I nearly shed tears

Seriously...I read this and lost all hope for Michigan:

http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN0954070020081209

A bit about the UN's involvement in Africa

I've been following these cases on-and-off since the debate society I participated in 'argued over' the topic of Sub-Saharan Africa:

Christmas eve, 04: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42088

May, 06: http://www.rightwinged.com/2006/05/un_raping_children_again_this.html

Jan 3, 07: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article19558
:http://www.chinadaily.net/world/2007-01/03/content_773664.htm

Jan 4, 07: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1538476/UN-staff-accused-of-raping-children-in-Sudan.html

May 27, 08: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7420798.stm
:http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/27/charity.aidworkers/index.html

It's pathetic to watch the libbies ignorantly cheering these rapist fiends onward to do nothing but drink and destroy lives in the Sudan and elsewhere.

The Right Winged article put it the best: "Such a classy operation... why are we part of this group again?"

After Obama told us we have to spend more money on these 'classy operations,' I figured I ought to post something about it.

I've heard people defend the UN over this: "They cant stop it" "It's a good organization, really!" They probably like this kind of thing...12 year olds selling sex...'free choice' and all that jazz. Also, it seems like it is justified under their 'moral relativism.'

Pray for the kids and the crazies.

Something a bit more personal

Let's face it: our state is dead. Economically destroyed through policies of a corrupt and rotting power structure. This aside, Michigan remains the most beautiful place I've ever seen on this earth.

Walking through campus or trekking back home, I look around me and I see a winter wonderland. This place is a wonderful place.... I can see myself getting a bit older, finding a decent paying position, and building a small house to start a family in. It's just too bad that so many children whose parents have moved south will never be able to experience this hope, this dream.

I, personally, am partially ashamed and partially angry that our government has so subsidized our people and businesses that Michigan's greatest corporations have to go begging to the circus ring we call Congress....

Dr. Melissa Clouthier has a good post on this subject: http://www.melissaclouthier.com/2008/08/05/mourning-michigan-how-liberal-policies-are-killing-the-state-i-love/

After reading the post I hope you will go on to read the comments, the stories, of people who have been forced to leave our great state.

I love this land...it's the best little patch in the whole world...but I'm afraid that the next four years will spell the end of Michigan. The glaciers that carved our wondrous Great Lakes may as well move back in: there will be so many homes for sale that even big, inanimate blocks of ice will be able to afford chunks of real estate.

YOU have to get involved in 2010 and 2012. Let's put some hope and change in office for real this time.

In order to form a more racist union

BAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRAAAAAAAAAACKKKKKKKKKAAAA Hussein Obamaaaa's Race Hustling has led to the Left's racism being shown once again:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032561

I've never noticed a 'Race and Ethnicity' section on NBC news site before...what the heck are you going to report?? I just cant help but laugh.

More diversionary tactics by crafty liberals...

Obama says the Constitution is fundamentally flawed? Prolly because it's "in order to form a more perfect union" and not "in order to form a more racist union."

*sigh* God Bless America..we need it now more than ever, mis amigos.

A Sigh

I've been perusing the news headlines as I normally do and there seems to be this odd focus on the economy. Curious, isn't it? Most of the headlines have to do with telling Congress to intervene and 'save us...for us.' It's frustrating -and hilarious to a point- to watch the esteemed United States Federal Government flop around like a blind fish out of water in its attempts to 'fix' the economy. Seriously, look at the numbers:

-Economic Stimulus Package, $152billion - FLOP
-Bailout Package, $700billion and $100billion and $200+billion - FLAIL
-Antiquated Detroit Car Manufacturers Life Support Package, $25billion now, more in the future -will FLOP
-Bearing witness to an inept Congress, priceless.

Here are the numbers: Congress wants to give $25,000,000,000.00 to GM, Ford, and Chrysler. If we take into account that kind of money, in light of the total American employment of the 'U.S. automakers,' just how little business sense do we have?

According to this article, the total number employed by the 'Big 3' is 255,109 domestically. In light of this number, we could give $97,997.33 to each and every employee of these companies that will squander the same money on the wasteful corporate practices that have put them in this position in the first place!

The Democratic Party is the party of corporate-union welfare. Bottom line. Why? You have to have unions (especially the MiUAW) to keep the Democratic party funded, to have unions you have to have unionized corporations, and to have unionized corporations the majority party has to have its head where the sun doesn't shine or wedged in some bong in a back alley of D.C.

It's not up to anyone in particular to 'solve' this. It's up to the factory worker, the churchgoer, your waitress, me, and you to 'fix' this. It is absolutely necessary for We the People to win in 2010 and 2012: We must start addressing our problems through the lens of liberty and not totalitarian control. For now, however, it's time to end the Long Goodbye and pull the plug on the long-dead Big 3.

Franklin Roosevelt Rerevisionism by Anthony Gregory

(as it appeared at this site)

For a Depression to last so long, unlike the unknown Panic of 1819 or sharp recession of 1920-21, should be a signal that perhaps FDR’s programs were not all that successful.
Franklin Roosevelt biographer Conrad Black has a new article championing the 32nd president, and defending the man’s legacy against a number of critiques that have emerged since his time in office. This article comes at a time when many are demanding “another New Deal” and a resurgence in Rooseveltian governance in general.

An interesting facet here is that while most of these paeans to FDR have come from the progressive and center-left, a few years back, it was the right calling for the current president to be more FDR-like, in matters of war in particular. Conservative talk show hosts could be heard nostalgically celebrating the U.S. strategic bombings of World War II, complaining that President Bush was unwilling to drop even more explosives upon the Iraqi people. It was also a conservative who penned a book defending one of FDR’s most conspicuous programs, one not revered so much on the Left these days, Japanese Internment.

But now the myth is that the conservatives and Republicans in this country have cast away the New Deal government created by Roosevelt, and cashed it in for “laissez-faire.” The federal government in America is huge, the largest in absolute terms in world history, probably, especially given its reach over the world and wealth consumed at home. Yet Bush’s $3 trillion state is allegedly a mark of “anti-government bias” on the Right.

Almost all the prominent and powerful Republicans have been New Dealers. Ronald Reagan, the supposed paragon of modern conservatism, was a New Dealer and never did anything to undo FDR’s legacy. Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole both paid tribute to this great leader, who, as the story goes, did so much to pull Americans out of the Great Depression.

That the Depression, in terms of lowered standards of living, poor quality and availability of consumer goods for the masses, did not truly end until after FDR died never seems to complicate the standard narrative. For a Depression to last so long, unlike the unknown Panic of 1819 or sharp recession of 1920-21, should be a signal that perhaps FDR’s programs were not all that successful. Every other American recession was a flash in the pan by comparison.
Interestingly, Black blames Herbert Hoover for his “higher taxes and tariffs,” thus rejecting the common myth that Hoover was a laissez-faire president who did nothing in response to the Depression. But he credits FDR’s many policies for bringing about recovery. One thing that seems to have made Black believe FDR needs defending: “It has been alleged by some supply-side economic purists that he actually prolonged the Depression in the United States.” Perhaps he is referring to the UCLA economists who have recently concluded that FDR’s policies “prolonged the Depression by seven years”:
After scrutinizing Roosevelt’s record for four years, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian conclude in a new study that New Deal policies signed into law 71 years ago thwarted economic recovery for seven long years.

"Why the Great Depression lasted so long has always been a great mystery, and because we never really knew the reason, we have always worried whether we would have another 10- to 15-year economic slump," said Ohanian, vice chair of UCLA’s Department of Economics. "We found that a relapse isn’t likely unless lawmakers gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies."

The economists conclude that recovery would have come sooner, if not for the New Deal, particularly the National Recovery Administration, which forced businesses to cartelize, and pro-labor legislation. Yet this basic theory is not entirely new, nor one adopted merely by “supply-side purists.”

