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The quote, "What's a Mother to do?" - for those too young to remember - or, too senile - comes from an old Saint Joseph's Aspirin for Children commercial.
Cleared that up!
Things going on around the country these days really have me upset and I am having a difficult time relieving my fears for the future of my country. It permeates my daily life. It is here on this board, it is at my place of work, it is on the news ... it is everywhere.
My view is this, in short:
With the exception - possibly - of the military - and there is a clear provision for its existence as a Government responsibility in the Constitution - what can the Government really run that doesn't end up as an expensive, red-tape laden, mess? Why would anyone want any aspect of their lives placed in government hands? Why are so many so eager for hand-outs of any kind given to them from the government? Hand-outs lead to dependency; dependency leads to apathy; apathy leads to destruction. Witness the fate of the reservation Indian. What ever happened to self-reliance? Where is the pride in having fended for oneself? Soon, we will be one great reservation.
Patrick Henry once said, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death." In this health-care context, his words come to life again.
So, yes, I am against this health care proposal that no one fully understands, that is being rushed to passage - along with several other items of great importance that no one bothers to read - that, I believe, is doomed to failure and is another great leap moving us along toward the road of socialism.
But, that is not what has my gander up. That would be this: Why would any government be concerned with "casual conversation" among private citizens? Doesn't it give you cause to wonder?
CASUAL CONVERSATION????!!!!????
The White House web site has asked folks to turn in their fellow citizens over the benign circumstance of disagreeing with a social policy agenda. This scares me to death. It should you.
President Obama and his Democrat controlled Congress - and maybe even more his appointees - remind me of kids in a candy shop, suddenly realizing that their parents and the proprietor are gone and the place is theirs to do as they wish.
When I sent out my little I Turned Myself In e-mail earlier this week see: Time To Draw The Line!, I also sent it out to folks in my personal contact list - partly, I must admit, to see what my friends and family might think on the subject. Thankfully, most that I heard from agreed and some even turned themselves in. Side Note: A Face Book Poll of about 750,000 people [last I looked] shows 75% AGAINST Obama-care - comforting little tidbit. One person said they didn't have time for that sort of thing. To me, that is shocking, as the future of our country rests in the balance, but ... what's a Mother to do? Another person dismissed it as the Administration merely wanting to allow "people to be informed about what proposed legislation really says". Really? Since when does the administration - any administration - stoop to the snooping of private citizens over a little matter of policy? What policy ever proposed didn't have opposing viewpoints?
So, I guess what really has my loincloth in a wad, are things like this being touted by the darn White House web site and then being excused by the very folks who would have tarred and feathered George W. Bush if he had done this. Oh ... yes ... he did ... the Patriot Act ... almost slipped my mind. Bush, in an attempt to DEFEND OUR COUNTRY legally took some action against suspected TERRORISTS = Obama wanting to monitor - no, not wanting to - MONITORING AMERICAN CITIZENS CASUAL CONVERSATIONS AND E-MAILS regarding a domestic policy proposal. Not all that surprising though, for if I look at the Homeland Security's list of traits that make a private citizen a possible domestic terrorist, I fit about 90% of them --- Good thing I turned myself in. Maybe they'll go easy on me since I voluntarily put myself in their little database.
Then, there's the racial thing. Disagree with President Obama and you are immediately labeled a racist. Unless, of course, you are black, in which case you become an Uncle Tom-like Nigger. I work with some avid Obama supporters - Union-thing, I guess - One had the audacity to call me a racist right in front of customers the other day because I referred to the Nigerian scams running rampant in the form of phony postal money orders, spoof sites, etc. I guess she just couldn't wait to get the chance. Another, proudly wearing her Obama socks, told me I was against health care reform because I wanted to keep the poor in their place. I help support two households, one web site, and 10 children on ONE salary and I am some sort of elitist rich person. Might not it have to do with a belief in what made this country the best country in the world? Nah ... I just love making poor people poorer.
