RECIPE FOR DISASTER - REDEFINING AMERICA

Is a Peach pie the same thing as a Chocolate cake?  Is America the same thing as Communist China?  Are two men (or two women) in a sexual relationship the same thing as a married man and woman?  Is tofu the same thing as filet mignon? 

"One of these things is not like the other"....as our cute little friends on Sesame Street used to tell us.  I could sing the little introductory song for you right now...thinking back to those sweet days with my children when they were little.  Teaching children to discriminate between objects is a way to help children learn to understand the world they live in.  Hot is not cold.  Hard is not soft.  Red is not white.  Up is not down.  Critical thinking is a tool for people to make choices. Children need critical thinking to learn how to decide what they need and like in life.  They need lessons in critical thinking as they grow up in order to see how things work and why.  That was then and now is now.  Last time I checked on Sesame Street the message has changed to "diversity."  My kids are grown now and over the last few years I have only seen a couple of episodes of Sesame Street by chance.  Those couple of episodes opened my eyes to how the left has taken a good thing and turned it into slimy twist of indoctrination to suit the messages of social engineers.  One of the episodes I happened upon featured a furry puppet neighborhood lecture on acceptance of our new Spanish speaking friends who have come to live with us.  It was not encouraging the Spanish speaking friends to learn English and assimilate into American culture, but rather telling American children to learn Spanish and celebrate the Mexican culture.  The premise of the show was tolerance, inclusiveness, and diversity, but only as a one way street.  Not the Sesame Street my kids grew up with.

Many generations of children have now been socially engineered to ignore critical thinking of facts and history.  Children are not allowed to explore questions such as; Are Muslims different from Christians?  Are Americans the same as Chinese?  Is American government different from the Iranian government?  Do the Swiss think just like the Pakistanis?  Can you tell the difference between right and wrong?  Do peaches belong in a chocolate cake?

Now we get; Shouldn't Heather have two mommies?  Why shouldn't the Prince marry another Prince? Isn't Ché the same as Thomas Jefferson?  Isn't Fidel the same as George Washington?  Isn't Mao the same as Benjamin Franklin?  If someone else commits a crime, shouldn't we all be punished?  Does your life belong to you or does it really belong to the world?   Doesn't God want you to use compact fluorescent light bulbs?   And the left indoctrinators answer those questions for your children who are not allowed to think for themselves, ask critical questions, or rely on their parents for answers.  Once we put the schools in charge of sex education, we gave the schools carte blanche to tell our children all kinds of things in every subject, things incompatible with our own history, doctrines, and thinking...including personal lifestyle decisions. Does anyone, seeing the results of this, still think that was a good idea? (By the way, the topic in schools used to be hygiene, not sexual preferences.)

Seems to me there was once a world where peoples were different and they collected themselves into like-minded groups, created cultures with idiosyncrasies unto their own.  For a time, Americans had the choice of discriminating between friends and enemies. Trade with other nations was a good thing because we could enjoy Irish lace, Belgian linens, Chinese porcelains, Swiss chocolates, French wines, and Peruvian wools.  At the same time, we didn't allow trade with those who were incompatible with the security of our nation.  We used critical thinking to draw lines between useful trade and detrimental trade.  The idea was to enjoy the products of the world, but only to the extent we did not damage our sovereignty. Where did that criteria go? 

Even within America we enjoyed the disparate cultures and products across the continent.  Texan beef, cheese from Wisconsin, steel from Pittsburgh,PA or Birmingham,AL, glass from Corning, NY., textiles from North Carolina, pottery from the river clays in Ohio, Amish quilts, Napa grapes, etc.  The commerce clause was used to facilitate trade between the manufacturing sectors of the states.  This was the delicious melting pot.  Now the commerce clause is used to force Obamacare down our throats and will be used to force same-sex marriage on every state.  Critical thinking for you is out the window.  Now the Federal government is hell bent to make those decisions for you, including what you can and cannot buy, eat, and do.

Back to the pie and the cake.  The left has thrown the peaches into the chocolate cake and called it "diversity."   It tastes lousy and doesn't work.  Conversely they have thrown chocolate into the peach pie and told you to call it "tolerance." Tolerance, like all things on the left, is now defined as having minorities demand things of the rest of us.   Now we have neither, peach pie nor chocolate cake.  We have a pile of mud, not fit for consumption.  Translate this into every single element of our language and our lives.  A non-profit is now an NGO. (non-governmental organization mixing tax dollars with pet projects.) Illegal immigration is now legal, by virtue of Federal neglect.  Environmentalism is now religion.  Marriage is now anything you want it to mean.  The White House celebrates Cinco de Mayo and Ramadan, and decorates Christmas tree ornaments with images of Mao.   

The American idea of the "melting pot," which conjured up a delicious stew of compatible ingredients, is now a pot full of incompatible entities at odds with each other.  People are no longer allowed to discriminate on what is real and what is fake, what is legitimate and what is not, what is moral and what is not, who owns what and who doesn't, who is a victim and who isn't. More importantly people are no longer given the responsibility and opportunity to critically think their way through these decisions. The leftists in our Federal government are making those decisions for you now.  Give it up...don't try to think.  Just go eat mud. 