More than sixty years ago, progressive liberal muckraker John Flynn took FDR to task in his journalistic treatment The Roosevelt Myth. This included a wonderful attack on the clumsy and counterproductive National Recovery Administration, modeled largely after Mussolini’s policies in Italy:

[Mussolini] organized each trade or industrial group or professional group into a state-supervised trade association. He called it a corporative. These corporatives operated under state supervision and could plan production, quality, prices, distribution, labor standards, etc. The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority. But it was essentially the same thing. These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism. The anti-trust laws forbade such organizations. Roosevelt had denounced Hoover for not enforcing these laws sufficiently. Now he suspended them and compelled men to combine.
Before this monstrosity was finally ruled unconstitutional in Schechter v. U.S., it was a plague of corporatism that imprisoned people for charging too little (landing tailors in jail for pressing pants too cheaply) and smashed economic liberty in a hundred other ways. Clarence Darrow was called upon to investigate the program in an independent commission and called it “harmful, monopolistic, oppressive, grotesque, invasive, fictitious, ghastly, anomalous, preposterous, irresponsible, savage, wolfish.”

Another major feature of FDR’s New Deal was the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which sought to keep agricultural prices up through the mass destruction of crops and livestock. It worked in keeping prices up, but at a time when Americans were starving, this was perhaps not the most sensible or humane approach. Thankfully, it too was ruled unconstitutional. After that FDR responded with his infamous “Court-packing scheme” and the Supremes became obedient.
Robert Higgs, also not a supply-sider so far as I know, has demonstrated other ways, in much greater detail, that FDR in fact prolonged the Depression. First, it bears mentioning that Higgs pointed out years ago that FDR’s ideas were not even that original, but were largely reincarnations of Woodrow Wilson’s wartime economic policies, except at peace. But where FDR lacked in originality, he compensated for in destructiveness. For one thing, Roosevelt’s constant assaults on the free market, without any sort of consistency or predictability about them, led to what Higgs calls “regime uncertainty,” a situation in which investors felt very uneasy about investing in projects, making recovery that much slower.

Ultimately, FDR’s defenders rely on two statistics more than any other argument, and Black is no exception: “Unemployment declined from about 33 percent when Roosevelt entered office to half of 1 percent when he died in office 12 years later (and had been at that point for 4 1/2 years, since several months before Pearl Harbor). The average per capita income doubled under Roosevelt . . ..”

As for unemployment, if the decline began before the war, it might have something to do with “the first peacetime draft in the midst of the 1940 election campaign” that Black proudly lumps together with FDR’s “Fourth New Deal.” Higgs has shown how important conscription was to the reduction in unemployment. Being killed in the trenches is not actually good for the soldier’s economy, as I once heard someone remark.

As for per capita income, or national income for that matter, this is also quite deceptive. I have heard many scholars concede the New Deal did not bring America out of the Depression; World War II did. But again, as Higgs has argued persuasively, the rise in national income in nominal dollars did not correspond to better economic conditions for the average American. With the government spending so much – about 40% of the economy — on the war effort, a staggering amount of American labor and production was being devoted to destruction — bombs, bullets, uniforms, warplanes, the Manhattan Project, and the like. Meanwhile, during the war, new automobiles and appliances were not available; sugar and butter were rationed and scarce; good clothing was hard to obtain. People worked harder for less. And if GDP really told the whole picture, then how to account for the fact that 1946 saw “the largest single-year drop of income in American history”? No one talks about the Depression or crash of 1946. Americans became more prosperous that year: The USA had less money in nominal dollars, but it diverted much less wealth to unproductive uses.

Two more quibbles about the Black article: First, yes, some might exaggerate the extent to which “Roosevelt had been swindled by Stalin at Yalta into handing over Eastern Europe to the USSR.” Given the way things were going, much of that would have happened anyway. But FDR does indeed come off as naive about Stalin in many conventional accounts. He should have been familiar with Stalin’s ruthlessness throughout the 1930s, when he murdered millions, as well as in the war (the USSR aggression against Poland was no more excusable than Hitler’s). Yet he believed that Stalin didn’t “want anything but security for his country.” Roosevelt thought if he gave “him everything I possibly can and ask for nothing in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace.” His adoration of “Uncle Joe,” as he called the Soviet dictator, did not subside even as Stalin annexed, along with half of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. And although Yalta was far from the only factor in Stalin’s conquest of Eastern Europe, it was there that FDR secretly agreed to Operation Keelhaul, an unspeakably murderous repatriation program whereby hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of refugees from the USSR were rounded up, forced back to Stalin, and enslaved and killed.

My second quibble: It is true that FDR, unlike the Republicans before him, was anti-prohibition. Indeed, he was nearly a libertarian compared to Hoover across the board. (In 1932, he championed lower taxes, lower spending, liquidation, sound money, lower tariffs, a smaller bureaucracy, less war and freer markets. The Democratic platform of that year was also much more laissez-faire than that of the GOP, blasting the latter for its big-government policies. Ayn Rand and other small-government advocates voted for FDR for that reason.)
But it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that FDR “repealed Prohibition of alcoholic beverages (wrenching one of America’s largest industries out of the hands of the underworld).” He did modify the Volstead Act, allowing beer with 3.2% alcohol. But federal prohibition didn’t really end until the 21st Amendment was passed by the state legislatures, the culmination of years of activism. It would have likely happened without him. And, for what it’s worth to the civil libertarians on the Left, four years later he signed into law the effective federal prohibition of marijuana, ushering in the federal drug war.

It is funny that FDR is so universally beloved on Left and Right. He imposed counterproductive economic fascism, destroyed food while people starved, imposed gun control and drug control at the federal level, created Fannie Mae (which has continued to cause economic troubles), had plans to round up rightwing and leftwing activists without due process, drafted (enslaved) ten million Americans into the military, waged total war on civilians, brought nuclear weaponry into the world, stuck tens of thousands of U.S. citizens into concentration camps, set up a censorship office, palled around with Stalin, turned away exiled Jews back to the Nazis, was deceitful in foreign affairs, and did not actually bring America out of the Depression, in terms of economic well-being for the American people. We don’t need another one of him. His despotic spirit is seen plenty enough in the leaders of both political parties now.

For more on Franklin Roosevelt’s prolonging of the Depression, see Higgs’s Depression, War and Cold War. See also the Independent Institute’s bibliographies on the Great Depression and World War II. And for a bold critique of FDR and the many other overrated presidents, see Ivan Eland’s forthcoming book, Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity and Liberty.

First published by The Independent Institute. Republished with permission.
Political Theory, Humanities, Language, Academia, Histo
Anthony Gregory is a Research Analyst at The Independent Institute. In addition to his work with the Independent Institute, he regularly writes for numerous news and commentary web sites, including LewRockwell.com, Future of Freedom Foundation, and the Rational Review.info@independent.org

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News from the Blogging World

I came across some comments on various videos and articles around the internet...
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Now where in the second amendment does it say that it's the people's right to own "reasonable" guns?
OH, IT DOESN'T! Words have meanings.
And I love the "why do people NEED handguns" crap. News flash for you, IT'S NOT THE GOVERNMENT'S BUSINESS TO DECIDE WHAT I DO AND DO NOT NEED. Yeah, I was yelling that, it is not the government's job to decide what I need and to take away what it feels I do not need.

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It is simply not possible to spin "I hate fags, no really I do. I'm repulsed by homosexuality.", into a defense of gays.
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Why do liberals and democrats and progressives (including AAR) refuse to answer questions about ideology, and then threaten those who do ask such question?
Is this an example of an Obama presidency?
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Uh, maybe you haven't noticed, but it is the democrats who hold the majority in congress...
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This election mantra for democrats:
VOTE EARLY - VOTE OFTEN
Just ask any ACORN representative.
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You people really do make me sick. You point to hypothetical attacks on your privacy based on the government listening to international calls from terror suspects, that is supposedly a direct attack on your rights, and you use that to justify your side's attacks on the second amendment. Your side was attacking the second long before the "domestic spying" issue, but what was your stance on the second amendment then? What was your excuse then?

But when government computers are used to dig up dirt on "Joe the plumber", you gleefully mock him based on that dirt. I guess that was different.

I guess privacy should only be protected for terrorists and democrats. Anyone that dares question Obama, they are fair game. No outcry for that very real invasion of privacy, because he isn't a fellow liberal. F*** him, right?

