Well, here we are again at the end of yet another momentous week. A week of cheering throngs in Washington D.C., undercover, hidden camera scandals, heated rhetoric about race and a shattering of decades old promises and alliances.
"Are you now or have you ever been?"
Not since the civil rights movement has our country been so captivated by the issue of race relations. Looking only at the headlines, outside observers might think we were living 1968 all over again.
In a moment of passion and arguably a serious breach of good taste and etiquette, Rep. Joe Wilson shouted, "YOU LIE" during the Presidents speech to both houses last week, touching off a firestorm of protests from the left and hardy slaps on the back from the right. Wilson called the White House, apologized to the President who accepted it graciously and that was to be the end.
Say what you will about Wilson's insult to house protocol, it exposed both sides for what they truly are--partisan hacks stuck on a merry-go-round of hatred for the other side. For the last week now almost every voice of consequence on the left from Maureen Dowd to Hank Johnson to his royal goofiness-- Jimmy Carter, have seen the dark specter of racism in Wilson's outburst on the chamber floor.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D) GA claimed, with a straight face surprisingly enough, that to let Wilson go unpunished for his lapse of good manners, would somehow lead to the KKK roaming the countryside once again in full regalia.
Really Hank? The KKK will somehow magically reconstitute itself into numbers large enough to threaten the entire country?
Maureen Dowd, columnist for the NY Times and noted Hillary fan, said there was a word missing from Wilson's shout. She claims it should have been, "You Lie ...BOY!" Adding that even though the racial epithet wasn't there...it was implied. You could almost feel it. Maureen Dowd is now going to read your tea leaves and predict the future. Well, she can already read minds...through a TV screen. Predicting the future is the next logical step isn't it?
Look out Dionne Warwick, Maureen's psychic friends can beat up your psychic friends!
Jimmy Carter also weighed into the fray adding a certain presidential air to the whole debate.
Not really. I was just kidding. Jimmy Carter is the reason former presidents should retire from the spotlight and keep their mouths shut. Hearing an anti-Semite lecture me on matters of race is beyond the pale. Carter is living proof of the old adage, "Better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought of as a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
Jimmy Carter has disgraced the office on so many occasions it's laughable these days to see him pop his head up and again start uttering nonsense. Night night Jimmy, we'll wake you if we want some kind words about Castro or some unkind words about Jews.
I'll sum it up this way, blacks have become human shields for the left in this country and they willingly join in as often as they can. No black politician ever need feel embarrassed about personal failings or bad policy decisions again. We'll just shout racism at the top of our lungs and the opposition will spend it's time defending their own character instead of looking any closer.
Shouting racism these days is akin to shouting communist in the McCarthy era. It doesn't require any proof on the part of the accuser and instantly brands the accused despite that lack of proof.
"Times change...so do Allies."
Elsewhere in the world of news, President Obama nixed the missile defense shield for eastern Europe on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland.
Wow, the lack of knowledge of history is breathtaking here. In one fell swoop, he turned decades of good will with our Eastern European allies into a new joke for radio talk hosts and late night comedians. Was there no one in the White House who thought maybe choosing this day to kill the shield was a bad idea? Poland actually refused to take Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton's phone call, they were so outraged.
This galactically stupid decision leaves Poland and several other countries vulnerable once again to aggression from neighbors and spits on promises made and kept for many years. Since taking office, Obama shook hands with Hugo Chavez, Daniel Noriega and coddled the likes of Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while simultaneously insulting almost every other traditional ally we have like the Brits, the Canadians the French, and most recently, Eastern Europe.
If president Obama believes, as his actions have dictated, that the US is a member of the "Axis Of Evil", he's certainly putting us in good company.
On a totally unrelated note, Russia's Vladimir Putin announced a meeting with Jeffrey Imelt of GE to discuss how they might be able to do business together.
Totally unrelated my ass. Jeffrey Imelt sits on Obama's economic advisory team. GE also owns NBC and MSNBC, both networks famous for praising the president at every turn. It's possible that the US just sold out our good friends for the sake of political payback to GE, thereby risking millions of lives in the quest of the almighty dollar. I'm wondering where all the anti-big business liberals are right now decrying the evils of a president who kow tows to business as they did when Bush was president. I suspect they'll keep their little hypocritical mouths shut for now.
