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This is only one voice in America, among many voices.  The hope here is that it will be one voice that speaks differently, and will be a voice you will find worth listening to.  A lot is happening in America these days, and you will find a lot to read here about it. 
 

You may find some of the opinions rendered by the author of this blog rather different, maybe controversial. However, I can assure you the words written here are ladened, impassioned feelings, but they are not emotional, rash words written hastily. They are written to present a different viewpoint that hopefully will challenge your thinking. It is not meant to offend, but as an American citizen of the United States of America, the author exercises his right to free speech. At a time when it is more popular to be politically correct, the words you find here are direct and look to make a point. To get any statement’s full meaning, it will be important to read the entire passage to see it in its full context and understand its meaning.

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Obama To Give $400K To Charities Run By Qadaffi's Relatives

When the Lockerbie terrorist was released to Qadaffi, there were reports of Britain’s Gordon Brown having a part in it because of some secret deal. Now Obama gives $400K to Qadaffi charities. This should make things even a little more suspicious, and someone should get on the trail and follow up on this to see what is really going on!

It is quite surprising that things like this are coming out, and no one really questions them. Why--especially as far as the media is concerned. My feeling about it is that if Obama is still hosting media parties, the media is accepting what he gives them without question, perhaps for the privilege of getting inside information, that maybe they are told not to question what other things are going on.

If that is the case, then the media, just as with the Democrats, has to start catching on that behind all of Obama’s slick words, he is simply using them to his own ends. And it is my contention that in the end, they will all be very well shocked at what he ends up doing to this nation. And once they do find out what he has been up to, they will most likely feel the that cost for their inside information was not worth what it cost this nation: our freedom.

4:35 am mdt

Obama: How He Came Across At The G20

I heard Obama’s speech at the G20 Summit in Pittsburg, and I felt that when talking before an international crowd as he did there that he comes across much different, as if he is not trying to hide something or have to dance around an issue so much as he does here at home, such as with the health care issue. I did not hear his speeches at the U.N.

But it does not mean that he is not still hiding things. There is the matter of his building relationships with dictators like Ahmadinejad, Qadaffi and Chavez, or overseas closed door meetings such as he had with Putin. Obama is a master puppeteer, and one simply must wonder what all he has planned.

I have my ideas about it, and my concern about it is just that he has been establishing a pattern of doing more and more things on the sly. It is not so much that he is outright lying about things. He is much to sly to have do that. In fact, he is quite careful to avoid getting himself painted into a corner to have to do that. What he does do, however, is that when things get too hot, he puts up a lot of smoke and mirrors to throw off the public off, or continues to fight in hopes that they will get tired and give up.

But we cannot do that. Just as we are beginning to see his method of operation, we can also see that when the public fights back, we do not have to worry as much about the repurcussions of it--so far. Obama is running at full speed, however, and the public must keep up and continue fighting against him to keep this country ours.

4:34 am mdt

Obama Not Knowing Of Acorn Activities

It angered me to see Obama disavowing any knowledge of the activities of Acorn that have been uncovered by a couple of young journalists. Maybe he could sidestep the issue some by not knowing anything of those precise things going on, but I am quite certain, being involved with them as closely as he was, that he knew corrupt things were going on. Being a lawyer and having been involved in Chicago-style politics, he could have very likely even been the one to teach them how to get step around issues!

During the election, there were always questions or comments about how intelligent Obama was. Was he brilliant, or much to inexperienced to be president of the United States? I believe he is brilliant. So brilliant, in fact, that he is leading Democrats around by the nose for his own political gain, and will throw them all out when he is done with them and replace them with his czars--if we do not start getting onto his methods and seeing through them a little.

4:33 am mdt

Monday, September 28, 2009

Obama Not Knowing Of Acorn Activities

 

It angered me to see Obama disavowing any knowledge of the activities of Acorn that have been uncovered by a couple of young journalists. Maybe he could sidestep the issue some by not knowing anything of those precise things going on, but I am quite certain, being involved with them as closely as he was, that he knew corrupt things were going on. Being a lawyer and having been involved in Chicago-style politics, he could have very likely even been the one to teach them how to get step around issues!

During the election, there were always questions or comments about how intelligent Obama was. Was he brilliant, or much to inexperienced to be president of the United States? I believe he is brilliant. So brilliant, in fact, that he is leading Democrats around by the nose for his own political gain, and will throw them all out when he is done with them and replace them with his czars--if we do not start getting onto his methods and seeing through them a little.

10:13 am mdt

Obama: How He Came Across At The G20

I heard Obama’s speech at the G20 Summit in Pittsburg, and I felt that when talking before an international crowd as he did there that he comes across much different, as if he is not trying to hide something or have to dance around an issue so much as he does here at home, such as with the health care issue. I did not hear his speeches at the U.N.

But it does not mean that he is not still hiding things. There is the matter of his building relationships with dictators like Ahmadinejad, Qadaffi and Chavez, or overseas closed door meetings such as he had with Putin. Obama is a master puppeteer, and one simply must wonder what all he has planned.

I have my ideas about it, and my concern about it is just that he has been establishing a pattern of doing more and more things on the sly. It is not so much that he is outright lying about things. He is much to sly to have do that. In fact, he is quite careful to avoid getting himself painted into a corner to have to do that. What he does do, however, is that when things get too hot, he puts up a lot of smoke and mirrors to throw off the public off, or continues to fight in hopes that they will get tired and give up.

But we cannot do that. Just as we are beginning to see his method of operation, we can also see that when the public fights back, we do not have to worry as much about the repurcussions of it--so far. Obama is running at full speed, however, and the public must keep up and continue fighting against him to keep this country ours.

