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July 4th: Depend on us day.

July 4th: Depend on us day.

By R.J. Godlewski
© July 2, 2009, All Rights Reserved.
(Right Truth Exclusive)

“Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.” 

Gen. George S. Patton

    As a nation rapidly losing its heritage through ever enlarging federal entitlement programs, I have spawned mixed emotions regarding celebrating our Independence Day holiday this year. On the one hand, I am extremely proud of everything that my country has achieved over the past 233 years. Did ancient Egypt teach men to fly? Did ancient Rome land upon the moon? Did Muhammad invent rock and roll? Of course, there’s always the “other hand” to such arguments. Would our founding fathers have anticipated the size and intrusiveness of our present government? Would Patrick Henry accept a commander-in-chief who berates his own nation at every turn? Would the inventors of the Boston Tea Party have believed that over two hundred years into the future there would still be a need to address tax grievances in America?

    Make no mistake about it; our founding fathers did not imagine for a moment that their miniscule nation would survive two centuries into the future. They were realists, not idealists. What inspired them to throw caution into the wind and risk everything was not that their new country was the panacea for human rights, but that their concept of a free and responsible individual was. This was unheard of at the time. For thousands of years, civilization had been patterned on the concept that the few ruled the many.  There were kings and reagents, administrators and emperors, but few outside the social elite had a prayer of a chance to impart change. In England, even the lords could not address the crown without bowing their way backwards out of his or her presence.

    Our founders saw things differently. They were driven to extremes as evident by the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

    In our modern, politically correct environment, it is considered sacrilege to use the term founding “fathers” but it is obvious that they possessed balls nevertheless. These tiny thirteen countries willingly signed their own death warrant. They told the most powerful and, arguably, most unstable monarch in the world that people were the foundation that any government rested upon and to add salt to an opening wound, any one person was equal to that very same monarch and possessed the very same rights, freedoms, and opportunities. Think about it. I doubt very much that you can.

    In 2009, we are afraid to say that while singer Michael Jackson may have had extraordinary musical talent, he was by no means a “king” (of pop or otherwise) and was probably just as disturbed (if not more so) than George III. Nearing the conclusion of the first decade of the 21st century, our media – ascribed to uphold our best interests by way of journalistic tradition – is afraid to acknowledge that President Barack Obama is by no means either a king or a messiah. That he is simply a man deriving his “powers from the consent of the governed”.

    This is precisely why my soul remains heavy and sad during this particular period within our history. I feel that we have come to celebrate “Independence Day” less than we celebrate the “Fourth of July”. We have diluted the day as much as we have collectively diluted Christmas into mere “Holidays”. By doing so, we gravely misjudge the reasoning and purpose behind both. Men are to be free and governed, not ruled and subjugated. Our national leadership is supposed to listen to our voices, not act upon their preferences within secretive sessions, late night votes, and subliminal agendas.

    Our “coordinator in chief”, as C4ISR Journal refers to the president, is but a man – an employee of “We the People” – and his fundamental responsibility is to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Not even a year into office and he has already trash talked his nation, commandeered the auto, banking, and student loan industries, and is on the verge of enforcing national healthcare. King George had less control over the colonists. King Philip of Spain conquered an entire hemisphere merely by controlling the mercury used to refine gold – the rest of New World exploration was left to opportunists, explorers, merchants, and malcontents, the kind of people that felt quite at home developing a new nation of individuals.

    Sovereignty has been sucked from our populace. We are no longer a people reared on the responsibilities and opportunities of the individual. We have simply become incapable of effort. I remember my own father praising the merits of Franklin Roosevelt’s Social Security program: “He made it so that I would no longer have to work!” I knew what my father meant; after working his life away in hot, filthy, automotive forging plants, when both emphysema and a mangled foot made it difficult to continue on, he was able to “retire”. I seriously doubt, however, that President Roosevelt expected my father to be retired for decades. Then again, what could you expect from someone who thought that he deserved to be president for at least sixteen years?

    Our culture ceased being independent when those amongst us considered Social Security to be “their money”, when new college graduates mandated that the federal government do something to “guarantee” them employment, and when those who have made piss-poor decisions demanded that the rest of us absolve them of all responsibilities for their indiscretions. Things became terminal when our elected officials made it a crime to challenge the unrepentant, to seek out individuality, and, most of all, to consider that inalienable rights came as a gift from God and not legislated as privileges by those currently in power.

    Therefore, I wish to extend to all, a very happy and enjoyable Fourth of July. Have fun at your weekend barbecues, your sporting events, and watching your multitude of fireworks displays. Remember, always, to do precisely what your government tells you to do. Listen obediently to your president, your Congress, and your Senate. Do exactly as they tell you to do. Normally, I would extend congratulations on experiencing another Independence Day but, frankly, I do not think that you possess the necessary balls to be an American…

.Ray Charles, America...

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Patton Speech, 2009... .

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You can't take a stand, sitting on your butt.

Sarah Palin: Crazy like a fox!

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has resigned her position and most of the immediate comments are very negative.  I have a very different take -- I believe this is a stroke of genius on Palin's part.  She is saving Alaska from the constant trashing from the Left, from the continuous frivolous lawsuits and the cost of defending them.  Her comments were from the heart, not scripted and certainly not from a teleprompter.  Palin can use this time to travel, educate herself and improve her shortcomings, write a book, spend time with her family, travel across this great nation and re-introduce herself to Americans.

I could always be wrong and her enemies could be right.  Some suggest there may be illness in the family; or trouble with Sarah and Todd; or some deep dark secret yet uncovered... Anything is possible but remember, Sarah Palin is a candidate like we have never seen before.  She is real.

She emphasized today what she believes in:  Conservatism; capitalism; freedom; security; military; small government; low taxes; ...

Mitt Romney and the other rejects from 2008 elections -- LOOK OUT!

Across the nation Democrats are shaking in their boots!

Go Sarah!  Here's her press conference, thanks to FireDogLake:

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The Watcher of Weasels wishes all of you a safe and enjoyable Independence Day celebration!  Check out the winning articles (Right Truth came in second)

Winning Council Submissions

• First place with 2 points! – The Razor - Settlement
• Second place with 1 1/3 points – (T*) – Right Truth - LIFE
• Second place with 1 1/3 points – (T*) – The Glittering Eye - Affording Everything
• Third place with 2/3 point – (T*) – The Provocateur - The Libertarians Downfall: Conspiracy Theories
• Third place with 2/3 point – (T*) – Joshuapundit - Masquerade In iran
• Third place with 2/3 point – (T*) – Mere Rhetoric - Shh… Massachusetts Proves Mandate-Based Health Reform Will Be A Disaster
• Fourth place with 1/3 point – (T*) – Wolf Howling - Politicized Science
• Fourth place with 1/3 point – (T*) – Soccer Dad - Diehl me out

Winning Non-Council Submissions

• First place with 2 1/3 points! – Fausta’s Blog - Responses to “Coup in Honduras – Correction: This is NOT a coup”
• Second place with 1 2/3 points – Christina Hoff Sommers - Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship
• Third place with 1 point – (T*) – The League of Ordinary Gentlemen - Iraq June 30th
• Third place with 1 point – (T*) – EU Referendum - Rigging The Debate
• Fourth place with 2/3 point – (T*) – Delaware Liberal - Should Sanford Resign?
• Fourth place with 2/3 point – (T*) – Diana West - “Role of Women in Iran Protest Kindles Hope”…OF WHAT?
• Fifth place with 1/3 point – (T*) – American Daughter - Religion and Politics Don’t Mix
• Fifth place with 1/3 point – (T*) – Financial Times - Obama is Choosing to be Weak

Of Flies and Men: The Bizarre World of PETA

Of Flies and Men: The Bizarre World of PETA

By: Paul A. Ibbetson

“Save the whales, save the snails!” Comedian George Carlin had it right when he talked about the audacity and craziness of some to misplace priorities on where to put a helping hand when it comes to people and the planet. When it comes to organizations that ‘break from the norm’ the most, when balancing the value between people and animals, PETA has to be near the top of the list.

PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, was founded in 1980. On the periphery, the organization seems somewhat benign, if not wholesome, in their stated mission of working to decrease the abuse of animals. If you dig a little deeper, you would find that the organization believes that animals should not only be saved from cruel experiments, but also from being used by man for clothing, or even to be eaten. It doesn’t take very long for a grounded individual to begin looking askew at this radical leftist organization, and why not? In reality, to endorse PETA, one has to take oneself several steps down the food chain.

We can see that humans are not so welcome in PETA’s view of things, with their continuous onslaught on free market organizations, such as Kentucky Fried Chicken. Despite the organization’s charges of cruelty to chickens by the KFC restaurant chain, their own organization statement that animals should not be consumed by humans brings thinking people to the simple fact that KFC will never be able to throw PETA ‘a bone’ they will accept. Despite this fact, PETA members go straight to the gutter to attempt to save potential chickens in distress. Like a deranged cult group, the young and impressionable (almost exclusively female) are recruited, stripped, and sent all but naked into the streets to decry the fate of a chicken, bird, rabbit, you name it. In what should enrage the feminist groups around the globe, PETA objectifies partially nude women in bondage-like ‘cage’ depictions that reduce women to nothing more than cheap sex objects. In other words, PETA attempts to swap one form of ‘meat’ with another form of the same. This activity is, in a word, shameful.

The depths that this organization will go to are potentially limitless. PETA recently admonished President Barack Obama for killing an annoying fly during a television interview. While this may be the toughest foe that President Obama actually takes on, PETA made it clear that the fly ranks as high as any creature under their protection from the abuse of man. To top off the lunacy, PETA sent the president a “capture and release” device for future fly encounters.

