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Prepare to be besieged by the American version of the Basij. We call it Acorn. They are Obama’s new domestic army.

The reason the General called Barbara Boxer “ma’am” instead of “Senator” is probably because he had just eaten lunch and was loath to lose it in contemplation of how anyone so odious and inept could ever attain such a position of power. He may be a general but he is still a man. Isn’t there a retired general somewhere in California who could eat her lunch, politically speaking? She is up for re-election in 2010.

The Proposition 8 victory proved that California is not a completely hopeless state but with the likes of Boxer and Feinstein as cover girls it is easy to see why most of the rest of America is unimpressed, when not expressing open hostility with the pyrite politics of Golden State. It is not just their shoddy ideology that bothers most people; people are fairly tolerant of others’ sincerely held beliefs. It is the corruption and ineptitude they foster and further that is the greatest source of disdain. They are both distasteful and disgraceful. Surely California with its 35,000,000 million citizens can do better!

But before one unleashes too much venom on California one would have thought that 300,000,000 Americans would do better than putting a chronic bungler, Mr. Misstep, the Tele-prevaricator, the Artful Dodgeless, the Anti-Chrysler, the GM (Great Messiah) behind the desk in the Oval Office.

Obama says he is losing sleep worrying over the budget deficit. He must be getting those 3:00 AM phone calls to which Hillary had alluded. A significant percentage of the population is also losing sleep worrying about the Stepford president and what he and his puppeteers at the Fed are doing to us while we try to sleep. I wonder who is calling him at 3:00 AM. It’s gotta be Geithner. Some things never sleep.

The Poached Frog notes that someone has turned Newt into a newt—and he isn’t getting better. What remains of the former Speaker’s conservative credentials have been squandered by teaming up with Hillary, by appearing in a pro-climate-change public service announcement (i.e. propaganda piece) with (holy hand grenade!) Nancy Pelosi, of all people, and endorsing the latent conservatism of Colin Powell, who fully affirmed the role of affirmative action in his own rise to prominence by throwing his support behind a Marxist for president. Strange bedfellows indeed! Give us Castle Anthrax, please!

Newt has either been masquerading as a conservative all these years, which would make sense considering all that the Republicans have done to advance conservative values and principles in the last 15 years, or he is now masquerading as a left-of-center centrist. One thing seems certain; he must be getting ready to run for president. Don’t be fooled! He’s just another political chameleon. His favorite color is red—no—blue!

Flag Day, 2009: What a Free and Strong America means to Me

America is not a place. It is an ideal distilled from the wisdom of the ages by people of good character who held these resultant truths to be self-evident; that God, not government, is the grantor of our liberty, and that each citizen’s worth is inherent within this context.

America has become the lodestar for generations of refugees from myriad forms of tyrannical rule. Americans are self-created everywhere, recognizing their birthright upon observing the shining city on a hill, dreaming the dream of freedom or upon breaching their confines and reaching the teeming shores.

As the pinnacle of human liberty, this land represents the best and the worst of creative expression because freedom, by its very nature, presupposes the right to do wrong including, sadly, the freedom to destroy Old Glory; freedom’s very symbol. But this is our current cultural condition and the right to freely choose is the only means whereby righteousness can ultimately be ascribed. Tyrannical orders of every kind, who permit no such desecration of their own symbols, offer their own subjects no such hope of reward.

Liberty is the mother of creativity. The freedom to profit from one’s own inspiration and innovation is central to human kind’s rapid advance in almost every field of endeavor. For most of human history information could travel no faster than a horse could gallop. From the birth of this nation, the breathtaking expansion of knowledge and technology has granted untold numbers of people the opportunity to fix their gazes on a limitless horizon of possibilities. That horizon is yet ablaze with potential for the human enterprise.

Is this not worth defending with every talent we possess? Is this not worth every effort required to raise this Title of Liberty for all to see?

Italian police near the Swiss border yesterday discovered $134,000,000,000 worth of US Treasury notes in the false bottom of suitcase in the possession of two middle aged Japanese men who were bound for the secretive Alpine haven employed for generations as the repository of the yields from questionable transactions. While some dust has been kicked up in an attempt to color these two gentlemen as counterfeiters, this is a smokescreen. Counterfeiters are not going to take fakes to Switzerland! That’s as likely as attempting to sell fake Rolexes in the main train station in Geneva. No one is that stupid! These notes are probably not counterfeit at all. These two men are the Japanese version of “coyotes” or “mules”; two of a team of such whose regular job it is to smuggle real treasury notes into Switzerland where they are deposited for benefit of the gangsters best known as the Federal Reserve, private bankers who have pillaged America for nearly a century now. You wondered where the TARP funds went? If any industry should legitimately qualify for nationalization it is the Fed.

