Thursday, June 28, 2012

The Supremes Have Spoken

So the Supreme Court has spoken. 

Based on the Dissenting Opinion as well as on the Majority Opinion, it would appear to this American that the honorable justices did something pretty weasel-y.  They rationalized their final Opinion by picking for themselves which of the arguments presented by the regime was the one which best fit their decision:  this "law" is a "Tax" not a "Mandate."

Right. Uh-uh. 

A "mandate," supposedly would have been "unconstitutional," but imposing a "tax" that punishes American Citizens by further destroying the economy, threatens Citizens with huge fines and even jail, needed to have an additional 16,000 new "enforcers" in the IRS to  make sure we submit . . . this type of bill has been determined, by the highest court of the land, to be not only "acceptable," but constitutional.

A few months ago, Mr. Obama was ranting about the nerve of a "bunch of unelected" guys in robes to dare even consider the constitutionality of his masterpiece.  To this layman's eye, it appears that Justice Roberts, as the deciding majority vote, wanted to want to show Mr. Obama that he was wrong . . . they really would not dare to declare his masterpiece unconstitutional, regardless of the evidence.

Yet, I take hope in the opinion of some who point out that the fact of having to redefine this disaster from the description officially given it by the regime ("mandate," meaning to impose, force upon; which is strangely unobjectionable, under certain circumstances, apparently) to something supposedly more acceptable (a "tax"), also places it in a realm much easier to repeal. 

Congress can impose taxes, Congress can remove taxes.  Fine.  The next Congress should have enough of a majority of reasonable Citizens tired of witnessing the destruction of their country to immediately prepare legislation to remove this outrageous monstronsity from the necks of the American people.

The question, however, remains . . . and is frightening, to me, in terms of believing we still live in a thriving Republic is:  why the hell did the U.S. Supreme Court provide an "out" for this administration by essentially showing them how to get their bill determined to be constitutional?

A naive, frustrated explosive response would be:  "Whose side are they on, anyway??"  Can't possibly be the side of the American people if they have to create an excuse almost out of whole cloth to assist this administration to get their law "constitutionalized."

Either the mandate -- the core of the law, without which none of the rest can survive -- is constitutional, or it is not

The Court should in no way have told the Administration:  "Look, you presented your case so badly in front of us we feel sorry for you . . . you should have declared it from the start as a tax, and there would have been no question.  Even though you touted for months (years) that this is not a tax, the only way we can legitimize it is to deem it a tax, no matter what you want to call it.  So, we'll help you out, since your ability to present the supposed merits is a bit weak -- we'll determine for you what your argument needs to be in order for us to support it.  Voila!  It's a TAX, and therefore constitutional."

Some slight of hand, huh?

If the majority had decided to support the core contention that the mandate is unconstitutional, I suppose all thought inside our own heads would be drowned out by the howls of the administration's screaming about a "bunch of unelected men."

But, that lovely thought is not applicable today.  We currently live in an upside-down world, the Constitution is constantly gutted, the elected leaders of our country abrogate their responsibility to the majority of their constituents to submit not only themselves, their standards, but also our own to the control of the government.

In my not so humble opinion as an American citizen, by allowing this atrocity to stand in toto, the Supreme Court has legitimized the fundamental transformation of our Country into a totalitarian nightmare.

November 2012, can't get here too quickly, Lord willing!

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

"Upside-Down Land"

I received this in a forwarded e-mail today and was going to just post the link, http://www.americanreform.org/member-blog/comments/our_upside_down_land, but as I read it over, I realized it is worth posting in toto.

Today's world is absolutely upside-down, backwards, and inside out.  I tend to try to tell myself that we have been vaporized without our knowledge and transported to a world where up is down and down is up, where white is black and black is white -- since 2007-08, anyway, and we will wake up soon.  (Yeah, yeah, too many *original* Star Trek episodes are showing their influence.)

Today's world is a world in which most of us who are over 50 (who remember a different [better] America) are constantly shocked, surprised, incensed, frightened, and "mind-boggled" over the occurrences of the past 4 years or so.

This detailed, sourced post is an extremely accurate representation of where we are today.  The primary question that's been bothering me for the past almost 4 years has been:  How the hell did this happen??? Immediately followed by  Why the hell did this happen????

Answers come to mind for both questions; not one of them is a good enough answer, though.

