Bobby Jindal is Awesome.

Liberal media establishments are ripping on Louisiana Guvna Bobby Jindal's "volcano comment:"

 "Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C." (cite)

Heck Yeah! That is the best comment....ever. We already monitor volcanoes just fine...why devote more money to a 'graftulous' cause? Makes no sense...then again...Democrats never do. 

I hope you wont fall into the media's trap and that you'll stand behind our up-and-coming conservative leaders. We need people to beleive in: we cant let ourselves become too cynical as to destroy what hope we have. 

It sounds like something new?

 The Fed chief is going to use 'every tool' to end our economic crisis. What??? I thought Bernanke had been doing that since the beginning! How many more tools can there be? Theyre going to nationalize banks now...this isnt going to solve anything: it just sets up a precedent for socialism. 

Seriously, I thought Bush started the unbridling the sickly foal, government, with a hope for it to charge like a stallion out of recession...

So now what? Will we start micromanaging the personal finances of individuals? Will we tell people what they can and cant do in the name of economic recovery? Maybe just the "wealthy."

Why should we fear what happens to those rich snobs? Two reasons: I've never gotten a job from a poor man and they spend more than what we collectively make on legal costs: if they can do it to them, they can and will hold life and death over us...

Those that believe they can control our economy are not only arrogant, theyre just stupid.  The economy is made up of people: Amerians make it move. To put the economy in chains and to force it to do governmental bidding, you have to put Americans in chains and use force and coercion as means of accomplishment. Obama, Bernanke, Geithner, Pelosi, Reid, and all the others over there in little D.C. have no clue what to do. This makes them very, very dangerous. I do not like it when anyone in our government says its their job to do anything to help the economy without an electoral verification: too dictatorial for me.

The answer to this problem is the most new and genuine idea on earth: let We the People decide where our economy goes and how we solve our economic woes.

Take it, Dump it, Burn it!!

GOP Governors are considering rejecting the stimulus money. YEEEESSSSSSSSS! Hope at last! Have to love this stuff: the conservative leaders of the Republican party have spoken out against taking porkulus dollars. Of course, The Obama's machine preempted this and mandated that legislatures can accept it over governors wishes, but these governors, from what I have seen, have a lot of political ability. This whole situation is just great!

Is it not wonderful to see our ideology in action? Gives me hope for 2010 and 2012: bright, bold colors!

The article provided is biased, but its the most complete I could find (sadly)....

My question: what will The Obama do? If he really believes that this is such a terrible economic situation, I cant wait to see how he reacts. Perhaps he's as hard-line as he's made himself out to be and we'll see a Lincoln-esque, FDR-esque, modern-Socialist-esque takeover of the states themselves...that's what I fear. Then again, maybe we'll be surprised by The Obama...

Much, much more historic than I had originally thought this would all turn out to be...perhaps I'm also wrong about ever seeing huge, nationwide conservative protests. It would be, in my opinion, awesome if this conservative coalition of governors got together, withdrew the stimulus billions they reject, piled it up, dumped Alaskan oil refined into Texas gas on it, then tossed the torch of liberty right on the fascist pile.

 Crazy Americans, indeed.

Fig Newton Individualism

I was thinking about what to write today when I opened a recently purchased package of Fig Newtons (ambrosia on a tough day). As you can see in the picture, one of the cookies came packaged 'incorrectly' (or was it correct and the rest flawed?). I figured I'd write a short post on the virtues of maintaining individuality.

"I am a conservative." This, for me, you, and many others, is both a political and personal statement, a mold to conform to. I do this because I just happen to have the cooresponding experiences relating to the streamlined beliefs of the movement. However, while we do conform, we have to maintain our individuality.

Lucky for us, our movement emphasizes the individual and family as the bedrock of a good society. I have a fear that there are those that would wish to change this fundamental fact in the name of regimentation for political accomplishment and expediency.

We need to stay away from that height of collectivism. Earlier this week, I received a failing grade on a 10-page paper merely because of a"bad thesis/argument." What was bad? I directly refuted the professor's talking points and, BAM, was hit with a poor grade. 

But life is much, much more than just grades. The grading system itself destroys individuality in a system of mandated conformity through requirements that force all to jump through the same hoops. As I've told all the crazy libs here at the less-than-excellent Grand Valley State: the only thing I've learned at college is to be more conservative...and that is why I, like Mark Twain, have never let teaching get in the way of my education.