Using government resources to dig up dirt to be used to destroy a private citizen because he dared to ask a question, now THAT is fascist.
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Do The Math

Hello blogging world,

I am also extremely busy because of college & work, but wanted to share something that I found posted (on Facebook...ha) about everyone's favorite Democrat... (I didn't write it, so don't give me the credit)



More food for thought. (or Mud slinging to those of you who might stand a little to the left) If you don't think about some of these things, how can you come to an independent decision. You can't believe all the good or the bad things, but certainly have to weigh them in the mix.

Here is "the math" on Senator Obama:

2 = Number of terms he served in the Illinois State Senate

1/3 term = portion of term spent in the U.S. SenateHe is now a Junior U.S. Senator from Illinois, and only that for 18 months of his first term.

Counting all the recesses, four day weekends, more than a year spent campaigning, and his absences, Obama has only spent about 6 weeks of workdays on the Senate floor as one of the most junior members of the U.S. Senate.


80% = percentage of votes he cast as "Present " or "Abstain" (he did not want any record on his voting history to tarnish his legitimacy to the Presidency)
14 = Number of cases he tried as a trial lawyer (Google the outcomes. There were no tremendous judgements in favor of his clients)

1 = Other jobs he's held.

He was a "community organizer". Is that a PTA president? Is that a Homeowners Association President? No, it's not even an elected position.What is a community organizer anyhow? It's a self-appointed position for someone who's trying to get things done to improve a community. It's a resume stuffer.


Zero = Accomplishments in his job.



As a community organizer, his major cause was getting the asbestos out of a housing project. Obama failed at that. After two years of
trying, the asbestos was still there when he left and is still there even now that he is a U.S. Senator and presumably has some pull to get things done.



That's it!!!


Barack Obama's entire real world work resume includes:


6 = Six weeks work in the U.S. Senate with nothing to show for it.
2 = Two years as a lawyer and only 14 minor trials.
2 = Two years as a "community organizer" with nothing accomplished.
He's never balanced a budget.
He's never served in any executive position.
He's never run any business or organization.
He's never held a major position while in office.
He has no credentials to examine to see what he has accomplished.


He's an empty suit!

Well-known Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer writes:


"Barak Obama is an immensely talented man whose talents have been devoted to crafting and chronicling his own life. Not things. Not
idea. Not institutions, but himself.
"Eerily missing from the Democratic Convention this year were people of stature who were seriously involved at some point in Obama's
life, standing up to say: "I know Barack Obama. We've toiled/endured together." No one to say: "You can trust him. I do."
"Who was there to speak of the real Barack Obama? His wife. She could tell you about the father, the husband, the family man in a winning and perfectly sincere way. But that only takes you so far. It doesn't take you to the public man, the national leader."
"Only a relative to give him a reference? You don't do that! Might we say that could be self-serving? A joke? Not Hillary, Bill, nor even VP candidate, Joe Biden, could testify of anything he's accomplished.
They all basically said, "He's a Democrat...let's support him."

But he does give a great speech...if he has someone else to write it for him and a teleprompter to read from -- a rock band to attract the crowd doesn't hurt either.



Question: Would you hire someone with this little experience?

Answer: Of course not, yet he's running for the highest position possible in this country, the Presidency of the United State, and the leadership of the free world.

Audacity is definitely the appropriate word here!!

Hello Again, Mr. Reagan

I have to apologize, once again, for the lack of posting...

As many of you know I have just begun college and, with all the projects added to a quite light school load, have little time for blogging.


One project I have taken on is, basically,researching President Reagan. Everything is currently in progress but, as my Political Thought professor has told me, Reagan was much, much more complex than we give him or that he even gave himself.

I hope to have something to write this weekend. Check Sunday.

Cool Article..

Found this on www.evangelicalright.com

From Reuters

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from Reuters

The Vatican's second-highest ranking doctrinal official on Monday forcefully branded homosexual marriage an evil and denounced abortion and euthanasia as forms of "terrorism with a human face."
The attack by Archbishop Angelo Amato, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was the latest in a string of speeches made by eitherPope Benedict or otherVatican officials as Italy considers giving more rights to gays.
In an address to chaplains, Amato said newspapers and television bulletins often seemed like "a perverse film about evil." He denounced "evils that remain almost invisible" because the media presented them as "expression of human progress."
He listed these as abortion clinics, which he called "slaughterhouses of human beings," euthanasia, and "parliaments of so-called civilized nations where laws contrary to the nature of the human being are being promulgated, such as the approval of marriage between people of the same sex ..."
Amato spoke at a time when the Vatican and Italy's powerful Roman Catholic Church are at loggerheads over plans for a highly controversial law that would give unmarried heterosexual and homosexual couples some form of legal recognition.
The Church and Catholic politicians, even some in Prime Minister Romano Prodi's centre-left coalition, see the proposed law as a Trojan Horse and say it could lead to gay marriages.
Amato, who is said to be very close to Pope Benedict, criticized the media's coverage of ethical issues.
After denouncing "abominable terrorism" such as that carried out by suicide bombers, he condemned what he called "terrorism with a human face," and accused the media of manipulating language "to hide the tragic reality of the facts."
"For example, abortion is called 'voluntary interruption of pregnancy' and not the killing of a defenseless human being, an abortion clinic is given a harmless, even attractive, name: 'centre for reproductive health' and euthanasia is blandly called 'death with dignity'," he said in his address.
Gay rights group have criticized the Pope and Catholic Church officials in the past over such comments, accusing them of interfering in Italy's domestic affairs.
Groups opposed to gay marriage and recognition of unmarried couples are planning a national rally in Rome next month.
Italy's Roman Catholic Church, set up on diocesan and parish levels, has the organizational machinery to mobilize hundreds of thousands of people. A huge turnout, which is expected, could be a major embarrassment for Prodi's government.

First Day of the McCain Campaign...

Well my little, unofficial McCain campaign hq out of the dorm has been in operation for less than 5 hours and there have already been derogatory actions against the pieces and McCain. The immaturity and idiocy of the Obama supporters is entirely terrible. We should raise the the voting age to at least 21...

Radiation and Vegetables...

So our government is going to start protecting the 16 people a month at get infections from food bourne illness by putting us in danger...i.e. blasting our food with the stuff that they shut down city quatdrants for...

This is bad!!!!

I'm no expert, but Herbert Hoover said in 1928 that:

You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life
of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls
and thoughts. Every expansion of government in business means that government in
order to protect itself from the political consequences of its errors and wrongs
is driven irresistibly without peace to greater and greater control of the
nation's press and platform. Free speech does not live many hours after free
industry and free commerce die.

This is a prime example.... The USDA link is the first on google when it should be commonly understandable that we conservatives are going to check out the opposing side and the libbies arent going to inquire at all. The liberal press, naturally, is going to carry this as a new age in the Health-nazi control and, due to both of these, we are assured that the government-media complex is 2 minutes from complete.

I'm going to talk to the Vaccine Freedom people and check if they have anyone who will put money behind a lawsuit forcing the bureaucrats to place stickers on irradiated vegetables so we conservatives wont die and all the libbies will! Anyway, if people are told of it, i.e. there are stickers, it will probably be unfeasible to produce irradiated vegetables.

YOU KNOW WHAT? This is just a plan to get more people sick and emburden the current system to libbies will get their CommieCare!

AND this is keeping stupid people alive:

Just wash your frickin' lettuce, dang it!

I'm going to start a petition...I'll have it up here for you.

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Liberalism in Colleges

There are many instances of libbies and their indoctrination at GVSU...there is an orientation program called 'Transitions' where they tell you to shout your anger at a baloon.... Anger at others! Oh Lord in Heaven, anger at others couldnt be good at all!

It's just all part of the feel-good b.s. that is so evident in these publically funded institutions...a few years in the service would do everyone involved a world of good.

Well, that wont matter when Barack has his revolution and all us Conservatives and Christians die

Issue of the Day: Abortion

Obama:
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., supports legalizing the murder of a baby from conception until 14mins 59seconds after birth...this came up in the Illinois state legislature

McCain:
McCain genuinely doesnt care. He thinks it is up to the states to decide...making our vote, whatever it is, count more.

Issues of the Day are objective, you decide for yourself.

Diversity and Multiculturalism

Grand valley State University is the self-declared center of Michigan's multiculturalism. They spend millions of our dollars to convince us that acceptance, indifference, and tolerance are the right things to live by. I'm here to say that is not the way to go...