  1. The unfortunate majority of the American people allowed themselves to be overwhelmed by an imposed-guilt based "racism."
  2. The unfortunate majority of the American people really, really, really seemed to believe -- or at least wanted to believe -- that just by electing a man who happened to be black, the act would magically erase that imposed guilt.
  3. The unfortunate majority of the American people really, really, really seemed to believe -- or at least wanted to believe -- that even if that black man had no qualifications whatsoever to be the senator he had been, much less President elect of the United States of America, it was a "good thing" to elect him anyway.
  4. The unfortunate majority of the American people really, really, really seemed to believe -- or at least wanted to believe -- that maybe there was a black man who could "show" the country that blacks were (finally!) equal . . . after all, all the media said so, right?
Finally, and this one's my favorite, because I believe it to be most accurate: 

     5.  The unfortunate majority of the American people were just plain stupid!

The link posted above, I think, absolutely delineates the most concerning aspects of what has occured in the past 3+ years to fundamentally transform our Republic into a pseudo-totalitarian, pseudo-banana republic, the laughingstock of the world.

This is what the unfortunate majority of the American people really wanted?  I honestly do not think it is -- even the very far Left whose primary regret is that the transformation is not complete and (Dear God willing!) will never be complete!

For those who were honestly duped, allowed themselves to be duped, pulled into the world of "guilt," or allowed their liberal-tinged dreams to take over -- even they must be in shock.  Even they can't possibly have thought our country would be so easily and rapidly taken to the brink of total destruction.

In a very short few months, we will go to the polls again to vote for President of the United States of America.

In a few short months, we will decide whether our Country will accelerate its deterioration into a nonentity subservient to the control of the "United Nations" or start the slow and very difficult return to the full-fledged, independent, proud, self-sufficient Republic envisioned by our forefathers.

God willing it is the latter.

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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if…


by Don Torgersen
posted on Monday, April 02, 2012


You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• A Muslim officer crying "Allah Akbar" while shooting up an army base is considered to have committed "Workplace Violence" while an American citizen boasting a Ron Paul bumper sticker is classified as a "Domestic Terrorist".

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• You can get arrested for expired tags on your car but not for being in the country illegally.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more of our money.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• A seven year old boy can be thrown out of school for calling his teacher "cute" but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• The Supreme Court of the United States can rule that lower courts cannot display the 10 Commandments in their courtroom, while sitting in front of a display of the 10 Commandments.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Children are forcibly removed from parents who appropriately discipline them while children of "underprivileged" drug addicts are left to rot in filth infested cesspools.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Working class Americans pay for their own health care (and the health care of everyone else) while unmarried women are free to have child after child on the "State's" dime while never being held responsible for their own choices.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Hard work and success are rewarded with higher taxes and government intrusion, while slothful, lazy behavior is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid and subsidized housing.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• The government's plan for getting people back to work is to provide 99 weeks of unemployment checks (to not work).

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Being self-sufficient is considered a threat to the government.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Politicians think that stripping away the amendments to the constitution is really protecting the rights of the people.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• The rights of the Government come before the rights of the individual.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Parents believe the State is responsible for providing for their children.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• You can write a post like this just by reading the news headlines.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• You pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big screen TV while your neighbor defaults on his mortgage (while buying iphones, TV's and new cars) and the government forgives his debt and reduces his mortgage (with your tax dollars).

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Your government can add anything they want to your kid's water (fluoride, chlorine, etc.) but you are not allowed to give them raw milk.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you "safe".

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• You have to have your parents signature to go on a school field trip but not to get an abortion.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• An 80 year old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but a Muslim woman in a burqa is only subject to having her neck and head searched.

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Using the "N" word is considered "hate speech" but writing and signing songs about raping women and killing cops is considered "art".

Unfortunately, this list could go on and on.
Our world has been turned upside-down.
We are in distress. Where do we go from here?



"COWARDICE asks the question - is it Safe?"
"EXPEDIENCY asks the question - is it Politically Correct?"
"VANITY asks the question - is it Popular?"
"But the CONSCIENCE asks the question - is it Right?"

 "And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither, Safe, nor Politically Correct, nor Popular, but one must take it, because its RIGHT!!"
 



Where we go from here is to make sure we speak to our families, friends, neighbors, acquaintances about the options we face today.  If they are as appalled, frightened and concerned as we are, then we know where they stand already.
 
If they are not, merely bemused . . . we must speak with them, to try to make them see.  We must be kind, thoughtful, calm, clear-headed, and above all, remember that violence never solves anything -- no matter how impossible the situation may appear.
 
We must remember, simply, and constantly that it is our Country at stake:  its deterioration or revitalization.
 
November, 2012 will provide the answer.



Sunday, June 17, 2012

We MUST NOT Allow These Zombies to Control America's Future

Back in the presidential election season of 2006-2008 (that's the length of Obama's campaign for president), there were many, many voices trying to get out to warn American voters to seek the truth about that startling new candidate, Barack Obama.

Those voices were drowned out, derided, insulted, and attempts were made to try to "legally" shut down their First Amendment rights.  Much of that activity was conducted primarily by the so-called "mainstream media" who claimed then, and now, to know better than any of us for whom we should vote, what we should think, say, and do vis-a-vis the candidates and the election (not to mention everything else in life, for that matter).

