiding. Assumptions would be presented as facts. Sarah Palin had accusations made about her that were far more egregiously unfounded and she produced the demanded proof. The left has refused to believe it and the attacks continue on a daily basis, even though the election is over.
As of now, Obama has done nothing. He has presented no specific solution for one single problem this country currently faces. His message of change, based on his cabinet choices, seems to mean change back to the Clinton Administration. This may or may not be a good thing; we have yet to find out. I did not vote for him, but that means nothing. He now hold the elective office. If he succeeds in improving our lot as a country, well and good, if he fails, those attacking Sarah Palin will blame the GOP.
But the real question still remains, is he qualified?
The Constitution requires presidents to be natural-born citizens of the United States who are at least 35 years of age and have resided in the United States for 14 years. Though earlier versions had restrictions for race and sex, those have long since been removed. The birth thing, however, is still in force.
World Net Daily has a story up with a very disturbing embedded video. It can be found at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=82503 The item I find most disturbing in watching it is I know how to produce counterfeit documents like that. In the days before digital technology, such fakes were far more difficult to make and detection of professional quality counterfeits even more so. Now, anyone with a good quality scanner and a decent graphics-ready computer can get in on the action.
Every scanned image is made up of “pixels”. A pixel is a tiny square that can either be in grayscale or color. The size of the pixel depends on how fine the scan, or how high the camera definition is set. It is not inconceivable that President Obama’s birth “proof” was faked, if what World Net Daily reports is accurate. An image that is pasted into Photoshop will show a border, even if done in the highest of definition. Only an expert in such techniques could mask that pasting with any surety of no detection. It must be noted that the liberal left tried, convicted and hung Sarah Palin on far more flimsy evidence than that, and they were not gentlemanly about it at all.
So what happens if this is true? Nothing. Obama has a legislative branch that is overwhelmingly on his side. Congress will not overturn the election and the Attorney General will go right along with them. Even if they have knowledge of the fact, they will continue on with business as usual. Is this surprising? Not at all. Our constitution has been shredded by our politicians so often that it more closely resembles a collection of knitters' mistakes. Would Obama have done this? Would he have run for our highest office with the full knowledge that he was not qualified to legally do so? Of course he would. As a Nevada Assemblyman I saw far worse done for far less power. The only thing more attractive to both sexes than money is power.
Now I know that there are those out there who will consider this column to be a direct attack on Barrack Obama and nothing more than hate-filled sour grapes rantings from a sore loser. All that will be said even though a search of the text will show only a reporting of the controversy. The liberal left does not want equality, they want domination. President-elect Obama can silence the controversy by simply producing an original hard copy of his birth certificate, college transcripts and the other assorted documents he has steadfastly refused to show. If McCain had won and had committed the same refusal, we would still be watching every single evening news program with a lead off story concerning what the Republican President-elect is hiding. Assumptions would be presented as facts. Sarah Palin had accusations made about her that were far more egregiously unfounded and she produced the demanded proof. The left has refused to believe it and the attacks continue on a daily basis, even though the election is over.
As of now, Obama has done nothing. He has presented no specific solution for one single problem this country currently faces. His message of change, based on his cabinet choices, seems to mean change back to the Clinton Administration. This may or may not be a good thing; we have yet to find out. I did not vote for him, but that means nothing. He now hold the elective office. If he succeeds in improving our lot as a country, well and good, if he fails, those attacking Sarah Palin will blame the GOP.
But the real question still remains, is he qualified?
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Palin for President!
The GOP needs to change. This phrase isn’t by any degree new; nearly every conservative and liberal writer has said the same, but I doubt many have said it in relation to what is really needed. The drubbing McCain took in this past election and the ascendancy of the liberal left into every seat of power this country has to offer is a lesson yet to be learned by the Republican heads.
Obama’s campaign team hit a nerve when they continuously attacked McCain’s ties to the Bush administration. The recent developments in this ridiculous bailout scam are only yet another symptom of the disease that riddles the beltway. The ones making these decisions are so out of touch with everyday America that when an issue is brought forward with a common sense solution, they cannot understand what is being said. In many cases the one offering the solution is ridiculed as being naive. This happened to me while solutions were being discussed with regard to my state’s fiscal problems. Now, those who did the ridiculing are being forced to implement what I suggested two years ago. Will any credit be given where it belongs? Not on your life. This is the world of politics after all.
Infighting within the Republican ranks has been escalating since the first ad hit the airwaves for the Presidential elections. This tells us that change is not something the Republican party wants to consider, at least not the change it truly needs. Consider Mike Huckabee’s attacks on Sarah Palin. What they boil down to is what the GOP says about every party member who stands up against the corruption within the party, “She isn’t Republican enough.” Apparently Governor Palin, in order to be a real republican, should have gone along with outgoing Senator Ted Stevens’ corruption, and not stood against him. To many in the party it is better to have a politician who breaks the law on a daily basis than to have them replaced with a Democrat. To the Republican Party leadership change means not having to say you’re sorry.
Governor Huckabee needs to learn the lesson of the electorate. American is not so interested in moving to left as it is interested in cleaning house. Average America wants honorable leadership. They want “Read my lips” to be a statement of truth, not a lead-in to a broken promise. When they are watching their bank accounts dwindle, they do not want to see those who oversaw the demolition of the economy get a golden parachute. They want honesty, even if it inconveniences the wealthy and the powerful. Sarah Palin gets that and so does Mitt Romney.
It is already obvious that Obama’s promise of change only went as far as the occupancy of the White House. He is busily building his staff out of insiders from the Clinton and Carter Administrations. Governor Huckabee apparently believes Sarah Palin’s climb into the spotlight is more dangerous to our nation than what President-elect Obama is preparing to do. Here is why; Governor Palin struck a chord with the American people, and if she had been coupled with Romney rather than McCain, the result of the election may have been quite different. GOP insiders are almost as afraid of what Palin portends as are the liberals.
Sarah Palin, in spite of what my Democrat acquaintances say, would make a great President. What many of them forget is that much the same arguments against a Palin Presidency were also made about Ronald Reagan before he trounced a totally incompetent Jimmy Carter.
Yes, the GOP needs to change. It needs to embrace Middle America and it needs to embrace the truth, even if the truth costs them money. Rather than driving out those members who stand against corruption, the GOP leadership needs to grit their teeth, wave goodbye to the bribe money, and stand with them. America wants representation, not politics as usual. And remember, the news networks have no relation with real America.
Obama’s campaign team hit a nerve when they continuously attacked McCain’s ties to the Bush administration. The recent developments in this ridiculous bailout scam are only yet another symptom of the disease that riddles the beltway. The ones making these decisions are so out of touch with everyday America that when an issue is brought forward with a common sense solution, they cannot understand what is being said. In many cases the one offering the solution is ridiculed as being naive. This happened to me while solutions were being discussed with regard to my state’s fiscal problems. Now, those who did the ridiculing are being forced to implement what I suggested two years ago. Will any credit be given where it belongs? Not on your life. This is the world of politics after all.
Infighting within the Republican ranks has been escalating since the first ad hit the airwaves for the Presidential elections. This tells us that change is not something the Republican party wants to consider, at least not the change it truly needs. Consider Mike Huckabee’s attacks on Sarah Palin. What they boil down to is what the GOP says about every party member who stands up against the corruption within the party, “She isn’t Republican enough.” Apparently Governor Palin, in order to be a real republican, should have gone along with outgoing Senator Ted Stevens’ corruption, and not stood against him. To many in the party it is better to have a politician who breaks the law on a daily basis than to have them replaced with a Democrat. To the Republican Party leadership change means not having to say you’re sorry.
Governor Huckabee needs to learn the lesson of the electorate. American is not so interested in moving to left as it is interested in cleaning house. Average America wants honorable leadership. They want “Read my lips” to be a statement of truth, not a lead-in to a broken promise. When they are watching their bank accounts dwindle, they do not want to see those who oversaw the demolition of the economy get a golden parachute. They want honesty, even if it inconveniences the wealthy and the powerful. Sarah Palin gets that and so does Mitt Romney.
It is already obvious that Obama’s promise of change only went as far as the occupancy of the White House. He is busily building his staff out of insiders from the Clinton and Carter Administrations. Governor Huckabee apparently believes Sarah Palin’s climb into the spotlight is more dangerous to our nation than what President-elect Obama is preparing to do. Here is why; Governor Palin struck a chord with the American people, and if she had been coupled with Romney rather than McCain, the result of the election may have been quite different. GOP insiders are almost as afraid of what Palin portends as are the liberals.
Sarah Palin, in spite of what my Democrat acquaintances say, would make a great President. What many of them forget is that much the same arguments against a Palin Presidency were also made about Ronald Reagan before he trounced a totally incompetent Jimmy Carter.
Yes, the GOP needs to change. It needs to embrace Middle America and it needs to embrace the truth, even if the truth costs them money. Rather than driving out those members who stand against corruption, the GOP leadership needs to grit their teeth, wave goodbye to the bribe money, and stand with them. America wants representation, not politics as usual. And remember, the news networks have no relation with real America.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Africa is a Continent, and Palin knew that.
The other day I had one of my typical discussions on politics with my neighbor Jerry. Jerry is a great guy, a construction supervisor for our school district and he bleeds Democrat blue. One of the things that separate him from the liberal elite is that he is capable of deciding an issue on the facts, not on rhetoric or talking points, except where Sarah Palin is concerned.
Let’s take a look at what the elites have said and are continuing to say about this woman: she must be a terrible mother because her daughter became pregnant. Ok, so Sarah Palin is facing what a vast majority of mothers with teenage daughters is facing or does this only happen in Republican families? She decided to keep her downs syndrome baby, so she must not care about women’s issues. They still talk about that notorious interview with Katie Couric but Ms. Couric deliberately misquoted Henry Kissinger. Earlier than that, ABC News misquoted the Bush doctrine in an obvious attempt to throw off Palin, their chosen scapegoat.
Sarah Palin surprised everyone in the debate with Biden, including those McCain staffers who are working overtime to trash this woman’s reputation, Joe Biden was wrong about that restaurant he claimed to go to in order to learn about the middle class. It closed down in 1986. Biden doesn’t have a time machine nor has anyone in the elite media done a live broadcast from the nonexistent Katie's Restaurant to point out that Joe Biden is just out of touch with reality. On the other hand, Sarah Palin has received just that sort of treatment and unlike Biden she didn’t lie. There were approximately 14 “factual mistakes” uttered by Biden in that debate but the media hasn’t even mentioned one. Let Sarah Palin utter a single malaprop during a private rehearsal and suddenly she thinks Africa is a country and not a continent.