"Falling far from the tree."
In a stunning turn of events, the media and almost every liberal in congress, was forced to watch as two 20 somethings brought down the might but mighty corrupt ACORN. With only a hidden camera and about $1500.00 in operating capital, these two went to multiple ACORN offices from Baltimore to San Diego exposing the organization as a corrupt, morally reprehensible group of flesh peddlers. The media tried to ignore it, Charlie Gibson actually claimed he'd not heard a word about it. Probably because the NY Times hadn't written about it yet.
Every day brought a new hidden camera video until eventually the House and the Senate could no longer ignore it either. Funding began to be pulled at light speed as both parties tried to distance themselves from ACORN. We've yet to hear from the President as to how he personally feels about his beloved grass roots darlings being exposed as frauds and tax cheats. Remember, he said he was going to bring ACORN in to help "shape the policy in his administration."
Really? That sounds about as stupid as killing a defense shield on the anniversary of Soviet aggression...
Wait......he actually did that too. Too late. You can't make that kind of stupidity up, it occurs naturally.
"Hell No, we won't go...we have to work!"
According to who you ask, there were between 50,000 and 2.2 million people on the mall in Washington last Saturday. Kind of a wide swing in opinion on a head count. Glenn Beck, titular head of the 9-12 Project claims it was closer to one million while Fox news and the Parks service put the number somewhere between 50,000 and 75,000. Either way, it was an impressive demonstration to be sure. Primarily owing to the fact that it's tough to get that many conservatives to march about anything.
The old media found as many nutjobs with signs as they could and crowed about how angry and racist the crowd was. One line overheard from the media was, "I haven't seen that many racists in one spot since George Wallace was around." That's a pretty bold if ignorant statement. To say that every person there was a racist was just a way to minimize the passion they felt. There were racists there, to be sure, but race was not the single governing factor in why those people marched.
It was a culmination of the tea partiers march across America and the 9-12 Project's march on Washington. Along the way, both groups were co-opted by the angry right we hear so much about from the liberal media. Most wanted a peaceful demonstration of their dissatisfaction with the government in general and the President in particular. His domestic policy has been a shambles of ill spent stimulus money, his foreign policy is a nightmare of appeasement to our enemies and his Health Care reform efforts have frightened the daylights out of seniors and just about everyone else on the right.
I'll make no judgment on what every member of the crowd was thinking or feeling last weekend. I'm not Maureen Dowd or Hank Johnson. I don't see racists everywhere like they do. I can't read minds like they can. There were some stupid and offensive signs carried by people with less than a stunning intellect I'll grant you but not all were like that.
Sorry Jimmy, I just don't buy it. Maybe your generation would have had a problem with a black man as president...not mine. Despite the fact that I disagreed with Obama on almost everything, well...except Kanye West being a jackass, I felt a measure of pride that the country I loved so much had finally risen above it's hateful past to propel a person of color to the White House. There was a small feeling of satisfaction mixed with feelings of loss. America is ready for a black president, I just don't think Liberals are ready to hear that black president be called out on matters of truth, policy differences or his radical friends without screaming racism with every other breath.
After all...they keep reminding me that he's black. I figured that out all by myself. Let it go now and let's look at the content of his character...like MLK said we should.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Just The Facts...
I've resisted it for too long. I've fought it with every fiber of my being for months now and I can take it no longer. So many around me with the same political views as myself have said it and I told them to choose their words carefully. I thought I was being the voice of reason against the howling mob.
Turns out I was wrong.
I've always known Obama was a radical even before the election. I looked into his background, his associations and friends with the interest we should all put into a candidate before we decide to give him our most precious gift, our vote. Too often, we give that gift to someone and they inevitably repay us with deceit and deception. I'm one of those people who believes you can tell a great deal about a man by those he calls his friends. I've gotten more politically active in recent years by virtue of having been a flaming, save the whales, corporate America is evil, where's the nearest tree--I need a hug, liberal you can imagine.
