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The Rush Limbaugh Phenomenon
Deborah Venable
05/27/13
I probably would not
be writing this article if not for a short exchange I recently had with an
acquaintance. I was doing what I always
do at that time of day on a weekday – listening to Rush on my earphones from my
computer. She interrupted me by
speaking to me a couple of times, even though she wasn’t in the house to see me
but rather to attend to my disabled friend.
This acquaintance is merely the home health care nurse. After the second or third interruption, she
asked me if I was listening to music or something else that had my attention so
completely. I answered that I was
listening to Rush Limbaugh.
As most pseudo
intellectuals will tend to do these days, upon the mention of his name, she immediately
laughed and proceeded to say something to the effect that he could tell a good
joke every now and then, but she was by no means a fan. He is just too much of a know it all and has
no credibility. She cited his
“addiction problems with Oxycodone” as evidence. She said he really had to change his tune on THAT one.
I didn’t bother to
reply and merely readjusted my headphones before I missed anything else the
“know it all” had to say.
This nurse is a very
nice lady. She comes in and takes care
of my friend’s medical needs when she is supposed to, and leaves when she is
done, so I have nothing against her. I
have no idea what her political leanings are and have no desire to get into a
long discussion with her on any subject.
She is friendly, does her job, and leaves.
It was only after
this incident that I began to think about all the other folks I have heard and
seen comment on Rush – both positively and negatively. Snap judgments are more often based on what
someone else says about a person than on what that person says or does. That is just the way it is in today’s
America. Realistic and correct judgment
requires knowing the person. In Rush’s
case, I feel I do know him even though we have never met.
For instance, does
the aforementioned nurse or anyone who comments on Rush’s “addiction problems
with Oxycodone” know how that all came about and how he handled it? I can understand a medical professional’s
interest in this aspect of his life, but most of what was said about his
addiction was negative and conferred the label of hypocrite on Rush for his
previous statements about how he felt about drug addiction. That is the price of fame and success. His addiction came about from years of
dealing with pain while remaining in the limelight. After a botched surgery to fix the pain problems, they only got
worse – thus he was hooked on pain relievers.
That isn’t exactly the same as taking the drugs for the high.
I will interject
here that I have always agreed with Rush’s original damnation of drug
addiction. One needs only to read much
of what I have written on the subject to get that. I never condone it, and I don’t condone Rush’s addiction. It has been speculated by others that it may
have even caused his sudden loss of hearing.
If that’s the case, I do think he has paid his price to society,
eh? He publicly proclaimed his
addiction and did what he had to do to overcome it. So that is ancient history, and I doubt that his “tune” has
changed a bit on drug addiction.
As to the character
of the man, Rush is a conservative first and foremost – not a political
hack. What comes out of his mouth are
his true values, and this becomes evident the longer you listen to what he
says. His personal relationship
failures always make a great target for his detractors, but it never seems to
shake his core beliefs. Obviously he
thought long and hard before taking the plunge with Katherine, so I wish them
only the best for a long and successful marriage. Judgment of his public character must be based on his successes
as well as his failures, but it seldom is.
He is attacked as being a “hypocrite” for singing the praises of
committed, traditional marriage even as he privately suffers the effects of
multiple marriage failures. Where is
the hypocrisy? One would have to know
all the facts in the failures to make that assumption, and he doesn’t air his
dirty laundry.
The truth is that if
there had never been a Rush Limbaugh, there probably would have never been as
great an awakening to the massacre of family values, conservative principles,
and dangerous political philosophies that have brought this country to the
brink of ruin. The frog was already in
the pot when Rush came along, but he has been prodding it to jump out and
trying to cool the pot ever since.
While doing all this, he managed to open the door for others to follow
and cheerfully led the way.
Rush never pretends
to be something he is not even though those who seem to hate him are appalled
at some of his seemingly conceited claims (America’s Real Anchorman, Leader of
the Republican Party, etc.) the REAL Rush is actually the Harmless, Loveable
Fuzzball. The real Rush is also, more
often than not, right.
Educating the Left
From the Right
Deborah Venable
03/11/12
This one may be up here on the front page for
quite a while folks. Let’s start it out
like this: education informs while indoctrination ignores – therefore, those
receiving an education are more informed and those receiving indoctrination are
more ignorant. Once upon a time in
America we could count on a large percentage of the press and media, and even
entertainment personalities, to inform toward an outcome of education. Sadly, this just isn’t true any more. Now, a much larger percentage of the visible
and vocal press and media are far more concerned with progressing toward an
outcome of indoctrination.
Indoctrination ignores common sense, morality,
fact, and reason. It ignores history,
culture, successful policy, and truth.
Education must employ all these in order to reach the desired outcome of
information, while indoctrination, by ignoring them all, promotes
ignorance.
Okay, I think that sets it all up pretty well
for what follows. Over the past couple
of months, the press, media, and certain entertainment personalities have
directed the American public to believe that the right to free sex, (both free
from moral responsibility and financial cost) was written into the
Constitution, and that pregnancy is the number one detriment to women’s health. Do I need to elaborate further on this
point, or does anyone have any facts to claim otherwise? Silence?
Okay, good.
The indoctrinated are on a mission to convince
women and their male counterparts in the sport of sex for recreation that only
the liberal left cares about women and that awful cross they bear of having to
bear children. Christian right
conservatives are intent on endangering women at every turn with every child
they can possibly stuff into each female womb in the country! So, in their narrative, it only stands to
reason that Christians have no right to their own consciences, or their own
indignation at having to pay for anything it takes to keep women from getting
pregnant or carrying babies to term.
The left has determined that the practice of procreation from a loving,
pre-determined family decision is irrational in the face of all that free
recreational sex to be had on demand with no responsible thought processes
involved.
Still following me?
In reality, conservatives do not care to be involved in individual choices involving recreational sex beyond imploring the general public to make a little room in the indoctrination procedures to include education on moral conscience. That requires that those with a firm grasp on conservative beliefs inform the general public that the path one takes to pursue the “women as baby factory victims” point of view may cause some of us to see them in, shall we say, an unflattering light. So when a woman chooses to deliberately put herself into the limelight of public scrutiny by “testifying” to the “hardship” of affording her birth control, because the mean old college stuffed shirts refused to help her pay for it, and a well known conservative proceeds to “inform” his listening audience that such a stand could well be equated and thus named for what this once was considered common terminology for such a person, the indoctrinated ignorant go off on him! This represents their definition of moral conscience? Really? Hmmmm.
(Please tell me that my readers are well enough
informed that they do not need reference links for the situation described
above.)
History teaches us, if we’ll let it, that his
terminology for a woman who wishes to partake in free recreational sex was
extremely accurate – even if she had not been so blatant about it and if she
had chosen to conceal her motives. The
truth is that she and her defenders, (including the president) want nothing
more than to rewrite history, language, morality, and substitute their own
moral code to cover their progressive stance.
To do that, they must discredit and silence anyone opposing them.
Moving on to the bigger picture, as a woman, I
am appalled and insulted by the attempt to make pregnancy an illness that must
be prevented or terminated, instead of the high honor that it once was
considered back when the family was the building block of society. Women are supposed to be the defenders of
virtue, not the leaders of the sexual perversion movement that they have
become. They are supposed to be the
ones that “just say no” to recreational sex.