The liberal elite love the sort of libel that is coming from the McCain staffers. They saw that Palin was a far better candidate than McCain could ever hope to be…and she was better in a debate than Obama’s best showing. This woman had to be silenced. So the stealth attacks and the phony leaks began. In one egregious incident Sarah Palin heard that Bill O’Reilly wanted her on his show. Palin called O’Reilly and agreed to go on. McCain’s staffers heard about the call and, behind Palin’s back canceled the appearance. They then told her that O’Reilly had cancelled her appearance, which was a lie.
Republicans, just like Democrats have their own elite snobbery. McCain made the fatal mistake of filling his campaign staff with people of that stripe. If anyone was out of touch, McCain was right there along with Obama and Biden. Sure, he may have had a hard time in Vietnam, but he has spent far more time living the good life in Washington. He has been pampered and coddled to the point where it is the norm. He would no more recognize middle class America than Joe Biden would. For him, eating at a truck stop would now be torture. This is why people like Adams, Franklin and Jefferson instituted term limits. They saw the danger and hoped to prevent its occurrence. For the Republican elite in McCain’s campaign Sarah Palin was a contamination not to be tolerated.
Now, the liberal elite attacking someone like Palin is understandable. The fact that Michelle Obama can make a statement about how important her children are to her and that they will be her chief focus in Washington…the fact that that becomes a point of honor by the media, but when uttered by a Republican woman becomes a concern…we can all recognize and understand the obvious hypocrisy. Biden lies and it is ignored. Obama stumbles during a debate and it is called a “thoughtful pause”. Sarah Palin has a moment of anger behind the scenes about her treatment by the media and she is a shrill, spiteful monster. What really gets me is that so many Democrats are totally blind to the lopsidedness here. Judgments are made about an individual with regard to her home life, her character, her intelligence and even her thought processes and they have never even met her nor done one single bit of research on their own. Here is the capper; they call that “fair”.
Let’s take a look at what the elites have said and are continuing to say about this woman: she must be a terrible mother because her daughter became pregnant. Ok, so Sarah Palin is facing what a vast majority of mothers with teenage daughters is facing or does this only happen in Republican families? She decided to keep her downs syndrome baby, so she must not care about women’s issues. They still talk about that notorious interview with Katie Couric but Ms. Couric deliberately misquoted Henry Kissinger. Earlier than that, ABC News misquoted the Bush doctrine in an obvious attempt to throw off Palin, their chosen scapegoat.
Sarah Palin surprised everyone in the debate with Biden, including those McCain staffers who are working overtime to trash this woman’s reputation, Joe Biden was wrong about that restaurant he claimed to go to in order to learn about the middle class. It closed down in 1986. Biden doesn’t have a time machine nor has anyone in the elite media done a live broadcast from the nonexistent Katie's Restaurant to point out that Joe Biden is just out of touch with reality. On the other hand, Sarah Palin has received just that sort of treatment and unlike Biden she didn’t lie. There were approximately 14 “factual mistakes” uttered by Biden in that debate but the media hasn’t even mentioned one. Let Sarah Palin utter a single malaprop during a private rehearsal and suddenly she thinks Africa is a country and not a continent.
The liberal elite love the sort of libel that is coming from the McCain staffers. They saw that Palin was a far better candidate than McCain could ever hope to be…and she was better in a debate than Obama’s best showing. This woman had to be silenced. So the stealth attacks and the phony leaks began. In one egregious incident Sarah Palin heard that Bill O’Reilly wanted her on his show. Palin called O’Reilly and agreed to go on. McCain’s staffers heard about the call and, behind Palin’s back canceled the appearance. They then told her that O’Reilly had cancelled her appearance, which was a lie.
Republicans, just like Democrats have their own elite snobbery. McCain made the fatal mistake of filling his campaign staff with people of that stripe. If anyone was out of touch, McCain was right there along with Obama and Biden. Sure, he may have had a hard time in Vietnam, but he has spent far more time living the good life in Washington. He has been pampered and coddled to the point where it is the norm. He would no more recognize middle class America than Joe Biden would. For him, eating at a truck stop would now be torture. This is why people like Adams, Franklin and Jefferson instituted term limits. They saw the danger and hoped to prevent its occurrence. For the Republican elite in McCain’s campaign Sarah Palin was a contamination not to be tolerated.
Now, the liberal elite attacking someone like Palin is understandable. The fact that Michelle Obama can make a statement about how important her children are to her and that they will be her chief focus in Washington…the fact that that becomes a point of honor by the media, but when uttered by a Republican woman becomes a concern…we can all recognize and understand the obvious hypocrisy. Biden lies and it is ignored. Obama stumbles during a debate and it is called a “thoughtful pause”. Sarah Palin has a moment of anger behind the scenes about her treatment by the media and she is a shrill, spiteful monster. What really gets me is that so many Democrats are totally blind to the lopsidedness here. Judgments are made about an individual with regard to her home life, her character, her intelligence and even her thought processes and they have never even met her nor done one single bit of research on their own. Here is the capper; they call that “fair”.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Darwin was wrong, Part 2
The definition of theory from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
1: the analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another
2: abstract thought : speculation
3: the general or abstract principles of a body of fact, a science, or an art
4 a: a belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed as the basis of actionb: an ideal or hypothetical set of facts, principles, or circumstances —often used in the phrase in theory
5: a plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles offered to explain phenomena
6 a: a hypothesis assumed for the sake of argument or investigation b: an unproved assumption : conjecture c: a body of theorems presenting a concise systematic view of a subject
My article in regard to Darwin and his theory of evolution generated a number of enraged comments from the atheist community. Grudgingly, they acknowledged my right to my opinion, but one even went so far as to state that I had no right to my own facts. Apparently only those who adhere to the atheist orthodoxy have a right to state facts.
Here are some additional facts with regard to what the atheist elite hold as their faith. I use the term faith because that is exactly what it is. The assumption that this universe is nothing more than a happy accident is no more provable than the assumption that it was created in a 168 hour period. Both assumptions have to be taken as a matter of faith. Note definition 6 from Webster.
One commenter argued that australopithecines and other fossils proved that the missing link had been found. Obviously they did little research beyond visiting agenda-oriented websites because R. Leaky, one of the most prominent scientists in archeology, had a problem with that very fossil record. One major problem was the community using adolescent fossils as adult to prove the link.
The paragraph below comes from a highly respected argument involving the problem of calling human evolution anything more than a supposition.
“It really is unnecessary to any longer extend coverage of the australopithecine fossil record. The fact is true humans appeared in the fossil record before the australopithecines and lived as contemporaries with them throughout all their history, revealing that australopithecines had nothing to do with human origins. Matt Cartmill of Duke Univ., David Pilbeam of Harvard, and Glynn Isaac of Harvard observe: "The australopithecines are rapidly sinking back to the status of peculiarly specialized apes...."
The evolutionist’s case for australopithecines as human ancestors was based on three claims: 1. big brained 2.bipedal 3. Appeared in the fossil record at a relevant time. Contrarily, brain size is less important than brain organization, evidence of bipedality is controversial but irrelevant as bipedality does not prove a human relationship, and as shown by the Laetoli footprints, when australopithecines first appeared in the fossil record, true humans were already walking.”
During the middle ages, the Roman Church was also the chief political power in the civilized world. Despite the atheist claims, it was not a Christian organization and the tortured were more often than not actual believers in Jesus Christ as well as observant Jews. The record is there if you choose to look. It is not unusual for the atheist community to attack the christian cummunity on flimsy evidence that really doesn’t even rise past the level of hypothesis. When an emotional response is all you have to go with, very little is surprising.
Today, the attacks on Sarah Palin from the Obama camp have never risen past that level. Today it is the clothes she wears. Yesterday it was her health records. Yet the Obama campaign has yet to release one piece of paper regarding their messiah or his background. They claim he is a Harvard graduate but we have no transcript. They claim he is an American-born citizen, but we have no birth certificate. They say Sarah Palin is dangerously unqualified for high office because of her faith, but they insist on the American voter to take Barrack Hussein Obama on faith. An interesting dichotomy, isn’t it?
Obama’s record places him in the true center of the atheist elite’s perfect candidate. He has consistently argued for legalizing the murder of babies while they are being born. He has argued that citizens who successfully defend themselves against an attacker in their homes be declared the criminal, not the attacker. He says he will immediately activate the so-called fairness doctrine, thus censoring the opinion of millions of Americans, and he has declared that anyone who successfully builds a business must “share the wealth” or be declared an enemy of the state.
What the atheist elite consistently fail to realize is that the moment this country adopts what they hope for, they will be the first to go. A Marxist Dictatorship has always eliminated the intellectuals, whether they were right or not.
1: the analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another
2: abstract thought : speculation
3: the general or abstract principles of a body of fact, a science, or an art
4 a: a belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed as the basis of action
5: a plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles offered to explain phenomena
6 a: a hypothesis assumed for the sake of argument or investigation b: an unproved assumption : conjecture c: a body of theorems presenting a concise systematic view of a subject
My article in regard to Darwin and his theory of evolution generated a number of enraged comments from the atheist community. Grudgingly, they acknowledged my right to my opinion, but one even went so far as to state that I had no right to my own facts. Apparently only those who adhere to the atheist orthodoxy have a right to state facts.
Here are some additional facts with regard to what the atheist elite hold as their faith. I use the term faith because that is exactly what it is. The assumption that this universe is nothing more than a happy accident is no more provable than the assumption that it was created in a 168 hour period. Both assumptions have to be taken as a matter of faith. Note definition 6 from Webster.
One commenter argued that australopithecines and other fossils proved that the missing link had been found. Obviously they did little research beyond visiting agenda-oriented websites because R. Leaky, one of the most prominent scientists in archeology, had a problem with that very fossil record. One major problem was the community using adolescent fossils as adult to prove the link.
The paragraph below comes from a highly respected argument involving the problem of calling human evolution anything more than a supposition.
“It really is unnecessary to any longer extend coverage of the australopithecine fossil record. The fact is true humans appeared in the fossil record before the australopithecines and lived as contemporaries with them throughout all their history, revealing that australopithecines had nothing to do with human origins. Matt Cartmill of Duke Univ., David Pilbeam of Harvard, and Glynn Isaac of Harvard observe: "The australopithecines are rapidly sinking back to the status of peculiarly specialized apes...."
The evolutionist’s case for australopithecines as human ancestors was based on three claims: 1. big brained 2.bipedal 3. Appeared in the fossil record at a relevant time. Contrarily, brain size is less important than brain organization, evidence of bipedality is controversial but irrelevant as bipedality does not prove a human relationship, and as shown by the Laetoli footprints, when australopithecines first appeared in the fossil record, true humans were already walking.”
