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Did the Greatest Generation Beget the Worst Generation?

2009-11-08T18:07:52-08:00

This is not intended to paint the entire generation that followed the "Greatest Generation" with the same red brush. There are certainly patriotic citizens and those who cherish the liberty our founders established among the offspring of the generation who fought World War II. I am related by blood and by marriage to such patriotic children of the "Greatest Generation".

This is about the groovy hippies who never grew out of that phase. This is about the "peace" and "love" types like Bill Ayers who likely mentored Barack Obama more than he would ever admit to the voting public. This is about those who were born in the forties and went from the university to law school to Congress and soaked up all the Marxist ideology they could along the way. This is about those who went from hippy to Congressional intestinal worm and have infested the Capitol for decades. This is about the likes of George Miller (Dimocrat CA-7), who has been in the House since he was twenty-nine years old in 1974. Thank God all of California isn't the same as San Francisco (of course I thank God all of Illinois isn't the same as Chicago too). It is too bad California doesn't have more representatives like the elder and younger Duncan Hunter!

The day after Miller participated in fellow San Francisco Statist scum Nancy Piglosi's passage of the destruction of healthcare (at least if the House Dims and Rep. Cao have their way) as we knew it, I see yet another bill introduced which would once again allow federal government intrusion into places in which it has no damn business! H.R. 3991 the "Emergency Influenza Containment Act" serves the following purpose:

To ensure that American workers are able to follow, without financial harm, the recommendations of their employer and public health authorities to stay home when they have symptoms of a contagious disease that may put co-workers, customers, or the public at risk.

The "without financial harm" is the key to this intrusion. We do not require the federal government to determine how many (if any) paid sick days our employers allow! If a person has influenza, his employer will not make him come to work for fear of losing his job. That is of course if the employer is one for whom it is worth working or if the employee isn't an awful employee.

They have moved the government takeover of medical care delivery in our nation through the House. They with the help of RINOs like Mark Kirk have moved the Cap and Trade job killing and cost raising catastrophe through the House. They, again with the "bipartisan" help of "moderates" like Mark Kirk instituted thought crime legislation, because apprently in the eyes of the leftist, a violent crime such as murder should only warrant a maximum punishment if it can be called a "hate crime". By the way, is the murder victim more dead if he was hated by his killer? Is there such thing as a murder, mugging, or assault that is commited out of love for the victim?

The left has used its tools such as the ACLU and the education system to place our nation in such a politically correct contortion that a Muslim who should have never been allowed near our soldiers after some of his sympathies and viewpoints became known was instead allowed to be a psychiatrist in the Army and on Thursday he slaughtered 13 people and injured several more at Fort Hood.

Our children and grandchildren owe a huge debt that they had no say in creating. This is thanks to Republicans as well as the Dimocrats, but the burden on our children can not be too great in the eyes of the leftist vermin who now run our government. The hippies traded communes for their brand of Communism. They redistribute wealth from the taxpayerto the ever-growing dependent class for the sake of some Utopian "greater good" and borrow, borrow, then borrow some more to feed their appetites for governmental domination of the "middle class".

They seek to forcibly silence dissent as their Cuban and Venezualan role models have. They strive for democracy when the mob will vote to seize from the producer or empower the bureaucracy. They villify businesses ... unless the businesses support their agenda. They demonize profit, just not their own. They artfully practice identity politics and still claim that a black man doesn't have a chance in this "mean" country despite the election of Barack Obama. They insist that Muslim terrorists not be identified as Muslim but they along with their accomplices in the liberal media try to implicate Christians when an abortionist is murdered.