They are supposed to encourage the men around them to seek a higher
plane of existence than that which invites them to pick the spoiled fruit that
has fallen from the tree instead of reaching for the unblemished sweetness of
that in the higher boughs. Why have
these ideas become outdated?
There seems to be no respect between the
genders any more. Is it any wonder why
gender roles have been reversed, convoluted, and ill defined? Indoctrination has succeeded at a
breathtaking speed over the course of just the last few decades, therefore,
there is more ignorance in America today than any time since I have been
alive! That is breathtaking, folks! Education is supposed to shore up the human
emotion of shame, but we see that indoctrination has all but removed any cause
for shame!
I believe it started in the so-called (and now
ill-named) education system in an attempt to indoctrinate future generations
away from religious morality and toward an “enlightened” humanism. The social engineers of this devious plan
didn’t count on the absolute resiliency of the American spirit and the creation
of such fabulous research tools provided by the Internet. Total ruin may have already been a done deal
if not for those two things. I don’t
say this lightly because there would have still been plenty of folks well
versed in the old research methods of libraries to give it a good fight, but
remember – ignorance is in great quantity after so many years of indoctrination
abuse – reading for a lot of folks is a lost art. But with “fingertip research” tools available, even those who may
have been too lazy otherwise have been joining the ranks of the informed
self-educated in spite of their previous indoctrination to ignorance.
Then, there’s the American spirit. Indoctrination can never overcome that if is
ever present to begin with.
Spirit. Get it? That’s an individual thing that was woven
into the fabric of our original heritage because our founders were spiritual
people. Indoctrination can’t destroy
this. All it can do is show its own
ignorance in the face of those well informed who will fearlessly defend their
American spirit of freedom and consciences of morality.
To sum it all up, there is not a “war on women” going on in America today that is promoted by the conservative right, no matter how many on the indoctrinated left would proclaim the absurdity. The real war is against ignorance.
Revisiting the
Ministry Of Plenty
Deborah Venable
10/08/11
“Rightside politics” is swirling around these
days like the water in a flushing toilet that is stopped up. None of the poop will go down until the clog
is removed, but a lot of it will float around on top stinking up the place
anyway. Adding another flush of
rightside politics may only succeed in spilling the whole mess over the side
onto the floor!
Okay, too graphic? For the front page of an educational website – I don’t think so!
Where’s a Roto-Rooter™ man when you need one,
huh?
I have to laugh out loud when I read and listen
to some of the pundits discuss rightside politics as it applies to next year’s
election. While I love some of them to
death, and agree with much of what they have to say, most of them are just
filling up space at this point – and some of them haven’t a clue!
Number one:
While everyone has their eyes on that distant target that is over a year
away, too many are ignoring the foreground and refusing to look behind them to
see if history is sneaking up to kick ‘em in the butt before they can pull off
an accurate shot. The foreground is
busy. There’s a lot going on there that
may need to be addressed long before the target can be accurately assessed.
Number two:
Identifying the foreground is easy – that is simply the present
government that rightside politics knows needs a big overhaul. That is why the target is important – we may
only get one shot at this and it better be accurate.
Number three:
History is a great teacher if you let it be. All the rewriting in the world won’t change the facts of what has
happened in the past, and you can still find the truth if you look for it.
The bigger the government, the more scandalous
it is going to be – that’s just the honest truth. If you don’t know that by now, I can’t help you. So, rightside politics tries to point this
fact out by suggesting a smaller government.
The in-your-face foreground of present (big) government only wants more
and bigger government and will do anything in its power and its scandalous
heart to achieve it. It has clogged the
toilet and the flushes aren’t doing any good.
Now the whole place is stinking to the high heavens. The cleanup crew will have their hands full
for years to come, but the first step is to remove the clog!
Can you name the clog yet?
Now may be a good time for a little
reading. Right after the last election
I wrote The
Ministry Of Plenty, so please take time for it now.
Okay, good, you looked behind you for a little
history. See, that isn’t so hard. Forget about the target for a minute now and
look at the foreground (clog) of socialism, communism, Marxism, progressivism,
liberalism – call it whatever you want, it all leads to the same thing. Who is out there with the best plan to clean
up that foreground? I don’t know
either. It is much too early and too
much can happen to get in the way and blur the target again. One thing is for sure though, when the clog
is finally gone, the flushes will have to be clean and the cleanup of the mess
will take awhile.
Any member of the press, media, or punditry
that tries to act like The
Ministry Of Truth is not your friend. Uh Oh, I just slipped in another follow up history lesson.
I realize much of what I have to say isn’t very
popular, but I can assure you that I am considered what is called in some
circles a very good shot, and I also know how to clean a toilet. I’m sure that I’m not the only one.
Why We Still Fight
Deborah Venable
07/04/11
As I look around and
see the cesspool that the world is becoming, at my age, it would be easy to
say, “at least I won’t have to see how it ends.” Being from another era does that I guess. I suppose there were folks around during the
time I was a child and coming of age that probably said the same thing.
An awful lot of them
must have!
I heard an
interesting stat the other day about the aging population of America –
something about the fact that we are about to outnumber the youth for the first
time in history. Wow! Surely no one is surprised are they? Back in the day, the most important building
block of any society was revered, protected, encouraged, and valued. The family was recognized as the most
important component in successful civilization of human beings. But for the last few decades it has been
maligned, degraded, attacked, and rendered useless by far too many progressive
minds. Man! So that’s what progress is all about, huh?
Okay, y’all have fun
in that new utopia you are building! At
least I won’t have to be around to see much more of it!
But I won’t go out
without a fight. I have five children
and two grandchildren so far, not to mention many other young folks I consider
adopted children, and they DO have to be around to see it! Just because the majority of my generation
and even the previous one screwed things up so badly that the world is a
cesspool and this country doesn’t even know its heritage any more, that doesn’t
mean it cannot be set right again.
The world I grew up
in, bad as it was, did not compare to the overwhelming evil I see now. That is just a fact. At least, the world I was privileged to be a
part of. But a lot of the precursor to
today had already started before I was born.
It just wasn’t in the majority as it is now.
Where so much evil
is present, God has been lost or forgotten – or worse still, sent away! Before you start thinking I am some sort of
raving, radical theocrat, let me reiterate a fact. I have never been, nor am I now a member of organized
religion. Haven’t been to church,
except for funerals or weddings, since I was quite young. Never been to a revival, nor do I watch the
evangelical TV channels. My children
were never christened, baptized or “saved” unless they made the individual
choice to do so. I have been told I am
“going to Hell” by “holier than thou” types all my life. In other words, I cannot be pigeonholed by
anyone, religious or not, as to where I fit in religious or non-religious
society – but I can recognize good from evil.
God has shown
Himself to me in many ways through both answered and unanswered prayers. I have daily communications with Him, mostly
to thank Him for all my blessings. I
don’t have to wonder what is right or what is wrong because I have the
God-given wisdom to know the difference.
I bridle at the idea of “fearing” God, because love and fear do not go
well together. How can we truly love
something we fear?
I fear hate. The kind of hate that makes people treat
others badly, or wish to see others suffer – that’s what I really fear. The assumed power that some humans will try
to wield over others – that is what I hate and fear. Evil is the enemy that makes people do these things, and it must
be fought. Those who think they have
power because they have money or position would wither in the presence of the
God I love. They should fear Him.