These are the types of things that happen if you open your mouth in this climate ... and, yes, I have a propensity for doing that. Those two incidents were just in the past week. You saw what happened when I endorsed McCain here; you see what has been happening at the Town Hall Meetings --- Nancy Pelosi, God Bless Her, the leader of one House of Congress, with her little warped swastika statement ... and then Obama, our President, basically saying shut up and get out of the way. So much for lofty oratory. So much for liberalism being the open and tolerant ideal they'll have you believe it is. I've never seen such an angry bunch.
Blame it on Bush! Why not? We blame it on Clinton! Rush is an asshole ... blah, blah, blah. Do I sense a lack of substance?
I am fed up with all of it. I just hope there are enough of us with enough backbone to stand in the way. This is not the time to be silent. We can swing this back toward being remotely similar to an America of the Constitution if we stand fast. If we do, the men of Lexington Green will be proud!
More to come when I need a release ...
What IS a Mother to do?
~~~~ Locking this for me only. If you want to comment, do so in the Lion's Den - (if you are looking to debate) - or In the News if you simply want to report stories, etc. ~~~~
---> Moved thread to "In the News" - 9/26/09
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Posted - August 08 2009 : 10:11:04 PM
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| I remember that quote...What's a Mother to Do. Fed up, too, Rich. |
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Posted - August 10 2009 : 08:50:27 AM
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Amen Sachem Rich, amen. A fact which is heartening, is that even though everyone may not agree to the same degree on most topics, a recent Gallup poll show that more Americans identify themselves closer to you, than to the president. This poll shows that 40% of adults think of themselves as conservative (in varying degrees, of course), and that 18% identify themselves as liberal (with 42% of that number claiming they have become 'more' liberal, read: marxist). I have included the link below, so that you may see for yourself:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/121403/special-report-ideologically-moving.aspx
...Keep the faith Sachem, the 'Men of Lexington Green' are locked & loaded, and ready for engagement, for the Republic will not be overthrown/undermined without a fight.
YMH&OS,
The Sarge
P.S.- A co-worker who was wearing Obama 'socks'? Did I read that right? Wow, people like that really do need to realize that the election and inaugeration are now past. Even I removed my 'Veterans For Bush' and 'Law Enforcement For Bush' 2004 campaign stickers from my car in January of 2005. Although I was almost tempted to leave on my 'Al-Qadia For Kerry' sticker...
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Posted - August 24 2009 : 07:26:30 AM
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| Brings it right on home doesn't it, Rich. |
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Posted - September 12 2009 : 09:09:10 AM
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More to come when I need a release ...
It is, I'm afraid, more than a simple release that I need ...
Here I am, perfectly contented with what the Founders created for me and you, and I have this circus of a Administration preaching fundamental and wholesale changes - "rebuilding" [I don't know, I always thought that something had to have collapsed, or be in danger of doing so, before it was rebuilt] - every which way I turn, fast and furious.
If I say that "I want my America back" I am told I am doing so only because of the color of the skin of my President. If Joe Wilson, SC Rep, says "You Lie!" to our President who was in the process of spinning an elaborate yarn, shall I say, he is accused of what? One guess ... that's it ... RACISM! Very good! So now Black publishers are going to boycott SC?? This is very sad. Can Democrat-leaning folks not see the injustice here? And what ever happened to some heart-felt passion in the Congress anyway? Dang, everyone laughed when George Bush had a darn shoe thrown at him. So, let's just go ahead and forge this intolerable "tolerance"-oriented mess. Let's just sit there and watch our Country metamorphosis into an unrecognizable blob.
DAMN IT!
We are the most prosperous, powerful, generous Nation ever known. Could be so still. Do we have fixing needed? Of course, but we damn sure don't need to be rebuilt!
OH. And by whom? A band of Pentagon-bombing, anti-American, Communist-leaning, 9/11-conspirator spewing GOONS? Look at who our President has surrounded himself with, not only in this Presidency, but throughout his life. One is judged by their associations - it can be very telling.
