Obama Citizenship Still Not Settled

A friend of mine sent me this article and asked me to repost it.

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

One of the original legal challenges to President-elect Barack Obama's eligibility for office to reach the U.S. Supreme Court now has been scheduled for a conference, a meeting at which the justices discuss its merits and whether to step into the fray.


Online schedules posted by the court show the case brought by attorney Philip J. Berg is set for a conference Jan. 9.


The case is one among several that already have reached the U.S. Supreme Court and address the issue of Obama's eligibility to occupy the Oval Office under the U.S. Constitution's requirement that presidents be "natural born" citizens.


Berg has submitted several requests for injunctions, seeking the court's order to stay proceedings in the electoral process until his case is heard, but the request have been rejected.


His original claim, however, remains on track to be heard.






"I know that Mr.
Obama is not a constitutionally qualified natural born citizen and is ineligible to assume the office of president of the United States," Berg said in a statement on his ObamaCrimes. com website.


"Obama knows he is not 'natural born' as he knows where he was born and he knows he was adopted in Indonesia; Obama is an attorney, Harvard Law grad who taught Constitutional law; Obama knows his candidacy is the largest 'hoax' attempted on the citizens of the United States in over 200 years; Obama places our Constitution in a 'crisis' situation; and Obama is in a situation where he can be blackmailed by leaders around the world who know Obama is not qualified," Berg's statement continued.



Supreme Court docketing information


The justices already have discussed two cases in conference but refused to give them further hearings.


WND previously reported on cases brought by Cort Wrotnowski and Leo Donofrio that both challenged Obama on allegations that dual citizenship based on a father who was a British subject and a mother who was an American minor disqualified him from office. Both, however, were turned back by the Supreme Court.



Where's the proof Barack Obama was born in the U.S.
or that he fulfills the "natural-born American" clause in the Constitution? If you still want to see it, join more than 185,000 others and sign up now!

As WND has reported, more than a dozen lawsuits have been filed over Obama's eligibility to assume the office of the president. Many have been dismissed while others remain pending.


The cases, in various ways, have alleged Obama does not meet the "natural born citizen" clause of the U.S. Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, which reads, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.
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Some of the legal challenges have alleged Obama was not born in Hawaii, as he insists, but in Kenya. Obama's American mother, the suits contend, was too young at the time of his birth to confer American citizenship to her son under the law at the time.


Other challenges have focused on Obama's citizenship through his father, a Kenyan subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time of his birth, thus making him a dual citizen. The cases contend the framers of the Constitution excluded dual citizens from qualifying as natural born.


Several details of Obama's past have added twists to the question of his eligibility and citizenship, including his family's move to Indonesia when he was a child, his travel to Pakistan in the '80s when such travel was forbidden to American citizens and conflicting reports from Obama's family about his place of birth.


Perhaps the most perplexing detail, however, has been Obama's refusal to allow the public release of a signed "vault" copy of his original birth certificate.


A partial listing and status update for several of the cases surrounding Obama's eligibility to serve as president is below:

Philip J. Berg, a Pennsylvania Democrat, demanded that the courts verify Obama's original birth certificate and other documents proving his American citizenship. Berg's latest appeal, requesting an injunction to stop the Electoral College from selecting the 44th president, was denied. But the conference on the case is set Jan. 9.



Leo Donofrio of New Jersey filed a lawsuit claiming Obama's dual citizenship disqualified him from serving as president. His case was considered in conference by the U.S. Supreme Court but denied a full hearing.


Cort Wrotnowski filed suit against Connecticut's secretary of state, making a similar argument to Donofrio. His case was considered in conference by the U.S. Supreme Court, but was denied a full hearing.


Former presidential candidate Alan Keyes headlines a list of people filing a suit in California, in a case handled by the United States Justice Foundation, that asks the secretary of state to refuse to allow the state's 55 Electoral College votes to be cast in the 2008 presidential election until Obama verifies his eligibility to hold the office. The case is pending, and lawyers are seeking the public's support.


Chicago attorney Andy Martin sought legal action requiring Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle to release Obama's vital statistics record. The case was dismissed by Hawaii Circuit Court Judge Bert Ayabe.



Lt. Col. Donald Sullivan sought a temporary restraining order to stop the Electoral College vote in North Carolina until Barack Obama's eligibility could be confirmed, alleging doubt about Obama's citizenship. His case was denied.



In Ohio, David M. Neal sued to force the secretary of state to request documents from the Federal Elections Commission, the Democratic National Committee, the Ohio Democratic Party and Obama to show the presidential candidate was born in Hawaii. The case was denied.



In Washington state, Steven Marquis sued the secretary of state seeking a determination on Obama's citizenship. The case was denied.



In Georgia, Rev. Tom Terry asked the state Supreme Court to authenticate Obama's birth certificate. His request for an injunction against Georgia's secretary of state was denied by Georgia Superior Court Judge Jerry W. Baxter.


California attorney Orly Taitz has brought a case, Lightfoot vs. Bowen, on behalf of Gail Lightfoot, the vice presidential candidate on the ballot with Ron Paul, four electors and two registered voters.



Private investigator Douglas Hagmann of HomelandSecurityUS. com reported earlier he found 13 cases challenging Obama's eligibility still active or semi-active.


Last month, WND reported the worries over a "constitutional crisis" that could loom over the issue of Obama's citizenship.


"Should Senator Obama be discovered, after he takes office, to be ineligible for the Office of President of the United States of America and, thereby, his election declared void," argues the Alan Keyes case pending in California, "Americans will suffer irreparable harm in that (a) usurper will be sitting as the President of the United States, and none of the treaties, laws, or executive orders signed by him will be valid or legal.
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With such high stakes, WND earlier launched a letter campaign to contact Electoral College members and urge them to review the controversy.


That followed a campaign that sent more than 60,000 letters by overnight delivery to the U.S. Supreme Court when one case contesting Obama's eligibility for the Oval Office was pending.


A separate petition, already signed by more than 185,000 also is ongoing asking authorities in the election to seek proof Obama was born in the U.S. or that he fulfills the "natural-born American" clause in the Constitution.


WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi had gone to both Kenya and Hawaii prior to the election to investigate issues surrounding Obama's birth. But his research and discoveries only raised more questions.


The biggest question was why, if a Hawaii birth certificate exists as his campaign has stated, Obama hasn't simply ordered it made available to settle the rumors.


The governor's office in Hawaii said there is a valid certificate but rejected requests for access and left ambiguous its origin: Does the certificate on file with the Department of Health indicate a Hawaii birth or was it generated after the Obama family registered a Kenyan birth in Hawaii?

Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro, has named two different Hawaii hospitals where Obama could have been born. There have been other allegations that Obama actually was born in Kenya during a time when his father was a British subject. A one point a Kenyan ambassador said Obama's birthplace in Kenya already was being recognized.

I predicted this some time ago.

Yes I predicted this. It is a prediction I had hoped would never come true. But it looks like this prediction is well on its way to becoming fact. It has to do with California and its Proposition 8 initiative that was passed by the voters of that state back on November 4, 2008.

Now I have said that liberals would attempt to make the Constitution ruled unconstitutional. Low and behold, the CA Attorney General now is urging the CA State Supreme Court to rule that this voter passed Constitutional Amendment be ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Yahoo News reports that Jerry Brown, the states Attorney General, is urging the Court to rule this vote and amendment unconstitutional. This is ridiculous. If the CA Supreme Court rules that a particular part of the their Constitution is unconstitutional, then there is nothing in the Constitution that is safe. There is nothing, no right, no amendment that can be reversed or eliminated by a judge. We the People mean nothing and we are in grave danger.

Of course, some on the left are saying this is a retroactive amendment and law because that Supreme Court ruled that gays could get married. Well if the Court accepts that argument, then Civil rights could be reversed based on the same argument. Slavery could be reversed based on the same argument because slavery was upheld by courts prior to their being an amendment abolishing it.

This may sound extreme but thing about it. Not to mention, the Federal Government would have to give back billions of dollars because of the retroactive tax President Bill Clinton proposed and signed into law back in the mid 90's.