10:13 am mdt

Obama To Give $400K To Charities Run By Qadaffi's Relatives

When the Lockerbie terrorist was released to Qadaffi, there were reports of Britain’s Gordon Brown having a part in it because of some secret deal. Now Obama gives $400K to Qadaffi charities. This should make things even a little more suspicious, and someone should get on the trail and follow up on this to see what is really going on!

It is quite surprising that things like this are coming out, and no one really questions them. Why--especially as far as the media is concerned. My feeling about it is that if Obama is still hosting media parties, the media is accepting what he gives them without question, perhaps for the privilege of getting inside information, that maybe they are told not to question what other things are going on.

If that is the case, then the media, just as with the Democrats, has to start catching on that behind all of Obama’s slick words, he is simply using them to his own ends. And it is my contention that in the end, they will all be very well shocked at what he ends up doing to this nation. And once they do find out what he has been up to, they will most likely feel the that cost for their inside information was not worth what it cost this nation: our freedom.

10:11 am mdt

Saturday, September 26, 2009

What Is Happening To America?
 So things lately have been making me wonder, “What IS happening to America?”  Where is Barack Obama taking us, as a nation?  It does not at all sound good to me, and yet people seem more than willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, despite all the indications to the contrary that it is anywhere good.
 Obama is taking America downward.  He is reducing us, lowering the bar, making us more equal with other nations, rather than the proud leader of the world that we once were.  In his mind, maybe some of it is deserved, for our greed, and our arrogance recently in world affairs, particularly in our going to war with Iraq, despite all the resistance we received for doing so in the huge protests that took place around the world before we got into it. 
 But what Obama is doing is lowering the bar, lowering the standard that we held high for other countries.  We were not trying to be mean in making them reach for it.  We did it so that other nations would enjoy that which we ourselves have enjoyed.  Obama wants us to allow nations to control their own destiny, but in doing that, he is single-handedly controlling ours for us.  We are letting him, and I think everyone will be shocked when he finally takes us there--if we continue letting him do it.   
    
1:28 pm mdt

 
    
1:25 pm mdt

Iran’s Lies About Its Nuclear Program
 Barack Obama’s willingness to talk to Iran with no pre-conditions, and his plan for eliminating nuclear missiles is very troubling.  We have seen during the G20 how strongly both France and Britain came out against Iran compared to the U.S., yet it is the U.S. that is threatened by foreign countries--like Iran and North Korea--and Obama is wanting to do away with that which we will need to defend ourselves against such an attack. 
 Having been faced with the evidence of a second and hidden nuclear program, he has had to come out against Iran, with Britain and France, when he would not have done so otherwise.  Obama has his own agenda for America.  This we have seen, with his unending fight for a one-payer health care system, despite the American people coming out so forcibly against it, his continued spending despite cries for him to stop, taking over student loans. building his private security force, and other things.  Because of that, he does whatever he has to do when it is expedient for him to do so.  And this is just such a case.
 The problem with it is that it shows the trust that he puts in our enemies, in those that would seek to harm this country, and not in America.  He feels he has been given a mandate by the American people--from the election--for change.  But he did not outline clearly for us what manner of change he would bring.  Now, having seen some of the changes he wants to make, the American people are rejecting them, and he is getting resistance to it.
 And when the president of the United States comes out befriending our enemies while labeling its people as extremists when they are merely making their voices heard, we must be wary of his intentions. 
 The mistake Barack Obama is making in our dealings with our enemies is that he is stooping down to meet them at their level to negotiate.  Doing so is advantageous to them, because when they lie in order to continue on with their plans, we cannot trust them to do the right thing.  We must keep the bar held high so they prove to us that they truly are willing to talk. 
 The reason why, however, that Obama is willing to so easily meet with such leaders as Ahmadinejad or Gadhafi is that he himself is operating on the same plane as they.  He does whatever he needs to do to get his agenda through.  It is really about his agenda, even though he speaks as though it is an agenda for the American people. 
 The change that America needs is not the change Obama is bringing us.  Obama’s change is the change we see with the arrogant Democrats ignoring the wishes of the American people.  His is change bought about through a corrupt machine of change such as from what Obama came from in Chicago.  He knows how to get what he wants.  He is not that interested in the changes the American people want to see. 
 In order for “Change We Can Believe In” to really occur, we must have change that is based in first doing those things that bring about a more honest and responsive government, not one controlled by lobbyists and the jaunts, gifts, and money, which dances around the truth and plays political games for politicians to get what they want.
 The second thing is for Obama to share his plans openly with the American people, convince us why they are good for the country, and allow a full and honest discourse and debate on things such as health care which are both very complicated and is such an important part of citizen’s lives. 
 To do anything less is for Obama to be just as greedy in his demands as the CEOs he tossed out because of their greed.  It is just a different type--one based in deceit, not money.  We are seeing that deceit in Obama.  People are wondering what he is really getting us into.  That will make it a much harder task.  Once you have lost your trust in your leader, it will become very hard for one to gain it back.  The change America needs now will simply be a different leader altogether.  