They seek the moral degradation of society to weaken the will of the citizen and make him more susceptible to their socialist goals. They are detstable and their actions are harmful. It is past time for Republicans in positions of political power to stop referring to them as "my friend..." It is time to truly be a "party of no" every time the damn Statists attempt to do any damn thing on a federal level that does not fall under an enumerated power in our Constitution! It is time to respect our Constitution and stop denigrating the decent citizens who demand that which constitutionally must fall to the states or local governments actually be left alone by the federal behemoth, as "tenthers"! The Constitution is specific and the Bill of Rights opposes the ten pillars (which can be found in Uncle Karl's book) revered by the Statist.

The above may seem like ranting or rambling, if so, you shouldn't have read it. The times in which we live seem crazy and we don't need our government actively exacerbating the insanity!

Demotivator Nails Our Current ... Err... Leadership?

2009-11-07T18:31:57-08:00

I was perusing the new Demotivators catalog this evening and I saw a poster that perfectly represented the atrocity that is our current crop of political porkers. There can be no plausible denial of the obvious fact that many of what are referred to as our "leaders" (or in Barry's case, our "reader") derive inspiration from Marx and believe that Communism simply hasn't been implemented by the right group of Statists to this point. They view themselves as just the (rotten) crop to bring about the U.S.S.A.

While the Dimocrats currently hold the power and certainly represent the bulk of the problem, our "friends" on the other side of the aisle deserve some recognition for their contributions to the seizure of our liberty! Ridiculous RINOs of varying degrees have conspired with the Dims to support the further redistribution of wealth from the producer to the parasite and the punishment of the productive through catastrophic scams such as Rep. Mark Kirk's (RINO - IL 10) Cap and Trade (which he was for before he decided he needs to say he is against it for Senatorial campaigning reasons.)

Today the people's house is doing the work of the left and trying to impose a government takeover of the system of healthcare delivery in our great (but for how long?) nation. The grotesquely disfigured at the hands of an incompetent plastic surgeon, Nancy Piglosi (Statist - CA)... hey do you think her war on our healthcare system was inspired by her tragic face-lift fiasco?... anyway, she is doing her evil worst to take from us the control over our medical care! Power must be centralized and grown in the eyes of these people and the proletariat must be equalized. There must come a time when we depend solely on the benevolence of the all-powerful government, lest Obama's vision not be realized.

I urge you to visit despair.com and purchase an item such as the following succinct explanation of one of our glorious government's recent cluster-f***s:

Veteran's Day Tea Party in Salem, IL

2009-11-05T10:59:27-08:00

TEA PARTY IN SALEM, ILLINOIS

JOIN US ON VETERANS DAY

DO YOU AGREE THAT AMERICA IS

HEADED DOWN THE WRONG TRACK?

DO WE NEED TO CHANGE COURSE AND GET AMERICA BACK

ON THE RIGHT TRACK WITH THE FOLLOWING POLICIES?

· GOVERNMENT BY THE CONSTITUTION

· LIMITING THE GROWTH OF GOVERNMENT

· RESPECT FOR LIFE

· SECURING OUR BORDERS

· LOWERING TAXES

· SUPPORTING THE SECOND AMENDMENT

· BALANCING THE FEDERAL BUDGET

· DEFENDING TRADITIONAL VALUES

· STRONG NATIONAL SECURITY

· ENDING GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION

SEND A MESSAGE

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2009, Noon-2:00 PM

BROADWAY (RT 37) AND MAIN ST., SALEM, IL ACROSS FROM THE COURTHOUSE AT SWENEY CORNER

For information call: 1-224-548-7286

Guest Speakers: Ray Sharpe, Sandy Hotz, Judge Don Lowery (US Senate candidate), John Stanley, Nancy Cahalan, Kathi Neubert

WE INVITE FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY, AND CITY OFFICIALS TO ATTEND AND ANSWER TAXPAYER QUESTIONS ABOUT HEALTHCARE, CAP AND TRADE AND BAILOUTS.

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Obamacare Vote Saturday?