This has got to be one of the most dangerous arguments yet that attacks the very core and foundation of our Constitution. You cannot strike down a Constitutional amendment. The courts have no jurisdiction in that area. In fact the Constitution gives us specific instructions on how to amend it and who has the power to amend it. The courts have no power to amend or change the constitution. It is solely in the hands of the people and their elected representatives.

The people of CA legally voted on this proposition. Like the outcome or not, it was legal and the only way to change it is to amend it again. If the courts decide to amend this amendment, it will set a precedence that will tear our nation apart and put every state constitution and our Federal Constitution on the chopping block.

Even if you don't live in California, you need to make your voice heard on this. We cannot allow a minority to totally undermine and ruin our great nation. This cannot be allowed to stand. Your liberty and freedom is now in jeopardy, just as I predicted some time ago. Do you want a judge to decide the fate of our nation, your life? I didn't think so.

A French man lectures Americans

You know America has to be the most wonderful place on the planet when you have other nations praising the American people for electing a half African, born and partially raised Muslim to the office of President.

Oh now don't get in a tizzy. Look at the facts not your feelings. Barack was born to a white American woman and an African Kenyan who was a Muslim. Now in the world of the Muslim, that makes the child a Muslim. And indeed Barack attended Muslim schools up until his return to the USA at the age of about 10. So don't get on me about saying Barack is half Muslim because the facts are the facts.

Do I believe he is a Christian now? Well, I have to take him at his word and the fact that he sat in a racist Christian church for about 20 years. But that does not mean he has broken his ties with his Muslim heritage. In fact many of his relatives on his fathers side still reside in Kenya and still are Muslims. It is very hard to totally disregard you childhood and your early training.

But that is not the real topic of this article. The real topic is how the whole world now views the USA in a different light because we elected Obama. How about this story by Ethan Bronner out of Gaza City, Gaza Strip. For those of you that don't know where that is, look on your world map and locate Israel. Now look to the west and you will find Gaza Strip. Yes it looks like a strip. Thus the name.

But again I digress. Ethan writes in an article titled “Around the World, Many See an Ideal Renewed.” An ideal RENEWED? Ethan starts his article thus:

“From far away, this is how it looks: There is a country out there where tens of millions of white Christians, voting freely, select as their leader a black man of modest origin, the son of a Muslim. There is a place on Earth – call it America – where such a thing happens.”

OK, now this is just so wrong on so many levels. I don't even know where to begin. How about the fact that Barack got about 60 million votes and of that tens of millions of those votes were cast by non whites. Do the people of the middle east think that the USA is made up of 300 million white people? Come on, we are talking about people who want to rid the world of some other white people called Jews and they have nerve to lecture us about human rights?

Now I wont rewrite the whole article here but there is another point in the article that really frosted me. “Even where the United States is held in special contempt, like here in this benighted Palestinian coastal strip, the “glorious epic of Barack Obama,” as the leftist French editor Jean Daniel calls it, makes America – the idea as much as the actual place – stand again, perhaps only fleetingly, for limitless possibility.”

Hey Jean Daniel, the very existence of the USA is due to the limitless possibility of its people and its government ideals. America has been an actual place for over 200 years and we have stood the test of time while your very own nation has gone through, what, three forms of government.

Are we in the USA going to have to deal with what the rest of the world thinks of us? Seriously, will Obama bend to the will of the world and change our nation to look more like the failed governments of the world?

Hey Jean Daniel, people are dying and risking life and limb to get into the USA. They travel through the desert heat of the day and the freezing cold in the dark of night to get here. They build shanty floating craft to cross great expanses of water to get here. The float clinging to the side of rafts with their children huddling in the middle of that raft in order to get here. The last time I checked, people were not flocking to France or most other nations on this planet. We have had one stable government for over 200 years while your left leaning country has had three. And you have nerve to tell us that we are now living up to our ideal as a nation. Give me a break. We have always lived up to our ideals as a nation. That is evidenced by the scores of people who flock here legally and illegally.

What scares me is that Barack may be more interested in how these leftist idiots view us instead of how we Americans want to see ourselves. We are not beholden to the world. Screw humility for a moment. We are the nation that saved the whole damned world, TWICE! And we need to listen to some leftist jerk tell us how to run our nation, how to live?

No my friends, liberty and freedom is not dictated by those who wish to limit them. Liberty and freedom is fought for and protected by those who hold it dear. That someone over the last century has been the USA. No other nation on the planet has ever done more to advance the cause of freedom than the USA. No other nation in history has accomplished what the USA has especially in such a short period of time.

But we have those who wish us to be more like them. Less free. Less open. Less prosperous. But that is not America. That is not the ideal of the USA where opportunity is limitless. Yes, in our nation, a half African can indeed become President.

And to think, we did all of this when France could not even keep its borders safe, its people safe, its government in tact. And now this arrogant, leftist idiot dares to say we now are fulfilling our ideal because we may have elected a Muslim sympathizer? I tell you to look as France right now and you will see they are having a very hard time with an overflowing population of Muslims? Is this what Jean Daniel wants for our nation as well?

I think, unlike most nations on earth, America is a place where any race, religion, nationality, creed has a chance at producing a man or woman to become President. We are a people that continues to grow simply because we love freedom and liberty. And we see that everyone deserves to experience and live in that freedom and liberty. We believe it so strongly that we are willing to die to help others get that freedom and liberty.

I guess Jean Daniel would prefer that the USA would be more like France or some Middle Eastern Nation. But if we were, who would come to the rescue of France and free them from the tyranny of some tyrant that wishes to rule over them with an iron fist? Maybe the nation of Egypt would suite his needs of an open society better. Somehow I don't see Egypt or any other nation rushing to save France and Jean Daniel from tyranny any time soon.

Guess we better keep America the land of the free and the home of the brave so we can save human rights across the world so that Jean Daniel has the freedom to say stupid stuff like this and so Ethan Bronner can write articles of absurdity such as this.

God bless America for America has definitely blessed the world.

God, guns, glory and freedom

Now I am sure you are thinking to yourself, not another post from some right wing whack nut about God and guns. Well, you would be wrong. But since you brought it up, what is wrong with God and guns? Absolutely nothing.

But what this article is about is your freedom, my freedom, the freedom of our children and their posterity. We have been given a great gift by God in the form of the United States of America. Are we a perfect nation? Hell no. Are we the best nation on the planet today and possibly in the history of man? Hell yes.

We were built on freedom and liberty. Our Founding Fathers saw fit to put into the Constitution things that would secure our freedom. Yet we seem to be willing to let our freedom go little by little and we say it is for the best.

We have now elected the most socialistic and radical President in our nation's history. Barack Obama is bent on destroying the very foundations in which our nation was built. But he is not the first.

We have anti gun laws in most states in our union. This is something that our Founding Fathers would never have stood for. Yet we modern Americans think it is for our safety. Despite the fact that gun laws only seem to keep fire arms out of the hands of law abiding citizens, not the criminals. This gives the criminal the upper hand. You can see every where the people are allowed to carry a gun, violent crime goes down. Great Britain banned hand guns for its citizens and its violent crime rate shot through the roof. So much for the safety of the public.

You now have a Governor proposing taxes that would have the Founding Fathers dumping cargo into bays and ports all over the country. NY Governor Patrick wants to put taxes on what you eat and what you do. This is surely not the kind of taxation with representation that our Founding Fathers had in mind. Remember one of the reasons they went to war with King George was over taxes and how unfair and burdensome they were to the American people. Now we have elected politicians who think the best way to solve fiscal problems is to raise our taxes instead of reducing their spending. And we re-elect these people?

We have gotten thought police as well. We now have "hate" crime laws. This gives some people more protection than others. How is that anti-hate when you seem to think that a gay man is worth more than a straight man. Who cares what was in the heart and mind of the criminal when they committed the crime. It was a crime against a HUMAN BEING, period. Hate crime laws fly in the face of the Constitution that says "all men are created EQUAL". This does not leave room for special laws for special people.

We have judges who write law now or force legislators to write law. This was not the intent in the Constitution either. How can you interpret a law that does not exist? You cannot. A judge, according to the Constitution, can only interpret existing law against the Constitution. That does not give the judge the right to force a new law upon the people. That job is for the legislature alone.