1:24 pm mdt

Obama at the U.N. and the G20 Summit
 With Gadhafi, Ahmadinejad, Chavez and others invading New York and the U.N. recently, things here in America have gotten rather surreal lately.  We see news reports of Gadhafi setting up his tent--not just in public view in New York, but on land that belongs to Donald Trump, yet!  And we are allowing it!  Fine if he wants to set up on his country’s embassy grounds, but his being allowed to just waltz right in and do such a thing on American soil is nothing short of his making a mockery to this nation! 
 Where is our pride, America?  Where has it gone to?  You will not catch Obama saying he had anything to do with it, but, as with a good many things that he says he has not had a hand in, his stamp is very much upon it, and you can bet that he did!  Bush, or any other of our presidents up until now would have not have allowed it, but suddenly, with Barack in office, such things are.  And we have seen Barack’s willingness to associate himself with such dictators, and apologizing to them for America’s actions, so should not surprise us. 
 What does surprise me is that Donald Trump initially had Gadhafi take his tent down, but a day later, it was back up in the same place!  So what made Donald change his mind?  I have not heard, but again, I am very much inclined to say that Obama had some say about it.  After all, Donald Trump is largely a real estate investor, and with our troubles having begun in the real estate market, it could make some sense, at the least, that Trump could have been “persuaded” to allow Gadhafi to reside there on his property.  The amazing thing is that it does not at all sound like something Trump would ever do on his own, as much as I know of him.
1:22 pm mdt

Spreading the Wealth
 I saw an Fox news interview with two young female protestors of the G20 Summit in Baltimore.  They defended Obama’s policies and his redistribution of wealth.  While I do not consider myself all that conservative, I do have to disagree with their feeling that they are simply owed something and it being given to them from someone else who rightly owned it and had no say in whether they wanted to or not. 
 What is wrong with it is simply that it is not the American way.  And in Obama trying to level the playing field for all, he removes the incentives and ability for America to do the kinds of things he talks about, as he did in the G20 Summit.  The way he is doing it, he will not be able to have both ways.  If he looks to equalize all Americans, the incentive and capital to make real progress will not be there.  There must be an altogether alternative solution to the problem, and Obama does not have that. 
What Is Happening To America?
 So things lately have been making me wonder, “What IS happening to America?”  Where is Barack Obama taking us, as a nation?  It does not at all sound good to me, and yet people seem more than willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, despite all the indications to the contrary that it is anywhere good.
 Obama is taking America downward.  He is reducing us, lowering the bar, making us more equal with other nations, rather than the proud leader of the world that we once were.  In his mind, maybe some of it is deserved, for our greed, and our arrogance recently in world affairs, particularly in our going to war with Iraq, despite all the resistance we received for doing so in the huge protests that took place around the world before we got into it. 
 But what Obama is doing is lowering the bar, lowering the standard that we held high for other countries.  We were not trying to be mean in making them reach for it.  We did it so that other nations would enjoy that which we ourselves have enjoyed.  Obama wants us to allow nations to control their own destiny, but in doing that, he is single-handedly controlling ours for us.  We are letting him, and I think everyone will be shocked when he finally takes us there--if we continue letting him do it.   
1:14 pm mdt

Humana’s Gag Order by the Federal Government

 When this administration is pushing so hard for a single-payer government run health care system, a gag order by the federal government preventing them from sending emails and mailers criticizing the plan should outrage all Americans.  Aside from comments made that it is restricting Humana’s free speech, we should be concerned just because of Obama’s constant fight for government-run health care despite the American people’s resistance to it, the overly-optimistic cost of the plan, his intention to use savings gained from ending fraud and abuse (which actually can only make it more dependent on the fraud and abuse to pay for it), and all different ways he is trying to sneak it through. 
 The bill should be dead.  Obama wants health care--not for the citizens of this country--but for control of them.  It is not about health care at all.  If it was, he was, he would have listened to the people and left things alone.  We do not need a total overhaul of the system, and we cannot trust this administration to do such a reform, no matter how good it may sound.  We know he will sneak in a government-run system any way he can get it, so the best way is to drop it altogether.  We must put an end to any large bill they try sending through because it is simply too dangerous for the American people. 
 We must realize we have a government that we cannot trust.  They have not listened to the American people, and in fact, have been quite arrogant in any criticism of them or what they want to do.  The health care bill they are trying to send through will be closer to 2,000 pages long!  They seem to be either making it more difficult for the American people to read, or want to read it, or they are getting creative in their wording so they can hide the government-run system from us. 
 Write or call your representatives and tell them to drop it altogether.  Any plan they put forth--that comes from Democrats, especially--will be a huge mistake for this nation.  If Obama does not get his way, he will very well intentionally make things worse such that he will be able to point and say, “See.  This would not have happened if my health plan had been passed.”  
  
    
1:13 pm mdt

Terrorist Plots in the U.S.

 I find it surprising that Obama has come out against using the word “terrorist” or “terror plots” in connection with Islamic extremists, but here in America, the words are still used, such as those who have been recently arrested.  Why is it okay to use such wording here at home, but not abroad?  What is dangerous about it is that at a time when the American people, simply exercising their Constitutional right to both free speech and to protest and are labeled as Nazis or extremists, our government is applying those terms too generally to refer to any kind of crime.
 The tendency that I am seeing in this country--that goes hand-in-hand with the corruption we see and know is taking place in Washington--is that the rule of law is becoming white-washed by those who seek to make the law what they want of it--not law that defines the how people must live.  That is the danger of having people like Sonia Sodomayor in the Supreme Court, because we have an administration that looks to get around the law any way they can to accomplish their goals.
1:13 pm mdt

Obama and School Indoctrination
 We have seen the footage on Fox news of the young school kids singing the praises of Barack Obama.  We were told that the footage was taken back during black history month, but there has been no actual proof of that.  However, even if it was, it does not make it any better.  It just shows how long this sort of thing has been going on, and we have to wonder if it was done in this school, that there must be others, as well.  And how many.
 Obama’s recent message to schools all across the nation created quite the stir, and while the (revised) message itself was quite benign, the follow-up to it was not, having students write essays on what they could do to help President Obama.  This should be shocking to the American people, and in itself have created a total outrage.  And yet, I saw reporters defending his actions as not that threatening because he is just our first black president and not seeing it as indoctrination of our kids.
 Wake up, America!  It IS indoctrination of our kids.  He is just getting started!  He is testing us, desensitizing us, so he will be able to do more later on!  It is dangerous, and we cannot allow this sort of thing to go on AT ALL!  It was interesting to me to hear that President Bush had done something similar during his administration, and while even less threatening, I am seeing interesting parallels between Bush and Obama that makes me think that what Bush did were mere trial runs to get the American a little used to things that Obama was going to do later, so he could point back to Bush and say that this was not anything new.
1:12 pm mdt

Monday, September 14, 2009

Obama vrs. the People

The American people came out in force Saturday, 9/12, to take back their country. Questions were being asked, “Is this about health care?” “Is it about taxes?” “Is it about spending?” “Is it about our representatives?” “Is it about Obama?” Why does anyone need to ask? It is about all of the above, and more.