It's all part of offering , as Goldwater said, a choice, not an echo. We arent the rigid collectivist/suppressionist party: we're dynamic, individual, and ingenuine. Unlike the liberals and their porkulus package Obama signed today, our ideas have risen out of the collectivist swamp of the New Deal and transcended Keynesian economics altogether. Why is this?

It's because of you! Not because of our leaders, not because of executives or your boss, not because of me sitting here behind my computer tucked away in collegiate corner of the world, but because of the people like you that are out there, every day, making this country happen. It's important that you realize it. You might look up at the stars, or witness grand political struggles, and think youre small and insignificant, but you must understand that the Cross of a thousand generations, the hopes and dreams of billions yet unborn, rests upon you.

Act worthy.

Minimal Expectations: printing money and handing to you.

So the Democrats have begun telling us their porkulus package isn't going to really stimulate the economy...what a surprise. I don't really have any sort of original viewpoint on this, but I would like to comment on three specific points.

1. Public Works:

States normally pick up the bill for road construction, right? It's a responsibility of the state to pave and maintain its own road system...it is also a sphere of power reserved to the states. The federal government has no right to pay for road construction. In the Federalist Papers, the small-but-great James Madison detailed that states, in order to defend their rights, need to 'sound the alarm' on the federal government's encroachments regardless of enticing offers of money, etc. 

Yet we see Jenny No-Jobs and other governors BEGGING for the stimulus money...why is this? Centralization...the destruction of federalism through consolidation at the national level...is central (pun intended) to the liberal ideology. It's happening in Europe...city liberals favor European Unionization while the rest of...everyone else favors European fragmentation.... 

Lovely...I happen to like my state government: I can go down to the office of my state rep and senator and get results. Carl Levin wont do that for anyone who likes the constitution and the freedoms guaranteed to us by the States themselves. Just like Dominoes down from the New Deal Democrats that wanted the states to become 'Departments of Implementation' of the federal government. Conspiracy against the people.

2. Making dependent the poor and downtrodden

The biggest expansion of welfare and 'unemployment' (for those people as unemployed as Nadya Suleman, mother of 14 stimulus packages) since Bush's Medicare Part D! I just think its hilarious...change indeed.

Lastly...

3. Taxes:

Congrats, America, you're getting $13 bucks added to your paycheck...I wonder how much of that will disappear into taxes...here's an idea: they limit executive pay in propped-up companies and historical precedent tells us that this is just another Foot-in-the-Door act that will eventually devolve into a cap on success (Welfare State idea present and enacted in Europe today and during the 30's, 40's, 50's, and 60's in America). 

When that happens, a large portion of the 86% of income tax revenues "The Rich" pay will disappear and the drop in revenue will result in the Dems raising taxes on the rest of us. Just like Dominoes.

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This plan Keynesian economic theory defined...and once it doesn't work, it will FINALLY be the end of the Democrat's decrepit, 100-year-old economic ideology that hasn't worked in unison with freedom and human rights since its inception....

Food, shelter, and healthcare for all? Over this Lib's dead body!

I was checking up on the local county newspaper, the Allegan News, as I normally do on Thursdays, when I discovered this letter to the editor...

The authors, Tom and Linda Clark, explain how a faith-based charity's setting up of a shelter in downtown Allegan (where they live) will harm Allegan's overall "prosperity." They claim that the idea of having those dirty, "near-homeless" men in a Christian shelter will damage economic transaction on the neighboring streets. ***Unlike with other hyperlinked material, I highly suggest you at least skim the brief note.***

You might be wondering about this Seeds of Grace organization? Well, it was started back in 2006 to specifically serve Allegan County's poor and downtrodden. Their "vision" is: "Food, Shelter and Healthcare for All. Our goal is simple and clear: to provide food, shelter and healthcare for residents of Allegan County who cannot afford these basic needs." The organization is entirely faith-based (501(c)(3)), involves a statement of faith for volunteers, and has a statement from former 88th Rep. Fulton Sheen displayed on the website.

So why would Tom Clark, a professed "Christian," oppose such an organization's work? I don't pretend to understand the way liberal minds work. That's right, he's a rather lib'ral Democrat that, throughout his campaign for state rep last year, spoke many times as to the need of health care insurance in the community.

