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Boehner Takes On Radical-In-Chief
House GOP to battle socialist realignment strategy revealed in Stanley Kurtz book.
(Page 3 of 3)
Tyrrell is right. Which makes the WSJ point of an American left — 20% of the electorate — hell-bent on imposing “an egalitarian state” on the other 80% all the more disturbing.
What are some of the things that Kurtz’s research has unearthed?
What specifically is it that he has found that makes John Boehner’s job more important than that of the average Speaker of the House?
Whether documenting Obama’s attendance at events like the first Socialist Scholars Conference while a student at Columbia University, the role played in his thinking by Marxist theorists like Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward, and the Communist Frank Marshall Davis (the latter an Obama family friend mentioned only by first name in Obama’s Dreams from My Father) the parade of socialist mentors (like Jeremiah Wright), the role of Chicago socialist Mayor Harold Washington, radical friends, involvement with extremist left-wing organizations like ACORN or the Midwest Academy, Kurtz connects the dots not visible in 2008 with those that were surfaced during the presidential election by Hannity and others who are not the reluctant mainstream media.
Taken together with the record of the first two years of the Obama administration, Radical-In-Chief communicates the importance of the task that lies ahead of Boehner and his new colleagues.
Barack Obama and his allies are attempting to re-make America into a nation of perpetual class-warfare, a land divided between the “rich” and “the poor.” Precisely the kind of country that would have kept the working-class John Boehner forever poor and denied opportunity — an opportunity which, through his own hard work, will now make this working-class America kid with 11 siblings the third most powerful official in the government.
In leading this fight, both Boehner and other Republicans will have to be careful.
Says Kurtz:
[W]hen President Obama says “Go for it” to Republicans who hope to repeal his health-care-reform law, he means it. Those who already see Obama as a socialist tend to think of his insistence on backing health-care reform in the face of collapsing political support as the suicidal impulse of a true ideologue. It’s more likely that Obama has a long-term class-based realignment strategy in mind. Obama would love the Republicans to try to take away the health care he’s offered to millions of uninsured. Taking a leaf from the Cloward-Piven [socialist] handbook, Obama hopes that a Republican campaign for repeal will ignite a political movement of the poor that will energize and radicalize the Democratic Party.
Which is to say, when John Boehner takes the gavel as Speaker of the House, he will now be leading the fight in the House of Representatives not just against Obamacare or any other specific Obama-backed piece of legislation or regulation.
The new Speaker and his 63 troops — and those new Senators like Florida’s Marco Rubio, Kentucky’s Rand Paul, and Utah’s Mike Lee — will be leading the charge against Obama’s version of Michael Harrington’s “socialist realignment strategy.”
It will be the first political battle royal of the second decade of the 21st century. To borrow from the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein, this will be the mother of all political battles. Coming to a head in November of 2012.
One can only hope as Boehner and his new conservative troops set out on this battle that they will remember this from Ronald Reagan’s 1964 speech for Barry Goldwater. A speech from another time — yet for the same battle Boehner faces today;
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
That “first step into darkness” that Reagan spoke of is here. Now. Obamacare is in fact that first step into darkness of which Reagan spoke. As the WSJ noted, it is the “main chance” for the left. Obamacare will “fundamentally change the relationship between government and individuals if it is not repealed or replaced.” We are now on the path that Ronald Reagan warned could only lead to disaster — just as it has in fact done for Linda O’Boyle.
John Boehner’s task is to get America off that path.
It won’t be easy, either. But failure is not an option.
About the Author
Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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Brian Mc| 1.4.11 @ 6:14AM
A must read? Then, make the 'freshman' sit down in a locked room and read the damned thing. Afterwards, a 100 question quiz is in order to ensure they have digested enough of the contents!
NavyBoy| 1.4.11 @ 1:13PM
Go to YouTube.
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US Navy Chief Could Face Sack Over Lewd Videos
Watch Captain Honors simulate masturbation-- Lots and lots of profanities and obscenities--expletives galore--a real shitty, stupid redneck production.
God bless our military boys and girls. Lots of maturity in the ranks, and speaking of rank . . .
Skippy| 1.4.11 @ 2:37PM
Your point?
This social reject just tied his career to the Enterprise's anchor chain.
Wotta moron!
He'll be chipping rust off hulls until retirement.
The Navy does have some adults. Time to promote one.
RetiredNavyMan| 1.4.11 @ 5:33PM
The politically correct Liberals, I see by the above post, are now trying to destroy our Armed Forces.
NavyBoy is a Troll from huff post I imagine.
L. Ross| 1.5.11 @ 12:22PM
I went to YouTube and saw the Lewd Video. It is funny. Looked like a great morale builder to me. I think it is tragic that a highly successful career has been sacrificed at the altar of political correctness. Hell, if you can't be politically incorrect in the Navy, we are all doomed.
This is speaking as an Air Force officer with 25 years of service.
rainier4311| 1.5.11 @ 3:50PM
Navyboy! It must be your turn in the barrel. From what I understand, these videos were done years ago. If there was a problem then, it would have been said. There must be some namby-pambies on board a combat ship.
With your buddy Skippy, it sounds like you need some self-confidence. Maybe Skippy needs to go to Namby-Pamby Land also.
beebop| 1.4.11 @ 9:07PM
... quizz immediately to follow the one given to those remaining from the previous session regarding contents of 0bamacare ... :)
Pat| 1.5.11 @ 3:54PM
I agree. The only thing I am concerned about is
CAN THEY READ? Remember they hired a reader to read it to them a few months ago. There were pictures of them on their lap tops playing games, and if I'm correct one was on a porn site. Let's face it we have some real pathetic people to replace. We must make sure the new ones are the right ones.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 1.4.11 @ 6:30AM
A good article but is there anyone in America left who did not know Obama is a socialist?
Mike D.| 1.4.11 @ 7:56AM
He's a Maoist style Marxist. Socialist is a palitable name, nothing more. The old Democratic party was Socialist, this new bunch of lunatics from the 60's era are marxist to the core. There are all kinds of nice warm and fuzzy words, liberal, progressive, democrat, that the leftist propaganda media machine uses to keep the sheeple from getting to jumpy. The best thing these b@stards do is lie about what they are and what they are called. Deception is their biggest tool and keeping the masses ignorant about what they are and what they intend is crucial.
The first thing in any fight is to indentify what your opponent is and label him as thus and control the terminology. Secondly, and the worst part is that this comrade currently occupying the Whitehouse is Anti-American to the core and wants this country brought to its knees and is gleeful watching it happen. This is truly an evil charactor. Evil's greatest weapon is deception of identity and purpose, all traits the comrade displays in spades.
Jon B| 1.4.11 @ 11:04AM
Mike D. it's pretty obvious that you haven't got a clue as to what socialism is... Try again big guy :)
daddio| 1.4.11 @ 11:30AM
Actually, I think he's nailed it pretty well.
A. C. Santore| 1.4.11 @ 11:53AM
So do I. Well done, Mike D.
kathy| 1.5.11 @ 12:42PM
Agreed Mike, you hit the nail on the head!
idalily| 1.4.11 @ 2:43PM
It sounds to me that Mike D. knows exactly what socialism is. If you have a different definition, by all means bring it.
Mike D.| 1.4.11 @ 3:02PM
Hey Jonny Boy, maybe you need to get a clue on what a Marxist is. HUH?
A.M. Mallett| 1.4.11 @ 5:24PM
This has become a common defense among the leftist-liberals, deny until you are blue in the face and then deny some more.
Charlie| 1.5.11 @ 6:56PM
Jon B
Its pretty obvious U R the 1 without a clue. ie IDIOT!
Bruce| 1.5.11 @ 7:09PM
Oh, I think Mike hit it pretty much right on the head, in my opinion. I have been saying since the outset that I disagree that Obama is merely a "socialist" - he's in reality a hard corps Marxist. Perhaps it's you who doesn't have a clue?
Margitta| 1.4.11 @ 2:35PM
Actually, I am from a Socialist Country. Immigrated legally and became a naturalized citizen. Mike D. you have analyzed the political situation here in the US correctly and have called a spade a spade. Congratulations. It encourages me to see that not everybody has become the proverbial Ostrich.
Purpleguy| 1.6.11 @ 9:32AM
And, yet, since Reagan began our decline, favoring the top 2% to the rest of us, YOU think This article is stupid misinformation and misdirection to once again feed you Kool-Aid consuming addicts.
Obama trying to destroy America? One of you dearly beloved politicians (Reagan) has done far more damage to our daily lives than anyone other than Osama Bin Laden and his bunch.
Wake up!
1) Raise the minimum wage - history shows that every time the minimum wage is raised, the poorest people spend more money, which creates demand, and that equals more business, which leads to more jobs. Period. Look it up.
2) Raise taxes on the wealthy. History shows that when the taxes on the top 2% are high, they find ways to INVEST their money to save on taxes. Investment begets more small business, more entrepreneurs, more investment capital, which leads to more jobs. Period. Look it up.
The most productive years in this country have been when the taxes on the rich were the highest.
What do you think? With a tax cut, a billionaire is going to buy more food? A new car? A house? They already can spend what they need or want. By avoiding the pain of taxes, they put their money to work for all of us, including themselves by INVESTING IT. Avoidance of the pain of High Taxes is a superior motivating force. Whole companies will move to avoid taxes, so you know that's true. By raising taxes on the wealthy, you can lower corporate taxes and bring jobs back here in America.
Before you start ragging on me, remember, David Stockman, Reagan's chief architect of "trickle down economics"(Reagan's Budget Director) has said just late last year that trickle down is bs, it didn't work then, it wont now. When will y'all wake up to reality and stop living in the glorified past that never existed?
Do we really need another Great Depression to wake u up?
BTW - What happened to the R's promise to cut 100 BILLION dollars from the budget in the first year? Sounds like a lot of back peddling from your buddies. What does the Tea Party think now about the ppl you elected? Ha!
Lunar| 1.6.11 @ 4:35PM
You make a far better case for raising taxes than most people that advocate for it by making the case of the incentive it creates for the wealthy. I don't have the time to verify your statistics, so I'm going to make a separate argument. Instead of guessing how government policies are going to change the behavior of people, I'm going to fall back on a conservative principle. Those rich people made their money (whether or not you concede that they truly earned it) and it should be up to them to decide what to do with it. They don't owe anyone anything. The government can set the rules for fair play and prosecute those that break them. If someone isn't being prosecuted, I'm going to presume innocence and the right to do with his/her property (a.k.a. money) what he/she will. If a corrupt government isn't prosecuting illegal activity, that's all the more reason to keep the money out of its hands.
To your "BTW": Can you reference what you're talking about? They just started their first day of work, yesterday. It's very possible that I missed something, but I don't think anything in this article precludes them from cutting that money. They still have a whole year to honor that promise, right?
Jon B| 1.4.11 @ 10:54AM
Socialist? You mean making people pay for their own health care instead of leaching off the system that Obama passed? Or do you mean when he cut back on BU$H's social programs for corporations that ship jobs overseas? Or could you possibly be talking about the tax cuts for working Americans and rebuilding America's infrastructure that was neglected for 8 years while your money was redistributed to defense contractors and the top 5%? I am curious, why do you support the socialism and wealth redistribution-to-the-top of the B$UH years, and why are you against tax cuts for yourself? You probably won't have a rational answer, but thought I'd ask anyway.
Stan Redmond| 1.4.11 @ 11:38AM
Can't people go a single argument without bringing up BUSH!!!??? For crying out loud, just because Bush did stupid destructive things doesn't absolve the horrible socialism being crammed down our throats by Obama and the democrats. Evil is evil. Deflecting by the tired old "Well Bush did it first" ignores Obama is moving at light speed compared to anything Bush did in office. Bush spent wildly. The democrats and Obama have spent beyond Bush's wildest dreams. Both were anti-liberty but Obama has perfected soft tyranny using frilly wordcraft to describe just how evil democrats
goals are.
The rest of your questions are bullet point nonsense. The democrats have had the purse strings for 4 years now, a super majority for nearly 1 1/2, and a majority for 2. They own it. Democrats STILL couldn't get anything done without MASSIVE bribes (Cornhusker kickback, Louisiana purchase) and anti-liberty schemes such as "deem and pass."
"But Bush did it too" just doesn't hold water anymore or the democrats wouldn't have lost 63 seats and countless state offices.
Stephie| 1.4.11 @ 1:26PM
Oh why the heck not Stan! obama blamed Bush for 2 flippin' years before he realized how immature and stupid it made him look.