I felt betrayed by Clinton to such a degree that it soured me to liberalism forever. Even as a conservative I still see the evil in the Republican party. There's precious little difference left between the two established parties now. The upper echelon of both sides are now indistinguishable from each other. Both sides seek to gain and hold power for themselves alone. Not as a hedge against the other side, more as a way to stay in the star chamber at all costs. I recently began thinking that to vote for either would be a vote for mediocrity.
That is, until I began to see just how radical Obama really was.
I've read article after article online about the people he surrounds himself with and I began to notice a very distinct pattern. Now only are the people he surrounds himself with radical, many are either Marxists (by either their own admission or their writings) or avowed communists. I started to see the political chessboard as it was being laid out. All the pieces neatly in place now-- the game almost ready to begin.
I still feel that oh so familiar twinge of paranoia that I always do when I think like this. I guard against it constantly to retain some semblance of objectivity. I struggle mightily at times to retain a sense of cautious hope for the basic decency in our elected officials but that has been stripped away. I feel a sense of dread that goes deeper than mistrusting some greedy, political fat cat out to get his slice of the special interest pie. I actually fear for the future of the republic now.
Two recent articles left me in stunned amazement after I read them. The first was the appointment of a new Czar, Mark Lloyd, as the Chief of Diversity for the FCC. Just those two words together should start the alarm bells ringing--"diversity" and "FCC" about the prospect of a covert attempt at silencing speech. Since the "Fairness Doctrine" had been shot down by the congress, I naturally assumed that the market would rule supreme in the business of television and radio.
It's a simple free market concept really, if there are voices on either side with an audience, the market will adopt them if for no other reason than to make money. It's the most basic premise of the free market economy. If there is a way to make money from someone's viewpoint, the market will find it and it will succeed if the audience is there. Howard Stern is a perfect example. Personally, I find Howard Stern crass and vulgar but he has an audience that the market can make money from. Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity have an audience that the market can make money from. The problem is that most Liberal talk hosts can't find a market due to the obvious fact that the vast majority of talk radio listeners are conservative. It doesn't mean the market doesn't exist for them to speak their minds, it means the audience doesn't exist in great enough numbers for the market to make any money from it.
It's not some dark conspiracy, it's just the facts.
The second article was about a bill before the congress that would allow the President "emergency control of the internet during a cyber crisis". The bill is so vague in spots as to be almost a blank check to shut off internet access to anyone who has a connection in the interest of "national security".
Either of these alone would be bad but when coupled together they take on a sinister quality that sends a shiver up my spine. The odds that either could actually be enacted are slim but possible. What really goes to the heart of my fear is that either would ever actually be considered at all. Does no one in Washington hearing about either of these have any hesitation that these two ideas might be infringing on free speech?
The facts are these:
We've seen the government leap in to control and regulate the banking and housing industry to include the appointment of a "Pay Czar" to determine how much money certain individuals can make, the restructuring of the automobile industry that started with President Obama demanding former G.M. CEO Rick Wagoner step down. The President decided that both restructuring plans for GM and Chrysler were insufficient and he refused to grant them any more money until they adopted plans that he agreed with. The trouble is that the President does not possess the constitutional authority to do any of this.
From Wikipedia,
"While the strict state intervention into the economy, and the massive rearmament policy, almost led to full employment during the 1930s (statistics didn't include non-citizens or women), real wages in Germany dropped by roughly 25% between 1933 and 1938. Trade unions were abolished, as well as collective bargaining and the right to strike. The right to quit also disappeared: Labour books were introduced in 1935, and required the consent of the previous employer in order to be hired for another job. In place of ordinary profit incentive to guide investment, investment was guided through regulation to accord with needs of the State. Government financing eventually came to dominate the investment process, which the proportion of private securities issued falling from over half of the total in 1933 and 1934 to approximately 10 percent in 1935-1938. Heavy taxes on profits limited self-financing of firms. The largest firms were mostly exempt from taxes on profits, however government control of these were extensive enough to leave "only the shell of private ownership."