Wait...I thought the liberals cared about the poor and the downtrodden in society....but having them on their streets? Eating in their diners? Walking on their sidewalks? Oh, that makes their towns "unsafe" for shoppers, of course, and will destroy some notion of "prosperity" for a town that, from what I've seen, is negatively isolated from economic cycles.

This all goes to illustrate an important point the Barry Goldwater made in The Conscience of a Conservative: liberals subordinate a man's entire being to their economic status. It's because these men will be "poor" (meaning that they've just hit a rough patch) that they need to be kept away from the well-off business owners and shoppers who, because they are "rich," are inherently good natured and law abiding. How absurd does that sound? It's bigoted and it's biased. It's hypocritical and just plain sad.

Tom Clark, like the rest of that Party, would use government to order us to carry the water and give it to the thirsty, but he and they never step down off of their own unladen horses to lift a glass and let the weak men drink. Also, Tom Clark, like the rest of that Party, cannot fathom the idea of allowing the weak man to hold the glass himself when his strength has returned; rather, they would install millions of tubes to pump the water into masses lying on their backs...

So what if a few ignorant shoppers (in this case, probably liberal like Mr. Clark) who have a "misunderstanding" about the poor decide to not troll down Locust street because a shelter is doing great things in the name of the Lord there? Goldwater stated that it is the Conservative that understands that men and women have a spiritual, emotional, and psychological side that is not subordinate whatsoever to economic condition and this situation is that principle, illustrated.

I'm not going to forget men and women who could freeze to death in favor of people who have always come and gone from a wonderful warm house, never having to know the winter wastes for what they really are...

Tom and Linda Clark conclude with a threat, "We will not do business with any organization or individual that supports or donates to Seeds of Grace to benefit this project and encourage others to make this same vow." So...have Tom and Linda Clark have now appointed themselves as leaders of an anti-American division of Allegan businessmen and women?

Anyway...I'm going to try to make some time to go down and help Seeds of Grace and I highly suggest you either do the same or make a monetary/material donation.

Like Jihadists, Everything Gets the Gay Community in an Uproar!

I miss the days when homosexuals were quiet, like everyone else, about what they do in the bedroom. This comes to mind because, at the tail-end of 24 this evening, a Fox channel special report preview came on talking about a documentary that details the threat of homosexual activism to religious freedom. 

One, presumably lesbian, interviewee said that broadcasts of that kind are "reprehensible." So lets add 'Free Speech' and 'Religious Freedom' to long list of things 'gay leaders' just don't like.... Where's the freedom? I might think that grown men riding too-small bikes with little girls clothing on is "reprehensible," but its not my right, within reason, to stop them, is it?

Now, I do not have a problem any given gay man or lesbian woman that acts like a normal person, but those that want to toss out democracy (i.e. here) have a different message coming. It's not personal, it's politics: the principle to stand by the will of the everyday heroes to see us through to becomes that shining city upon a hill.

Also, I oppose the state granting the privilege of marriage to this group of tutu-donning militants simply because it can sets a VERY high precedent for governmental control. The state, then, claims WAY too much power and it is malicious towards freedom for the rest of us.

Lastly, I realize this is a highly sensitive issue for Christians, but the only advice a mere man can offer is: love the sinner, rebuke the sin. We've been taught to love everyone and the radical groups in SanFran wish to exploit that to further their political and financial causes. Whatever you do, please don't apologize for your conservative insticts! I do realize that I might split with some of you on this issue and that is why I, unlike those on the opposite side, am open to debate in the comments section. 

**The picture added is one from a gay pride parade...Conservababble always wishes to remain a family resource.**

Beware the Ides of March

So Obama has finally done it: revealed himself for the Anti-American soothsayer he is. He wrote a newspaper 'op-ed' titled 'The Action America Needs.'

...the NBC article title is... [UPDATE: NBC article at that link has changed! Bias has struck again! Article, from what I can see, is not about Obama's negative tone...it's about his plan...how gimp is that?]

I see that the catchphrase has changed to 'action' now.

Well anyway, in this piece he wrote, "This recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse," adding later, "I reject these theories, and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change." (Oops, guess the catchphrase is still the same)

[UPDATE: Pelosi came to the glass side of the doomsday sewage pool to say...twice...in front of cameras... "Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs." -click for video- Strangely, the media hasnt said a thing. If the public schools failed you , or you have been out of school long enough, America's population is about 300million (305,758,091 according to the Census Bureau's estimate clock when this was updated).]