Yet we seem to elect the same buffoons to office time and time again. We talk about experience when we just elected one of the least experienced people to our highest office. But then again, this may not be such a bad thing. Our Founding Fathers did not believe in career politicians. They all served a short time and went back to private life. Our politicians today seem to think when they get elected its a life long job worthy of pensions and retirement pay.

And we now have selective discrimination. You can't have a Christmas tree or a Menorah on public property in many places now. Something about "separation of church and state." What a bunch of bunk. Those words do not appear anywhere in the Constitution. I challenge anyone to find those words in the Constitution. Placing a Christmas tree in front of city hall does not constitute the state endorsing a particular religion as the state religion. It is ridiculous how this has played out. Unless you are now some protected minority religion, you have no rights on public lands? Yet we re-elect the idiots who decide this stuff for us.

I am a Christian man. I say Merry Christmas and Jesus is the reason for the Season. If you get insulted, then it is not my problem. I say Happy Chanukah to some people who are Jewish. If that offends someone who is not Jewish, tough. I like guns and own one. If that offends you, too damn bad. I express my opinion freely. You don't like it then don't listen or don't read it.

This is the United States of America and I have the right to do, say and have these things. You don't have the right to shut me up or take them away. You do have the right not to listen. Just as I have a right not to listen to you. Notice I did not say I have a right not to "hear" you. You have a right to say almost anything you want, even call me a racist term and I will hear it, but just because you say it doesn't mean you have a right to have me listen. I can ignore you. You can ignore me, but neither of us can DENY the other of our rights. And that is what is happening today in our nation.

This is the land of the free and the home of the brave and I will gladly stand up and defend her any day. I stand for God, Family, Country. In that order. God gave me my family and my country and I have a God given right to defend them and I will. And I will do so by not voting for idiots who want to take those rights away from me. I will defend my rights by opposing what our elected officials want to do if what they want to do stomps on the Constitution. I don't care if you are Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Liberal, Conservative, Moderate, Independent...it does not matter. You trash the Constitution and you and I have a major problem.

The Founding Fathers did not bleed red so that we could someday hand over our rights to a few elites in Capitols all over the land. The power was meant to stay in the hands of all the people not a few. So wake up. Stand up. Don't let your freedom slip away any further. Because if you do, you may find the only way to get it back is by bleeding yourself or worse, by the blood of your children. Now is that what you really want? I didn't think so. Oh and if it comes to that, you will need your gun.

Tax the fat.

This is for all of you who said that taxing and banning smoking was a good thing. Even though I don't smoke cigarettes, (I think they stink) I don't believe in telling someone in a free country what they can and cannot do pertaining to their health.

We have various cities all across the fruited plane banning trans fats in restaurants. You have Boston, banning Cigar Bars within city limits. You have smoking bans on private property. Now comes an idea out of New York State from the new governor there.

How about a tax on sugared soft drinks. But not a tax on diet drinks. How insane is this? Where do we live, the old Soviet Union? Who the hell do these people think they are?

Don't think for a moment this is going to stop here. The "correct" police will be coming after your food or vise soon enough.

I predicted this long ago. I said that there would be a time soon that some government agency or branch would seriously propose a "fat tax". Well low and behold, we have the Great Empire State Governor talking about just that.

Forget the fact that there is evidence that diet drinks are probably worse on your health than sugared drinks. It is a money grab plain and simple and you know who is going to suffer the most from this tax? The lower class. Yes, you got it. The very people the Liberals say we need to help by taking money from the rich and giving it to them.

Oh don't worry, the governor also has said that even though the state need to raise the extra cash, he also is going to propose a raise in welfare assistance payments. So there you go. They will give the people who drink soft drinks the most, the ability to pay for it by giving them more money so they can tax them at the cash register.

Now what do you think will happen when people drink less and less of sugared soft drinks? Will they cut the programs that these taxes will fund? Of course not. They will expand the tax to cover Snickers and Twinkies.

Listen. The Revolutionary war was started in part because of taxes. Now we have more taxes than George Washington and the Founding Fathers could of ever dreamed of. If you think they would go to war over the small taxes they had back then, what do you think they would do today if they were all alive?

First I dare say, they would have never let these idiots get elected. If they did get elected, they would have made sure that they didn't get re-elected.

A tax is one of the most freedom restricting things a government can do to its citizens without making laws (like prohibition) against such activities.

The people of NY need to stand up and say no to this kind of tax and to any other kind of new tax. We the people are taxed enough and we don't need the government telling us what to eat, drink, smoke, think, do or be. We have the sole right to those things.

Give me a break. This is the United States of America not the Soviet Socialist States of the Western Hemisphere.

Read more bout this here:

Daily News

The New York Times

A Ponzi is a Ponzi is a Ponzi unless you are the government

Bernard Madoff has pulled off what many thought could never be pulled off. He has duped investors of a reported $50 billion dollars. Yes, that is 50 BILLION! It is said that this is a record and the largest Ponzi scheme in the history of finance.

Now what does this have to do with liberty and freedom? A lot. If you were one of the unfortunate people or organization's that invested money with this guy, chances are you have taken a huge, monumental hit. Some people and organizations may have to go bankrupt. Their financial security and liberty has been threatened.

But that is only a small part of the issue. The government, obviously, wants to come down hard on this individual. Why? Because he pulled off something that was previously thought impossible. Madoff duped some of the wealthiest in our nation. It is reported, one individual may be out as much as $500 million dollars.

You may say, about time that the rich got hit. Well let me tell you something about that. The rich create jobs in this country. Not the poor and not the government unless you become a government employee. The rich are suffering in this economic downturn just like the rest of us and to have someone dupe you out of the money you earned no matter how much is simply wrong.

But is Madoff the biggest fraud going? Not by far. Our government now runs the largest Ponzi scheme in the history of the world. It is called Social Security. And the numbers are staggering. You would not believe the amount of money that has disappeared from the government's books when it comes to this "fund".

Lets start with a little history. FDR, the wonderful president of the Great Depression, set up this fund to help people with retirement. It was anticipated that people would pay the government over their working life and upon retirement, that same government would give you back your money in small amounts for the rest of your life.

There are a number of problems with this and these problems were built into the system from the beginning. This ensured that at some point in the future, the whole plan would fall apart. The question is, how much will the demise of this system damage our nation and government? If the Madoff issue is any indication, we could expect our government to go bankrupt. No Joke! What does a bankrupt Federal Government mean for you and me? Loss of our freedom, liberty and maybe even our Constitution and with that our nation and way of life.

The first person to receive Social Security retirement benefits was one Ida May Fuller of Vermont. She began receiving benefits in January 1940 after reaching 65 years of age in the year of 1939. Miss Fuller contributed under $25 dollars to the system. So by all accounts, how the system was said to have worked, she should have gotten no more than that $25 dollars.

At least that is what a logical and sane person would believe. In reality what Miss Fuller got was well over $22,000 dollars. Granted being of sturdy and stout New England stock, Miss Fuller lived to the ripe old age of 100. However, notice how she collected 1000 times more than she put in. How can this be?

How does this factor in to the modern times of today? Well at one point there were over 20 working people supporting 1 retiree on Social Security. The way our nation is aging, it is predicted that number will shrink to as few as 3 working people supporting 1 retiree. Now in order to do that, you must be taxed more. But how can this be if the money you are putting into the system is YOUR money?

It is not your money. In fact, if you actually were to view the books of the Social Security fund, you would see a big fat zero. Where has all that money gone? It has gone into the general fund to reduce the deficit and to pay current retirees and other recipients getting Social Security benefits.

At some point, there will be not enough people to support such a massive payout. This is how Ponzi schemes fall apart. At some point there is no more money that can come in. So the people who get in later cannot get what they put into the plan. The same with Social Security. Your financial liberty and indeed, our nations' freedom is at risk here.

Yet at every turn, Congress has blocked any and all attempts to "fix" this eventual problem. If you think the current bail out is expensive, just wait until Social Security needs a bail out. I would suggest that anyone under the age of 50 not expect to get a single dime of Social Security money. View it as a tax and that money is gone forever. You mush take care of your own needs in retirement.

