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Patriots In The Rain

I was privileged to attend one of the more than 700 Tea Parties held across America yesterday and, to paraphrase the acting president’s wife, “For the first time since November 4th I was proud to be an American!”

We heard speakers from 14 year old kids with mortgaged futures to the obligatory gaggle of politicians promising the usual “if elected” miracles. However, the speakers that moved me most were two naturalized American citizens: One who immigrated from the former Soviet Union and the other who escaped from Cuba. Both warned of the signs of impending tyranny we are witnessing from Washington and expressed fear of having “To go through it all again”. They moved me to the edge of tears, as I was later so moved while surrounded by an estimated 1500 fellow patriots singing, “God Bless America”. I don’t usually sing and guys from my generation don’t usually cry.

This was a local event, not one of the colossal affairs in New York, Chicago or Atlanta but I think very typical of the genuine grass roots movement that is so clearly confounding backers of the taxes and tyranny coming out of Washington. Masquerading as news media, the government’s public relations arm took first place gold in the “Rude and Crude” category and a silver in “I don’t get it”. Just watch this moronic, medal-winning performance by a member of the Communist News Network (CNN).

A few things are abundantly clear from these gatherings:

  1. People are both frightened and angry — a powerful combination. It seems more people understand what’s really going on than I thought
  2. The numbers of attendees at these Tea Parties are being underestimated and the events are being under-reported
  3. While promoted as anti-tax/anti-spending events, the losses of freedom and incursions of big government into our lives are of, at least, equal concern
  4. If ‘Bama-Socialist supporters don’t get it and provide a rapid change of direction in D.C., they’re on a fast track to a rapid exit of the current Congress in 2010, just for openers
  5. These were gatherings of ALL perspectives, Left, Right, Republican, Democrat, Conservative, Independent — pick a label. The common thread was the overwhelming desire to keep America uniquely American and prosperous — and the feeling that we’re being driven down the wrong road

As one of the immigrant speakers astutely observed, “Communism or Socialism, it’s the same thing — because when you have one, the other always follows”. Taking into account drastic changes to our economy, destruction of the free market system, gigantic government growth and creation of elements like a militant National Security Force, the handwriting is on the wall for transition into a Totalitarian, Socialist State. Sorry ‘Bama, it’s not the change people wanted but you are unifying many of us, as you promised.

This is not Cuba, France, Russia or Germany. Americans will not sit idly by and watch our nation turned into a banana republic or see our rights disintegrate before our very eyes. How ever these Tea Parties are perceived, how ever they are reported, the importance of what actually happened yesterday can be found in the huge number of citizens rising up to stand against oppression; the silent majority is awakening to the call of freedom! You had to be there!

R.S.F.

Somebody Tell Mother Nature

Glass StomachLast night, all those who like to mix their religion with politics in an attempt to discover science got to feel good about themselves for a few minutes. The intent was a show of global unity in the desire to tinker with the Earth’s natural heating and cooling cycles. The result was, in fact, a demonstration of weakness and global gullibility. Almost as brilliantly as the lights blazed in my house, headlines blazed across the Internet:

“Lights go out across planet for Earth Hour”
“World switches off to save planet in Earth Hour”
“Cities switch off for Earth Hour”

Unfortunately for a great many people living in the world of reality, nobody told Ma Nature about the event and she produced headlines like:

“Kansas City Airport Closed Due to Snow Storm”
“Severe weather strikes Plains, Gulf Coast”
“Cold weather eases flood threat in Fargo”

After experiencing one of the coldest winters on the planet in decades, including snow in places like Louisiana, Mississippi and California, I’m convinced most planet-saving ‘Greenies’ must be sporting glass stomachs or they’d keep bumping into things. They not only continue their flight of fancy in the face of truths their own senses can’t deny but are completely missing the more dangerous implications of government using climate change as a mechanism for tyrannical control of our personal lives. That’s why the hoax was perpetuated in the first place!

I think the best shtick of the evening was CNN promoting their around the world coverage of “Earth Hour” events. Wait a minute — doesn’t it take an enormous amount of energy to generate such coverage? Well, I suppose it’s no worse than ‘Guru Gore’ flying around on a private jet to rant about our over use of fossil fuels. Instead of worrying about man made global warming , we need to start thinking about man made global fortunes and the losses of liberty resulting from our blindness!

