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The Power of Life and Darth

Published at August 7, 2009 in Legislation & Judiciary and War Against Freedom. 0 Comments

political_outhouse-people A few years ago I had heart surgery, followed by several weeks of an exercise program at the hospital. The attending nurse and I constantly generated sparks because of her insistent reference to me as a patient. In fact, they had signs up all over the place serving little morsels of advice for their “patients” consumption.

The thing I couldn’t get across to ‘Nurse Ratchet’ was that, as far as I was concerned, my patient status ended when I was discharged and returned to work. I now thought of myself as a healthy person and felt that way. When I quit smoking, I didn’t try – I became a non-smoker and never once missed those ‘nasty nails’ in the twenty years since!

Now, with Obama’s proposed health care bill [ READ IT - H.R. 3200 ], along with a number of other egregious requirements, I am being confronted with “End of Life Counseling” after age 65. Yes, I said END OF LIFE! I refuse to think in those terms and so do most of the people I know.

To me, retirement is a new beginning — the beginning of enjoying the fruits of almost a half-century of labor. Now a bunch of bureaucrats want to tell me how to end it? I don’t think so. I’ll make a deal with you Mr. or Ms. Counselor: You SHOW ME HOW first and I’ll take your little demonstration under advisement when you’re finished! I have all of eternity to enjoy eternity, so I think I’ll stick around awhile until my God is ready for me — not El Presidente. How to handle my future is between me and my family, as my health care is between me and my doctor.

As Washington embarks on a program of violence and vicious personal attacks against the American people, all the while preparing devious means like reconciliation to cram this devastating measure down our throats, they seem to lose sight of one important fact: THEY WORK FOR US! They are also completely out of touch with the majority of Americans who have finally awakened to the reality that Obama wants to rule, not govern. The outrage being expressed at town meetings and tea parties is honest and flows from the people upward, not from any political party downward. It’s the government that is out of control, not the people.

Americans are sometimes slow to awaken but the administration’s Nazi-like tactics are a bucket of cold water in the face of even those who previously supported Herr Adolf Obama. As the Japanese discovered in the Pacific and Hitler in Europe, this awakening can crystalize into an unshakable resolve. The acting president’s deranged reaction to opposition by hard working, freedom loving people is, equally, a shock to the system of all who love liberty.

One can only hope that our alleged representatives will come out of hiding and listen, while the nation is still of civil mind in its dissent. I have not seen anger like this before in our country but clearly remember reading about an oppressive, non-responsive government in 1776. At best, this anger will be reflected in the 2010 elections.

When those who will vote on health care actually read the bill; when they begin to put the welfare of the people above their own ambitions; when those we have empowered to govern are willing to accept the plan they pass as coverage for themselves; when the power they crave doesn’t diminish the power of my freedom — when these politicians begin to support America, then I will begin to support them.

R.S.F.

Benched Radical

Published at August 6, 2009 in Legislation & Judiciary and War Against Freedom. 0 Comments

sonia-burns-const The Senate finally fell into line like good little lemmings, as we all knew they eventually would. It has just confirmed a self-incriminated racist and political activist to the Supreme Court for life.

Judgette (gender distinction) Sonya Sotomayor will now have free reign to use foreign law and her “superior female Latina experiences” to subvert the American Constitution. This time there will be no legal recourse to correct her mistakes, as there was previously in more than 60 percent of her rulings.

repubs-sotomayor This is historic! Oh, not because she’s the first Hispanic — she’s only the first Hispanic the Democrats decided was far Left enough to confirm. Sotomayor’s confirmation is Historic because by swearing to preserve, protect and defend our Constitution she will be committing perjury as the first official act in her new capacity. I don’t believe anyone has ever done that before. Look out First and Second Amendments, this court is just getting started!

R.S.F.

Wise Men and Fools

Published at July 19, 2009 in Legislation & Judiciary. 0 Comments

Sonia Sotomayor Unlike the other two branches of government, our Founding Fathers designed the Judiciary with no term limits. They felt this would place judges above the political fray and, without having to worry about the second-guessing of their opinions, they could be completely impartial. While the Founders were wise enough to design a self-correcting system they didn’t design a perfect system and, as righteous men who understood their role as part of something greater than themselves, they could never have anticipated future justices placing their own good above the good of the Republic.

Enter Judge Sonia Sotomayor. She is the poster child for term limits to be placed upon members of the Court. Sotomayor spent this entire past week of questioning confounding senators by contradicting viewpoints she has advocated her entire career. Many have said she may actually have perjured herself. She, quite clearly, would say anything she must to get confirmed, trying desperately to sound like the little sister of Justices Alito and Roberts.