I have nothing
against people with whom I disagree philosophically, religiously, or
politically – as long as they are content to just disagree and debate their
points of view honestly. Dishonesty is
something I abhor though. Lying and
cheating to get a point across, forcing adherence to behaviors and actions that
are illogical, demanding power for a group over individual rights, and denying
existing facts through ridicule of simple logic and history may be laid at the
doorstep of either ignorance or evil.
Ignorance may be temporarily excused if learning is attempted, but evil
excludes the ability to learn. It is
dishonest to deny the existence of evil, for good would not exist without it.
So we must continue
to fight against evil. In most
prominent dictionary definitions of the word, the main descriptor is
“immoral.” In today’s world of moral
relativity, that one can be hard to define, but in the deepest reaches of the
human soul, true morality is either present or it isn’t.
Here are couple of
blasts from the past.
Teaching To a Collectivist Mindset
Deborah Venable
April 11, 2011
About five years ago
I wrote The Brainwashing Of a Doomed
Society,
which was a kind of “shotgun” piece that included a lot of the hoopla that was
going on at the time concerning Donald Rumsfeld. All that aside, it turned out to be one of the most popular
articles I had written exclusively for this site. As I reread it to consider it for posting here on the Right Side,
I realized that the truth contained therein was very valuable and quite
applicable to today. I would hope you
would take the time to revisit it by clicking on the link.
As I have said
before, an editor told me some time ago that I am guilty of “shotgun” writing,
(which he didn’t especially like) because of a lack of focus. Well, so-be-it. Focus is pretty difficult in today’s environment if you ask
me.
I write when I am
inspired to write – which is just about every day. Much of what I write never sees publication, but as I look back
on what has actually been published over just the last decade I am constantly
taking stock. Inspiration is the
writer’s life’s blood after all.
Writing for me was put on hold for most of my life, even though I knew
very early that’s where I really wanted to excel. Now, it has become almost too easy to excel in a craft that I
have admired all my life.
When I went to
school, children were taught to write at an early grade school level. By that, I mean that by grade 3, I was
expected to research and write “papers” in fountain pen script. No mistakes allowed, by the way. (That meant that my parents almost went
broke keeping me in paper and ink.) By
the time I got to junior high school, (as it was called then) I received my
first typewriter. Most of the
assignments were still accepted as either pen and ink or typewritten. Sloppy typewritten didn’t count because
whiteout was still messy. I remember
how excited I was when they came up with the correction tape for
typewriters. Now that was real
innovation! No more messy errors!
I didn’t start
college until many years later, after I was a wife and mother for over a
decade, but the typewriter was still the tool of the trade. By the time I dropped out of college a
couple of years later, to have my third child, the personal computer in my home
was still several years away. (To say
that I still have files of typewritten pages in old-fashioned file drawers is
an understatement.)
With the revolutionary advance of word processing, writing was no longer a chore in any sense. No excuse exists for not writing, with the same being true for reading and research. What hasn’t kept pace is literacy – especially in America. I hate to keep beating a dead horse, but the only reason for that, that makes any sense whatsoever, is the decline of quality in education. More and more folks are graduating with college degrees these days, who couldn’t have made it out of junior high school a few decades ago! All the while, the expense of getting that degree has surpassed that of just about anything else you can think of.
I know this reason
is a hard sell for much of the public because they are, after all, products of
this diminished and inadequate educational system. The recent proclamation by our president that there is too
much testing
going on out there (making education too boring) is an example of diminished
ability to think clearly. You’ll have
to read the article to get my full drift here, because some things he had to
say actually do have merit. (Hey, we’re
fair and balanced around here too.) The
problem of more and more teachers choosing to “teach to the test” instead of
truly educating is very real, but the test is still the only true measurement
of what a student knows. Standardized
tests are only useful in comparing education across the many zones, and are
probably the least accurate and valuable in the whole teaching process. What Mr. Obama either doesn’t realize or
wishes to bury is that standardized tests are only necessary because of a
national and/or statewide educational system.
If education were handled on strictly a local level, tests would reveal
the value deemed important by each locality.
Period.
Teachers and their
unions have been in the news a lot lately.
It is no secret that the president has always supported unions, and it
is really no secret that he also leans way left toward collectivism in all
things governmental and political.
Individualism is the natural enemy of collectivism and vice versa. Until this country realizes that the best
educated society is that which educates from an individualist philosophy our
educational system will remain broken, inadequate and dangerous. Yes, I said dangerous. Collectivism fogs the brain and destroys
innovation, liberty and human achievement.
Teachers who insist on wrapping their careers in collectivist theory are
not teachers – they are indoctrinators – brainwashers if you will.
Most people who have
been brainwashed or indoctrinated do not even recognize the effects, but they
are there none-the-less.
Rationalization is a tool of the trade of dealing with an unreal
worldview. A teacher may say, “I know
I’m a good teacher, I care about my students, I do a very necessary job for too
little pay, so I deserve any rewards I can reap. I may not like the confines of my professional duties, but what
can I do? If I don’t fall in line, I
simply will not have a job!” It is very
hard for such teachers to recognize the individual value of each student
because they are being scored on the overall result of a collectivist outcome –
to create a mindset within the group.
The truth is that learning
is much harder than teaching. It really
is. Collectivists would have us believe
exactly the opposite. While the
mechanics of teaching can be boring, the record keeping brutally mundane, and
the rewards, at times, very disappointing, the inspiration to teach, and teach
well, is as rewarding as anything else in life. When the spark happens and something clicks within the individual
student who is truly learning, there is nothing like it in the world. And the good teacher knows that.
It occurs to me that sometimes you can’t say it
any better than you’ve already said it, so for this “Right Side” update I
decided to post here some of the most popular articles I have ever
written. (Some folks just don’t like to
click a link.)
Significant Emotional Event
Deborah Venable
Originally Published - 02/14/03
Focus in America is
so scattered that saving the ideal of America is becoming almost
impossible. Too many seem unconcerned
with saving America, the ideal, the culture, the dream of freedom and opportunity. We have real problems just trying to save
our history from those that would pollute it with inaccuracy, tell it with
shame, and condemn it to irrelevance.
We can’t even seem to define our philosophies in terms that can be
readily understood and adhered to. The
problem is a lack of focus complicated by an unbelievable lack of commitment to
do whatever it takes to restore America’s original greatness. The problem is typical American behavior.
The masses have been
deliberately mis-educated, to put it nicely, and brainwashed, to tell the truth
about it. Many have awakened or are
awakening to this fact and to much of the truth from the results of it, but
focus is still hard to manage when it comes to verbalizing a game plan for how
to fix this damage. I believe that we
now have a very willing audience to learn the truth about America’s problems
and for any number of proposals for action to fix them, but I have yet to hear
anyone in the arena of political or religious ideas articulate the full extent
of the damage we have sustained or the tangible reality of what it will take to
repair it. Many have gotten quite
close, but to my knowledge at least, none have pegged it dead on.
There has never been
an action by our government representatives that has garnered such immediate
negative attention from those with their eyes open as the so called Patriot Act
passed by Congress and signed by the president last year. No wonder!