Groups such as PETA warrant more than the simple ‘eye-roll’ we often give radical leftist organizations. In my opinion, PETA’s bizarre equating of human and animal as being equal reflects not so much a love for the creatures of the planet, but an underlying hatred of humans. The fact that they actively denigrate their followers is only further proof of a twisted philosophy in action. Any group or organization that diminishes the worth and value of mankind, be it to certain religions, social groups, race-baiting groups, or even those cute little animals, should be a concern to everyone.

 
Paul A. Ibbetson is a former Chief of Police of Cherryvale, Kansas, and member of the Montgomery County Drug Task Force. Paul received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Criminal Justice at Wichita State University, and is currently completing his PhD. in sociology at Kansas State University. Paul is the author of the books Living Under The Patriot Act: Educating A Society and Feeding Lions: Sharing The Conservative Philosophy In A Politically Hostile World. Paul is also the radio host of the Kansas Broadcasting Association’s 2008 and 2009 Entertainment Program of the Year, Conscience of Kansas airing on KSDB Manhattan 91.9 FM. For interviews or questions, please contact Ibbetson91.9@gmail.com or go to www.IbbetsonUSA.com.

Hamas Military Academy

Called the Abdullah Azzam Academy and located in Nusseirat in the central Gaza Strip, the Hamas military academy began in 2006 and according to a Hamas DVD found during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip such subjects as bomb-making, self-defense, wireless communications, camouflage and Islamic indoctrination are taught.    (World Tribune)

Hamas Political Bureau Head Khaled Mash'al said:  "We must combine resistance with diplomacy"

In a June 25, 2009 speech, Hamas political bureau head Khaled Mash'al focused mainly on the recent speeches by U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, and on the intra-Palestinian reconciliation talks. About Obama, Mash'al said that the U.S. had changed its tone vis-à-vis the Middle East, but that the change must be expressed in deeds, not words. Responding to Netanyahu's speech, Mash'al rejected the conditions set by the Israeli prime minister, adding that the Palestinians must be wary of the danger of recognizing Israel as a Jewish state. He clarified that his movement had agreed to the establishment of a Palestinian state within the June 4, 1967 borders, but that it insisted on the right of return, and rejected alternatives such as naturalizing Palestinian refugees in their countries of residence or regarding Jordan as the Palestinian homeland. Mash'al also rejected the notion of a demilitarized Palestinian state, and said that resistance was a strategy for liberating the homeland and restoring the Palestinians' rights.  (continue at MEMRI)

Yep, mix in a little fake diplomacy with the bomb-making, self-defense, wireless communications, camouflage and Islamic indoctrination ...  Look out Israel.

Dissent isn't hate!

Jon Voight gave the best speech I've heard lately, it put the Republican politicians to shame.  Now he is being accused of hate speech, threatening the President Barack Obama, and home-grown terrorism.  The accusations come from the likes of the Communist Party, People’s Weekly World, a magazine once known as the “Daily Worker” and sympathetic to the Communist Party,  Paul Krugman, and Frank Rich  Among other things, Voight called Obama a “false prophet” and “we and we alone are the right frame of mind to free this nation from this Obama oppression.” 

Mr. Voight's words brought criticisms from the New York Times, activists and bloggers. But they particularly troubled Teresa Albano, editor of the People's Weekly World -- a Chicago-based publication sympathetic to the Communist Party.

"I don't want to equate what Jon Voight said as expressing a conservative opinion on politics. It went way beyond that. He made a threat against the president of the United States to a crowd at a GOP fundraiser and got a good response from the Senate minority leader and other powerful people. And that is scary," Ms. Albano, editor of the publication, said at the time.

An editorial also said his speech was a form of "home-grown terrorism."

Not to worry though, Jon Voight isn't skulking away, he denied both charges, saying that those who speak out against the Obama administration are "demonized" and "attacked," often with hate speech.  In my book, John Voight is a breath of fresh air and I look forward to hearing him speak again soon.

Mr. Rich observed: “This kind of rhetoric, with its pseudo-scriptural call to action, is toxic.”   (Washington Times)

I suppose Rich has forgotten about all the Liberals in Hollywood who miss no opportunity to bash George W. Bush.

In case you missed what Jon Voight said, here it is:

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WINDOW INTO FATE OF WOUNDED AND ARRESTED IN ISLAMIC IRAN

From Anti-Mullah: 

Afshin, a shopkeeper from south-west Iran, alleges that one of his male friends was beaten and repeatedly raped after being arrested at an opposition rally after last month's disputed election. He gave this account to Esfandiar Poorgiv, a journalist and academic.

He came to my shop around 10.30am. You could tell straight away that he had just been released. His face was bruised all over. His teeth were broken and he could hardly open his eyes.

He was not even into politics. He was just an ordinary 18-year-old in the last year of school. Before the election he came to me and asked how he should vote. He looks up to me. His father is an Ahmadinejad supporter.

He had gone home directly after his release, but his father did not let him in. He didn't mention he had been raped. At first, he didn't tell me either. It was the doctor who first noticed it and told me.

When he came to my shop he collapsed in a chair. He said he had nowhere to go and asked if he could stay with me. I called a friend of mine who is a doctor to come home and see him. Then I brought him home.

His shoulder blades and arms were wounded. There were some slashes on the face. No bone fractures, but he was bruised all over the body. I wanted to take some photos but he did not let me. The doctor said only four of his teeth were intact, the rest were broken. You could hardly understand what he said.

Then the doctor told me what had happened. He had suffered rupture of the rectum and the doctor feared colonic bleeding. He suggested we take him to the hospital immediately.

They registered him under a false name and with somebody else's insurance. The nurses were crying. Two of them asked what sort of beast had beaten him up like that. He was a broken man. He told us not to waste our money on him, and that he would kill himself.

He was arrested in Shiraz on 15 June, the Monday after the election. Some sturdy young men made a human shield around the demonstrators. He was among them. He said he managed to hit some of the anti-riot police. But then they caught him and beat him up.

"I was kept in a van till evening that day and then transferred to a solitary cell where I was kept for two days," he said. "Then I was repeatedly interrogated, beaten and hung from a ceiling. They call it chicken kebab. They tie your hands and feet together and hang you from the ceiling, turning you around and beating you with cables.

"They gave us warm water to drink and one meal a day. Repeated smacking was a regular punishment. In interrogations, they kept on asking if I was instructed from abroad. I believed I was going to be sent from the detention centre to prison. But they sent me to where they called Roughnecks' Room. There were some other youths of my age in there. I asked a guard why I am not sent to prison and the reply was: 'You have to be our guest for a while.'

"I refused to confess during interrogations. They said: 'Ask your friends what we'll do to you if you don't co-operate.' Others in the room were also arrested on 15 June. I was tempted to confess at this point but I didn't. On the third and fourth day, they beat me up again. They insisted we were instructed from abroad. I kept on saying we were only protesting for our votes.

"It was on Saturday or Sunday that they raped me for the first time. There were three or four huge guys we had not seen before. They came to me and tore my clothes. I tried to resist but two of them laid me on the floor and the third did it. It was done in front of four other detainees.

"My cell mates, especially the older one, tried to console me. They said nobody loses his dignity through such an act. They did it to two other cell mates in the next days. Then it became a routine. We were so weak and beaten up that could not do anything.

"Then the interrogations started again. They said: 'If you don't come to your senses we will send you to Adel Abad [another prison in Shiraz] to the pederasts' section so that you receive such treatment every day.' I was so weak I did not know what to say. Then they asked for my contacts. I told them I had no contacts and I was informed about the demonstrations through the internet.

"The same routine was continued till this morning when I was released. In the last week, there was no interrogation, no beating. Only rape and solitary confinement."

This is what he recounted. But he couldn't articulate quite like this. He was in much physical and mental pain as he talked. I asked him to tell his story in the hope of making a difference to those still detained.

New Black Hole

A new black hole has been discovered, no I'm not talking about Washington D.C. where all your tax dollars are gobbled up into the abyss that begs for more.

An international team of astronomers using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory says it's discovered a new kind of black hole.

The scientists, led by Sean Farrell of the University of Leicester, England, said the newly found black hole weighs more than 500 solar masses and is a missing link between lighter stellar-mass and heavier super-massive black holes.

Stellar-mass black holes about 3 to 20 times as massive as the sun, and super-massive black holes several million to several thousand million times as massive as the sun, have long been known to exist. Because of the large gap between the two extremes, scientists have speculated the existence of a third, intermediate class of black holes, with masses between a hundred thousand and several hundred thousand solar masses.  (continue at UPI)

Obama Must Go

I'm serious, Obama must not have a second term as President of the United States, he must be replaced with a Conservative Republican.  The US cannot survive as we know and love it with eight years of Obama, I'm praying she can survive four years of him.  The MSM is useless, even though we are seeing a few cracks in their devotion (Helen Thomas of all people).

For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few": Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors.   (Politico)

Obama must go - no Obama in 2012.  Elect a Conservative. 

US President Barack Hussein Barry Soetoro Obama says "community service is a national duty...  "Serving our country is not just something that we should expect our members of our armed forces to do," Obama said, "That's something that we should expect all of us as citizens to do""  I think we all agree with that statement, but serving, volunteering, is something we do on our own, we don't have to be told to do it and we don't need to government to PAY us to do it.   Let me tell you a little about Hussein's volunteer programs.

Our government is broke, worse than broke, in huge and growing debt, families are cutting back, trying to balance their budgets, keep their bills paid, honor their commitments, while Obama is spending money like there's no tomorrow.