In order to be free, in order to have liberty, you cannot have any part of your life dependent on government. It is not governments responsibility to take care you or me. Otherwise, you risk losing all of your freedom. And, America, unless there is a change in this massive Ponzi scheme, you and I will lose what ever freedom and liberty we currently have and enjoy.

Some further reading for you:

The Deal.com

How Stuff Works

International Society for Individual Liberty

EHow.com

Did we forget?

December 7, 1941. A day that should not be forgotten, may have been. The entire world stood still that day. For the year 1941, the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, HI spread like wildfire. It was a day when people all over the world actually rejoiced because it forced the United States to enter the war. It caused anti-freedom loving governments across the world to tremble and for good reason.

Admiral Yamamoto of Japan was quoted as saying "I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant." And that giant had tremendous anger. But why did we go to war in the first place?

Was it really just because Japan attacked us? If that were the case then why did we not just go to war with Japan and leave Italy and Germany out of the equation and leave it to the British and French and Russians? Because it was about freedom.

When Japan attacked the USA, they attacked freedom directly at its core. The French had fallen, the Brittish were barely hanging on and without help, there was no way the Communist Soviets were going to be able to hold back Hitler even with the famed Russian winters as an ally.

We don't celebrate December 7 anymore. Not as a holiday but as a rememberance. A day which President Roosevelt said would live in infamy. Forever. Never to be forgotten. But as we head into the year 2009 with a new President in the form of Barack Obama, we have changed as a nation.

We are a nation that has begun to turn its back on freedom and liberty. This is evident by the numerous and huge financial bailouts of various business sectors. It is evident by the election of polititians that want to take away your freedom of choice in the areas of health care, personal choice (smoking, drinking, etc) educational choices and the list goes on. We find that many things are being defined as privaledges instead of rights, such as driving a car or truck.

We see polititians subverting the will of the people by voting for things that even the people they are elected to represent don't want such as the financial bailout. We see serious and massive corruption in all levels of our government as polititian after politician is arrested and even jailed. You don't think this is serious business?

Out of the last 8 Governors of the state of IL, 4 have been arrested for corruption and 3 have or are serving time in jail right now. That is 50%. 50%! One could have argued that Rhode Island was the most corrupt state in the union but to see that 4 out of 8 IL Gov have fallen due to greed, lust, corruption makes RI look like Disney land.

How can we as a nation forget what happened on December 7, 1941? It took the blood and lives of millions of men to let us keep our freedom. Is this what they fought for in the jungles, in the open fields, in the ruined cities and towns, in the cold of winter and the heat of summer, in the deserts of Africa? No, this is not what they served and gave all for. This is what they faught against.

Who would of thought that in less than a century we would be the very nation that we once wared against. How must all of those brave men and women be turning in their graves right now. How they must be looking down upon on us from heaven with tears of sadness. How they would have stayed home if they knew this is what they would have given all for.

Why do I bother with this? Because I beleive in the USA. I believe in freedom and liberty. I believe in the project that our Founding Fathers started over 225 years ago. I believe that man has the God given right to live free, to govern themselvs and to have the choices to raise their family in a manor in which they deem to be best. But everywhere I turn I see Americans voting their freedom away.

It saddens me to see this. We cannot be little children having temper tantrums and vote for someone we know is going to take away our freedom just because we are mad at the party or person who is currently in office. This is how we got Barack Obama. Now we will have to brace for even more freedom erosion. Now we must live with more government regulation and rules and laws.

You do understand that right now, you probably break a law every single day of your life and you may not even know it. That is becuase you elect people who feel they know whats best for you and they impose laws on you and many times you don't even know those laws exist until some over zealouse young police officer pulls you over and hands you a ticket or worse yet, arrest you.

This is not what my grandfathers, grand uncles, went to war for. We are fast becoming a people enslaved by its government, but what makes this different from most government style changes is that this one is bloodless. There is no military take over or blood thirsty civil war. No, this change comes at the ballot box and we the citizens are just voting our rights away.

This December, this holiday season, think about the freedom you have to celebrate how you see fit. Now think about the fact that some day, and that some day could be sooner than you think, you may not have the right or the freedom to celebrate as you see fit. At that time, it will be too late to vote for someone who will protect your freedom and liberty because they very well may all be dead.

Think about it this holiday. Say a prayer for the men and women in harms way protecting your liberty and freedom. Set aside some time to remember what this nation was meant to be. And vow that in the year 2009 you will stand up for your rights, freedom and liberty. Stand up for the USA. You wont be sorry and your family and posterity will thank you as well. Don't ever let December 7, 1941, a day which sould live in infomy, be forgotten.

Stuff from around the Web on IL scandal

I have been doing some surfing on the net among various blogs. Below are some links to some of those blogs and news stories I have come across and read. I think they are good reads even if they don't express my view. A varied point on this issue is welcomed because it leaves no stone unturned.

However, note that some people (bloggers and commenters) will circle the wagons and protect the Democrat no matter what they do. They are doing this with President-Elect Obama. (By the way, what is up with this crap of "Office of the President-Elect? There is NO SUCH OFFICE!) People are putting a protective barrier around Obama or at least they are trying to.

Have you noticed that this guy has scandal after scandal that can some how lead back to him? I can't remember or find any President-Elect with such a record. Not even Clinton. Can this guy actually survive his first 100 days in office? We will have to see about that but if I was an odds maker (bookie to those of you in Blue states) I would be giving favorable odds that he will not. I hope this is not the case, but you have to wonder with Obama's past and his present, it doesn't bode well for his future.

The Evil Beet Not sure what is evil about beets (Yes I get the double entendre' in the name of this blog.)

The Watcher Blog of the Chicago Tribune This one is pretty funny. Great tip 10 list a-la Dave Letterman style.

My Way This blogger seems very serious in his analysis. Also notice the picture of the Governor and Obama. Look how smug Obama looks. You have to wonder how well Obama knew this guy. My guess is Obama would say, "I didn't know him even though I worked very closely with him for year."


Town Hall Will he or will he not go peacefully. That is the question. It currently looks like he will not.

The Liberty Cafe Just my own take on one small part of the whole IL mess. But is this just a mess in IL or does the nation as a whole have a real and serious problem? I think that question can be answered in a sad but resounding, YES.

Who is Candidate Number 5?

ABC News source and Politico are reporting that Jesse Jackson, Jr. is the now famed Senate Candidate Number 5 in the IL Gov scandal.

Now why does this not surprise me? Why is it when things go bad in or around Chicago, somehow the name Jackson comes up? I thought these people were all about change? I thought they were all about hope and promise as well.

"Keep Hope Alive" was Jesse Jackson, Sr. mantra for years. Obama took the Clinton word "Change" and made it ring in America's ear so loudly that it got him elected and people didn't care about anything else.

Is this the hope and change that these people talked about? Bribes, back room deals? Is that the only way a Jackson can get a Senate seat? To buy it?

We already know that our political seats are bought but they are usually bought by a few groups of people rather than one person. Have we sunk so low as to buy a seat you could not otherwise get elected to no matter how much money you have to spend?

To be fair, Jackson, Jr has not been named as a person of interest or investigation by the FBI. But if this source is correct, you have to wonder how far and how deep this whole IL corruption mess goes.

Will Obama be dragged down with it? He is due to be sworn in as our 44th President in a little over a month. Yet people this guy knows are sinking like lead anchors in a salt-less sea. Will any of this bring down a President before he even gets started? Or will Obama be more like Bill Clinton, where no matter what, nothing seemed to stick to him.

Obama has called for the IL Governor to resign but somehow I doubt this guy will do that. Now will Obama call for Jackson, Jr. to step down from his state senate seat if he is found to be a part of this scandal? If it means saving his own neck, Obama will throw him under the bus, too.

Yes, that is the change we asked for, I am sure. Now isn't change good?

Check out the article here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081210/pl_politico/27055_1

The Auto Bailout is Strike Against Liberty

A Car Czar? Are you kidding me? Our government is actually holding the auto industry for ransom. They are telling them that if they want bailout money, they will have to let the government run them basically. Talk about nationalizing an entire industry.