For all intent and purpose, this thing was the hand that finally ripped
the last remaining shreds of the Constitution from its page in our history
book! I challenge ANYONE who put his
or her vote and name on the passage of this legislation to look me in the eye
and tell me he or she read it and understood it! If that were true, the lot of them should be impeached! These people all swear an oath to uphold and
defend the Constitution. This misnamed
Patriot Act does everything but that!
Now, since that campaign to destroy America was so successful, they are
proposing still a second part – a Patriot Act II, if you will. Anyone doubting whether or not that will
pass eventually is dreaming!
There have been many
landmarks of our destruction in the past that have done much more harm perhaps,
but passage of the Patriot Act is the first time in my memory when you had
people from all over the political map so condemning of a single act. Their reasons for opposing it were just as
scattered. Some would have been
perfectly happy if Clinton or any other Democrat had been in the executive
office when this abortion of Constitutional law was signed, but since the
Republicans were “in charge” that was enough to label it an “illegal
abortion.” Anyway you look at it,
folks, it was still an abortion! If you
happen to be one who is cringing at my choice of words to describe it –
good! Think about it for a while.
Those of us in the
conservative and constitutionalist camps were immediately alerted to this
abortion of the Constitution for obvious reasons. Ironically, many stood by and let the liberal “defenders of civil
liberties” make the most noise in opposing this questionable law, while still
others began to resort to elaborate conspiracy theories that the left hadn’t
even formulated about the Republican controlled administration and Congress
trying to install a dictatorship within the government. Everyone, to a person, ignored the
obvious. This is America and we DO
still have a Constitution. Within that
unique document we have the means to replace the government on a regular basis,
impeach every last treasonous soul who attempts to infringe on our God given
rights – anytime – and fix every single flaw in the process of law and
government that has been imposed on the American people since the country was
founded. If the Constitution has truly
been aborted, each and every one of us was an attending abortionist.
One argument I have
had with those who share many of my conservative views is that of whether or
not to vote for the “lesser of the evils.”
Many, who have become disillusioned with the Republican Party
especially, claim that a vote for the lesser of the evil is still a vote for
evil. That is very common rhetoric for
the defeatist attitude that seems to prevail in today’s constitutionalist and
conservative community. Very prominent
people are leading the call to stay home from the polls and just not vote. Yep, Buddy!
That’ll show ‘em, won’t it? This
truly makes no logical sense to me.
That is precisely what our opponents count on and they don’t care how
high and mighty or noble your reason is for refusing to vote. Add to that the majority of the qualified
voters who can’t be bothered to vote and wouldn’t know the first thing about
making an intelligent choice anyway, and you have the government being chosen
by a minority of the people, many of whom who could care less if the
Constitution is on the chopping block or not!
But go ahead and stay home and wring your hands about freedom in this
country being lost.
It is somewhat
remarkable that instead of taking advantage of an opportunity to focus
attention on the importance of certain government infringements and garner
support from various ideologies to fight corrupt government on a purely
Constitutional basis, many self proclaimed constitutionalists have resorted to
attacking individual personalities and assigning those personalities to a party
view or traditional philosophical view.
Remarkable and destructive.
The Republican Party
is almost as hated by many conservatives and constitutionalists as by the
liberal Democrats. Granted, the actions
of far too many representatives with an R behind their names indicates that
THEY do not support their own party’s platform or that they are working to change
that platform. Indeed the leaders of the
party no longer act with the high-minded integrity of Republican
philosophy. These are individuals who
have taken over the party just as surely as ignorance has taken over the minds
of the masses. Know this: everything
you see and hear about erroneous philosophies governing America is a giant ruse
to veil the real facts – facts that simply indicate a deliberate attempt to
sabotage the separation of philosophical views that have always set the
political stage in our country.
One is the belief in
limited central powers in servitude to the people – always! The other is the belief that government
exists to protect and provide for the public good – at all costs! Now these are pretty simple
philosophies. Democrats come down on
the side of the latter view and Republicans on the former. Any melding of these ideas is mutually
exclusive and renders the philosophies weak at best and laughable in most
cases. In a few instances we have seen
representatives elected to office via membership in these offshoot parties, but
generally this only occurs because of the strength of support for the
individuals involved – not for support of their party platforms. Most voters still fall into the two main
categories of philosophical beliefs outlined above – Democrat or Republican.
The Republicans have
no doubt veered off course. Democrats,
on the other hand have remained close enough to their philosophical base
beliefs to be a much more credible force as a party. Granted, you still have the conservative, moderate and liberal
fine points within the party, but they are not as divergent from their platform
as those liberal and moderate Republicans tend to be from theirs. That is why the Republicans have lost, not
only credibility, but also key support from many Americans who could make a
real difference in the salvation of America from the tentacles of tyranny. The very folks who should be able to make a
real difference have thus lost focus.
In discussing with
conservatives and constitutionalists the major problems in America that require
immediate attention, two things will come up every time – two things that have
a direct impact on the monster oppressive government animal that is consuming
American ideals and freedoms. That
animal has a voracious appetite for money and financial control of each and
every American citizen. Therefore, the
informed American knows that those two problems have to do with the FED and the
IRS. These are the feeders of the
animal and the hands on the throat of America.
Kill one and the other won’t be far behind.
We must choose the
weaker of the two entities to attack and defeat first – the one that offers us
the most obvious vulnerable target for complete destruction. In my opinion, the IRS wins that one hands
down. The whole concept of income
taxing is flawed and evil in its intent.
Absolutely NO good comes from it and it is the cancer that has been
eating away at every vital part of America since its beginning. Many good and loyal American patriots have
been brutalized, persecuted, prosecuted, imprisoned and even murdered by the
aforementioned animal in the protective clothing of IRS enforcement. Many others have “checked out” and chosen to
live “underground” to avoid feeding the animal via the IRS. Still others have taken a more direct
approach and have tried to carry on a legal battle against this obviously
lawless entity. Their valiant efforts
are practically doomed from the start, but they continue to gain attention,
(positive and negative), as time goes on.
Here is the problem in a nutshell, though. These groups are ALL vastly outnumbered by the majority of
Americans who continue to empower the IRS, and thus the beast, by allowing the
continued intrusion, confiscation, intimidation, and regular scrutiny for
compliance with this infringement on everything America stands for. We are a nation of individual and collective
wimps – pure and simple. We allow our
so-called representatives to argue in the hallowed halls of congress and the
grandly decorated rooms of the highest offices in our government over such
ridiculous terminology as “tax cuts” and “legal deductions” when they have no
right to determine any of it! They DO
NOT have a right to determine government compensation BEFORE the individuals
that are the source of that compensation even realize their own FULL
compensation for their individual efforts!
Government withholding of taxes is immoral, unconstitutional, (yes, I
mean the amendment itself), and destructive to the fabric of America. Invasion of our privacy is an unavoidable by
product of the IRS and tax system. That
point alone makes it unconstitutional, folks!
It is NOBODY’S business what my individual yearly compensation is for my
legally pursued efforts. Period.
Stay focused, here,
folks. Think for a moment of this
scenario. A new neighbor moves into the
house or apartment next door to you. He
comes over and knocks on your door and starts asking you questions:
What is your full name?
What is your SS number?
What is your spouse’s full name?
What is his/her SS number?
How many children do you have?
What are their SS numbers? (Required even of BABIES!)
Who do you and your spouse work for?