There is a common misconception that government can legislate away differences by forcing us to 'accept' others. This was the idea in the 'New South' during Reconstruction (a period of programs directly following the Civil War): that former slaves were not slaves and everything was great. That, naturally, didn't happen.

With the failure of that period of Reconstruction, the Freedmen's Bureau was created to establish and promote equality and a form of 'diversity' in society in the South. Again, that didn't happen.

When government gets involved and 'forces' what could and would happen naturally, we see a certain backlash. The backlash comes in forms of militancy (the Democrat's militant arm in the south: the KKK), rioting, and Affirmative Action Bake Sales.

The two wisest promoters of civil rights, Booker T. Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr., both believed that it was and is not government's responsibility to teach people how to be accepting. They both concurred that what they called the 'black culture' must change to be more like mainstream American culture (and by that I don't mean 'more like whites').

They thought that education, hard work, and sacrifice would lead the way acceptance of 'black culture.' This has not happened. Dr. King told us not to give 'the Negro' what we feel is 'his due' but to allow him to advance himself in his own right....not give him the means to advance without merit.

But I digress...

They told us that diversity is a good thing...I'll provide for you 2 original arguments against 'multiculturalism.'

1. Consider this situation: 100 people have cell phones and are asked to make them ring as loud as possible. Each ring is different, naturally. Insert 25 more people with different rings: does it really make a difference? No. Diversity is a pointless waste of time and money.

2. The European Union has banned genetically modified crops stating that the majority of growth-enhancing genetic modifications retards the crop's natural growth and will do harm to the greater population. Unnaturally forcing diversity's growth does the same to the result: retards it. It does to harm to the greater population in the form of cost, time, brain-washed thinking, and idiots in Congress.

Thank you and if you have a problem with it, leave a comment....

Environmentalists Screwing Americans...Again

We've all heard about the flooding in the Grand Canyon area, right? All about the hundreds evacuated, bridges washed out, dams broken, etc. The liberal news and, surprisingly, the conservative talk show radios hosts have failed to mention a taxpayer-funded, environmentalist program initiated in March of this year that didn't foresee heavy rains and has, subsequently, caused the flooding.

Oh yes, the whole of the Democrat Party had once again taken their hallucinogen and seen Captain Planet sending them on a mission to save the environment...one chub at a time. It was March of this year and they figured they'd run out of their hooka bars and crack houses to open up a dam in the Grand Canyon.

So the dam was opened so the 'humpback chub' population could be saved.... (an article can be found here.) So along comes...God...and it rains a little too much for the clouded minds and floods out an Indian reservation, a camp ground, and has sent several other institutions evacuating a continually increasing number of Americans (and probably the libbies' illegals too...oh no!) and causing an incalculable amount of damage to the environment the libbies wanted to save.

Now FEMA has to get involved, increasing the cost on the taxpayer as well as growing the size of government. In retrospect, the project just messed up the natural process of things and, perhaps, incurred the wrath of you-know-who by messing with His Earth.

You see, EnviroMarxism was breached in Genesis: 'ye shall be as gods.'

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So they tried and failed to save this:

and did this...

Trees uprooted, hiking areas destroyed, hundreds evacuated (via helicopter...$6000-8000 avg per run...roughly 5 people/run), and a failed project...great job commies!

Childish B.S.

I'm currently dealing with Grand Valley State in its registration process and having...trouble. In other words one may say that I'm dealing with the whole of Hell itself.

There is a void in organization and a void in any fundamental leadership. It's sad, really. I expected more out of the system that saps far too much $$ out of the public vaults and out of families' pockets.

For example, a solid, concrete number for the official cost (i.e. that which they can forsee...not estimated b.s.) hasn't been made availiable to me. My only way of accessing information is through an utterly obscure website and dealing with way too many people.

I'm seriously considering attending a private university next year...Hillsdale or Hope...solely because it is just so, for lack of a better word, retarded.

Oh...and affirmative action was made illegal BY THE PEOPLE, right?

The elitist libbies that rule our universities have dodged American democracy again:

http://www.gvsu.edu/affirmative/ that's the affirmative action home site...

a link provided there takes you to this: ("Proposal 2 Information")
(proposal 2 was supposed to shut down affirmative action)

A message from President Thomas J. Haas:

A liberal education has always been at the heart of Grand Valley State University’s mission. A diverse environment is essential in promoting the values of this liberal education for the shaping of intellect, creativity, and intercultural competence. At Grand Valley diversity is a learning resource and must be nurtured as an intellectual asset.
The passage of Proposal 2 has presented a challenge in the university’s journey to create a diverse learning community. This test of our values will ultimately strengthen Grand Valley’s commitment to providing a rich learning environment as stated in the university’s vision, mission, and values.
We are honoring this commitment by asking members of the Grand Valley community to be mindful of Proposal 2 while at the same time to be innovative in finding approaches for enhancing and supporting the diversity that continues to be a compelling interest in fulfilling the university’s mission, in providing a quality education, and in shaping the future of the world.
Use this Web site as a resource to learn more about Proposal 2, its implications, and how Grand Valley and other public universities in Michigan are responding to the challenges of this proposal.

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So, in other words, "screw y'all were still gunna be racists."

All of this is just childish b.s., the libbies think color determines intelligence...hah...you know what:
screw Thomas J.Haas, esq.

Free speech is nice. :)

I happen to believe that everyone whose grandparents didn't come from Europe are JUST AS SMART AS those whose grandparents did come from Europe...this is universally a truth, is it not? So why, then, does affirmative action exist? The only logical answer is that the liberal dictocrats of out universities believe DIFFERENTLY.

Why dont they diversify their ideas and get rid of the very old Democrat party institution of racism. (Read your history books...the KKK was the militant wing of the Democratic party until Lyndon B. Johnson)

My Narrative on the Right to Life

As we all know, I am pro-life and whole life. From conception to a death surrounded by family, we ought to be left to live our lives. What many do not know is that I am different than most of this position. In this post I hope to share with you my unorthodox view of morality, science, progress, and the Right to Life. I feel that, when it comes to the idea of morality, I think many conservatives are wrong. Their intentions, means, foreseen result, and outlook are correct but not their modus operandi when it comes to thought.

I'm not ripping on my fellow members of the Conservative movement, I just would like to express an opposing method of reaching the same result. I think that traditional Christian Conservatism is wholly right, but that the yearning for values that have existed 'before' is wrong. We needn't look to the past to see what to work for; instead, look to faith.

Our faith tells us that He will protect us. God has blessed this country: I think we can all agree upon that. As we progress into the future, does our faith not tell us that 'moralism' will be the end result of all progress? I believe it does.

When you think of "progress," liberals and their religion, Liberalism, probably come to mind. They think that Progressivism (the embracing of their idea of progess) is the 'ditching' of all traditional morality: that this view of morality is parochial and dead and that 'new' moral relativism will come forth. They are dead wrong.

Liberals depend on "educated" scientists to prove their amoralistic points; this isn't happening anymore. RAW SCIENTIFIC FACT proves our case. I'm not talking about the modified, 'global warming' science they adhere to. I'm talking about the facts:

Wikipedia defines life as this:
(you really only have to read the bold parts)

1. Homeostasis: Regulation of the internal environment to maintain a constant state; for example, sweating to reduce temperature.
2. Organization: being composed of one or more cells
3. Metabolism: : Consumption of energy by converting nonliving material into cellular components (anabolism) and decomposing organic matter (catabolism). Living things require energy to maintain internal organization (homeostasis) and to produce the other phenomena associated with life.
4. Growth: Maintenance of a higher rate of synthesis than catalysis. A growing organism increases in size in all of its parts, rather than simply accumulating matter. The particular species begins to multiply and expand as the evolution continues to flourish.
5. Adaptation: The ability to change over a period of time in response to the environment. This ability is fundamental to the process of eevolution and is determined by the organism's heredity as well as the composition of metabolized substances, and external factors present.
6. Response to Stimuli: A response can take many forms, from the contraction of a unicellular organism when touched to complex reactions involving all the senses of higher animals. A response is often expressed by motion, for example, the leaves of a plant turning toward the sun or an animal chasing its prey.
7. Reproduction: The ability to produce new organisms. Reproduction can be the division of one cell to form two new cells. Usually the term is applied to the production of a new individual (either asexually, from a single parent organism, or sexually, from at least two differing parent organisms), although strictly speaking it also describes the production of new cells in the process of growth.

