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Freedom’s Seed

Published at June 24, 2009 in Foreign Affairs and General Commentary. 0 Comments

If you have a strong stomach go to this link, listen to the video track, and witness the unimaginable. Be advised, it’s very graphic. God bless the brave.

Today in Tehran - Baharestan Square

The slaughter now taking place in Iran may surpass the brutality of Tiananmen Square. As you recoil in horror, and our imaginary leader in Washington tees up for another round of golf, ask yourself two questions:

First — what would you possibly say in negotiation to the kind of sub-human tyrant who, not only condones, but has ordered this kind of barbaric murder of his own people [or of any people]?

Second — given the uncontrolled growth of government in our own country, replete with ‘Bama’s proposed ‘National Security Force‘ and the diminishing role of our Constitution, might these be scenes from a distant future in America?

By the way, the acting president is taking a harder line with the Iranian delegation. They have been un-invited from the White House Fourth of July weenie roast. I give him a lot of credit for not voting present, yet again. He didn’t need to go out on a limb. By simply announcing they’re serving “Hebrew National” hot dogs, nobody would have shown up!

R.S.F.

“Ists” and “Isms”

Published at June 22, 2009 in Foreign Affairs, General Commentary and The Economy. 0 Comments

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I received a letter the other day which addressed me as a “Conservative Activist”. That night I saw a television show that made me realize some might consider me a “Survivalist”. Here, all the while, I thought I was a “Capitalist” speaking out against “Marxism” in America and supporting our troops fighting “Terrorism” abroad, so the rest of us can live to enjoy “Freedom” at home. Freedom. How’d that word get in there?

Lately, freedom seems to have gotten lost among the labels and, as it turns out, some of us don’t really understand what it is. Take, for example, a Liberal friend of mine [about whom I've spoken before] who agrees with the acting president that we have no right to “impose our way of life” on people in other countries. They both call it “meddling”, as does Mahmoud Ahmedinejad — who probably didn’t even know the word existed until our own B. Hussein Obama used it and gave him the opportunity to toss it back at us as propaganda. My friend has finally quantified the reason we can’t agree on any of the issues: we disagree on the fundamental principles.

What none of the three aforementioned understand is that freedom is the natural condition of human kind. Our founding fathers realized that reality and wrote about it often. Freedom comes from God, not from man. Since it can only be suppressed by man [governments and tyrants], helping to restore the natural order is neither imposing nor meddling. Millions of Iranians risking their lives in the streets of Tehran know that too and are waiting for words of encouragement from America — but our shining beacon at freedom’s door is dark. My friend says it’s none of our business because no one has asked for our help. I don’t know why anyone thinks so many signs in the crowd are printed in English but I’m guessing they’re the same people who think the revolt we are witnessing is still about the election.

Obama is an embarrassment. He has abdicated his responsibility as any kind of free world leader. Even France and Germany have spoken out but, for all the meaningless drivel he and his teleprompter have generated, his deafening silence is broken only by a few vague remarks about the government violence. This ideologue is coldly recasting the very essence of what America is about and will have the blood of thousands on his hands if Ahmedinejad once again slams freedom’s door on the fingers of the Iranian people.

Let me be as plain as the ears on ‘Bama’s head. When he apologizes for the brilliance of America, he does not speak for me. When he parades weakness in front of the world, he does not speak for me. When he insults our friends and friendlies up to our enemies, he does not speak for me. When he says America is broken and should be fixed with massive government programs, he does not speak for me. When he demonizes success and tramples our Constitution, he does not speak for me. When he disrespects the military or degrades their mission he does not speak for me. When oppressed people cry out against tyranny and are willing to die for freedom, he doesn’t speak at all.

So all other “ists” and “isms” notwithstanding, I say to my Liberal friend that I mostly consider myself a “real-ist”. Occasionally my government loses its way and as long as there is a First Amendment, I will speak for myself and try to influence a course correction. I have always been and shall always be proud of my country. If supporting those in other countries who are trying to restore freedom’s natural order is “meddling”, then I’m a “medd-ler”. There, we now have a “ler” label.

Above all else, I am an American and to the people of Iran, if our acting president won’t say it, I will — Press on! We hear your voices and you are not alone. God and the American people are with you!

R.S.F.