Bearing in mind the two examples of media control I just mentioned, let's go back to Wikipedia,
"When the Nazis took power the Propaganda Ministry was established almost immediately. It was charged with enforcing Nazi doctrine on the people and controlling public opinion. However, the Ministry became even more important after the outbreak of war.
World War II was conducted with a much greater level of propaganda than World War I, especially in the new media of film and radio. Because of practical experience and scientific occupation with propaganda in Europe and USA, propaganda was organized in a planned fashion. A new psychological warfare was born.
"I consider radio to be the most modern and the most crucial instrument for influencing the masses.." was a famous and important quote from Goebbels. Radio was undoubtedly exploited to its full potential by the Nazis. Radio manufacturers received grants from the government to build cheaper receivers; these sets were manufactured so that they could not pick up foreign, non-Nazi broadcasts. In addition, criminal penalties were set in place for listening to non-German radio stations; by the height of World War II, persons in Nazi Germany or in lands under Nazi occupation could be executed for this act.
One could replace the word "radio" with "internet" and have the new policy right before their eyes.
How much more do I need to think that a totalitarian, fascist inspired state is being built, brick by brick around our Republic? The only difference seems to be that Obama is allowing the memory and adoration of that Republic to be used as a shell to prop up what's coming. Like any new wall being built around an old one, once the new structure is strong enough to stand on it's own...you tear the old one down.
But I'm just a crazy, right wing, hate monger...what do I know?
Turns out I was wrong.
I've always known Obama was a radical even before the election. I looked into his background, his associations and friends with the interest we should all put into a candidate before we decide to give him our most precious gift, our vote. Too often, we give that gift to someone and they inevitably repay us with deceit and deception. I'm one of those people who believes you can tell a great deal about a man by those he calls his friends. I've gotten more politically active in recent years by virtue of having been a flaming, save the whales, corporate America is evil, where's the nearest tree--I need a hug, liberal you can imagine.
I felt betrayed by Clinton to such a degree that it soured me to liberalism forever. Even as a conservative I still see the evil in the Republican party. There's precious little difference left between the two established parties now. The upper echelon of both sides are now indistinguishable from each other. Both sides seek to gain and hold power for themselves alone. Not as a hedge against the other side, more as a way to stay in the star chamber at all costs. I recently began thinking that to vote for either would be a vote for mediocrity.
That is, until I began to see just how radical Obama really was.
I've read article after article online about the people he surrounds himself with and I began to notice a very distinct pattern. Now only are the people he surrounds himself with radical, many are either Marxists (by either their own admission or their writings) or avowed communists. I started to see the political chessboard as it was being laid out. All the pieces neatly in place now-- the game almost ready to begin.
I still feel that oh so familiar twinge of paranoia that I always do when I think like this. I guard against it constantly to retain some semblance of objectivity. I struggle mightily at times to retain a sense of cautious hope for the basic decency in our elected officials but that has been stripped away. I feel a sense of dread that goes deeper than mistrusting some greedy, political fat cat out to get his slice of the special interest pie. I actually fear for the future of the republic now.
Two recent articles left me in stunned amazement after I read them. The first was the appointment of a new Czar, Mark Lloyd, as the Chief of Diversity for the FCC. Just those two words together should start the alarm bells ringing--"diversity" and "FCC" about the prospect of a covert attempt at silencing speech. Since the "Fairness Doctrine" had been shot down by the congress, I naturally assumed that the market would rule supreme in the business of television and radio.
It's a simple free market concept really, if there are voices on either side with an audience, the market will adopt them if for no other reason than to make money. It's the most basic premise of the free market economy. If there is a way to make money from someone's viewpoint, the market will find it and it will succeed if the audience is there. Howard Stern is a perfect example. Personally, I find Howard Stern crass and vulgar but he has an audience that the market can make money from. Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity have an audience that the market can make money from. The problem is that most Liberal talk hosts can't find a market due to the obvious fact that the vast majority of talk radio listeners are conservative. It doesn't mean the market doesn't exist for them to speak their minds, it means the audience doesn't exist in great enough numbers for the market to make any money from it.
It's not some dark conspiracy, it's just the facts.