(a side note:  Way back in my youth, several decades ago, two female teachers lived together as a "couple."  One was the algebra teacher.  The other taught English composition and English Lit.  No one said a word except to say they were a "couple."  No one bullied them.  No one made a big stink about their arrangement.  They had salaries and benefits the same as all of the other teachers.  They had their own network of family and friends.  They owned their own house and lived about two blocks away from my house.  These two teachers did not proselytize their ways to the students.  Neither did they come on to students in any sexual manner.  They just were good (though very strict, as I recall) teachers who were left to live how they wanted to live and we were all fine with that. This worked for everyone.  I can think of nothing wrong with this.  It was, I guess, a civilian version of "Don't ask, don't tell."  Their estates were left to each other or families.  They were not told they could not visit each other in hospital.  They took care of each other just fine.  No one minded. They were respectively left to their private lives, as they wished to live.  No one was screaming about discrimination.  "Live and let live" seemed to work for everyone involved.  Novel idea, eh?



If tax law is the problem with supposed "inequality" in the marriage debate.....a 10% flat tax on every citizen with no loopholes or tax breaks for anyone would fix this. On health insurance, male same sex unions are still more risky than heterosexual unions, so let the insurance companies reflect that as they need to do. (insurance cos. are using statistics to punish other activities such as over-eating or smoking, whether I agree with that or not..which I don't...but with that premise, why not homosexuality?) Otherwise, leave marriage alone.)

MILTON FRIEDMAN ON SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE

Factoid of the day from Richard Baehr:

"It is worth noting that Massachusetts adopted an Obama care plan of sorts, and now has, by far, the highest health insurance premium rates in the country. Massachusetts was not a state with a high percentage of uninsured before their health reform plan was adopted. So they got some more people insured, at a cost of much higher premiums for everybody else."

I would add to that, the citizens of Massachusetts were FORCED into that state run insurance program, just like you and I will be FORCED into Obama's "utopian" nightmare of state run health care.

Today my life feels like a bridge, coming from one generation in time to another generation in time, traveling from some blissful sunny days of freedom moving into some unrecognizable dark fog of restrictive bondage. One side of the river to the other....from eagerly accepted personal responsibilities for my own life and my family, moving into forced responsibilities for some strangers' lives. Not for friends and families lives, but for some unknown diverse group of people who have no connection to me whatsoever. I am being asked to be responsible for people who have no allegiance to the principles I hold dear. Responsibilities to a society that now does not reflect truth, honesty, moral character, nor adherence to freedom and natural law. Today it all seems surreal. Many of the people in my own generation were closeted socialists and anti-Americans and hid their subversive ideas until now....now that a bad election has unleashed the venom of their poisonous hate for freedom. It has been a shock to find myself 3/4 of the way across the bridge of my life to see ahead a very black hole that was being dug underneath the supports of my bridge and nothing but that thick horrible fog ahead. Worse is the thought that my children and grandchildren are heading straight into that collapsing bridge and I don't seem to have the power to protect them from the collapse. I rest my hopes in God for help and guidance.

The only thing I feel I do have the power to do is to unleash my own ability to transfer what knowledge I have and can find to keep them from losing their way. Filling that black hole with better ideas, truth, and hope is all we can do at this point. Clearing away the fog long enough to catch a glimmer of enlightenment from someone who offers wisdom....today I offer Milton Friedman, speaking on the subject of Socialized Health Care. This speech was given at the Mayo Clinic in 1978, but the message is as strong as ever.

LOAN SHARK IN CHIEF

How does the mob (as in mafia) get hold of business? Loans, that's how. That is not to say that banks are loan sharks, but I am saying that the game of finance today is being directed by the government....and that banks have been sucked into it because bankers have been controlled by government regulations that have caused the banks to lose solvency. If you want to see how the government creates a weak financial sector there are many examples from which to choose.

The United States was not created to be a bank. The United States government has no business whatsoever granting loans, i.e. student loans, mortgage loans, business loans, etc. Using our tax dollars to prop up certain universities, housing areas, or particular businesses is corrupt. First of all it is being done without the consent of the taxpayers. Secondly it skews the market and inhibits property ownership. Thirdly, it gives government control where there should be none. The entire premise of the government being used as a tool of finance is corrupt. It picks winners and losers depending on the administration in power at the moment. And when defaults on loans occurs, the government steps in and grabs ownership of what used to be privately owned property. This is to the advantage of the government bureaucrats and to the disadvantage of the economic well-being of the people, however it weakens both government and economic prosperity for the people in the process. Instead of "spreading the wealth around," it spreads risk and poverty around.

I say this applies to local governments as well. We have a perfect example here in our county. An entrepreneur comes up with a commercial enterprise, in our case; an Olympic Whitewater Center. The OWC is presented as an opportunity for Olympic atheletes to train and a recreational outlet for people who want to go rafting in a controlled environment. All well and good, but the entrepreneur can't get enough private financial backing to get the rafts in the water. In steps the local area governments to say they will use taxpayer money to back the construction and operation of this enterprise. The excuse is that the OWC will bring tourism and create a healthful recreation activity for all. (Nevermind that "all" do not have rafting on their list of preferred activities.) "All" will pay to get it up and running and the local governments will heavily back this for several years they say, until it becomes financially viable on its own. In the meantime, banks have also backed this operation to the tune of 12 million dollars. I am guessing that the banks were getting some preferential tax reductions in order to back this operation, but I have no evidence to prove that.

