Archive for June, 2007

Kudos America

Congratulations to the American people for stepping up and defeating the immigration amnesty bill. Thank you to our Senators for hearing our voices and, nearly, making us feel represented once again.

You’ll notice, almost without exception, the print and broadcast lynch-mob is talking about the defeat of “Mr. Bush’s Bill”. Unfortunately, he supported the measure but make no mistake that it belonged to Ted Kennedy and Harry Reid. They’ll bounce back by diverting attention to the so called “fairness doctrine”…but John McCain and some other pseudo-Republicans are going to pay a price at the polls for their insistent support of this insulting scrap of paper.

Now, let’s close the boarders by enforcing existing laws. Build the other 698 miles of fence too, if we must. Once we’ve stemmed the invading tide, we can concentrate on how to handle the remaining 12-20 million illegals already here. One thing we can do right away is enforce the minimum wage and levy stiffer penalties against employers who don’t comply. We won’t have to worry about rounding up many “people living in the shadows” once the jobs dry up. Cutting back on a few entitlements wouldn’t hurt either. “The shadows” will empty quickly and most of those casting them will leave of their own accord.

I have only one concern. Who is going to pick the lettuce once they’re gone?

R.S.F.

Bad American

With Socialist Democrats at the gates in Washington, another destructive immigration bill in the offing and a bloodthirsty enemy plotting our destruction, I often seek a bit of levity wherever I can find it. If humor is the last vestige of sanity, it’s one way to help keep my mental glue from melting.

When I need a good laugh, I have found a tried and true source is George Carlin. His brand of humor also makes you think. This time, combined with his stream of humor, I discovered a river of truth and the most concise yet powerful summation of solid American philosophy I have read in a long time. I’d like to share some of my inspiration by offering his remarks:

“I am your worst nightmare. I am a BAD American. I am George Carlin.
I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some mid level governmental functionary be it Democrat or Republican.
I’m in touch with my feelings and I like it that way.
I think owning a gun doesn’t make you a killer, it makes you a smart American.
I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, and does not entitle you to anything.
I believe that if you are selling me a Big Mac, do it in English.
I believe everyone has the right to pray to his or her God when and where they want to.
My heroes are John Wayne, Babe Ruth, Roy Rogers, and whoever cancelled Jerry Springer.
I don’t hate the rich. I don’t pity the poor.
I know wrestling is fake and I don’t waste my time watching or arguing about it.
I’ve never owned a slave, or was a slave, I haven’t burned any witches or been persecuted by the Turks and neither have you. So, shut up already!
I believe if you don’t like the way things are here, go back where you came from and change your own country. This is AMERICA!
I want to know which church is it exactly where Reverend Jesse Jackson preaches, where he gets his money, and why he is always part of the problem and not the solution. Can I get an AMEN on that one?
I think the cops have every right to shoot your sorry rear if you’re running from them…
I also think they have the right to pull you over if you’re breaking the law, regardless of what color you are.
And, no, I don’t mind having my face shown on my driver’s license. I think it’s good…and I’m proud that “God” is written on my money.
I think if you are too stupid to know how a ballot works, I don’t want you deciding who should be running the most powerful nation in the world for the next four years.
I dislike those people standing in the intersections trying to sell me stuff or trying to guilt me into making “donations” to their cause.
I believe that it doesn’t take a village to raise a child, it takes two parents.
And what is going on with gas prices…again?
I believe “illegal” is illegal no matter what the lawyers think.
I believe the American flag should be the only one allowed in AMERICA.
If this makes me a BAD AMERICAN, then yes, I’m a BAD American.
If you are a BAD American too, please pass this on to everyone you know.
We want our country back!”

I couldn’t say it any better than that.

R.S.F.