The second article was about a bill before the congress that would allow the President "emergency control of the internet during a cyber crisis". The bill is so vague in spots as to be almost a blank check to shut off internet access to anyone who has a connection in the interest of "national security".
Either of these alone would be bad but when coupled together they take on a sinister quality that sends a shiver up my spine. The odds that either could actually be enacted are slim but possible. What really goes to the heart of my fear is that either would ever actually be considered at all. Does no one in Washington hearing about either of these have any hesitation that these two ideas might be infringing on free speech?
The facts are these:
We've seen the government leap in to control and regulate the banking and housing industry to include the appointment of a "Pay Czar" to determine how much money certain individuals can make, the restructuring of the automobile industry that started with President Obama demanding former G.M. CEO Rick Wagoner step down. The President decided that both restructuring plans for GM and Chrysler were insufficient and he refused to grant them any more money until they adopted plans that he agreed with. The trouble is that the President does not possess the constitutional authority to do any of this.
From Wikipedia,
"While the strict state intervention into the economy, and the massive rearmament policy, almost led to full employment during the 1930s (statistics didn't include non-citizens or women), real wages in Germany dropped by roughly 25% between 1933 and 1938. Trade unions were abolished, as well as collective bargaining and the right to strike. The right to quit also disappeared: Labour books were introduced in 1935, and required the consent of the previous employer in order to be hired for another job. In place of ordinary profit incentive to guide investment, investment was guided through regulation to accord with needs of the State. Government financing eventually came to dominate the investment process, which the proportion of private securities issued falling from over half of the total in 1933 and 1934 to approximately 10 percent in 1935-1938. Heavy taxes on profits limited self-financing of firms. The largest firms were mostly exempt from taxes on profits, however government control of these were extensive enough to leave "only the shell of private ownership."
Bearing in mind the two examples of media control I just mentioned, let's go back to Wikipedia,
"When the Nazis took power the Propaganda Ministry was established almost immediately. It was charged with enforcing Nazi doctrine on the people and controlling public opinion. However, the Ministry became even more important after the outbreak of war.
World War II was conducted with a much greater level of propaganda than World War I, especially in the new media of film and radio. Because of practical experience and scientific occupation with propaganda in Europe and USA, propaganda was organized in a planned fashion. A new psychological warfare was born.
"I consider radio to be the most modern and the most crucial instrument for influencing the masses.." was a famous and important quote from Goebbels. Radio was undoubtedly exploited to its full potential by the Nazis. Radio manufacturers received grants from the government to build cheaper receivers; these sets were manufactured so that they could not pick up foreign, non-Nazi broadcasts. In addition, criminal penalties were set in place for listening to non-German radio stations; by the height of World War II, persons in Nazi Germany or in lands under Nazi occupation could be executed for this act.
One could replace the word "radio" with "internet" and have the new policy right before their eyes.
How much more do I need to think that a totalitarian, fascist inspired state is being built, brick by brick around our Republic? The only difference seems to be that Obama is allowing the memory and adoration of that Republic to be used as a shell to prop up what's coming. Like any new wall being built around an old one, once the new structure is strong enough to stand on it's own...you tear the old one down.
But I'm just a crazy, right wing, hate monger...what do I know?
Friday, August 28, 2009
The Week In Review
Well, it has been a week of news hasn't it? We learned a lot about how our government works but precious little as to why it does the things it does.
We've got the head of Justice, Eric Holder, pressing forward with investigations into the actions of the CIA and it's contractors about interrogation techniques. As of this date, head of the CIA Leon Panetta will have his agency provide funds for attorneys from his own budget. So we've got one arm of government investigating another arm of government and taxpayers paying for the attorneys to defend CIA employees. I couldn't make this up if I tried. I never cease to be amazed at the ways gov't bureaucrats find to spend my money. This is like what the government would be like if the Marx Brothers ran the show. All this after President Obama promised that he would stop thinking about the past and start thinking about the future. Another pie in the sky promise down the tubes.