They were concerned about their nation, and the direction Obama is taking it. Obama was in Minnesota, pitching his health care plan--again. The contrast was pretty plain. People showed up in Washington because they were concerned about their country. Obama got out of Dodge to go talk about his main concern: health care.

If Obama’s motives were really good, if his plan for America was really something that we just are not understanding, you would think that he would stay in Washington to put those who came there from all over the nation to tell them how wrong they were. His departure from there was so convenient. And it labels him as something the leader of this nation should not be: chicken.

Whatever feelings one may have had about President Bush, one thing you cannot say about him was that he was ever chicken. He stood up for what he believed, no matter how difficult it was for him--and it was plenty difficult. Obama just goes out and puts on another “good show” for people, sugar-coating the issue.

In his speech before the joint houses of Congress, he said he would put to rest all the difficult issues. All he did was regurgitate the same things he has said in all his other speeches about health care. How about how addressing how people would be charged $3,000 if they did not sign up for the government option, or how the IRS would have access to our private medical records.

He spoke some nice words about the American people at the end, but he did not say anything about what this nation has accomplished, and the good it has done in the world. Instead, in the middle of his speech, he reveals the other part of himself--his real self--that he will seek out those who put out misleading information about health care.

But has he himself has always spoken straight about facts concerning himself, and facts concerning health care? No, he has not. And there are other things, as well. How about his birth certificate? Yes, he produced one eventually, but only after the issue never went away, and because of it, it is not impossible that he pulled strings somehow--probably with some hospital in Hawaii--to have a false one made up. Considering others have had questions about Obama’s other records--college, financial, and medical--there should be some curiosity about what it is he is trying to hide about himself.

Then how about what really took place on that fly-over New York City that frightened people because they thought it was another terrorist attack? My earlier contention was that he must have been on the plane--he and his whole family. But another story has surfaced that it might have been filled with some wealthy people--probably campaign contributors or others that he had managed to control something out of or was doing to help some other thing that he wanted to hide.

What about his denial about knowing Rev. Wright’s very radical views? Or how about Timothy Guithner’s tax problems, if he really had to fill out Obama’s 64-page job application? Or how about Van Jones? Or his affiliations with Acorn and other radical groups, or any other of the people he has working under him? For all his talk of transparency, Obama has been one to be more interested in hiding things. It is his pattern, and having come through and learned about corrupt Chicago-style politics, it is how he is running things.

Obama promised us change, but what America is getting is more and more corrupt politics. He may have his ideas of things he wants to do, but he was really interested in bringing change to Washington, his starting place ought to be in removing corruption in D.C., not adding to it. He started off that way, saying he was going to get rid of lobbyists, but with all the money that is being tossed around there these days, and all the changes he is making, there are more there now than ever!

Saturday was the 9/12 day. For all the people that attended, all around the nation, it might have been too late. Obama did not seem at all concerned about those that showed up, and despite the expose’ done on Acorn, things may be too well entrenched with them for it to have much impact.

This is NOT the direction America needs to be heading. And no matter how sincere he sounds in his town hall meetings, or how good his ideas may sound to people, he has shown himself to be one that cannot be trusted. His interest in talking to the public so much is just a smoke screen. He is doing it so he can control the people--especially the wealthy white people--and he will do it with health care and his “private security force.

This is not a matter about race, as some would declare when people oppose him, such as Joe Wilson. It is above that. It is above black vrs. white. It is above liberal vrs. consersative. Corruption in Washington will only lead to more corruption. Obama’s plan to use money from medicare fraud and waste only sets us up for having more fraud and waste to help pay for it later.

The solution to America’s problems has to be FIRST and ABOVE ALL putting an end to the corrupt politics that is in Washington. If it is not stopped, no matter how much liberals may desire what they want right now, nothing good will come from Washington if it comes from something corrupt. We must become one as a nation, and put an end to the corruption in Washington first. Then we can go to work from there, and affect the real change in Washington that we all desire.

Friday night, Fox News took America back to revisit 9/11, and the events and scenes that took place that day. Acorn is facing federal and IRS investigation after workers were shown helping a couple who masqueraded as a hooker and pimp set up a business involving supposedly underage girls and the census has severed their ties with it. Republicans--probably spurred on by the 9/12 protest in Washington, seem to be now finding courage to go after Obama himself because of it. Republican Joe Wilson, during Obama’s speech before both the House and Senate, yelled out to the president “You lied!“ on national TV. And Van Jones, the green czar was exposed as a communist and resigned.

America is fighting back. But there is a long ways to go. The amazing thing is that America has been taken from us without a single shot being fired. Can it be taken back? It could. I believe that. Fervently. And I believe it can be taken back similarly--without a single shot being fired. It is, as with terrorism, and idealogical struggle. It is a matter of having a better idea than Obama has, and one that is based on the values and principles that started with this nation, and started with the help of the One the founding fathers turned to, and we need to turn to now, asking for His help, with forgiveness, that He might restore America to what it was, and make it better…

 

6:19 pm mdt

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Lawyers, Health Care and Tort Reform

America has a multitude of lawyers. It is quite amazing to me that while there is no hesitation in Mr. Obama to go after CEOs in this country, lawyers have been left totally untouched in his economic “crisis”. Case in point: have you heard of any lawyers getting laid-off or losing their jobs? Do lawyers have any better an image in our society than greedy CEOs? If anything, people probably think worse of lawyers than they do CEOs. Some CEOs manage to earn the public’s respect just by their character. Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy’s Hamburgers, and Crysler’s Lee Iacocca, and Apple’s Steve Jobs are notable examples. Others have earned more nefarious labels, however.