Spoonman| 1.4.11 @ 2:51PM
Stephie, obama still doesn't get that he is stupid for continuing to balme bush (and frankly neither does Jon B) - otherwise he'd have stopped long ago and he would not continue to speak so negativley of his opponents. Doesn't he get it that people are tired of his childlish behavior. Wouldn't it ne nice to hear oblama say something good about someone, just once!
beebop| 1.4.11 @ 9:11PM
You really can't blame him. He obviously has a very low level of self asteem. I would think it comes from his upbringing. Being the bi-product of two unmarried individuals of differing racial backgrounds. Fat. Raised in a muslim nation. Fobbed off on grand parents. Do you seriously think this results in being well grounded? Seriously?
lawhite| 1.6.11 @ 3:33AM
Who cares why he is the way he is...he should not be in a position of power. Yes, I blame him for taking our nation down with him because of his hate. It is beside the point where his hate comes from.
Redstateboy| 1.4.11 @ 11:40AM
Gee Jon B.. You're the type mentioned right in the article...!! One of those Tools Used to exploit Class War. Infrastructure?? Are You nuts? We've passed Gas tax after Gas tax to keep our infrastructure repaired.. and somehow that money always seems to vanish.. and I suppose you're also one of those Environmentalist Tools who believes we should stop Oil drilling, keep up subsidizing Ethanol with Tax payer dollars and go Cap and Trade full bore..
W| 1.4.11 @ 11:45AM
JonB, are you the lefty of the day or week to post the MSNBC rants here? All Americans who work are working Americans. Defense contractors employ Americans who are then working Americans. Obama did not cut tax rates, he finally agreed to maintain the evil Bush tax rates. Obama did not cut tax rates, he and the Dems enacted tax credits, which are not reductions in tax rates.
The feds do not own the money to redistribute, the money is owned by the working Americans who pay taxes.
Go back to your moronic lefty websites
W| 1.4.11 @ 5:31PM
George, I believe it is the same person who copies and pastes talking points from some lefty website, probably titled, Blogging for Liberal Dummies. Wait, that may be redundant, we can eliminate one word.
Larry B| 1.5.11 @ 9:39AM
HEY now... don't go giving Dummies a bad name! Dummies>Liberals... not the same at all...(A liberal cannot recognize just how ignorant he truly is. It is against their core beliefs to admit the existence of ignorance)
George True| 1.4.11 @ 1:28PM
I guess Jon B is the lefty troll who is assigned to TAS today to try and derail meaningful discussion. Unfortunately, your reasoned, rational, factually accurate responses to him are the equivalent of trying to teach a pig to sing.
MarGitta| 1.4.11 @ 2:41PM
Tweaking Jon B is like pinching a Bull on the horns!
W| 1.4.11 @ 5:32PM
W| 1.4.11 @ 5:31PM
George, I believe it is the same person who copies and pastes talking points from some lefty website, probably titled, Blogging for Liberal Dummies. Wait, that may be redundant, we can eliminate one word.
Dai Alanye | 1.4.11 @ 1:51PM
"...rebuilding America's infrastructure..."
Let's all thank Gaea that Obama's shovel-ready projects saved our infrastructure from Dubya's eight years of neglect.
Oldefarte| 1.4.11 @ 2:06PM
The 'B' obviously stands for BULLEXCREMENT, because that is precisely what you are attempting to spread. The WELFARECARE that he passed was intended for the thirty million indigents that are too poor or too stupid to purchase their own health insurance. The CORPORATE TAX BENEFITS enable millions of their employees to have PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS and not have to be WELFARE QUEENS of his PUBLIC GOVERNMENTAL RELIGION OF SOCIALISM. Tax cuts for the 5% that fund 75% of his GOVERNMENTAL SOCIALISM is always preferable to TAX CREDITS [ie welfare] to those now not even paying any taxes because of their stupidity and lack of income producing abilities, you say? Does your reference to 'infrastructure' spending include the exclusive WELFARE GOVERNMENTAL PAYMENTS TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT THAT ALLOWED SAME TO MAINTAIN THEIR UNIONIZED GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYMENT STATUS AND NOT HAVE TO LAY OFF SAME AS PRIVATE SECTOR EMPLOYERS HAVE HAD TO DO IN THIS DEMOCRAT CAUSED DEPRESSION? Go take Barry's WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION to his indigents and stick it where the sun don't shine!!!!
carnot| 1.4.11 @ 4:21PM
hey...I'm all for what you want! soon as the 49% of the leeches you favor pay into the system something approaching even pocket change!!!
take your class warfare rhetoric some place else.
A.M. Mallett| 1.4.11 @ 5:28PM
Stupid lies abound ...
People already pay for all healthcare under any system. Nothing is free.
There were no Bush social programs for corporations pushing jobs offshore.
The Bush tax cuts were across the board for all Americans and for years we were told by leftist liars that only the rich had their taxes cut. That seems to be quite the surprise now
Leftist-Liberals are at heart, liars.
kathy| 1.5.11 @ 12:46PM
Oops, this posted under the wrong post, Sorry. I totally agree with your statement
kathy| 1.5.11 @ 12:45PM
Did you forget who took over Congress in 2006? Pelosi and her cronis ... Debt in 2006 $8 Trillion, Debt in 2010 $13 Trillion?
sam bane| 1.5.11 @ 1:09PM
There are lots of wonderful comments here to dispute your inaccurate propaganda. All I can say in addition is that you and yours are total idiots.
Redstateboy| 1.4.11 @ 11:35AM
Hussein Obama a Socialist???!!!? Alert the Media!
oh... that's right - they already know and don't care because most of em' agree with.... Socialism is cool.
idalily| 1.4.11 @ 2:46PM
Hence the Che t-shirts that have been going around Hollywood, yet not a peep from any MSM journalist about who Che was.
A.M. Mallett| 1.4.11 @ 5:30PM
Che advocated having the Russians nuke the US and both he and Castro were mad as hell at them when they didn't.
jonrod| 1.5.11 @ 12:14PM
Of course there are. All of those free loaders out there that are recieving monthly checks for setting around on their duffs. Think that what anyone says about Obama that is negative they just shrug and assume its a lie.
Appleby| 1.4.11 @ 6:48AM
There are millions of people in America who have no idea what a socialist is, or why it is a dangerous thing to be if you have any power. I moved to Canada for assorted reasons, but one was a curiosity as to why socialism had never worked anywhere it had ever been tried. I have discovered that it doesnt work because it is designed not to work. A system that depends solely on looting the place to the ground will only work as long as there is anything left to loot. What the socialists never figure out is that loot is finite, and that they cannot make the people and things they loot produce any more. Proles have the idea firmly fixed that being a boss and running a business is easy. When the business is looted, the boss is gone, and the building is closed, the proles show up and expect it to regenerate itself; like Obama, they think running a business is all about taking vacations, buying expensive stuff and throwing parties.
JFGalt| 1.4.11 @ 7:58AM
Sounds a lot like Atlas Shrugged and exactly what is going on today.
idalily| 1.4.11 @ 2:50PM
Or Aesop's Goose That Laid Golden Eggs (also know as Atlas Shrugged, Cliff Notes version).
A.M. Mallett| 1.4.11 @ 5:30PM
You have read neither.
idalily| 1.4.11 @ 6:41PM
Umm, yes, I have.
JJ| 1.4.11 @ 6:52AM
DIVORCE AGREEMENT
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al:
We have stuck together since the late 1950's for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce....
I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course. Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way. Here is a model separation agreement:
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military.
We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and you can go with wind, solar and biodiesel. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell (You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them).
We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies and illegal aliens.
We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks. We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood .
You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.
You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.
We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values... You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N... But we will no longer be paying the bill.
We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find. You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors. We'll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right.
We'll keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the National Anthem. I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute Imagine, I'd like to Teach the World to Sing, Kum Ba Ya or We Are the World.
We'll practice trickle down economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot.
Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our flag.
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you answer which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.
Sincerely, John J. Wall Law Student and an American
P. S. Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Barbara Streisand, & Jane Fonda with you. P. S. S. And you won't have to press 1 for English when you call our country.
Brian Mc| 1.4.11 @ 7:18AM
Absolutely priceless, J.J.
The Mississippi has always been a nice divider. Let them choose first and then build a very tall wall along one of the banks and blow all the bridges! When the last bridge goes, it will be like the scene towards the end of "Enemy at the Gates" all vying for one of the last spots on the boats going over.
VBMax| 1.4.11 @ 9:14AM
"We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values... You are welcome to...... Scientology........"
BTW JJ, except for the Scientology part, I'm in total accord with your divorce agreement. I even wrote a short post on this the other day.
"The Creed of the Church of Scientology was written by L. Ron Hubbard shortly after the Church was formed in Los Angeles on February 18, 1954. After L. Ron Hubbard issued this creed from his office in Phoenix, Arizona, the Church of Scientology adopted it as its creed because it succinctly states what Scientologists believe.
That all men of whatever race, color or creed were created with equal rights"
WE of the Church Believe:
That all men have inalienable rights to their own religious practices and their performance;
That all men have inalienable rights to their own lives;
That all men have inalienable rights to their sanity;
That all men have inalienable rights to their own defense;
That all men have inalienable rights to conceive, choose, assist or support their own organizations, churches and governments;
That all men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others;
That all men have inalienable rights to the creation of their own kind;
That the souls of men have the rights of men;
That the study of the mind and the healing of mentally caused ills should not be alienated from religion or condoned in nonreligious fields;
And that no agency less than God has the power to suspend or set aside these rights, overtly or covertly.
And we of the Church believe:
That man is basically good;
That he is seeking to survive;
That his survival depends upon himself and upon his fellows and his attainment of brotherhood with the universe.
And we of the Church believe that the laws of God forbid man:
To destroy his own kind;
To destroy the sanity of another;
To destroy or enslave another’s soul;
To destroy or reduce the survival of one’s companions or one’s group.
And we of the Church believe:
That the spirit can be saved and
That the spirit alone may save or heal the body.
L. Ron Hubbard
Founder of Scientology
LiveFreeOrDie| 1.4.11 @ 11:41AM
Your religion was made up by a fiction writer, but of course you knew that. And your "beliefs" all sound good but you don't actually practice them now do you?
"ENEMY SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 18 October 1967
"Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality."
- L. Ron Hubbard, DIANETICS AND SCIENTOLOGY TECHNICAL DICTIONARY, copyright 1975, reprinted 1987, p. 370
"Show me any person who is critical of us and I'll show you crimes and intended crimes that would stand a magistrate's hair on end."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, 4 April 1965
"If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 15 August 1960, Dept. of Govt. Affairs
"The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly."
- L. Ron Hubbard, A MANUAL ON THE DISSEMINATION OF MATERIAL, 1955
"People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organisations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear."
- L. Ron Hubbard, MANUAL OF JUSTICE, 1959
"So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes."
- L. Ron Hubbard, MANUAL OF JUSTICE, 1959
"A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 1 March 1965, HCO (Division 1) "Ethics, Suppressive Acts, Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists"
"There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves."
- L. Ron Hubbard, KEEPING SCIENTOLOGY WORKING. 7 February 1965, reissued 27 August 1980
"In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints."
- L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, 1989 Ed., p. 145 [The "Tone Scale" is Scientology's measure of mental and spiritual health.]
"There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow."
- L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 170
"Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor."
- L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 159
"I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys."
- L. Ron Hubbard in a 1967 letter to his wife, written during the period when he was creating Scientology''s secret "upper levels." (Bent Corydon and L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. a.k.a. Ronald DeWolf, L. RON HUBBARD: MESSIAH OR MADMAN? Random House 1989)
"THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them."
- L. Ron Hubbard, "Off the Time Track," lecture of June 1952, excerpted in JOURNAL OF SCIENTOLOGY issue 18-G, reprinted in TECHNICAL VOLUMES OF DIANETICS & SCIENTOLOGY, vol. 1, p. 418
"Scientology...is not a religion."
- L. Ron Hubbard, CREATION OF HUMAN ABILITY, 1954, p. 251
"I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is."
- L. Ron Hubbard to Lloyd Eshbach, in 1949; quoted by Eshbach in OVER MY SHOULDER: REFLECTIONS ON A SCIENCE FICTION ERA, Donald M. Grant Publisher. 1983
There's a thousand more ridiculous things this man has said. Go sell your 'psyintology' BULLSHIT somewhere else!
idalily| 1.4.11 @ 3:04PM
Scientology, IMO, is a crock of crap, but in the American I believe in and want to continue living in, people have every right to believe in it if they so choose, as long as my tax dollars don't fund it and they don't endanger others in their practice of it. Ditto for Islam. Our Constitution defines this principle in the First Amendment, to wit: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
Unlike some, I do not believe we are a Christian nation. There is no mention of Christ in either the Declaration or Constitution. We are, however, a nation that values and respects the religions of our citizens enough to allow them to practice their faith unencumbered. That, among other things, is what makes America exceptional.
beebop| 1.4.11 @ 9:18PM
Hallelujah.
darcy| 1.5.11 @ 3:58AM
To idalily:
I want you to spend a couple of weeks over at gatesofvienna.blogspot.com and then come back and report to us your findings as to the religion of peace.