How much money did you make last
year?
Got any money invested in bank
accounts?
How about stock?
How much?
How much did you spend on health
care?
How much money did you spend on
clothes for your job?
Now – PROVE IT ALL!
Know his – I think you will lie to
me, so I can arrest you if you do.
Do you get the
picture yet? It gets much worse if you
try to take advantage of the so-called loopholes” in the tax code so that you
might avoid paying as much tax as you would without them. But, you might say, this is no strange new
neighbor – it is your beloved government and you owe “your fare share” after
all. You want them to protect you in
every way imaginable, and you want them to provide charity to the
underprivileged so you won’t have to think about personal charity. It all costs money and you know that. So you WILLINGLY allow agents in the private
and government sectors of society to trample all over your individual rights to
privacy each and every year via the bazaar ritual of reporting to the IRS. This is called, “filing” by the way. Stay focused here and think of every
possible meaning of the word, “filing” if you would. Brings a whole new meaning to the effects of the ritual if you
really think about it.
Here’s the point to
all this, sports fans. You might think
that the government has every right to require income tax filing of YOU. You might think that the tax code is fair
for YOU. You might not mind if any
number of folks knows everything there is to know about YOUR private life via
these tax forms. You might not have enough
sense to know that the whole process violates YOUR constitutional rights. The only thing that matters in all this is
that YOU do not have a right to decide all these things for anybody else.
Back to the Patriot
Act I and II now. The glaring evil in
these unconstitutional laws is the defiant way they render our constitutional
rights null and void and set us up for ungodly government tyranny – heretofore
unheard of in America! Or is it
“unheard of,” folks? Hell no! We put up with the same tyranny on a regular
basis via the IRS! Wake the hell up and
get that through your heads! We gave
away all those rights years ago. The
point is, all you who would fight this Patriot Act so valiantly, what about
THOSE infringements on privacy? Does
anyone still believe in ANY gun control in America? If you do, your position is self-defeating to say the least and
dangerous in the stark reality of truth!
Does anyone still believe in any reason for legal abortion to protect a
woman’s privacy? If you do, you are an
absolute hypocrite at the least and mentally deranged to think murder of innocence
justifies protection of a privacy you have already lost to a greater
extent. You don’t have ANY rights that
government wants to protect for you! It
is high time you realize that. The only
rights you have are those God-given rights that you are willing to fight for
yourself. Our Founding Fathers spelled
them all out and wrote documents that gave everyone the legal right to refuse
government infringement of them. We continue
to finance that infringement via the IRS and accept more and more infringements
such as the Patriot Acts.
It should be pretty
obvious by now that Americans need to undergo an immediate change in behavior
to salvage the American ideal and restore America to her former glory. Many say that it will never happen, that
America is too far gone, that the system is broken and can never be fixed,
therefore, don’t vote any more. Let me
try to hold onto my temper long enough to give you one more piece of
information that is imperative to understand.
America is not a nation of wimps.
NOT the America I know and love.
We are still in possession of the territory of an ideal that has never
been equaled on the face of the earth.
Our ancestors fought and died for this ideal and it is not our right to
allow it to be squandered for future generations of Americans. We desperately need to undergo this behavior
change.
Anyone who has
studied the human psychological makeup agrees that behavior changes in human
beings are relatively easy to accomplish up until the age of ten years
old. After that, radical behavior
changes may still be accomplished through the use of a significant emotional
event. This can be proven if you do not
wish to take my word for it. As a quick
example, think about the effects of the so-called Scared Straight Program,
employed by many parents and educators to reach incorrigible teenagers, who
might otherwise be doomed to a life of crime etc. This is the utilization of the concept I am talking about – a
significant emotional event.
Make no mistake;
Americans WILL one day collectively undergo a significant emotional event that
has the potential to cause the needed positive behavior change. The events of September 11, 2001 had that
potential, and in some cases I’m sure, did in fact cause behavioral changes in
some Americans. For one thing, many
were turning their attentions toward God and their own mortality. That is a very good first step. However, it has been short-lived and there
were many negative consequences to this event also. The most startling of these has been an unreasonable willingness
to hand over freedom in return for NOTHING but imagined safety! Much more harm than good was the result of
this significant emotional event - perhaps because New York City is so far
removed from most of the rest of the country and perhaps because the event
itself, while undoubtedly horrible, was just not significant enough to cause
the positive effect. At any rate, there
will be another, and we had better be ready for it. Enough well-informed and clear minded folks must take this event
when it occurs and use it to literally scare America straight! If we do not, we may well not get another
chance.
In the meantime,
stop willingly feeding the beast, capitulating moral right, and allowing your
rights and others’ to be trampled.
America is worth saving. My
conservative and constitutionalist friends must cooperate and focus on the
important pieces of this giant problem.
My liberal friends must realize that YOUR philosophy is not safe in a
world that does not recognize MY rights.
America worked before and it can work again. Love it, believe in it and live your beliefs. We must win this country back from the jaws
of tyranny. We are already in a
war. It is high time we act like
soldiers if we want to win it. We have no
friends that understand us like we must strive to understand each other. We do not need to be preached to by the rest
of the world. Our ancestors and our God
wrote the sermon on freedom. We
instinctively know how to win this war.
Now, let’s get to it!
Right Side Shotgun! - 06/19/10
Deborah Venable
Mr. Veritas made me
aware of this Must Watch Video – This happened at a recent Tea Party
gathering in Georgia. Herman Cain was
leading a Q & A session when one of those “you should have been there”
moments happened.
Editor’s Note: As you watch this video, keep in mind that
your government considers the participants of these tea parties the REAL
American terrorists!
There are actually four
verses:
"Defense of Fort
McHenry" (Francis Scott Key, 1814)
O! say can you see by
the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band
who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O! thus be it ever, when freemen
shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
God bless that
marine and his strong, clear voice!
Moving on in this
update for the Right Side – in case nobody knows by now, your humble webmaster
was born and raised in the state of Alabama.
I was an adult by the time the revolution of the sixties hit America
full force. I vividly remember when
George Wallace was the governor, when the race war of the 20th
century centered around fire hoses to restore public order, and burning
churches and crosses, and dead little black girls made national headlines. Everybody who was anybody came to the state
to protest, march in the street, and proclaim Alabama as a racist state. I know what was happening there because I
lived it. I had not been brought up as
a “racist” but because I was white, that was all it took to label me as
such. It still is in many ways.
I left Alabama in my
early adulthood - traveling and living all over this great country. The more I saw, the more conservative I
became. I felt the country slipping
away before my very eyes. Maybe that is
why my roots pulled me back to Alabama in my later years.
Some of the finest
talent that ever graced the music industry, and some of the best music ever
written about the place I call home has enriched American culture for
generations. Like this piece from the
group known simply as “Alabama” - My Home's In
Alabama,
released in 1980. Randy Owen, Fort
Payne, Alabama, and the group knew how to write good music and perform it
impeccably. That’s not just my opinion
– their success is a testament to the fact.
Who hasn’t heard the
original Lynryd Skynyrd’s Sweet
Home Alabama
– and I had to really look around for this one! It is 1974 vintage. If
you want an education about the race war, and specifically how it affected
Alabama, do some homework on this particular song and the band that wrote and
performed it. The original leader,
Ronnie Van Zant, wasn’t even a native of Alabama, but was born in Jacksonville,
Florida, as was his brother, Johnny Van Zant, who stepped into Ronnie’s shoes
some time after his untimely death.