Time tells the story. After three or four years, the OWC has not turned a profit, is operating in the red and cannot pay back the loans. As usual with government bureaucrats running the show, everybody loses and nobody wins. The announcement has come recently that the banks are forgiving the 12 million in loans to the OWC. How interesting and convenient. What back door negotiation figured that one out? I honestly don't have all of the particulars in the financial maze set up for the OWC, but me thinks there are some rotten smelling fish in that White Water. The government is still on the hook. Or should I say the taxpayers are still on the hook, but now the taxpayers don't have to pay back the 12 million. Rejoice everyone. We only have to pay back the government backing, not the private bank backing? Hmmmmm....how does that work?

Well, I would think the banks have to make up that 12 million somewhere. Who can just swallow a 12 million dollar loss? Some things have to happen. The banks have to increase their fees and charge more to their customers to make up that kind of a loss. The banks have to get some tax exempt status to help them cover the loss, which in turn the taxpayers end up covering. The government, which takes over the remainder of the OWC costs, now has to charge the taxpayers more to cover the rest of the expenses of the OWC and to make up the difference for the tax exempt part the banks are getting. The local government, for all intents and purposes, either now owns or will end up owning the commercial enterprise that originally was supposed to be a private enterprise, unless they can find a sugar daddy private buyer to take on a failed enterprise.

Again, government is not supposed to be in the business of financing private enterprises. And when it does, it is usually for someone's pet project that isn't even close to necessary infrastructure like roads and bridges.

Moving on to the Loan Shark in Chief: On the Federal level we have seen this government loan situation turn into rotten fish on several stages. One of them is Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act which raped the public of billions in government backed loans that defaulted. The government ended up owning "toxic assets," i.e. lots of housing. And the banks ended up owning "toxic assets," i.e. lots of bad paper loans. Obama sees the banks are failing due to the government mandated CRA loans they made and subsequent derivatives they created to get themselves out from under the bad loans, so he puts the banks on the dole of the taxpayers. Now he is talking about loaning taxpayer money to private power companies to construct nuclear power plants. That way, the government will eventually own the energy from those plants and the taxpayers will pay twice; first for the energy and second for the loans from the government. Barack Obama loves government ownership of all things, so what does he do? He takes advantage of failing car industries and puts them on the dole of the taxpayers. He sees government usurpation in health care, energy, housing, education, all an opportunity to increase the power of the federal government. Who benefits from that? It certainly isn't the private enterprise sector. It isn't individual businesses, as they are paying through the nose to prop up the public sector. Like a parasite feeding off the host, Obama's policies will eventually kill the host, i.e. the private enterprise sector of the U.S. His loan operation is forcefully sucking the breath out of the country he needs for support.

I don't care if you call this socialism, communism, fascism or downright stupidity, all of it is unconstitutional. The United States government, nor the local governments were supposed to become banking institutions, operators of car companies and White Water Centers, or mortgage companies. It just isn't the function of government to do these things. And for those of you who think "a little European socialism" is such a great thing, you should take a good hard look at Europe right now and notice how bankrupt and desperate the EU is becoming. Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain are all under water and failing due to socialist EU policies. We had a revolution in the 1700's to rid ourselves of financial tyranny by government and to separate ourselves from the oppressive policies of Europe. Why now would anyone think that following the irresponsible financial policies of European socialism would be a sane path to take? Watch out for those government loans and subsidies, folks. You may find yourself with a loan shark in chief at your door.

WHEN EXTORTION BECOMES THE LAW OF THE LAND

I'm tired of double-speak. I'm tired of lies. I'm tired of pretenses put out there to dupe the less sophisticated populace. I'm tired of complicit media. I'm tired of people who are too lazy to think things through claiming they think the government knows best. Let's call the folks in this administration exactly what they are...EXTORTIONISTS.

Think about the classic mafia story. A guy owns a store on Main Street. He is successfully doing business. The mafia decides to take over Main Street. Mafia don hires some thugs to rough up one of the store owners and threaten the store owner's family and business. Mafia don hires another guy in a nice suit who stops by to say he will be happy to "protect" the store owner "for his own good," and allow him to keep his business open for a few c-notes "donated" to the Mafia. The store owner says he's not keen on giving up his money because he needs it for his own family. The mafia don says, "That's fine, but if you don't hand over the dough, we'll take you down." The store owner has no choice and capitulates. Or the store is on the front page news the next day, having burned to the ground. Or the store owner is found in the street bludgeoned to death. Or the next time the store owner takes his family to the nearest Trattoria, the mafia guys come in with guns blazing and the family is found on the bloody floor with a dozen holes put through them.

Got it now? You hand over the dough or you're a dead man. You hand over the dough or we won't support you. You hand over the dough or you are out of business. You hand over the dough or we will ruin you. Think banks, car companies, insurance companies, and health care. Not greedy enough, the Mafia is now going after energy companies, the internet, radio and newspapers. Our government has become the Mafia.