You know, mushrooms like it in the dark, too — and are usually fed a diet of the same stuff our little planet savers have been swallowing.

R.S.F.

Now Amerika!

American TurncoatsYesterday the House and Senate each passed the huge $1.2 trillion ‘Porkasbord’. If there’s a bright side to any of this, it’s that House Republicans seem to have rediscovered their core values and stood solidly against the non-stimulus measure, even though their meager numbers were predictably outvoted 246-183. The Senate tally was 60-38 with three traitorous RINOs voting with the Amerikan Socialist Party.

Twice, Arlen Specter [of Pennsylvania], Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins [both of Maine] had a chance to stop this giant obscenity in its tracks, sending it back to the drawing board for a realistic rewrite. Twice, with their votes for the original Senate bill and last night voting for the revised House version, all three stood with their backs firmly turned against their country, their party and the vast majority of the American people.

To have drafted the final bill without permitting Republican input was irresponsible; to have voted on it before anyone had a chance to read it was unconscionable; to ignore the will of the people, begin changing our system of government into something alien to The Founders and mortgage the fortunes and liberty of future generations simply defies description! From what anyone actually knows about the ‘Porkasbord’, there is little stimulus in it for the economy but plenty of payback for special interests and funding for growing government.

You expect destructive behavior from demagogues like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank or ‘Bama himself: they’re flagrantly far-Left, arrogantly radical and plainly incompetent. It is fools like Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, who continue to confound by declaring themselves as Republicans but vote, more often than not, with the Socialists. Their punishment is mandatory; voting out of office is too good for such un-American behavior but it’s all we have in what, at least for the time being, is still a democracy.

There is no comfort in knowing that this spending legislation, and that which follows, is doomed to failure or that it’s failure falls squarely upon the shoulders of the former Democrat Party. Historically, spending in a down economy has never worked — on the other hand tax cuts have never failed but the dark forces crafting this boondoggle managed to remove what few actual tax cuts there were.

There is no comfort because, even more important than the cost of this measure in dollars and cents, is the cost in liberty. So distracting is the financial aspect of the ‘Porkasbord’ that most people have overlooked where their money is going and what it is doing. As well as the single greatest transfer of wealth in history from the private sector to government, it is also the single greatest transfer in history of freedom from the individual to the state. The Constitution has been cast aside and we are now entering an era of government without limits — huge, unrestrained and tyrannical. Nowhere does the Constitution authorize this kind of spending, mandates about to be imposed upon the private sector, or restrictions placed upon the individual. Rather, the Constitution was designed to restrict government and protect against exactly the kind of abuses occurring right now.

Thank you Mr. Specter, thank you Ms. Snowe, thank you Ms. Collins for selling out the free Republic of America and helping to reverse more than 200 years of sacrifice and hard-won liberty. Thanks to you and your Stalinist comrades, God-given rights are fast becoming government-granted privileges and “Government of the people, by the people and for the people” which “shall not perish from the earth” — just did!

R.S.F.

The Beginning Of An Error

Joker Is WildIt is difficult to watch as the greatest nation on earth is brought to its knees by the blindness of its own mind-numbed people. Most still don’t get it, as today we install a dangerous cartoon character into the most powerful office in America. Delivering his post election decrees from that big chair behind his pre-presidential desk, Barack Hussein Obama (henceforth known in these parts as “H”) reminds me of a little kid playing dress-up with daddy’s or mommy’s clothes. Today he starts playing for real — for ‘keepsies’ and our future is in his left hand.

By the way, in case you’re wondering about the “H” thing, if they can call President Bush “W”, we can use “H” for South Side Barry: “H” for Hussein and “H” for the drugs that have, admittedly, been part of his life. Turnabout, after all, is fair play. In answer to the most asked question on the media’s tainted lips, during the inauguration I plan to be going about my usual routine, consciously avoiding the spectacle marking the beginning of the end of life in our country as we know it.