This is a relatively new one, That
Ain't My America
– by Lynyrd Skynrd – have a listen!
Back to Alabamians,
though, it is no small feat that two of the winners of that most popular of
modern American entertainment (reality) productions, American Idol, have hailed
from the state of Alabama. Ruben
Studdard
won in Season 2 and Taylor
Hicks
in Season 5. A very honorable mention must be inserted here for Season 4’s Bo Bice, who was the runner up to Carrie Underwood,
who won that season.
So, what’s this old broad doing “singing” the praises of American
Idol winners? Well, I’m not too proud
to admit that music and talent move me.
They always have. I also believe
in competition, and the nine seasons of this show have provided me with some of
the small amount of pure entertainment I allow myself. It is also something I can enjoy with my
children – they all like the show immensely.
Just so you know, we also like football! That’s something else Alabamians seem to have a talent for. (That list would be far too long to put
here!)
This piece is not
meant to ignore the numerous talented, patriotic, and brilliant people who have
also hailed from my home state. Many
come instantly to mind, who are not noted here. The point is to stipulate that in many ways Alabama, and much of
the south still gets a bum rap, in the rest of the country. In much the same way that Americans get the
same bum rap in much of the rest of the world, sometimes we need to take note
that individualism is the source of our spirit, and collectivism its
enemy. Our heritage is ignored at our
peril, and our heritage combines in a way no other country on earth has ever
done, the uniqueness of individuals.
Individuals, though representative of their heritage and roots, must
remain free of artificial controls on their abilities and willingness to
assimilate where they wish, honor who they wish, live where they want, and
peacefully express themselves in a way that defines the melting pot theory that
founded this nation.
We see too many things
going on today that would stifle the very individualism that is American
heritage. An overreaching government
and ever-burgeoning debt mentality will destroy this country. It is up to individuals to get their houses
in order, then their communities, then their states, and finally their
country. Can we do it in time? Of course we can! Will we? That remains to
be seen.
I have been accused
of “shotgun writing.” This may be one
of the best examples of it on this site.
It is deliberate in this case.
The old scatter gun touched on a lot of subjects, but the finger that
pulled the trigger is one individual that thinks you just might be able to
handle it.
From Lewie -
Why America has a problem with illegal
immigrants:
Getter Done, Arizona!
Seasoned
With What?
Deborah
Venable
04/30/10
Seasoned
citizens we are called,
You hear it
all the time.
We’re old
and tough, and oft appalled
At selfish
sloth and crime.
We’d like to
take a break and rest,
But dare not
shut our eyes,
For we must
always do our best
To make the
youngsters wise.
Back in the
days when we were young
We learned a
thing or two.
Like,
ladders have a bottom rung
In all the
things we do.
You started
there and worked your way
As high as
you could go.
“The sky’s the
limit!” we would say,
No one would
tell us “no.”
But kids
today will keep their books,
As if they
know it all.
They credit
wealth and strange new looks,
To bring in
that big haul.
And
government will grant them pay
For little
that they do,
To make it
to the top their way,
Supplied by
me and you.
They learned
in school they need not seek
To
understand the past.
Their
teachers told them we are weak,
We’re old,
and we won’t last!
Our morals
need not be theirs too,
They’re told
that it’s okay,
And what we
tell them not to do
Need not get
in the way.
They think
they’re right and we are wrong
When we
speak out to say
We only want
our country strong,
We think
she’s lost her way.
“What way is
that?” they want to know,
“The one of
greed and guilt?”
We shake our
heads and try to show
God’s path,
on which she’s built.
Families
remain her strength,
And liberty
her base,
And we
should go to any length
To turn her
toward God’s grace.
For He is
waiting now to see
If we have
done our best
To teach the
children what must be
To pass the
greatest test.
Thank God
for those, the youngsters who
Have learned
their lessons well.
They have
pure hearts and know what’s true,
This story
they will tell.
Raised on
faith and hope and love,
And history,
full and rich,
They know
they never need to shove
God out to
find their niche.
Seasoned
citizens will be here,
Always along
the way,
The
youngsters who are wise hold dear
What elders
have to say.
But wisdom
that is earned with age
Knows well
the mystery
Of seasoning
with salt and sage
Topped off
with history.
From the
author: American Christians are being
asked to pray for the healing and survival of America, in great ceremony, at a
specific time, on a specific day. I
think it would be much wiser for each individual to pray for his or her
personal guidance to do the “healing things” each and every day that this
country and the world so desperately need.
That “miracle” is within each and every one of us.
What He Sees
Deborah
Venable
01/30/10
He’s had his
say so can we please
Look at what
he really sees?
He’s come
before us for a year,
To tell us
what we want to hear,
Or so he
thinks, but that’s not why
He cannot
look us in the eye.
The truth
would never set him free,
For he sees
what he wants to see.
Truth he doesn’t
understand,
For lies are
all he’s ever planned.
He has no
interest in the views
Of people he
would then abuse.
A leader, as
the word implies,
Could prove
that he is truly wise,
Through all
the things that he has done,
Which tell
us all why he’s the one
That we
should follow, come what may,
And hear
just what he has to say.
We’ve
listened, though he says we’ve not,
We’ve seen
our ever-dwindling lot
Played out
upon his actor’s stage,
Where he
cannot begin to guage
Effects of
acts he forces still
Against the
people and their will.
What he sees
as he looks out
Across this
land that’s full of doubt,
Is not that
beacon on the hill
Where people
come to drink their fill
Of freedom,
sweet with honey’s taste,
And heritage
we must not waste.
No. What he sees does not reflect
Anything but
great defect
That only he
must change and show
How wrong
the Founders were, you know,
To document
our rights from God
Instead of
governmental nod.
He does not
see a nation strong,
And will not
say that he is wrong,
To wish that
we would lose our pride
In
principles he can’t abide.
Our very
freedom can’t allow
This land to
ever take that bow.
He’s not an
ideologue, says he.
He thinks we
simply cannot see
That
policies he would dictate
Preclude
inviting a debate.
But if we
question not his rule,
He’d be the
king and we the fool!
He lectures
with a boldness new,
Without
respect for any who
Would
disagree with his desire
To see our
liberties expire
With
policies that he’d impose
To saddle us
with wretched woes.
I’ve had my
say, and that’s my right,
And I thank
God for this insight
Which tells
me every single day
That for my
country I should pray.
And yes,
even for this man
That God’s
included in His plan.
Hatred’s not
the Christian way
To get our
point across and say
That what he
sees does not define
America
that’s yours and mine.
For what he
sees will never be
If we, the
people, remain free!
The Teacher
Deborah Venable
12/16/09
“What does Christmas mean to you?”
A teacher asked her class.
Some answered, “Toys and gifts brand new!”
And one said, “Christmas Mass.”
Still others chimed in, “Santa Claus!”
And “Jingle bells and snow!”
And one, with consternated pause,
Said, “Really, I don’t know.”
Continuing with halting prose,
The child went on to say,
“I think that everybody knows
It’s just a special day.”
The room began to quiet down,
The teacher took her cue.
“It’s said, that in a little town,
A Life began anew.”