In an unprecedented, but unsurprising move, Obama has ordered that US troops now “Mirandize” enemy combatants captured on the battlefield. To facilitate this he has ordered FBI agents to be embedded with the troops. What this means is that our soldiers and Marines will now be required to inform each prisoner that he has the right to remain silent and that anything he says can and will be used against him in a court of law and that he has the right to attorney and that if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him. No, I am not kidding. I wish that I was.

This is grand foolishness on many levels. First, this blurs the distinction between cops and military personnel. If a soldier or Marine has to stop to consider which hat he is wearing at a given moment, the hesitation could cost him and his buddies their lives. Second, this will completely undermine the military’s ability to collect the intelligence necessary to prevent the enemy from being successful, further endangering the lives of our service men and women and putting their respective missions at risk of failure. It appears that we neither need nor want intelligence. Voila! But it will force our military personnel to collect crime scene evidence on the battlefield, often for their own future legal defense. Third, it grants citizenship status to foreign enemy combatants and grants them access to the American legal system with all the rights that apply to American citizens. And, of course, the US taxpayer, who funds the military for the purpose of national defense will now have to fund the defense of those whose stated goal is to defeat our military. But the lawyers get paid and that is all that really matters, right?

This is what happens when you elect lawyers to become members of the Executive and Legislative Branches of government. It is interesting to look at US Attorney General, Eric Holder’s record of defending terrorists in our court system. Just who is being monitored by the embedded FBI agents in the field; the terrorists or our troops? Clauswitz once stated that war was politics by other means. Obama believes that politics is war by other means.

The only people more highly suspect for their lack of intelligence in this arena are the people who voted for those currently in positions of power. We got change alright. Thanks a bunch! Let’s hope there’s still hope.

There never was much hope that the Supreme Court would halt the sale of Chrysler to Fiat, overturn the Obama administration’s unconstitutional takeover of GM and Chrysler, overrule the violation of 200+ years of contract law by a federal judge aligned with the administration in this blatant move to nationalize private industry, in short, would do what is right. The judicial branch has long been a significant problem in this country as it is largely filled with elitists who have little regard for anyone who is not one of the annointed. There are, naturally, exceptions but they are exceptional.

The problem is deeper than than the average person would suspect. Separation of Powers is a critical constitutional doctrine that has largely been ignored for some time. As you have read in these pages before, attorneys and judges are officers of the court; members of the Judicial Branch of government. Separation of powers requires that there be no conflict of interest among the branches. As attorneys have managed to fill both the Legislative and the Executive Branches of government, we have beheld the unfolding of a judicial monopoly in the federal government and state governments, as well. We are now a nation awash in laws, red tape and regulation and when we find ourselves confronting this enormous and ominous mountain of law we can barely proceed without the assistance of an attorney.

And you thought separation of church and state (which does not exist in the founding documents and did not exist until the court arbitrarily created it) was the big separation issue in the Constitution! Judge for yourself.

The Declaration of Independence is clear as to the appropriate response of the citizenry when “government becomes destructive of these ends (life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, among others)". What will you do to defend your country against all enemies, foreign and domestic?

So, 10 banks want to pay back $68,000,000,000 in government bailout money. That’s great! How much did each actually receive from TARP in the first place? We have no idea. No one will tell us. I will make that deal. You give me, say, $10,000 and I will give you back $100 and we’ll call it square. Deal?

Over the weekend, Palestinian terrorists used booby-trapped horses in a failed attack on Israeli forces at a Gaza border crossing. The gunmen and the horses were killed. I await a statement by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) condemning the murder of these innocent animals and their use in a military operation. Should PETA fail to denounce the militant Palestinians for this monstrous abuse, the PETA people will have shown themselves to be thoughtlessly and hopelessly aligned with the Left and bereft of moral authority. ET must have gone home, leaving only the PA.

There is no such thing as reverse racism. There is only racism, and way too much of it from every angle. We are all God’s children in spite of the way some of us behave.