Victory Quote

We The People

us-democrat_flagsImagine a country where you’re told by the government what you are allowed to say, how you may say it and what you are permitted to hear. It’s a place where the very mention of God is a crime, where lawbreakers are rewarded and law-abiding citizens persecuted. There are regulations as to how your children are raised, who gets medical treatment, who may live, or who will die and when. Imagine an existence where empowered bureaucrats dictate your means of transportation, the lifestyle you live and even the kind of light bulbs used in your home. Private citizens are not permitted weapons for their own defense and the political elite make the rules, regardless of public opinion. In the dark of night they will take your money if you work too hard, become too successful or earn too much…and give it to someone who may not work at all. One leading policy maker has stated: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”

Was this the Soviet Union at the peak of its prowess or Germany under Hitler? The description is not unlike the world portrayed in the movie Soylent Green. If you were a spirited Colonial in 1776, you might have been whispering about England. However, if you’re a passionate Conservative in 2007, you’ve already realized that I’m describing the new Democrat America. It’s the scenario offered by Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, John Edwards, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and all of the European Socialist Democrats. In fact, the quotation above relating to redistribution of wealth [originally penned by Karl Marx, author of modern Communism] was recently resurrected in a speech by none other than Ms. Hillary Rodham, B.J. Clinton’s insignificant other. Unfortunately, a few spineless Republicans have joined with the far left in the mistaken belief this posture will help their political futures.

For years, many of these same Stalinists have actively assaulted any reference to God, the intent of our founding fathers and our second amendment right to bear arms. They crush competition, cry for surrender at war, legislate government controlled programs whenever possible and work behind closed doors to defy the will of the very people who entrusted them with high office. Now they have launched an attempt to undermine the first amendment…our guarantee of free speech. The first blow struck against that cherished constitutional right was McCain-Feingold forbidding the placement of political ads within 30 days of an election, the most critical time for public awareness. Today it’s a shameless attack upon alternative media, most particularly targeting talk radio.

Typically, the Democrat approach is, if you can’t compete, smear them, legislate them away or destroy them. For this task, they have created various covertly-funded radical organizations. Mark Levin, nationally syndicated talk host and political commentator states the case eloquently:

“The Center for American Progress and Free Press (yeh, right) is a sleazy operation. It was set-up by Bill Clinton’s impeachment chief of staff, John Podesta, and is run by him today. It is no coincidence that Podesta would issue this report now, as its purpose is to help Hillary Clinton by unleashing yet another assault on talk radio. Groups like this claim to speak for the public and wrap themselves in fairness and equality. But their purpose is to intimidate radio executives. The fact is that the Clintons and the Democrat Party created Air America. It is a failure. The public has tuned it out and it doesn’t get ratings. And before Air America, the public rejected such short-lived liberal hosts as Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson. Talk radio is the most democratic broadcast forum in existence. Competition is fierce between hosts, between companies, and even with hosts within the same companies. Talk radio must also compete with all the other offerings in radio — including all news, sports, urban, rock-and-roll, hip-hop, business, Spanish, etc. There has never been more diversity in programming. Talk radio must also compete with IPods, Internet broadcasting, and other technologies that offer entertainment and content.”

Would someone please explain to me why passes are automatically given to left-leaning Lib media like NPR, CNN, CNBC, all the major news networks and most of the nation’s print media? They are nothing but anti-Republican, anti-war, anti- Bush shills for the new Democrat Party. How are they fair and balanced? How do they serve the best interests of the American People? When was the last time they extolled our country’s virtues instead of making her the ‘fall guy’ for their failures?  If our free speech is taken away, I shudder to think of what’s next.

We the people is more than the opening line of our Constitution. We the people is an obligation. Our voices must ring out, loudly and clearly, whenever the way of life we enjoy is threatened. If we permit our God-given rights to be eroded in this manner there will be no more liberty. There will be no more freedom. There will be no more America.

R.S.F.

Link to audio by Mark R. Levin giving context to his quote

Spoiler?

Michael BloombergRoss PerotMichael who? It seems that Michael Bloomberg wants to be President of the United States, despite his hedging on the question. He has the multiple millions [perhaps billions] of dollars to finance his own campaign and the business acumen to run it effectively. I believe he’ll make the move within a few months, regardless of a pledge to finish his mayoral term. There are even some who say he could win but, from where I’m sitting, he’ll be in over his head and badly skin his political shins.