I'll try to keep my responses short...

1. Homeostasis: An endangered lizard in South America dips its tail into water to cool itself off...the unborn relies on his or her mother for warm...kangaroos do also...out of the womb...it's illegal to kill both animals...but not an unborn baby.
2. Organization: Well that's quite obvious...
3. Metabolism: The placenta feeds the baby just like we rely on plants and animals while we're walking and talking.
4. Growth: The 'Stages of Growth' imply that this exists.
5. Adaptation: Stuff that's internalized...like alchohal or tobacco smoke...effect the way the baby grows. Brain probelms and likely alcohalism result from the mother's alcohal comsumption while athsema or cystic fibrosis result from tobacco comsumption.
6. Response to Stimuli: A baby in the zygote state will find the best spot to position itself on the womb's wall, in the embryo state he or she tries to stay 'upright', and a fetus will protect his or her face from a twin's kicks using their hands and forearms.
7. Reproduction: An unborn child may not fulfill the basic requirements of making a new organism, but reproducing cells is basic to the growth: this cannot be denied.

The anti-life people believe in the scientific method and they openly admit it...shouldnt they really get their facts, values, and principles correct before they go pandering to the promiscuous vote...

It just all upholds the position that Liberals and Dems have absolutly no core principles...bright bold colors....our colors are...ummm...red, white, and blue while their's are faded, soggy, and sickly shades of green and pinko-red....

I'm sorry if that last part didnt make much sense...it does to me and it's late.

And that's a wrap!

I know I'm late on this but I've been either busy or too tired the last two days to post up something on this:

Bob Genetski won the 88th's state rep primary! Congrats to him and I hope he can resist becoming just another one of those politicians in Lansing...I'll be watching.

Well I'm thoroughly glad that he did win and Todd Boorsma will not fade back into the crowd as an unemployed welfare slug. Shouldn't have tanked your company, Mr. Boorsma.

From here its onto uniting the Anti- and Pro-Casino groups and bringing that to Lansing.

I wish Bob the best of luck and the warning that I'll be behind him when he's right and against him when he's wrong...as I hope all of you will be.

On a side note, I apologize for the lack of substantive posts in the last 9 days. It was either campaigning, eating, sleeping, or spending time with Katelyn so I didnt get too many opportunities to provide what little insight I may give on this, for lack of a better word, retarded political sceme.

I'll post up something on Micky later tonight or tomorrow. (could be one in the same)

Heating Up

I have to, again, apologize for the lack of posts...the state rep race is heating up and I've been involved evermore.... I got a letter to the editor in about Boorsma's lies in the Allegan county news. I'll try to put some more thought up about Hussein Obama's inability to raise in the polls...pretty sad, eh?

 

Well I hope youll get out tomorrow and VOTE FOR BOB GENETSKI! and not Benedict Boorsma. Thanks!

New Blog

I've started another blog as an outlet for everyone's patriotism...

You know...when youre driving and you see the sun setting behind the flag or irrigation systems creating a rainbow spanning the road...the times you wish you had your camera.

Well I hope you bring it along with you and capture these pristine scenes to share with all of us...

Check out Our Hometown Lens and see what others have captured to brighten your day and make you smile at the beauty of His world and this great nation.

Barack Hussein Obama is a Racist

On his website, there is a section where Hussein Obama's handlers respond to "Smears" with "Truths." What they dont really understand is that the truths are just as bad as the smears.

The following quote is offered as a "truth:"

"Yes, I'd seen weakness in other men--Gramps and his disappointments, Lolo and his compromise. But these men had become object lessons for me, men I might love but never emulate, white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela. And if later I saw that the black men I knew--Frank or Ray or Will or Rafiq--fell short of such lofty standards; if I had learned to respect these men for the struggles they went through, recognizing them as my own--my father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted, inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval. You do not work hard enough, Barry. You must help in your people's struggle. Wake up, black man!"

Alrighty then...you make your decision on it now...

Here's mine:

Martin Robison Delany, the first advocate of a "black nation." Malcolm X, 'black supremist' and founder of the 'Black Muslims'. W.E.B. DuBois, the self-described 'black socialist;' he advocated that the 'blacks' ought to overthrow the 'whites' by force. Nelson Mandela, respected by myself and the world for acting against apartheid in South Africa...though his actions were of terrorism and against the 'white ruling class;' (I'm actually quite sad that 'black separatist' Barack Obama is attempting to put himself on the same par as Mandela). It's all actually quite sad.

While McCain and the 'evil right-wing bloggers and pundits' hold men like George Washington, TJeff, Ben Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ronald Reagan in high esteem; Hussein Obama holds these crazis, advocates of racial war, black supremacists, SOCIALISTS, Black Muslims, and Anti-American revolutionaries as his role models.

If you read my commentary on race, you'll find that Barack Hussein Obama's positions and causes are inherently racist and violently so when one considers that he disregards Martin Luther King Jr. and Booker T. Washington in his list of 'black heroes.'

I mourn the day the politically uneducated and misled masses elect this openly prejudiced, Anti-American hypocrite to the office fit for a bigger man.

The Affirmative Action Bake Sale

Earlier I googled "Grand Valley State Republicans" and found a news article dated April 21, 2005 and detailing the exploits of one Kyle Rausch, organizer of the GVSU GOP. The event, titled the "Affirmative Action Bake Sale," got coverage from the Grand Rapids press (granted it was coverage of the negative aspects, buuutttt.....) and is, in my opinion, a shining example of what GOP groups and prominent individuals ought to be doing.

The genius behind it is the visibility of the bake sale. Affirmative Action is a very abstract term and its discrimination isn't referenced when they give breaks to fill their quotas. Now, 'official' Affirmative Action was ended with the last ballot initiative (way to go!) but it, naturally, remains.

Do you think democracy is going to rule when we retain the same liberal supporters of the program? They enforced it with a passion and actually believed in its absent benefits:do you think their elitist mindset will care what We the People have determined to be illegal? The answer is a dead no.

The new challenge before us is one of dual subordinating clauses. The primary is to bring awareness to the lingering Affirmative Action supporters in government and in university administration while using this awareness to educate the misled populace so we can finally oust [Carl Levin] these people. Rousch's program did its part for the fight in '05, our fight is in '08 is to simplify the battleground.

Bob Genetski's idea on reorganizing our system of regents will help with this. If we cut the number of people we have to identify and combat, it'll become easier to get rid of those that cling to the old, racist ways.

You can find an explanation of his idea here.

Oboorsma

"Todd Boorsma is the Barack Obama of the Republican Party."

The above was stated by Matt Howell, the man who has written two letters to the voters of the 88th attacking Todd Boorsma over the collapse of Millbrook Tack and Trailer. I agree entirely.

The man sells himself well, like Obama. He hides his immense flaws with a salesman's smile and a Dutch last name, the previous like Obama. His website lies when it says that Oboorsma has "managed several companies" bringing them from the "bottom 10% to the top 10%." He hasn't done either...

In his last two jobs he's either crashed the entire company by increasing debt from $4 to 8million (Millbrook, bought inventory disregarding the economy) or gotten fired for, presumably, not performing adequately (Chrysler...it could be something worse...like racism or sexual harassment...I don't know). Oboorsma has based his entire campaign on his business credentials but these aren't worth anything when considering his recent past.

It makes you wonder about the candidate...I've always thought he was going to be a pawn but it sounds like he'll pander to whoever will keep him from further dismissal and disgrace (i.e. special interests for campaign $ in 2010). But this is all just speculation...

Solely due to his attempted tactics of intimidation towards me today, TODD BOORSMA SHOULD DROP OUT OF THIS RACE...NOW. His continuation is a disgrace to the GOP and its home here in Allegan County.

Katelyn ended with a letter to Oboorsma, so shall I:

Dear Mr. Boorsma,

Do you "TP" the houses of those that disagree with you? I wouldn't doubt that you do from the low value of personal maturity that we witnessed tonight...or perhaps you get your mommy to do it for you...just as you got her to embarrass herself tonight. So, Mr. Boorsma, if you have any honor left, prove it by committing political seppuku and dropping out of this race.