The speech was brilliant! The mustache that framed his moving lips was spectacular in its understatement (but the Arabs got it)! The words were well-chosen; the thoughts imparted, carefully crafted. It would have been a politically ingenious creation and a luminous moment in modern history but for the fact that his actions, particularly domestically, speak much louder than his words. What about freedom in this country? Why encourage Iran to build nuclear power plants when he will not permit them to be built here? This is but one significant point of departure in the divergence of his words and deeds. But what would one expect from Big Bro? It would also have been helpful if the guest lecturer had a better grasp of the historical facts. Palestine was the creation of the British Empire and certainly one of the colonial problems to which he made reference. Equating the national aspirations of Israel, the ancient land of the Jews, with an historically non-existent “homeland” for the perpetually homeless Bedouin Arabs only serves to further the misunderstandings. But what would one expect from the smartest man in the world? If history tells us anything it tells us this; this man, filled to overflowing with hubris and deceit, is a first-class tyrant in the making.

I flew over the southern tip of Greenland yesterday. I had opened the window shade of the Airbus 340-600 (the world’s longest commercial airliner) to stare in awe at the black and white vastness of Denmark’s nearly lifeless colony. (Denmark, rare among nations, still has a colony owing to the wisdom of selecting a place where almost no one lives and still fewer wish to live.) All the shades had been closed by the flight crew, for reasons you will have to determine, whereupon I was told, in no uncertain terms, to close it. Understanding that flight crews are, for all practical purposes, deputized to maintain order in the once-friendly skies, I stifled the urge to resist this seemingly thoughtless demand and allowed discretion to be my guide.

The flight crew may have seen enough of Greenland’s frozen wastes but it is not something I get to do everyday! As I was seated on an exit row I still had a fish-eyed, coffee-saucer-sized glass opening through which I was able to observe and witness the openly available evidence that climate change (aka “global warming") is a hoax and a scam as large and as bereft of accessible benefit as Greenland itself. For hours we flew over the more-than-frosty expanses extending from Iceland to Hudson Bay while most of the rest of the world naturally suffered from the sweltering approach of the coming summer.

Another member of the crew was queried about the practice of pulling the blinds and we were told that it was the result of a passenger poll in which it was was supposedly revealed that most people would rather sleep and preferred the darkness to the glare that exists above the clouds at 37,000 feet. I was only moderately appeased by this information. It was only 8:oo PM where we had all come from. Who goes to bed at that hour? Don’t most people maintain a crack in the darkness every night as they sit in front of their TV’s? Many marvel at the HD documentaries that reveal the earth in its shimmering splendor and here we were with a rare, bird’s-eye view of Greenland’s mountains, glaciers and frozen fjords and we were told that we were prohibited from looking out the window! Why?

I had spent the last three weeks in the most conservative part of Germany, if not all of Europe; the lush and picturesque rolling hills of the Alpine foothills of Bavaria where I was thoroughly immersed in the comings and goings of friends and family. It will take yet a while before my reflections of these full and eventful days properly and cohesively crystalize but one thing is abundantly clear; even the most traditional and seemingly well-informed of the Europeans have been fully propagandized.

One must know and understand that there is no freedom of the press outside of the United States. Governments thoroughly control the news. While this can also be said of our major news outlets there remains, here, a free flow of honest information mostly in the form of radio and internet communication. The overwhelming majority of Europeans have no interest in, or access to either of these sources of information. I felt like I had been sucked into a black hole. I found no Wi-Fi and only a few internet cafes, the majority of which were scarcely populated and unable to provide access to anything Mac-related. I might have had better luck in Munich but even the large cites were devoid of public access points to the information super highway. In the endless concourses of outdoor cafes I saw but a handful laptops opened upon the mostly occupied tables.

Discussion was largely limited to weather, soccer, food and drink and the inexhaustible debate over Germany’s past sins and the price they continue to pay although only a very few of those responsible for the misdeeds remain. It is similar to the discussion of slavery in this country; no one here was ever a slave and no one here ever owned a slave. How long are the sins of the fathers to be visited upon the children? When is enough enough?

Nearly everyone with whom I conversed spoke in very positive terms about our new president. They were surprised at my observations. This was the clearest evidence of dominant influence of the modern European press. Joseph Goebbels had nothing on these people! Tell a lie, make it big and tell it over and over again and soon everyone will believe it. This was the Goebbels’ philosophy. Today’s practitioners have made it an art form.