Welcome to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Amerika, where the government bureaucrats are now using mafia tactics to take over every aspect of American life. The states are being roughed up and told to comply or else, despite the Tenth Amendment. Corporations are being taken-over with stolen money from the tax-payers and told what to pay their executives, what cars to manufacture, what loans to make, and what energy they can use to conduct business. Persons, doctors, and insurances companies are being told to pay up, do what we say, or we will use the IRS to garnish your money. Pay to play politics. It's the same thing as the mafia. It's the same thing the Soviets have done to their people. It's Fascism. It's Socialism. It's Marxism. It's the Mafia.....all dressed up in politicians' cloaks.

Borrowing from one of my online buddy's blogs....Cranky George

"According to section 2531 of Pelosi's near 2000 page tome on health care reform, states can receive incentive payments for implementing alternatives to medical malpractice suits. However, if those reforms include any reduction of attorney's fees or any caps on malpractice awards, the state will be barred from receiving incentive pay (Click to See Full Story: "Pelosi Health Care Bill Blows a Kiss to Trial Lawyers"). If that isn't deceitful double talk, I don't know what is!"

Arm twisting? You betcha! Mafia don says, "We got the lawyers on our side." You better not try to do what's best for you." "We know what's best for you." "We'll let you conduct your business, but you do it our way or we'll chop you off at the knees." "We'll be happy to take your money, give you back a pittance of it, and then if you don't do what we want you to do, we'll take away that pittance." "Ya got that, America?"

A very smart lawyer once told me that if I were looking for justice in our courtrooms, I'd better be looking elsewhere. It was a cold splash of water in my face at the time. I was sorry to hear it.

It's time for justice, but we will have none because Obama's mafia henchman, Eric Holder is in charge of the Justice Department. The White House tries to shut up Fox News. Rahm Emanuel sends dead fish to his adversaries. Cass Sunstein, Obama's Regulatory Czar, titles his book on this mafia machine, "Nudge." Pelosi and Reid ridicule and demean their opposition to try to shut them up, all the while burdening all of us with trillions of dollars of debt. Maxine Waters threatens the oil companies, "We will socialize you." Barney Frank says he is doing everything he can to "expand the Federal Government." Obama's Science Czar writes a book on forced abortions and sterilizing people through the water supplies. Car dealers' bailouts cost citizens $24,000.00 for each car. The White House is considering "bailing out" newspapers to get their hooks into them. Mark Lloyd, Obama's Diversity Czar, says he will shut down privately owned communication companies by taking all of their operating expenses to fund "public" (read government) communications. The White House sends edicts to the NEA to propagandize Obama's agenda. Rangel laughs all the way to the Caribbean by tax evasion and gets away with it. Ezekial Emanuel and Tom Daschle both have written "cost containment" proposals to withhold medical care from the elderly and children with debilitating illnesses. Behind the closed doors sit Bill Ayers, Valerie Jarrett, Rev. Wright, George Soros, and countless other anti-American mafia cohorts. The list goes on. The plots thicken like the blood clotting on the floor of that restaurant.

It's time to take it back. I will not be happy until I see every damn one of them in orange jumpsuits behind concertina wire fences. People in hell want ice water, too, so I'm not likely to get what I need. Extortion. Now it's legal??? Very clever tool of the devil, the Mafia, and now our government.

DIVERSITY = DIVISIVENESS

Once upon a time in America there was a great feeling of "WE." We were all Americans. I hear politicians make silly swooning statements regarding the days after 9/11, indicating that they thought it was soooo terrific that we had all come together with one purpose. They say, "We were all Americans after 9/11." I don't think so. Not by a long shot. We haven't been united as Americans since the 1960's, the era of hyphens. In the 1960's, out of the progressive black organizations, came the idea that to divide Black-Americans/ African-Americans was suddenly a source of pride. Prior to this, the hyphenated Americans were looked down upon as 'Not quite American,' not fully American. Immigrants who had loyalty to some other father nation were down-graded to be less than 'real' Americans.

Funny, before that, as I grew up in integrated schools in Ohio, we were all Americans. Period. No hyphens. No funny business. No reason to think otherwise. We were Americans....black, white, oriental, mixed, whatever. No one in my entire childhood made any big deal of anyone's ancestral heritage as if they were less than American. My great-great grandparents were Germans who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1800's to escape religious persecution. Believe me, they were glad to be here and proud to be strong, independent, contributors to the American way of life, and free to be whoever they were. The blacks I knew as I was growing up were beside me in school, worked in middle class jobs, owned businesses, and also, free to be whoever they were. In my school, they were tandem with us...athletes, cheerleaders, scholars...side by side. As with any 'group' of people, there were many differences in their achievements, but they were not looked upon as a lesser class of people. Did I grow up in utopia? No. Just a small town in mid-century America. What small amount of discrimination I saw, was just that....small and not tolerated.

The issue of hyphenated Americans was addressed in an earlier time by leaders who saw the hyphens exactly for what they were; divisive. Since I addressed Teddy Roosevelt previously, and not in a supportive way, I will now give you something from Teddy Roosevelt that I support. Here is a yr. 1915 quote from him on the hyphenated American concept:


"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else."