Obama must go - no Obama in 2012.  Elect a Conservative.

Obama increases aid to Islamic countries:

Although President Obama had recently stated that "We're out of money now" he still continues with his nonstop catering to the Islamic world. It is obvious where his loyalties are.

For Some White House Aides, Public Service Has Its (Six-Figure) Rewards,
[18% more than the Bush Administration] not even counting all the czars and other new positions...

Twenty-two of the president's top aides -- most with the title "assistant to the president" -- make exactly that much [$172,000.00] in exchange for their service to the country, the White House reported to Congress today. The Obama administration also published the information on the White House blog.

Obama must go - no Obama in 2012.  Elect a Conservative.

"Volunteers" are getting paid by you, the taxpayer, to 'work' in positions they have no idea what they are doing, ... other than getting a paycheck.  I visited my family doctor last week as a follow-up from my fall three weeks ago.  The ribs and bones in my lower lumbar back are healing and I do feel much better. 

When I walked into the office I saw a young man with a stethoscope around his neck.  I thought I recognized him but couldn't place him at first ... then realized he works the door at our local bar and grill accepting the cover charge from patrons.  When I inquired as to what he was doing in the doctor's office, he informed me he was 'working' and getting paid by Obama.  He was not working as he had no knowledge of anything medical, he is actually planning on attending engineering school this fall.  It's awfully nice of Obama to pay him money this summer, what a guy.

In Britain we have the following, while in the US the DOW Jones launches an Islamic index -- US Wall Street to Draw Muslim Investors With New ETF.

Let's hope we don't end up like Britain:  Britain has 85 sharia courts: The astonishing spread of the Islamic justice behind closed doors:

The astonishing figure is 17 times higher than previously accepted. The tribunals, working mainly from mosques, settle financial and family disputes according to religious principles. They lay down judgments which can be given full legal status if approved in national law courts.

Obama must go - no Obama in 2012.  Elect a Conservative.

We are suffering because too many American voters, many young and uninformed, got caught up in a 'feel good' movement of hope and change.

Not just another pretty face...

(The following is from June 2008, but I find it fascinating.  See more on Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum Invention here)

  Hedy Lamarr wasn't just a beautiful movie star. According to a new play, Frequency Hopping, she was also a shrewd inventor who devised a signal technology that millions of people use every day.

Lamarr—born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Austria in 1914—developed a passion for helping the U.S. military after walking away from an unhappy marriage to an Austrian Fascist weapons manufacturer in 1937. In an attempt to stall her acting career, he had brought her to his business meetings, where she found herself continuously listening to "fat bastards argue antiaircraft this, vacuum tube that," explains Lamarr's character—played by Erica Newhouse—in the play, Frequency Hopping. In the meetings, they had talked about developing detection devices to listen to, and jam, the radio signals that American aircraft and weapons used to communicate with one another; and Lamarr wanted to foil their plans. "Can you guide your torpedo towards an enemy target—or just use radio control period—without being detected? Or jammed?" Lamarr's character asks. 

Lamarr realized that by transmitting radio signals along rapidly changing, or "hopping," frequencies, American radio-guided weapons would be far more resilient to detection and jamming. The sequence of frequencies would be known by both the transmitter and receiver ahead of time, but to the German detectors their message would seem like gibberish. "No jammer could detect it, no German code-breaker could decipher a completely random code," she says in the play.  (continue at Scientific American)

Then there's this:

Democrat or Decepticon?

Punish and Enslave!

As you know the House passed the Waxman-Malarkey cap-n-tax global warming bill thanks in part to 8 sellout Republicans that took money from environmental whackos in return for a vote that will cost American’s millions of jobs, further erode our nation’s competitive standing and suck more of the hard earned money you make from your family so it can be siphoned to friends of those in Congress.

But don’t believe me. The Heritage foundation took a look at the figures from both the EPA and the CBO and found that they vastly under estimated their numbers. These are the numbers being peddled as fact for your reference.  (continue at the Watcher of Weasels)

The following list is their submissions of articles that seek to expose the week’s biggest weasels. Join us on Friday for the winning entries.

Council Submissions

• The Razor - Settlement
• Rhymes With Right - How A Real President Responds
• Joshuapundit - Masquerade In iran
• The Glittering Eye - Affording Everything
• Mere Rhetoric - Shh… Massachusetts Proves Mandate-Based Health Reform Will Be A Disaster
• Wolf Howling - Politicized Science
• Soccer Dad - Diehl me out
• Bookworm Room - All violence is equal, but some violence is more equal than others
• Right Truth - LIFE

Non-Council Submissions

• Submitted By: The Watcher – Forbes.com – Karl Gaard - Waxman-Markey Flunks Math
• Submitted By: The Razor – Financial Times - Obama is Choosing to be Weak
• Submitted By: Rhymes With Right – Delaware Liberal - Should Sanford Resign?
• Submitted By: Joshuapundit – Diana West - “Role of Women in Iran Protest Kindles Hope”…OF WHAT?
• Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – The League of Ordinary Gentlemen - Iraq June 30th
• Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – Kaplan / Washington Post - Iran’s Struggle, and Ours
• Submitted By: Wolf Howling – EU Referendum - Rigging The Debate
• Submitted By: Soccer Dad – Fausta’s Blog - Responses to “Coup in Honduras – Correction: This is NOT a coup”
• Submitted By: Bookworm Room – Christina Hoff Sommers - Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship
• Submitted By:  Right Truth - American Daughter - Religion and Politics Don't Mix

Other items you may want to read:

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S RIGGED CENSUS – PART TWO, The Last Crusade, Dr. Paul Williams

'Obama' Think-Tank: Israel Should Cede Jerusalem Sovereignty, by Hillel Fendel

Seven Reasons for Leftist Anti-Semitism By: Don Feder

Message to Israel – from the Christians in America, Heaven Waits

Iranian ambassador hopeful about Silva Harotonian appeal, by Armenian Reporter staff

Iran Regime Hangs Protesters; Oppo Newspaper Shut Down, Mousavi Defiant!, by Donald Douglas

Census news via video

Some very interesting video on the Census, past and present.  Seems not only are the GPS coordinates of your front door being recorded, some forms ask what kind of savings you have, stocks and bonds, if you own firearms...

In one instance a homeowner videotaped the census taker going from door to door and asked him to explain the purpose of taking GPS coordinates.  The census taker had the gaul to tell the homeowner he could not video tape him.  WHAT?  They can ask every minute personal detail about us and they don't want to be video taped?  Hat tip Michael.  Watch the first video for sure:

Alex Jones Breaks Down Census Workers Using GPS
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US Census GPS Tagging Your Residence, Part 1/4 with Katherine Albrecht
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Acorn the census takers
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Embryo Test

A gene mapping test that can test embryos for almost any inherited disease could be available in the UK within a year, say researchers.

Unlike current tests doctors do not need to know the specific gene mutation involved.

At the same time embryos can be tested to check they are generally in good genetic shape.

Experts say there will have to be strict limits on what the test can be used for.  

The test - which will cost around £2,500 - uses a technique called karyomapping which looks for the inheritance of sections of DNA or chromosomes.  (BBC)

No kidding we will have to be strict about what the test can be used for.  Will we see embryos being destroyed because they have any number of diseases?

America’s Tripwire: the Coming Revolution in Rational Politics

America’s Tripwire: the Coming Revolution in Rational Politics

By R.J. Godlewski
© June 30, 2009, All Rights Reserved.
(Right Truth Exclusive)

    Every revolution has, at its heart, a tripwire that might seem inconsequential to the events that will ultimately transpire on its merits. No one could adequately understand, for instance, the death and destruction that resulted from the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Nor would anyone believe that the protests currently expressed in Iran have anything to do with the failure of a single political candidate. Yet, each of the above events will forever be linked to the initiator regardless of the underlying stress on the respective culture that ultimately caused the crisis.

    America, in the midst of 2009, is riding atop another bubble of societal dissatisfaction, aided in no small part to the grandiose promises of an anointed opportunist. President Barack Obama’s ascendance from political obscurity had less to do with his promises of extraordinary change than the growing resentment of a society on the verge of chucking out its national leadership en masse. President Obama did not win, the ruling class merely lost.

    The United States has always been a boiling stew led by the froth of turmoil. The more that our national leadership becomes corrupt, the more the underlying recipe becomes putrid and indigestible. Like a hardening crust on an otherwise magnificent soufflé, our nation has unwittingly elected the worst possible government during a period of great economic expectation. With the likes of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and now, apparently, Al Franken at the helm, the pot is primed to boil over. Perhaps even detonated.

    As our culture of death, entitlement, government control, and rampant spending festers, the final spark for revolution may be quite unobservable to the untrained eye but it exists nevertheless. For the past one hundred years, Americans have quietly endured the erosion of personal liberties and economic success. We have endured these transgressions because natural evolution of our economy always kept pace with the overindulgence of our national leadership. Unfortunately, however, our present government has exceeded this equilibrium to unsustainable levels.

    With the ‘Guerrilla Government’ takeover of the banking, auto, energy, and, soon, heath industries, the average American will come to realize what large segments of the global population had already learned long ago: government programs invariably fail. It is the private individual who inspires evolution, not bureaucracy.

    What has kept America safe and secure for two hundred and thirty-odd years has been that we remain – and will continue to remain – an armed population. This silent undertow has propelled the United States as the world’s vanguard against tyranny and it is this reality that will keep the country safe and secure from those who have repeatedly overstepped their Constitutional boundaries. With the election of Barack Obama, this safeguard has been accelerating at a phenomenal rate as thousands of men and women assail their local gun shops to purchase firearms and ammunition in historical quantities.