AMERICA - We Remember

Published at June 6, 2009 in General Commentary. 0 Comments

As the great imposter nears the end of his second world apology tour, pandering this time to our adversaries, let us remember a great president honoring the selfless heroes of D-Day — who sacrificed so much to preserve American freedom and who defended liberty for an entire world threatened by the forces of tyranny.

If only Barack Hussein Obama could speak with inspiration, instead of disparaging his own country and parading weakness in front of madmen who only understand strength.

On this day,we remember and salute the men and women of the Greatest Generation.

R.S.F.

Atten-shun!

Published at March 19, 2009 in General Commentary. 0 Comments

Beyond busting budgets, Obama clearly demonstrates a complete lack of respect for America, her offices and her traditions. He is purposefully steering a course that is heading our nation full throttle onto the rocks.

His foreign policy is simple: Insult your friends and embrace your enemies. If you think our global image has suffered in the past, wait until this joker is finished. The only question is, will we still be able to laugh? Domestically he seems to be keeping close to his agenda of Marxist takeover from within, according to the precise methods described in Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals“. Want to know what’s coming? Read the book!

‘Bama’s attitude toward our military is as perverse as his attitude toward our allies: he hates them. The latest slap in the face is the Messiah’s desire to turn personnel injured in battle over to the private insurance market instead of providing traditional government-funded care. He is more concerned with his agenda of breaking the back of private health care than he is with seeing to the welfare of dedicated men and women he sends into battle.

I watched a news video the other day showing this impostor disembarking from Marine One and was so shocked that I played it back [TIVO] twice to make sure I actually saw what I thought I saw. A young Marine stood at respectful attention and held a proper salute, as the Commander In Chief followed what looked like a group of street urchins from the helicopter.

For the first family to be so inappropriately dressed in front of the nation would have been disgraceful enough — but the acting president scowled at the honor being paid him, never glanced at the Marine and returned a half-hearted salute that was as disdainful as his mood. He could learn a lesson or two from that brave young man, as well as from so many other military who serve us all with such great pride, not great contempt.

R.S.F.

Winners And Losers

Published at February 9, 2009 in General Commentary. 0 Comments

Throughout my misspent youth, I was taught not to be a sore loser — in fact, I was taught how to be a graceful winner. So, how come the Democrats are such sore winners? They’ve invented a whole new category!

Ever since Al Gore stuck out his lower lip and pouted like a five year old when he couldn’t steal the presidential election of 2000, the lemmings on the Left have been whining about one thing or another, even during the most robust economy in our nation’s history.

This time they got what they’ve wanted — ‘Bama has managed to combine the skulduggery of groups like Acorn, and suspicious contributions from other unsavory sources, with a seemingly mass hypnosis to secure an election victory. Now there’s the giant porkulus bill on the table, and “H” is going to get his way with that, too. Even so, he’s stamping his foot in frustration and reminding people that, “I won so you have to do it my way!” Three weeks in office and he’s already becoming impatient with the speed of passage for his trillion dollar Socialist obscenity.

Personally, I’d like to treat him like any other playground brat, pick up my marbles and go home. The problem is, he’s setting in motion the process to steal all our marbles with the greatest transfer of wealth in history, from the private sector to what is becoming our new Marxist government at the speed of light.

He is throwing a tantrum because he never encountered resistance before. Since he has never really worked or accomplished anything of significance, he is not practiced at either winning or losing. “H”’s entry level position into the work force is the presidency of the most powerful country on earth!

Now ‘Bama is discovering that if you try to walk on water, you can get you feet wet. There are the usual procedural questions which have been raised about legislation since the days of George Washington, but it’s all new to the neophyte. Shock is beginning to set in that there is more to the game than just winning it — there’s actual governing. A leader must learn to lead not just talk about it. In all this time, I don’t believe he ever thought about what happens after the campaign.

He had better grasp that concept pretty quickly, because right now Madam Pelosi and Little Harry Reid are playing him like a couple of hookers rolling a drunk in a cheap motel room. If congress can have its way with him so easily, and “H” can’t even stand up to his own party, what is going to happen when he faces off with world leaders and terrorists; when all his rhetoric, with or without tele-prompters, now begins to fall upon deaf ears because our enemies don’t recognize that he’s “The Messiah”? What’s going to happen when whining becomes weakness and winning or losing have permanent consequences?

R.S.F.