From that time until the 1960's, being hyphenated was a derogatory term. Somehow in the sixties, all of a sudden it was the battle cry of blacks to say, "I'm Black, I'm proud." As if whites were walking around just saying, "I'm White, I'm proud." Then PBS showed the movie "Roots," sometime in the 1970's to reinforce the African loyalties of blacks in America. This morphed into African-American hyphenated everything. Blacks in America decided they weren't really Americans, they were African-Americans.

Today, besides being divided up into political polar opposites, our country is divided into every ethnic and country-of-origin designation possible. Is it any wonder that America is at odds with itself? No one seems to know where their loyalties lie. More time is spent on encouraging "diversity" than unity. No consensus can be achieved with this kind of premise. None. As long as children are taught that they are really something other than Americans, that they are Africans first, or Muslims first, or Mexicans first, gay first, gender first, or whatever else first, there can be no consensus on America first.

Compounding the dangerously ridiculous is that we now have one of the hyphenated as President of the United States, who billed himself as a "uniter" but now can easily be seen as one of the most divisive personalities to ever hit the political stage. None of Obama's policies have gained consensus anywhere in America. He has people divided on health care, cap and trade, bailouts, Afghanistan, and everything else he touches. He has divided people up into camps....either socialist or freedom loving American. Everything he proposes is un-American at its core. The irony is that so many Americans were voting based on the hope that his Presidency would end the divide and end the hyphens. They thought Obama would represent the all-inclusive America that we, out here in the middle of America, would like to see. Instead, he is carving us up into hispanics, blacks, muslims, gays/lesbians/transgenders, socialists, big-government, globalists, etc. against the rest of us; whites, anglo-saxon, heterosexual, constitutional, Christian, capitalist, freedom loving Americans. Wherever you look within his government, you find people with an axe to grind, an agenda supporting one group or another, but none who are Americans first.

Obama will never create a consensus out of "diversity." A successful country doesn't celebrate its 'diversity.' It celebrates its common love of the tenets on which the country is based. This is a lesson that evidently Obama and the Marxists surrounding him never learned in the halls of Harvard and Yale. They must have spent more time on "Divide and Conquer" than learning the lessons of American exceptionalism, the U.S. Constitution, and how America's success is based on the respect for the individual, not the "group" think of hyphens.

Chairman Obama and Our Children

So what does the "last straw" look like? I think it looks like this:

The Almighty Obama takes over public school classrooms and begins the subordination and indoctrination of hundreds of thousands of American children.

Between Hitler, Mao, Lenin, Stalin, Che, Fidel, Mussolini, a long line of dictators started just this way. They took over the media, the commerce, the banks, and the schools. If you had any doubt about Obama's agenda before now, I hope you can finally see the forest for the trees.

Little Red Obama books in every school child's hand....I'm sure Bill Ayers is proud of this moment. The Obama's have been very good students themselves .... of all things Marx, Engels, Alinsky, etc. All things unAmerican, certainly.

People with any amount of little grey cells out there have to see what is going on. Sadly, I am picturing a lot of little inner city kids getting sucked right into this insanity. Instead of drug gangs, they will be forming Obama's army of thugs who will grow up to smash those right-wing terrorists who believe in the U.S. Constitution. Instead of growing up dreaming about actually working to create their own piece of American success, they'll be growing up dreaming of how to kill off anyone who disagrees with the Almighty Obama. Talk about dividing up our country into factions....this guy wins the prize.

Anyway...the last straw is when you go after kids. That really should be the last straw. Innocent children should not be used as pawns for political dictators. How much more unAmerican can you get???? What kind of man uses children to his own ends? (I hope you can answer that for yourself.)

Do you send your children to school in order to do things for the President? We're all working for Barack Soetoro / Obama now? This is a far cry from JFK's "ask what you can do for your country." This is asking, "What can you do for Barack Obama."

Here is part of the "lesson plan" sent out to the schools by the White House:

As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:
What is the President trying to tell me?
What is the President asking me to do?
What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?

Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something.
Students might think about:
What specific job is he asking me to do?
Is he asking anything of anyone else?
Teachers?
Principals?
Parents?
The American people?

Obama's Town Halls

It's a slow weekend here, so I actually took the time to watch both of them...the one in Montana and the one in Colorado. I have a few random thoughts.

The first thought is that he keeps bringing up the UPS, Fed Ex, Post Office analogy. I think that is hilarious. I happen to love the U.S. Post Office, but it is running on a deficit. It's broke, folks. Just like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security...the Post Office can't run on a budget that works. So that must be just what we need, yet another massive government program that will drive us farther into debt. Yep...that's just the ticket.

Oh, yeah, he says he won't go for it unless it is "deficit neutral." I guess he means just like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security were supposed to pay for themselves, too...right? And I have a bridge in Arizona I want to sell you, too. How many times do we go down the same wrong way street 'til we realize it is the WRONG WAY???