On the free speech front, we learned news of the most serious assault on free speech since the Patriot Act. It would appear that the FCC now has a diversity Czar, Mark Lloyd, and he intends to ratchet up his hatred of conservative talk radio to a new level. CNSNews' Matt Cover writes,
"Government, Lloyd said in his book, is the “only” institution that can manage the communications of the public, arguing that Washington must “ensure” that everyone has an equal ability to communicate."
“The American republic requires the active deliberation of a diverse citizenry, and this, I argue, can be ensured only by our government,” he says. “Put another way, providing for the equal capability of citizens to participate effectively in democratic deliberation is our collective responsibility.” (emphasis added)
He uses the word "ensure" with such ease it frightens me. Put another way, he intends to use the might of the Federal Government to force media outlets to say what he thinks they should be saying. Does anyone remember Pravda? (emphasis needed)
In a related story, "Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.", writes Declan McCullagh with CNET News. This would allow the president to have control over the internet of every American that is connected.
I keep joking that I wouldn't be so paranoid if they didn't keep giving me reasons. I'm not laughing anymore now. Now, I'm beginning to get scared. Left to it's own devices, the Government would have control over Television news, print media AND the internet. In New York...they call that the trifecta. Hugo Chavez, communist extraordinaire, is attempting the same thing in Venezuela. He calls it "returning the airwaves to the people" but what he's really doing is shutting down the outlets that speak ill of him and trumpeting his message of a workers paradise on all the rest.
For those of you who bristle when I even so much as hint about Obama's latent fascist tendencies, I implore you to tell me why this isn't the encroachment of fascism in our own country.
On a happier note...Ted Kennedy is dead. I spent one day not saying anything nasty about Ted. He got his 24 hours from me. Which is consequently about how long it took him to admit that he had been in the car with Mary Jo Kopechne the night she drowned. I actually read an article titled, "The Footnote Speaks: What Would Mary Jo Kopechne Have Thought Of Ted's Career?"
An interesting premise except...we can't ask her.....she's DEAD! Liberals ability to play the moral relevance game used to just amuse me, then they infuriated me. This story disgusts me to no end. Referring to her as a "foot note" is to minimize her as a person who had parents, siblings and a future...that is, until she met Teddy. I love people who say, Mary Jo would have forgiven him. Too bad the one person who can forgive him is dead. Chris Matthews must have felt his leg tingling again when he uttered the words, "Obama is the last Kennedy brother. Ted passed the torch to him."
Anyone wanna see what a slightly used hamburger looks like? Low mileage...one owner.
I've been watching Glenn Beck on TV this week because I was curious what he must be saying to inspire such hatred in the rest of the cable news networks who incidentally can't muster a tenth of his ratings. All week long he's been profiling our new Czars. Outside the reach of the congress, they answer to no one. They can't be compelled to testify, they don't have to answer to the people, they exist as a sort of shadow government. Above and outside the laws they presume to make the rest of us adhere to.
I used to love Glenn Beck before he became the "Grim Weeper". When he used to have fun on the radio. For a while, he was on the edge...then he went over. This week, he's been more coherent than usual and much to my surprise, and dismay honestly, he's beginning to make sense finally. He has a slightly schizophrenic approach to his show. Bouncing around from topic to topic, wildly gesticulating and having the camera zoom in to uncomfortable closeness. This week, he's been making the case for the radical background of the people the President insists on calling his advisers and Czars. He makes sense. Oddly enough...he makes a scary kind of sense that I am uncomfortable admitting to myself. I have obviously not been doing my homework well enough.
This week has revealed a lot to me and I, in turn, have passed much of it on through Facebook. Partly to hopefully enlighten those who would read it and partly to bolster my own sense of incredulity. I know I've annoyed some, amused others and been ignored by most. That's ok, I'm fine with that.
Consider this my journal of what it was like...
just before the end of our republic.
We've got the head of Justice, Eric Holder, pressing forward with investigations into the actions of the CIA and it's contractors about interrogation techniques. As of this date, head of the CIA Leon Panetta will have his agency provide funds for attorneys from his own budget. So we've got one arm of government investigating another arm of government and taxpayers paying for the attorneys to defend CIA employees. I couldn't make this up if I tried. I never cease to be amazed at the ways gov't bureaucrats find to spend my money. This is like what the government would be like if the Marx Brothers ran the show. All this after President Obama promised that he would stop thinking about the past and start thinking about the future. Another pie in the sky promise down the tubes.