His first obstacle is that no one outside of the New York area knows him. Bloomberg has been a successful mayor but still walks in the shadow of Rudy Giuliani. In case you don’t think he’s joining the presidential stampede, he has already resigned his affiliation as a Republican and would run as an Independent. No Independent has ever won, so history is not on his side. Hurdle number two: He is fiercely liberal and would not appeal to a large Conservative base that is, already, looking at the current crop of Republican candidates as not conservative enough. He believes in abortion, strong gun control, high taxes, and big government. Sound like a Conservative? As for the Democrats they have a strong pack mentality and many have already fallen in love with Barak Hussein, the media’s “black enough” darling, while continuing to vue B.J’s wife as a possible heir apparent. Add to that the pinch of facing off with the ruthless Hillary election machine, stir in a thick New York accent [which is a turnoff to a good portion of the country] and you have all the ingredients for another Clinton victory.

Much as H. Ross Perot siphoned off enough Republican votes to allow ‘Slick Willy’ to slide into the White House back in 1992, I believe that Bloomberg would pull enough undecided middle-of-the-roaders to assure a Democrat victory in ‘08. Being a former liberal Democrat himself, one has to ask, “Is this part of some grand scheme to hand Hillary the keys to the country or just the insatiable appetite of a super-egotist wanting to consume the power meal of a lifetime?”

R.S.F.

…With Liberty And Unjustice For All.

What a week! First The Sopranos dis their loyal fan base with a piece of tripe they referred to as their final episode. Then Paris Hilton is hustled back to the pokey to serve out her rightful sentence. Now ‘Dirty Harry Reid and his cathouse 50′ have to work on a weekend! Gee, where will it stop? Of course, the reason our unrepresentatives are working is so they can shove an unwanted piece of legislation down our throats and give away half the country to a band of illegal, undeserving, unAmericans.

In all my adult years, which are more considerable than I care to admit, I have never seen the Washington bureaucrats so far out of touch with the rest of the country. Did you ever think you’d see the alliance of George Bush, Dirty Harry and Chappaquiddick Ted? Now, the usually dependable Trent has cast his Lott with this unholy three…and let’s not forget the doddering John McCain, who obviously got hit on the head with the same stick as the rest of this gruesome quintet. Their cheeses have, evidently, slipped off their collective crackers. They’ve lost a sandwich on the way to the picnic. Their elevator stopped short of the top floor. Any way you say it, we’ve reached a turning point in American history and this unsavory political alliance is turning us in the wrong direction.

If it is blind ambition that is threatening America, then it is blind ambition that must be stopped. You and I have made our wishes known and we are being disrespected just as surely as David Chase has disrespected The Sopranos loyal fan base. If the amnesty bill is imposed upon this nation in any form each and every politician who votes for it, Democrat or Republican, requires voting out of office at the earliest opportunity and needs to know the reason why. That’s what primaries are for.

R.S.F.

Coming Here Is Only Half The Story

N.Y. Sky BreakfastNew York is the greatest city in the world. I’m sure I would find more than a few people in Boston who would passionately argue that point with me, especially on a sunny summer afternoon at the ball yard. In fact, I would probably take serious heat on that topic in any major American City.

The thing that our cities all have in common is they were settled by people from many nations. Immigrants. Immigrants from around the world created America and it’s their great diversity that allows our unique experiment with democracy to continue working. Just as you can’t find a native New Yorker, you can’t find a native American. Oh, I know in the name of progress, we mercilessly shoved aside a group of people we call Native Americans but I have to wonder who they ran over to get here. Is someone going to tell me the Indians we savaged just sprang up out of nowhere? By the way, excuse my lack of political correctness but, when I was a kid, I never saw a movie about cowboys and Native Americans. Ask George Armstrong Custer.

My grandparents were immigrants. The people who made America great were legal immigrants. The difference between them and today’s hotly debated illegal intruder is one of attitude and intention. When you start out playing by the rules, chances are you keep playing by them, assimilate into society and contribute to it. Our ancestors wanted, first and foremost, to be Americans. On the other hand, those who start out by breaking our laws demonstrate immediate disrespect and rarely learn our customs or language. Usually, illegals bring with them all the elements that made their existence unbearable in the first place. They dare to make demands, tell us how to run our country and come, not to build, but to destroy. Their aim is not to become an American but to suck the system dry.