The second thing that always gets to me as I hear him say, "Let me be perfectly clear," or , "The fact of the matter is" is that he is such a used car salesman. He keeps saying, "We don't want to pull the plug on Grandma, we just want to help everybody have health care." What he refuses to acknowledge is that the government has no way to pay for good health care for everyone, so there WILL be rationing. There are not enough doctors in our system to take on half of the 'so called' 47 million people he is talking about covering. And the government is planning, according to the bills, to mandate who can get what kind of care from whom and where. There is NO DOUBT about this if you read the bills.

Socializing any more health care in this country is suicidal....not just to Grandma...but to our country. The last several years, including George Bush, have run our country into such high debt that my grandchildren and their children are likely never to see the end of it. The banking infrastructure was ruined by Carter and Clinton. The energy sector has been ruined by environmental idiots in our government. The manufacturing sector has been ruined by bad trade deals, high taxes, and super regulations by our government. So now they want to drain the health care sector dry and take over your life and death decisions. This is the last straw, folks. It will ruin us.

So I watch him take soft ball questions and get gushing sycophants to tell him how "great" he is in these town halls and I sit there and ask myself, who are these people??? No one gets a follow-up question. He doesn't really address serious questions. He just keeps saying the same talking points and tries to make fun of the very vocal opponents....who, by the way, can't get near one of these town halls to ask him anything. Who, in our great country, is so dumb to swallow this stuff??? I don't get it, folks. I really don't. I cannot imagine that so many people in our country have gotten so gullible that they will follow a used car salesman straight into hell. The problem for those of us with brains is that we are stuck in the same pool with those of us taking us down.

The only encouraging thing I did take in this Saturday was on CSPAN. It was two hours of conservative speakers at a meeting for RightOnline.com. sponsored by Americans for Prosperity. Michelle Malkin gave me some hope. Jim Pinkerton gave a great speech. Grover Norquist was awesome. So was Phil Kerpen. At least there are some very smart folks who see what is coming at us and giving us some hope of stopping the train wreck. Or maybe slowing down the derailing somewhat. At this point it will take a hundred years to get past the damage this man has done in 7 months.

Taking a Deep Breath

Benjamin Hummel Cartoon
You can see him at: Benjamin Hummel

Read Benjamin's revealing and thoughtful post on this at his website. It starts like this: "In a recent teleconference, Barack Obama said that he would greatly reduce the amount of charitable tax deductions individuals and businesses who make over $250K can make on their tax returns in order to help pay for his health care plan. What a horribly conceived idea. This move will cripple many nonprofits across the nation."

There is no end to the theft of the left....now that they have the force of the Federal Government behind them. Take from the rich, give to the poor. What you don't know is that we are all too rich for Obama's taste (including the middle and lower middle class) and he will not stop until he has taken the whole country down. He wants it all and he is greasing the skids to get it all.

This cartoon reminds me of a conversation I once had with one of those "useful idiots," a former friend of mine who LUVS Obama so much that she told me she could not speak to me anymore. This former friend explained to me that she didn't believe in charities because that's what her taxes were for. Her entire view on the subject was that she didn't want to have to think about other people in need, but let "Big Brother" take care of that for her. Evidently she has found her soul mate in the person claiming the Presidency. God forbid she would actually contribute something of her own volition to alleviate some need somewhere.

So there you are. The stress level from following the sad and frustrating news regarding the modus operandi in the Obama administration really got to me this week. Good thing you weren't within earshot for the grouchy words I have found myself uttering...not like me... yelling back at the tv, and grumbling under my breath, clenching my teeth and growling out loud. Are we having fun yet? How's that hope and change work'n out for ya all out there??

So today's latest is that the thugs arranged a force of some sort to yank advertisers from the Glenn Beck show. Chicago mob tactics, anyone?? How dare Glenn Beck speak the truth! Why, how dare anyone actually expose the 'community organizer,' and the gang leaders of arm-twisting creeps they really are! Indeed. The "Audacity" of it all. My My...we are playing hard ball now, aren't we Mr. Tingle up the Leg Chris Matthews? Kill the competition. Kill free speech...unless of course the speech flatters the socialist in chief. Then it's o.k.

The socialist in chief now has a new Czar....one implanted into the FCC. This guy is figuring out how to tax conservative talk radio into oblivion. The plan is to take the equivalent of operating capital out of companies such as Premier Radio and hand it over to the socialist mouthpieces.....it's only "fair" you know. The taxes of course are supposed to pay for NPR and other public sycophants. Can we call this economic rape? I think so.

No charities...no freedom of speech....OMG....Excuse me while I go get the bottle of ipecac again....

The Language of the Left

Co-opting words is what leftists are best at doing. It's their path to societal disintegration. It is the sharpest tool in their belts, only next to the biggest tool in the belt, i.e. the force of the government itself. Twisting words in the political vocabulary is the diabolical method with which they draw and quarter each respected institution, dividing humanity into disparate and confused lots of individuals trying to find sense out of chaos. The goal is to convince the masses that the only institution existing in which to cling is the government. Not family. Not church. Not the Boy Scouts. Not the Girl Scouts. Not the Lion's Club. Nothing other than government can do for you what you seek in life. Only government is your salvation. Transposing family, church, and social organizations into "the government" is the leftists ultimate goal.