During the middle ages, the Roman Church was also the chief political power in the civilized world. Despite the atheist claims, it was not a Christian organization and the tortured were more often than not actual believers in Jesus Christ as well as observant Jews. The record is there if you choose to look. It is not unusual for the atheist community to attack the christian cummunity on flimsy evidence that really doesn’t even rise past the level of hypothesis. When an emotional response is all you have to go with, very little is surprising.
Today, the attacks on Sarah Palin from the Obama camp have never risen past that level. Today it is the clothes she wears. Yesterday it was her health records. Yet the Obama campaign has yet to release one piece of paper regarding their messiah or his background. They claim he is a Harvard graduate but we have no transcript. They claim he is an American-born citizen, but we have no birth certificate. They say Sarah Palin is dangerously unqualified for high office because of her faith, but they insist on the American voter to take Barrack Hussein Obama on faith. An interesting dichotomy, isn’t it?
Obama’s record places him in the true center of the atheist elite’s perfect candidate. He has consistently argued for legalizing the murder of babies while they are being born. He has argued that citizens who successfully defend themselves against an attacker in their homes be declared the criminal, not the attacker. He says he will immediately activate the so-called fairness doctrine, thus censoring the opinion of millions of Americans, and he has declared that anyone who successfully builds a business must “share the wealth” or be declared an enemy of the state.
What the atheist elite consistently fail to realize is that the moment this country adopts what they hope for, they will be the first to go. A Marxist Dictatorship has always eliminated the intellectuals, whether they were right or not.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
The Dishonesty of the polls.
The CNN reporter works her way though the crowd asking the members the same question, “What are your feelings about Sarah Palin. Do you think she is qualified to be a heartbeat from the Presidency?” Most answer in the negative. A few quibble, and a couple shock her by saying they think so.
A roving reporter with a CBS logo on his lapel asks another crowd much the same question with similar results. A flip of the dial and NBC is seen working the same poll. In a matter of minutes headlines are splashed across the ticker running along the bottom of the screen, “Majority of America finds Palin unqualified for office!”
What the cameras did not show and what none of the Obama News Networks will ever say is that those polls were taken at events where the crowds are typically antagonistic to someone of Sarah Palin’s philosophy. A NOW meeting in New York, a GLAD gathering in San Francisco, A MoveOn.org rally in Chicago…these are not places where an equitable sampling of American opinion can be had, but they are typical of where the major news networks go, except FOX. And, Mr. Murdoch’s maverick network seems to be the only one willing to report all the news. No wonder the liberal elite are desperate to bring back the un”fairness doctrine”.
At no other time in our history has a presidential candidate had the vast majority of the news media backing their candidacy to the point where what used to be a profession sworn to truth and objectivity, became a unified political machine willing to lie, cheat, steal and even slander to put their chosen candidate into office. If the truth were to be revealed, we would see conference room and bullpen discussions centered on spinning the latest bit of news. Slanting went out the window halfway through the conventions. Now they are into full-fledged pandering to the point where any article printed that shows McCain or Palin in any degree of positive light is now called racist. This blog has been called racist, absurd, and a few other non-printable adjectives because of its uncompromising stand on the fundamental belief that we are all created equal, including white Christianity. Every network except FOX will call those last three words an example of racism and hate speech.
Middle America is hated by the major networks and derided as being out of touch, intellectually deficient, unsophisticated and inbred. You will not find their reporters asking questions about Mrs. Palin of the crowd at a Sooners football game or at the Sturgis run in South Dakota.
This is an old story, but it needs to be repeated because what I witnessed is indicative of what reporting has become in the US. During the 2007 legislative session, Ty Cobb, a fellow Republican Assemblyman had the courage to vote no concerning the confirmation of the Democrat Speaker of the Nevada Assembly. Later, Molly Ball, a political reporter for the Las Vegas Review Journal interviewed Garn Maybe, the Assembly Minority Leader at the time as to whether or not Assemblyman Cobb would be “taken to the woodshed” over his no vote. Assemblyman Maybe gave Ms. Ball a thoughtful, considered answer that essentially said no action would be taken and that Assemblyman Cobb had every right to voice his opinion. I was standing next to Garn during the entire interview. I heard the reporter’s questions and I heard the Minority Leader’s answers. What I read in the Las Vegas Review Journal the next day was a work of pure fiction. Not one quote, not one question, not one item of the interview was reported either in context or in part. The paper had an agenda and it was not going to allow the truth to get in the way.
The editorial management of the Review Journal have defended incidences such as this by declaring that their reporters have the right to report the news as they see it, and to opine as they see fit. That defense would have weight if that same management hadn’t fired reporters for writing uncomplimentary articles regarding those the paper wanted to support.
Unfortunately, my city isn’t the exception that proves the rule; it is part of the rule. If Obama and Biden get in, Reid and Pelosi will immediately move to bring back the so-called fairness doctrine. Shortly after that we will see the conservative message removed from the news media. To a liberal, fairness means that any opposing view is silenced.
A roving reporter with a CBS logo on his lapel asks another crowd much the same question with similar results. A flip of the dial and NBC is seen working the same poll. In a matter of minutes headlines are splashed across the ticker running along the bottom of the screen, “Majority of America finds Palin unqualified for office!”
What the cameras did not show and what none of the Obama News Networks will ever say is that those polls were taken at events where the crowds are typically antagonistic to someone of Sarah Palin’s philosophy. A NOW meeting in New York, a GLAD gathering in San Francisco, A MoveOn.org rally in Chicago…these are not places where an equitable sampling of American opinion can be had, but they are typical of where the major news networks go, except FOX. And, Mr. Murdoch’s maverick network seems to be the only one willing to report all the news. No wonder the liberal elite are desperate to bring back the un”fairness doctrine”.
At no other time in our history has a presidential candidate had the vast majority of the news media backing their candidacy to the point where what used to be a profession sworn to truth and objectivity, became a unified political machine willing to lie, cheat, steal and even slander to put their chosen candidate into office. If the truth were to be revealed, we would see conference room and bullpen discussions centered on spinning the latest bit of news. Slanting went out the window halfway through the conventions. Now they are into full-fledged pandering to the point where any article printed that shows McCain or Palin in any degree of positive light is now called racist. This blog has been called racist, absurd, and a few other non-printable adjectives because of its uncompromising stand on the fundamental belief that we are all created equal, including white Christianity. Every network except FOX will call those last three words an example of racism and hate speech.
Middle America is hated by the major networks and derided as being out of touch, intellectually deficient, unsophisticated and inbred. You will not find their reporters asking questions about Mrs. Palin of the crowd at a Sooners football game or at the Sturgis run in South Dakota.
This is an old story, but it needs to be repeated because what I witnessed is indicative of what reporting has become in the US. During the 2007 legislative session, Ty Cobb, a fellow Republican Assemblyman had the courage to vote no concerning the confirmation of the Democrat Speaker of the Nevada Assembly. Later, Molly Ball, a political reporter for the Las Vegas Review Journal interviewed Garn Maybe, the Assembly Minority Leader at the time as to whether or not Assemblyman Cobb would be “taken to the woodshed” over his no vote. Assemblyman Maybe gave Ms. Ball a thoughtful, considered answer that essentially said no action would be taken and that Assemblyman Cobb had every right to voice his opinion. I was standing next to Garn during the entire interview. I heard the reporter’s questions and I heard the Minority Leader’s answers. What I read in the Las Vegas Review Journal the next day was a work of pure fiction. Not one quote, not one question, not one item of the interview was reported either in context or in part. The paper had an agenda and it was not going to allow the truth to get in the way.
The editorial management of the Review Journal have defended incidences such as this by declaring that their reporters have the right to report the news as they see it, and to opine as they see fit. That defense would have weight if that same management hadn’t fired reporters for writing uncomplimentary articles regarding those the paper wanted to support.
Unfortunately, my city isn’t the exception that proves the rule; it is part of the rule. If Obama and Biden get in, Reid and Pelosi will immediately move to bring back the so-called fairness doctrine. Shortly after that we will see the conservative message removed from the news media. To a liberal, fairness means that any opposing view is silenced.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Darwin was wrong
It seems that the mere act of a Christian expressing an opinion that disagrees with the atheistic orthodoxy of the liberal left or the anti-God Ron Paul right is enough to send some of those folks into a typing frenzy. They will swallow, hook, line and sinker, any pseudo-intellectual claptrap that anyone puts up onto a site and declare it as truth as long as it supports their contention that this universe is nothing more than a happy accident.
According to them the idea of a vast eternal omnipresent intelligence is nonsense and anyone who ventures over into possibly believing otherwise is, at best, deluded and at worst, a danger to society.
CS Lewis used to believe in the absolute preeminence of the human mind. He was an atheist of the highest caliber, convinced that Darwin was right and that Darwin’s theory was not a mere theory but an established fact. Then his logic got in the way. Mere Christianity (1952) is an interesting read on that subject. What the atheist elite forget is that evolution as they use the word is only a theory and that theory has yet to be proven. I am sure I will be inundated with web links about that, but the fact remains that no link between humanity and the lower primates has ever been found. That is why they have the phrase “the missing link”. While there is a form of evolution within species, the teaching of extraspecies evolution, including human evolution as a fact is a lie. It is as much a lie as teaching Islam as a peaceful religion or teaching socialism as a path to prosperity. Or even worse, teaching global warming as being caused primarily by human development.
Whether or not they choose to believe it, Christians, even evangelical Christians have a right to express their opinion. To my mind they have even more of a right to do so than the so-called shock comics who deluge their audiences with grossly detailed profanity. The idea that this universe has a creator is not a danger to anyone’s life style. If Sarah Palin becomes the Vice President, no one is going to begin purging the strip clubs and bars. School curriculums will not change and daily life in America will continue to go on. So what if some of us choose to believe differently than you? Apparently, to some, that difference should not be allowed to be expressed.
Well, this is one politician who is going to express it and do so proudly, because this country was built on the idea of freedom of expression, and if homosexuals can march proudly down the streets of San Francisco, than I also have the right to proudly declare my opinions, even if they make someone uncomfortable. I believe this universe was created and I believe that the evidence is there to prove it. I also believe that the vast majority of the scientific community is too self-deluded to notice. I believe in the idea of American sovereignty and the freedom of expression being there for every individual regardless of their race, sex, age, or creed, and that does include evangelicals. I believe this country is our country and not a suburb of Mexico or a subordinate of the UN. Whether or not the Supreme Court agrees, the Constitution of the United States is the highest law in this land and the rights in that constitution apply to every legal citizen, and it ends there. If you want those rights, become a citizen…legally. Those rights include self expression and self defense…even in New York and California. The one right I do not have is the right to not be offended, but I do have the right to tell the one who offended me what I think of them.