This car czar as they call it, would get to approve or deny anything over $25 million in spending. That's right. The CEO's and Board of Directors would have to ask a government appointed official for permission before they spent a dime more than $25 million on anything.

Now understand this, it can cost a few billion dollars to develop a brand new vehcle. Yes you read that right. Billion. Developing cars to the specs and regulations that the government has mandated to begin with is not cheap. So if the car company wants to develop a new car, they will have to get the permission of the government first.

Now lets break this down. Car companies usually do extensive research in to what they think the public wants and is willing to buy. Obviously the big 3 US auto makers have been getting poor research of late for some kinds of cars and trucks but they still do their own research and in effect, the market pretty much dictates what Detroit makes.

This car czar will not have that information nor will he have to nor will he care. He can basically tell a car company you will have to develop and make this kind of car even if the public doesn't want to buy it. Now isn't that the reason Detroit is in trouble now? They are making too many cars that the buying public does not want to buy?

How about the fact that if the car czar doesn't like the restructuring of the car company, he can revoke their loans and funding and force the company into bankruptcy. How much power are we willing to give one person? Do you understand how many jobs are on the line? We are talking a few million between all three manufacturers. The auto industry employs millions of people and when a major car company has a sniffle, then the rest of the industry could catch a cold. Now you let these companies catch a cold and you got the makings of a flew epidemic in our nation. And Congress wants one man to see to the health of all of this? An unelected man at that.

Plus the fact that Nancy and the gang wanted to make all these loans conditional. The big three would have to drop their court battles over CA and other states emissions standards and such. So you see, the very people who brought us this financial debacle now wish to hold the country and its many private businesses hostage for their own gain.

Oh, don't worry, Nancy and the gang have their eye on the foreign car companies in our country too. They can't figure it out yet but they want to force those companies to somehow increase their labor cost to equal that of the Detroit three. Instead of looking for ways to help Detroit lower their cost, they want to raise the cost for others. There goes the incentive for innovation.

Congress is reaching far outside the limits of the Constitution and it affects me and you directly. You thought that the government would never be able to tell you what to drive didn't you? Well don't look now but our government is poised to be able to do just that. The main point is, will you want to pay for and drive what some in Congress want you to? I know I sure as hell don't and no I don't own an SUV.

But damn it all, this is the USA! If I want one and can afford one, I should be able to get one. Period.

A Governor and his court

I know everyone has heard about the Governor of the state of IL being arrested by the FBI. Now some people may think, so what big deal. Well it is a very big deal. Much bigger than just this governor possibly breaking the law. If the charges against this guy are true and fact, then it affects your freedom directly.

Seriously think about it for a moment. This guy is alleged to basically have held the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama for ransom. He was trying to sell it to the highest bidder. He was holding that seat open to someone that would benefit him. Not the people of his state.

Now when you are a governor and you get to appoint a senator to the US Congress, you are also affecting every single person in the Union. Even though a US Senator is duly sworn to represent the people of his state, what they do while in Congress affects every person in all 50 states.

This is not a situation that only affects the people of IL. It affects all of us. What if this governor appointed someone that did not really qualify for that seat? What if that appointed Senator swayed crucial votes that affected and effected your life?

How do you justify selling a seat in government? Don't tell me that everyone does it. To a certain extent that may be true. But this is different. This governor openly put this seat out for bid. He threatened to appoint himself to the seat if he did not get the price he thought he should get. This is self serving and has nothing to do with you or me or the people of the state of IL.

Add to this the fact that IL already has a former governor in prison for less than legal deeds while in office. Forget the fact that the state of IL has had a record number of governors to be sent to jail for various ill-deeds, 5 to be exact. Rod (yea we share the same name but not the same views or sense of morality) Blagojevich was out for himself. He was out to enrich himself without any regard to the people of this country. Rod Blagojevich could be governor number 6 in IL to go to prison.

Have we not had enough of politicians on the take. Forgetting why they are in office to begin with? How can we, the people, keep electing these people over and over again? Why is it we think its OK that character doesn't really matter? These people take our freedom, take our liberty, and line their pockets with money. They don't care about you and me.

So what can you do? Get involved. This is YOUR country as well as it is mine. You need to start understanding what your freedom and liberty is. You need to know what is in the Constitution. You need to realize that your freedom, although its not free, it is priceless. It is as priceless as life itself for without your natural God given freedom, you can have no life.

Don't believe me, then just look at the former Soviet Union. Look at nations that did not have freedom until recently and see how the people love having it. Of course the politicians don't like for you to have freedom. It gives you power over them instead of them having power over you.

The state of IL is corrupt. It is corrupt because the people let it be corrupt. Our government is corrupt because we the people let it be. We elect and re-elect the very people who are responsible for our plight.

People knew that Rod Blagojevich was a crook but they elected him anyway. People knew that Barack Obama had major character issues and flaws, yet we elected him anyway. People know that Barny Frank and friends are most responsible for our financial environment right now, but they were re-elected last November.

You, your neighbor, your co-worker, your relative is responsible for you losing your freedom. You and they elect these deadbeats. You must understand, one man or one woman can change the course of a nation and history. It has been proven time and time again. Now imagine over 400 people that you elect and put in Washington, D.C. and how they can influence your life. Imagine the people that you send to your state and local government buildings and how they affect your liberty on a daily basis.

Would you want your boss at work to be as crooked as Blagojevich? Most of us would say no because that could put our paychecks in jeopardy. Well, the same is true when you send leaders to run our government. And now we are reaping what we vote.

Now you can't blame me. I did not vote for Blagojevich, Obama, Frank, Palosi, Dodd. But many of you who read this did. So are is the biggest enemy of your freedom, my freedom, the people in office? No! The biggest threat to my freedom to your freedom, to your family's freedom is you, the voter.

If you don't vote, you are no better than the person who votes for the wrong person. So when you read about men and women like Blagojevich the only person you can blame is yourself. You voted for them. They think they are kings when you do and can do and say anything and get away with it.

We the people are not corrupt in general but we allow others to be corrupt by voting for them and then re-electing them. So when you lose your job or your friend, relative or neighbor does, know that it is most likely your fault. Unless you find and vote for those who believe in the Constitution and believe in your freedom and liberty, then you are at fault.

Want to prevent more corruption? Want to stop people like Blagojevich? Then vote for those who believe in your freedom and will not compromise principle for a buck.

A question of epic proportions

I was given a most interesting question the other day. I had to think about it for a few days. Yes, it was a really deep question. It was a question that required lots and lots of serious thought. It is the kind of question that I am sure many people are being asked since the national election.

OK, so I didn't have to think about it for a few days. In fact it didn't even take me a full second to respond. The answer, of course, was a resounding – NO! I'm sure you are wondering what question, what single question could spark such a single word response. What kind of question would raise my ire?

It was a question of Barack Obama, our dear President-elect. Our dear messiah. (Notice the little letter “m”.)

This was the question. And you can answer it for yourself if you wish.

Would you have voted for Obama if he were a white man?

Let me restate my answer. NO! Hell no. And it has nothing to do with his skin color. It has everything to do with his ideas and beliefs.

Obama, be he black or white or yellow or red or brown, has all the wrong ideas when it comes to our nation. We are a nation of free people. We don't need nor do we want a nanny government. We don't need nor do we want government to run our lives. We don't need nor do we want government to grow so big that it hinders our ability to live on our own terms.

Obama, be he black, white, yellow, red or brown, wants government to be your answer to everything. He wants government to be the only answer to everything. He believes that only government can make things better and fair. He believes in spreading your wealth around.

No, I would not vote for Obama if he were white. I would not vote for Obama if he were yellow. I would not vote for Obama if he were red. I would not vote for Obama if he were brown. So I definitely did not vote for him, even though he is black (half black).

His plans for trickle up poverty (coined by the master radio talk show host Michael Savage) are not the plans that will ensure prosperity to our selves or our posterity. Although not a perfect system, Ronald Reagan's trickle down economics has proven to work far more successfully than any form of trickle up economics. How can the poor employ anyone? They can't. How can the poor help anyone? They can't. But a rich person can employ that poor person who then can work and train and lift himself out of the depths of poverty to join that rich man as his equal. But he must work and train for it.