Dry is what would have happened to Social Security, Medicare and Medicade if the immigration amnesty bill had passed. Even the Republican Party, eventually, would all but disappear. If it’s his legacy he’s worried about, why does George W. Bush fail to see that? Radical Socialist Democrats see it. They know America will be changed forever. Their only objective is power and those changes will provide it for them. That is why they continue to push for this bill, even though it is obviously not in the best interests of America or what the overwhelming majority of people want. Why Mr. Bush keeps pushing for it makes me wonder when, where and how hard he bumped his head. The ground swell against it is of historic proportions!

Where is it written that we must have comprehensive legislation…or any legislation for that matter? Close the boarders first, then worry about the rest. If your boat is sinking first plug the hole, then start bailing. Most of the time, you can’t bail fast enough because the hole keeps getting larger. Gee, kind of like our immigration problem! We had money allocated for seven hundred miles of fence of which only two miles are built. If the bureaucrats haven’t followed through on this, why should we believe they would follow through on anything else they want to pass?

Close the boarders, enforce existing laws, apply the minimum wage to everyone, cut out the freebees, and these law breaking thugs will go home. We’ll also diminish the likelihood of terrorist nukes crossing into the country, if it’s not already too late [but that's a topic for another time]. As for our economy, there are plenty of Americans willing to do the jobs illegals perform, just not at slave wages. Let’s not forget the dollars draining out of the country, either, as hordes of illegals send increasing amounts of money home.

It’s more than just a matter of our economy or shortcutting law-abiding immigrants who respect our sovereignty. It is, as I’ve said frequently, a matter of national security and the one place Mr. Bush has fallen down in that area. By the way, Senator McCain keeps talking about the terrific job twelve to twenty million low-paid lettuce pickers are doing; have you noticed a drop in the price of lettuce lately?  I haven’t. We need to call, email, write and use every means at our disposal to demand our alleged representatives in Washington make certain this disasterous, insulting amnesty bill remains dead!

R.S.F.

Hillary Wars - Episode I

Darth HillaryNot so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away…

…there lived a sort of princess named Hillary. From the very beginning everyone knew she was special, for even as a young girl, she created an alternate reality from which she could look out but no one could see in. It would serve her well in the years ahead. Little Hillary spent her formative years in Park Ridge, a small wealthy planet in the Chicago Nebula. As an older child, she babysat other children so their parents could work in the fields, although there were no farms in the area. Remember, since she had created an alternate reality, anything was possible.

Hillary had another special gift. Whenever she talked to people, she could sound just like them!  This proved a useful talent at The Academy, where our heroine learned to fly from one side of an issue to the other and back again without passing through any wormholes. Combined, these abilities were formidable especially once, seduced by the dark side, she was transformed into the evil lord Darth Hillary.

The pull of her destiny was strong and she was drawn toward a small planet to the south, nearer the sun, where they had real farms. There were pigs, chickens and livestock of all kinds, like Black Panthers, which gave her the opportunity to use some of her book-learnin’ from the Academy. Still, Hillary felt an emptiness. All her life, she knew something was missing. Perhaps it was a personality. No, that couldn’t be it; she never needed one before.

Aided by a mechanical mask, she patiently watched the twin red suns rise and set many times while her alternate reality grew to huge proportions. At last she met the sleazy Governor B.J. Tarkin, who completed her training and said, “Put on your pink pants suit and follow The Force with me. We will slash and burn our way to Washington on the outer rim, where we can form a loosely structured partnership and rule the galaxy.” Wow! A galaxy of her very own! Maybe she could even become the president! “Not so fast,” said Governor B.J. “Me first.” So, control stick in hand, he slipped the bonds of gravity from Whitewater Spaceport and guided their battlecruiser toward the unsuspecting life forms that populated the lands to the north.