If you do not choose to take my advice and continue to attempt to intimidate me into silence, my rhetoric will only get more vociferous. I will not fade away back into the crowd, Mr. Boorsma: you will.

Sincerely,

Chris Wicker


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Love Thy Neighbor

The integrity of the honest keeps them on track; the deviousness of crooks brings them to ruin.

Proverbs 11:3 [The Message]

I've been hearing a lot about the race for the 88th House District Seat, but it was interesting to finally see these nine candidates in person and in action as I sat in on the League of Women Voters' forum at Fennville High School.

Now, I'll admit that I'm no guru when it comes to politics; I still have much to learn. But something that always intrigues me when it comes to politicians is one's personality and attitude towards others. I haven't studied psychology enough to really read into what such things might mean, but I can make some guesses and, anyway, it's interesting.

More importantly, I feel the need to express my disgust at the behavior of one candidate in particular. I was absolutely appalled at Mr. Boorsma's behavior following the forum. Chris approached Mr. Boorsma to speak to him, and Chris hadn't even said two sentences before Mr. Boorsma and 3 of his family members swooped in, surrounding Chris in a half-circle (standing not more than 2 or 3 feet away), and began hurling accusations at him. They were upset about Chris's and Mr. Boorsma's previous meeting at the Dorr Business Association's forum at Open Dorr Reformed Church, and didn't even want to hear what Chris had to say about a different issue & his reason for approaching Mr. Boorsma in the first place (see the post above). The Boorsma camp rattled off statistics, accusations, and angry questions at "debate speed," and not in a terribly polite manner. To refer again to the body language, they all leaned in towards Chris, eyes wide and brows furrowed as they spoke in angry tones. Mr. Boorsma's attitude was furiously indignant, not to mention extremely defensive. Even as we walked out the door, they continued to shout after us.

Now, it's true that there was a decent amount of noise in the small area that everyone was hanging around in, and some of the Boorsmas' loud tones can be justified by the need to overcome said noise level. But, as I observed this confrontation from the edge of the half circle, I was shocked. Here was a man that was supposed to be a politician - a man that would be (and has been) dealing with all sorts of people, including ones that don't agree with him; a man that goes door-to-door, speaking to the people that would be responsible for securing his seat in the House; a man that, not half an hour before this confrontation, had declared his Christian values and insisted that we must love our neighbors as ourselves, no matter what - and he was speaking aggressively right in the face of what would be one of his constituents, not to mention he was in the presence of the rest of us and, more importantly, the presence of God! Does this sound like a show of a Christian attitude? Is this how he would treat someone if he was going door-to-door and a resident said they disagreed with him or wouldn't support him?

Let's say Chris had approached him in a similarly aggressive fashion - that he had hurled false accusations or crude insults at Mr. Boorsma in an impolite tone. (Of course, he didn't - he had hardly said anything at all.) Even if this had been the case, if Mr. Boorsma was to "practice what he preaches" or, religion/morality aside, to act like a mature professional - he would have listened to what Chris had to say and then refute the argument in a composed, courteous manner. He should have conducted himself in a respectful manner - to treat others the way he would like to be treated.

Mr. Boorsma, I know this post won't make you very happy, and I know that I'm not terribly important to you. But, politics and all else aside, I hope to God that the behavior I witnessed from you today is not the way you treat all that disagree with you. If you hope to have a future in politics; if you hope to continue to work with people on any level, be it business or political or otherwise; if, most importantly, you hope to carry out God's will and share true Christian values with others - then, Mr. Boorsma, I ask that you please start treating others with the respect, integrity, and love that you spoke of at tonight's forum. Because it's a sad thing to see someone profess their faith in Christ, only to turn around and revile a voter with considerable and unnecessary aggression.

After tonight's appalling display of behavior, Mr. Boorsma has proven himself to be a hypocrite and a downright mean person, and I wonder if his supporters would have such confidence in their candidate & his morals if they'd seen what I saw today.

'Live By The Sword'

A couple nights ago, a male friend and I were watching "Last Samurai" (starring Tom Cruise) randomly blurting out when thoughts came to us. Being that the last time I had seen it was way back when I was an immature and wee lad (well...more of one than I am currently). My brain, then, focused on the historical depiction of post-civil war weaponry and tactics while picking apart the fallacies of the director's depiction of both hosts hostile interaction. I love Japanese history, early politics, the endless possible analysis of Japanese isolation, and the Samurai but I do think, as I mentioned to my friend, that the warrior-culture of Japan made and possibly makes it wise to limit their military and act as their defense forces.

"They really do have a warrior culture, don't they" I remarked across the room; his reply was "Doesn't America also?" The comment sparked a couple seconds of thought where I came to the conclusion that yes, America does have a warrior culture.

Unlike the Japanese and the European Imperial powers that instructed its early leaders, America's war culture is based upon the principle of the Militia. Japan's Samurai were once granted, by the emperor, the right to be the only armed force in Japan. Parallel to this 'right', we, as Americans, are guaranteed a "well-regulated militia" to defend us. There's naturally some fudging to be done when referencing the two as one; but while the samurai could execute civilians for disrespect, the militia were/are civilians. This difference has caused us to understand the cost of war.

I think it was Reagan (it's too late to find the correct quote) that said something to the effect of: "Wars happen when governments underestimate the cost of conflict." This is and will remain forever true. America's militia culture had put us, until the end of the Cold War, on the defensive. We never really followed the Churchillian doctrine of "Free people help others become free." Perhaps our warrior-militia culture told us others had to get their own freedom.

I don't want you to think I'm railing against the Bush administration. Bush's "nation building" initiative was followed by 90% or so of Congress 'way back a few years ago' because this country has lost the principles that are the answer. It is the prevailing political wind in Washington to extend our wealth and resources against the wishes of George Washington's ghost.

It happened to the Brits: they figured that God had blessed them and that they could bless the world. The Brits ended up losing a lot of money and a lot of lives (sounds like Iraq?) and eventually lost their power. Many have discussed it but none have spoken of the warrior-militia culture being lost in this country. Peace through strength...not the expression of strength. Like Sweden in WW2: if we all owned guns, aggressors wouldn't invade us due to their own fear.

America needs to revert back to defense-based fighting. We must lose, though it may be painful, the "revolutionary" rhetoric and actions in our foreign policy. America must conserve freedom at home and abroad for freedom spreads naturally: others will free themselves in due time. We should nurture and help grow the pockets of freedom in the gloom of oppressed nations. There must be a will of freedom to hold on to in order to spread it: we cannot create that will to freedom.

Chivalry

I'd like to stray from the political trail and write about something that the femmies (that's the feminists) is "totally dead." Chivalry is one of those many words in the English language that the populace knows the meaning to but feels that what they piece together in their minds is too simplistic. Wikipedia...the ever-reliant research source....describes 'chivalry' as courteous behavior towards women from men. That definition is far to simplistic for the femmies.

They feel that Chivalry is a condescending tone of life practiced only by those patriarchal male overlords oppressing their wives and daughters, taking away their birth control pills and their 'right' to kill babies. Now, does the true Marxifeminist believe in God? No.

So my question to them is: if there was no Creator who has given us equal rights, is there not an inherent, tribal structure written in our DNA? This tribal structure is, then, an integral part of our society, no? So feminists are fighting human biology, correct? In reference to this we can steal a quote from Lord of War: "When you fight your biology you'll always lose."

Indeed they have: by destroying chivalry around them, the radical remnant of the feminist movement perpetuates that which they are sworn to fight against: patriarchy. Is it not patriarchal when a drunken college girl is dancing on a table while one of her many boyfriends cheers something to the effect of "Take it off you whore!" Is it not patriarchal when these same feminists cannot manage their operation's money correctly and must be bailed out by husbands? Is it not patriarchal when Granholm's husband exerts more power than she does among the elite in Lansing?