Mr. Obama seems to like telling CEOs how much they can make, and how greedy they are, but the same is never applied to lawyers, and how much they make. They take a huge percentage for their services on a case, and in the end, their client only takes away a small amount of an award if they win. It is a shame and a sham.

Granted, in our system, if a client has a lot of money, they can afford to get the best lawyers and pay them as much he needs to if it will help the client to win. But look how lawyer fees drained the financial resources of famous people like Michael Jackson, O.J. Simpson, or Anna Nichol Smith. If Obama wants to be fair, then such lawyers do not deserve their fees. They are merely racking their clients over the coals and taking all they can get from them.

Tort reform is starting to be talked about a lot in connection with the health care issue, and rightly so. For Obama, health care is a key issue with him because it is a key method for him to obtain a lot of control over the American people. Health care may be a real issue to him, but his plan for fixing it is by using it to his own ends in the process. For this reason, the health care issue needs to be stopped *entirely* until Obama has been either removed, or voted out of office. He will most assuredly use the health care issue any way he can, so no matter what he comes up with, it should be treated with suspect.

As Republicans and others have stated, there are cheaper ways to fix health care, and it simply does not *have* to be done in a complete reform of the system. It is too much, too fast, too difficult, and too risky doing it that way. And that applies to anything Obama is trying to push through with 1,000+ page bills. The legalese contained in such documents alone makes it too easy to hide provisions politicians want in, or would be able to use in the way they want later on to still get to their ends.

The sad state of affairs for America is that we voted this man into office, and we are stuck with him for at least the next four years. Even if he were impeached, and impeached immediately, I think he would do all he could do to leave the economy and U.S. in as much of a shamble as he could. And personally, I would prefer he do that to us than be allowed to stay in power and change the United States in ways that we will probably never recover from. At least then, we will be free to put the pieces back together again. And we would be able to do it. I believe that fervently, no matter what state Obama would leave us in.

12:00 am mdt

Monday, September 7, 2009

Obama and the Schools

We must be constantly aware of what Mr. Obama is doing all the time. His main focus is health care, and that is it, because through getting what he wants there, Obama will get control of this nation. That is his agenda, plain and simple, and we have to be aware that anything else he throws out there is to just keep us off balance. He wants us shaking our heads and going, “Now he wants to do…WHAT?”

His making 9/11 his “Day of Service” is one of those things, and on just that issue alone, Americans should be offended at his audacity to declare such a thing on this very particular day, as opposed to some other time.

But he does not stop there. An “I Pledge” video appears that has Hollywood celebrities all pledging to do different things. Most are pretty benign, but the end has saying “I pledge to serve my president”, while another, “I pledge to serve Barack Obama” while kissing each of his biceps.

I found it interesting that all the people shown in this video were younger people probably not over 40. I watched the video at http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13249171

There was a straw poll people could take there that asked if the video should be shown in elementary schools, and a resounding 94% of the people that responded said ‘no’ of the then 45,052 people who had responded.

One person had responded with a comment that began, “THIS! THIS! This is what you are upset about. All the real and serious issues out there and you are upset over this?”

Well, it should be of great concern, I think. Granted, the message is basically positive, but watching it reminded me of the young space cadets in the movie “Starship Troopers”.

In fact, when that movie had first come out, there were comments made of how the youthful soldiers had been motivated to join in the fight against huge bugs that would threaten the planet.

As I look back over different events that have taken place, I could almost see even that movie as having been created just to help influence the youth of this nation for just just such a time when a video such as this would come out. But while the video had a positive side to it, and the youth today do have a huge desire for change and to improve things, such blind commitment and exuberance to a single person is totally wrong.

What is wrong with it is that it is directed towards a single person, or for that matter, even a cause. Ironically, I also happened to see “The Sound of Music”, as well last night, and could not help but be reminded of the situation of Germany during WWII and how it applies to the situation today. Liesl’s lover in the movie, Rolfe becomes a willing young recruit to Hitler. Toward the end of the movie, when the family is trying to escape, Rolfe is confronted by Captain Von Trapp. Von Trapp tries telling him that he is not really one of them, but Rolfe blowing the whistle on them, instead. It was his blind allegiance to a person or cause that made him do that.

That is what the American youth are setting themselves up for in following Obama. Blind allegiance will trump and supersede common sense and reasoning. These young people in the video may get some amount of desire, or become devoted to the cause, but they are sacrificing their own autonomy in the process.

While the “I Pledge” video may have been created by Hollywood celebrities, with how Obama has been using the internet to communicate with his supporters, and how it appeared along with Obama wanting to speak to schools, the idea probably came from Obama himself.

I do not have children, so I do not know what is really happening in our schools, but if the pledge of allegiance to the flag is no longer recited, then it may well have been stopped by liberals because they felt something else was needed. Well, they got it. Now children can pledge their allegiance…to their president.

But there is an additional problem that I see with this allegiance to Obama that I feel I should also point out. I have not been hearing much lately about the drug wars going on along the Mexican border, but if the growth of the problem in the United States is not stemmed here, it will have repercussions for us later on. Violence here, and increased fear as a result of the problem getting out of control, will result in drug users and pushers getting more daring in their activities.