Those "media" voices were targeted towards those they saw as the primary supporters of their candidate: the youthful voter with the stars of liberalism shining so brightly in their eyes they were unable to see anything else.  Tell me, who else could possibly consider Jon Stewart's program as "real news"?? 

Those of us who grew up with Saturday Night Live's Chevy Chase reporting the "news" can't possibly believe there are really and truly so many gullible people out there . . . but, there are and they unfortunately vote:  The Real Obama Supporters.

These are the ones who brought Obama to the White House, not alone, of course -- there were, at the time, hardly enough of them to carry an election by themselves.   They were, unfortunately, aided by too, too many who should -- and probably did -- know better than to vote for that man.

I can only hope that the "real Obama supporters" have 1) gotten themselves informed: a possibility when one considers the drop in viewership and revenue to the "top 3" mainstream networks; 2) grown up: doubtful, since too many are so eager to continue to live off (mooch off) their parents, the taxpayers, and anyone else they can bamboozle into being responsible for them; or 3) burned their voter registration cards: which may not matter, considering the push to allow anyone in the country to vote in all elections, regardless of citizenship.

Personally, I hope for none of the above -- anyone who could have voted for this man in the first place has little to no hope of redemption if they are still "supporters" at this point in time.  It is no surprise that the Hollywood crowd is still incredibly vocal in their support . . . their own livelihoods depend on a public willing to pay good money to watch whatever kind of stupidity, idiocy, or brain dead production they deem "good enough" for us to watch.  They count on the same kind of public that Obama supporters are -- brain dead.

The political, emotional, philosophical, and physical civil union between politics and Hollywood was consummated in the campaign leading to the November 1959 voting which resulted in the election of JFK: the Hollywood, "news" media, and even mafia favorite (if one believes the stories of the time).

That constituency is out in force this year, again, though it leaves one's brain boggled to think that people out there are actually getting voting guidance from Sarah Jessica Parker!  (Interesting, even with these "powerhouse" supporters, Obama does not seem close to raising the vaunted "billion" he demanded at the start of the year! . . . A sign of the his times, perhaps?)

We -- the loyal to the United States of America opposition -- must make sure this year that the voices that pushed Obama into the Winner's Circle in November 2008 do not achieve the same this year.  The stakes are incredibly high -- whether the United States of America has even a slight chance of returning to its former greatness, or whether our country continues its not so slow deterioration into a less than third rate country.

Our Vote.  Our Choice.  Pray and Vote.

Friday, June 15, 2012

It Is Way Past Time To Make It Matter


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38 reasons why Obama should not be re-elected

Exclusive: Joseph Farah shares collaborative effort to explain what BHO has wrought

Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of WND and a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate.  He is the author or co-author of 13 books, including his latest, "The Tea Party Manifesto," and his classic, "Taking America Back," now in its third edition and 14th printing. Farah is the former editor of the legendary Sacramento Union and other major-market dailies.
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Editor’s note: The following column is a work of collaboration by me and some friends of mine – some of whom feared retribution for speaking so plainly.

Looking back over the past four years, read this to better understand where we are going as a country under the leadership of Barack Obama.

WHEN he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan, Moammar Gadhafi and Hugo Chavez, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN it was pointed out that he was a total newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN his voting record in the Illinois Senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he refused to wear a flag lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he surrounded himself in the White House with advisers who were pro-gun control, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he said he favors sex education in kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN his personal background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezko – a man of questionable character and who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home – people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire globalist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he started appointing White House czars that were radicals, revolutionaries and even avowed Marxist/Communists, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he stood before the nation and told us that his intentions were to “fundamentally transform this nation” into something else, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he appointed Cabinet members and several advisers who were tax cheats and socialists, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he appointed a science czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he appointed Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar, who believes in “explicit consent,” harvesting human organs without family consent and allowing animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he appointed Kevin Jennings, a homosexual and organizer of a group called Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Education Network as safe schools czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he appointed Mark Lloyd as diversity czar, who believes in curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth and who supports Hugo Chavez, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN Valerie Jarrett, an avowed socialist, was selected as Obama’s senior White House adviser, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN Anita Dunn, White House communications director, said Mao Zedong was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he appointed Carol Browner, a well-known socialist as global warming czar working on cap-and-trade as the nation’s largest tax, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed socialist, as green energy czar who was forced to resign, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN Tom Daschle, Obama’s pick for health and human services secretary could not be confirmed because he was a tax cheat, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he upset the Europeans by removing plans for a missile-defense system against the Russians, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops requested by field commanders to win the war, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions and individuals that got him elected, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he took over insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc., people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he took away student loans from the banks and required they go through the government, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he designed plans to take over the health-care system and put it under government control, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy in the United States through cap-and-trade, people said it didn’t matter.

WHEN he finally completed his transformation of America into a socialist state, people began to wake up – but it was too late.

The last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone. You and I will write that paragraph.