    With 300+ million firearms already in America before President Obama’s election, it would not have taken a large change to drastically tip the balance beyond even Hitler-esque confiscation. The fear on the street is that President Obama understands that messing with firearm ownership would be political suicide so he will have to resort to taxing ammunition to effect his progressive anti-gun legislation. This too, however, can be considered political suicide for many of his votes came from otherwise gun-toting Democrats.

    Every significant culture has gone through both a civil war and suffered under the prospects of a tyranny. America had endured a bloody Civil War, but it had never experienced allegiance to a tyrant since its founding. We have fought them and most of us know to prefer freedom to government, but a direct tyranny is something that we have never witnessed while under our flag. Until now…

    With each takeover of a capital enterprise, those presently infesting our government take an oath of treason. With each new tax raised upon us citizens, their allegiance to George III of old is reaffirmed. Their desire is for absolute government control of our lives without due representation and their insistence upon taxing us into oblivion is merely the energy source for the coming revolution. It is not the blasting cap for change, however. That comes when President Obama and his dominant progressive legislation acts on imposing further gun laws upon a skeptical populace.

    Progressives understand this. They want this. They want to tip America into full-scale revolt. This is what treason is – destroying the very fabric of a society for personal gain. Nowhere is this more evident than through a brief rummage of history’s refuse pile. The progressives in Washington have convinced you that they need to spend trillions to jumpstart an otherwise cyclic economy. They have convinced you that businesses, corrupt as they are, are simply “too big to fail”. The more that the progressives find excuses for their extravagances, the more they will try to convince you that the “crisis” in question mandates another trillion or, at a minimum, another czar. Leave it to our government to equate itself with a failed monarchy.

    The Great Progressive Spin Machine, riding on the current of post-Clinton gun control defeats, is now salivating over the neighboring crisis in Mexico as their prime opportunity to enact restrictive measures on law-abiding patriots. Our Constitution guarantees that each of us is permitted to keep and bear firearms (including ammunition) for self-protection, subsistence, and entertainment, yet over the past one hundred years we have allowed them to subjugate these very rights under the guise of “reasonable” gun laws. The problem is, there is NO reasonable interpretation of the Constitution that sacrifices an inalienable right in the process.

    We the people of the United States remain more powerful than the President, the Congress, and the Supreme Court combined. They are our limbs, not our brains. They represent our servants, not we their slaves. Police and federal agencies are bound by the Constitution. We are empowered by it. The stresses underlying our society are sufficiently powerful enough to topple one or more political parties and, quite possibly, the very nature of our Washington leadership. We are resilient and permissive, but the cracks enforced by the Obama Administration’s unconstitutional threats upon our culture have laid the foundation for serious change beyond even that envisioned by his campaign promises. Gun ownership may very well represent the tripwire that detonates society’s “claymore” of wholesale activism. It may represent that final line in the sand that distinguishes citizens from inhabitants. 
   

Should Fearmongers Be Held Liable for Damages?

Should Fearmongers Be Held Liable for Damages?

by Mary Theroux, The Independent Institute

As has been discussed elsewhere, the FDA is threatening General Mills over its advertising Cheerios’ assistance in lowering cholesterol. In so doing, the FDA claims to be the sole gatekeeper for health information in the U.S. Yet as Dan Klein and Alex Tabarrok show on our related website, FDAReview.org and in related commentary; and Robert Higgs’s extensive research supports, the FDA’s practices have rather resulted in untold unnecessary deaths by keeping life-saving technology and drugs from the doctors and patients they could have helped — economists’ estimates vary from hundreds of thousands to millions of lives lost by the FDA’s use of its power to keep efficacious drugs and devices from the market. Yet at the same time, drug manufacturers remain liable for damages their products are alleged to have caused, even though passed as “safe” by the FDA.

In the late 1960s, Paul Ehrlich became a media darling following the publication of his book, The Population Bomb. Ehrlich’s crystal ball apparently enabled him to see with certainty that population growth would soon outstrip resources, proclaiming “the battle to feed all of humanity is over … In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.” Among other policy prescriptions, Ehrlich called for “compulsory birth regulation… [to be achieved by] the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired family size.” Fortunately, the U.S. had not yet reached the state it has apparently reached today, and his policy recommendations were not enacted. However, it was a hugely popular view championed in the media and on college campuses, with thousands of college students undergoing voluntary sterilization. Other countries, of course, bought into this Malthusian view; the most extreme being China’s mandatory one-child policy, resulting in forced abortions and sterilizations, and the abandonment and killing of millions of female babies. This has had numerous and as-yet untold unintended consequences, from the tragedy of families now childless following the deaths of their single children in last year’s earthquake, to the epidemic of the sex-slave trade in China’s female-starved cities. Meanwhile, the subsequent lives of those American college students of the ’70s who may have later changed their minds about wanting children is unknown.

As history has proven, rather than the dystopia Ehrlich outlined, the 1970s and ’80s were a time of increasing prosperity virtually worldwide, and all economic evidence is that humans are a net asset to the world. While population quadrupled in the 20th century, life expectancy has at the same time increased, doubling since the 19th century, and worldwide per capita food production is nearly 50 percent higher than 50 years ago. A bug researcher, Ehrlich was not and is not an economist — a student of Human Action — and thus fails to take into account the wondrous effects of human ingenuity. The Green Revolution turned previous areas of desolation and privation into bread- (and rice-) baskets; while countless other innovations and discoveries have resulted in the cost of nearly every natural resource falling, indicating their relative abundance.

Today we face the specter of reduced lifestyles in the West and continued privation and poverty in the less developed world as a result of the fearmongering of the global-warming lobby. Led by some of the largest utility companies (including the late Enron) and nuclear power companies like Exelon (see the Huffington Post’s “Internal Memo: Nuclear Power Company Could Make A Billion A Year From Climate Change Law“); and carbon-trading financial titans such as Al Gore, the current worldwide crusade to end access to cheap and efficient energy smears any attempts to question its “consensus:” see for example “EPA May Have Suppressed Report Skeptical Of Global Warming“. The squelched report’s author found the studies the EPA is using to support global warming legislation are at least three years out of date and “global temperatures are roughly where they were in the mid-20th century. They’re not going up, and if anything they’re going down.”

If drug companies and General Mills are to be held to the strictest liability for their claims, ought not the same standard be applied to those who not only make false contentions, but are further able to get legislation enacted severely negatively impacting millions, if not billions, of individuals, while profiting from it themselves? Will we be able to sue Al Gore or any of the utility companies who have spent $51 million in the past six months lobbying for today’s legislative changes, for damages caused by their claims?

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For more on the special interests behind today’s fearmongering, see “The Climate-Industrial Complex Some businesses see nothing but profits in the green movement“, and David Theroux’s related blog post, “The Climate-Industrial Complex.”

Out of the ball park presidential picks

You can find lists of potential presidential candidates for 2012 all over the web, here, here,  here, Most of them are re-runs and I don't want a re-run.   Here are my suggestions as possible candidates for President in 2012:

1.  U.S. Army Lieutenant Ralph Peters.

2.  Liz Cheney

 

3. Bobby Jindal

4. Sarah Palin

5.  John Bolton

What about you.  Who would you love to see as President of the United States of America?  Put on your thinking caps!!!

Life

LIFE

By Debbie Hamilton

I experienced a bit of long-overdue silence, and what came to me was this:  Life is, and always has been, a struggle.  The fishing pole bends heavier for some than others, and nobody has yet to figure out why -- just as you never know, when you make a cast, if what attacks your fly is a finger-size baby snapper or a tiger shark that can turn you into bait.  Still, we struggle with the rod just the same.  Life to me is like a fish on the line.  When it is there, you feel it.  You fight it.  You gain line.  You lose line.  But if that line suddenly snaps, or the pole breaks, or a thousand other problems occur that fishermen use as excuses when the tension is gone, you feel it even more.  --Jimmy Buffett, A Salty Piece of Land, page 425

By the time most of us are mature enough to know the value of life and the minuscule time we have allotted to us on this beautiful globe, we have wasted more years than we have ahead of us.  The lessons we have learned the hard way cannot truly be conveyed to others, they are probably still too young to understand.  The lessons our elders tried to teach us suddenly start becoming clear.  I'm sure God knew what he was doing when He planned things this way.  Truth is, sometimes we feel like the fisherman and other times we feel like the fish...

People are dying for freedom in Iran while US President Barack Obama had a Hawaiian luau and Shepherd Smith is having an hour-long orgasm on Fox News following a car chase.  Celebrities die young and push national news off the airways while citizens are still losing their jobs and homes in spite of promises from the One.  We all have our priorities.   God must be very patient and He surely has a sense of humor.

God has given us one life.  Most Christians believe God has a plan for our lives, but too often we search for that great big thing out there that we think God wants us to do.  In reality, God's will for our lives may be as simple as taking care of family, setting an example to others, teaching the small and simple truths of the Bible, being a good citizen.

Our heart beats, our lungs fill with air, we smell the fragrances of our world, our mind remembers, calculates, creates, imagines all manner of things.  By the grace of God we continue to tick.  In our own small way, each of us continue to fight against the evils that exist in this world.  We fight to the best of our abilities.

Here in the US we have a congress voting on non-existent bills;  a government spending money they don't have and can never pay back;  a government taking over private businesses, using questionable groups to skew voting districts and take the census; politicians who sell or trade their votes for favors and feel no sense of obligation to the voters who put them in office.  I see a country that is split more than I have ever seen it before.