Oh, and while you're at it, please visit Ben Hart's escapetyranny.com and access his six excellent videos, each about nine minutes long, that summarize his book, Faith and Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty.
Methinks you've been too much lingering in PC la-la land.
Cordially,
darcy
idalily| 1.5.11 @ 2:53PM
Darcy, I recognize the evil that is radical Islam. I do not believe them to be a religion of peace at all. But to American jurisprudence, my belief is irrelevant. American citizens whose faith is Islam have the right to practice that faith here freely, provided they do not break the law or hurt others. Period. Like it or lump it. The First Amendment is very clear. There's the rub, folks, of liberty and freedom.
darcy| 1.5.11 @ 3:22PM
Islam seeks conquest. It intends our destruction. This is a "religion" that threatens our lives. You are foolish to imagine that Islam has any respect for our Constitution except to use it to overtake us.
It must be opposed, not nurtured, not allowed to undermine those very freedoms you so heartily endorse and enjoy.
Deal with it. And your two weeks over at gatesofvienna.com are not up yet.
RCV| 1.5.11 @ 5:14PM
Well said.
RCV| 1.5.11 @ 5:15PM
...Well said, idalily.
darcy| 1.5.11 @ 6:44PM
You won't mind at all then when Sharia replaces the Constitution, will you, RCV?
Of course not. One god is as good as any other. It's the sincerety that counts? Or have I read too much into your many posts?
RCV| 1.5.11 @ 7:15PM
Sharia, or any other religious law, will not replace our Constitution, Darcy. That's why we have a First Amendment. And there's only one God for me. But everyone has to make that choice for themselves.
darcy| 1.5.11 @ 10:25PM
The First Amendment is the very tool Muslims will use to force their numbers on us and overturn our system of government.
RCV| 1.5.11 @ 11:15PM
What is your suggestion, darcy? That the government publish a list of religions that Americans are not allowed to believe in? You don't see a constitutionality problem with such an approach?
darcy| 1.5.11 @ 11:37PM
I'm glad you asked that question, RCV, because I can refer you to an article that addresses this very thing.
Here it is: http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/012935.html
Perhaps you will read it and discuss its merits or demerits, as you see them. I do apologize for the unintended hi-jacked thread.
RCV| 1.6.11 @ 12:17AM
Thanks for the link, Darcy. I did read the article and I must confess I found the proposal frightening in the extreme. The notion that we should amend Madison's handiwork in the FirstAmendment to prohibit any American from exercising their human right to profess the religion they believe in, whether it is Islam, Judaism, Christianity or Scientology, is utterly abhorent to me
darcy| 1.6.11 @ 1:47AM
At least you read it. As for me, I see Islam -- not the others -- as a threat to our nation's survival as a free country. No other religion is both ritualistic and political/economic at core, but also teaches lying to "infidels," and seeks to forceably convert the world. If you doubt that, then I offer you the internet to explore that concept. Just one small example: 1960, 600,000 Muslims in Europe; today, more than 30 million -- and Europeans are not bearing children at replacement rate.
I wonder how it is that so many Westerners will not face the ramifications of such a religion on their societies. You keep referring to the Constitution in ways that lead one to believe that in order to uphold our Constitution (which, by the by, has already -- sadly -- been chipped away at rather badly) we must also submit ourselves to creeping sharia that will in the long run be the total death of our Constitution. I just don't get it.
But then, you are, if I'm not mistaken, a liberal.
darcy| 1.6.11 @ 6:10AM
This may interest you as well, RCV:
WASHINGTON – Another headache has emerged for the largest annual gathering of conservatives slated for next month.
With the Conservative Political Action Conference under fire for allowing participation by a homosexual activist group called GOProud and for a financial scandal in which some $400,000 was misappropriated under the watch of current leadership, Frank Gaffney, a leader of the conservative movement for the last 30 years, charges that CPAC has come under the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is working to bring America under Saudi-style Shariah law.
. . .
"Gaffney also accuses another ACU board member, leading conservative political organizer Grover Norquist, of helping the Muslim Brotherhood spread its influence in the nation's capital."
Read more: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?f.....eId=247341
RCV| 1.6.11 @ 11:56AM
Darcy, do you simply accept everything you read, no matter how ludicrous? A guy makes the pretty silly charge that CPAC -- a conservative group, and not my cup of tea -- "has come under the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood (!!!!) and is working to bring America under ... Sharia law."
That's silliness of the most ludicrous sort. And you want me to scuttle the Founding Fathers' gift to us of the Bill of Rights?
darcy| 1.6.11 @ 3:00PM
There are none so foolish as those who refuse to see. As I said, the entire internet is at your disposal to research for yourself what is going on.
And it's not as if I am going to do the work for you and post every known instance of "creeping sharia." Even in Oklahoma, the clear will of the voters to exclude the use of sharia law in judicial decisions was attacked by CAIR and forestalled, as always, using our own law against us.
I am really beginning to get the idea that you are being deliberately obtuse because at heart you see no problem with our trending toward an ultimate Islamic state, but for the cost to you of your First Amendment rights.
Scuttling the Bill of Rights is not the issue here: Preserving it is -- against a committed, well-funded, and growing effort to undermine it, not by those raising the alarm, but by those who seek to use it against us. You've been alerted.
Margie| 1.7.11 @ 12:05AM
Well done, darcy, keep shouting the truth from the mountaintops. I notice RCV has stepped away from the debate, heh.
Ya know, the typical retort of the Leftist when you present the truth in a clear and truthful manor is to either insult your intelligence or...insult your intelligence.
They either tell you you're hallucinating or out of your mind.. some even seek to actively destroy you.
As to your information concerning Grover Norquist~ I know of what you speak. Dig beneath the surface heh, or just do an online search to find out more about him. Michele Malkin exposed him as well.
There's definately some unsavory individuals trying to infiltrate the conservative movement.. including some who post here are among them. They know who they are. Those who ally themselves with the anti-war, anti-Israel crowd and Adam Kokesh, who works with the Code Pink group. The pro-Palestinian, blame America Firsters.. quite a nasty bunch.
They wish to silence me but I refuse.. they will keep having to ban me here, and elsewhere.
They are not to be welcomed... unless they repent.
darcy| 1.5.11 @ 10:25PM
The First Amendment is the very tool Muslims will use to force their numbers on us and overturn our system of government.
darcy| 1.5.11 @ 10:55PM
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/003199.html
"Freedom House recently published a report about the Saudi-funded propagation of virulent anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-Jewish exterminationist ideology in thousands of Saudi-funded Wahhabi mosques throughout the U.S. The Bush administration has done nothing about this, but continues to admit Saudi immigrants and travelers into the U.S. and to maintain good relations with the Saudi Kingdom. At the same time, there has been no elite or popular protest, either over the Wahhabist fifth column or our government's non-response to it. No protest--in this country where we self-importantly tell ourselves that we are at "war" with Islamo-fascism. That's some "war," isn't it? It's a war that consists of our promoting elections in far-away countries of which we know nothing, while we permit our mortal enemies to operate at will inside our country."
Margie| 1.5.11 @ 12:07PM
"There is no mention of Christ in either the Declaration or Constitution."
Ah, but you are wrong, idalily.
The word the Framers used when saying in the Declaration"
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator.."
Creator includes Christ, as He is the Creator.
As it is written:
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made." Jn. 1:1-3.
As referenced also in Genesis 1:26:
"Then God said, "Let us make Man in our image.."
I bet you didn't know that. That is why we Christians proclaim, Jesus Christ is Lord.
The Founding Fathers always mentioned God or Providence or the Creator and they knew that this country needed to acknowledge Him in setting up this country and in their own lives.
To say otherwise just isn't true.
And while we are a free country and you can practice your own way of living and thinking and believing the Founding Fathers also knew that a people who were immoral couldn't and wouldn't prosper.
See my below quotation of what John Adams said.
idalily| 1.5.11 @ 2:50PM
No, Christ is not the Creator in the Declaration. He is the Creator, IN YOUR OPINION, but you are not everyone. And unless you are suggesting that we live under the same sort of Sharia that radical Islam forces, you cannot legislate YOUR OPINION onto me or any other American. What part of the First Amendment do you not understand?
Margie| 1.5.11 @ 3:20PM
According to the Bible, Christ IS the Creator.
Now, just because YOU don't like it, doesn't change the truth.
Now, please knock off the insincere accusations. You're sounding like a Leftist.. RCV in fact.
RCV| 1.5.11 @ 3:34PM
Peace be with you, Margie.
Margie| 1.5.11 @ 3:55PM
There is no peace apart from war, and there is no compromising with liars.
RCV| 1.6.11 @ 11:58AM
Do you actually read what you write before you post it? "There is no peace apart from war"??? That doesn't even make sense, Margie.
Margie| 1.6.11 @ 1:59PM
Spare me, RCV:
If conservatives don't FIGHT you LEFTISTS in word and in speech~ we are doomed as a country.
And you know what I said is true.
More disingenuousness from you today, hmm?
Margie| 1.6.11 @ 2:04PM
Correction: In word and in deed!
Meaning fighting your Leftist policies and preventing them from happening in the first place.
darcy| 1.5.11 @ 3:36PM
Margie: It will take some time for idalily to be disabused of her distorted conclusions regarding our Founding. That's why I packed her off to escapetyranny.com (as above) for some re-education time.
However, while Christians certainly do understand Jesus as God as Creator, the framers were loathe to draw that exact parallel in deference to their design not to create a theocracy, as such a clear linkage would tend to do.
And her reference to sharia reveals how quickly some people jump to the unsupportable position that to acknowledge the Christian Roots of Our American Liberties is to seek to impose theocratic government. These people live in PC la-la land, and they have a reflexive anti-Christian bias; they do however tend to be quite happy with the "dead" church, the church that preaches a social gospel and achieving social justice as roads to earthly redemption but with no belief in a real heaven or hell.
Margie| 1.5.11 @ 3:54PM
"However, while Christians certainly do understand Jesus as God as Creator, the framers were loathe to draw that exact parallel in deference to their design not to create a theocracy, as such a clear linkage would tend to do."
Well darcy, I will have to disagree with you there, unless you can point me to something they specifically said to that effect. Any references to this?
The thing is that what you said doesn't really make sense because if that were the case, (them being afraid of creating a theocracy), then they wouldn't have even used the term Creator, indicating God.
And I point to the Biblical truth because it is the truth, and let's just say that even if the Framers didn't understand or know that Jesus is the Creator, He still is, and it can still be pointed out as fact to those who try and discredit Him, and try to say that Christ is not involved.
Christianity and Christ is what they cannot bear and at the very mention of His Name the accusations fly.
You want a theocrasy!
No, we want to acknowledge God and that includes Christ since He is God, in the Founding of our country.
If it weren't for Christ, they wouldn't have the free country they get to curse Him with.
I love your posts and know I can speak my mind. What do you think about what I said?
darcy| 1.5.11 @ 4:56PM
My comment you cite is based on what they actually did, not on any specific statements that they made (and am aware of), AND the historical setting.
Since the free-exercise of religion is part of their very first Amendment, and since they eschewed the establishment of a specific religion -- as was done in England -- they understood also that many of their countrymen were irreligious and so took pains to honor God while not imposing a specific Christocentric slant on our Founding documents. In this manner both Christians and pagans, as well as the scant number of Jews and people of other religions in America at the time were not UNDER a Christocentric government.
We know that even among the so-called god-acknowledging framers that many were deists; they were not about to concede -- under the unbrella of our country's framing documents -- that Christ also is God; thus they ensured that American citizens could be free to be religious or not, according to the dictates of their consciences.
But what we have today is alltogether different; the government -- through its activist judges, primarily -- is actively suppressing the entire notion of God as the source of our existence. And you rightly note by your Adams' quotes, that today's "political" climate rejects the God-oriented worldview held by Adams and others among our Founders.
As believing Christians, we understand that our freedom is God's gift and that Christ is God; but remember also we are to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's -- and that Christ's kingdom is not of this world. We know that even the disciples made this mistake, of thinking Jesus was an earthly king.
We really can't expect an unbelieving world to bow down to our Christ, not for the present anyway; that will come at the end of time.
I think that to insist that unbelievers acknowledge Christ flies in the face of fact that the world hated Christ and will hate us too; and we are to expect persecution in his name. We share in the sufferings of Christ.
Margie| 1.5.11 @ 5:49PM
A lot of false accusations mixed in there, darcy.
You say "what they actually did."
What they actually did was name the Creator.
It is important to note to any rebellious human being, whether they like it or not that when they say with their mouths that that does not include Christ, that they are sorely mistaken, according to the Scripture.
And I really don't appreciate the condescending preaching:
"As believing Christians, we understand that our freedom is God's gift and that Christ is God; but remember also we are to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's -- and that Christ's kingdom is not of this world. We know that even the disciples made this mistake, of thinking Jesus was an earthly king."