California and other states are being faced with having to release inmates from our prisons because of budget constraints. They may even have to close down prisons altogether. If states have to curtail criminal reform programs, police may have no choice but to look the other way in regards to the drug problem because there is simply nothing they can do about it. Such frustration and apathy about dealing with such a problem help get young people to want to join Obama’s domestic security force. Also, by keeping the states in financial straits, those selfsame prisoners that would be released from prisons could well be inlisted into it, as well. And that would just be hunky-dory now, would it not?

Obama is trying a lot of different tactics, all under the guise of the need for change. And he can sound very sincere about it. But if he is truly sincere, he would be doing it in a way that is consistent with the Constitution. He would be sharing with us the details of his plan. And he would not be surrounding himself with communists and others who come with shady pasts. He would not be making excuses for his actions, but would be leading the nation to what would be a better place for America. And he would not be fighting against Americans--any of them--in the process.

This is all reason for his motives to be suspect, and to fight against Obama’s charm and charisma, we need to make a strong case that will get people to rethink what it is they are doing. The other thing we need is an alternative that can be presented to give them a different choice that they can make. As evenly split as this nation is, only by doing that can things be changed enough to make a difference that will stem the direction America is heading.

11:56 pm mdt

Obama’s Czars

Obama has accumulated a staff of over 40 czars now, looking over different parts of our society. They work independent of Congress, being assistants to Obama himself. We have had czars in the past, but short-term, and for very unique tasks. We know Obama’s some of Obama’s czars have checkered pasts, but Obama’s use of them should be a red flag to all of us. Czars are simply foreign to the American system, and having communists and socialists in those positions is simply not right. How our Congress, as well as the media in general, has continued to follow him despite this is beyond me. Do our representatives want America to be a communist or socialist nation? When people go to the town hall meetings, they should be asking their representatives about that--and demanding answers from them about it.

Obama may prefer to say they are something else, but that is very typical of his style. Let us just rename things. Terrorists are no longer terrorists. We apologize for our actions. We read captured terrorists their Miranda rights. I am sorry, Mr. Obama, but I will call these things as I see them. And as an American, I still have (so far) my right to free speech.

I have heard on the talk shows, however, that the media is not allowed to do this. And it makes me wonder how it is Obama has the right to tell them not to. If it is not his right to do it, then how is it doing it? By threat? By bribe? What is Obama doing to keep the media quiet and obedient in this country? It is not a good sign. Without the media telling us what is going on, and being relentless in their pursuit of the truth, all we have to go on is what Obama and others tell us. And that…is a huge mistake on our part. As a nation, we must start go after the truth ourselves…because it is not being given to us by anyone else…

11:55 pm mdt

Obama, Pelosi and California

Everyone pretty much knows about California’s financial problems, and its high employment rate, especially as it concerns farmers in the Central Valley area. It is quite amazing to me that Nancy Pelosi would shut off the farmer’s water supply just to protect a small fish in the middle of a recession, when California is having such great problems already. Equally disturbing is that she does that while she herself owns and runs a $25 million Napa vineyards and winery that is not affected by the water shutoff. Interestingly, their winery is also a non-union shop, as well. Hence, Pelosi goes on to make money in California while others in her state are prevented from doing so.

Then, with Obama, Arnold Schwarzenegger goes to Washington seeking help for his state, and is flatly turned away. Later on, Obama says the government is out of money, although he continues on with his spending and fight to get his very expensive health care reform approved.

So I--if I were able to--would be asking Mr. Obama how he feels about that, whether or not he has a plan to help them, what that plan is if he does, and why he keeps spending money on other things if he will or cannot help California in their need now. Where are his priorities? If--instead of, or along with, all the other little stimulus projects he has going does he not hire workers to fix things so farmers can get the water to grow their crops and help increase the state’s tax revenue when it is lacking so much.

It looks a lot to me that Obama and Pelosi simply do not want to help California, and if it falls, a lot of other states will fall with it. And when I consider that, it makes me wonder if all the horrendous wild fires that have taken place there was to help put California in the critical situation they are in now. It has been reported on the latest fires that they were probably human started fires, as were earlier ones. To my knowledge, no one has really been charged, but the first thing that comes to mind is that Acorn, or some other radical group that Obama has ties to, could have been responsible.

So, given Obama’s mixed up priorities, I would strongly have to say that America simply cannot afford to have any kind of health care reform done under Obama until he tells us exactly how he intends to fix the economy, and gives us some good evidence that it is recovering--in the way that he tells us it will.

It is not enough to simply have Joe Biden come out and tell us that the economy is improving. The American people can tell it is not, and as has happened before, once he or Obama says something like that, something always follows that proves things otherwise. During the election, Obama was always quick to point to George Bush’s “failed policies that didn’t work”. Well, thus far, Barack Obama’s policies have not been any better, so he has no room to talk. And so he should not waste his time looking back at the past. But that is a whole other issue altogether…

11:54 pm mdt

Obama, Holder and the CIA

So Eric Holder is looking to do an investigation into torture and the CIA again. And, supposedly, Barack Obama has nothing to do with it. Sorry, but Mr. Obama has everything to do with it. He has to. He is the Commander In Chief. He has everything to do with everything. And in this case, he is trying to separate himself from it so he does not have to come out and admit that what is really behind all this is simply that Obama does not want the CIA. He wants to put in his own security branch.

If he did not, then why do something that will make people who work within it want to leave because they cannot do their jobs and have to hire their own lawyers to defend their past actions.

And, if he did want to replace it, what are the Constitutional or legal grounds for him doing such a thing, much less the international implications involved? We have a system of checks and balances in this country, but with Obama, it seems none of it has application to him. Why? If he has the authority to make these kinds of changes, can he not be stopped somehow? Should not Congress be involved? Does not the Supreme Court have the ultimate decision whether it is legal or not?