They’re not only installing an incompetent thug into the oval office but, it would seem, something of a psychopath as well, overshadowing even Napoleon himself. Our first hint should have been his building of a Grecian temple in the middle of a football field to deliver a speech to campaign worshipers. Next he thought he was F.D.R., then John F. Kennedy — but when the reality of comparing the Obamas with the Kennedys was obviously closer to a comparison of the Jeffersons with the Waltons, he became Abraham Lincoln!

Somebody please explain to me the logic behind flying to Philadelphia in order to take a train to Washington, D.C., taking his oath on the Lincoln bible or spending $170 million on his inauguration in a recessed economy, even as he preaches sacrifice to ordinary mortals. He is not Kennedy, he is not Roosevelt, nor is he Lincoln. He’s not even Obama — but merely a persona created by his publicists and the media arm of the Democrat Party. He hasn’t done ANYTHING yet! His crowning achievement is buying the White House, mostly with contributions from America’s enemies. This kid is kind of missing a step here: actually BEING president!

I keep hearing Marxist supporters say, “Give him a chance.” and “Wish him success.” Give him a chance to do what — destroy our health care system, American industry and the economy; redistribute wealth from the productive to the lazy and jeopardize our national security? As for success,”H” must fail to fulfill his plans if we are to survive as a nation. His are not the plans needed for a free country during wartime or in times of economic strife. He and other communistic types like Madam Pelosi, who even now is attempting to consolidate all possible legislative power into her own hands, must be resisted with every fiber of our being.

Today is indeed historic, not because we are inaugurating the first Black president, but because it may be the first of the last days for The Free Republic of America. Today may herald the end of the Capitalist system which has provided us with the greatest prosperity in the history of the world and the end to our precious liberty, for which so many millions have sacrificed and died during the past two-and-a-quarter centuries. Today “H” will begin his administration with a lie as he swears to uphold, protect and defend the Constitution of The United States, when he actually believes it is a flawed document and wants it rewritten beginning with the First and Second Amendments.

Today, my stars and stripes fly at half-staff, in memory of what has been and in fear of what is yet to come. God bless our country and awaken those who slumber in ignorance.

R.S.F.

They Know Not What They Do

Tuesday November 4, 2008 may well be the darkest day in the history of our great nation. The impossible happened: The blind and the ignorant joined forces with the deaf and the dopey to defeat liberty and freedom in America.

It wasn’t even close, which goes to show you how little attention most people paid to the realities that were everywhere but inside their mushy little craniums. The T.V. and tabloids did get one thing right…this was an historic event. Not since Germany in the late 1930s have so many, given up so much, so easily.

After singing a few choruses of the new president-elect’s praises, one commentator remarked, “We don’t actually know Sheep to Shearingwho he really is!” The other replied, “Ya. I guess we’ll have to wait ’til after January 20th to find out; we just don’t know that much about him.” Yes you do. You simply chose to look the other way like all the other sheep. What a terrific way to elect the most powerful man in the world! Sour grapes? You bet! I love this country; she has treated me well.

How interesting to read about the unbridled joy of so many foreign countries over the results of today’s election. Our close, warm, personal friends in Russia, Iran, Syria, et al cheer at our weakness. Meanwhile France, Germany, England, and so many others are ready to welcome us into their sheared Socialist flock with open arms. I have just one question: We’ve sort of made a career out of being the big dog on the farm. When the wolves start pawing at the sand in front of their gate, who’s going to save their butts this time…a listless America that lives in the same barnyard?

God bless us all. We’re going to need it. I’m going to bed.

R.S.F.

Something REALLY Scary

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Imagine a scenario where a radical European Socialist with an unchecked majority of supporters in Congress have taken over the government. Now imagine they have legislated away your freedom and taken control of your life; you are no longer an individual but merely one of the masses contributing to the welfare of a political state!

Obama-Marx BannerFar Left Liberals like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and John Murtha determine what you are permitted to see, hear and do…what medical care you are permitted, how much you are allowed to earn, where and how you may live. Presidential advisers like William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan and Rashid Khalidi occupy Cabinet positions.