Poppycock! I do no such thing. Sad that you join the ranks of the RCV's in scolding another Christian who mightily defends the Truth.
And if Christians do not "insist" upon the truth to the unbeliever, then who will?
darcy| 1.5.11 @ 6:03PM
I meant no condescension. Apparently I misunderstood the thrust of your comments. While in personal witnessing we Christians would obviously speak the truth in love to unbelievers that our Creator is God and Christ is God.
I thought I was making it clear, though, in my remarks that it wasn't the intent of the Framers to be theologians in the same manner, as they had a government to administer, and not a church.
And it is really beneath you, Margie, to "scold" me for seeking to answer your questions as honestly as I could. If you believe that RCV and I have similar views about the nature of Christian faith, then I can only say that both he and I would object, though he may rightly fault me for speaking for him in that assessment.
Margie| 1.5.11 @ 6:46PM
"Let all that you do be done in love." 1 Cor. 16:14.
Sounds good to me. That's why I "insisted" to idalily that Creator includes Christ.
Now, I never ever said or indicated anything to the effect that the Framers would want, or meant to have a theocracy, EVER.
I am not a liar and would not misrepresent them. I am in full agreement with the Founding Fathers.. and like I said and always say when talking about this subject~ they knew and understood fully that a nation without God and a moral people couldn't last and we are seeing that now.
The Leftists always accuse me, and conservatives of like mind of both being unloving by speaking Biblically, and also accuse us of "wanting a theocrasy" for standing on the same moral principles that the Founders did.
Just like they twist the founding documents to suit their immoral leanings, they must try and twist our words.. and those two accusations are their favorites.
Conservatives, and especially conservative Christians just shouldn't be allowed to speak the truth, we should just shut up. When we do speak up it must be because we're trying to force them into a theocracy!
They do not know or understand then, what the Founders did, and ought to read them in their own words.
Now that we have that cleared up.
Margie| 1.5.11 @ 7:21PM
Rephrase to be clear: They do not know or understand then, what the Framers did (understood), and ought to read them in their own words.
Add: It was not that they wanted a theocrasy at all, they wanted freedom from a government run Religion, and that is why they the form of government we have exists today. They were against government setting up one Religion, and the people are free to choose their own.
It is freedom of Religion, not freedom from Religion.
The Left wants freedom FROM Religion in the name of "separation of church and state" which they twist to mean same.
But they also understood that without a God fearing people, we would not last.
"Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure than they have it now, They may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty. They will only exchange Tyrants and Tyrannies." John Adams.
Isn't it sad how the Left tries to twist what the Founders knew? That apart from God the Creator we wouldn't prosper. I really wish more people would read the Founders own words.
Wikiquotes.com is an exceelnt place to start.
Margie| 1.5.11 @ 8:13PM
I love you, darcy. I apologize if we got or if I got some wires crossed here. Forgive me.
Here is another Founding Father's quote or two that I love:
"Patrick Henry:
"Orator of the Revolution."
• This is all the inheritance I can give my dear family. The religion of Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed.”
—The Last Will and Testament of Patrick Henry
“It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” [May 1765 Speech to the House of Burgesses]
~Patrick Henry
“The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed.”
~Patrick Henry.
See, idalily.. conservative Christians are in agreement with the Founding Fathers, who were in agreement with God, and yes, that does include Christ.
darcy| 1.5.11 @ 9:08PM
I appreciate your thoughtful reply, Margie. Sometimes we spar a bit, but at heart we share a common bond: our Christian faith. Let us not forget that as we go forward.
May we also be constant in prayer for the well-being of our country, that we may continue to enjoy our religious liberties, knowing full well that even that is at risk by constant assaults from the left which knows no god except the state.
I wonder if John Boehner fully understands the forces arrayed against "our side"?
Margie| 1.5.11 @ 9:46PM
darcy,
Thank you so much for your kind reply, and I agree that we share a common bond in Christ. I'm encouraged by you every time you stop by here. You and Ken (OldTex) are my faves. OldeFarte and Mimi too.
I do hope John Boehner fully understands the forces that are arrayed.. sometimes a man may not appear like he does), and I think many mistake his emotionalness with weakness), but then they surprise you. I am glad he is the new Speaker instead of the despicable Democrat, and will be praying for him.. to stay strong. As Christians we know that the strength of a man isn't based on his emotions, but on his relationship with his Creator.
I'll join you in that prayer for our country, along with millions of other Christians throughout the world. In Jesus' Name.
God bless.
VBMax| 1.4.11 @ 12:11PM
Fortunately, one can completely bypass any smear merchants and find out about its true beliefs and practices at the official website at www.scientology.org (if one is so inclined)
NavyBrat | 1.4.11 @ 12:39PM
Right. Just like if I wanted to know what Obama was REALLY up to, I could go to the White House website. And of course, everything there is true (snark, snark).
LiveFreeOrDie| 1.4.11 @ 1:57PM
You beat me to it!
/sarc
Yes, please ignore all the facts about L.Ron and his cult of insanity and focus on our propaganda.
/end sarc
Margie| 1.4.11 @ 2:46PM
It is good that you posted the truth about L.R. Mother Hubbard (sorry, I couldn't resist).
He was a fraud as well as his phony so called Religion, but the people want to be deceived won't care about the facts, sadly.
When I was around 18 yrs. old my boyfriend and I were in NYC on our way to a concert, and a couple of his people came up to us and invited us to come over to their place (office) for a personality test. I was intrigued because I was into psychology and took a class on it in high school, and did a lot of reading on my own. I was into figuring out what made people tick.. I was seeking the truth and thirsted for it. So I convinced him to go. After the test I went into a room with a fellow who began telling me the results of this test. he said I was fearful.. well, I could have told him that! The thing that was weird though, as I asked him what could I do about this fear was that he said there was some kind of electrical thingy they could do to my brain.. I honestly can't remember exactly, but he made it sound so wonderful. I started reading that paperback book he put out and there was some truth in it, mostly about human nature~ he had some understanding about how it worked.. but so would any adult who's been around the block a few dozen times.
So what happened? God intervened in my life and introduced me to Christ and I began a personal relationship with Him.. and discovered not only the reason for living, but the understanding of exactly why human beings do what we do.
The God shaped vacuum that i in the human heart that Pascal spoke about. It's true. And only He can fill it.
“There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus”. ~ Blaise Pascal.
"For God so loved the world that He gave his only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life." Jn. 3:16.
RCV| 1.5.11 @ 1:08AM
Why am I not surprised that you found Scientology intriquing?
Margie| 1.5.11 @ 11:50AM
When you too become an adult, you will learn how to read.
In the meantime do fill us in on why you find Socialism and Marxism and loving Obama and choosing to be a Leftist liar I mean lawyer intriguing!
RCV| 1.5.11 @ 12:34PM
I don't. I abhor Marxism, and know socialism to be an unworkable and non-productive system. But unlike you, I know what those terms mean. As for why I have found being a lawyer intriquing, that's easy. I've enjoyed helping people protect their rights guaranteed under our glorious Constitution, the most ingenious and liberty-preserving document ever produced by a society. The churches, companies, individual people whom I've been able to help have been grateful for the service provided, and that pleases me.
AllieM| 1.5.11 @ 12:00PM
Well stated and great testimony!
Margie| 1.5.11 @ 12:10PM
Thanks. Allie! There's a lot more to my testimony, too. If you want to read it you can do a search under my name here. Or not. :^)
Dai Alanye | 1.4.11 @ 1:55PM
I'd go to the Scientology website except my personal Thetan advisor has ordered me not to.
Stormzeye| 1.4.11 @ 1:02PM
Great post! Good luck in your career, from a recovering lawyer.
dw| 1.4.11 @ 2:37PM
The most interesting curiosity of that construct would be the question of how long it would take before the marxist were knocking on our door in need of financial assistance, having run their "car" into the ground.
BTW I knew Obama was a socialist the day he spoke to the Democratic National Convention and warned person after person of what would be coming if he was elected. Those so deposed just would not accept that possibility, including some so called bright millionaires. Everything I predicted has come true including the backlash with these last elections. Now the backlash must continue through and beyond 2012. The collectivist principle is a destroyer of people's will and freedom and it's absolute destruction must occur once and for all.
This is a war we are in and one we can not lose.
Larry B| 1.5.11 @ 9:44AM
I am so stealing this... I will give you full credit but my friends have gotta read it. Awesome bit of prose JJ.
Clint| 1.4.11 @ 6:53AM
"Conservatives account for 42% of the vote, and in the recent election the independents, the second most numerous group at 29% of the electorate, broke the conservatives' way. They were alarmed by the deficit. They will be alarmed for a long time."
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates Right Now.
Seize The Bridgeheads And Advance The Attack.
Carpe Diem.
logmank| 1.4.11 @ 6:59AM
If the Conservative agenda is dependant on John Boehner to be advanced, we're in deep doo-doo. This man has all the courage and spine of a piece of wet pasta. Further, he has no grasp of the extent of the battle to be waged.
R Martin| 1.4.11 @ 8:32AM
Boehner's appointment of Fred Upton to head the Energy & Commerce Committee suggests your concern is valid. Republicans could make lasting inroads with voters if they developed and championed a workable hydrocarbon energy policy. Such a policy would be a huge economic boost, create permanent high paying jobs, strengthen the dollar and address the concerns Eric Peters raises in his article today. The Upton appointment shows Boehner is not thinking in this direction at all.
Stan Redmond| 1.4.11 @ 11:48AM
WRONG! The last thing we need is more government officials making policies for more government officials to do 'something'. You have fallen in to the trap that government is the solution to government goof-ups.
"Create high paying permanent jobs?" What the hell do you think a New York unionized sanitation worker is?
R Martin| 1.4.11 @ 1:39PM
Broaden your thinking a bit, Stan. Undoing a government goof-up is not another goof-up. I was simply referring to a policy which recognizes the abundant energy resources in this country and allows for those resources to be developed, refined and marketed. That is a private sector solution, not a government solution.
And, yes, the energy industry is filled with good, high paying jobs which are in no way comparable to a New York unionized sanitation worker. Perhaps I should have added the word "productive".
Stan Redmond| 1.4.11 @ 5:22PM
Perhaps you should rethink your demand for government to "create permanent high paying jobs." The government thinks all the permanent high paying jobs are productive and extremely important. And they sure have 'created' lots of them.
Rework that thought to say, "Get government out of the way of private enterprises' ability to create high paying job.
Bruce| 1.5.11 @ 7:31PM
I absolutely agree with you, sir. Further - McConnell is another lightweight we conservatives have good reason to be wary of to advance our agenda of low/no taxes, fiscal responsibility, and small government. I have no faith in either of these clowns.
Clint| 1.4.11 @ 7:06AM
Tea Party To Boehner:
" Lead, Follow or Get The Hell Outta The Way"
daddio| 1.4.11 @ 11:37AM
Mostly he needs to get the hell outta the way.
idalily| 1.4.11 @ 3:08PM
Jeez, people, give the guy a chance. He hasn't even been sworn in yet!
coal carrier| 1.4.11 @ 7:20AM
“…. his belief that government spending is a source of economic growth, a superstition of the old-line Keynesians that you can rob some people and give to other people and somehow magically create prosperity.”
Ron Paul: End The Fed
This is exactly what Obama believes. He is a socialist, regardless of what he claims.
Mimi| 1.4.11 @ 7:42AM
OMG Jeffrey Lord you outdid even yourselve on this one....A CERTAIN MUST-READ !!
TAS posts has been at the forefront in this " BATTLE" for almost 2 years...ie " commie", and "pardon the shorthand" . The many PATRIOTS...from early - on felt it in their BONES.
I can only say....May God HELP and BLESS this new speaker and CONGRESS..(soldiers). The "LIGHT" shines on the enemy within.
Ken (Old Texican)| 1.4.11 @ 7:42AM
Mr. Lord,
I have been posting here since May of 2008. In most every post I have used the term "communists",and faithfully added the parenthetical "(pardon the shorthand)" .
Is Mr. Kurtz a slow learner or what?
If we were not armed as a citizenry, Mr. Obama and crew would have already finished "their work".
If it were not for Rush, Hannity, et al. plus The American Spectator et al. the communists, (pardon the shorthand), would be much further along in their bolshevik revolution.
We have some articulate posters on this very site who are pushing that bolshevik revolution every day here, and trying to call it something else.
They are traitors to our constitutional republic.
Nevertheless, I personally welcome them here. I like to de-construct their non-logic and "velvet hatred" for the free society that developed the internet, their computers, and has provided them the highest standard of living in history.
Our poorest citizens can have a life that would be the envy of any king in history before America, and yet these idiots can't seem to grasp that.
They are the ones who hope to join the communist party, I suppose, and somehow get all the free goodies thereby.
I am very well aware of the congressional staffers (on both sides of the aisle) that read your columns, and our comments as well.