Someone stated that history is short, history for most of us is what we can remember in our own lifetimes.  Tick, tick, tick.  As we are confronted with wrongs, God expects us to speak out, to take a stand, to be either hot or cold, and not lukewarm.  After all is said and done, we hope, we pray and we have confidence that when God casts his line, when he throws his net, in His mercy he will find us good enough to keep. 

This body that God gave us also represents the body of Christ and the church, a living, breathing entity whose members and parts all need to function to keep the body working properly.  We are Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, as Phillip Yancy and Paul Brand wrote -- a delicate fabric of cells as awesome and mysterious as the galaxies of space. Life is great as long as everything is working together the way our Heavenly Father intended.

The same goes for our country, a complicated mixture of humans all living together, all having a role in how the country goes.  When all works the way our Founding Fathers planned this is the brightest and best nation of all. 

When the human body has a cancer or invading illness, the surgeon does his best to cut it out to save the body.  As a nation we have a cancer growing, you can call it whatever you want -- Liberalism, Socialism, Fascism, -- by whatever label it needs to be cut out.  As healthy members of this American body each and every voter needs to do all he can to vote out the offending politicians in 2010 and 2012.  In order to save the patient, our beloved country, and give her a chance to live in Freedom in the future, this is our responsibility.

Right now in our country the fishing line is ready to snap, the fishing pole is bending and ready to break, it's time for action.  If you are mature enough to know the value of life and the minuscule time we have allotted to us, don't waste a minute.  Independence Day, July 4th, is the perfect time to join with others, be rejuvenated, inspired, refreshed, and renewed both in body, mind and spirit.  Celebrate life -- your life, the life of our country, the life of Freedom, Democracy, Capitalism...

Don't miss an opportunity to tell those near and dear, "I love you."

Facts and Figures

"Nick Jouriles, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians and an Akron-based emergency physician, says he has seen an increase in injuries from do-it-yourself projects in the past year, and he says it's probably the result of homeowners trying to save money in a struggling economy.", reports Jillian Berman in USA Today.  The article quotes comments on Angie's List and Todd Taylor, a physician working for Microsoft in Tennessee, who fell off a ladder and spent 2 months in a wheelchair.

We are not told whether there are any actual facts, figures, or surveys as to whether there are actually more injuries to homeowners and whether they are doing these projects because of the struggling economy or simply because they enjoy doing things themselves.  Funny thing those facts and figures.

I consulted with my resident emergency room physician who informs me there are no facts or figures that could support or refute these claims, as emergency room personnel do not ask and report 'why' you did what you did, there are no databases with this type information, it must all be anecdotal.

So while the article at USA Today is an interesting read, we cannot take it at face value.  One thing we can be sure of -- If Barack Obama gets his government health care, these folks won't be allowed to rush to the emergency room with every little home improvement accident and if they do, they sure won't get the comprehensive treatment they do today.  There are facts and figures to support that, just look at any country with government run health care and you will have the facts.

Ain't that a kick in the head!

Justice for White Firefighters

Bad news for Sonia Sotomayor:

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court, voting 5-4 in a case that has been a lightning rod for high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, invalidated a Connecticut city's decision to scrap the results of a firefighter promotion exam in which the white candidates scored better than their black peers.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing the court's opinion, said the city of New Haven violated a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prohibits employment discrimination.

"Whatever the city's ultimate aim -- however well intentioned or benevolent it might have seemed -- the city made its employment decision because of race," Justice Kennedy wrote.

"The city rejected the test results solely because the higher scoring candidates were white."

Justice Kennedy said an employer cannot throw out an exam unless there is strong evidence that the test harmed minorities. New Haven didn't meet this standard, he said.

The court's four other conservative justices joined Justice Kennedy's opinion.  (Wall Street Journal)

Let the left-wing spin begin.

Failed Dutch Blog Receives 170.000 Euro Bailout

From PoliGazette:

Today, the responsible department told DDS that PlusPost will receive the bailout it requested. The struggling blog - which pretends to be rightist (for the free market, small government, individual freedoms, etc.) - will receive 170.000 euro. That is $238.000.

Who pays for that? The tax payer of course. The Dutch tax payer, who works hard every day to make a living, who struggles to keep his head above water due to the severe economic crisis, pays for a failed blog owned by a millionaire.  (read it all)

The world has lost it's mind.

Suicide **UPDATE**

**UPDATE**  I am happy to report this morning that I heard from this man and he is still alive.  He has decided to go on with life for now and I am so pleased.  God can change our situation, He can give us hope and will to live and He can meet our needs in this life.  Life is precious.  I am very thankful to hear from this man and report to you he is alive. **END UPDATE**

We make many decisions in our lives, most we can go back and change -- not so with suicide.  A long-time reader here at Right Truth emailed me today saying he was going to kill himself tonight.  We make internet friends, not really knowing who these people are.  But this man emailed me regularly, sending me comics, links to articles he thought important.  He also sent me mp3's of songs he thought the grouch and I would enjoy.  As I type this, I do not know if he is still alive...

He tells me that he recently lost his job and that he has a long-term illness, his money is almost gone, and he will not live on the streets.  He tells me "good-bye" and that he is going to jump off the roof of his Los Angeles apartment building tonight.

I contacted the police department with the information I had, name, former employer, IP address, email address...  The police officer I talked with was very polite and immediately got on the internet trying to do what he could.  But the truth is, as the policeman states, we don't really know if this is his real name, his real employer, and the employer is closed since it's Sunday night.  The policeman also noted that email addresses can be obtained with false information.

With all that said, I pleaded with him, "Can't you contact AOL and have them find out who this person is, can't you track down the IP address???"    I realize in a large city how many people with the same name probably exist.  I understand, like the policeman said, this is like searching for a needle in a haystack.  But, I'm still wondering if there was something else that could have been done.

I hope this man is still alive.  I hope he contacted someone as I suggested.  There are agencies out there to help people like him.  I asked him if he had family, friends, somebody -- he said no.

If you want to kill yourself, it's your choice.  For people who are truly suicidal, they will keep trying until they succeed.  But know this -- there are no more choices.  Suicide is final.

My mother died in January 2001 after a long illness.  I tried caring for my father, visiting him often, calling often, taking him home-cooked meals etc.  But in September 2001 he shot himself in the head.  It was what he wanted.  He no longer wanted to live without my mother.  It was his choice and he did it. 

I had to deal with the aftermath.  I had to go to the hospital and claim the body, fill out forms, arrange for burial and funeral.  I had to take care of the finances, pay the bills, sell the house, land, belongings.  I had to live with the fact that my father shot himself in the head.  There is no going back from that.  There is no getting that image out of your head.

If you are out there and still alive, don't do it. 

When I started this blog in 2005 it was merely to share information concerning terrorism.  I did not sign up for suicide watch.

As of 11:26 p.m. Central Time, I have not heard any word from this man.

Congress impatient with Obama on Iran, North Korea

Good.

Washington - Some members of Congress, increasingly impatient with the Obama administration's "give diplomacy a chance" stance toward Iran and North Korea, are pressing for new punitive measures against those countries.

This week the House Appropriations Committee attached an amendment to the 2010 foreign operations appropriations bill that would direct the Export-Import Bank to cut off US loan guarantees to certain companies doing business with Iran, particularly in the petroleum sector.

On Wednesday, Sen. Sam Brownback (R) of Kansas called on the Obama administration to use measures included in the Patriot Act to designate North Korea a "primary concern" of the US over its money-laundering networks. That would authorize the Treasury Department to take steps on the issue.

The two measures follow several months in which congressional attempts to sanction the regimes stalled as the Obama administration argued for time to see if international diplomacy would produce any results. The overriding concern in both cases is the regimes' nuclear programs.

But Iran's recent crackdown on protesters disputing the June 12 presidential election has galvanized many in Congress, especially Republicans critical of President Obama's initial response to the Iranian repression. North Korea's unabated belligerence in the wake of toughened UN sanctions – in particular Pyongyang's threat to launch a missile toward Hawaii – has had a similar effect.  (continue Christian Science Monitor)

Related from Instapundit:

ADVICE TO THE REPUBLICANS: “They need to become hard line zealots against the ‘public option’ health care ‘reform’.”

New Detention Plan

Obama's new terrorist detention plan same as G. W. Bush's detention plan, except here on American soil.  Oh my:

The Nation -- The Obama administration is rushing towards a unilateral plan to imprison people without trial, according to a huge, new joint article from the Washington Post and ProPublica. The proposal would completely cut Congress out of the process by using an executive order to essentially bring Gitmo stateside:

The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, is drafting an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations. Such an order would embrace claims by former president George W. Bush  that certain people can be detained without trial for long periods under the laws of war. Obama advisers are concerned that bypassing Congress could place the president on weaker footing before the courts and anger key supporters, the officials said.  (continue)

I bet the Obamaites are not very happy!

3:39 a.m. Sunday, do you know where your good music is???