It looks like America is racing headlong into a time where those rights will be taken away. The liberal elite in both parties are pushing into power a man who does not agree with the rights I just expressed. The pursuit of happiness should be left up to the government. Freedom of expression is all right, as long as he agrees with that expression. Freedom of religion is ok too, just as long as you leave God out of it.
According to them the idea of a vast eternal omnipresent intelligence is nonsense and anyone who ventures over into possibly believing otherwise is, at best, deluded and at worst, a danger to society.
CS Lewis used to believe in the absolute preeminence of the human mind. He was an atheist of the highest caliber, convinced that Darwin was right and that Darwin’s theory was not a mere theory but an established fact. Then his logic got in the way. Mere Christianity (1952) is an interesting read on that subject. What the atheist elite forget is that evolution as they use the word is only a theory and that theory has yet to be proven. I am sure I will be inundated with web links about that, but the fact remains that no link between humanity and the lower primates has ever been found. That is why they have the phrase “the missing link”. While there is a form of evolution within species, the teaching of extraspecies evolution, including human evolution as a fact is a lie. It is as much a lie as teaching Islam as a peaceful religion or teaching socialism as a path to prosperity. Or even worse, teaching global warming as being caused primarily by human development.
Whether or not they choose to believe it, Christians, even evangelical Christians have a right to express their opinion. To my mind they have even more of a right to do so than the so-called shock comics who deluge their audiences with grossly detailed profanity. The idea that this universe has a creator is not a danger to anyone’s life style. If Sarah Palin becomes the Vice President, no one is going to begin purging the strip clubs and bars. School curriculums will not change and daily life in America will continue to go on. So what if some of us choose to believe differently than you? Apparently, to some, that difference should not be allowed to be expressed.
Well, this is one politician who is going to express it and do so proudly, because this country was built on the idea of freedom of expression, and if homosexuals can march proudly down the streets of San Francisco, than I also have the right to proudly declare my opinions, even if they make someone uncomfortable. I believe this universe was created and I believe that the evidence is there to prove it. I also believe that the vast majority of the scientific community is too self-deluded to notice. I believe in the idea of American sovereignty and the freedom of expression being there for every individual regardless of their race, sex, age, or creed, and that does include evangelicals. I believe this country is our country and not a suburb of Mexico or a subordinate of the UN. Whether or not the Supreme Court agrees, the Constitution of the United States is the highest law in this land and the rights in that constitution apply to every legal citizen, and it ends there. If you want those rights, become a citizen…legally. Those rights include self expression and self defense…even in New York and California. The one right I do not have is the right to not be offended, but I do have the right to tell the one who offended me what I think of them.
It looks like America is racing headlong into a time where those rights will be taken away. The liberal elite in both parties are pushing into power a man who does not agree with the rights I just expressed. The pursuit of happiness should be left up to the government. Freedom of expression is all right, as long as he agrees with that expression. Freedom of religion is ok too, just as long as you leave God out of it.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Party Purity? What Party Purity?
Sarah Palin kicked Dem butt during her appearance on Saturday Night Live. The fact that Alex Baldwin, the rabidly liberal member of the Baldwin brothers, mistook Palin for Ms. Fey, is just icing on the cake. Unlike Obama, Palin can handle herself in any crowd and she has proven that.
Unfortunately, some in the GOP feel that Mrs. Palin has made her self unclean by doing the SNL appearance. Where the liberals have their religion, apparently so do some in the conservative ranks. For them, in order to be considered a “true conservative”, one has to adhere to a narrow interpretation of what the Republican credo should be. This bunch also considers Joe the Plumber to be unclean…for what reasons, I can’t imagine. Perhaps they think because he’s a regular guy he’s supposed to shut up and let his betters speak for him. The GOP, just like the Dems has it's own elitists, but where the Dems want to use Marxist philosophy to further its aims, the GOP elitists prefer the NeoCon, Laissez-faire capitalism message, where the corporate board replaces the sheriffs department. Both extremes have been proven disastrous to the average Joe.
The Paluxy River in Glen Rose Texas runs through the middle of Dinosaur Valley State Park. This park is famous for its dinosaur tracks. Those who deride Christians like Sarah Palin would rather not have this park mentioned because human tracks have also been found, not only in the same formation, but on the same bedding plane and in some cases overlapping the dinosaur tracks. Both sets of tracks have to been placed into the mud where they were formed at nearly the same time because of how fossils are made. It is somewhat like putting footprints into a wet concrete slab. Once the concrete dries, that’s it. No more prints.
What is sad is that there are both liberal and NeoCon elitists out there attempting to “erase the footprints”. Here in Nevada laws have been created to further remove the general public from the political process. Members of the Republican Party have been driven out because they made the unforgivable sin of attempting to represent every member of their constituency instead of just the rich and powerful, and the same has happened to a few Democrats. I personally know if members of both parties who have experienced this purging. Is there any wonder why an average of 15% of registered voters bother to vote?
The media elite, the old-line politicos in Washington and the phony experts in the universities have no idea as to what is going on outside of their country club existence. After nearly 60 years of observing human behavior, I can say that I have met more than my share of PHDs who knew nothing. The focus of this collective of idiots is so narrow that they are incapable of seeing reality. Alec Baldwin’s tirade about Sarah Palin, when he thought Palin was Fey, is a prime example. An orthodoxy has to be followed. Whether or not it actually works is beside the point. If you are a Democrat, you have to be for taxes and spending and silencing any voice that disagrees…in spite of that inconvenient first amendment. If you are a Republican, you have to be in favor of treating board members as above the law and everyone else as a serf…in spite of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence.
These people react, they don’t think. Unfortunately, a significant portion of voting citizens does the same.
Unfortunately, some in the GOP feel that Mrs. Palin has made her self unclean by doing the SNL appearance. Where the liberals have their religion, apparently so do some in the conservative ranks. For them, in order to be considered a “true conservative”, one has to adhere to a narrow interpretation of what the Republican credo should be. This bunch also considers Joe the Plumber to be unclean…for what reasons, I can’t imagine. Perhaps they think because he’s a regular guy he’s supposed to shut up and let his betters speak for him. The GOP, just like the Dems has it's own elitists, but where the Dems want to use Marxist philosophy to further its aims, the GOP elitists prefer the NeoCon, Laissez-faire capitalism message, where the corporate board replaces the sheriffs department. Both extremes have been proven disastrous to the average Joe.
The Paluxy River in Glen Rose Texas runs through the middle of Dinosaur Valley State Park. This park is famous for its dinosaur tracks. Those who deride Christians like Sarah Palin would rather not have this park mentioned because human tracks have also been found, not only in the same formation, but on the same bedding plane and in some cases overlapping the dinosaur tracks. Both sets of tracks have to been placed into the mud where they were formed at nearly the same time because of how fossils are made. It is somewhat like putting footprints into a wet concrete slab. Once the concrete dries, that’s it. No more prints.
What is sad is that there are both liberal and NeoCon elitists out there attempting to “erase the footprints”. Here in Nevada laws have been created to further remove the general public from the political process. Members of the Republican Party have been driven out because they made the unforgivable sin of attempting to represent every member of their constituency instead of just the rich and powerful, and the same has happened to a few Democrats. I personally know if members of both parties who have experienced this purging. Is there any wonder why an average of 15% of registered voters bother to vote?
The media elite, the old-line politicos in Washington and the phony experts in the universities have no idea as to what is going on outside of their country club existence. After nearly 60 years of observing human behavior, I can say that I have met more than my share of PHDs who knew nothing. The focus of this collective of idiots is so narrow that they are incapable of seeing reality. Alec Baldwin’s tirade about Sarah Palin, when he thought Palin was Fey, is a prime example. An orthodoxy has to be followed. Whether or not it actually works is beside the point. If you are a Democrat, you have to be for taxes and spending and silencing any voice that disagrees…in spite of that inconvenient first amendment. If you are a Republican, you have to be in favor of treating board members as above the law and everyone else as a serf…in spite of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence.
These people react, they don’t think. Unfortunately, a significant portion of voting citizens does the same.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Should we forgive William Ayers? Hell no.
The other day I was sent an email with a link to yet another ultraliberal article about how evil and hypocritical it is for conservatives to hold Obama’s associations against him. This one focused on his association with Bill Ayers, our suddenly famous retired domestic terrorist. The sender asked if I was willing to state as to whether or not I forgave Mr. Ayers, and if not, why. You should note that Obama lied during the last debate when he stated that he did not launch his campaign from Ayer’s home, and no, I am not going to load my essay down with links. The facts are there if you need to look them up.
At first I said I would not answer the question because typically that question, especially from that specific source is the beginning of a “have you stopped beating your wife?” exchange. It all becomes a circular argument that does nothing but satisfy a personality that uses argument for fun. It goes nowhere.
Liberals who hold hard and fast to the far left agenda find nothing wrong in alliances with people such as Ayers and the hate-monger Reverend Wright. The fact that those individuals hate fundamental America is enough. Anything done for the cause is justified because it all heads toward the greater good. Ayers may or may not have killed or injured anyone, the jury is out on that one. He was never prosecuted for his crimes, so what? He has also never recanted his beliefs and has indicated a quiet support for the Saudi Terrorists who took down the World Trade Center towers on 9-11. For me, that is enough to indict Obama’s judgment. Obama said in a recent statement, “…to avoid being labeled a sellout, I chose my friends carefully.” If this is true, we are looking at our first affirmed Marxist Presidency. Obama, by his own admission, has aligned himself with people who believe in the Marxist philosophy. Obama doesn’t want to be a “sellout”, a phrase deeply ingrained into cult-like, socialist, ultraliberal circles. They agree completely with Obama’s share the wealth plank in his platform. Under an Obama regime, any one who begins to achieve a middleclass income will be forced back into the ranks of the poor. Small business growth will stagnate and medium to large business will die on the vine.
Another statement by Obama is in regards to partial birth abortion, “…I don’t want her punished with a baby…” Think about that phrase, “punished with a baby.” At least he didn’t use the politically correct phrase, pre-viable fetus. For those of you unsure, partial birth abortions involve partially delivering the baby and then killing it by stabbing his/her brain with a pair of surgical scissors. Liberals kept it from being called what it actually is, murder, by insisting that some abortions of that type may have to be carried out for the health of the mother. This, of course is medical nonsense and any doctor worth his degree would have to agree. In order to “partial birth”, the mother has to go through every stress that would be of any danger. At the point of the murder, she would be just as safe if the baby were allowed to live. But, remember, Obama is well aware that babies cannot vote. The Marxist agenda is tied into NOW, NARAL, and all the other radical pro death alliances that depend upon a culture of depravity, hopelessness and dependence.