People who cling to traditional values and religion are considered to be right wing extremists. Where have we heard this before? They are also considered to be a danger the state. Hmm? Everyone associates Hitler with the right even though his movement was an extreme leftist-socialist movement.

A recent revelation about the murder of leftist student demonstrator in Berlin in 1968, an incident that forever radicalized a large number of German youth and lead to the Green movement, has required anyone with a brain to re-think the genesis of the modern international leftist movement. It has been discovered that the German police officer who shot and killed this young demonstrator was not the “right-wing” extremist he was made out by the press to be but rather a Stasi (East German Secret Police) spy with orders to assassinate this particular young leftist. The moral of this story revolves around the foolishness of displaying loyalty to a master who is not only incapable of corresponding but who will not hesitate to take your very life if it best suits his purposes. So it is with all brands of tyranny and all forms of vacuous ideologies. Someone once quipped, in reference to Oakland, that there is “no there there". The same can be said of socialism. It is a pit that can never be filled, even with numberless concourses of victims.

The churches that once dominated the skylines of every city and village are mostly empty. The church bells peal but bare no appeal for the vast majority of of the once-faithful. They now merely toll at the passing of time. Most of the citizens of Bavaria cling to the notion of being Catholic, as a tradition, but church attendance is minimal even on the most holy of occasions. But everyone is at the recycling centers on Saturday! Wind turbines now claim dominance above every horizon. Green is the new religion. It was reminiscent of the classic movie “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” in which the normal people were replaced by zombie-like aliens each resembling those marked for substitution.

The birth rate among the Europeans is between 1.1 and 1.8 children per family. This is unsustainable. There will be virtually no Europeans left in 50 years.

The influx of workers from Islamic nations has been steadily growing. The average Islamic family in Europe has 8.2 children. In the not-distant future Mullahs will be using the towers of vacant churches and cathedrals as minarets for the calling of the faithful to prayer.

The Europeans are committing suicide, slowly but surely. The soft hedonism of “Gemuetlichkeit” has eroded the senses and sensibilities of the overwhelming majority of those who appear to live less recklessly than their offspring who have little or no respect for the antiquities they occupy or the traditions of their respective races. Three times during the 20th Century, America saved the Europeans from each other but we are powerless to save them from themselves.

In appreciation for the quality of the food I told one person that if I had to live in a socialist nation that I might prefer one in which the daily bread was better. His surprised response was that he did not live in a socialist nation. Right! And the Greens are neither red nor brown!

It occurred to me, as we touched down in San Francisco, that the shades had indeed been drawn to maintain the darkness and to keep the passengers asleep.

While it is true that conservatives will lose little in the way of common sense with the retirement of David Souter, the mere mention of Janet Napolitano as his replacement on the bench should raise significant concern. As the head of Homeland Security she issued a report to all law enforcement agencies throughout the nation profiling people who believe in the Constitution, particularly the First, Second and Tenth Amendments, and who believe in the sanctity of life (as in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness) as potentially being enemies of the state. Really ! I am not making this up! Her task, as a Justice, will be to determine the constitutionality of laws as they apply to specific cases. How will she do that when she obviously does not consider the Constitution to be the Supreme law of the land or, at the very least, finds faults with many of its essential provisions? What we know for certain is that Obama will name someone with similar disdain for the rights and liberties of this nation’s citizens. Justice may be blind, but should it also be deaf, dumb and dumber? This is change?

Fiat! How better to bail out a bankrupt company than by printing more fiat money. Oh wait, Fiat is acquiring Chrysler without putting up any money. But no matter, we will soon be able to buy a Fiat with a fiat.

The real problem with the government is Congressional recidivism. 99% percent of our elected officials return to DC every election cycle to continue their lives of crime.

Perspective is relative. Truth is not. Science brought us a perspective on relativity but that remains a theory. Science is truth or it is not science. Obama has stated that he wants to put science back in its “proper” place. The science to which Obama claims to adhere exists in defiance of what is true. So, here are some questions that real science would not be afraid to answer if truth were the honest object.

If life begins at birth, why do hospitals feed the fetuses of otherwise lifeless mothers? If we descended from arboreal primates, where is the evidence? Evidence of evolution exists, but not inter-species evolution. And what about the evolution of consciousness? What about that uniquely human faculty that actually created the theory that the Darwinists none too deftly defend? From whence did it arise? Why does current DNA research point to a common female ancestor a mere 6500 years in the past?