Obama thinks he can get that poor man to be somewhat richer by taking from the rich man who would rather employ the poor man. This Robin Hood approach has never worked in all of history.

President-elect Obama may be a Constitutional Law Professor but he surely does not know his economic history. For if he bothered to study such things while attending Harvard, he would know that such ideas as he proposes to foist on all of us, are doomed to fail. And as such, those failed ideas will doom our nation.

No, I would not vote for Obama no matter what color his skin. I would simply not vote for the man because of his ideas. They are wrong and bad for freedom and liberty and as such they are bad for our nation and our people.

Is it getting hot in here?

For the past 29 years or so, we here on earth have been told that at some point we will burn up. Yes, man would cause the earth to become a scortched desert much like the surface of Mars only much, much hotter.

Lets forget the fact that for at least a decade before 1979, children were learning in school all about the affects of Global Cooling and how mankind was to blame for it. In fact, I do remember a Dr Seuss TV special about just the subject.

In the TV special, Dr Seuss tells us a tale of the Lorax (you can see a short clip of the film here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pknssl52sh8) and how the Lorax, being very wise, was warning us of unchecked polution and destruction of the environment.

However, the Lorax was not warning us of hotter than hell days to come. He was, in fact, warning us of an ice age in which we would not be able to get out of. This was back in 1972. Why not ask a Global Warming alarmist about the days of Global Cooling. Many will deny such events but you can show them this childrens film to make your point in an entertaining way. After all, who can hate Dr. Seuss?

The point is there was a call back then to limit our choices. There was a call back then to increase our taxes to "fix" the problem. There was a call back then to force humans to revert to "simpler" times. In other words, give up your cars and most modern conveniences of the day.

To be fair, the railing against over consumption was a valid point. That point comes home to roost today in the form of our current economic problems. We have outspent ourselves. Many people have huge amounts of debt from over consuming products and services. And somehow, those who would wish to rule over us came up with the notion that all of this would lead to the destruction of earth.

Make no mistake about it, they mean to rule over you. The proof? Back around 1979 when scientist began to show that the earth was not cooling but actually heating up ever so slightly, they knew that their environmental extreemist ways were in danger. They had to come up with something to keep themselves viable int he public eye. So quietly, over time, Global Cooling became Global Warming.

Now, since the fact that the earth has actually cooled a little over the past decade or so, they are again changing their tune. Quietly Global Warming is giving way to Man Made Global Climate Change. You see this covers everything. No matter which way the earths temprature goes, they can blame it on the activity of man. They may have finally found a way to get your money and force you to give up modern conveniences that they deem to be unnessary.

But don't think for an instant that all environmentalist are on board yet. In fact you have some who try to lie and fudge the numbers to make things look worse than they are. We have people in our own government and government agencies that fall into this catagory.

NASA is lead by one of these quacks. Dr James Hansen, Mr. Al Gore's chief scientific advisore, is the head of the National Aeronotics and Space Administration's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and this guy has been on board for Global Warming for years.

There is an article; The world has never seen such freezing heat
By Christopher Booker (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/16/do1610.xml) that gives detailed information on how this guy was misleading the public on Global Warming. I am sure you have heard that October, 2008 was the warmest on record. When in fact, the proof across the globe is that it was actually one of the coldest months on record.

The lies of the left are all about one thing. Taking away your freedom and liberty. Telling you what you can drive and when you can drive. Telling you what kind of house you can live in. Telling you how you are going to raise your family and live your life. All in the name of saving the planet...which is obviously not in danger to begin with.

This Global Warming or better yet, Man Made Climate Change consortium is nothing short of Socialistic at best and Marxist at worst. This is all about power. This is all about taking the most powerful nations on the planet and reducing them to third world status simply because they do not like the USA and the West in general.

The Global Warmist think that the West uses too much of the worlds resourses and has too much compared to the rest of the world. So instead of helping nations who are poverty stricken, they try to reduce the west to the level of those third world nations by coming up with this Global Warming crap and all its incarnations.

This is nothing but a money and power grab. Hell, if the elarmist were serious about solving this crisis, then why do they block so many attempts to correct the problem such as building solar and wind farms? And why do they opperate huge sea craft and jet air craft to globe trot to spread their rot? Why do they drive SUV's on nearly every continent in order to spread their message?

It is not about saving the planet,people. It is about limiting your freedom and liberty. It is about controling your life to fit some twisted idea of what they think utopia should be.

Granted, it would be nice to have non-poluting cars on the highways of the world. It would be great to harness the wind and sun and geothermal for our energy needs. It would be fabulouse if we could power our homes and boats and planes and cars with water (hydrogen). The entire world would benefit from such things. I am all for those things. But when you have a bunch of hypcrites at the helm of this thing, you have to wonder why they are doing it.

Simply put, it is a way for them to scare the hell out of you. If they scare you enough they feel you will then willingly give up your liberty and freedom and let them run the show. How else do you think Obama got elected?

How did Obama get elected?

There is not much I can say about this so I will let the video below do all the talking.



This is just a crying shame. Half of their information is false, as in plain wrong. The other half of their information...oh wait they don't have any other information other than tabloid fodder. Gotta love our "fair and balanced" media.

And the Liberal Democrats think we need a "fairness doctrine" for radio. I guess that is the last place where people can learn the truth but the Liberals are not standing for that.

Time to pick up your guns and ammo cause its gonna get nasty out there.

Looking upon the past is keeping us from the future

I think I am getting a little sick and tired of hearing about the glory days of the Reagan years. Yes, it is good to remember what Reagan stood for. Yes it is good to know that what Reagan did worked for our nation because it was a simple, foundational principle that he lived by.

But to wax eloquently over and over again about the Reagan era. To opine for a new Ronald is really getting on my nerves. Look the Democrats have searched and search for their new John F Kennedy.

They thought it was Clinton. But they were wrong. They searched for a new, new JFK and thought it could be Al Gore. He bombed. Then they said the guy they needed and were looking for was right under their noses all along. John Kerry. After all his name was John and they had nearly the same initials and the same full, thick head of hair. JK and JK. It was clearly meant to be. Well I guess it wasn't.

Now we are getting caught up in the same kind of ridiculous nostalgia that we used to ridicule the Democrats for. We say we want a new Reagan. Well there cannot and will not ever be another Reagan. Reagan came at a time when we needed him. OK so I am going to compare Reagan to a hero of history although he is just a legend.

King Arthur was the huge hero England needed. He came at the right time with the right ideas and the right will of mind to get things done. Reagan was the same. But his time is gone now. He is gone now. But as with both figures, their principles are still sound and solid.

So can we have another Reagan-like candidate? Well yes we can and we should. We should seek out a freedom loving, limited government thinking, Conservative principled leader who will roll up his sleeves and not bend to the mass media's will.

I hear the name Newt being bandied about much as Obama's name was bandied about a few years ago. Newt may very well have the same principles as Reagan, which is good. But is Newt really the Reagan-esque leader we are looking for?

I am not so sure. Newt has huge baggage to overcome and you can be sure that will not get a pass from the media like Obama did. You can bet the press will be all over him. From head to toe. Every little sordid detail about Newt's life will hit the air and the paper. Newt will suffer an anal exam like one has never seen before.

But there are those who believe that Newt is up for the test and that, like Reagan, his time has come. I guess you could say in that case then, that Obama is the Carter of today. In which case a similar situation is about become reality. If Obama acts like a Jimmy Carter, someone the Democrats really don't like to talk about, then yes it would all most be a shoe in for Newt.

The real issue is not if Newt is the guy. The real issue is why is Newt thought of as the guy. Its because he has those traditional conservative principles that never fail us as a nation. That is why. He is the only top name candidate with those principles that currently has expressed an interest in the job. Oh sure you have people like Ron Paul but they don't have the intestinal fortitude to be a national figure and win the White House.

That does not mean that Ron Paul cannot play a huge, important and needed roll in getting a Reagan Conservative elected. He very well can. Am I a Newt supporter? Not exactly. Not yet. Am I convinced that if we run a Reagan Conservative like Newt that we could win the White House and even Congress back? Absolutely.