Seriously, though, who does that??? We'll soon be asked to do with less: to fill up our tires when gas prices climb up in the summer, to turn our heat down next winter, to accept greater government involvement in the lives of the people, to understand when inflation causes runaway living costs, and myriad other things that you need only use the dark side of your imagination for. This is the result of 'trust me' government and has been since the time of the Puritans. It's high time each of us gets out there and talks to 1 or 2 people about our beliefs and policy options.

Tell them that destitution is not liberty, limitation is not freedom: we do not want government telling people what they can get paid. Tell them that we believe that destitution should not follow unemployment by means of old age, that the government needs to give up its process of deliberate and planned inflation so a dollar will be a dollar's worth and not a handful of change. Get the message out that all freedom is intertwined: that if we give up our so-called 'economic' freedoms for economic security, we will have embarked on a downward course. Tell your friends that Obama's soothsaying and government control sets a precedent for controlling your wages and where you work; after all, he's doing it to corporate executives who spend much more than our incomes on legal defense, what's stopping him from doing it to us? Tell them that we arent too egotistical to consider the mistakes of the past. Get the word out that We the People, we of this breed called Americans, deserve much, much better than the Democratic Party leadership, both in Congress and the White House, who bear the full personal, political, and moral responsibility for this crisis that threatens to shatter the lives of millions of our people. Lastly, tell them that Republicans will be conservative again...

Let us stand united, and in 2010 and 2012, build a house Ronald Reagan would be proud of. From our new castle, let us wake up and show them we are strong.

The House that Ronald Reagan Built

Mitt Romney said that the 'Heart and soul of the Republican Party belongs in the house that Ronald Reagan built.' A very, very good declaration of sentiments, but might I add a slight suggestion: The heart and soul of the Republican party belongs in the family room of the house that Ronald Reagan built.

Might I ask you a question for thought: what does the house that Ronald Reagan built look like? Is it a house of wings, each unto themselves? Are the three wings supposed to fight and bicker, slamming doors left, right, and center? What about all the heating costs endured by allowing the cold, liberal winds to scour more outer walls? What happens when, like in 2008, these winds turn into a tempest to challenge the fortitude of the walls?

Surely, then, this house divided against itself will not stand. With the current design, a wing will fail and be torn away by gusts in another direction. If that should happen, a gaping hole through which the warmth of love, family, and freedom will be lost.

When we journeyed out to enjoy the freedoms across this blessed land, we forsook our duty and placed the watch over our house in the hands of lesser men. We allowed them to to tear down that stalwart house Ronald Reagan built and erect this fractured house of conservatism. Last year, we returned from our adventures, but it was too late: the final door had been hung and closed to us.

Right now we knock and knock, yet it is time to take a lesson from those brave frontiersmen that built our country: it's time we journey into the wooded grounds of this neo-shack and build a house Ronald Reagan would be proud of.

Let us model it after Monticello, the torn-down and rebuilt manor of Thomas Jefferson, with rooms, offices, and storage facilities all equal as to be focused on the individual. We will construct it of sturdy logs to remember the birthplace our party's first president, unifier of our nation: Abraham Lincoln. We'll line the foyer and main hall with copper busts of all our great Republican presidents from Lincoln and Grant, to TR and Coolidge, to Eisenhower and, resting above all, Reagan. Upon the walls throughout our house, we will carve the names of every American soldier and civilian killed in war. In addition to the traditional, we must add the many modern amenities afforded to us by the innovation of we the people.

We'll install solar panels and windmills made by free, unsubsidized Green Capitalists and hire hardworking and honest youth to care for the grounds and clean the halls with Greenlist chemicals, fertilizers, and sweat off their brows. We'll have no hired security: we will rely on individuals to enter gun safes hidden in the walls and use the contents for protection. If we must have doors, the doors will be open to all with the will and heart to enter.

Above all, this house will be centered around a circular breakfast table. This table will never be, however, a dinner table for we conservatives know that we will always dine basking in the warmth of this, great America's eternal sunrise.

I have faith that this is a house Ronnie would be proud of; for I, being a survivor of his, certainly will be.