In truth, as the radical nominee of a radical president kissing the hindquarters of a radical Senate, she will undoubtedly be confirmed for a life term of Constitutional destruction from the bench. Tomas Jefferson had the right idea: four to six year terms for judges [I'd even go along with eight]. That doesn’t mean they couldn’t be reappointed but it provides an opportunity for the president or the people to opt out as conditions change. You have to renew your license to drive, right? Why not renew a judge’s license to wield a gavel?

Whether this nominee is in fact a racist, a sexist or a latinophile is still open to question. In the past, she has repeated remarks about a “Wise Latina woman being able to make better decisions than a White male” — remarks she tried to re-spin during her confirmation hearing. Even more troubling is her belief in legislating from the bench, a philosophy reflected in speeches and re-spun into a deceitful web throughout the week. Her contradictions, and refusal to directly answer questions on the important issues of abortion and Second Amendment rights display a troubling lack of understanding about the role of the Judiciary.

As a wise White man of varied experience and background I can unequivocally state that the real Sonia Sotomayor is a judicial activist reflecting the values of a Marxist president and is unqualified to sit on the Supreme Court. More than 60 percent of her decisions have been overturned and once she is seated on the high court, there is no further recourse for correcting her flawed judgment. Upon further examination of her judicial philosophy, the real question that emerges is whether she is even qualified to sit on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals where she is now! As for the need to have another minority to ‘balance’ the court, I always thought JUSTICE was the ultimate goal, not ethnic parity or empathy.

Especially where an unlimited term of service is involved, with the number of unanswered questions and inconsistencies surrounding Sotomayor, only a body of fools would fail to vote ‘no’ when put to the test. That being said, her confirmation will likely be approved by a wide majority of the Senate, including the usual ‘linguini-spined’ RHINOs who we must relegate to the swelling ranks of the unemployed in 2010.

Given the present government assault upon American liberty and a strong leftward tilt already in the courts, the wrong decision now can be a danger that lasts a lifetime.

R.S.F.

Tell Them No — NOW!

Published at June 25, 2009 in Legislation & Judiciary and The Economy. 0 Comments

Capitol At Night Tomorrow (Friday 6/26/09) the Cap and Trade, more accurately called the Cap and Tax bill, comes up for House vote. It represents both the largest tax increase and greatest incursion into our lives by government in American history. It must be stopped in its tracks. Passage of this measure will siphon thousands of dollars per year from your family’s pockets.

For example, according to American Solutions, the energy tax would:

Destroy an average of 1 to as many as 3 million jobs every year
Raise inflation-adjusted gasoline and heating oil prices by 74 percent
Raise residential natural gas prices by 55 percent
Raise an average family’s annual energy bill by $1,500 annually
Increase the federal debt by 26 percent, which is $29,150 per person

Several Republicans and ‘Blue Dog’ Democrats are on the fence and under tremendous political pressure to pass this travesty. They must be contacted immediately and told to vote “NO” if they expect to be re-elected next year. These key votes are:

Republicans:

Bartlett (MD)

Bono Mack (CA)

Castle (DE)

Dent (PA)

Ehlers (MI)

Frelinghuysen (NJ)

Gerlach (PA)

Inglis (SC)

Tim Johnson (IL)

Kirk (IL)

Lance (NJ)

LoBiondo (NJ)

Petri (WI)

Platts (PA)

Ros-Lehtinen (FL)

Democrats:

Altmire (PA)

Bright (AL)

Dahlkemper (PA)

Drieshaus (OH)

Ellsworth (IN)

Kissell (NC)

Kratovil (MD)

Kanjorski (PA)

Minnick(ID)

Teague (NM)

Be polite but be firm. Keep government out of our lives. Call 202-224-3121 now — and tell them “NO TO CAP AND TRADE!” My thanks to Mark Levin Show.com for this list of legislators.

R.S.F.

Gump Senate

Published at February 7, 2009 in Legislation & Judiciary and People Parade. 0 Comments

Forrest Gump said, “Stupid is as stupid does”. I don’t think I can improve upon that — except to add how desperately Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins need voting out of office. You expect Liberal slobbering from the pair of bimbos who misrepresent Maine because their ‘brains’ are perpetually numb from the cold. Besides, they’ve been bought by the Democrats before.

Specter, misrepresenting Pennsylvania, should know better. He has now, officially, outlasted any pretense of usefulness.

R.S.F.

$1.17 Trillion Pork Smorgasbord

Published at February 3, 2009 in Legislation & Judiciary and The Economy. 0 Comments

Just to show you the Liberal spin being applied to the un-stimulus package of pork heading for the Senate, I intercepted this tidbit from MoveOn.org to their Leftist backers:

This week, the Senate will vote on President Obama’s economic stimulus plan—with historic investments in green jobs, health care, and education to get our economy back on track. But right now, the stimulus doesn’t have the votes to pass. 1 Republicans and conservative Democrats are teaming up to strip out the good stuff—college loan assistance, health research, tax cuts for poor folks, and more—in favor of more tax cuts for corporations. 2 If they don’t get their way, they’ll block the plan.