Let us look and search and vet out those Reagan Conservatives. Let us bring fourth those Founding Father principles in our next candidate. Lets nurture those principles and never abandon them again. Then you will see a nation prosper and freedom will again come to parts of the world that has none and it shall be done without firing a single gun in anger. Much like Reagan defeating the Soviet Union.

Yes the 80's were the glory days of the modern Conservative movement, but it doesn't have to end there. Those days are based in principle, not fad. That means those days can be had again. And we should demand those days from our next candidate.

The Death of Freedom? Not on my watch.

The economy is on every ones radar right now. You cannot go an hour without hearing about the economy and how it is in a tail spin. You cannot turn on the TV or radio without some kind of bad news about the economy. In fact even when there is some good news (rare as it may seem) it is buried by all the bad news.

This would leave one to believe that we are in the days of the worst economy in history. Or at least the worst economy since the great depression, according to the messiah, President-elect Obama.

Now this brings me to my point of this post. The arrogance of our leaders is astounding. Not one of them (except for President Bush) is touting free markets. Not one of them (again except for President Bush) is talking about less government. No, our leaders are enthralled with the notion that more government, bigger government is the key to all our worries. Big government will fix our problems. Huge government is the answer to the stock market, Detroit auto makers, big banks and the mortgage mess, wall street greed and general "Main Street" economic decline.

How, I ask you, how can more government, more regulation by people who have never run private companies do anything more efficiently than the American people? They have proven though history that they cannot.

But this economy is the perfect vehicle for the "nanny state" proliferaters to take your freedom. They will immerse your business, your company, your employer in red tape. This red tape will eat at profits. This red tape will force people to fire workers. This red tape will force some companies on the edge to go out of business without the hope of being saved.

Oh, but wait, they can be saved only if they let the government take them over, buy them out and then tell them how to run. No, no, no. This is NOT what the Founding Fathers had in mind. This is what the Founding Fathers feared. This is what the Founding Fathers warned us about. They are shouting from their graves via their letters, notes, other writings and the Constitution.

"Government," as stated by Ronald Reagan, "all to often is not the answer. It is the problem."

Now think about this for a minute. There have been huge debates about who is responsible for the mortgage melt down. I think that if you looked at the evidence with an objective eye, you will see that most of the blame falls on the Liberal Democrats. Palosi, Reed, Dodd and even Obama all had a big hand in helping our economy turn on its ear and head for the pits of hell.

Yet these are the same people who are now saying they can FIX the problems of the world. They did this on purpose. They did this to get you to fear. They did this so you would let them take your freedom away from you.

The Liberal Democrats have tried for decades to grow government and take your liberty from you. Most of the time they did not succeed. But then, Democrats can learn from history as well. We now have the perfect storm of history, Democrats and radical ideas coming together. This storm was engineered from the beginning. This storm was planned and executed with precision and malice.

Hitler took the people of Germany down a path they would not have gone if it were not for the fact that the German people were scared to death of what was going to happen to them after first Great War. As things got worse for Germany, the more power Hitler was able to amass. He kept up his rhetoric and fear mongering until things got so bad that the German people gave Hitler exactly what he wanted.

Are we at that cross road now? Is this the storm that the Liberal Democrats have in store for us? You bet your bottom American dollar it is. Look at what they are doing now. Obama has won the White House. He is running around acting like he is already in office. This is unheard of. He does not take control until January 20, 2009 yet he is pushing Bush aside like he was nothing more than table scraps.

He has the audacity to tell a sitting President what he wants that President to do before he takes over. Unheard of.

Nancy and the gang are chomping at the bit to get the chance to investigate, prosecute and jail as many of the Bush team as possible. This is also unheard of. We the people cannot stand for this. This is not justice. This is not fairness. This is not peace. This is not the American way. This IS the new tone that those now in power intend to set.

Mark my words, if we do not stop them here, stop them now, we will not be able to stop them later. They will build momentum and enact laws that will make if hard if not impossible to stop them in the future.

No, America, this is not how a great nation continues to be great. We have a job to do and it won't be easy or pretty. And Obama was right, it will take sacrifice but not the kind of sacrifice that he wants from us. It will take guts, strength, wisdom and gumption that has not been seen on our land since the founding of this great country.

This is YOUR country. It does not belong to Palosi. It does not belong to Reed. It does not belong to Dodd. It does not belong to Frank. It does not belong to Obama. It belongs to YOU and to ME. And that is how the Founding Fathers intended it to be.

Benjamin Franklin said, "Those who give up liberty for security truly deserve neither."

I say you can only have security through liberty. Period.

Freedom is the cry of the oppressed

Some time ago, there was a man who came to us with the vision of freedom and equality for all.

No, I am not talking about Barack Obama. Although you would think that Obama, at first glance, would be a champion of freedom and liberty. But then you hear his words. His words like "spread the wealth around" are not the words of freedom. They are words of oppression.

I am talking about a great man. A man who did not live to see his DREAM become a reality. I am talking about a man who wanted us all to be equal under the laws of God. I am talking about a man who did not raise his fist in anger but in glory and power and peace. I am talking about Martin Luther King. Jr.

He had a dream. I have a dream. Do you have that dream?



Higher taxes are not the result of free men. Spreading the wealth around is not the action of a free man. The Fairness Doctrine is not a doctrine of free men. No, my fellow Americans that is not freedom.

We have gotten to the crest of that Mountain that Dr King envisioned. We have climbed long and hard to reach that mountain top. We have struggled and we have fought. We have suffered injury and casualty yet we still fought and we still climbed. We have overcome many an obstacle. We have fought back oppression and regression. We have stood in the face of evil and beat it back.

But now we come to the mountain top to see our freedom. To realize the dream. Only to have someone for whom that dream was meant, be raised to a position to strip that dream from us. We are so close, yet we are so far. It is as if that mountain was thrust upward another mile into the sky. But yet we will continue that climb.

We will rise above all that which wants to keep us low. We will climb. We will fight for all that is good and just. We will climb. We will have the holy wind of God at our backs even though the evil fire of Satin himself blows in our face. Yes, we will climb. We will climb that mountain. And when we reach that mountain top again, we will not let anyone keep us in the fog. No we will climb to a clear mountain top where the sky is bright and clear and we will see that freedom which all men long for. We will see the freedom that God intended for all men. We will see and fulfill that dream. The dream that Dr. King had. The dream that he passed on to his children. The dream that was given to him by God.

And when that day comes, we as a nation, as a people will sing "We are free at last, Thank God Almighty, we are FREE at last."

The Dangers of the Left again show up in Cali

Proposition 8 in California was approved by a majority of the voters in that state. The proposition is an amendment to the state's Constitution. It states that marriage is the union between one man and one woman and that California will not accept or recognize any union other than that no matter where or when that union took place.

In other words, gay marriage is now illegal in California and it is not just a law, the proposition actually adds an amendment to the Constitution which puts it off limits to activist judges. Or at least that is what those that support this law thought.

It would appear that there are those in California that do not want this law to go into effect. In fact they want to thwart the will of the people by using the courts again.

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against gay people. In fact I have lots of friends who are gay. Surprising to me is the fact that many of them are not for gay marriage. Which goes to show that gays are not united on this issue as you have been lead to believe.

I for one, know that this nation was based on Judeo/Christian ethics by the Founding Fathers. Even though many of us may not like the idea but it is true, the bible does not allow for the union of a same sex couple. Although you could say that Jesus removed or fulfilled all the Lavitical laws, He did not do so for the 10 Commandments. One of those Commandments states that a man cannot lay or have sex with another man.

Now I will let theologians argue the merits of that issue. The other big issue is that the people of California have spoken. I find it amazing that when a minority thinks they have been wronged, they try and sue the majority. In effect, they hold the majority hostage. That was not the intent of the Constitution of any state or the Federal Government. The Constitutions do have provisions that keep the majority from pounding the minority into oblivion but that does not mean that the minority get to have their way whole sale.

This is how we get stupid laws dictated from the judicial bench. We get a few people who do not like what the majority have voted upon and thus take their losing case to the courts. The courts, in most cases, should toss these law suits out but liberal and activist judges have taken up the causes of the liberal minority and have thrust their rulings upon the majority thus holding the majority hostage.