Sarah Palin became the “most dangerous woman on the earth” because she is a believing Christian. Those who have embraced Obama consider Christianity to be an extreme religion, somehow even more dangerous than radical Islam. Arguments such as the one presented to me really center upon this belief. The fact that we who are more than the two-times-a-year nominal church goers do not immediately reach out and invite people like Mr. Ayers into our households is somehow evidence of our communal hypocrisy. They forget the policy of forgiving the sinner, not the sin. They also forget that even though people may have a faith, it does not mean that they are stupid. Naive, well-intentioned Christians have been attacked, robbed, raped and even murdered in their homes simply because they thought they were fulfilling God’s love by inviting the one who had a history of those actions into their home; it not hypocritical to practice common sense.
If issues such as abortion, economics and alliances are considered carefully in relation to personal faith, it becomes pretty evident that the real problem the liberal have is the existence of Christianity. Even though other religions such as Judaism and Islam also contain the idea of God only allowing true believers into heaven, it is Christianity that is the one singled out by the liberal for condemnation. The simple act of having that faith is enough to remove you from consideration for elective office, at least where the liberal is concerned. On its face, that is pure, unadulterated bigotry. If you are pro-life, than you must somehow think that those who are not are evil sinners whom God is going to punish in eternal fire, if you are pro-(fill in the favorite amendment here), the same indictment applies.
All specious arguments aside, what it comes down to is this: you can and must judge those who want to govern you by their associations. If I learned anything during my time in office, that is the most important. It is a test that is 100% accurate, and you can take that to the bank every time.
At first I said I would not answer the question because typically that question, especially from that specific source is the beginning of a “have you stopped beating your wife?” exchange. It all becomes a circular argument that does nothing but satisfy a personality that uses argument for fun. It goes nowhere.
Liberals who hold hard and fast to the far left agenda find nothing wrong in alliances with people such as Ayers and the hate-monger Reverend Wright. The fact that those individuals hate fundamental America is enough. Anything done for the cause is justified because it all heads toward the greater good. Ayers may or may not have killed or injured anyone, the jury is out on that one. He was never prosecuted for his crimes, so what? He has also never recanted his beliefs and has indicated a quiet support for the Saudi Terrorists who took down the World Trade Center towers on 9-11. For me, that is enough to indict Obama’s judgment. Obama said in a recent statement, “…to avoid being labeled a sellout, I chose my friends carefully.” If this is true, we are looking at our first affirmed Marxist Presidency. Obama, by his own admission, has aligned himself with people who believe in the Marxist philosophy. Obama doesn’t want to be a “sellout”, a phrase deeply ingrained into cult-like, socialist, ultraliberal circles. They agree completely with Obama’s share the wealth plank in his platform. Under an Obama regime, any one who begins to achieve a middleclass income will be forced back into the ranks of the poor. Small business growth will stagnate and medium to large business will die on the vine.
Another statement by Obama is in regards to partial birth abortion, “…I don’t want her punished with a baby…” Think about that phrase, “punished with a baby.” At least he didn’t use the politically correct phrase, pre-viable fetus. For those of you unsure, partial birth abortions involve partially delivering the baby and then killing it by stabbing his/her brain with a pair of surgical scissors. Liberals kept it from being called what it actually is, murder, by insisting that some abortions of that type may have to be carried out for the health of the mother. This, of course is medical nonsense and any doctor worth his degree would have to agree. In order to “partial birth”, the mother has to go through every stress that would be of any danger. At the point of the murder, she would be just as safe if the baby were allowed to live. But, remember, Obama is well aware that babies cannot vote. The Marxist agenda is tied into NOW, NARAL, and all the other radical pro death alliances that depend upon a culture of depravity, hopelessness and dependence.
Sarah Palin became the “most dangerous woman on the earth” because she is a believing Christian. Those who have embraced Obama consider Christianity to be an extreme religion, somehow even more dangerous than radical Islam. Arguments such as the one presented to me really center upon this belief. The fact that we who are more than the two-times-a-year nominal church goers do not immediately reach out and invite people like Mr. Ayers into our households is somehow evidence of our communal hypocrisy. They forget the policy of forgiving the sinner, not the sin. They also forget that even though people may have a faith, it does not mean that they are stupid. Naive, well-intentioned Christians have been attacked, robbed, raped and even murdered in their homes simply because they thought they were fulfilling God’s love by inviting the one who had a history of those actions into their home; it not hypocritical to practice common sense.
If issues such as abortion, economics and alliances are considered carefully in relation to personal faith, it becomes pretty evident that the real problem the liberal have is the existence of Christianity. Even though other religions such as Judaism and Islam also contain the idea of God only allowing true believers into heaven, it is Christianity that is the one singled out by the liberal for condemnation. The simple act of having that faith is enough to remove you from consideration for elective office, at least where the liberal is concerned. On its face, that is pure, unadulterated bigotry. If you are pro-life, than you must somehow think that those who are not are evil sinners whom God is going to punish in eternal fire, if you are pro-(fill in the favorite amendment here), the same indictment applies.
All specious arguments aside, what it comes down to is this: you can and must judge those who want to govern you by their associations. If I learned anything during my time in office, that is the most important. It is a test that is 100% accurate, and you can take that to the bank every time.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
It’s too late for McCain
It’s too late for McCain.
Real conservatism has taken a death blow and the one swinging the blade is the GOP. If you are a citizen who voted for Reagan then you should feel betrayed. John McCain has been around Washington for over a quarter of a century. He has styled himself as the maverick, the reformer, and the anti-politician. It may play well in Arizona, but that is also where McCain’s big campaign contributors own large farms and factories in need of really cheap labor. You know, those people who need labor that will do the jobs Americans won’t do.
McCain rose high enough in the senate ranks to be well aware of the shenanigans going on the cloakrooms in relation to the gestating Wall Street disaster. He saw who was paying off whom and for what. He didn’t say or do a thing then, and he hasn’t now. He has no plans to do or say anything about going after the real criminals in this enterprise. Wrongs have been done and where is McCain?
We know where Obama was and it is understandable why he’s silent on this issue...he was one of those who caused it. Obama is in this up to his big ears and he has made a fortune off of it; he’s loving this. McCain was actually catching Obama and it was beginning to look like he might pass him, and then the crash came. The numbers reset and McCain has stayed an average of 6 points behind.
Sarah Palin could have saved McCain’s bacon, but she made the fatal mistake of being so superior a candidate she embarrassed her boss, so she was silenced, except for the occasional inconsequential interview. Allowing Palin to do the talk show circuit and blanket the country with her message was too dangerous, she is far more charismatic than McCain could ever hope to be, and she identifies with a demographic he never will, Middle America.
I predicted a McCain/Palin victory, but that was when I still thought the GOP would allow Palin to do what she is so capable of doing, bringing in the independent voters. Obama will get over 90% of the black vote regardless of what he has or will do. That is a racist attitude no amount of charisma can break through. You should vote for someone because of how they will handle the issues, not the color of their skin. Oh, and “change” is not an issue, it’s a slogan.
We are very likely going to see the first black, socialist American president. Obama is a dead cert unless something miraculous happens in the McCain camp. But since the GOP has little more than contempt for independent America, I see small chance of that happening.
Real conservatism has taken a death blow and the one swinging the blade is the GOP. If you are a citizen who voted for Reagan then you should feel betrayed. John McCain has been around Washington for over a quarter of a century. He has styled himself as the maverick, the reformer, and the anti-politician. It may play well in Arizona, but that is also where McCain’s big campaign contributors own large farms and factories in need of really cheap labor. You know, those people who need labor that will do the jobs Americans won’t do.
McCain rose high enough in the senate ranks to be well aware of the shenanigans going on the cloakrooms in relation to the gestating Wall Street disaster. He saw who was paying off whom and for what. He didn’t say or do a thing then, and he hasn’t now. He has no plans to do or say anything about going after the real criminals in this enterprise. Wrongs have been done and where is McCain?
We know where Obama was and it is understandable why he’s silent on this issue...he was one of those who caused it. Obama is in this up to his big ears and he has made a fortune off of it; he’s loving this. McCain was actually catching Obama and it was beginning to look like he might pass him, and then the crash came. The numbers reset and McCain has stayed an average of 6 points behind.
Sarah Palin could have saved McCain’s bacon, but she made the fatal mistake of being so superior a candidate she embarrassed her boss, so she was silenced, except for the occasional inconsequential interview. Allowing Palin to do the talk show circuit and blanket the country with her message was too dangerous, she is far more charismatic than McCain could ever hope to be, and she identifies with a demographic he never will, Middle America.
I predicted a McCain/Palin victory, but that was when I still thought the GOP would allow Palin to do what she is so capable of doing, bringing in the independent voters. Obama will get over 90% of the black vote regardless of what he has or will do. That is a racist attitude no amount of charisma can break through. You should vote for someone because of how they will handle the issues, not the color of their skin. Oh, and “change” is not an issue, it’s a slogan.
We are very likely going to see the first black, socialist American president. Obama is a dead cert unless something miraculous happens in the McCain camp. But since the GOP has little more than contempt for independent America, I see small chance of that happening.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Are you better off now?
How well off are you with the “experienced” running the country? Are you paying less for a gallon of gas than you were 8 years ago? How’s your saving account? Do you feel prepared for retirement? What about the kids? Can they read? Are they giving you a heart warming feeling as you see them stepping out to take over where you have left off?
I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking that we are in a world of trouble and the floor is just about ready to drop out from beneath us. George W. Bush spent this morning attempting to sell the idea that printing nearly a trillion greenbacks will help the economy and that allowing the government to become the majority shareholder in private business is good business. Yes, and the government’s takeover of the education system has done so well.
This message is coming from the same “conservative” that insisted that an open, unsecured border is only good business, that we have to allow millions of wetbacks across the Rio Grande because they are willing to “do those jobs that Americans won’t do”. He failed to add “at that price”. This is the same “conservative” that has continued to ignore T. Boone Pickens’ message about how to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil. We do not need a government more attune to foreign voices than those of its citizenry. Unfortunately, since Ronald Reagan, that is all we’ve had.
Obama and McCain are both bad choices. The primary difference between the two is that McCain is slightly less bad. Neither one of them believes in a truly sovereign America. Both have a vision of a world government. McCain wants to further Bush’s plan to unite Mexico, Canada and the U.S. into one European-style union. Obama wants to hand the reins over to the UN. The only bright spot is Sarah Palin. I’m not sure what McCain was thinking, but in this one he struck gold. Any time the party heads go into cardiac arrest over a candidate’s choice of a running mate, you know they’ve chosen well. Palin is that rare combination of spirit, experience and faith. She not only understands what is needed to make America work, she has proven her ability to step on all the right toes to get it done.