On top of that, we have low Air Force One fly-bys of NYC ... coast guard military-style exercises on the Potomac River on 9/11 ... shall we talk CONSPIRACY? Can this really possibly be coincidental?
If this were a comedy, I would be laughing very hard. Well written stuff. It's not, though, and I am deathly afraid. |
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Posted - September 17 2009 : 5:52:08 PM
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Who said this?
I have no quarrel with a president of any race. Obama is not black to me. He's not half black, half white. He's president of the United States, and as such, given his agenda, he poses a grave danger to the American [sic] I believe in. And that's all that matters to me. I couldn't care if he's a hermaphrodite. I don't care who he sleeps with. I don't care where he eats. I don't care what he eats. I don't care how he drives. I don't care about any of that. I don't care about his haircut. I don't care whether he's getting gray. I don't care about his tie. I don't care about any of this. I care about his intent to remake this country into a country unlike any of us have ever seen. I have serious concerns about today's media and their new standard, which is this: Any criticism of an African-American president's policies or statements or misstatements is racist, and that's it.
Therefore the question: Can this nation really have an African-American president? Or will the fact that we have an African-American president so paralyze politically correct people in the media that the natural scrutiny and process through which all of our presidents are put through and vetted do not occur because of the fear in the State-Controlled Media of themselves being called racist and the desire to be able to call everyone else racist. In other words, we have a blank slate. We have a president here who is not scrutinized, who is not examined. There is no attempt to be suspicious of power anymore. So is it possible that we really have an African-American president? Or does having an African-American president paralyze the process by which people with that kind of power in our representative republic are kept, quote, unquote, honest? I have a brief timeout here at which time ... This racism stuff has got everybody boiling mad because it's such a lie; it's such a cheap shot; it's so dishonest.
... Rush Limbaugh, September 16, 2009
God bless you, Rush ...
I am so sick of this. SICK! Jimmy Carter chimes in now [and I voted for that bastard]! Democrats! Normal everyday Democrats. WAKE THE F--K UP! This is not politics. This is destroying America.
Let me remind you, some of the greatest present-day conservatives in this country are black ... Walter E. Williams, Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell ... do you know the chairman of the RNC is a black man? This is so very convoluted.
And today is Constitution Day. We have a President who swore to uphold and defend the Constitution, yet, he says it is "fundamentally flawed" and has a "blind spot," whatever that means. How can you defend and uphold something you don't even really believe in?
This is not about race -- it is about the Constitution ... it is about the American way of life surviving. Are you first white or black? Democrat or Republican? Or are you first American?
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Posted - September 18 2009 : 07:21:24 AM
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I think playing the race card is lazy. It's so much easier to do that than to debate policy.
Somebody give Jimmy Carter a hammer and nail...quick! |
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Posted - September 18 2009 : 09:48:49 AM
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It is much more than lazy. It is utterly disingenuous and clearly a smoke screen for lack of any more substantive argument. It also goes to that liberal sense of good intentions. "We [whites] have been so bad to blacks. We owe them." And thus, they feel good - about themselves - while digging a hole for the country.
I just wonder how many black congressmen disagreed with President Bush when he was in office. That, of course, was ok. |
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Posted - September 18 2009 : 7:04:25 PM
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Sachem, these cries of "Racisim" are nothing more than a last refuge for those on Left who have no way to counter our arguments with facts. I hear that crap all the time, and I found that the best way is to ignore them, and stay on topic with your argument. However, it does occasionally become necessary to blast their charges right in the 10 X-ring.
A guy I arrested last year said to me, "You don't know what it is like to be a black man", to which I answered, "Of course I don't, I'm white, but what does that have to do with anything credible."
He then said, "You know, dealing with being oppressed..."
"Oppressed?!" I answered, "You are younger than me, and therefore could have never been a slave, or the son of a slave. You have never lived in a 'Jim Crow' type of segregated society, and you have enjoyed the fruits from the labors of those who came before you. You have inherited a mantle which includes the Civil Rights Act and Affirmative Action, through no work or suffering of your own. Yet with the road being smoothed for you, by your elders, you choose to make a living by taking things that do not belong to you. In other words, you have been arrested not because you are a black man, but but because you are a criminal who was caught in the act of commiting a crime."