I had an opportunity recently to thank Mr. Regnery personally for your collective(heh, may I use that word?).......courage, and for your open forum.
Honorable constitutionalists all across our congress use us as their stethoscope to hear the heartbeat of America.
Since they do, I hope they can sense the quiet desperation in our minds, and the quiet determination in our hearts to turn our country around.
We have given the Republicans one last throw of the dice.
If they can't screw up their courage to represent us, they will be replaced...one way or another.
Best regards
Mike D.| 1.4.11 @ 8:26AM
The one thing the left has done well in the learning institutions of this country is cloak and sanitize the evil that is Communism and its resultent deaths of tens of millions by starvation and labor camps. Communism/Marxism is just mankinds latest invention to pave the road to slavery and totalitarianism. When you have a US youth base that is intentionally history retarded by its schooling system, communism(packaged in so many warm and fuzzy terms) is SO easy to sell. Its the answer to all mankinds shortcomings. Social justice, social equality, equeal distribution of wealth, end of greed, the great answer to everything thats wrong with the world. How could anybody disagree with all that?
I'll give the leftist credit for the one great accomplishment in America that is awesome. Sanitizing the Stalins, Maos, Castros, north Koreans, Che Guevaras, Pol Pots, and the rest of the Communist thugs that sents countless millions to their deaths in the 20th century is a work of art.
I remember a line from the movie Dr. Zhivago. Yuri and his brother are discussing the revolution and its purpose. Yuri says to his brother "you lay life on the table and cut out the tumors of injustice. Thats a deep operation" Yeah, about 6 feet deep for millions.
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 1.4.11 @ 8:57AM
Hey Ken: Happy New Year!! I've been accused many times these past few years, of being a glass half-empty type of guy, but going into this new year, I think I'm now a glass half-full guy. The Enemy has been identified, the Troops are done training, and the Battle is about to begin, and like Bobby Duvall said in Apocalypse Now, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning". The odds are in our favor, let's roll!!
Ken (Old Texican)| 1.4.11 @ 2:41PM
Lullabys.....
And a happy new year for you. Sir. Would you please pass it along to your mates..."Thank youse guys for standing guard at the gates. We have your backs."
Chef Schanuzer| 1.4.11 @ 7:57AM
I only believe actions. The TAN SNIVELER can say anything it wants it is the nature of these DC creatures to cave. It is the nature of these parasites to distort, lie and steal. The people keep electing vapid losers who think that compromising away principles and values shows some sort of Liberal-Approved wisdom..... Hey, Sniv - and all the little snivlets - we are coming to crunch time and you have a choice. You can face an almighty fury building in the electorate that you WILL either manage or fall to, or, you can continue the back slapping B*LLSH*T that makes the federal district disgusting. WE DIDN'T SEND YOU THERE TO GET ALONG, for the love of Christ: Stand for somthing, Be something.
Stephie| 1.4.11 @ 1:33PM
Be the Party of NO!!!!!
idalily| 1.4.11 @ 3:14PM
This is the sort of name-calling crap that progressives spill every day. We don't need it from each other. And like it or not, we do not have a majority in BOTH houses, nor a conservative POTUS. We can stop the bleeding but little else for now. Please stop making demands that cannot at this time be fulfilled. We do not have the Senate.
carnot| 1.4.11 @ 4:31PM
but we can set up the dynamic that all but guarantees Senate majority in 2012.
darcy| 1.5.11 @ 4:26AM
idalily dear, your god is too small.
Demand we sure as hell will do. I can assure you that anything less will only encourage the Washington weasels to cave at every single point of friction with the Democrats and the media.
And now a quote from President Garfield:
"Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature."
darcy| 1.5.11 @ 5:18AM
To finish the Garfield quote:
"If the next centennial does not find us a great nation…it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.”
idalily| 1.5.11 @ 3:00PM
I'm not saying roll over. I'm saying there's only so much that can legally be done AT THIS TIME. My standards and expectations are high, but I also think that FOR NOW it's perfectly ok to give the R's the benefit of the doubt. And name calling our own is what the progressives do. We don't need to engage in that sort of juvenile crap. It accomplishes nothing.
And, you know nothing of my relationship with God, so don't pretend you do. And don't call me dear.
darcy| 1.5.11 @ 3:40PM
They don't need the benefit of the doubt; they need a fire lit under them.
Hot and constant.
Chef Schnauzer| 1.6.11 @ 7:16AM
Hows about Sweetcakes, dear? Since the end of WWII and particularly since the Johnson Grand Theft administrations (from Texas Teachers College to 27 television stations) Those of us who create jobs, create new communities have put up with the low life political b*llsh*t because (as in my case) we were working 14 - 16 hours a day 7 days a week building and creating our factories, businesses and communities in spite of the 'cardinal sin' parasites that have sold us to the Chinks lock stock and barrel - Bushs did it, Clinton did it and Holier than thou O'Bama did it. Now those of us west of the Hudson and East of the Rockies are left to pull the country out of the mess that the elites in Washington and Wall St. created. Until d**che bags like idalily realize that government has never created a job (personally I have well over 400), government has never created wealth (I have and lost it too several times!) they just put a gun to my head and steal the wealth I created and government never has to live with the b*llsh*t regulation and law it creates the limp little cowards exempt themselves from the laws the choke down my throat - - - don't whine and wring your Tan Snivvler Comemoritive hankie about fairness - that ship sailed - that ship sailed a damn long time ago - when has the voter been treated the respect or fairness ? Enough is enough.
post*tenebras*lux| 1.4.11 @ 8:13AM
Speaker Boehner, TRUTH, TRUTH, TRUTH......that is the only thing Obowbow can't and won't refute! Don't get sucked into his web.
Sheri| 1.4.11 @ 11:55PM
I agree. We need to pray for the Speaker and his fellow Republicans every day.
JJ your post is priceless! I think we should keep the red states and give the liberals both the east and west coasts. The midwest can decide shich way it wants to go.
Margie| 1.5.11 @ 12:05AM
I have often imagined that in my mind.. telling the Leftists to go start their own states. Then I try and think ahead as to what would happen. Thing is, the same thing would happen as it is now. They'd leave their states because they would turn them into cesspools.. and they'd want back in ours.
I guess we could always build fortresses to keep them out. LOL. Ha, Fortress America!
Uh oh, watch out, RCV will be here any second to accuse me of hate speech. Of course I am not actually serious, but one can dream, right?
RCV| 1.5.11 @ 2:08AM
Here I am, Marge! We did go and start our own states: you know, the productive ones like California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts. The states where companies are started, ideas generated, books written; the states where well-adjusted, creative people understand that they live in a free and prosperous society and are thankful to God for that fact; the states where people don't pretend that they are oppressed and living in a socialist hell just because they didn't get their way at the last Presidential election. The states where people are tolerant of others different from themselves, and in fact realize that it is out of that diversity that our country's richness and strength grew.
darcy| 1.5.11 @ 4:29AM
Yeah, don't you just love those tolerant people in San Francisco, happy to see homosexuals give each other blow jobs during their gay pride parade. That's some diversity, I must say.
Margie| 1.5.11 @ 11:43AM
RCV's god is not the God of the Bible. The one he has created approves of sin. and therefore homosexuality. He is a liar therefore and calls God a liar as God does not approve.
The wonderful people who are producers in this great country are the ones who do make it work, and conservatives are the ones on their side. We are for free market capitalism, we are the ones who desire for every American to become as rich as they want to become with no punishment for doing so.
It is RCV's ilk.. and especially the Leftist lawyers like him who want to punish prosperity as he does as he promotes his idol, President Obama~ the destroyer of individual freedom in America.
Harsh words? Yes. As harsh as needed to oppose the deceit that he speaks.
RCV| 1.5.11 @ 2:08PM
May the Peace of the Lord be with you, Margie.
Margie| 1.5.11 @ 3:24PM
Which Lord, RCV? The one you created, or the real one?
RCV| 1.5.11 @ 3:33PM
There's only one God, Margie. The God of Abraham, the God who came to earth in human form in the person of Jesus Christ. May He bring you peace and contentment and good will toward your fellow man.
Margie| 1.5.11 @ 4:00PM
Well then if you believe that, and you left out Isaac and Joseph.. then quit lying and serve Him.
That's my good will towards you, RCV.
Melvin| 1.4.11 @ 8:16AM
A message to the New Speaker of the House:
John Boehner, your strength does not derive from the company of your colleagues, but from the people of this Nation who do not wish to succumb to tyranny.
We are your strength and we are your immovable wall, so command us and command us wisely, because you and we only have one shot at this.
When all seems dire we are here for you to fall back on and replenish your ranks, so John, you have but one choice is this matter, and that choice is? Give em Hell.
Louis Jenkins| 1.4.11 @ 8:35AM
There is a problem with supporting Boehner when he breaks out into tears everytime he has something to say. Can't take him seriously. There's a man standing before the USA all he can do is cry? We'll see what the man is made of, and pray he has some backbone. Otherwise, it will be every man and women for himself.
Melvin| 1.4.11 @ 8:51AM
You do have a point there Louis, but right now he is the only one we got, and we have to force him to reach down and see if he has a pair.
I note that I have been extremely critical of him, but now that he is about to get into the drivers seat, you and are reluctant passengers in his vehicle with no brakes.
All we can do is hope like hell that we don't run into anything.
Richard Baker| 1.4.11 @ 8:51AM
What's the old Chinese proverb, "a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step" or words to that effect? The new Speaker and his troops are just starting their journey. We, the People need to keep their feet to the fire and pay attention and support their positive steps and raise hell with their negatives. Ultimately, is this country worth fighting for or not?
Margie| 1.4.11 @ 12:56PM
YES it is worth fighting for and we will do whatever it takes.
Eventually the RINOS will be all voted out and conservatives will be elected.. as long as we DO what you said.. keep their feet to the fire!
I see lots of hope, and encouragement along the way, and we've only just begun to fight for real!!
yokit | 1.4.11 @ 9:00AM
I love this article, and agree all
NavyBrat | 1.4.11 @ 9:05AM
Boehner needs to read up on his Musashi, Sun Tsu, & Machiavelli in addition to Kurtz's book. This will be all out war. I've long thought that Obama & his crew are NOT stupid. Far from it. These folks play to win, whatever the cost. And when they knuckle under to whatever it may be, one needs to be thinking 20 steps ahead like they are. These folks are insidious schemers. And they are very close, as Mr. Lord & Mr. Kurtz point out, to accomplishing their goals. Buck up, my friends. Its gonna be a long, hard slog.
"It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war."...Lenin
This is the playbook they follow, folks.
R Martin| 1.4.11 @ 10:00AM
It is reported today that Boehner is proposing rules changes which will give the minority a greater role in leadership. This is not a good sign.
NavyBrat | 1.4.11 @ 10:39AM
How comforting. What's it gonna take for these pukes to get it?
daddio| 1.4.11 @ 11:42AM
Pitchforks and torches?
Kishego| 1.4.11 @ 11:52AM
We do have to be careful with repors like these. We know the lame stream media is always trying to fracture the party to create turmoil and dissent amongst the rank and file. But, when we find them to be true we HAVE to pour on the heat. We've seen it work when we all (conservatives) band together.
Bruce| 1.5.11 @ 7:40PM
I do believe this was tried once before, with predictable results. When are these morons going to get the idea that liberals think like asians and the muslim mideastern savages - the will to reach out is a sign of weakness, and weakness is to be exploited.
Anthony| 1.4.11 @ 9:31AM
Boehner and the Rs have a daunting task ahead of them with nasty obstacles in the way. The hard core lefty Ds, still led by Obozo, Pelosi and Reid will cry all sorts of lies and distortions that those "corrupt bastards" in the MSM will scream from the mountain tops.
These next two years will be vicious, to say the least, and the strain will be worse than now, however, Boehner and Co. must do the right thing here and restore representative government back to the people and away from the tzars and the unelected hacks in the back rooms of congress.
We demand no less and expect nothing less than "Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead". It is the sacred duty imparted to the Rs by the November election.
As Dan Rather used to say, "Courage"!!!! I say, God speed and remain resolute!!!
Sheri| 1.4.11 @ 11:57PM
Amen!
mames| 1.4.11 @ 9:56AM
Watch out for Boehner, he is not a true conservative and has a tendancy to be unstable.
uncle curmudgeon| 1.4.11 @ 10:04AM
Just so, Mr. Lord. These posts remind me of the Spartan mother's injuction to her son. We have now handed these politicians their new shields. Ladies and gentlemen, " With it or on it."
Jeff| 1.4.11 @ 10:27AM
enough with the "Boehner is useless" comments from the concerned trolls ...
let him screw up before declaring him screwed up you tools ...
You all act like you cast the deciding vote in all 63 freshman GOP House wins ...
Stop focusing on the day to day nonsense, give it a couple of months and then make a list of what has been done by the new House ... also make a list of what has not been done ... then grade the 2 lists ...
repeat this every couple of months ...