Obama keeps pushing the health care issue, and in doing so, he keeps the American people off balance so they do not interfere too much in his ‘other activities‘ that he is working on. In fact, as I read that, to me, it is the American people who have really has the final say about things that he is doing. Our representatives work for us, so we do need to realize the power we have in our hands. And that is something that is not emphasized enough…

11:53 pm mdt

Obama the Terrorist

As I have said earlier in this blog here, I would like to be wrong about Obama and his motives. He certainly speaks like he has America at heart, but what is one to think when he surrounds himself with tax cheats, communists, socialists, and other extremist liberals. Isolated and protected from the press and the pressing questions from them that they do not care to ask, and unwilling to meet and be interviewed by those critical of him and his policies, one has to question what his real motives are.

Having come up through the ranks of the corrupt political machine of Chicago, and having questionable relationships with people like Bill Ayers, and others, he may come to Washington with high ideals, but he has learned how to manipulate people and things to his own ends. He has shown this in his push to get through his health care bill--doing whatever it takes to accomplish it.

His doing so has made it so he is a man that cannot be fully trusted. And as president, if he cannot be trusted fully in something as major as health care, at least, he is one that should not be trusted at all. The stakes are just too high for the American people to take. We are talking about the future of our nation here. It is for that reason that I am, and will be, very hard on this president and his motives. I would rather be totally wrong about my feelings, and warn the American people of what could be in store for us, than just say nothing and find that I am right about it when it is too late for anyone to do anything about it.

Do not translate what harsh things I say about him as my being biased or coming from a place of hate. It is not. I just look at what I see could happen, and would prefer to somehow try to ensure it does not. If someone tries using the race card against what I say, it would only be because they dislike what I say and would try to use the fear of one being a “racist” to silence me. I am sorry, but that will not work with me. I know that is a ploy, and I do not come from that kind of place that it would be true. When one does that, you do not have to fear anything. Truth speaks for itself.

Additionally, what I have to say here is all part of a whole train of thought that I have about things. It would be very premature for anyone to judge my words based on what I say in one particular post. You will have to continue reading this blog to understand where I am truly coming from. My intention is to present something totally different in the future. You may not understand that now, but you will as you see where this blog goes to in the future.

Obama would have to make a lot of changes to show the American people he is not out to change this nation in some radical way that Americans would not approve of. A good place for him to start would be for him to get rid of all the other czars (or whatever he prefers to call them--not just one of them. He is sacrificing Van Jones to placate the masses and quiet them down, and I am sure Van Jones would be willing to it for “the cause”, nor could we expect that Obama would not have anything further to do with him. We just would not see it. I am quite willing to bet it is the same with the infamous Rev. Wright.

America will be heading into unchartered waters if he tries taking America somewhere it should not go, and we blindly follow him or allow him to do it. Even if his intentions are very honorable, to do that without following due process to what our Constitution allows, honoring it, and not being completely upfront with the American people about his plans are and what he plans to do would be very foolhardy.

Obama is not lying to the American people. He simply wouldn’t not do that. He is just being very careful in his wording…and slowly moving us toward the truth--the “real” truth, if there can be such a thing.

So, right now, with all the rhetoric that is taking place with health care reform, Obama’s accusations, words, and actions toward the American people that “rightist extremists” are terrorists are all a ploy to make others think otherwise of them. And, with all the activity at town hall meetings across the nation, conservatives may believe that they are making some inroads in taking back this nation. It would be a huge mistake for anyone to believe that. This nation has been so well polarized. Conservatives may win some moderates to their side, but I doubt you will see Obama’s numbers drop below the 40% mark because of it. With the way he manipulates the public, I would not even trust it if it was lower. I would not trust him even he were booted out of office. He is so geared toward his agenda that I simply do not think he would stop, even then. He would do a Sarah Palin kind of thing.

Obama is more the terrorist here--not the American people, as he has tried to make us out to be. It is all just rhetoric--but serious rhetoric. We have a president--and a speaker in the house--that tell the American people that they serve that they are Nazis?!  That is hardly a way a president should be talking, much less the speaker of the house.

If I am indeed wrong about what Obama is looking to do in this nation, he would have to prove himself in a lot of ways to get me to believe otherwise. He has shown his cards, in most cases I think, unwittingly, and it is enough for me to believe that I am not wrong about him.

 

 

 

11:51 pm mdt

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Fighting for America

So Eric Holder is going to investigate the CIA. Barack Obama--it is becoming more and more apparent--is trying to make this country a socialist nation. What is wrong with this picture? I will tell what is wrong with it. An attorney general of the United States is looking to prosecute the CIA for criminal activities. So, how big of a crime is anything that they may have done in attempting to protect this nation against terrorism compared to the much higher crime Barack Obama is committing against America in tearing down its economy and attempting to turn it into a socialist state?

Do you remember the McCarthy era, when Hollywood directors, actors, and others were bought up with charges of being even the least bit communist when most were innocent of any wrong-doing to begin with? How is it we are allowing self-proclaimed communist to even be advising the president in this country? We remember the brown shirts of Hitler, Obama is setting aside 6 billion for his own private security force, and town hall protesters are compared to Nazis by Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House!

Think of how reverently our flag is held in this country--most recently just during the funeral of Senator Ted Kennedy. Yet with the things Obama has been doing, we could be seeing a Communist flag being raised right here within our own country soon. He goes against everything this country ever stood for. And we are allowing him to do it. Our representatives--and the Republicans are guilty of this, as well--have done absolutely nothing to stop him. Our soldiers have been overseas fighting terrorism, but our own president has been terrorizing the very Americans he serves with his private agenda for America. How is it we are even allowing any of this?