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New View Of More Than A Few

Published at January 30, 2009 in General Commentary and Stuff. 0 Comments

There was a time when only a beautiful woman could send chills up and down my spine. Now you can add Washington politicians or anyone trapped in the trance-like undertow of Obama monomania. Rest assured, however, these are very different chills — more like the ones that ran my backbone as a kid, when the alien found frozen in a glacier thawed out in “The Thing From Another World”.

In a conversation the other day with a friend, who also happens to be a Left-leaning liberal Democrat, he informed me that if I expect “to continue saluting the Stars and Stripes,” I’d better “readjust my context” and start supporting ‘H’ (he said Obama). I know he’s a Left-leaning liberal Democrat because he consistently passes all the tests for this designation with flying colors: He lives in a Utopian bubble, is generally uninformed or ill-informed and denies being either Left Wing, Liberal or a Democrat.

My horror was not generated so much by his statement as by his reasoning. I’m afraid it is an attitude afflicting an ever increasing number of contemporary Americans and which plays directly to the radical Socialist agenda currently being crammed down our throats by elected officials. He reasoned that I had no right to pay honor to the flag if I didn’t support the administration because “our flag represents the government!” Let me repeat that for any Founding Fathers who may have missed it because of the sound vibrations generated while shuddering in their graves. My friend said that “our flag represents the government!”

For now and all time let me say, emphasize, decree or otherwise bellow from the hilltops, housetops and tabletops to Socialist sheep, greedy Capitalists and ideologues of all persuasions that our Stars and Stripes represent many things — freedom, liberty, hope, pride, prosperity, strength, success, our people, God’s grace, brave sacrifices, victory over oppression, triumph over tyranny and numerous other blessings — but our flag does not, and was never intended to, represent this pack of pitiful partisans or any other government!

Some would argue that the people are the government and they would be right, according to original design and intent; but increasingly, as the United States Constitution is treated as merely a list of really neat suggestions, it becomes a truth that is less self-evident. We must not and cannot let my friend’s misguided point of view prevail. He is old enough to know better but most of our children are not. It falls to us, as patriotic Americans, to counter the perverse, agenda-driven rantings of Liberal educators and teach future generations about liberty, freedom and the true meaning of our flag. They must learn that America is not the problem but the solution. They must learn about the perils of tyranny as well as the price of freedom before it is lost or simply relinquished through ignorance and misinformation.

The next time you see our Stars and Stripes feel free to salute and sing of all for which that banner truly stands, until your voice is hoarse, your throat is raw and your breath is gone. Remember you are saluting something far greater than government — far greater than self. The government was created to salute you. Hussein and Pelosi, Reid and the rest were elected to serve you. We have spent too much time peering through the wrong end of the telescope and now the time has come to turn it around!

R.S.F.

You Want it? You’ve Got It!

Published at January 22, 2009 in General Commentary. 0 Comments

I was going to do a lighter piece today on the transition of Mish Obama’s wardrobe from human lava lamp to dining room drapes — but in just two days, her hubby has already done so much damage to America’s future, I feel I owe my readers at least a brief comment.

First of all, “I told you so”. In case you don’t remember, all of my posts are still accessible. Secondly, implementation of his radical Leftist agenda has begun even sooner than I feared and this is only the tip of the iceberg. “H” has already signed executive orders to close Gitmo with no plan for the disposition of prisoners, to reverse congressional approval of offshore drilling, to pull out of Iraq [in favor of getting bogged down in Afghanistan], and to ease privacy restrictions on past presidents so his Democrat cronies can persecute President Bush still further. Oh, don’t forget that trillion dollars in welfare payments just burning a hole in his pocket. Hey, anyone see our other two branches of government lately?

Well-l-l, to those who still want to “give him a chance” or who sucked up enough mind candy to support this charlatan in the first place, let your ignorance bring you bliss:

When you’re sitting at the pump in your little ‘green’ lawnmower with seats, fumbling for the last of your Barack-head pennies to put a drop of gas in your empty tank, and a terrorist sporting an AK47 knocks on your window, don’t panic just because gunshot wounds aren’t covered under the government health plan. You don’t even need to worry about missing work; you haven’t had a job for months — but you got your CHANGE!

R.S.F.

The Beginning Of An Error

Published at January 20, 2009 in Domestic Politics and General Commentary. 0 Comments

It 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.