Here in Nevada we have term limits. I think they still allow far too many trips to the trough. Each politician gets to serve 12 years in each office. That’s a lot of graft. In 2012, Nevada gets a clean slate. Every chairperson in the legislature will be kicked out that year. A couple of suits brought to the state Supreme Court challenging the limits have already failed. The people spoke, not just once, but twice according to the constitution. Being in the legislature, I was privy to what the politicos really think about the people. The opinions are not complimentary. They think the voters are at best, fools. Party leaders like Senator Bill Raggio and Assemblywoman Heidi Gansert have forced through legislation intended to remove the people’s ability to make fundamental decisions about their own future. Both are deeply invested into the culture of corruption and both believe term limits are somehow unconstitutional. Perhaps they also believe they are somehow better than you, just like those porkers in Washington.
I was asked yesterday by a member of the mortgage industry how we could get ourselves out of this mess. I told him that we needed to begin with a new governor. He agreed. As long as the voters stay away from the polls, the crooks will continue to win and we will continue to lose. Sarah Palin, for my money, is the only bright spot in this entire presidential race. How’s that savings account looking?
I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking that we are in a world of trouble and the floor is just about ready to drop out from beneath us. George W. Bush spent this morning attempting to sell the idea that printing nearly a trillion greenbacks will help the economy and that allowing the government to become the majority shareholder in private business is good business. Yes, and the government’s takeover of the education system has done so well.
This message is coming from the same “conservative” that insisted that an open, unsecured border is only good business, that we have to allow millions of wetbacks across the Rio Grande because they are willing to “do those jobs that Americans won’t do”. He failed to add “at that price”. This is the same “conservative” that has continued to ignore T. Boone Pickens’ message about how to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil. We do not need a government more attune to foreign voices than those of its citizenry. Unfortunately, since Ronald Reagan, that is all we’ve had.
Obama and McCain are both bad choices. The primary difference between the two is that McCain is slightly less bad. Neither one of them believes in a truly sovereign America. Both have a vision of a world government. McCain wants to further Bush’s plan to unite Mexico, Canada and the U.S. into one European-style union. Obama wants to hand the reins over to the UN. The only bright spot is Sarah Palin. I’m not sure what McCain was thinking, but in this one he struck gold. Any time the party heads go into cardiac arrest over a candidate’s choice of a running mate, you know they’ve chosen well. Palin is that rare combination of spirit, experience and faith. She not only understands what is needed to make America work, she has proven her ability to step on all the right toes to get it done.
Here in Nevada we have term limits. I think they still allow far too many trips to the trough. Each politician gets to serve 12 years in each office. That’s a lot of graft. In 2012, Nevada gets a clean slate. Every chairperson in the legislature will be kicked out that year. A couple of suits brought to the state Supreme Court challenging the limits have already failed. The people spoke, not just once, but twice according to the constitution. Being in the legislature, I was privy to what the politicos really think about the people. The opinions are not complimentary. They think the voters are at best, fools. Party leaders like Senator Bill Raggio and Assemblywoman Heidi Gansert have forced through legislation intended to remove the people’s ability to make fundamental decisions about their own future. Both are deeply invested into the culture of corruption and both believe term limits are somehow unconstitutional. Perhaps they also believe they are somehow better than you, just like those porkers in Washington.
I was asked yesterday by a member of the mortgage industry how we could get ourselves out of this mess. I told him that we needed to begin with a new governor. He agreed. As long as the voters stay away from the polls, the crooks will continue to win and we will continue to lose. Sarah Palin, for my money, is the only bright spot in this entire presidential race. How’s that savings account looking?
Friday, October 10, 2008
A Tiny Acorn Grows…
Look for charges of massive voter fraud from the Obama campaign when McCain and Palin win this November. The race will be tight, but Middle America, the forgotten voter, ignored by both parties where legislation is concerned, will not be able to swallow the lack of substance in the Obama message. It will be Sarah Palin who gives the White House to McCain. If he had gone with the running mate the party leadership desired, McCain would lose the race for the Presidency by over 20 points. If the McCain campaign would allow Mrs. Palin to be herself and let her campaign as she has already proven she can…Obama would be the one losing by a landslide. He knows that and has already prepared his plan B.
Obama has approximately 9000 lawyers in the wings with briefs already prepared to file when McCain/Palin win. They are going to claim racism, poll-fixing, intimidation and fraud on the part of the GOP. The intimidation charge is the interesting one. Apparently it is intimidation if you have oversight at the polls, especially if that oversight actually does its job by making sure that those voting are legally entitled to do so.
Here in my local region of Las Vegas, Obama’s Acorn grew into a clone of the Dallas Cowboys. The Democrat voter rolls in Nevada grew exponentially as Acorn workers managed to sign, in some cases, several people with the same identities as the football players. According to Acorn, the quarterback, Tony Romo, was so enthusiastic for Obama that he registered a number of times.
Just like Obama’s support of Bill Ayers, even after such support went far into the arena of interest conflict, his Acorn has continued to work against the interests of America in favor of a socialist agenda. Breaking the law, to them, is not immoral if you do so for “the cause”. This is roughly the same mindset as what is held by those who send children out to blow themselves up in the middle of open air restaurants.
Obama’s fingerprints are all over this current crisis, but so is most of the Bush Administration. People are angry in this country for a reason, and the McCain camp is ignoring them. If McCain’s handlers do what they know they should do, that anger will be focused properly and the thieves at Acorn, Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac and the Fed will go to prison as they should.
Don’t look for any changes in the McCain camp. Too many of them are also guilty of enabling this mess. The truth be told, they do not like Palin’s honesty, hence her muzzling. Good old-fashioned common sense and the principles this country was founded upon, things both the D’s and the GOP have forgotten, could erase this crisis overnight, therefore, look for it to drag on, and on, and on. This Acorn has produced exactly the oak Obama wanted.
Obama has approximately 9000 lawyers in the wings with briefs already prepared to file when McCain/Palin win. They are going to claim racism, poll-fixing, intimidation and fraud on the part of the GOP. The intimidation charge is the interesting one. Apparently it is intimidation if you have oversight at the polls, especially if that oversight actually does its job by making sure that those voting are legally entitled to do so.
Here in my local region of Las Vegas, Obama’s Acorn grew into a clone of the Dallas Cowboys. The Democrat voter rolls in Nevada grew exponentially as Acorn workers managed to sign, in some cases, several people with the same identities as the football players. According to Acorn, the quarterback, Tony Romo, was so enthusiastic for Obama that he registered a number of times.
Just like Obama’s support of Bill Ayers, even after such support went far into the arena of interest conflict, his Acorn has continued to work against the interests of America in favor of a socialist agenda. Breaking the law, to them, is not immoral if you do so for “the cause”. This is roughly the same mindset as what is held by those who send children out to blow themselves up in the middle of open air restaurants.
Obama’s fingerprints are all over this current crisis, but so is most of the Bush Administration. People are angry in this country for a reason, and the McCain camp is ignoring them. If McCain’s handlers do what they know they should do, that anger will be focused properly and the thieves at Acorn, Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac and the Fed will go to prison as they should.
Don’t look for any changes in the McCain camp. Too many of them are also guilty of enabling this mess. The truth be told, they do not like Palin’s honesty, hence her muzzling. Good old-fashioned common sense and the principles this country was founded upon, things both the D’s and the GOP have forgotten, could erase this crisis overnight, therefore, look for it to drag on, and on, and on. This Acorn has produced exactly the oak Obama wanted.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
The Case Against Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Heath PalinA privileged White American, who has not shared the black American experience, a 20 year member of a church with a history of preaching hate, a woman whose upbringing and associations separates her from any understanding of the struggles of middle America, much less the poor, a woman who began her political career by associating with and maintaining alliances with domestic terrorists, and whose dealings have a direct tie with the current financial crisis. A woman who has accomplished nothing while holding government office and whose only political attraction seems to be her poise and appearance, a woman completely unqualified to be a heartbeat away from the highest office in this land.
Many people would read that above paragraph and nod their head in complete agreement. The only problem is, where Sarah Palin is concerned, none of it is true. Every one of those attributes can be laid at the feet of Barrack Hussein Obama. All I did was change the association to make a point. If all of that baggage did exist in Palin’s closet, we would see it plastered across the media in every possible form 24 hours a day. The same news anchors who either wink at Obama’s past or ignore it completely, would be howling for Palin’s blood. A “Palin Watch” would be established and Dan Rather would be resurrected to report on the impending indictment. Every one in Wasilla City, Alaska right down to the town drunk would be interviewed ad nauseum in the search for more dirt on the “most dangerous woman in the world”. But, you hand that baggage to a young black man with a D next to his name and it could not be more inconsequential.
Isn’t it wonderful that we live in a country with such an objective media?
Many people would read that above paragraph and nod their head in complete agreement. The only problem is, where Sarah Palin is concerned, none of it is true. Every one of those attributes can be laid at the feet of Barrack Hussein Obama. All I did was change the association to make a point. If all of that baggage did exist in Palin’s closet, we would see it plastered across the media in every possible form 24 hours a day. The same news anchors who either wink at Obama’s past or ignore it completely, would be howling for Palin’s blood. A “Palin Watch” would be established and Dan Rather would be resurrected to report on the impending indictment. Every one in Wasilla City, Alaska right down to the town drunk would be interviewed ad nauseum in the search for more dirt on the “most dangerous woman in the world”. But, you hand that baggage to a young black man with a D next to his name and it could not be more inconsequential.
Isn’t it wonderful that we live in a country with such an objective media?
Friday, October 3, 2008
A Sarah Palin Knockout
I would be interested in knowing what your opinions are about the Vice Presidential Debate held last night. We have all seen the polls and I consider every single one of the posted results, except one suspect at best. First of all, the samplings were of less than 500 people as in CBS’ poll and secondly, it would be like asking Al-Qaeda for an opinion on Judaism and then posting the result as a world view.
Every major network except Fox has Biden winning decisively over Palin. The problem is that every major network except Fox is owned and run by people who have declared their support for Obama. The Moderator of the debate published a book proclaiming Obama’s superior leadership qualities. Frankly, Palin was not being put in front of a friendly audience. She was supposed to be the sacrificial lamb. She did not go along with PBS’ plan.