Vice President Cheney has been the only one in our government that has come to stand out against him in a real way--even to come out saying that he would not co-operate with Holder in his investigation. Let me tell you something. In the early part of the Iraq War, I was against what Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were doing, as many other Americans.

But right now, I am completely behind the Vice President. Why? Because I see him fighting for America. And with whatever an investigation may find in what the past administration was doing, I could feel that if there was any maligned reason for what they were doing, they did because they had America’s interest really at heart. And you never saw them falter in that. They were steadfast.

What was wrong with what they were doing is nothing I believe at all criminal. What I believe is that it was simply not the right direction for America to be taking back then. But at the time, it was the only direction they knew how to take.

And just as they took the wrong direction back then, Barack Obama is doing the very same thing now--something that is still not the right direction for America. Yes, we wanted change, but Barack Obama did not share with us what his plan was for where he would take this country. Back then, during the election, I felt maybe he just did not really have one. But he does. And he is attempting to do it on the sly. He is razzle-dazzling us, telling us things that we want to hear while trying to force through the change he wants to bring before any of us can do anything about it.

His having to do it that way should tell all of us that it is simply not be the right thing for America, either--tempted as any of us might be to want to believe otherwise. We have seen his true colors now with how he is pushing his health care plan upon us. He says it is not about him, but it is. And America must rise up and reject him flatly. Republicans and Democrats. Conservative and liberals.

Our Constitution provides safeguards to keep power in balance. Self-proclaimed communists should have no place in our government--unless, by chance voters were to vote them in, which is not too likely to happen. Congress should prevent 6 billion being spent on something that is so likely to be a threat of our freedoms. And Pelosi should be thrown out or told to step down saying the kind of things she did about the American people that she herself is supposed to be serving--much less her earlier lies about what she actually knew of torture.

And what is to happen to America when the Democrats come back to Washington and resume working on the health care bill? Will they resort to the nuclear option, of using a rule that was only meant to be used to help get a budget bill passed, allowing it to be passed with only 51 votes? Have they listened to the American people, and will they drop the health care bill altogether, or will they try to sneak something through any way they can?

Glenn Beck started a program called “We Surround Them”. Personally I do not think we should surround them as much as we should surround the Capitol where they do their business, and prevent any of them getting in so they cannot vote on Obama’s health care bill--unless, of course, they sign Beck’s pledges to the American people that they will vote against the bill, among other things.

So far, town hall meetings, as rowdy as they have gotten, have not gotten totally out of control. And, in all fairness to Obama, I could still even leave the possibility that I am totally wrong about the things I have been saying about him here. But Obama lost his credibility with me, and for me, it would take a lot for me to overcome that. He is too smooth of a talker. Because of that, there is good reason to be concerned, and concerning enough to take some drastic action.

Obama has been amassing power, and thus far, his private security force is not yet fully developed. It could well be that once it is, America will turn into a different country almost overnight. If we do not want that--and our hackles are up warning us that may well happen--we need to do something more drastic.

We hear at the town hall meetings how we need to take our government back. Well, if we really want to do that, maybe we should surround the Capitol instead--to keep Deomocrats from going in and passing their health care bill! Because America--all Obama’s urgency for health care reform is manufactured. It is not that health care needs to be changed some, but Obama is using it to his own ends. Health care for him is a way of gaining control of this nation. And we have to recognize that. Even if that was not his plan, we simply must guard against the possibility. Like the clip Beck uses from the movie “Lord of the Rings” of Gandalf defying the dragon Smaug with his “You shall not pass!”, the American people are at a place were we need to defy Obama now because we simply muste ensure that our freedoms are preserved!

At this point, I do not think our police forces and military would be under Obama control enough that they would really go against the American people, even under his order as Commander-In-Chief of this country. We all saw how the Cambridge police stood up to him with Obama’s big mistake in saying that they had “acted stupidly” in the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.

We also saw how he failed to support the protesters desire for freedom in Iran. We began seeing that his interest and values were different, and not what they should be for a true American president. We have that to our advantage--right now. But we may not for very much longer. I do not think the police and military would go against their very own people at this point, and that largely because most would still affiliate with them. Let the police keep order, but let us act as we have--standing firm, but resist reverting to violence.

I, myself, do not advocate violence in this situation in which we find ourselves. It is not needed at this point. But standing up for what is right is something we must do with boldness, the American people must stand firm against anyone that would seek to take this country, and our freedoms, away from us.

There have been rumors since the 60’s of how America would eventually be taken over, and that there are more powerful people controlling what really happens in America, and the world. Usually, it is passed off as nothing more than a social myth or conspiracy theory. But as I look at things now, and what all has taking place these days, I would have to give it a lot more credence. Strong political forces are at work in the world, looking to realign things.

I heard a British diplomat say in an interview early on in the economic ’crisis’ that we were facing that we would have to go through this, and things would be hard for a while, but that things would be much better in the world when we emerged out from under it. But the question is, “better for whom?” Those with the power, with the money. You can bet on that. Would it be better for us, though. Maybe. But if it is something that has to be done deceitfully, Obama has been doing with us, there should be something that should make us resist it.

What will make the world better--and what only could make it better--is doing those things that are truly done in honesty and goodwill for all. Anything else must be met with suspicion. And somehow, we as human beings, are being led down a road toward more chaos in the world and anarchy, and going that direction is most assuredly a direction that will be wrong for any of us, if we want things to be better in this world.

So to do that, what we must do is resist the temptation to lower our standards, to make things easier for ourselves. Doing so only makes it easier for people to do the wrong thing. America--up until recently--has always kept the bar held high, and that allowed us to be the greatest nation on earth that we are. So to regain that place in the world, we must raise that bar up again--and raise it even higher--to make things better in this world.

5:36 am mdt

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