“The Child was born so long ago
Nobody knows just when.
His birth, more than a legend, though,
Has meant so much since then.”
“God speaks to us in many ways,”
The teacher then declared.
“His gift of life and all the days
On earth that we have shared . . .”
One child piped up and said aloud
What others may have thought.
“You are wrong! God’s not allowed
In school where we are taught!”
With patience born of wisdom then,
The teacher did reply,
“Tell us now, just where and when
You learned that awful lie?”
“It’s just the way it is,” said he,
“I surely don’t know why –
But everywhere God used to be . . .”
He trailed off with a “sigh.”
The teacher took her cue again,
And said, “But don’t you see
That’s just the way it was back then
When hope had ceased to be.”
Then angels came upon the earth
To sing their songs of joy,
Foretelling of that special birth –
God’s Son, a baby boy!”
The children’s eyes were open wide,
As she went on to say,
“The Christ Child came here to reside
With us on Christmas Day!”
“For those of you who don’t believe
That God is always near,
Perhaps the gifts that you receive
Will be your only cheer.”
“What does Christmas mean to you?”
She asked once more with grace.
The answers came with knowledge new,
And hope on every face.
Epilogue: I shudder to think
what would happen to any public school teacher in this country that would dare
to have such a conversation with her class, but wouldn’t it be nice if she did?
Heritage
Says It All
Deborah
Venable
09/28/09
I can but
try and hold a candle
To the heritage
that’s mine.
How best, I
wonder, do I handle
In the sand,
that famous line?
Often drawn
and ever crossed
By the weak
and faint of heart,
Every time,
their freedom tossed,
As they
abrogate their part.
Individuals
must try
To regain
the ground they’ve lost,
Or they need
not wonder why,
When they
tally up the cost,
That the
only thing they show
In the
column titled, “gains”
Is the
knowledge, (now they know),
That their
heritage remains.
O’ the
courage that it took
To build our
country as she stands!
For those
that wrote that book
Came across
from many lands.
Bringing
little more than hopes,
And a fierce
resolve to win,
As their
faith was on the ropes,
God reminded
where they’d been.
These people
tried it all,
As they set
about to craft
A future
standing tall,
Through the
years that followed aft.
From
industry and progress, through
Ideas of
spreading wealth,
As they
garnered strength from what they knew,
They relied
on spiritual health.
Socialists
have gained new ground,
And for the
practiced few,
Lamenting
what they’ve never found
They savage
all they knew.
For surely
they were never taught
That freedom
has a price.
They’ll give
it up without a thought,
And lies
will, thus, suffice.
Communism
surely reigns
In hearts
where courage fails,
Their rulers
fit each one with chains
And sell
them all tall tales,
About how
only they can bring
A justice to
the earth,
And drive
away the only thing
Promised at
their birth.
Liberty, and
with it life,
Our heritage
proclaims,
Shall not be
squandered, lost in strife
If time
forgets our names.
The Promised
Land our founders won
So very long
ago
Is worth the
fight that is not done
Till
Heritage slays its foe.
This comes to me from the Big Kahuna, via his
daughter. The author is a local
activist in the New Orleans area. I
think all of us at the Unique Point Of View can give this patriot a big “Amen”
in unison! DebV
Tea Party Patriots: Your Shoe is Untied
Glenn Dubroc, Jr.
Posted 09/17/09
Dear Tea Party
Patriots,
In the House of Representatives,
there are 256 Democrats and 178 Republicans (with one vacancy). In the
Senate, there are 57 Democrats, 2 Independents (who caucus with the Democrats),
and 40 Republicans (with one vacancy). The President is a Democrat.
For the moment, the
deck is overwhelmingly stacked (by choice of the voters) in favor of those
who call themselves Democrats. With those numbers, they should be able to
pass ANY piece of legislation they darn well please. Yet still,
there is absolutely no consensus on a health care reform bill and absolutely
few specific details. The Democrats are angry and frustrated that they
haven't been able to get the job done. They have laid blame on every
imaginable source: talk radio, astroturf mobs, misinformation, the health insurance
industry, "those who wish to preserve the status quo", George W.
Bush, the boogeyman, and on and on.
And now comes
this. The ultimate trump card. Panicked Democrats and their
propagandists resort to the diversionary cry of RACISM. Never mind that
the country's first black President was elected by a country whose population
is majority white. Never mind that the Democrats possess an overwhelming
voting block in the House and Senate. The reason death care reform isn't
moving forward is because of RACISM.
In hurling the most
vicious of all charges, the insinuation is that if Barack Obama was white,
those of us who are opposing his policies would instead be praising his
policies. Never mind that this President and Congress are bankrupting the
country with a 2010 budget that is projected by the non-partisan Congressional
Budget Office to add a trillion dollars to the national debt for each of the
next 10 years!!! Never mind that the spending on new social programs will
create more debt than the combined debt of every President from George
Washington up to and including George W. Bush!!! Never mind
that the President has been at the helm while private car companies were taken
over by the government and federal bankruptcy laws were turned on their heads
to favor union leaders over bondholders!!! Never mind that this
Congress has demonstrated a willingness and the ability to pass a bill with
over 1,000 pages that not one single legislator was able to read prior to
voting upon it!!!! Never mind that they attempted to force a vote on a
massive cap and trade legislation and permanently change the way energy is
purchased and consumed!!!!
Of course, our
opposition to the health care legislation MUST BE because of racism. I'm
now going to say something very politically incorrect: Jimmy Carter, you are a
pathetic excuse for a supposedly rational human being. How dare you
level that kind of accusation against the American people who labor tirelessly
to make this country work? How dare you crawl out from under whatever
rock you've been hiding to insult and degrade the democratic process by lobbing
the most vicious of all attacks against people for no other reason except
that they have a dissenting opinion? How dare you attempt to divide
this nation along racial lines as a means to pass your unpopular socialist
agenda? Janeane Garofalo calling us "redneck racists" was one
thing, but she's a nobody, so who cares?
Here's what's
happening. They saw the MASSIVE number of people who showed up in Washington
DC and, while they won't acknowledge the crowd size, they realize they are in
serious political trouble. Time is short. They MUST pass death care
reform, cap and trade and whatever various and sundry items that
are needed to permanently alter the balance of wealth and control,
thus insuring their political perpetuity.
The strategy is
clear. Divert attention from the facts. Rile up everyone in the
country to think this is about racism and the repression of specific racial
groups simply to divert attention from the fact that, despite an
overwhelming majority in the House and Senate, YOU CAN'T PASS
this pathetic excuse of legislation. When you want
to distract someone, tell him his shoe is untied. When you
want to pick a fight, say something unflattering about someone's mother.
When you simply cannot get your way and you are backed into a corner,
scream RACISM. Where are your facts to back this up? Just
because there were a few tasteless signs at a massive rally in Washington,
DC, is that what you base your expert opinion upon? The irony is not
only will your unfounded charges not work, they just embolden us EVEN MORE
because we see exactly how pathetic and transparently disingenuous you are.
I have been involved
with the Tea Party movement since February 2009. Not once, not one single
time, has anyone in our group said or even insinuated that the reason they
opposed this President was because of his race. Not once have I heard the
N-word uttered at a rally or other event. Not once have I heard a racial
epithet hurled. Are there racists amongst us? I'm sure there
are. Are they welcome in our group? Absolutely, unflinchingly NOT
!!!!