2009-11-04T18:41:52-08:00

It would appear that Shrieker of the House Pelosi, or "She Who Must Not Blink", is confident she can twist enough arms to get enough votes for her monstrous health care bill this Saturday. Will "Big Brother" Barry send Rahm to the Capitol building deliver a few threats over the next two days? How a bout a dead fish wrapped in one of his tutus?

H.R. 3962 may pass the House after a Saturday evening vote, and one must wonder if the trial lawyers get their kiss (H/T Teri O'Brien)that same evening or do they wait until after Obama is re-elected (Heaven forbid) and has begun a second term? I suppose those of us who wanted the high costs due to medical malpractice lawsuits addressed (in other words, reasonable people) can view this as a means of addressing the issue. Of course this means of address provides states with an incentive to ensure that they do not cap attorney fees or awards.

According to CQ Politics abortion funding is a potential sticking point with some of the Democrats (those who oppose the butchering of the innocent):

The House vote is expected at 6 p.m. Saturday. The Rules Committee would have to meet 24 hours before the debate to prepare the bill for floor action, but Slaughter declined to say exactly when Rules would meet.

By allowing the Ellsworth language, House Democratic leaders hope to address the reluctance of anti-abortion Democrats to vote for the health bill.

Some of those lawmakers say they remain dissatisfied with the language, however.

Bart Stupak , D-Mich., may still oppose the Ellsworth language, potentially keeping the bill from passing. Stupak wants to bar any federally subsidized insurance plan from covering abortions, including any public plan set up to compete with private insurers.

Rep. Stupak might risk being screamed at as a "single-issue zealot" if he were an Illinois Republican whose stomach turned at the idea of a Senator Mark Kirk. Fortunately for him, he is not. Of course his respect for innocent life (unlike Mark Kirk) and insistence that money not be seized from the taxpayer to pay for the taking of an innocent child's life is inconvenient for the "ardent Catholic" Pelosi and irritating to the reprehensible abortion advocate Nancy Keenan. The Washington Obamost reports, "Some Democrats' concern over abortion may imperil health bill":

"I will continue whipping my colleagues to oppose bringing the bill to the floor for a vote until a clean vote against public funding for abortion is allowed," Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) said Monday in a statement. He said last week that 40 Democrats could vote with him to oppose the legislation -- enough to derail the bill.

Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, cast Stupak as "attempting to ban abortion coverage in the private insurance market."

The abortion dispute centers both on federal subsidies that would be provided for people who cannot afford health-care coverage themselves and the much-debated government insurance alternative, which is included in the House version of the bill but is still being debated in the Senate. Under a 1976 law, federal funds are generally barred from being used for abortions, except in cases of rape or incest or to ensure the life of the mother.

NARAL Nancy is concerned taxpayers won't be killing babies so she needs to lobby for the sake of "women's health". Of course if she were actually concerned about "women's health", she would be lobbying against the government takeover of healthcare (or the polling approved "health insurance reform") in this nation of 300 million people! Instead she shows no mercy or remorse in her assault on innocent little boys and psst, Nancy, girls:

In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) signed by 183 lawmakers who Stupak helped organize, a group of mainly Republicans wrote: "The U.S. government should not be in the business of promoting abortion as health care. Real health care is about saving and nurturing life, not about taking life."

Keenan said a provision such as Stupak's would cut abortion coverage from the health plans of women if their employers decided to enroll in the health-care exchange. But after spending many of the past several days on Capitol Hill working on the bill, she said she wasn't sure if there are enough House votes to pass it with the current abortion language in it.

It might be refreshing if the Statists would speak honestly regarding their motivation (some might actually be well intentioned in supporting this bill, but those are the fools) of power and control. Constitution be damned! This is the age of Obama, after all. Take the labor of the taxpayer and redistribute its fruit to the zero-liability voter (H/T Andrew Wilkow).

I do hope those who are able rise to the occasion and join the wonderful Congresswoman Michele Bachmann along with Mark Levin and others on the steps of the Capitol Thursday (11/5/09) at noon Eastern to show that we will not take this intrusion lightly. The mistakes of 2008 have already proven costly in both dollars and liberty! I only hope we can apply a tourniquet to the wound Barack Obama and his leftist majorities in Congress are deepening.