She came across as a woman with a Ronald Reagan style sense of humor. She upset the media elite terribly by not going along with the question bombs of Gwen Ifill. She has endured slander, libel, threats of violence, and denigration. The network talking heads looked and sounded furious because Palin, in spite of Ifill’s leading questions, stuck to the issues with a down home folksy attitude that has born incredible results in real America. The Drudge Report poll has her leading Biden 226,563 to a puny 92,471. Those are numbers that have a far more viable impact than MSNBC’s silly instapoll.
You thought the left hated her before. Just think what they are feeling now? They thought the Katie Couric interview had showed the real woman that was hiding behind the GOP’s teleprompter. To their horrified shock, the real woman was the one of the convention and not what Couric’s editing had produced. The comments posted on the networks’ forums tell the story, “…rude…condescending…didn’t listen to the moderator…” Of course they’re upset. They had a nice juicy target all set up and ready for the kill…and then she, not they, attacked. It’s not fair. Oh, just for the record, Biden, the admitted plagerist, is also a liar. If anyone remembers the Democrat debates, Obama not only said that he would meet with Iran's leader, but he also included North Korea in that offer. Biden's assertion to the contrary was not just politics, it was a lie.
What do you think?
Every major network except Fox has Biden winning decisively over Palin. The problem is that every major network except Fox is owned and run by people who have declared their support for Obama. The Moderator of the debate published a book proclaiming Obama’s superior leadership qualities. Frankly, Palin was not being put in front of a friendly audience. She was supposed to be the sacrificial lamb. She did not go along with PBS’ plan.
She came across as a woman with a Ronald Reagan style sense of humor. She upset the media elite terribly by not going along with the question bombs of Gwen Ifill. She has endured slander, libel, threats of violence, and denigration. The network talking heads looked and sounded furious because Palin, in spite of Ifill’s leading questions, stuck to the issues with a down home folksy attitude that has born incredible results in real America. The Drudge Report poll has her leading Biden 226,563 to a puny 92,471. Those are numbers that have a far more viable impact than MSNBC’s silly instapoll.
You thought the left hated her before. Just think what they are feeling now? They thought the Katie Couric interview had showed the real woman that was hiding behind the GOP’s teleprompter. To their horrified shock, the real woman was the one of the convention and not what Couric’s editing had produced. The comments posted on the networks’ forums tell the story, “…rude…condescending…didn’t listen to the moderator…” Of course they’re upset. They had a nice juicy target all set up and ready for the kill…and then she, not they, attacked. It’s not fair. Oh, just for the record, Biden, the admitted plagerist, is also a liar. If anyone remembers the Democrat debates, Obama not only said that he would meet with Iran's leader, but he also included North Korea in that offer. Biden's assertion to the contrary was not just politics, it was a lie.
What do you think?
Thursday, October 2, 2008
An Objective Media? Not a chance.
Webster’s Dictionary has a definition of the term “objective” as this: expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations.
The news media of today needs to learn to use that resource. Based on Webster’s definition we do not have an objective media. Since the days that brought us the term “yellow journalism”, publishers have played fast and loose with the truth simply to further their own personal agendas. An example of this was William Randolph Hearst’s response to illustrator Frederic Remington's request to return from a Havana that was quiet, "Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war."
Bill O’Reilly writes that around 80% of the media is nonobjective. I disagree. Bill is only looking at the left side of the equation. The figure is much closer to 100%. The amount of objective reporting is so minute that it isn’t worth considering. Most of it is reserved to the comics page.
In the upcoming Vice Presidential debate, the Democrats would not even consider allowing a moderator with a history of fairness. The Republicans insisting on someone outside of the liberal media as moderator would have made the debate a non-starter. If they had said Fox News or nothing, we would have seen the end of presidential debates for the foreseeable future.
I find the lefties version of fairness sadly lacking in the equality quotient. To them, an 80-20 split is somehow grossly weighed over to the 20% side. The right has Fox. The left has CBS, NBC, MSNBC, TNT, ABC, etc., nearly all the radio networks and over 80% of the newspapers. Yet somehow the right has an unfair advantage. True equality, to them, is discrimination. To the left, the ability to answer their arguments with one of your own is not fair.
There is no truly objective reporting any more. I witnessed that first hand as a Nevada Assemblyman. Ed Vogel, a reporter with the Las Vegas Review Journal, teamed up with the Treasurer of the GOP in Nevada to phony up an ethics charge against me. If this had been done outside of a political campaign, those individual would have been guilty of a crime...but we are talking about the media here. Molly Ball, a reporter for the Review Journal and Jon Ralston, a columnist for The Sun, both have drunken driving citations on their records and both have gone after representatives for assumed misjudgment. The “pot calling the kettle” squared. Reporters with no experience whatsoever in public education regularly trash teachers in these rags, while at the same time they are earning easily twice the salary of those people they lambaste…while working half the hours.
Moving to the national stage, we have seen article after article about how dangerous Sarah Palin is, while not one paper writing that has brought up Obama’s connection to Acorn and Clinton’s executive order beginning the process that melted down our economy. Not one of those papers has brought to mind Biden’s plagiarism. In Obama and Biden’s cases, those items are public record; everything they have against Palin is supposition at best. The elite hate conservatism. The elite media hate conservatism with a depth of loathing that surpasses what the Islamists feel about Israel, and they will do what they can, short of violence, to destroy it utterly.
The news media of today needs to learn to use that resource. Based on Webster’s definition we do not have an objective media. Since the days that brought us the term “yellow journalism”, publishers have played fast and loose with the truth simply to further their own personal agendas. An example of this was William Randolph Hearst’s response to illustrator Frederic Remington's request to return from a Havana that was quiet, "Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war."
Bill O’Reilly writes that around 80% of the media is nonobjective. I disagree. Bill is only looking at the left side of the equation. The figure is much closer to 100%. The amount of objective reporting is so minute that it isn’t worth considering. Most of it is reserved to the comics page.
In the upcoming Vice Presidential debate, the Democrats would not even consider allowing a moderator with a history of fairness. The Republicans insisting on someone outside of the liberal media as moderator would have made the debate a non-starter. If they had said Fox News or nothing, we would have seen the end of presidential debates for the foreseeable future.
I find the lefties version of fairness sadly lacking in the equality quotient. To them, an 80-20 split is somehow grossly weighed over to the 20% side. The right has Fox. The left has CBS, NBC, MSNBC, TNT, ABC, etc., nearly all the radio networks and over 80% of the newspapers. Yet somehow the right has an unfair advantage. True equality, to them, is discrimination. To the left, the ability to answer their arguments with one of your own is not fair.
There is no truly objective reporting any more. I witnessed that first hand as a Nevada Assemblyman. Ed Vogel, a reporter with the Las Vegas Review Journal, teamed up with the Treasurer of the GOP in Nevada to phony up an ethics charge against me. If this had been done outside of a political campaign, those individual would have been guilty of a crime...but we are talking about the media here. Molly Ball, a reporter for the Review Journal and Jon Ralston, a columnist for The Sun, both have drunken driving citations on their records and both have gone after representatives for assumed misjudgment. The “pot calling the kettle” squared. Reporters with no experience whatsoever in public education regularly trash teachers in these rags, while at the same time they are earning easily twice the salary of those people they lambaste…while working half the hours.
Moving to the national stage, we have seen article after article about how dangerous Sarah Palin is, while not one paper writing that has brought up Obama’s connection to Acorn and Clinton’s executive order beginning the process that melted down our economy. Not one of those papers has brought to mind Biden’s plagiarism. In Obama and Biden’s cases, those items are public record; everything they have against Palin is supposition at best. The elite hate conservatism. The elite media hate conservatism with a depth of loathing that surpasses what the Islamists feel about Israel, and they will do what they can, short of violence, to destroy it utterly.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Extreme Right-Wing Idealogue
"Extreme right-wing ideologue who’s grossly under qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency."
That is the quote from the cartoon strip Over the Hedge about every left-wingers' nightmare. For those of you not familiar with the feature, it is a moderately well drawn animal strip that rarely causes a laugh. It's not Peanuts or Bloom County, but whose material is? In the strip the cartoonist uses a Canadian goose to spew his DNC talking point. As with every other left-wing ideologue, he has no direct knowledge of anything Sara Palin has done to be a danger to America of the American way of life.
One commentator demanded that I check out a long list of links he sent me that proved how dangerous this woman was. The material in the links? Every one of them a rehash of MoveOn.org and DailyKos innuendos and rumors.
What makes this woman so dangerous? From the social lefties: 1-She has a distinct view of good versus evil. 2-She is unembarrassed about expressing her Christian faith.
And that is about it. All the arguments against her can be distilled down into the two categories listed above. A sub category, her lack of qualifications is barely worth mentioning except for the fact that the left continues to hammer away at it. John Kennedy, the Democrats version of Ronald Reagan, had less executive experience than Mrs. Palin, and he ran for the Presidency. Obama has served less than a complete term as a freshman Senator. He has less executive experience than a 7-11 manager. So what makes Sarah Palin so extremely unqualified?
One factor alluded to in several failed attempts at humor by left-wing commentators and Hollywood Mensa rejects is where she comes from. Alaska is not a state most people mention when they talk about great shopping and haute cuisine. For the left it is far more important to know how to discern between a fine pinot grigio and a chardonnay than to be able to run a state, especially one as riddled with wilderness as Alaska. The woman knows how to shoot a gun for God’s sake! She prays before meals!
About that good versus evil thing, doesn’t she know that there is no such thing? Everything is relative. Well, ok, there’s evil, but it’s all contained within the right-wing fringe that still believes in a living, active, creationist God. Those girls who have their genitals cut away without anesthetic in Muslim countries? That’s cultural and nothing to do with us. 911? That was our fault, and if we hadn’t been so imperialistic and just let the Imams destroy Israel like they wanted to, it wouldn’t have happened.
Evil exists and it is growing in strength. All the rationalizing in the universe will not change that fact. One of Palin’s greatest strengths is her ability to see a clear world view, and that scares the bowels right out of people like Nancy Pelosi.
The left seems to have forgotten that John F. Kennedy was also a Christian. He was the only professing Catholic ever elected. What bothers the left is not so much that Sarah Palin admits to being a (shudder) Christian, but that she is not a Democrat and a Christian. All the rest is simply hyperbole and semantics. The people writing the talking points know all about the separation of powers. They know the constitutional separation of church and state was put in place to protect the believer from the state and not the other way around. They know that life is a miracle and they know that an intelligence far greater than anything they could ever imagine had a hand in their existence, and they can’t stand it. That is the main reason they hate and fear people like Sarah Palin. She is the mirror that exposes every one of their glaring faults.