The women's liberation movement is over. The 'pay discrepancy' is due to maternal leave ("Oh I'm taking off 6months...make sure you continue to give me those quarterly raises!") and innate physical development (this will disappear with deindustrialization and further machination of the assembly processes). Opportunities and academics will stop crafting themselves to facilitate the particular advancement of girls and young women for they have proven themselves to be able to fight in Vick's pit just as well as the male dogs. The 'New Left' Feminists are now in their 50's and 60's, wrought with arthritis and AIDS, and only attempt to continue to exert their influence in the Democratic Party by creating the "Women Issue." They still think they should force their definition of success on women that wish to settle down and raise families. This revocation of freedom is not the future for America.

The future of society is a realignment from the tainting of Radical Feminazi influence. We must shift away from the ideology that directly relates personal freedom with sexual promiscuity. In doing this I believe that God and His forces of modernization command us to make free the lives of the unborn, to accept the facts that Embryonic Stem Cell research hasnt produced any cures and is already obsolete in the fact of umbilical stem cell cures, and to keep Chivalry as it has continued outside of college campuses. Morality is not, as the feminists say, the way of the past. It is the future and I'm looking foreword to it.

Now I know you have something to say about this post: go ahead and leave a comment or two! Its the blue, underlined "0 Comments" word right below this: just leave it as "Anonymous!" Thanks..CW

The odor of elitism is like onion breath: It’s quick to acquire, hard to mask.

I know you all have busy schedules, so I'll keep this post short.

So Barack Hussein Obama has once again lectured us on how we ought to live. This time the quote is thus:

"You know, it's embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe, and all we can say [is], 'Merci beaucoup.' Right?"

French??? Why in God's name is French important??? First we cling to our guns and Bibles too much, next the Obamas found it impossible to live on less than $500,000 a year, and now we are beneath him because we dont speak French.

Not to worry Americans, I don't care if it offends Mr. Hussein Obama but this blog will remain in English only...even if his camp/administration would have me tossed in what he considers enfer: a 4-star hotel! L'horreur!

Same Song, Different Verse

There are some that have said that the Conservative Movement is dead. That the Age of Reagan lasted from 1974 to 2008. The interview Hannity did with Newt a few days after McCain's nomination has creeped back into my mind periodically and, now, pesters me to present my thoughts.

Earlier today I laid out the question "Is Conservatism Dead?" on Google. The top few results said, more or less, no...then my eyes dropped to the 'great' Daily Kos (for those that don't know, Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Yearly Kos sessions/publications are horribly sociofascitic to the point of being what one can objectively call Marxist-Leninist).

I do read the Daily Kos once in awhile to get the deformed and fragmented 'scoop' on what the far-left is doing in and to our country. This particular article tosses with 'educated' language a bunch of radical statements attempting to cookie-cutter separate the Movement.

Fascists like the Kos writers like to vainly 'analyze' the Conservative Movement and classify it into 'trends' and 'influences.' Fascists like the Kos writers think that the essence of Conservatism is a conglomeration of political expedients and like individuals (basing their analysis on race, class, faith, and political locale...all of which they deny but one can easily see it).

The facts are that the essence of Conservatism is not something that can be done away with. Conservatism is morality. It is love. It is equality. It is the belief in the one, true God. Conservatism is freedom. The Fascists think if they can politicize what conservatism is, than they can destroy it.

The Nazis and Communists tried this...politicizing of everything from food to religion. Where did it get them? They were thrown onto the ash heap of history by free people everywhere. No matter how many dark days Conservatism saw, it always has risen up to throw off the oppressors. No matter if the darkness lasts for 8 years as in the Wilson administration's case or if it lasts 700 years as with the Scots: Freedom and Justice always bounce back.

What we see today is the same, melodic song of Conservatism, just in a different, softer verse. Reagan said, "I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph." We just have to commit ourselves to playing ever louder.

The Schmids

I am, of course, talking about Greg and his grandfather Allen. If you're more active than me in state politics, this last name is probably familiar. Greg is an attorney from Saginaw with a passion for petitions. He and his grandfather are currently sponsoring two initiatives I'd like to bring to your attention today.

First:
__The People's Choice Tax Repeal Amendment of 2008 is focused on removing the, for want of a more negative word, crippling tax hikes encumbering we the people. The amendment, once passed, will require popular approval for tax increases. Schmid calls it an "automatic referendum" which will force the government to reflect what families are required to do: cut expenses to make ends meet. The amendment also will standardize petition forms and limit the kinds of rules placed on the petition process.

My Take: HECK YES. That's all I have to say.

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__The second amendment (no pun intended) in petition form is simply the Part-Time Legislature Amendment of 2008. To create this Part-Time body, it limits regular annual sessions so that our reps would work from the second Wednesday in March to July 1. The amendment also makes available 20 extra days to be applied by the governor. To reflect the decreased amount of "work", annual lawmaker salaries would be cut from $79,950 to $40,000, their expense accounts limited, their pensions eliminated, the Officeholders' Compensation Commission dethroned (i.e. put all salary increases up before elections), install a $400/day absence fine, and eliminate lifetime medical coverage. In a totally unrelated point (just like the petition freedom advocacy of the above), requirement that the governor submit a balanced budget on time to avoid a censure.

My Take: I dont know about a Part-Time legislature...never really have. I know they really dont deserve full time service to the state nor do they deserve $79,950 but I would want to be a full-time legislature.... It's not for the money as you're thinking, I just love the 'politick'. I believe, in order to fairly create a part-time legislature, that you cannot together limit terms, work time, salaries, medical care, and pensions. While some of them are already filthy rich, some of them do quit their jobs and leave their families in order to work for the state. We should keep in mind that 'Politicians Are People Too.'

Before I'd sign this these changes would have to be made: extend or eliminate term limits, allow lifetime medical care for basic visits and alternative care only, make pensions equal to those of the lowest bracket of military veterans for 2009 (wouldn't include future increases in the armed forces), and change expense accounts to pay for travel with alternative fuels only (incentive to make them more available and cheaper).

Otherwise, I love the requirement on the executive.

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Firelights and Stopworks

Happy Fourth All. As you watched the illuminations tonight, I hope that you kept on your mind our troops and their witness to real rockets that explode not in the atmosphere, but on the camps and homes of our enemies and the families that they hide among. In addition to that, I also thought of the sacrifices of so many to keep America strong and free.

Especially in the last 79 years, America has kept alive the torch of freedom for billions around the world. We and those saved are the legacy of those celebrated by our lighting of the sky: we should never forget this. As I took a panoramic sweep of the crowd at Kollen Park, I just couldn't disregard the ignorance many (or most) members possessed about our nation's past and present. Forgetting our Founders' intent and meaning is, naturally, more prevalent in some than others but a sad testament to the public school system's lack of meaningful history education.

Specifically in the Democratic Party and its spawn, the meaning of America is lost when they, for instance, 'miss' changing times on our stop lights. As my wonderful girlfriend and I were making our way home, we came across stoplights which were practicing their usual 11pm-to-4am-ish blinking even though traffic volume was easily ten times the usual.

Some may call this being overly picky, but I just want to call the drunk bureaucrats out on not switching times beforehand. We saw what they call "street-level bureaucrats" (cops) changing the times...nearing the end of the whole outlet cycle.

It just seems that, in our age of technology, our wonderful and benevolent government would have some sort of efficient system managed by decently intelligent, drunk bureaucrats. Common sense is just lost in the cities...

The whole thing just really bugged me...have a nice day!

The Economy!

Youre probably tired of all the soothsaying so I'm not going to do it.

Who remembers the Stimulus plan? Everyone...once it is brought to mind.

What was the Stimulus plan designed to do? To use government and borrowed money to rescue the economy.

What have I been saying about the Stimulus plan since its conception? That it wouldn't work.

Who was and is right? Me.

What a good day.

Government is the problem, not the solution.

Root of the economic correction is the price of gas.

For Allegan County, who drives up the price in gas? Fed Govt taxes $1.184 per gallon. Fed Govt has placed regulations on the Oil Companies drilling abilities. This is hindering production and supply, driving up the price. State govt taxes 63 cents a gallon. State govt places regulations on the content of a gallon of gas, decreasing the supply further because it differs from other states.

The libs say the oil companies make absurd profits? Its $0.081 per gallon. Whoop-de-doo. They actually do something to earn their money...the government does nothing and makes, total, twenty three times as much per gallon.

Government is the problem, not the solution.

They ought to let the market do what it does: grow.