Global warming; where is the science? The creator of the idea was grilled in Congress about 5 years ago and was unable to sustain his theory with the peer review required to call it “science". Science demands independent substantiation, without which there is but theory. Al Gore and the Democrats would not permit opposing opinions to be heard in Congressional hearings last Friday. And these are the people who support the “fairness doctrine"? Exhalation of CO2, thanks to the Obama administration, now makes each and every human a polluter. Where is the science to defend this nonsense? What, among other things, must plant-life have to survive?

350,000 people die annually from the flu, worldwide. And this new swine flu, with 250 deaths in Mexico where tens of thousands have died due to corruption and cartels, is a health crisis? Why? Is it because the Obama and his congressional colleagues are about to unleash “reconciliation” to force us and 1/3 of the US economy into an historically debased, debunked and devalued concept known as universal health care?

Why, if skyrocketing energy prices is a concern to Americans did the Obama administration arbitrarily shut down the Colorado and Utah gas and oil industries? Why is ANWAR not open to further exploration? Why has Obama nationalized private industries? Where in the constitutionally enumerated powers of government does he draw legal support for this brazen act of economic sabotage? Where are the jobs?

And lastly some political science questions. What is it about the First, Second, Fifth and Tenth Amendments that Democrats don’t like and cannot defend? When did you last read the Constitution? The Declaration of Independence? The Communist Manifesto? When you can answer these questions, you will be able to converse on a much higher level than mere opinion and perspective. The truth provides far more interesting topics for discussion.

If the first 100 days is any indication, our Democratic Republic may not survive the damage long enough to make it to the mid-term elections. Be prepared. Oh, and forget about being rescued by Republicans. Don’t be delusional. Republicans, as typified by the actions of John McCain, whose legislation constricted freedom of speech and Arnold Specter, the defector, are simply actors in the political charade that now barely conceals the face of Big Brother.

All you need to know about Arlen Specter is this; he has been a tool in the hands of the Central bankers for decades, beginning with his creation of the “Magic Bullet Theory” adopted by the Warren Commission, which was stacked with other tools of the Central bankers. Don’t believe it? Check it out. The coup is nearly complete. Wake up Americans. It is time to reactivate the Declaration of Independence. Government has become destructive to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is our sacred duty to create a new government; one that will honor the original charter of this land.

The fact that US Attorney General, Eric Holder, and his law firm represented 17 of the Guantanamo Bay terrorists should automatically be grounds for his recusal as the final arbiter of the decision whether or not to proceed with investigations of Bush era officials regarding the techniques employed to glean the intelligence necessary to prevent all post 9-11 domestic terror attacks. But he won’t, and the most ethical and transparent administration in history becomes even more transparent as they become even more unethical.

Water boarding is not torture. It may be scary and it may be unpleasant but it is not torture. No harm is done to the person being water boarded. Our own military prepares members of our own special forces for the possibility of capture by water boarding them. Cutting people’s heads off, a la Allah’s Al Quaida, is torture. Enduring the endless drivel of self-loathing, suicidal left wing lemmings is torture. What Obama, Pelosi and Reid are doing to our country is torture. Reading anything at Soros-funded moveon.org is torture. Watching PBS, ABC, NBS, CBS or CNN is torture. Don’t buy the hype! These people, from Obama to the lowliest left-wing operative, whether some know it or not, are on the payroll of those who actively seek to destroy this country. Why else would they give aid, comfort and classified information to our enemies? It is time to wake up, or sober-up.

Cold fusion has re-emerged as a possible solution to the energy challenges we face. It appears that a palladium cathode bathed in a deuterium solution will generate 25 times the amount of energy required to stimulate the reaction. This would be great news but for two things; it will doubtless cause more global warming (isn’t it bad enough that hot things heat up the environment without having cold things adding more? And you know that I am kidding, right?) and the government will not be able to levy a carbon tax on this technology. Both will be reasons for the government to shoot down the idea just as they did 20 years ago when they laughed the first cold fusion enthusiasts, and John Galt, into exile. Free energy, or nearly free energy is an anathema to the power-mongers who control the flow of capital and the flow of carbon-based fuel. These people seek to further enslave us. This new technology would naturally have the opposite effect. This is another reason to stand up to the powers that be. They cling to outmoded ideas and technologies out of the greedy desire to maintain the ultimately unsustainable status quo. If we don’t shake them up, they will take us down.