Paul Mitchell Calls on Sandy Cole to Enforce the Law

2009-11-03T16:06:38-08:00

For Immediate Release

From the Paul Mitchell Campaign:

November 3, 2009

Paul Mitchell Calls on Sandy Cole to Enforce the Law

Parental Notification Law Should be Enforced

Hainesville, IL-Paul Mitchell, candidate for Illinois House Representative in District 62, calls upon his opponent Sandy Cole (R-Grayslake), to use her influence as a State Representative and call on Governor Quinn to direct the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to enforce the Parental Notification Law that was passed in 1995.

Parental notification is required to give a child an aspirin at school; if a teenager attempts to buy a gun; or tries to get ears pierced. Certainly, abortion is just as serious a decision to make as any of those. This law, passed in 1995, has never been implemented due to a variety of obstacles. But now the obstacles have been cleared, the courts have upheld the law, the rules for judicial bypass written, and it only remains for the state government to put the law into effect.

Sandy Cole’s voting record on this issue is not good. In her first term, she worked on a bill that would have gutted the this law. In the current session, she voted in committee for a bill that would have entirely repealed parental notification. "She calls herself pro-family," said Mitchell, "but when Mrs. Cole uses that term, it doesn't mean what it means to most voters in the 62nd District."
Paul Mitchell urges Sandy Cole to use her influence and contact Governor Quinn to direct the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to enforce the law; which reflects the conscience of citizens with pregnant teenage-age children, who desperately need the counsel of adults who love them at such a critical moment in their lives.

Angie Comic: PU Public Option

2009-11-03T07:23:30-08:00

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Without Hope You're Hopeless

2009-11-03T07:14:59-08:00

By Dr. Robert Owens

Marching out of Yorktown to surrender the British Army played the song “The World Turned Upside Down.” As I drive to Mega Lo Mart to make my latest deposit of monopoly money in a Chinese savings account all I can do is mumble the final tag-line of the Wicked Witch of the West, “What a world? What a world?”

There’s a massive unspoken problem in America today. Floating like the iceberg in front of the Titanic waiting to sink the unsinkable ship. Founded b y revolutionaries crying “No taxation without representation!” the Republic these revolutionaries devised devolved into a society where 47% of the people pay no Federal Income tax and the number of people receiving government benefits is even higher. What incentive would these non-paying receivers have to reign in an overbearing and intrusive government? This unseen and unspoken problem is a cancer in the body politic.

Self-serving professional politicians buy votes by exempting non-productive people from personal financial responsibility while providing ever-expanding benefits at the expense of the productive. This is not the right versus left, conservative versus liberal, democrat versus republican he-said-she-said endless debate that devours the chatocracy of cable’s wall-to-wall talking-heads. This is not an academic exercise that pointy-headed political science and history majors with dueling pocket protectors debate for hours in their mother’s basement as they post their latest scoop on their samizdat blogs. This is a dagger pointing directly at the heart of our civilization.
Western Civilization awoke from the slumber of the Dark Ages enlightened and empowered by a belief that humanity has an innate right to be free and a natural right to excel. Rights and freedoms given by God not bestowed at the whim of some Legend-in-his-own-mind Leader. This civilization gathered steam in Europe exploding upon the world stage through an energetic period of exploration.