YMH&OS,
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Posted - September 19 2009 : 4:31:58 PM
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P.S.- On the subject of Former President Carter, in regards to his baseless accusations, I do have one question. How much importance should we assign to the thoughts and words of a man who couldn't get re-elected, and whose latest book recieved the accolades of Osama bin Laden?
Not much importance at all, I believe... Go back to building houses Jimmy, and leave the heavy thinking to the adults.
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Posted - September 27 2009 : 10:17:12 AM
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"We have been waiting for health reform since the days of Teddy Roosevelt. We've been waiting since the days of Harry Truman. We've been waiting since Johnson and Nixon and Clinton."
"We cannot wait any longer." ... President Obama
Why? What great national calamity is awaiting to befall upon us if this is not passed now???? Again, why must GOVERNMENT intervene on this anyway??? OK, I've asked that before. Then, he went on to his little mustache remark ... referring to Hitler.
You know, this Country is full of hypocrisy. Both sides are guilty of that. There is no doubt. But, clearly the Left reigns supreme in that category.
Think of what GW Bush has, and still is, been called. Hitler, liar, butcher, genocidal maniac, mass murderer. In fact, if you believe the 9/11 conspirator theorists -- thank you, Michael Moore -- he IS a mass murderer. He is the butt of jokes insulting his intelligence [who went to the wrong podium yesterday, BTW??? I would like to hear the jokes on that one], there are calls to put him behind bars; films and books on a assassination of him ... it is despicable. But, we can't criticize Obama. No, not without Jimmy Carter coming out and saying we are all racists. Obama ought to star in a remake of The Untouchables. Pelosi cries, kids are taught, blindly, to sing praises, the White House staff is filled with anti-American leftist-thinking government control freaks. We are facing daunting times.
But, what really gets me is that so many of us are OK with it all. READ THE DAMN CONSTITUTION & Declaration [sorry for the outburst  ] It was once the "military industrial complex" that was the supposed villain. Now, we have the "media Hollywood complex". It has the power to choose what is important and what is not; what gets poked fun of and what does not. It infiltrates us in the most innocuous ways and brainwashes ever so subtly ... and sometimes, not so.
Case in point: Have any of you ever watched Dexter? A pretty good show, actually, despite its story line of a police blood spatter expert who is actually a serial killer!!  Was watching an episode, and ole Dexter is monologuing about Halloween and how it helps him disguise the fact that he is a monster ... or, something like that. On screen, during this voice-over, is a Halloween party or shop, or something with lots of costumes and masks. At the exact moment that Dexter utters the word "monster," guess what is on-screen? A George W. Bush mask!! I don't think that was an accident. But, that's OK ... Just don't criticize Obama ...
... the UNTOUCHABLE ONE!
Now, let's get this monstrosity of a bill passed right away so we can all feel good about helping out our God-like, infallible and wise, President! We cannot wait any longer ... |
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Posted - October 12 2009 : 4:39:56 PM
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"What I think is fair to say about Fox -- and certainly it's the way we view it -- is that it really is more a wing of the Republican Party," said Anita Dunn, White House communications director, on CNN. "They take their talking points, put them on the air; take their opposition research, put them on the air. And that's fine. But let's not pretend they're a news network the way CNN is."
And the rest of the media is a wing of the Democrat Party, I guess?!? Funny, though, the Dems are the majority, yet FOX blows the other networks away, time & again, in the ratings war!! Oh, and CNN did a fact check on a comedy skit done on SNL. That's a REAL news station???? |
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Posted - October 29 2009 : 07:17:11 AM
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
... James Madison [known as the Father of the Constitution]
Talk about foresight!
My question: If these men and women who now compose our houses of Congress are the lawmakers ... then who the heck is actually writng these health care [and other] bills? No one seems to be able to lucidly explain anything about any of them. All we get are talking points. One would think that you can explain something that you actually wrote. |
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