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I Came Back from Vacation for This?!?

Dear Friends: Needles to say, I am deeply disappointed with the Cap-and-Tax Vote that went down in the House last week. I am still getting back into the swing of things, and then my political idol Sarah Palin resigns. My complete thoughts on the matter can be found at the Shrine; my main point is this:

Truly, the left will be crowing about Palin’s resignation — as if that gives them the additional imperium to carry out their massive, liberty-crushing, economy-strangling programs. This is not the case.

I am a founding member of a Tea Party organization. We, and our sister groups and partners, have hundreds of rallies planned for July 4th and beyond. There are hundreds of newly-minted activists who will eventually evolve into civic minded politicians. So, to the these celebrating lefties and pimped-out media, I say this:

If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

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Theft of Liberty

What future is in store for our liberty and American Freedom when an election can be stolen due to unequal protections, corrupt courts and blatant vote fraud perpetrated by the collectivist dogs more interested in power than freedom?

Stuart Smalley, D-MN will take the oath for an office that has been stolen.  Politicians care more about their own power and position than representing their constituents.  Their sheople care little about their own freedom.

Get out to Tea Parties on July Fourth

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So true, can you read it? Do you agree?

“Në demokraci, njeriu shfrytëzon njeriun. Në socializem është thjesht e kundërta”

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Idiots in the Snow

I have a hard time understanding why people who would live in Minnesota choose to.  It is becoming clearer however.  Now, apologies to Minnesotans, but it is one of those “great place to visit (in summer) but wouldn’t live there” States.

The apparent election won (stolen?) by Al Franken (Stuart Smalley) for U.S. Senate gives a glimmer of insight into my question above.  Anyone who would vote for a mediocre comedian with zero experience has to be misguided, ignorant, lazy, an idiot (not in general just in this case), foolish or some combination.  Well, HALF (roughly) of the Minnehahaians who voted for Senator last year apparently are just so, as described previously.

Universal suffrage seems to be something that fosters such outcomes as a poorly skilled not-so-funny man can win (manipulated, cheated and arbitrarily adjudicated) election to the U.S. Senate.  While the Congress and Constitution specifically prohibit tests and taxes for suffrage we ought to consider an amendment.  Let’s use a Heinlein idea.  Require each voter to solve a quadratic equation and answer 3 common civics questions in order to activate their voting booth.  Can’t do it?  Can’t vote (not allowed).

Letting the lazy and ignorant who CHOOSE to be sheople vote seems akin to giving a 6 year old 2 shots of whiskey and a loaded pistol.

The result?  Stuart Smalley, D-Minnehaha

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The Joes Win One

     Judge Sotomayor has been rebuked by the one branch of government not yet under radical leftist control, and ironically, it is the one to which she represents – the judiciary – and to whose highest tribunal, the Supreme Court, stands in nomination to join.  That she would side with a municipal government in premeditated discrimination against blue-collar white males in support of less-qualified minority candidates is evidence of poor leaga reasoning, as it is of a warped view of the law as a vechile for her brand of ’social justice.’  That her putative colleagues would rebuke her shows that they (or at least a majority of them) still adhere to the rule of color-blind law.  Perhaps the lady is not as ‘wise’ as she says she is, because in this case several males, most of whome are white, arrived at a better judgement than did she. 

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“A Pile of S–T”

    The above is a quote from my now second-favorite Republican, rep. John Boehner (OH) about the 1,200 page energy tax that the Democrats just rammed down our throats in a close House vote.  With the President’s signature on this foolish and dishonest measure a foregone conclusion, only the prospect of failure in the Senate stands between us and the new Dark Ages.  Please consider calling your Senator to demand that the so-called “World’s Greatest Deliberative Body” actually read this POS before voting on it.  It only adds insult to injury to be thrust into serfdom by ignorance of the act, as opposed to actual malice.

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Lights Out – They Passed a bill They Didn’t Read

    Why don’t we outsource our government to India?  It would cost less and they have a better work ethic.  If they can’t bother to read the damn bill, why should we bother to obey, if it is signed into law?

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The Moment of Truth on the “Climate Tax”

The mailbox of my Congressman is full, and no one is answering the phones.  Reports indicate that the bill, HR 2454, so-called “Cap and Trade,” but really an energy tax, is being voted on tonight.  If you haven’t voiced your opposition to the energy serfdom of America, I urge you to do so.  This may be the most important piece of economic legislation since the New Deal, and it represents the New Left’s high-water mark in their crusade to impose their religion – yes, religion, on the rest of us. 
Failure should not be an option, because cold and darkness follow in its’ footsteps.

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Happy Father’s Day, 2009

     Fathers are often overlooked in our culture.  Men are under constant pressure, and often outright attack, from feminists and others who believe that they have a grievance against half the human race, or who have an agenda that they plug wherever and whenever they can. 
     It is thus even more fitting to stop and remember the men who make men, one generation at a time, and who serve as protectors of women and as providers for their children.  It is easy to overlook the efforts it takes to break one’s back in a factory, on a farm, in a mine, or in digging a fighting position, in running into a burning building, or even in grinding away at a hated office drudge job, because that is what puts bread on the table.  There are no parades, as there are on Memorial Day, Labor Day, and on Independence Day, yet none of those holidays would be possible without the efforts of men, either in their own persons, or in those of the sons they raised.
     Generally speaking, men don’t complain.  My father never did, in working a succession of factory jobs after returning home from Korea.  Men do, and he did, doing work into his 50s that would wear out an average person, for a wage that would not much better than what welfare doled out back then.  There were, and are, many others like him.  Many have lost those blue-collar livelihoods in the current recession; 80% of the jobs lost have belonged to men.  The ones I meet, in the course of my work, generally don’t complain; they just want another shot at supporting their families, anywhere, anyhow, as long as it keeps the roof over their heads.
    It is fitting and just to pause and take time to recognize fathers today – our own, if they are still to hear a ‘Happy Father’s Day – and thanks for everything you did,” and collectively, as their efforts and sacrifice, from the Founding Fathers down to our own time, build and sustain our nation.

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I didn’t own you…

…so I don’t owe you.  Include me out of the Senate’s craven, pathetic ‘apology’ for slavery.  No one alive in a half-century can have any claim to have been an actor on either side of the slavery issue.  This is the kind of foolish, self-loathing nonsense that the ’60s radical, spoiled Boomers are saddling America with, now that they are in charge.  If an apology is owed, how about the Democratic Party taking the lead and apologizing for Herman Talmidge, George Wallace, Bull Connor, etc., since they were all members of their party, and the victims of Jim Crow are still with us.  Maybe the Democrats should pay reparations.  But, as I said, include me out, unless and until I am presented with my former slaves’ demands.  Finally, to stir up old passions is nothing but a fool’s erand, as it leads to nothing but rising hate and resentment on all sides. 
This country will never become color-blind, as long as our political class is peopled with the worst among us, as it now is.

P.S.  Blood guilt is an explicitly Nazi doctrine; if you don’t believe me, then read it in Mein Kampf.

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