Then you can judge man ...
You are starting to act and sound like the Daily Kos or Huffpo ... children stamping their feet because they didn't get exactly what they wanted exactly when they wanted it ...
idalily| 1.4.11 @ 3:16PM
Agree 100%.
Mimi| 1.4.11 @ 10:31AM
You guys are on fire today.... have some faith in Boener...any-body raised in a family of 12 kids has got to have some SPUNK deep down somewhere...believe me..I raised 8 kids... the " PIE" pieces are small but HARDY,TOUGH & STRONG are the result....Have some TRUST...Looks like GOD put him in thisROLL and he will rise to the OCCASION.....Thats MY bet!
Mimi| 1.4.11 @ 10:37AM
MISPELL...ROLE not ROLL. Better quit while I'm ahead!
WRTolkas| 1.4.11 @ 11:51AM
Dear Mimi,
We know what you meant. Don't quit, you are too important to us.
Margie| 1.4.11 @ 1:05PM
Mimi,
A beautiful post by a beautiful person, and I couldn't agree with you more. Let's give this man a chance.
Ken (Old Texican)| 1.4.11 @ 10:42AM
Jeff,
Well spoken, Sir!
I would like to interject another thought 0n "crying".
I have been called upon to be a public speaker my entire adult life.
From eulogies, to stock-holder meetings, and everywhere in between. I was actually taught to AVOID certain terms that would cause me to choke up.
Everyone...Everyone... has memories that bring tears in bucketfulls...tears of remembrance, tears of passion, tears of pride, and tears of grief, tears of joy etc.
Evidently, our new speaker has not learned what his personal choke-up cues are and how to avoid them.
Give the man a break.
photo lady| 1.4.11 @ 1:07PM
I would rather follow a person who can show emotion because it shows he has a heart than a smiling crafty snake who leads us into the abyss.
idalily| 1.4.11 @ 3:18PM
Amen. Better a man who shows he is human than a cold, esoteric teleprompter reader.
proreason| 1.4.11 @ 10:52AM
It's worse than Kurtz portrays. You could make a case in the early 80's that European Socialism was an effective system. Thirty years later, the truth is far more obvious.
Obama isn't a Socialist, he is a hard-core Marxist, as told by the Occidental U marxist leader (now a converted Republican) who says that he wasn't a tag-a-long, he was a thought leader, and the form of marxism Obama argued for was the revolutionary kind. Now, people change their minds all the time. Has Obama ever said a single word to indicate he has changed his mind? nada
Every acquaintance the man has ever had has been a radical or marxist of some kind. He is hard-core to the bone. And he is obviously filled with hate. It's personal for this guy, who gives every indication that he thinks he got a raw deal in his life for about every reason conceivable.
And of course, he is a clinical malignant narcissist on top of all that. This is one sick sick puppy.
He's itching for a fight. He's about to get it.
JeffW| 1.4.11 @ 10:55AM
Everyone is on Boehner's back about him crying. Have you seen the state our country is in? It can be enough to make a grown man cry.
FTM| 1.4.11 @ 10:57AM
Hello Everyone,
I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm beyond any reasonable doubt, without question the biggest idiot to post on this forum.
I have been building cars for a living since 1986. Gots an engineering degree. Served a Navy enlistment. Gots a spouse of 26 years, two kids. House and three cars, all paid for. One kid just got her first job after graduating from college. I will be 50 in April, done gots the grand prize colonoscopy scheduled. Been a near perpetual combat mission.
The good thing about the colonoscopy is that they numb you up pretty good before the festivities start. I'm a BIG fan of getting numbed up.
What I should have done, and this just recently became apparent, was to have been totally useless. I should have had ten or twelve kids by six or eight wimmins. I should have a police record as long as my arm. I should be spending every waking minute either drunk or stoned or both. Perhaps for my birthday I could get stoned then drunk, just a change of pace.
I should be illiterate. If I were all of these things and whatever else that I can think of to be in order to be a walking, talking persilence on society's collective backside I would be living on the fat of the land. I'd be disabled because of my sundry addictions. I'd be further disabled because of all my percieved and diagnosed learning and/or social disabilities. (Sorry, "Challenges")
I'd be sitting on my useless backside in my taxpayer funded public housing unit, dreaming little dreams of the next taxpayer subsidy check, looking to score my next bag of whatever the guy on the corner is selling this week.
I'd get a tax return.
I'd have probably thrown my back from going out and looking in the mail box for dat check. I'd have got me one of them public defender, activist lawyers to sue those housing people for making me bend over to look in the mail box. Get me a couple of activist preachers and some community organizers, get me some signs to march on dem muthas.
I'd probably have been on the Jerry Springer show by now.
I for damned sure wouldn't be working third shift in a plastic injection molding plant. Work? No way man, work would mess up everything.
About the only concern that would enter into my life would come every two years. I'd have to do a little planning so that I wasn't in jail at the time. Unless of course I lived in Flora-Duh where they let convicts vote.
Somehow or another I'd have to get myself down to the local voting station to make sure to push the little button next to the little jackass, er donkey. Probably shouldn't be too big a deal, the jackass, er donkey folks will send a bus down to the public housing place to pick my sorry butt up and take me to the voting place. Gubment pays for it.
I would be posting on these forums about how you bad people are persecuting that nice man. He would be my man because he makes rich people pay their fair share and take care of me. It's just fair you know, those rich people stole all that money to start with. They ought to have to pay.
In closing, as proof of my obvious foolishness please witness the fact that it only took me fifty years to figure all this out. What a dumba$$ I turned out to be.
solidground| 1.4.11 @ 11:27AM
Yes, but you're in good company.
Peppermint Tea | 1.4.11 @ 12:41PM
"You have said harsh things against me," says the Lord. "Yet ye ask, 'What have we said against you?'"
"You have said, 'It is futile to serve God. What did we gain by carrying out his requirement and going about like mourners before the Lord Almighty? But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly the evildoers prosper, and even those who challenge God escape.'"
Malachi 3:13-14
FTM| 1.4.11 @ 1:57PM
A scholar. An approved workman.
There you go with that Judao-Christian work ethic thing. That's a tough one to get around. That God guy doesn't take well to being mocked as I've noticed. There's a guy at the factory that always says, "that would be a lot of fun if it weren't for that eternity in hell thing."
On the other hand the activist minister at the church that I attend would tell you that there is no wrath, there is no hell, there is no devil and there is no judgement. The reason that I attend this church is to contradict this guy at every opportunity.
Anyway, to make a long story short, It ain't easy to get up and go to work at 11:00PM. Especially after a week on first shift after Christmas shutdown working first shift.
solidground| 1.4.11 @ 11:26AM
I've taken to calling our President, "President Termite," or simply, "the termite." I will no longer write or utter his given name. I sincerely believe that my new nomenclature for our Socialist in Chief is justified, given that he is intent upon doing to our Constitution, our values, our society, our economy and everything else uniquely American, precisely what the common termite does to a structure: eat at it from within, until it collapses into dust.
FTM| 1.4.11 @ 2:01PM
How do you know what his given name is? Seems that I recall that he's had sevferal.
MikeD| 1.4.11 @ 11:33AM
If 10 people were marooned on an island for the rest of their lives, and 2 of that 10 decided that they knew more than the rest; and lied and stole to put themselves in control of the other 8, the 8 would be totally justified in removing the 2 from the group, by any means necessary. When 2 out of 10 attempt to take over the rest by deceit, they are the criminals and should be removed; killed if necessary, to save the other 8.
That is where we are. All our models for a functioning representative republic have been destroyed by the 20%. They have hijacked our communications via the biased media. They have destroyed our educational system through the perversion of education into indoctrination. They have stolen the legal and legislative processes by packing the courts and ignoring the lawful representatives of the people to engage in government by executive order and bureaucratic fiat. There is no other word but "CRIMINAL" to describe their actions.
Frankly, the democrats have stolen a significant percentage of their elective seats through vote manipulation and downright theft. This is also criminal. When a small group like this steals power illegally it is called a "Coup de etat", or an illegal revolution through criminal means. The only way to stop them is through force if they have perverted the legal systems that permit the transition of control in a democratic society. They need to be arrested and tried for treason. Those that do not go peacefully need to be taken by force. Then, they need to face the ultimate punishment for treason.
FTM| 1.4.11 @ 2:15PM
For all the abovesaid reasons, I tell folks that the US will be administered by a military dictatorship inside of ten years. What you say is absoloutely true. The problem is that you're outnumbered ten to one at the voting booth. It's just a matter of time before the big people are going to have to suspend the constitution for the duration of the emergency if not indefinitely. The emergency being the deficit state of the national economy.
I say "indefinitely" because "We the People" didn't spend ourselves into a $14 trillion dollar hole overnight and we won't get out in under a hundred years. (If you consider what individual states owe I'd say that the actual debt is maybe a little under $30 trillion.)
The other reason is as Von Clauswitz says, Power corrupts, absoloute power corrupts absoloutely." Once a group enjoys the power of an absolute dictatorship for a generation or two I'd say that there would be a strong temptation to attempt to maintain that power.
Then on the other hand, a military dictatorship might not be all that bad. A couple of tyrannies shaped the Athenian Greeks up... for a little while. Somehow or another I can't see the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs responding very well to "Civil Unrest." I'd imagine that some guys in a truck with a loudspeaker would say, "DISPERSE" one time then the screaming would start. The public sector and what I call the dependant sector could use a little thinning out. The gene pool needs some chlorine.
idalily| 1.4.11 @ 3:22PM
This is nonsense. Sorry, but it is. A military dictatorship is NOT an option, nor do I believe it will happen. We might have genuine Civil War again, but we will not have dictatorship. You're talking nonsense.
FTM| 1.4.11 @ 4:17PM
Nonsense, really.
Why do you say that? How many folks do you think will give up their comfortable lives in order to fight this "civil" (what a lie) war that you're talking about?
Just out of curiousity, who is going to organize, coordinate and supply said civil war? Just for giggles why don't you go out and hang up a couple recruiting posters for a militia, not to mention an army to participate in this civil war and see how fast it takes the DHS to come and collect you up, live on the Communist News Network. Just like they did Randy Weaver.
Perhaps the nonsense is in the mirror, not to be an ass or anything. Just how is this going to work? The federal government would be all over you like white on rice.
Now on the other hand, a military dictatorship would be an easy thing to happen. Suppose that LA, Detroit, New Orleans or some other welfare dependant urban center were to become roitous over some attempt to curtail the expansion of the welfare state. Say maybe a riot or two over a reduction is state aid payments or something of the like. Look at what has happened in the past in places like Chicago when the welfare class gets the idea that they're being mistreated. When the project that they live in starts getting too run down. Burnt car barricades in the streets. How many times do you have to see this stuff happen? Remember the Rodney King Fiasco in LA?
Kalifornia is already for all practical intents and purposes bankrupt. The govonor could mobilize the Kalifornia National Guard in an attempt to pacify LA but how effective they would be against fellow Kalifornians is one question and who would pick up the tab is another. The tab question is the most important. Suppose that the govonor were to ask for federal intervention?
I know all about Posse Comatatus and that. There are lots of laws on the books that the federal government ignores, illegal immigration anyone? Just how would a politician like President Obama resist the temptation to assume control of a state national guard?
Once in control of a state national guard how big a step is it to be in control of the state?
Why would the military submit itself to the direction of President Obama?
I can see a military dictatorship arising a whole lot easier than a civil war.
FTM| 1.5.11 @ 12:40AM
Sorry, I forgot to mention...
Name me an example of when federal assistance came without federal strings. If the federal government were to be called upon to assist in pacifying civil unrest in some locale that assistance would come at the expense of the federal government dictating to the state the state's behavior. Does that make sense? What I'm trying to get at is that is the way that the federal government has behaved in the past is there any reason to assume that they wouldn't behave that way in the future?
My prediction is that some time after the federal government was called upon to pacify a civil situation on a state someplace that the federal government would ultimately be in control of that state. Not instantly but with time federal control would prevail. After one state, then another and another.
Don't forget that there is a large faction of people out there running around loose that are allowed to vote that think that central government control is the best thing since Granpa Marx sewed pockets on a shirt.
JimP| 1.4.11 @ 6:09PM
FTM, weren't you one of the people who kept saying Obama had an October surprise up his sleave that would allow him to impose martial law and suspend the November elections last year?
FTM| 1.4.11 @ 11:53PM
No.
Frankly speaking, I don't care what President Obama does. He makes about as much sense as anybody else that has been president during the course of my lifetime. I don't think that anyone has the political will to do what needs to be done.
Ken (Old Texican)| 1.4.11 @ 12:06PM
Folks I got this letter from Jim DeMint via e-mail this morning.
He asked me to tell my friends about it.
Dear Fellow Conservatives:
The new year has begun and the Senate Conservatives Fund is ready to do everything it takes to elect more principled leaders to the United States Senate.