In America after a revolution fought by farmers and merchants against the greatest empire of the day the Founders, dared to declare “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.” After centuries of government thugs standing on the windpipe of everyday people these self-sacrificing giants observed that in a civilized world government was not imposed by the strong upon the weak it was instead built upon a social contract between the governed and those entrusted with the privilege to govern when they said, “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

Today this bold and unique experiment in freedom is being devoured from within and challenged from without. Those who believe the collective should reign over the individual, those who believe in the suffocating sameness of socialism over the rough-and-tumble of capitalism have worked for generations building a culture of dependency which has tempered the steel will of the pioneers into the sloppy demands of the couch-potato slacker waiting for someone to find their remote as they guzzle some refreshments and wait for the game as bread and circuses take the place of innovation and accomplishment. Schools teaching 2+2 might = 5, trophies for everyone, politically correct new-speak and affirmative action promotions have sapped the vitality from the citizens of our Republic. Politicians and their fellow-travelers use a system of cronies and sweet-heart deals to siphon trillions from the public treasury promising the dumbed-down descendants of revolutionaries that they just might win the lotto before they have to declare bankruptcy so they might as well re-elect the same old grafters once again.

There comes a time when those who are raising the sails and paddling the boat have to admit to themselves the ballast down in steerage weighs more than the cargo. There comes a time when even the most non-confrontational and loyal among us begin to ask, “Who is John Galt” as Atlas tires of his thankless job and shrugs the burden of dead-weight into the dustbin of history. As the perpetually-reelected and the propaganda spewing Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media trumpet the inevitability of government rationed health-care, cap-n-trade industrial suicide, comprehensive import-a-voter immigration reform and the surrender of sovereignty through treaties supposedly designed to deal with mythical global warming there shines a light in a bell tower, one if by land an two if by sea.

Without hope you’re hopeless and I refuse to allow the unbelievable changes currently assaulting our economy and our political system to bring about my own personal Great Depression. Those who believe in the Devil believe he comes to steal, kill and destroy. I believe if he can’t steal your joy he can’t keep your stuff and weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning.

Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, Religion, and Leadership for Southside Virginia Community College. Contact Dr. Owens. © 2009 Robert R. Owens http://robertrowens.com/ Dr. Owens is available for speaking engagements.

Kelly Campaign Press Release

2009-11-02T10:40:04-08:00

KELLY FILES PETITON FOR COMPTROLLER: Makes a statement about races in NY, NJ, and VA

(Springfield, IL) At about 8:30, this morning, William J. Kelly formally filed his petition for the Feb. 2 GOP primary for comptroller against Judy Baar Topinka.

Of this race, Kelly says, "On the eve of critical races, in New Jersey, New York, and Virginia, the national debate has begun, on the direction of the Republican Party. Will we choose Republicans who stand for something or for nothing? Will we have reform or more corruption?

Topinka has destroyed the Illinois Republican Party and paved the way for Barack Obama to become a U.S. senator and now president. We will never build a Republican Party by nominating or electing candidates like Judy Baar Topinka," said Kelly.

For more information, please read Mr. Kelly's website, http://www.friendsofwilliamjkelly.com/.

One Less Enemy of the Unborn in the U.S. House?

2009-10-31T08:03:43-07:00

73wire.com, which will officially launch on November 4, 2009, is reporting that Margaret Sanger Award winning, Card Check supporting ridiculous excuse for a Republican, DeDe Scazzafava is dropping out of the race to represent NY-23! I cannot help but wonder if Newt regrets getting off the sofa he shared with Nancy Pelosi in that commercial advocating for the Enviro-Statist, to support this miserable candidate?

If this bears out and the real Republican, Doug Hoffman, wins the special election will other state Republican Parties or the National Republican Party get the message? I doubt it, especially not here in Illinois, where the NRSC and John McCain are rewarding Mark Kirk's vote for Cap and Trade with their support, financial resources, and political power as they purchase his status as front-runner to win the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate seat held by Roland "Monument to Myself" Burris.

If nothing else, the U.S. House will be losing one disgustingly pro-abortion member in Mark Kirk and that mantle won't be picked up by another disgustingly pro-abortion "moderate"... at least not DeDe! Sorry Speaker Gingrich, better luck next time.
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This Week's Angie Comics

2009-10-28T10:55:28-07:00

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