One example of political vocabulary is how the word "fairness" is taught to our children in government schools as "collectivism." i.e."It isn't "fair" that Joe has more than Jack, even though Joe worked harder, studied more, and earned his way into a higher salary job." The leftist illogical reasoning is that Jack should get part of Joe's earnings because it would only be "fair." Children are told they must share in order to be "fair," whether they choose to or not. The left co-opted the word "fair" and made sure entire generations of children were taught a false definition in order to fulfill their cause, the collectivist society otherwise known as Communism. The real definition of "fair" in this context is that you get to keep what you earn. No one else has the right to take away what you earn. But we are in Leftist-World now where words don't mean what they really mean. They mean what Communists want them to mean.

Another word used in nearly every public announcement from our government officials today is the word "progress."
The free online dictionary defines progress this way:
prog·ress (prgrs, -rs, prgrs)

n.

1. Movement, as toward a goal; advance.

2. Development or growth: students who show progress.

3. Steady improvement, as of a society or civilization: a believer in human progress.

4. A ceremonial journey made by a sovereign through his or her realm.

intr.v. pro·gress (pr-grs) pro·gressed, pro·gress·ing, pro·gress·es

1. To advance; proceed: Work on the new building progressed at a rapid rate.

2. To advance toward a higher or better stage; improve steadily: as medical technology progresses.

3. To increase in scope or severity, as a disease taking an unfavorable course.

Idiom:

in progress

Going on; under way: a work in progress.

In announcements from our government and the majority of our media "progress" has become a euphemism for government taking over every institution in our country. "Progress" is now all about government telling you what is good for you.... instead of your individual success at achieving your own goals without the interference of government. Instead of following our American creed of self-government, we are being forced into government enslavement by people who refer to themselves as "Progressives." They like you to think they are called Democrats, but that is just another ruse. "Progressives" have taken over the Democrat Party which has slowly been infiltrated by Communists since the early 1900's. Seventy-one congress members are members of the Progressive Caucus which is heavily connected to the Democratic Socialists of America. They like you to think this "progress" is new and exciting and is getting rid of all those old bad, fuddy-duddy, corrupt ways of old America. Not one of these people upholds their oath to the U. S. Constitution. In fact, Communists have called themselves "Progressives" since the early 1900's in order to avoid the bad connotation of the label Communist. And they did that on purpose. You see, they think you are stupid. They think if you call a cucumber an apple for about a 100 years, pretty soon everybody will think a cucumber is an apple. And the sorry news is that they have succeeded in twisting words to fool a large majority of the public into voting for Communists while thinking they are voting for Democrats.

The gist is that they want you to believe that it is "progress" to get rid of the individual and create a world where no one exists except for the good for the world. The ironic joke here is that without individual success, there is no "good for the world." If you foster nothing but working for the "collective," you have abolished human progress entirely. This has been tried and failed over and over again since the Communist revolution in Russia, again in China, in North Korea and in Cuba. Yet they persist. You wonder why? Because it creates an elite group of power brokers in government, people who don't really know how to do anything but tell other people how to live or manipulate political policies to gain their own fortunes. These misguided and malignant power brokers gain financially and stroke their own egos by telling themselves they are doing good and creating "progress." The truth is they are no better than tin pot dictators who don't believe in individual freedoms. They are control freaks making you work your life away for their power. We in America are under siege by a Democrat Party that is nothing more than Communists on the take. And you are the ones being taken. From Cap and Tax to Socialized Universal Health Care to Green Initiatives to Social Engineering, America is being wrecked by "Progress." A word that today is nothing more than Communism in disguise.

Obama: "I know that many in this room don't believe that "progress" has come fast enough, and I understand that. But I say this: We have made "progress." And we will make more. There are unjust laws to overturn and unfair practices to stop." (2009)

Two million jobs lost since the Stimulus Bill was passed. One trillion dollar debt in six months. The economic bleeding has just begun. That's "Progress" folks!

Enemies More Domestic

"How can we account for our present situation unless we believe that men high in this Government are concerting to deliver us to disaster? This must be the product of a great conspiracy, a conspiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man. A conspiracy of infamy so black that, when it is finally exposed, its principals shall be forever deserving of the maledictions of all honest men." Joseph McCarthy

After years of the left and the media demonizing Senator Joseph McCarthy, time has proven that McCarthy was correct in his allegations against the Communist threat infiltrating the American government. This actually was proven a few years ago (look at this) so Hollywood launched a movie (look at this) on the spot, starring George Clooney, to once again smear McCarthy and undermine the truth. For more info google search "Venona Secrets."

The oath taken by government officials in current times to "protect America from enemies both foreign and domestic" has become nothing more than a joke because of Socialist corruption in our government. So many of them are "domestic" enemies, that they might as well be swearing on a stack of comic books. In that light, I want to say I admire Joseph McCarthy and his courage to expose the Communist plotters who wanted to take down the United States.

Why am I concerned with this now? You know the saying...those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. As I've said previously, I am not usually prone to jump onto "conspiracy" theories. I don't like walking around the earth paranoid. It isn't comfortable and not my usual nature. But I also can't just sit here and watch my country get lied to day after day and watch my children's futures just get sucked down the tubes.