That is the quote from the cartoon strip Over the Hedge about every left-wingers' nightmare. For those of you not familiar with the feature, it is a moderately well drawn animal strip that rarely causes a laugh. It's not Peanuts or Bloom County, but whose material is? In the strip the cartoonist uses a Canadian goose to spew his DNC talking point. As with every other left-wing ideologue, he has no direct knowledge of anything Sara Palin has done to be a danger to America of the American way of life.
One commentator demanded that I check out a long list of links he sent me that proved how dangerous this woman was. The material in the links? Every one of them a rehash of MoveOn.org and DailyKos innuendos and rumors.
What makes this woman so dangerous? From the social lefties: 1-She has a distinct view of good versus evil. 2-She is unembarrassed about expressing her Christian faith.
And that is about it. All the arguments against her can be distilled down into the two categories listed above. A sub category, her lack of qualifications is barely worth mentioning except for the fact that the left continues to hammer away at it. John Kennedy, the Democrats version of Ronald Reagan, had less executive experience than Mrs. Palin, and he ran for the Presidency. Obama has served less than a complete term as a freshman Senator. He has less executive experience than a 7-11 manager. So what makes Sarah Palin so extremely unqualified?
One factor alluded to in several failed attempts at humor by left-wing commentators and Hollywood Mensa rejects is where she comes from. Alaska is not a state most people mention when they talk about great shopping and haute cuisine. For the left it is far more important to know how to discern between a fine pinot grigio and a chardonnay than to be able to run a state, especially one as riddled with wilderness as Alaska. The woman knows how to shoot a gun for God’s sake! She prays before meals!
About that good versus evil thing, doesn’t she know that there is no such thing? Everything is relative. Well, ok, there’s evil, but it’s all contained within the right-wing fringe that still believes in a living, active, creationist God. Those girls who have their genitals cut away without anesthetic in Muslim countries? That’s cultural and nothing to do with us. 911? That was our fault, and if we hadn’t been so imperialistic and just let the Imams destroy Israel like they wanted to, it wouldn’t have happened.
Evil exists and it is growing in strength. All the rationalizing in the universe will not change that fact. One of Palin’s greatest strengths is her ability to see a clear world view, and that scares the bowels right out of people like Nancy Pelosi.
The left seems to have forgotten that John F. Kennedy was also a Christian. He was the only professing Catholic ever elected. What bothers the left is not so much that Sarah Palin admits to being a (shudder) Christian, but that she is not a Democrat and a Christian. All the rest is simply hyperbole and semantics. The people writing the talking points know all about the separation of powers. They know the constitutional separation of church and state was put in place to protect the believer from the state and not the other way around. They know that life is a miracle and they know that an intelligence far greater than anything they could ever imagine had a hand in their existence, and they can’t stand it. That is the main reason they hate and fear people like Sarah Palin. She is the mirror that exposes every one of their glaring faults.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Palin too good for McCain, she's one of those.
When John McCain first revealed his choice for Vice President, Sarah Palin revitalized a dying campaign. A significant portion of conservatives decided they could finally hold their collective noses and vote for the GOP ticket. Suddenly the republicans were not watching the Obama train disappear over the horizon, they were leaving it in the dust.
So, what happened? Why is Obama out in front yet again? He has done nothing different in his campaign from the beginning. Change is still the only item on his plank. What sort of change? He's not saying and you're a racist if you need any more information. Palin was the only change in the McCain campaign and it was a huge one. The voters did not want someone who had a history of being too cozy with the UN. They did not want someone who had essentially the same circle of friends in his stable as Bush Jr., but they were willing to go with him if he had a running mate with a history of actually representing the middle class...and winning the fight.
Apparently Sarah was too much for McCain's buddies. She has been shoved into the closet with a rag stuffed into her mouth. The old boys club, emphasis on "old", Palin had become almost as much a danger as Obama. The race had become Palin versus Obama. Didn't this Alaskan skirt realize who the presidential candidate was? As clueless as ever, the McCain campaign decided to silence the only weapon in their arsenal.
If Sarah Palin was allowed to take the lead in the campaign, Obama would now be 20 points behind and falling. She had exactly the combination of wit, wisdom and poise that America loves to see in leadership. The problem is, she is not John McCain. She is supposed to be the running mate. She is supposed to be tagging along on McCain's coattails. It is not supposed to be the other way around. Shame on you Mrs. Palin! Get into that closet and shut up.
Well, that is one way to lose an election.
So, what happened? Why is Obama out in front yet again? He has done nothing different in his campaign from the beginning. Change is still the only item on his plank. What sort of change? He's not saying and you're a racist if you need any more information. Palin was the only change in the McCain campaign and it was a huge one. The voters did not want someone who had a history of being too cozy with the UN. They did not want someone who had essentially the same circle of friends in his stable as Bush Jr., but they were willing to go with him if he had a running mate with a history of actually representing the middle class...and winning the fight.
Apparently Sarah was too much for McCain's buddies. She has been shoved into the closet with a rag stuffed into her mouth. The old boys club, emphasis on "old", Palin had become almost as much a danger as Obama. The race had become Palin versus Obama. Didn't this Alaskan skirt realize who the presidential candidate was? As clueless as ever, the McCain campaign decided to silence the only weapon in their arsenal.
If Sarah Palin was allowed to take the lead in the campaign, Obama would now be 20 points behind and falling. She had exactly the combination of wit, wisdom and poise that America loves to see in leadership. The problem is, she is not John McCain. She is supposed to be the running mate. She is supposed to be tagging along on McCain's coattails. It is not supposed to be the other way around. Shame on you Mrs. Palin! Get into that closet and shut up.
Well, that is one way to lose an election.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Obama as Jesus??? Give me a break!
Hyperbole is not a lost art where the Democrat party is concerned. Over the years the ability to overstate, exaggerate, and obfuscate has been honed to an exceptional talent. If this were not so the latest dismissal of Sarah Palin by the gurus of the left, Susan Sarandon, Matt Damon, Barbara Streisand, all vast intellects I’m sure, would never have been uttered; “Pontius Pilot was a governor, Jesus was a community organizer.”
I knew Obama had been placed onto a platform so high by the Democrats that JFK would have to use a telescope to see it, but to put this do-nothing on a level with the Son of God…please. Let’s looks at Obama’s career for a second. He has been nothing but a mouth his entire political career. Where is the single accomplishment outside of being elected to the Senate? What wrong has he righted? Where is the corruption he has exposed and then abolished?
Ok, he speaks well…when he has a prepared script. When he’s hit with a surprise question he makes George Bush look absolutely eloquent. Palin, on the other hand, is so far better than Obama at speaking off the cuff that it isn’t even a contest. With Obama we are treated to a long sequence of “…but…but…but…but…” Yeah, that sort of leadership will bring about change.
Jesus offered solutions, even if those solutions were not all that popular with the ruling elite of his day. Hmm, sounds more like a Palin than an Obama to me. Jesus saw the corruption in the temple and rolled up his sleeves to clear it out, with a whip. Obama saw the corruption and entered into partnerships with The Nation of Islam and assorted Politicians while he was “community organizing”. Does the name Judas Iscariot come to mind? Palin went after the bridge to nowhere, a plumb project for Senator Stevens of Alaska, one of the most powerful Republican members of the senate at the time, and a member of Palin’s own Party. Pilot would not have done that, not as a loyal Roman.
Seems to me that if comparisons are to be offered, the similarities should be switched. Obama is a loyal Democrat and has a voting record consistent with party purity and is absolutely partisan, in spite of the rhetoric. Palin, on the other hand, has a record of battling her own party when it comes to a matter of right versus wrong. Unlike others who have done that and lost, she won, and the Sanhedrin, the media elite, cannot stand that.
Jesus was a fighter of corruption, he did not partner with it, unlike certain freshman Democrat Senators.
I knew Obama had been placed onto a platform so high by the Democrats that JFK would have to use a telescope to see it, but to put this do-nothing on a level with the Son of God…please. Let’s looks at Obama’s career for a second. He has been nothing but a mouth his entire political career. Where is the single accomplishment outside of being elected to the Senate? What wrong has he righted? Where is the corruption he has exposed and then abolished?
Ok, he speaks well…when he has a prepared script. When he’s hit with a surprise question he makes George Bush look absolutely eloquent. Palin, on the other hand, is so far better than Obama at speaking off the cuff that it isn’t even a contest. With Obama we are treated to a long sequence of “…but…but…but…but…” Yeah, that sort of leadership will bring about change.
Jesus offered solutions, even if those solutions were not all that popular with the ruling elite of his day. Hmm, sounds more like a Palin than an Obama to me. Jesus saw the corruption in the temple and rolled up his sleeves to clear it out, with a whip. Obama saw the corruption and entered into partnerships with The Nation of Islam and assorted Politicians while he was “community organizing”. Does the name Judas Iscariot come to mind? Palin went after the bridge to nowhere, a plumb project for Senator Stevens of Alaska, one of the most powerful Republican members of the senate at the time, and a member of Palin’s own Party. Pilot would not have done that, not as a loyal Roman.
Seems to me that if comparisons are to be offered, the similarities should be switched. Obama is a loyal Democrat and has a voting record consistent with party purity and is absolutely partisan, in spite of the rhetoric. Palin, on the other hand, has a record of battling her own party when it comes to a matter of right versus wrong. Unlike others who have done that and lost, she won, and the Sanhedrin, the media elite, cannot stand that.
Jesus was a fighter of corruption, he did not partner with it, unlike certain freshman Democrat Senators.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Campaign hysteria
It is interesting to watch the various campaigns attempting to poke holes in each others potential ships of state. Even more interesting are the assorted talking heads in TV news and on talk radio adding their two cents, occaisionally devalued through party agenda.
Of course Sarah Palin is the topic du jour on the majority of shows. The lefties attack, being completly worthless on the issues, has now moved to their default fall back, pure nastiness. According to the feminists, Palin cannot be a real woman for a number of reasons. Her most egregious crime has been multifold, staying married to the father of her children and compounding that by apparantly being quite happy in her marriage, getting pregnant and actually keeping the baby, being a strong woman without being a Democrat, and worst of all, not fitting into the caricature they have built within their diseased minds of what a christian woman should be.
Isn't it a bitch when reality spoils your rant?
Of course Sarah Palin is the topic du jour on the majority of shows. The lefties attack, being completly worthless on the issues, has now moved to their default fall back, pure nastiness. According to the feminists, Palin cannot be a real woman for a number of reasons. Her most egregious crime has been multifold, staying married to the father of her children and compounding that by apparantly being quite happy in her marriage, getting pregnant and actually keeping the baby, being a strong woman without being a Democrat, and worst of all, not fitting into the caricature they have built within their diseased minds of what a christian woman should be.
Isn't it a bitch when reality spoils your rant?
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