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Over the next few months, I will keep you updated on the major legislative battles taking place in the Senate so you can take action to encourage your senators to fight for less government and more freedom.
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Change in Washington means changing the people we send there. That's why I started the Senate Conservatives Fund. We don't endorse incumbents and we don't support wishy-washy politicians who are Republicans in name only (RINOs). We work to elect new leaders who are committed to join the fight, not the Senate club.
Support the Senate Conservatives Fund
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I know there are many causes competing for your time and resources, but I hope you understand the unique importance of the United States Senate. The Founders designed the Senate to slow and modify legislation. Unfortunately, almost every bill passed by Congress grows our government and erodes our freedoms. This is why we need a strong group of conservatives in the Senate who will say "no" to those things that go beyond the congressional powers enumerated in our Constitution.
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Neo| 1.4.11 @ 2:02PM
By saying that "the president of the United States is a socialist," longtime journalist Stanley Kurtz will probably not be invited to parties in the DC area.
It's further possible, that somebody will write him a letter telling him about how upset they are that he called Obama "a socialist."
Oldefarte| 1.4.11 @ 2:13PM
Jeffrey's latest is simply brilliant! I could have informed anyone willing to listen to me prior to November 2008 that he was a socialist, and of the hig probability of the current events described of happening. The amazing thing to me is the level of ignorance of the American taxpayer-voters in allowing this to happen. It's one thing to charitably grant an unqualified and suspicious individual to become say a sports coach or other administrative position, but to place such an individual into THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB IN THE WORLD is well beyond ACTING STUPIDLY!!!!!!!
FTM| 1.4.11 @ 2:23PM
President Obama's election was about none of the things that you mention. President Obama's election was proof in effect that the United States of America, by and large, is not a racist nation.
President Obama was elected to the Presidency because of his skin color. Anyone else with his pedigree would never have made it into either party's primary.
Mimi| 1.4.11 @ 2:55PM
Look...He..Lied, decieved! The news media lied, decieved,held back info! The Dems ..LIED, DECIEVED, HELD BACK INFO and GOT away with it, with a smile !!!
They paid on Nov. 2nd 2010 and unless they wake-up as a political party in the good ole U.S.A. and SHED the COMMIES....Their FINISHED !!!
carnot| 1.4.11 @ 4:58PM
and had Bush not been a near total incompetent...much of this would never have come to pass.
Margie| 1.4.11 @ 6:25PM
Thousands of red winged blackbirds are falling from the sky in Arkansas.
I hear that's all Bush's fault, too.
RCV| 1.5.11 @ 2:07PM
No, it's another consequence of Obamacare, I'm sure. They probably flew through the imaginary "death panels".
darcy| 1.5.11 @ 3:46PM
"Imaginary?"
Wasn't it the serpent who lied to Adam and Eve when he said: “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
Of course it was just the one tree.
RCV| 1.5.11 @ 5:11PM
Yes, imaginary. Unless, of course, you're talking about insurance claims adjusters.
darcy| 1.5.11 @ 6:30PM
Over the Christmas holiday weekend, The New York Times revealed that the Obama administration's Medicare regulators have enacted new regulatory guidelines, in complete defiance of Congress, that will result in health care providers receiving payment to give annual “end-of-life counseling” to their patients.
As a physician, I can tell you that we doctors do routinely have end-of-life discussions with our patients. This is a necessary part of our job. But we do it when it is appropriate and indicated by the clinical situation. And we have never expected payment for this. It is part and parcel of the practice of medicine.
Medicare, however, will now incentivize health care providers to have this discussion annually, as part of an annual physical exam. Providers will get paid extra if they have this conversation. But consider the implications: When discussing such matters with an otherwise healthy and possibly youngish senior, the “directives” that health care providers will elicit may be significantly different from what they would have been if the patient was actually confronting a life and death situation. One's directives are often quite different when talking about a theoretical future versus a real situation occurring in the present. After all, the future might offer technological advances that are not available at the time of the theoretical discussion, thus making a patient reach a very different decision when that future reality arrives.
Furthermore, as typical of all Medicare regulations, there are certain requirements that must be fulfilled in terms of both the discussion and the patient directives in order for the end-of-life counseling to qualify for physician payment. And therein lies the rub. The whole idea is to get younger, healthier Medicare patients to give advanced directives that will be used at a later time to deny them care. Remember that ObamaCare cuts Medicare by $500 billion—and that doesn't even take into account the coming demographic cataclysm that awaits the program when the baby-boomers become Medicare beneficiaries.
That's why the new policy has been dubbed a "death panel" by its opponents. One can easily see the ulterior motive behind the decision to incentivize health care providers to have annual, Medicare-designed end-of-life discussions with their patients. It’s to allow for denial of care at a time when Medicare money is scarce.
Indeed, this is precisely why Congress removed the end-of-life counseling provision from the final health care bill. When the public learned of this provision, there was an outcry against it.
But now the executive branch has circumvented Congress, ignoring both the legislative text and the intent of the legislature, by enacting the very provision that Congress decided to remove. And it has done so using the regulation-writing process.
This last point should disturb anyone concerned about the integrity of our democratic republic, regardless of where one stands on the matter of health care reform or end-of-life discussions. The executive branch is enacting by regulatory fiat what the legislative branch explicitly opted not to enact. This can only lead to the tyranny of an unelected bureaucracy.
Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer is a general surgeon in private practice in the metro-Phoenix area since 1981, and is Treasurer of the U.S. Health Freedom Coalition.
Editor’s Note: In an unexpected reversal, the Obama administration has announced that it will not implement the end-of-life planning regulations discussed in this article.
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So you see, RCV, it was not so imaginary after all; rather, it was so offensive that the administration had to back track on it.
RCV| 1.5.11 @ 7:11PM
I'm glad they rescinded it too, because it was unnecessary bureaucratic meddling. But it was not a "death panel" and it was inflammatory to characterize it as such.
darcy| 1.5.11 @ 7:27PM
"End of life" = death
"Regulations" = administered by a panel who sets rules
Oldefarte| 1.5.11 @ 1:34PM
Bush was not 'incompetent'. He made human mistakes, as all presidents have done, but his masters degree from Yale [and his professional experience running a business] was/is a damned site more preferable than a GD HARVARD LAW DEGREED SOCIALIST/MORON WHO IS A DISGRACE NOT ONLY TO HIMSELF BUT TO THIS COUNTRY AS WELL!!!!
FTM| 1.5.11 @ 12:08AM
President Obama didn't lie or decieve. President Obama didn't have to lie or decieve, the liberal media never asked the questions of President Obama that they asked other candidates.
In regards to the proof of citizenship, when the Democrat controlled congress asked to see his proof of citizenship, same as they did McCain, born in the Panama Canal Zone, he gave a legally correct answer that you'd expect from a lawyer, what is your constitutional authority to even ask. The eligability issue is an example of a flaw in the constitution. The constitution says that the president has to be a natural born citizen but does not designate any entity to vet the qualification.
President Obama is the perfect example of the stealth candidate. He ran against a Republican candidate that the Democrats selected, there were far better Republican candidates and nobody asked real political questions for fear of being accused of being a racist.
Not to be a jerk here folks, but the American political system is broken. The experiment in self governance has failed.
As I've posted before, "Alexander Tyler in 1787 stated that democracies can exist until the electorate realize that they can vote themselves lavish gifts from the public treasury. Tyler also observed that democracies collapse from loose fiscal policies and are replaced by dictatorships."
So there you go, badda-Bing, Badda-Boom.
Margie| 1.5.11 @ 11:28AM
"Not to be a jerk here folks, but the American political system is broken. The experiment in self governance has failed."
No it hasn't. (Are you giving up? What is next, Anarchy, then? No!)
What has happened though is that Americans have been lulled to sleep because of a number of different things. The biggest thing being that we have taken learning about God out of our schools. Now because of that children are learning learning that homosexuality is an acceptable behavior, as well as sex before marriage.
Who is to blame? The Left. It is now up to us more than ever to do something about it. When the country hits rock bottom there is only one way up. By God's mercy and Grace and with great conservative friends on our side like Rush and Sean and Mark Levin and Glen Beck America is waking up again.
To all those who think that we can continue as a country who rejects God, you are wrong. To all those who think this country wasn't founded upon Biblical principles, you haven't read the Founding Fathers' own words.
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other."
John Adams
“And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of order, the Fountain of justice, and the Protector, in all ages of the world, of virtuous liberty, continue His blessing upon this nation and its government, and give it all possible success and duration, consistent with the ends of His providence.” John Adams.
"..we have abundant reason to present to the Supreme Being our annual oblations of gratitude for a liberal participation in the ordinary blessings of His providence." John Adams.
Just a few. I could go on and on but it would use up all of AmSpec's bandwidth!
Conservatives will continue fighting against the Left in the spirit of God and of the Founding Fathers.
FTM| 1.6.11 @ 1:14AM
I don't dispute a single word that you've written. I've read extensively on the founding of this nation. Federalist papers, sundry biographies and the like what you are saying is the (from my chair) the undisputed truth.
What I think that perhaps you are failing to realize is that you are in a minority. Google up the "Pareto Rule" or the "Pareto Principle." Pareto was an otherwise insignificant Venesian merchant who made the observation that twenty percent of the people control eighty percent of the money. The application of the rule to complex systems is that twenty percent of the causes result in eighty percent of your problems. In this case, twenty percent of the people that you run into in a days time are smart enough to talk to.
You have been blessed with the native intellect and a personal ethic based on human loving kindness that insists that YOU are responsibe for YOU and your actions. YOU are responsible for your situation.
One of my all time favorite quotes: "Every Hun is responsible for shaping his life circumstances and experiences into success -- no other Hun, and certainly no Roman, can do for a Hun what he neglects to do for himself." Atilla
My kinda guy.
Now, what about the "great unwashed masses" that either don't care or are diametrically opposed to your way of thought? You have folks that are too poorly educated, too indifferent or too lazy to take care of themselves, the Keynesian statement, and expect/demand that a strong, massive central government do it for them.
You are horribly outnumbered in the popular deision making process that we call voting. Do you get a day off of your private sector job to go vote like the school teachers do? Does anyone send a bus into your neighborhood to make sure to collect you up and deliver you to the polling palce on election day? Does anyone come and hold you hand in the booth to assure that your vote is properly tallied?
The other side of the coin, what do you think would become a politician that suggested in public that school teachers actually work on election day. What would happen to this politician that were to suggest that public spending on transportation for the welfare class to the polling place were to be reduced or suspended?
The Republic is dead. Long live the Republic.
Margie| 1.6.11 @ 2:37PM
Oh, FTM whoever you are.. I like you.
You remind me of another person here, a favorite of mine, who goes by the name of Grzmlyk.
I love your blunt honesty.. and his. I also saw the sarcasm in your first entry post and thought it par excellence.. if I'm not mistaken, but you were sarcastically telling the TRUTH.
There's a but coming.. but.. but...
I simply cannot stop fighting. I will go down with the best of them, if I may be so humble as to include myself with the best of them.
There's this thing inside of me, given to me by the Grace of God called hope.
No, not the Obamanation type hope but the eternal kind. You know what I mean if you're Christian.. we know that this present world that can be seen with our eyes is going to be rolled up like a scroll and burned.. and Christ will return and rule. We know that God is going to "create a new heaven and a new earth in which righteousness will dwell".
I know my vote may be outnumbered, but I'll still vote. I know the politicians are weak and succumb A LOT, but I will still cast my vote for the best we've got.
The Republic isn't dead.. but it may be on life support right now. It's up to us to revive it and give it its life back.
I hate giving up. I will not.
p.s. Thanks for treating me with a modicum of respect, I appreciate it.
I have been told by one named Anthony, a regular poster here that if AmSpec had rules on allowing posters to post based in intellect, I wouldn't be permitted to post.
This is the type of conservative we don't need.
Some of us may be well schooled, and haughty about it.. but it covers their otherwise despicable natures.
I am a high school drop out. After that I spent about 15 years devoting my life to making Christ known on a daily basis and working with other Christians to begin orphanages in Haiti. My "intellect" doesn't suit some here because I am a conservative Christian, Bible believing, and pro-Israel.
They remove my posts when I tell it like it is. After today I believe they might permanently ban me.. the Anthonys and Tim*s (now he posts as Clint because he is a coward.. will be glad.
It's been swell though, meeting great conservatives and getting to read truly intellectual posts by amazing individuals like yourself.
God bless.
Margie| 1.6.11 @ 2:44PM
p,s, I forgot to answer your question as to what would happen to a politician who would take a real stand?
Answer: See Chris Christie! He's still standing. And the entire nation rejoiced to see it, didn't they?
THIS is why I stay involved.
And what about Ronald Reagan? He simply did the right thing as he saw fit and ignored the Left.
So, we just need to stay involved and keep voting, and especially early on and in the primaries!