Last week, not a single Republican in the House voted for Obama’s plan—they didn’t think voters would ever hold them accountable. That’s why we’re asking folks to pledge now to help run ads after the vote letting the public know where key senators—both Republican and Democrat—came down on the bill. We need to get started now, so politicians and the media know their constituents are paying attention.

First of all, the Democrats already have the necessary votes to pass their bill but, knowing the deceit and inevitable failure inherent in this measure, they want Republican fingerprints on it so they don’t have to shoulder all the blame themselves.

Secondly, it is because their constituents are paying attention and they will be held accountable that so many politicians are opposing this debacle. Only 37 percent of Americans now think the bill is a good idea, according to Rasmussen Reports, down even further from last week.

Lastly, none of the items being propagandized by the kook-fringe groups are in question. This bill will simply stimulate nothing that helps our immediate economic situation, which is supposed to be its intent. Proponents will most likely strip out a few items as bargaining chips but unless they kill the whole thing, it’s just a bad bill — and a major step toward converting America into a failed, Socialist nation. Let’s see what’s really in there that responsible legislators find objectionable:

$1 billion for Amtrak, which hasn’t earned a profit in four decades.
$2 billion to help subsidize child care.
$400 million for research into global warming.
$2.4 billion for projects to demonstrate how carbon greenhouse gas can be safely removed from the atmosphere.
$650 million for coupons to help consumers convert their TV sets from analog to digital, part of the digital TV conversion.
$600 million to buy a new fleet of cars for federal employees and government departments.
$75 million to fund programs to help people quit smoking.
$21 million to re-sod the National Mall, which suffered heavy use during the Inauguration.
$2.25 billion for national parks. This item has sparked calls for an investigation, because the chief lobbyist of the National Parks Association is the son of Rep. David R. Obey, D-Wisc.
$335 million for treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts. $4.19 billion to stave off foreclosures via the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, which means a substantial amount of it will be captured by ACORN, the controversial activist group currently under federal investigation for vote fraud. Another $750 million would be exclusively reserved for nonprofits such as ACORN – meaning cities and states are barred from receiving that money. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., charges the money appears to be a “payoff” for the partisan political activities of these community groups during the last election cycle.
$44 million to renovate the headquarters building of the Agriculture Department.
$32 billion for a “smart electricity grid to minimize waste.
$87 billion of Medicaid funds, to aid states.
$53.4 billion for science facilities, high speed Internet, and miscellaneous energy and environmental programs.
$13 billion to repair and weatherize public housing.
$20 billion for quicker depreciation and write-offs for equipment.
$10.3 billion for tax credits to help families defray the cost of college tuition.
$20 billion over five years for an expanded food stamp program.

Republican leaders say the un-stimulus package will add 32 new government programs at a cost of $136 billion. One objection is that many of the programs, once established, are likely to continue indefinitely.

The $1.17 trillion ‘porkasbord’ passed by House Democrats bears little resemblance even to the bill originally proposed by Obama himself, with less than 5 percent of the expenditures now going to repair America’s deteriorating infrastructure.

This is not to say there aren’t some worthwhile projects being addressed but an alleged stimulus bill is not the place to address them. As House Minority whip Eric Cantor, R-Va., told the media, “This was not a stimulus bill. It was a spending bill.” Let your senator know you don’t like pork!

R.S.F.

Pelosi’s Pork Roll

Published at January 28, 2009 in Legislation & Judiciary and The Economy. 0 Comments

So the unstimulus bill passed the House of Unrepresentatives tonight, marking the first step toward the biggest pig-feed in world history. I’m please to report that every Republican plus 12 Democrat patriots had their heads screwed on straight and stood strongly against the measure. Unfortunately, 242 Democrat turncoats voted in favor of government control rather than upholding the will of the American people.

The following cartoon by Mark Dean is offered in place of my next thousand words and, I believe, says it all. Click on the picture to see other insightful works of art by Mr. Dean.

Here’s hoping the Democrat Pork Project encounters unexpected sanity in the Senate, despite liberal subversives like John McCain.

R.S.F.

Friends Of Alkeida

Published at June 13, 2008 in Legislation & Judiciary and War On Terror. 0 Comments

Thank you Supreme Court Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter, Stephen Breyer and Anthony Kennedy for making the job of these young heroes even tougher and for setting the stage to cost even more of their lives than would otherwise be necessary.

You have demonstrated your incompetence by voting to confer the rights of American Citizens upon foreign enemies captured on the field of battle for the first time in the history of warfare. We salute your support of Muslim extremists and terrorist butchers everywhere.