On the free speech front, we learned news of the most serious assault on free speech since the Patriot Act. It would appear that the FCC now has a diversity Czar, Mark Lloyd, and he intends to ratchet up his hatred of conservative talk radio to a new level. CNSNews' Matt Cover writes,
"Government, Lloyd said in his book, is the “only” institution that can manage the communications of the public, arguing that Washington must “ensure” that everyone has an equal ability to communicate."
“The American republic requires the active deliberation of a diverse citizenry, and this, I argue, can be ensured only by our government,” he says. “Put another way, providing for the equal capability of citizens to participate effectively in democratic deliberation is our collective responsibility.” (emphasis added)
He uses the word "ensure" with such ease it frightens me. Put another way, he intends to use the might of the Federal Government to force media outlets to say what he thinks they should be saying. Does anyone remember Pravda? (emphasis needed)
In a related story, "Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.", writes Declan McCullagh with CNET News. This would allow the president to have control over the internet of every American that is connected.
I keep joking that I wouldn't be so paranoid if they didn't keep giving me reasons. I'm not laughing anymore now. Now, I'm beginning to get scared. Left to it's own devices, the Government would have control over Television news, print media AND the internet. In New York...they call that the trifecta. Hugo Chavez, communist extraordinaire, is attempting the same thing in Venezuela. He calls it "returning the airwaves to the people" but what he's really doing is shutting down the outlets that speak ill of him and trumpeting his message of a workers paradise on all the rest.
For those of you who bristle when I even so much as hint about Obama's latent fascist tendencies, I implore you to tell me why this isn't the encroachment of fascism in our own country.
On a happier note...Ted Kennedy is dead. I spent one day not saying anything nasty about Ted. He got his 24 hours from me. Which is consequently about how long it took him to admit that he had been in the car with Mary Jo Kopechne the night she drowned. I actually read an article titled, "The Footnote Speaks: What Would Mary Jo Kopechne Have Thought Of Ted's Career?"
An interesting premise except...we can't ask her.....she's DEAD! Liberals ability to play the moral relevance game used to just amuse me, then they infuriated me. This story disgusts me to no end. Referring to her as a "foot note" is to minimize her as a person who had parents, siblings and a future...that is, until she met Teddy. I love people who say, Mary Jo would have forgiven him. Too bad the one person who can forgive him is dead. Chris Matthews must have felt his leg tingling again when he uttered the words, "Obama is the last Kennedy brother. Ted passed the torch to him."
Anyone wanna see what a slightly used hamburger looks like? Low mileage...one owner.
I've been watching Glenn Beck on TV this week because I was curious what he must be saying to inspire such hatred in the rest of the cable news networks who incidentally can't muster a tenth of his ratings. All week long he's been profiling our new Czars. Outside the reach of the congress, they answer to no one. They can't be compelled to testify, they don't have to answer to the people, they exist as a sort of shadow government. Above and outside the laws they presume to make the rest of us adhere to.
I used to love Glenn Beck before he became the "Grim Weeper". When he used to have fun on the radio. For a while, he was on the edge...then he went over. This week, he's been more coherent than usual and much to my surprise, and dismay honestly, he's beginning to make sense finally. He has a slightly schizophrenic approach to his show. Bouncing around from topic to topic, wildly gesticulating and having the camera zoom in to uncomfortable closeness. This week, he's been making the case for the radical background of the people the President insists on calling his advisers and Czars. He makes sense. Oddly enough...he makes a scary kind of sense that I am uncomfortable admitting to myself. I have obviously not been doing my homework well enough.
This week has revealed a lot to me and I, in turn, have passed much of it on through Facebook. Partly to hopefully enlighten those who would read it and partly to bolster my own sense of incredulity. I know I've annoyed some, amused others and been ignored by most. That's ok, I'm fine with that.
Consider this my journal of what it was like...
just before the end of our republic.
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