But, as my post (two posts down) shows, there are "card carrying" Socialists in our government. Is a Socialist a Communist? Well....what do you think? Ask Marx!

When Communism got slapped down in the 1930's the ideology did not go away. It morphed. The very insidious enemy of the United States decided to change it's vocabulary to make it more palatable. (put a whole lotta ketchup on that cardboard sandwich.) They realized they weren't going to subvert America in one generation. They took the "death by inches" (also known as "death by a thousand cuts) approach. They decided they would hide the "Communist" moniker and go for the "Socialist" nomenclature. They have co-opted the word Democracy, making you think that Democracy means a guaranteed result of wealth for everyone. Now, instead of calling themselves "Liberals" they call themselves "Progressives." So clever they are. What person is going to say they don't want "Progress?" If you don't want "Progress," why, you must be an old fuddy duddy stick in the mud who is passe.....think "Bitter Clinger." One of their most effective strategies is to redefine the language. And they are succeeding...unless you recognize it and call them exactly what they are: lying Communist traitors.

There are enemies of freedom afoot in our government. They don't believe in freedom. They believe in Communism, totalitarian government rule over all of us. They don't believe in free enterprise. They believe in "Nationalizing" every business / industry in the country. They are doing it by way of "a thousand cuts." The "Stimulus Bill" of today might as well be incorporated into the "Communist Manifesto." That is exactly what it is, in its original form.

If the public would or could wise up to the vocabulary tricks of the Socialists who are taking over our country...then maybe we would have a chance to save ourselves. But as long as Hollywood, the media, and the politicians are going to lie, cheat, steal, subvert freedom, pervert the language we speak, and all the while....call it "Progress" (Hope and Change, see my definitions in previous post)...the air is filled with the stench of a dying corpse of what used to be America.

If you are reading this and you have any courage at all, use your voice to speak out against them. They are showing themselves brashly and with arrogance. You can make a difference by telling them exactly what you think of their Communist / Socialist language.

Talk like a Socialist!

I love language. That is one of the reasons, I suppose, that I am writing this blog. But I hate liars and I despise people who use language to manipulate people. I love the truth. Getting to the truth involves defining words.

Giving the Devil his due...the Devil is very clever at fooling people and using words to twist the meanings of things. In short, the Devil is a very good liar, a slick salesman, a silver tongued orator, and a manipulator of the worst kind. I've been watching the twisting of language happen over the last several years through the "Political Correct" crowd in the media. They demonize capitalism and conservatism. They demonize individual accomplishments. They cheer "collective" endeavors. They hate traditional mores. The family has been re-defined to be the "Village." It is all very deliberate and conniving .....and I'm sick of it. I am going to call a "spade a spade" and show you how to be aware of a few of their clever tricks. The first one in the list below is how the Leftists took control of our children's word comprehension in the public school system. It is called Whole Language. Beneath the list is some info on that. Enjoy!! You are now the wiser!!!

Here is a list of Leftist Words and Phrases:

Whole Language (Use our Social engineering dictionary or you will be kicked out of school! The opposite of Half Language?)

Smart Growth (Your property will conform to our dictates or else..If you don't go along you must be dumb.)

Sustainable Environment (Otherwise you are doomed..Give me your wallet)

Lands' Conservancy (Thou shalt not be greedy, you lousy Capitalist property owners. We know who you are, we will tax you to death and, then, we'll take land off your hands)

Free Choice Act (Means you have no "Choice" whatsoever. Join the Union or go jobless)

Progress /Progressive (Think "Back in the USSR!" Old Marxism cloaked in the word "Progress")

Economic Justice (The wealthy and productive will pay for your laziness)

Social Justice (same as above)

Cap and Trade (Do as I say or I'll tax your business and take it away from you at the point of a gun)

Common Good (If you wish to succeed on your own, you are a selfish bastard)

Hope (We will tell you what to hope for, it's for your own good)

Change (Throwing away the lessons of history and leading the blind into the abyss)

Fairness Doctrine (If you dare speak out against Socialism, we are going to shut you up, stuff a sock in your mouth, and put you in a closet)



Published in January 2009 at the Socialist Standard, Journal of the Socialist Party of Great Britain:
"For over one hundred years the task of the socialist party has been to counter the propaganda of the status quo. Not just in ideological terms but in trying to restore meaning to political language. Even our opponents have to admit that the meaning they give to words like socialism, democracy, human nature, economics, history and politics itself is very different from ours."

From 2001, an excellent article by Joe Larson

And this on Whole Language Reading Concepts in the Public Schools: Entire Article Here


The politically active WL (Whole Language) teacher uses reading instruction as a convenient vehicle to aid and abet the establishment of socialist goals, policies, values, and ideals. Through bona fide WL reading instruction, students learn how to rise up and challenge “the interests and values of the Anglo, white, middle and upper classes,” Harry Giroux proclaims in the Catalog.[2] They are prepared to oppose, writes Michael W. Apple, “the political right of the United States” by being ready to use their collective powers to change the world so that democratic [read ‘socialist'] power replaces corporate power.”[3] Elimination of the present “economic, cultural, and social policies of business and industry” clearly is the ultimate aim of WL reading teaching.[4]