Our national defense has been placed in the hands of the United Nations. Israel has ceased to exist while the matter is being ‘negotiated’ with Iran. The Supreme Court is dominated by justices who have rewritten our Constitution and legislate from the bench.

You can make this and more come true on November 4th if you support Obama’s counter-American agenda or if you don’t go out and vote to, at least, offset the ballot of some guy living in a cardboard box that has been illegally registered by Obama operatives.

Think it can’t happen in America? Barack Hussein Obama and his friends have already told us what they believe and what they would do. Just click on the following links and listen to these sound bites:

Finally, in case you missed it previously, here is radio talk host Mark Levin with excerpts from the book “Rules for Radicals”. It has clearly been Obama’s blueprint for the campaign and will likely be his engine for running America, if he is handed the controls.

As a fellow American and one who deeply loves his country, I ask you to VOTE, no matter what the media tries to make you believe. For the future of our nation, be sure to check your emotions at the door…and vote with your heart and with your head.

R.S.F.

Now You Get It…Now You Still Don’t

With all the evidence to the contrary, I’m amazed that some people still think we are voting between two candidates on Tuesday.  Make no mistake about it, we are choosing between two ideologies.  In truth, it will be a referendum on America’s desire for freedom.  Tuesday will be a commentary about whether the millions of Americans, who spilled their blood on battlefields and gave their lives for our liberty, wasted this precious gift on an ungrateful nation or if we will protect and defend the fruits of their sacrifice.

Just as I began working on what I hoped would be a particularly insightful article, I read a piece in Newsmax by Michael Reagan that expressed my thoughts precisely and with clear context.  I thought you should read it:

Obama’s ‘Change’ Is Socialism
By: Michael Reagan

The other day, I went to a Hollywood luncheon crammed with producers, directors, writers, and other film industry notables.

One of them, Larry Gelbart of “MASH” fame, spoke telling the group that since capitalism has failed, why don’t we try socialism?

Try socialism? Take a sip of it and see how it tastes? It doesn’t work that way.

There’s an old saying that you can’t be half-socialist any more than you can be half-pregnant; get knocked up with a socialist fetus and you’ll have to deliver a full-born Marxist. There’s nothing in between. Try it, you’ll like it; and if you don’t, as the lads in the Gestapo used to tell people, they had ways to make them like it.

Larry Gelbart gorged himself at the capitalist table and came away with untold millions, now safely banked, and continues to collect even more millions from never-ending reruns of the “MASH” sitcom. Having made his bundle from our capitalist free-enterprise system, he seems to be telling us now that the rest of us should get in the socialist bread line and eat crumbs while he feasts on caviar.

One of the realities of this age is that the great mass of the American people haven’t traveled abroad to see how the rest of the world lives, a lot of it under dreary socialist regimes with stalled economies and no real chance for advancement for the ordinary citizen.

Moreover, our shoddy educational curriculum that has left most younger Americans so deficient in the study of history that vast numbers of them think George Washington was a Civil War general, or a lumberman who chopped down cherry trees. They have no real understanding of the economic system that allowed us to become the wealthiest and most powerful nation since the Roman Empire ruled most of the known world 2,000 years ago.

Given that mournful reality, the moment the economic Rolls Royce engine that drove this nation to the top of the hill stalls, instead of installing new spark plugs to get it going again, they go looking for an alternative mode of transportation.

In the present case, Obama and the Democrats are directing them to Larry Gelbart’s used-economic system lot where he shows them a jalopy with a fancy paint job on the outside and a one-cylinder motor inside that goes chug-chug.

Listening to the advice of a man who made his name and his money on a show about America’s military at war — yet told the same audience that our armed forces are nothing but “mercenaries” — doesn’t seem the smartest thing to do.

We are now a few days away from an election in which one of the presidential candidates is trying to sell that jalopy on Larry Gelbart’s lot and convince us that it is really a luxury limo that will get hundreds of miles to the gallon and carry us off to the promised land, where the rich will be impoverished and the middle class enriched and everybody will be deliriously happy.

Call Barack Obama’s program socialism, however, and he’ll swear on a stack of Qurans it isn’t. He calls it change. He says it’s fairness, not Marxism.

Oh?