The Morbid Strangers, hubby's band, played last night at the 412 Grill.  It's a great band and a great venue, with varying types of crowds.  We got home around 3:39 a.m. today.  This particular Saturday night we had a great crowd and a very young group that came in very late, who we found were interested in hearing songs like Cupid Shuffle, and this, which were OK.  But some of the other songs were just too mind-numbingly boring for me.  I'm sorry, but we don't do this sort of music now.  (Perhaps the band members will decide to include some of this music into their playlist, but I wouldn't bet on it.)  We're into rock, rock-n-roll, blues, a little country, alternative, jazz.  Here's a sample of the lyrics the youngsters liked:

Down, down, do your dance, do your dance (let me see, let me see ya do the cupid)
Down, down, do your dance, do your dance (do the shuffle baby yeah)
Down, down, do your dance, do your dance (woah woah oh oh)
Down, down, do your dance, do your dance (hey hey hey hey yeah yeah)

Chorus (2x):
To the right, to the right, to the right, to the right
To the left, to the left, to the left, to the left
Now kick, now kick, now kick, now kick
Now walk it by yourself, now walk it by yourself
(let me see you do)

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I'm no fuddy-duddy, trust me, I'm just having a hard time with some of today's music.  I cannot stand rap, but that's just me, I know there is a huge audience for that and sales seem to be great.  We all had a great time at the 412 Grill and will be back there again July 25, 2009.  Upcoming engagements:

Jun 27 2009

9:00P

412 Bar & Grill PARSONS, Tennessee

Jul 4 2009

8:00P

TEXAS BOTTOMs HOHENWALD, Tennessee

Jul 25 2009

9:00P

412 BAR & GRILL PARSONS, Tennessee

Aug 15 2009

9:00P

BOONDOCKS SALOON BRUCETON, Tennessee

Aug 29 2009

9:00P

412 BAR & GRILL

What say you?

Check out the Grouch's latest articles here.

Your Sunday reading list:

Obama has inspired us to distribute 100,000 Korans, Islam in Action

The Post American Presidency,

A Frenzy of Honor Killings: Neda, Soraya, Bursa - and Me, Dr. Phyllis Chesler

Banking on Allah, ALEXANDER MELEAGROU-HITCHENS

Weekend Weasel: Illinois Congressman Mark Kirk (R-RHINO, S-Sellout, P-Phony)

Breakthrough on the Authorship of Obama’s ‘Dreams’, Stop the ACLU

The Big Fix

OBAMA’S CENSUS TO CASTRATE AMERICAN CAUCASIANS

The Big Fix - Part One

by  Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.

thelastcrusade.org

Biased and prejudicial

It’s invasive.

It’s corrupt.

It’s rigged.

It’s unconstitutional.

Its purpose is the legislative transformation of the United States of America into a land where conservatives, Christians, and Caucasians will become political castratos.

It is biased and prejudicial.

It serves to channel billions of dollars into bogus political action groups, such as Acorn.

It promotes gay rights and same-sex marriages.

It is a document that was not something drafted by the Berkley chapter of the Barbra Streisand Fan Club or the Alec Baldwin wing of the American Civil Liberties Union.

It is President Barack Obama’s 2010 Census Form.

The form asks if you have a house with running water, if you have a flush toilet, if you go to work by ferryboat or trolleycar, if you are mentally challenged, if you are of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin, and if you are a white, black, negro, African American, American Indian, Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Native Hawaiian, Guamanian or Chamorro, Samoan, Fijian, or Tongan

It asks if you have hot and cold running water, a sink with a faucet, a refrigerator, a bathtub or shower, a stove or range, and a flush toilet.

It asks if you use coal, gas, oil, electricity, or solar energy to heat your home or apartment, if you are deaf or blind, if you are mentally challenged, if you have a physical disability, if you are employed, self-employed, or retired, if you have troubled dressing or bathing, if you have difficulty walking or climbing the stairs, and if you speak a language other than English at home.

It asks your income, your educational level, and the time you leave your home in the morning.

But infinitely more telling is what the new census doesn’t ask.

It doesn’t ask if you are a citizen of the U.S.A., if you are an immigrant, or if you are a Muslim.  (continue reading at The Last Crusade)

Quote of the day

Talking about South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's disappearance, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry said  "Too bad if a governor had to go missing, it couldn't have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin."  Sarah Palin,  who is visiting with troops in Kosovo, responded to Kerry with this:

"But the way he said it, he looked quite frustrated and he looked so sad. I just wanted to reach out to the TV and say 'John Kerry, why the long face?'"

Bwahahahahahahaha.  Now that's the way to take criticism, Sarah.  Sounds like a response Ronald Reagan might come up with. 

Now that you've had a good laugh, check out the winning articles from the Watcher of Weasels:

Winning council member Wolf Howling asked the following question about Barack Obama after the President initially failed to dis invite the thuggish Iranian theocracy to attend our coveted 4th of July freedom celebrations.

Is he seriously considering throwing the theocracy a life line over the bodies of the dead protesters so that the regime acquiesces on paper to his major demands? Is he really that amoral, narcissistic and detached from reality?

Of course we know the answer. President Obama is all that and more!  Wolf continued his discussion of Obama’s failures in dealing with Iran alongside the many reasons that President Obama should be issuing a different response.

According to WaPo, Obama is trying to “calibrate his comments to the mood of the hour” so as to “preserve the possibility of negotiating directly with the Iranian

(continue reading)

Iran update: Iranian-American Lawyers Call for Independent Investigation of Election

Iranian-American Lawyers Call for Independent Investigation of Election, by Amanda Bronstad,

The National Law Journal

One day after President Obama declared that the United States and other countries were "appalled and outraged by the threats, beatings and imprisonments of the last few days" in Iran, the Iranian American Lawyers Association called for the creation of an independent commission to investigate human rights violations in the tumultuous aftermath of the June 12 election.

In a resolution announced on June 24, the association condemned the recent violence against peaceful protesters and the Iranian government's suppression of information through its arrest of journalists and interference with the public's use of satellite television, cell phones and the Internet.  (continue at law.com)

I received the following message via email from an Iranian source/connection, I feel sure he sent the same message to many bloggers.  He says:

Watch the destructive power of Islam in Iran:
 
The Mullahs fascist security thugs wrecking lives & properties.
 
Watch the clip and see how the Mullahs fascist security thugs unduly invade and destroy the property of the defenseless people of Iran. Yet the western government are doing absolutely nothing while letting the killer Mullahs wreck peoples lives and properties.
 
Yet that long eared black Kenyan bastard in the White House considers the Mullahs as Iran's legitimate government.  Please watch this clip and pass it on to everyone in your list.  Please pass it on to the western media & press including the CNN FOX ABC CBS MBC BBC & MSNBC.  (name withheld)
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY1CFEyhB8g&eurl

You can click the YouTube link to see several videos taken of damage done to private citizens, their apartments and building roofs.  On the first video around the 5 minute mark you will see damage on the roof to satellite dishes, what appears to be AC units and maybe generators, I'm not sure.  The videos are not in English, but you don't need the audio to get the picture.

Meanwhile:  Insanity here in the US:

FBI Replaces Brotherhood Tainted Liaison with Brotherhood Tainted Liaison:

By The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)

A top FBI official met Wednesday with the vice president of the Islamic Society of North America, a move which followed the Bureau's decision "to use ISNA as their official point of contact with the American Muslim community," an email from an intelligence community veteran that was widely distributed Wednesday said.

The FBI has not yet commented on the claim. But the IPT has confirmed that the meeting did take place at FBI headquarters. The decision to make ISNA the FBI's contact point came over the objections of case agents and supervisors investigating Muslim Brotherhood activity in the U.S.

Last year, the FBI cut off outreach communication with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), after evidence in the Hamas-support trial against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) raised questions "whether there continues to be a connection between CAIR or its executives and HAMAS." The FBI's case agent testified that CAIR was a Hamas front.  (continue at Counterterrorism Blog)

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Who is Obama?

Obama, the African Colonial

By L.E. Ikenga, The American Thinker

Had Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama's skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural identity, maybe he would not be in the White House today. The key to understanding him lies with his identification with his father, and his adoption of a cultural and political mindset rooted in postcolonial Africa.

Like many educated intellectuals in postcolonial Africa, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was enraged at the transformation of his native land by its colonial conqueror. But instead of embracing the traditional values of his own tribal cultural past, he embraced an imported Western ideology, Marxism. I call such frustrated and angry modern Africans who embrace various foreign "isms", instead of looking homeward for repair of societies that are broken, African Colonials. They are Africans who serve foreign ideas.

The tropes of America's racial history as a way of understanding all things black are useless in understanding the man who got his dreams from his father, a Kenyan exemplar of the African Colonial.
Before I continue, I need to say this: I am a first generation born West African-American woman whose parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1970's from the country now called Nigeria. I travel to Nigeria frequently. I see myself as both a proud American and as a proud Igbo (the tribe that we come from -- also sometimes spelled Ibo). Politically, I have always been conservative (though it took this past election for me to commit to this once and for all!); my conservative values come from my Igbo heritage and my place of birth. Of course, none of this qualifies me to say what I am about to -- but at the same time it does.

My friends, despite what CNN and the rest are telling you, Barack Obama is nothing more than an old school African Colonial who is on his way to turning this country into one of the developing nations that you learn about on the National Geographic Channel. Many conservative (East, West, South, North) African-Americans like myself -- those of us who know our history -- have seen this movie before. Here are two main reasons why many Americans allowed Obama to slip through the cracks despite all of his glaring inconsistencies:

First, Obama has been living on American soil for most of his adult life. Therefore, he has been able to masquerade as one who understands and believes in American democratic ideals. But he does not. Barack Obama is intrinsically undemocratic and as his presidency plays out, this will become more obvious. Second, and most importantly, too many Americans know very little about Africa. The one-size-fits-all understanding that many Americans (both black and white) continue to have of Africa might end up bringing dire consequences for this country.   (continue at American Thinker)

Experience, Judgment, and Character: The Road from Eisenhower to Obama

Experience, Judgment, and Character: The Road from Eisenhower to Obama

By: Paul A. Ibbetson
(Right Truth Exclusive)

I recently found myself in the childhood home of Dwight D. Eisenhower in Abilene, Kansas. It was a tremendous experience to hear the creek of the floorboards, to see the handcrafted furniture, and to feel the texture of the wallpaper (even though that is probably against the rules for visitors) in the boyhood home of one of the most important historical figures of the United States. They say that the Eisenhowers lived on the wrong side of the tracks, but you can’t tell that today. What you can tell, is that the Eisenhower family home was not a place of extravagant frills, but of family necessity, with a delicate dash of austere country beauty.