Not only am I a high school drop out but I am poor because of how I spent my life doing what I did.
But God provides. And I will NEVER disparage the rich ~ I will rejoice with them!
As I said in my post to Ben Stein yesterday (which they removed).. I love hearing and reading about others' success and wonderful way of life due to wealth.. the wealth that they have made for themselves and of which NO ONE has a right to remove from them.
Long live the Republic, indeed!!
Oldefarte| 1.5.11 @ 1:38PM
Are you pulling MY MIDDLE LEG ? ['....President Obama didn't lie or decieve. President Obama didn't have to lie or decieve, the liberal media never asked the questions of President Obama that they asked other candidates....']. Under what rock have you been existing? His whole lifetime is nothing more than deception and BULLEXCREMENT!!!!!!
FTM| 1.6.11 @ 1:23AM
When has a liberal, mainstream broadcast media personality. blitzer ot couriac or jennings or anyone that the Democrats vet as a "legitimate" journalist ever asked President Obama a simple straightforward "Yes" or "No" question that can not be dodged? Something along the lines of, "President Obama, may we see your long form birth certificate please?" And when President Obama said, "No, that's none of your business." then the journalist turns toward the camera and says, "There you have it Mister and Missus America, President Obama has refused to prove his eligability to be President" in the same hatchet job fashion that they would have John McCain in the exact ssame situation?
Anyone else that asks the question is automatically dismissed as a radical right wing hack.
I hold and maintain that President Obama didn't have to lie or decieve when the "legitimate" main stream media has different standards of accountability based on political ideology. The Communist News Network didn't ask the questions and wouldn't report them if and when they were asked. Look at the ridicule that FOX gets from all directions.
Oldefarte| 1.5.11 @ 1:30PM
So we hand over the most important job/position in the world to a completely unqualified/socialistic candidate SIMPLY BECAUSE OF HIS RACE/ETHNICITY? What a dumbars statement!!!!!!!!!
Dave C. | 1.4.11 @ 3:54PM
Mike D.-you are so right about the "education" system in this country in the past 40 years. Have you ever met a teacher or professor who was'nt a liberal/leftist/we're the one's we've been waiting for/marxist-socialist?
MikeD| 1.4.11 @ 4:40PM
Dave; We have had two generations of indoctrination from the AFT and the NEA, both of which care not one bit about education or children. They are unions, proud of it, and have publicly stated that: "...When kids pay union dues we'll represent THEIR interests!" That is a direct quote from the president of the American Federation of Teachers in response to a question: "But who looks out for the kids?" NOBODY.
The very first thing JFK did after he was inaugurated was to issue an EXECUTIVE ORDER giving public employees the right to organize and bargain collectively. The American people never had a voice in the decision. And; Joseph Kennedy BRAGGED about the closeness of the 1960 election when he said to a reporter: "Hell, I know it was close; but IN CHICAGO I WASN'T GOING TO PAY FOR ONE MORE VOTE THAN NECESSARY TO WIN. A CLOSE WIN IS AS GOOD AS A LANDSLIDE. This is the democratic party that has been destroying America. The worst thing about it is that there are still THOUSANDS of honorable older people who worked hard all their lives, including many who served with honor in the Military, who still think the democratic party is what they voted for 40 or 50 years ago.
Today's democratic party is the party of obama, stalin, lenin, che, and hugo chavez. These men are all the same under their clothes: communist thugs who want to rule by force. Our current "chavez wannabe, barry the muslim, should be thrown out on his communistic a$$ and then tried for treason...right before reid and pelosi. They are the criminals; and they will be responsible for the horror that is rapidly approaching our land.
(I refuse to capitalize proper names of people and organizations that do not merit the respect shown by capitalization. These are not typos or ignorance of the rules of grammar; they are my own little form of protest. Give it a try.)
Marshabar| 1.4.11 @ 4:02PM
Many Americans may not understand exactly what the Democrats are trying to do, but it seems clear there is a strong sense of unease and mistrust for this administration. Who dreamed we would ever have a president who sneers at his own people and embraces thugs like Hugo Chavez? Who dreamed we would ever have a president who apologizes to foreign powers for America and Americans?
I knew he was a Socialist, it was very clear from his background, his words and his writings. It is not difficult to access information in this day and age. Why were so many good Americans blind to who this man is? He certainly didn't hide it. The MSM candy coated him for sure, but his mask slipped many, many times.
A.M. Mallett| 1.4.11 @ 5:12PM
As long as Boner doesn't start crying again, he'll do fine
Peter McGrath - Hand to Hand| 1.4.11 @ 5:25PM
Our Leninist POTUS meant it when he referred to hand-to-hand combat back in December. The hardened Left will stoop to virtually anything, including bribes, "good press", perks and pork on the one hand, to intimidation, character assassination, blackmail, threats, extortion, even - at some level, given the immediacy of a perceived problem - kidnapping or murder, on the other.
It happens all the time in Castro's Cuba, Chavez' Venezuela, and even Putin's Russia.
Obama would see America converted to an "egalitarian" socialist state, and would stoop to any means to justify this ghastly end. His minions have advanced the process significantly in the past two years and will not surrender the progress they've "achieved" without a show of resolute force from an informed electorate.
Our allies in Congress will desperately need the courage of their convictions - and all of our prayers and support - to overcome (not appease) this amoral, unionist-socialist tide. If anyone in the Republican caucus lacks the former, he or she will need shut up and to slink to the back bench.
We've learned, over and over again, that the crafty Left will turn any "bipartisan" solution into a shiv stabbed deliberately and firmly into the back of the Republican caucus if it caves. From Rostenkowski's betrayal of Bush I on taxes, to Pelosi's ambush of Bush II on prescription drugs and the war in Iraq, it should be obvious that the dissembling Left cannot ever be trusted.
Don't trust them. Crush them. They do not have a single defensible moral argument in their favor for any of their policy positions. They have all been tried, over and over and over again, and they have all failed.
God Speed to the Republicans! Please, please, please don't let us down.
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Lu D| 1.4.11 @ 5:51PM
Communist is the right word. Am in the process of going back and reading one of my favorite authores earlier books. His name is David Horowitz. I have read his recent ones witch always ring true. His older one "the Destructive Generation" is a great insight to the people we have in office and understanding the front groups that they use. They are card caring Communists. Old history from the sixties and seventies is the new history of today. Remember if we don't remember our history we are bound to repeat it.
Margie| 1.4.11 @ 6:23PM
David Horowitz is a fabulous writer and he reveals the Leftist mind better than anyone I have ever listened to.
The Leftists and anti-semites and Anarchists alike hate him to the core because of his will and ability to speak the truth about how all three of those types unite together with the Left against conservatism. I always highly recommend reading his books. He has a website too:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/
Gary| 1.4.11 @ 5:59PM
Ken, Lullabys and Chef Schanuzer,
CellpoolofSellouts.com is available. At one time I was imagining a website that tagged and publicized certain Congress criminals as sellouts. For Republicans to qualify for the list, all they have to do is what they always do: Yodel in opposition to bad legislation then vote for it. Such a site would, in one place, shed light on the dirty deeds of these reptiles.
JimP| 1.4.11 @ 6:04PM
Frankly, I don't think Boehner is up to the job, even if he does recognize what is at stake, which I doubt. He strikes me as very average on an interpersonal level, not having strong convictions and not too bright in the IQ department. I hope I will be proven wrong, but doubt it.
wodiej| 1.4.11 @ 6:04PM
Great article. Stand your ground Patriots. This is only the beginning of the fight. Obama and the rest will not give up easily and it won't be pretty.
For 2012 we absolutely MUST nominate a stalwart constitutional conservative. Romney, Huckabee and Pawlenty-all soft. I've heard them criticize Obama publicly very little.
post*tenebras*lux| 1.4.11 @ 6:14PM
Agree wodiej. O'Reilly and Fox are subliminally promoting Romney. Maybe Pence/Palin?
Gary| 1.4.11 @ 6:11PM
JimP is correct. Boehner is not up to it. He’s not a fighter. His actual decisions, not his rhetoric, reveal what he is. When the chips are down, he’s a rotten sellout. It’s jus that simple.
Who Knows?| 1.4.11 @ 6:27PM
All you have to know, NOW, about Boehner, is that he is ALREADY making rules that HELP the socialists in the House.
Weak puke!
Know what a sadist is?
Someone who's kind to a masochist.
Socialists, aka members of the democratic party, are sadists.
Boehner, et al, are masochists.
So, my old joke doesn't apply, because the sadists like OBAMA are addicted to causing pain and suffering, and even death panels, on their oh too willing wimpy opponents, masochists like Boehner.
Narcissus rules.
Buy gold.
Gary| 1.4.11 @ 6:29PM
Exactly! Boehner has already disqualified himself.
Rush Youngberg| 1.4.11 @ 11:15PM
I think a good contrast in ideology is The True Believer and Zero Population Bomb. Obama is not a socialist, he is a communist. I wanted to vote for Obama, also, to rid the Whites of the false accusation of racism. Perhaps, voting for Hillary would have accomplished this for gays and women. But their politics of hate and anti-Americanism were so odious that I voted for McCain whom I thought was a coward in his failing to nail Obama during his campaign.
Yosemeti Sam| 1.5.11 @ 4:17AM
Yo, Boehner: listen up: to that 'Four Seasons' song -
big girls don't cry.
Nicholas Wind | 1.5.11 @ 4:13PM
Most of us here in my circle in Toronto listened to this idiot socialist one time and had him pegged.
Hey at that time we had the same disease from
our marxist major.
Thinking all our money was his.
He too got hammered in a land slide.
We kicked him out too around the same time
as America realized what these control freaks were doing.
Good stuff America.
I was worried about you folks.
I knew you were smarter than what you showed in the original election.
Now send this moron back to somewhere where he can't hurt anyone.
metaforehead| 1.5.11 @ 5:57PM
Oh, my, you guys kill me. Socialist,Marxist, hates America.... don't you realize how unseious this makes you look? President, former US Senator wants to see America fail. Jeez. Come on! Namecalling is ridiculous and unhelpful. Can't you accept that someone disagrees with you without calling them a name? I never called Bush a Nazi. I never thought he hated America or wanted us to fail. I just disagreed with his policies.
Honza Prchal| 1.5.11 @ 7:17PM
A Boyle related point - something has to "ration" care. Some combination of price (in which case the patient will usually forego an expensive option willingly for some other treatement or non-treatment option), availability and willingness of third party payers to pick up the tab are most likely.
A serious yet under-addressed problem with ObamaCare is that it puts ever more of the onus on said denial of care upon the government, thus sapping it and the nation it governs of legitimacy.
Personally, I like medical savings accounts and catastrophic care coverage plus a charitable treatment net for those truly "the least among us", but even if we went over almost entirely to HMO coverage, ti would be better than having government make all these decisions - what with the legitimacy issues involved and incentives like treating popular health problems (where the people are likely to be numerous and likely to live a long time and/or are fashionable) instead of catastrophic ones - like trauma or cancer and heart disease.
As we can see from Greece, socialism destroys not only attachments to the various "little platoons" of Burke's description but also to the state which attempts to replace them.
jstwndring| 1.5.11 @ 9:16PM
I'm gonna use even more vulgar language and go ahead and call Obama a full-on Marxist. Socialist, Communist........just two different sides to the same Marxist coin. I'm glad the "intellectuals" are finally starting to realise what most of us with common sense have known all along. Of course Obama is a Marxist--he said so during his presidential campaign!
Let me also clue you over-educated nit-wits in on another fact about this tyrant:
He's also a muslim. Chew on that for while. Morons.
jstwndring| 1.5.11 @ 9:24PM
Specifically, I'm talking to Kurtz. You had to do two freaking years of research to conclude that Obama is a socialist? Obama admitted he was one during his presidential bid when he said he believes in the, "....fair and equatable redistribution of wealth", which of course, means the end of private property rights. Two years of research!? Try unplugging your ears.
jstwndring| 1.5.11 @ 9:43PM
"Be careful.........Obama would love the Republicans to try to take away the health care he's offered to millions of uninsured."
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Uhh......no. The last thing we should be is careful. What in the hell is wrong with you? We are where we are today because we've been careful all these years. The Republican Party has a mandate, as evidenced by the 2010 elections to annihilate socialised medicine. The American public have thrown out the Democrats precisely so Obamacare would be repealed IMMEDIATELY. This is not the same-old-same-old. The TeaParty exists now. We need to be as aggressive pushing our right-wing-limited-government agenda as the Dims have been pushing their left-wing-government-expansionist agenda. Time to go for the kill, and slash and burn the federal government at all levels. Start killing off as much socialism as possible. Make the Dims start over.
Adidas | 8.11.11 @ 6:03AM
is good
العاب بنات | 4.10.12 @ 12:31PM
Tweaking Jon B is like pinching a Bull on the horns!