How does he explain the proven fact that he has been wallowing in a sty surrounded by fervent socialists and sharing in their swill for most of his life?

According to Fox’s Bill Sammon, his messiahship recalled that when he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles “to avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully,” he wrote in “Dreams From My Father,” his memoir. “The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.” And that was his milieu for all his years in Chicago.

To anyone familiar with socialism, Obama’s programs fit comfortably within the pages of Karl Marx’s playbook, the root of which is the redistribution of the wealth, the key to the entire Obamian vault.

What’s mine is yours, and he’s the middle man.

It’s socialism lite, and it can only evolve into socialism heavy. Remember, you can’t be half-socialist, and Barack Obama knows it.

The only questions I have are:  What the heck is a “Structural Feminist”?  Is this some kind of woman built out of an erector set or one who just looks that way?  The other, more serious question, has to do with Obama’s “careful choice of friends”.  As he tries desperately to distance himself from Wright, Ayers, Khalidi, Resco, Farrakhan, the Acorn group and the all the rest, is there any reason to believe he has recently stopped being as careful as he used to be with his choices?

On Election Day, will you cast your vote for America or for Obama’s Socialist tyranny?

R.S.F.

Heads or Tales

Home Do-It-Yourself LobotomyAre people getting dumber by the minute or is America infected with some sort of fatal virus, the onset of which causes complete factual blindness? I don’t place much stock in polls, most of which are weighted to shape opinion rather than report it, but if we are to believe the latest trends, I’ll soon be marketing a home do-it-yourself lobotomy kit because the public can be suckered into anything!

You want change? Well, we’re being served two different dishes: A nourishing diet of experienced, evolutionary progress on one hand and, on the other, dangerous helpings of extremist ideology that give you two nickels and a dime for a quarter, while placing your family’s safety at risk for the good of the few. Politics has a short menu.

Much of the problem lies in the fact that most people started paying attention to the campaigns only a few weeks ago and most of their information comes from the morning paper or the eleven o’clock news. They mistake known facts about Obama’s radical alliances, many of which came to light several months ago, as some kind of last ditch Republican effort to discredit him. Their “gimme’ some mania” combined with a complete media sellout masks Obama’s own failed European Socialist philosophies as something new and different. While John McCain looks forward to a future of freedom and renewed American greatness, Barack Hussein Obama robotically marches to the tunes of Karl Marx and Joseph Stalin with children mindlessly singing his praises, much as they paid tribute to Hitler in the 1930s and 40s.

If Obama’s own words to ‘Joe The Plumber’ about redistribution of wealth don’t make you cringe; if Biden’s warnings about his inexperience and guarantees of a world crisis should Obama be elected don’t terrify you; if promises to raise taxes and $100 billion in new spending don’t infuriate you;  if all that doesn’t send a chilling message to the electorate, then they deserve whatever they get and have no right to complain when they get it. The problem is, those of us with rational, functioning minds have to pay the price right along with the mentally challenged. If you haven’t heard the  Mark Levin “Rules For Radicals” audio segment, I urge you to listen and learn before it’s too late.

When you have a Democrat Congress with an anemic 9% approval rating, which has done nothing of value since they gained dominance, does it make any sense to vote for an even greater Democrat majority? When you’ve been criticized for clinging to your guns, bibles and holding on to your values … when you’ve been labeled as “redneck racists” as have the good people of Pennsylvania, do you really want to give these elitist hacks power over your lives? Michigan really takes the cake. They’ve been the poster child for recession since the 90s under Democrat incompetents.  So far, they’re leaning toward the very same Party that has cast them helplessly adrift and now wants to slam the lid and flush the bowl!

Even as I travel around my own area, I notice the deeper I get into blue collar neighborhoods the more Obama lawn signs I see. It is said that an abused child tends to gravitate toward the abuser; I can only assume that the same syndrome is at work here. Why else would intelligent, hard-working people believe the tales being spun by the very political entities which, in truth, look down on them and will hurt them the most?

Maybe it’s too late to market that do-it-yourself lobotomy thing after all.  Just in case you’ve already experimented with one, don’t worry about poking your finger into the wound … there’s nothing in there.

R.S.F.