It was from my visit to Abilene, Kansas, that I thought myself bold enough to compare the man they called “Ike” to the newest sensation on the presidential stage, Barack Obama. Some would say that it is not fair to make the comparison of these two presidents and that the list of reasons might possibly reach infinity - and to some degree that’s a valid argument. However, there are some situations in the country now facing Obama that are very similar to those which were faced by Eisenhower that had defined him as a leader.  That is, the current threats to the national security of the United States, and the manner in which the President is dealing with them. Let’s throw political parties to the side and talk about what really matters in the crunch from a leader: experience, judgment, and character.

The United States is once again faced with a foe that desires our total destruction. This time the foe is radical Islamic extremists, and it is here that we see a tremendous separation between the experience, judgment, and character, of Barack Obama and that of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Barack Obama seems all too willing to talk to our enemies about America’s wrongdoings, and then appears to be overly restrained when freedom-seeking people challenge those same totalitarian regimes. If the same situation of election violence that has recently taken place in Iran were to have befallen Eisenhower, would we see the same vague and flaccid statements of condemnation that have sprung forth from the lips of Obama? I seriously doubt it. In fact, if we are honest, Eisenhower had probably made more clutch decisions before becoming President than Barack Obama or most people have had to make in their entire life.

This is not to say that Eisenhower was a war hawk, because that would be far from the truth. Eisenhower had the same distaste for war that entails most soldiers, but he had a keen eye for sizing up the enemy. He had celebrated abilities that are entrusted to a special few that bear the burden of momentous decisions that will affect the nation, where failure is not an option. It was this kind of tested judgment, combined with Eisenhower’s internal character, which placed him in the historical position of Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War II. With a humble grace, Eisenhower shined in this harsh war environment with its extreme pressures that require not only experience and good judgment, but also the strength of character that comes from knowing the righteousness of freedom, and the rightness of America.

It is in this arena that Eisenhower excelled and that, I believe, Obama will fail us. As Barack Obama spends his precious time talking about the challenges of the day by noting the shortcomings of the past administration, Eisenhower went to work. As Obama rubs shoulders with Hollywood elites and runs the late night talk show circuit, Eisenhower addressed the bottom line needs of the country. As Obama triples the country’s debt and nationalizes the free market system, Eisenhower gave us economic prosperity after the bloodiest of wars.

There is no doubt that Obama would win an oratory flare contest against the thirty-fourth President of the United States, and would most likely come off more flamboyant after an evening of chit chat with Jay Leno or David Letterman; but when it comes to substance, and a leader for troubled times, I still like Ike.

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Paul A. Ibbetson is a former Chief of Police of Cherryvale, Kansas, and member of the Montgomery County Drug Task Force. Paul received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Criminal Justice at Wichita State University, and is currently completing his PhD. in sociology at Kansas State University. Paul is the author of the books Living Under The Patriot Act: Educating A Society and Feeding Lions: Sharing The Conservative Philosophy In A Politically Hostile World. Paul is also the radio host of the Kansas Broadcasting Association’s 2008 and 2009 Entertainment Program of the Year, Conscience of Kansas airing on KSDB Manhattan 91.9 FM. For interviews or questions, please contact Ibbetson91.9@gmail.com or go to www.IbbetsonUSA.com.

Right Truth Advice Column - Second Edition

 In this second edition of the Right Truth Advice Column, I answer questions from Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin.  These are two strong women with decisions they need to make for their future.  Will they choose the right path or will they allow circumstances, media, and bad advisers to lead them down the wrong path?  The next three years will be very interesting.

To Hillary Clinton:  You find yourself in a precarious position today, you're not happy and wondering what you need to do.  You failed to get your party's nomination, losing to your rival Barack Obama.  Your actions immediately after his election have led you to the place you are today, and it does not look pretty.

You could have held your head high, sticking to your beliefs and biding your time until 2012.  Your followers would have respected you for this, they would have stayed with you, especially after seeing the destruction Obama is bringing on America. 

But no, you sold yourself out to the devil for a position as Secretary of State... a position where you are nothing more than a mouthpiece for Obama.  Shame on you.  You let your faithful down, especially the women.  A Nexis database search shows you had fewer mentions last month than any time since you launched your presidential bid in January 2007. 

My advice to you is while you nurse your broken elbow you need to decide what you really want -- to be Obama's lackey or to run for president again.  If running for president is what you truly desire, then resign as secretary of state today.  People, including his loving media, are beginning to question his ideas, programs and direction for this nation.

Take to the airwaves, print media, YouTube, and networking sites.  Start sharing with Americans what you would be doing if you were president, what you will do to get this country back on track if elected in 2012.  Time is slipping by Hillary, this is your last chance -- go for it now.

To Sarah Palin:  You want to stay in politics, you want a chance to run for president in spite of the blatant attacks from the Left that continue and will continue until they feel you are no longer a threat to them.  They do feel you are a threat or they wouldn't waste their time on you.  They are right, you are a threat.

Sarah, 73% of Republicans have a favorable opinion of you.  Mitt Romney has a 57% favorable opinion among American voters.  Think about that.  Republicans, Conservatives, many women love you, what you stand for, your values, your politics.  Don't change any of this.  Do you hear me -- Don't Change.

Think about this:  Glenn Beck's book "Common Sense" and Mark Levin's book "Liberty and Tyranny" are best sellers, flying off the shelves.  With the second quarter coming to a close, Fox News averaged about the same number of viewers as the top three other cable news networks combined. Compared with last year, the Fox News (averaging 2.1 million viewers, 509,000 adults 25-54 quarter-to-date) is up 35% over last year in primetime viewers and 48% in the demo.  (THR.com)  Listeners to radio shows like Rush Limbaugh are increasing at an unbelievable pace.  Why?

The answer is easy, the majority of Americans believe the way Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Fox News, and Rush Limbaugh believe.  They believe the way you do Sarah.

My advice to you is do not change your beliefs, do not change your personality, do not change your politics -- Increase your knowledge of world affairs, other nations, visit with world leaders, seek out reliable associates who believe the way you do.  Attend Tea Parties and other events around the nation.  Give interviews, set your own agenda, give speeches when the opportunity arises.  

You have the potential to go far in spite of the hatred from the Left.  It's up to you.  Only you can take advantage of the opportunity that is ripe for the picking, and only you can screw up this opportunity. 

Choose your battles carefully, choose your associates carefully, and be the strong woman, strong Conservative that we all know you are.  Don't change.

Gatestrian National Conservative Party: Foundation for the future of faith, family, and freedom.

Gatestrian National Conservative Party:
Foundation for the future of faith, family, and freedom.

By R.J. Godlewski
© June 25, 2009, All Rights Reserved
(Right Truth Exclusive)

[AUTHOR’S NOTE. I am a creative personality, which means that I like to create things. You name it – businesses, non-profit organizations, training programs, graphics, unique technological devices, and, of course, novels. Regarding the latter, my very first published story (and series) was The Gatestrian Knights, whose intention is to take the reader on a multi-volume journey from “present time” through several hundred years into the future. My protagonist, Jason Task, eventually creates his own political party as he fights against evil within the world. My idea, of course, but I began to wonder “What if?” I wondered what a “good” political party would represent now that the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, both entities I once supported, had drifted so far into socialism. Never shying from a challenge, I have therefore decided to lay the groundwork for just such a conservative party, borrowing the name from my series, and addressing my own concerns. Founder or fuehrer? You decide… ;o)

Preamble

    I have never been a fan of a third major political party. Such efforts run the risk of turning the United States into a coalition country and that has never served Israel or Europe well for it reeks of compromise and diplomacy than leadership. Having said that, I no longer believe that the United States is even a two-party system at the present. I see only a bunch of career politicians differentiated by how much they can spend, deny, or abuse. Therefore, my hostility towards a third party (communism, greenies, and libertarians being largely ignored) wanes with each passing day.

    The fundamental problem today in America is the lack of moral character and integrity. We are all human and we are all sinners. Still. Take Gov. Mark Sanford, for instance. People cheat on their spouses and we should be willing to forgive them. We must not, however, excuse them or condone their behavior. Nobody in my family, as far as I know, ever cheated on theirs. My parents were married ten days shy of sixty years and the days they were apart from one another could be counted on your fingers. They suffered through layoffs, troubling economic times, and the diversity of him being a city boy from Detroit and she a farmer’s daughter from northern Michigan.

    For the whole of my own life, I have experienced women throw themselves at me. The problem was, I was always too dumb and innocent to realize it until long after the fact. Therefore, the opportunity for me to cheat was widely available. What kept me faithful, however, was that I never observed anyone beyond my precious Sara. I had spent nearly thirty years of my life waiting for “the one” and when she finally came along, I was too happy to throw a monkey wrench into the system. Sure, we fought occasionally and there were times when I wondered whether I could bear the challenges of living with someone who possessed strong emotional “issues”. Whenever I found myself “drifting”; family heritage, my commitment to God, and my determination to make things work out went on autopilot and steered me safely away from disaster.