This actually makes the majority the new minority. So would that mean we, the majority, are now the special protecties of the Constitution? We are being bullied by the minority. They bully us in court. They bully us in the press. And they try and bully us in the voting booth. They threaten to make your vote useless by taking every decision they don't like to a court. Talk about disenfranchised.

The point is this. The people of the state of California have spoken. If there is something you don't like about that vote, then you have the right to move. The Constitution does not give you the right to bully the majority when they do things legally. The courts have no jurisdiction on what can and cannot be added to the Constitution. It is time that some in the minority learn that if they keep fighting the will of the people, that those people will eventually give the minority something far more devastating than they expected.

This happened in California because when the people voted back in 2000 to make marriage between a man and a woman a plain law. The minority took them to court and a court forced something that the majority did not want. So the majority took matters into their hands and decided to do something radical. They decided to amend their Constitution which now makes it much more difficult if not impossible for gays to get their way. Good going to the minority of gays who have now just ruined life for the majority of gays.

If you want to read more about this story then click on the link below.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/06/MN3B13UM63.DTL

The Dawn of a New Era? Not likely

It has taken me a day to absorb the reality of what is President-elect Barack Obama. Now don't get me wrong. I knew in my gut that because Sen. McCain ran such a weak campaign that Obama would probably win so it was not such a shock to me when he did.

It was the realization that as our nation threw a temper tantrum at President Bush, they willingly handed control of our nation to Extremist, Socialist and Marxist. Yes I said it.

People thing President Bush did damage to our Constitution (and he did) just wait until Obama and his buddies along with Michelle Obama get hold of the reins of leadership. This could be one of the most bumpy rides our nation has seen since the civil war.

Why do I predict such dire circumstances? History. History has taught us, if you bother to read history, that certain things do not work in our nation or in any nation. Yet Obama and the gang are determined to repeat history.

Why is this? Do they really hate America? Do they secretly hate you and me, the average "Joe the Plumber?" No they don't. I really and truly believe they don't. They DO hate the fact that we are so successful and other nations are not. They do think it is unfair.

They also truly believe they know whats best for you and your family. They also want to control you and your family. Why else would they come out with laws that limit your freedom, your choice, take money from you in the form of taxes, etc? Is it because they love you? No they don't love you. They love power. And they love the country as they would like to see it, not as it is.

You see, it is unfair that France, China, England, Russia and other nations that are centuries older than the USA not have the same prosperity as we have. It is unfair that in less than 200 years we would become a world super power. It is unfair that we have things that other nations do not have. It is unfair that we are so rich when other nations are so poor.

Liberals, Socialist and Marxist see the worlds wealth and product as finite. The only way we can have more is if we take from someone else. This of course if stupidity at its highest level, but that is what they believe.

Listen to Obama talk about "spreading the wealth around". If Obama believed wealth was infinite, then there would be no need to spread the wealth around. He would believe that the best way to end poverty would be to help the poor and middle class get educated and create there own jobs, businesses, investment, etc in order to produce their own wealth. Instead he believes that the only way to elevate the poor is to take from the rich and then give it to the poor.

Never mind that this ideal has never worked through out the history of mankind. Never mind that almost every modern nation that has tried such a thing has failed and has now adopted some form of capitalism. Never mind that many nations are giving their people more freedom and relaxing government control and regulations. Never mind the fact that the USA already has the highest Corporate tax rates in the world. It does not matter.

It does not matter to them because they are gods. They are smarter than you or I. They know best. And those countries and leaders all throughout history were not smart enough to make their ideas work. But Palosi, Reed and Obama are smart enough to make these failed ideas work.

There is a famous saying "the true definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result each time." This is what our Liberal pals in Congress think. This is what Obama thinks.

Am I depressed? No I am not. Am I concerned? Yes I am. Don't get me wrong, I truly hope that Obama does the right thing and we prosper as a nation. But I know Liberals and Socialist. I know what Obama and his gang want to do. I know history has shown that their ideas are abysmal failures.

So what am I going to do? First I am going to dump my 401k. There is no way I am giving the government control over the money that I have saved and invested. And neither should you. I will have to look at this proposal that Nancy Palosi has a little closer to determine where to put my money but it will not be in any vehicle that the government gets to control. Yes, I will take the penalty and tax hit before I let Obama and the gang totally destroy my savings.

I am going to hoard cash. Yes I am going to save my money and invest in things that are not so volatile such as precious metals. After all, Gold, Silver, Platinum, Nickle have never been worth zero. I will invest in money market funds and high yielding CD's and maybe even government bonds. No not treasury notes but municipal bonds.

If a recession does come on full force, I will refuse to participate by working my tale off to provide products and services that people want and are willing and able to pay for.

Until the government tells me what job I must do, they will not be able to keep me from doing what I want to do and becoming as successful as I want to be. This is still America after all. And there will always be those who wish to control me and you so they will always make stupid laws that have legal loop holes in them. I am free to exploit those loop holes and I will and so should you.

I will cling to my guns and my religion and I will be free because that is what God and our Constitution intended for us to be.

I guess that is why I live in a state where the motto is "Live Free or Die!" That's right people. Give me liberty or give me death.

Messiah to BANKRUPT an entire industry

Obama has said, in his own words, that his plans would bankrupt our coal industry. It would also skyrocket our electric and energy cost.



This is just outrageous. Why is all of this stuff just coming out now? Why has all of this stuff been hidden from us? I have a theory.

The main stream media has been in the tank for Obama since before Barack even hinted at running for President. I remember some in the media talking about how clean, how articulate, how smart this guy was and they dreamed of him running for president.

He was primed and pumped by the media to run. So he did run and the media protected him from day one. They gave him cover. The media did not vet this guy out. They refused to investigate his past and his beliefs. The media even refused to release information they have that is negative about Obama.

But now some of this stuff is starting to leak out. Why is this? Not to long ago we had Charlie Rose on his PBS show interviewing Dan Rather and they were both saying they did not "know anything about him (Obama)" How is this possible?

The press is beginning to distance themselves from this guy. They now understand, too late, that this guy is dangerous. But the main stream media cannot take him out now. They would look like the idiots they really are. We have had the middle and the right and even some on the left warn us about this guy but the media did not listen.

Now some of his policy preferences are coming to light and the press is getting nervous. Not to mention some of their own have been silenced by Obama. The press is starting to run from Obama. But in order to keep their credibility (what little they have left) they cannot turn on Obama now. After all they are responsible for putting him there.

So once this guy gets into office, they could find out that they made a horrible mistake. That even their own freedom to print and report what they want could be in danger. They understand that they also have to live in this nation no matter what else happens. They will end up paying the high taxes. They will end up having to pay those sky high energy cost.

And if energy cost rise, that means less of them with jobs. Now they are on the ropes and the media is looking for a way out. They are looking for a skapegoat. But they have only themselves to blame.

Now Barack will bankrupt a major US industry. We will pay sky high energy cost. Our taxes will rocket to the stratosphere. Our economy will tank and if you think this light recession is bad, wait until we get Jimmy Carter inflation and unemployment back. Then you will know pain. And so will those in the media. In fact some are quietly saying that an Obama recession would be worse than a Carter recession.

Is this what we really what we want for our nation?

By the way, you may ask when did Obama say these things? Back in January of 2008. JANUARY 2008. And we are just now hearing about it. And you don't think the main stream media is not in the tank for Obama? You better grow up fast. You have only a few hours.

Hey, freedom is not free but it doesn't have to come at the cost of an entire industry and Americans having to pay sky high electric rates.

Think about it folks.

Obama and his Lies

You have to ask yourself something. Just what kind of president is Obama going to be should he be elected tomorrow? Seriously. What has he said over the past 12 months or so that we can clearly believe is the truth?

He says one thing and does another when the cameras are not trained on him. He says one thing in public and then says something very different when he thinks those microphones are turned off.

He says one thing to the American People and then says something else to those who have power and authority. So which is it?



There is more...



And yes even his wife gets in on the lies...



The point is, this guy is more tricky than Tricky Dick or Slick Willie. And this is the guy that a good number of Americans want to be their Commander in Chief? This makes no sense at all.