DNR and Envirofascism

As you probably have seen, I don't like government involvement. If you have been reading this, you probably don't also. Today's post begins with a little story of a bureaucrat trying to save some ducks. The area DNR hippie-camp (aka 'Outpost') decided a good long time ago that it wanted to save some ducks. To do this, the bureaucrats routinely block the only drainage culvert for the area surrounding my family's home to make a pond for the animals to float around in.

Their policy hasn't changed since the state government, in order to fund its ridiculous handout programs, sold the state forest land between said culvert and my parents property to a logging company. The clear cutting was finished by the fall of 2006 without any consequences (06 was a pretty dry year). The following spring, without the trees acting as a bulwark, the snow-melt flooded a number of private property plots.

The DNR was called at this time and denied that the culvert was blocked...naturally a lie. All in all, the flooding was taken care of by private citizens practicing civil disobedience. Fast foreword to this year: the DNR "Wildlife Biologist" driving his brand new Chevy Impala (which is an insult to the People) acts as if we, the community, were working with him and his ducks to solve our problem. After the call was made and two days passed, I went down to the culvert to find it blocked and locked...another call was made and the matter was resolved three days later.

Ok let's recap: DNR blocks culvert at the command of the Environmentalists, the greedy politicians in Lansing want money to buy votes so they sell the well being of Hamilton to fund this, private property floods and is dealt with at the expense of the private owners, trees die from the flooding, risk of mosquito-transmitted diseases is increased in Hamilton due to the large amount of standing water, and the people pay for it all.

How we stop it? LEAVE IT ALONE. Nature's Maker has made it so we mere humans cannot 'help' the environment. They flood an area for ducks, trees die. They plant trees that grow quickly, their offspring invade and kill natural forests. Politicians take this now destroyed land and turn it into landfills for Canadian garbage so they can fund their Fascist government programs and buy uneducated votes. We cant help the environment, we can just conserve it. The People as a whole do not win, and have never won, when the government is involved. Contest that in a comment if you think it is untrue.

Be brave! I'd like to conclude this post with a quote:
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot further brotherhood of men by inciting class hatred.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln (the author of the quote is contested but the virtues are, nonetheless, true)

I have to apologize for the lack of posts in the last...eight...days. First my computer lost Windows for some reason and then I took the weekend to myself.

The Tempting of Conservatism

Before beginning, I have to apologize for the break in the posting routine...it's been a hectic couple of days...
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"Government is the problem, not the solution." Ronald Reagan.
This is my personal political principle just as it is for many of you and others around the world.

Government is the problem, not the solution

When the husband of our governor has three assistants; their six-digit salaries funded with workingman's dollars.

Government is the problem, not the solution

When an industry is collapsing and the ruling party just watches it...eating the taxpayers' popcorn and drinking the taxpayers' wine.

Government is the problem, not the solution

When people marry for taxes' sake

Government is the problem, not the solution

When they build dams and decide they hurt salmon and add a $200billion salmon transportation system involving ever-moving trucks and miles of tubing. Now the environmentalists now say to tear it all down.

Government is the problem, not the solution

When the owner of a small business collapses at home, his forehead wrinkled and sagging from stress of the murderous weight of the Single Business Tax.

Government is the problem, not the solution

When ships bottom out in Lake Michigan ports because the federal government decided to pump millions of gallons from the Great Lakes down to the desert.

Government is the problem, not the solution

When politicians create a war with good intentions but horrible conduct until the coming of the Great General

Government is the problem, not the solution

When packs of inner city men are driven by welfare into warfare.

Government is the problem, not the solution

When they spends half a billion dollars of our money on the failed Arab outreach TV station "Alhurra."

Government is the problem, not the solution

When humanity is forced to endure the silent screams of the unborn because five people, thirty years ago thought they could play God.

Government is the problem not the solution

Because governments have never done anything both efficiently and morally correct. Never.
So I ask: why should we trust them with our health care? Why should we not limit their terms and their salaries? Washington is broken. The list above continues infinately. Herbert Hoover said

Every expansion of government in business means that government, in order to protect itself from the political consequences of its errors and wrongs, is driven irresistibly, without peace, to greater and greater control of the nation's press and platform. Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.

This is a true conservative principle. The Tempting of Conservatism comes in the form of the ideology of two men: George W. Bush and John McCain. These men are good conservatives socially. Politically, though, they seek and have sought to redefine what it means to be a conservative.

Government is the problem, not the solution. They are not hostile to the bureaucracy's corrupting influence. They seek not to slash its creeping, strangling vines. The auto, oil, and airline industries are strangled; health care is going: what's next? The call is to resist:

I am first and foremost an Christian. Second, I am an American. Third, a Conservative. Fourth, a Republican. I will never betray my principles, I will never give up my belief in God. Government will not be the master of my thoughts, it will not be the master of my soul. I am not behind John McCain.

Concerning Race

Nearing the end of the school year, I was asked to by a first year teacher to attend a class discussion on politics. The class, Modern World History, was your typical rabble of politically indoctrinated public school attendees (the topic of the day was "Is religious involvement in government Fascist?" My response was "No, it is Fascist when what you believe becomes political.") that enjoyed another with an opinion differing from their teacher's. So, the discussion gradually came to race.
Many of the people reading will already understand my take on race. Many will have a partial take or no take at all; for all of them, I'll detail why I'm right :) . I am not a racist. Why? Because I do not recognize race itself. The fact stands that creating racial differences for whatever reason is racism, oppressive, prejudiced, and non-Christian.
The question I asked the Modern World History class was this: "Name for me the differences between what society considers a 'black man' and what society considers a 'white man.'" One sheepish student raised his hand and said something to the effect of "their previous condition of servitude" (obviously citing the Constitution). To this I responded, "find me one living former slave" and proceeded to pose the question again. A few moments' silence brought me to announce, "It's okay to say it, our politicians and bureaucrats recognize it. The difference is skin color." I continued, "And that is inherently racist, is it not?" (Some nods at this point) "Sure there are stats out there that tell us that 'blacks' commit more crimes and are more likely to be poor and drop out of high school. My answer is simple: so? Do all 'blacks' drop out and break the law? No. Do all 'whites' stay in school and within bounds of the law? No. So why not aim your programs at addressing groups as to their exploits and not their race?"
The reason is that the Democratic Party will not give up these divisions. Who's establishment has made a huge fuss about Obama's father being from Kenya? The liberal one. They've done this because they benefit from it. By making one candidate "this" and the other "this", you have all of "these" people voting for the one that you say is like them, and all of "these" people voting for the one you say is like them. It's a form of 'class' warfare. Typical tactics from those who have been infected by a socialist base. This division is seen in a short exchange I had with the teacher of this class...
"This is the kicker," I said to the class and paused for a moment, "Nigger." Immediately the teacher attempted to deter me from continuing. In response I asked, "Why is this word considered offensive?" No hands. "C'mon, why?" Still none, "It's because you've been told it's to be considered offensive. Is this offensive: you are all hermeneutics?" I pointed at one kid, "Is it?" His response was that he had no clue what the word meant. "Of course, so how can it be offensive? Would you find the word 'Nigger' offensive if the media, your teachers, and society as a whole didn't tell you it was to be? The answer's obviously no."
At this point the teacher interjected, "Regardless, it is still offensive and if you screamed it on my doorstep, I'd hide behind the nearest couch." It was perfect. The racism brought on by liberal divisiveness right there against my presentation.
I retorted, "That's the kind of racism I'm talking about. By saying that, it reveals that you think that what you consider the 'black community' is violent and destructive. Barbaric, even. Lesser than you?" Granted, this was putting words in his mouth, but hey, it's what you do in a political discussion.
Continuing where I left off, "The message I really just want to get across that race is a fabricated separation. The Bible tells us that all people on all shores are of one blood, and that is the blood of Christ." Acts 17:26 and Romans 12:5, if you're interested. "Outside the medical field, race doesn't exist. Government shouldn't involve race in anything. In our lives we shouldn't bind others in the chains of racial classification. Regardless from where our parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents came from, we are all Americans and should be seen by each other as that and only that. Any questions?"
This is all from memory about an event about a month ago. Needless to say, he didn't invite me back. Also, please leave comments on what you think of this entry. I know at least some people read it and it is time we started some discussion.
Any questions?