    Now that Sara has passed away, I am proud that I was the one man within her life who stayed beside her through thick and thin. I would also give my right arm for one more day with her in which to apologize for any discrepancies that I might have showed and to tell her for the nth time that I love her.  As much as it hurts being without her, I cannot imagine intentionally throwing away a beautiful marriage and yet hundreds of thousands of people do it every year. In fact, half of the marriages within the United States today end in divorce. Something definitely has gone wrong with our nation….

Footing

    If one cannot remain faithful to their own spouse, then they cannot be trusted for being loyal to their country or their constituency. Period. Any elected official must both resign and pay back their salaries if they fail to uphold their commitments to either their country or their families. In America, we cannot legislate faithfulness but as a political party, we should not tolerate assholes.

    Inasmuch as I preach that it is unpatriotic to profit from national security, so too must it be to profit from public service. Public service should never be a social welfare program. It must remain an opportunity for all of us to contribute a little something back to our communities. Each of us “normal” people, whether residing within the workforce or business, is merely one bad performance eval away from being unemployed. Why, then, do we insist on giving our politicians third, fifth, and hundredth chances?

    I believe that there are a few “absolutes” that demand the forceful resignation of political office:

* Unfaithfulness to a spouse;

* Unfaithfulness to the U.S. Constitution;

* Treason against the United States;

* Abandonment of the dignity and integrity of innocent human life and the dehumanizing of the unborn;

* Fiscal irresponsibility;

* Disrespect for the United States while traveling abroad;

* Failure to safeguard national boundaries.

Without the above, there can be no leadership, no representation, and no hope for our nation.

Spirit

    Politicians need to tremble within the presence of the individual. Instead, they view the rest of us as merely groups – black or white, Christian or Jew, educated or not, male or female, wealthy or homeless. When we judge by groups, we discriminate. When we classify people, we turn into bigots. When we arbitrarily handicap through legislation, we dehumanize. God did not create us as sheep – that was left to the handiwork of the devil.

    Some of the greatest achievements in human history were the direct result of a single individual’s effort. We remember Lincoln, Lindbergh, Columbus, Bell, King, Einstein, and a host of others for their accomplishments more than the events that heralded their existence. Therefore, no politician and definitely no political party should stand within the way of an individual’s right to exist and to pursue “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”.

Responsibility

    Our nation sure loves to play the “blame game”. Even if we try to be coy and say that we do not ourselves profess to partake of this pastime, our legislation certainly underscores our commitment to the effort. A thug butchers a retailer during a holdup and we try to understand what “made” him do such a nasty deed. Whenever evil strikes a workplace or school, such as through a mass shooting, we immediately try to pass legislation to condemn the article used instead of the mind behind the crime. We merely alleviate the individual from all responsibility for their deeds by legislating their actions, thoughts, and decisions.

    Guns, for example, have never killed a living soul. An automobile has never harmed a pedestrian or fellow motorist while running whiskey through its engine. A computer has never cheated on its taxes, or embezzled from its employer. Only humans are capable of evil and only those who forfeit their humanity conduct themselves as such.

    Instead, we try to deny this primal existence by passing legislation making it a crime to own a machine gun manufactured after 1986, building a barn upon our property without the proper electrical code enforced, or simply hating a particular individual or group. When we are told what to do, when to do it, and how to do it we find ourselves incapable of doing much of anything.

    Legislation may excuse us from being idiots, but it cannot dismiss idiocy altogether. In fact, it encourages it. Politicians pass stringent gun control laws but these only add to the crime within their communities. They pass environmental laws to protect the planet, but we have only been around for a tiny speck of “time” in which to understand what is “natural” and what is not. The more laws that get passed; the more that we find ourselves challenged.

Patriotism

    How does it benefit America by worrying about what the rest of the world thinks of us? Who amongst us has changed our lives completely to win the admiration of a friend? Has your spouse accepted marriage based solely upon what they could “change” about you? If we are not who we are, then we are somebody else.

    Our politicians must tell the world “It is good to be your friend, but we are not going to clone ourselves into something that we are not.” A little honesty goes a long ways. I, for example, choose my associates based upon what I can cull from the relationship. As such, I tend to hang around successful, educated persons within my fields of interest. I adapt what I learn from them in order to improve myself. I do not try to emulate them, merely a carefully selected portion of their experience.

    I have grown vastly over the past forty-six years. I have matured immeasurably during the course of my life. Yet, I have changed very little from who I was at five. I am still a creative, inspirited, and intelligent individual who prefers to set the standard than to abide by it. I am fiercely defensive, brilliantly inquisitive, and extraordinarily resilient. So, too, is my beloved country. It always has been.

    America is as infinitely unique as are the hundreds of millions of individuals who make up its ranks. Millions flock here every year from every other nation on the planet. They must know something; that what they found back at home was decidedly different – and inferior – to that which we offer here within the United States. We therefore need to protect the “Great American Experiment” not alter it, export it, or open it up for all who may not have our laws and borders in the best interests. None of us willingly dismembers our bodies or inhales intoxicants and expects to remain healthy.

Free Enterprise

    Government has no business being in business. There is no greater regulatory body in the world than an angry mob bearing pitchforks. Politicians like to say that they have only the best interests of the consumer in mind when they pass regulatory measures but they only succeed in furthering the imbalance between the responsibly informed and those desiring success without the effort.

    Forget General Motors. Forget California. In my sincerest opinion, there is only one entity “too big to fail”, me. Yet, I have failed on many occasions. I am still around. A bit “leaner and meaner”, perhaps, but definitely improved nonetheless. We grow through our mistakes and mature through our efforts. If we remove failure simply because it is “too hard to endure”, then we will not.

    Those in Washington or even within our state capitols should not tell us what kind of car we can drive, what type of firearm we are allowed to own, what school we attend, or which doctor we trust. It is our own responsibility to search for our competitive niche within life and if we fail to choose wisely then we must accept the consequences.

    We should not have to pay taxes for anything more than national defense. If God entrusts us with our good judgment to “give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God”, then that should be good enough for us. If the poor have always been around, then they will always be around. Politicians cannot legislate success. Nor can they restrict it. Millions of the unfortunate have gained success through either extraordinary effort on their part or the kindness of willing strangers. Few succeeded because the government mandated the way.

Conclusion

    I believe that the federal government has only one fundamental responsibility – to protect its citizens from foreign attack whenever we are abroad and from foreign invasion while we are at home. When it comes to such matters as healthcare, education, self-defense against crime, retirement planning, careers, and housing, the government cannot interfere within our decision-making and choices. As God created us all, we must take those gifts that He has bestowed upon us and make something presentable out of our lives. If our current stable of political parties robs us of this personal responsibility, then we must create one that will not.

American killed by al-Qaeda and other news

Another day, more horror:

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Al-Jazeera TV said

al-Qaeda

's North Africa branch claimed responsibility Thursday for the killing of an American aid worker who was shot dead this week in Mauritania's capital.

The Arab satellite TV station said it had received an audio statement from al-Qaeda of the Islamic Maghreb in which the group said 39-year-old Christopher Ervin Leggett was killed Tuesday for allegedly trying to convert Muslims to Christianity.

"Two knights of the Islamic Maghreb succeeded Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. to kill the infidel American Christopher Leggett for his Christianizing activities," the group said.  (Fox)

(Image via:  AFP/Citizenside.com.  Photo allegedly shows the body of an American man in Nouakchott after he was shot by a group of youths.)

See the Unimaginable Horror In Tehran Today From Threats Watch

Neda Soltan's family forced out of their home

Mullah justice for the family of Neda Soltan - who is hailed as a martyr in Iran and has become the face of the protest movement: (guardian.co.uk) The Iranian authorities have ordered the family of Neda Agha Soltan out of their Tehran home after shocking images of her death were circulated around the world.

Neighbours said that her family no longer lives in the four-floor apartment building on Meshkini Street, in eastern Tehran, having been forced to move since she was killed. The police did not hand the body back to her family, her funeral was cancelled, she was buried without letting her family know and the government banned mourning ceremonies at mosques, the neighbours said.

Where are the Arabs when it comes to what is happening in Iran?  Silence...
Are they afraid???  The image to the left, Iranian women light candles in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, during a candlelight vigil Monday for Neda Agha Soltan, who was reportedly killed when hit by a bullet during a protest in Tehran. AP  (NPR)

The women are in the lead in this fight for freedom in Iran.  Perhaps they will light a fire in women's hearts around the world.

Spencer: Justice Department Partners with Islamic Supremacists

In Human Events today I wonder what is going on in the Justice Department:

In its ongoing quest to win the hearts and minds of Muslims in America, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has asked its employees to volunteer to man an information booth at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention in Washington over the July 4 weekend. According to an internal email that Pajamas Media obtained and published, the Division is seeking staff members to “hand out literature and answer basic questions.” This is, says the e-mail, a “unique opportunity.”

On Israel and Obama, Harris Sherline at American Daughter reports, "Israel’s Channel One TV reported that Netanyahu was told Tuesday by an ‘American official’ in Jerusalem that ‘We are going to change the world. Please, don’t interfere.’ The report said Netanyahu’s aides interpreted this as a ‘threat.’” 

Walpin fired by Obama for doing his job.  "Former Inspector General Gerald Walpin's determination to investigate further the alleged misuse of AmeriCorps funds may have led President Obama to fire him, a Republican member of the board overseeing the volunteer agency alleged to a Washington newspaper."  (Fox)

We're sending an Ambassador to Syria after a 4 year absence, while the US and Venezuela are working to exchange Ambassadors again.

Blogger Snooper, Mark Harvey, had a mild stroke and needs your prayers.  He is the author of the Snooper Report.