When The Force is with you it’s easy to make voters believe what you say, especially those who are a few fries short of a Happy Meal or don’t speak English. And so, with Hillary at his side, Tarkin became president. She was at his side when he decimated the Galactic Fleet; she was at his side when he ignored several stealthy attacks by the Rebel Alliance. She was not at his side when he had a tryst under the Imperial Desk with a drag queen from Felatatia…but she waited dutifully in the wings when he lied under oath to the Senate and was impeached. As his second term in office drew to a close, they even took away his pilot’s license for 5 years, so Darth Hillary would have to do the flying from now on.  Alas, the little girl from the Chicago Nebula, all growed up now, stuffed B.J. into the back of their battlecruiser, packed her pink pants suit, along with some silver and china, and headed still further north toward the bright center of the universe.

Would her tongue-saber be her undoing? How long could she hide her dedication to the dark side?  What will she do about ‘her boy Bill’ to make herself seem respectable and satisfy her insatiable quest for power? These and other questions will be soon be answered in the next episode of Hillary Wars!

R.S.F.

Sands Of Silence

Desert Jihadists

Somewhere in the Iraqi desert, a heavily cloaked, hooded figure glides silently across the sand, dropping occasionally to one knee to fire short a burst from his automatic weapon. He says he is a jihadist, training to attack the Great Satan. He will kill as many American infidels as he can, in the name of God, and is growing anxious to meet his creator.

In fact, he is a poor and misguided dupe who has been brainwashed with hate since childhood. Raised only for martyrdom, he fails to realize the reward for destroying that which God has created is an eternity of fire and damnation, not pillowy clouds and the softness of willing virgins.

Equally as loud as his cry for jihad is the silence of millions of other Muslims throughout the world, many in this country who profess to be peace-loving Americans. Are they? Why then are they not stepping up to condemn the actions of these rag-tag radicals who are hijacking their religion and endangering our country? Add to that deafening quiet the refusal of the Democrat Left to face reality, plus an open boarder policy currently being courted by both sides of the aisle in Washington, and you have an explosive formula for disaster authored from inside as well as outside our country.

While the terrorists passionately plot our demise, as they have for hundreds of years, Democrats like ‘The Breck Girl’ consider the war on terror to be a fabrication of the Bush administration. Edwards has repeatedly labeled it “a bumper sticker slogan”. According to statements made at Sunday’s Democrat Debate, the rest of the candidates seem to feel we can actually dissuade these murderers from their ancient mission of blood-letting with some cheerful dialog; some even think we wouldn’t have a problem in the first place if we had stayed out of Iraq. Is my chronometer cockeyed or were we attacked on 9/11 before we went to Iraq? Were the plot to blow up ten America-bound airliners, the near massacre of hundreds of soldiers at Fort Dix and this weekend’s plan to blow up major fuel supply arteries into Kennedy Airport all fabrications, too? If that fuel had been ignited, the damage and loss of life would have paled 9/11 in comparison! Yet the New York Times carried the story on page 30.

The Left wants the world to like America again. Again implies that they once did. The world never liked us. The only time the rest of our big, blue marble smiles at us is when they need help. After we pull their sorry carcasses out of the fire, sour relations resume per usual. I’d rather be safe. I’d rather be free. Given the present world situation, if there’s a choice between being liked and being feared, being feared is at the top of my list. Let’s begin by helping those sand people, who are growing anxious to meet their maker, realize their dream.

While our window of opportunity is closing, we can still take appropriate action…and that does not include surrender. The brightest beacons on the hill include our slate of savvy Republican Candidates, most of whom understand what we’re facing, and the fact that we live in a country where we can turn out the Democrat hordes who don’t. To follow the appeasers’ non-plan and leave Iraq too soon, or fail to forcefully address Iran and other Middle Eastern threats, will mean many more jihadists skulking across the sand on a training scholarship to the U.S.

We still have time to close our boarders, reinforce our terrorist surveillance programs, act more aggressively on the world stage, and make certain that swarthy fellow in the bed sheet only plays with his gun in the desert, not on our front porch.

R.S.F.