In fact, we are
actively pursuing opportunities to identify and involve conservative people
from every ethnicity who share our core values that include the Founding
Fathers' principles of freedom, the advancement of public policy that is
consistent with those values, and to actively engage with our elected
officials to adhere to the Constitution of these United States of
America. Anyone, of ANY race, is welcome to join our movement
if he/she shares these principles and wishes to participate.
WE ARE NOT GOING
AWAY !!!! You can level any accusation that suits your folly. We
are like teflon. And we already know our shoes ARE tied. So go
back under your rock. We'll call you if we need you. Don't wait up.
Everyone, please
don't forget Saturday's rally at West End Park (11:00 am - 4:00 pm). The
Greater New Orleans Tea Party group makes a tremendous effort to organize these
events to give you information, educate you about the issues, and provide you
with a feeling of community support. Nearly everyone who has
attended one of these events leaves with a renewed spirit of optimism and
energy. Invite your skeptical friends and neighbors and ask them to
keep an open mind and just come and listen.
OFA
Crosses the Line
– Organizing For America, that oh so neat sounding collective dream child of
Obama supporters tested the waters and found them a little hot I guess. On the website, stupidly named, my barrack
obama . com, (spaces included to prevent the link) OFA announced recently its
intent to hijack the upcoming memorial of 911 for the purpose of a “coordinated
telephone campaign” in support of the president’s version of health care
reform. From the above article:
Today, President Obama’s campaign organization “Organizing
for America”
sent out a notice to its “grassroots” supporters. It asked them to wage a
coordinated phone campaign for health care by calling their U.S.
Senators on September 11 – also known as Patriot Day in honor of the thousands of Americans killed by Al Qaeda
terrorists eight years ago. It
goes on:
“All 50 States are
coordinating in this – as we fight back against our own Right-Wing Domestic
Terrorists who are subverting the American Democratic Process, whipped to a
frenzy by their Fox Propaganda Network ceaselessly re-seizing power for their
treacherous leaders.”
But that’s not the
best part. This page has now been
scrubbed from the site! This article
contains a link to the “captured page” as it used to exist, though. Like I said, the waters were a little hot. How many pages have disappeared after too
many “right” folks got wind of them? These
people are blatant in their disregard for intelligent questioning!
How does it feel to
be a “right-wing domestic terrorist” just because you oppose nationalized
health care, folks? You are being
defined by left-wing domestic monsters in this, the war of the century! How’s that for in-a-nutshell analysis?
Tell me again why we
should ever take anything this administration or its promoters have to say at
face value??? Tell me again that a
Constitutionally legitimate president is at America’s helm.
Remembering the Decade of
the Fifties
– This website is a goldmine of historical information, cultural nostalgia, and
meaningful resources of this critical time period before the sixties revolutionaries
hit the American scene.
Under a section
called “Fads and Fashions – These Were a Few Of Our Favorite Things” here is
just one small excerpt:
Perhaps one of the
things which most characterizes the 1950's was the strong element of conservatism and anticommunist feeling which
ran throughout much of society. One of the best indicators of the conservative
frame of mind was the addition of the phrase "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.
Religion was seen as an indicator of anti-communism. Fifties
clothing was conservative. Men wore gray flannel suits and women wore dresses
with pinched in waists and high heels. French fashion designers such as Dior, Chanel and Givenchy were popular and copied in
America. Families worked together, played together and vacationed
together at family themed entertainment areas like national parks and the
new Disneyland. Gender roles were strongly held,
girls played with Barbie dolls and Dale Evans gear, boys with Roy
Rogers and Davy Crockett paraphernalia. Drive-in
movies became popular for families and teens. Cars were seen as an indicator of prosperity
and cool-ness. Highways were built to take people quickly from
one place to another, by-passing small towns and helping to create central
marketing areas or shopping malls such as Sharpstown Mall, Gulfgate Mall and Meyerland Plaza in Houston.
From this “fifties” link, you can explore every decade of
the twentieth century in American Cultural History. Like I said, it is a goldmine!
I chose the fifties to begin because my foundational education was
cemented during that decade. I also
believe it to be one of the most important decades of the last century from a
cultural standpoint. When you take a
look at today’s textbooks, you will find that much of the historical
information about this period has been obscured, skewed, or otherwise
rewritten.
The Pitfall of Complaining First
If you live in
close proximity to a military base, especially, but not limited to an Air Force
Base, you may have felt like complaining about a downside to your
location. There is an email circulating
on the internet that illustrates the caution one should take before complaining
first and asking questions later. An
example of the email with a full explanation may be found at various
sites. Thanks to Mr. Veritas for
bringing this to my attention.
Luke Air Force
Base is located on the west side of the Valley Of the Sun, otherwise known as
the greater Phoenix area in Arizona.
More information
available from Fallen
Heroes Memorial and Military
Quotes.
Everyone should know
that the job our military has to do for us is dangerous to say the least. What many do not stop to realize is that the
training they must go through is also perilous – and many of the deaths that
occur in and out of a war zone are attributable to that training.
Saying a prayer
for those willing to set aside their personal lives to take such risks for the
rest of us is more than appropriate.
Please never forget that.
I love to point out as often as possible that
there are still some pretty extraordinary young people in America. You know, young folks with their heads on
straight, who appreciate good stuff when they see it. Recently, my young friend, Andrew, sent me a poem that he said
had made a positive impression on him.
Here is the kicker, it was written and first published in 1934! I think you will agree that the positive
message cannot be denied:
The Guy in
the Glass
by Dale
Wimbrow, (c) 1934
When you get
what you want in your struggle for pelf,
And the
world makes you King for a day,
Then go to
the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what
that guy has to say.
For it isn't
your Father, or Mother, or Wife,
Who judgment
upon you must pass.
The feller
whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the guy
staring back from the glass.
He's the
feller to please, never mind all the rest,
For he's
with you clear up to the end,
And you've
passed your most dangerous, difficult test
If the guy
in the glass is your friend.
You may be
like Jack Horner and "chisel" a plum,
And think you're
a wonderful guy,
But the man
in the glass says you're only a bum
If you can't
look him straight in the eye.
You can fool
the whole world down the pathway of years,
And get pats
on the back as you pass,
But your
final reward will be heartaches and tears
If you've
cheated the guy in the glass.
In grateful
memory of our father, the author, Dale Wimbrow 1895-1954
From his
children's website,
I found another poem:
My Religion
by Dale
Wimbrow
MY CHURCH,
AND MY CREED
You ask me
"what is my religion"?
Now what if
I say I have None?
You'll be
wrongly impressed,
And unduly
distressed
So wait - I
have only begun.
My creed in
the sense that you mean it,
Has no
single symbol, or sign.
Big, impressive,
or small,
There is
good in them all,
So perhaps
Your religion is mine.
My doctrine
is any that stands for
The honor
and virtue of men.
For whatever
we preach,
We're all
striving to reach
A mutual
goal in the end.
My church is
the one that is nearest
Wherever I
happen to be.
The place
where men go
Their
devotion to show,
Is good -
and sufficient for me.
What matters
the Name on the mileposts
That stand
by the path you have trod?
If the
pathway leads UP
Then at last
you shall sup
With the infinite army of God.