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DON'T BELIEVE LYING LIBERALS!
LET ALL CONSERVATIVES PUT ASIDE THEIR DIFFERENCES AND BAND TOGETHER TO
STOP THIS TYRANNY IN D.C.!
Remember what Ben Franklin said:
"We must
hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang
separately."
It’s no wonder that Sarah Palin quit. She was constantly harassed, put down, vilified by the Ultra-Liberal, Marxist, UnFree, BHO A** kissing Press. It’s amazing that she took it as long as she did. Of course you won’t read, hear or see these Truths in the Main Stream Ultra-LeftMedia. It makes me so mad to see how these dredges of society kept a wonderful, resouceful leader from doing her job for the people of Alaska. But present a Legitimate complaint about BHO or other Democrats and you’ll here them crying like a baby. Ooh, I’m being ‘unfairly’ picked on. Yeah, right. Absolutely sickening! Gotta go my blood pressure is through the roof. —Al
WASILLA, Alaska — Sarah Palin announced her resignation as Governor of Alaska at the end of the month.
Obama came through on his campaign theme of ‘equality’ Monday (Jun 1) by proclaiming June as “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month“. Obama lauded what he calls “the determination and dedication” of the LGBT movement.
In the same spirit of equality, I’d like to propose July to be designated as Heterosexual Pride Month in hopes of drawing attention to and appreciation for traditional moral values and marriage as practiced by heterosexuals. Heterosexual Pride Month could be an occasion to focus on the joys of being heterosexual and monogamous. And the determined and dedicated Americans who are both. (Highlighting mine. —ed)
n a familiar storyline, Pennsylvania lawmakers are seeking to close a budget gap of some $3.2 billion by—you guessed it—raising taxes. To that end, Governor Ed Rendell has called for a “modest” hike of 16 percent in the state income tax rate from 3.07 to 3.57 percent for the next three years, which is projected to boost revenues by $1.5 billion. Similar “temporary” tax hikes, implemented in 1983 and 1991, have yet to be fully repealed. To the governor’s credit though, he also proposed a modest spending cut of $500 million. But rather than trying to tax and spend his way out of the current budget hole, perhaps Rendell should just stop digging.
In May, Reason magazine noted that a good way to measure fiscal discipline is to calculate the rate of government spending growth versus the rate of population growth plus inflation. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, between 2000 and 2008, the population of Pennsylvania grew by 1.4 percent, meanwhile the average annual inflation rate was 2.89. Together, those figures suggest that a state budget expansion of about 4.2 percent could be considered reasonable. Yet during that same period, the annual amount spent by Pennsylvania lawmakers ballooned from $41.4 billion (inflation adjusted) to $61.3 billion. An increase of more than 48 percent!
Why the enormously disproportionate growth in spending? It might have something to do with what state representative and House Speaker, Keith McCall (D-Carbon County), told the Pittsburgh-Tribune Review on June 23rd. When asked why deeper cuts were not being considered to make up the budget shortfall, he reportedly said that “doing so would be unrealistic because school districts have contractual obligations, such as labor agreements with teachers.”
Nice work if you can get it. From the United Auto Workers to the Pennsylvania public school system, it’s a great time to have a government-subsidized union contract with guaranteed raises and benefits. Being an average taxpayer, however, looks like more and more of a raw deal.
The debate on this proposed tax hike is far from over. There is still time to make your voice heard! To help put a stop to the fiscal recklessness in Harrisburg, contact Governor Ed Rendell at (717) 787-2500.
Which Republicans in the House voted for Cap and Tax – H.R. 2454 Tax Increase? (American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009)
In Reality it’s the single largest tax increase in American history! Call these Republican Turncoats and give them HELL!!! Tell them to pull a ‘Spector’ and switch parties!
If you want to call your Democrap Rep and read them the riot act that’s a good idea also. Let them know you are watching them. Link tophone numbers, fax + emails at the end.
California
Aye CA-45 Bono Mack, Mary [R]
New Jersey
Aye NJ-2 LoBiondo, Frank [R]
Aye NJ-4 Smith, Christopher [R]
Aye NJ-7 Lance, Leonard [R]
Delaware
Aye DE-0 Castle, Michael [R]
New York
Aye NY-23 McHugh, John [R]
Illinois
Aye IL-10 Kirk, Mark [R]
Washington
Aye WA-8 Reichert, Dave [R]
Here’s the Representatives to THANK! Both Republicans and especially the Democrats. Thank them for sticking up for the people!
Also Call Your Senators now! Start Hammering them! Link to Phone Numbers, fax + emails at end.
As a lifelong resident of New Jersey, one of the most fiscally imprudent states, it may be deemed unfair for me to say bad things about California, but having lived in a state that has “been there, done that” it also endows me with an understanding of what happens when a state is taken over by its public service unions and indulges in stupid environmental policies that have nothing to do with a sound economy.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared an economic crisis last week in order to demand some fiscal sanity that has not been forthcoming from its legislature. By the end of the month, California will be forced to pay bills with IOUs and we all know that won’t work. The U.S. Constitution reserves to the federal government the right “to coin money, regulate the value thereof…” As a form of currency, IOUs are forbidden to California.
A recent issue of The Heartland Institute’s Budget & Tax News monthly newspaper had a disturbing article by Jason Sorens and William Ruger, two members of the University of Buffalo faculty who studied the issue of personal and financial freedom in the nation’s 50 States. Their study ranked states on government spending, taxes, and regulations on market transactions and private behavior.
Since Americans pride themselves as a free people, the actions of state government have a direct impact on how much actual freedom they have because “states and local governments regulate workplaces, land use, and health insurance. They tell individual citizens how to educate their children, where they are permitted to smoke, which kinds of firearms they may own, and when they are allowed to buy liquor.” And, of course, they levy taxes.
The five least-free States, from the bottom up, are New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, California, and Maryland. New York State’s legislature has been in a complete meltdown, unable and unwilling to tend to business. New Jersey is locked in the run-up to an election pitting an ultra-liberal Governor, Jon Corzine, against a Republican candidate who promises to do a better job of governance, but in New Jersey that is no guarantee of any improvement.
California, ranked fourth from the bottom in terms of freedom, reflects the study’s finding that “Liberal states tend to be nanny states when it comes to issues of personal choice.” Linked to economic freedom, states that impose excessive taxation and regulation tend to chase people and business away. Read the rest of this entry »
A decade prior to the Civil War there were two major political parties in the United States: Democrats, favoring freedom of choice to own slaves; and Whigs, wanting a big tent party.
In Ripon, Wisconsin, anti-slavery activists met on February 28, 1854, then held their first State Convention in Jackson, Michigan, JULY 6, 1854.
They named their party Republican, with the chief plank being “to prohibit…those twin relics of barbarism: polygamy and slavery.”
Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President, appointed Justice Stephen Field, who wrote in the Supreme Court decision Davis v. Beason, 1890:
“Bigamy and polygamy are crimes by the laws of all civilized and Christian countries…They…destroy the purity of the marriage relation…degrade woman and debase man…There have been sects which denied…there should be any marriage tie, and advocated promiscuous intercourse of the sexes as prompted by the passions of its members…Should a sect of either of these kinds ever find its way into this country, swift punishment would follow.”
Justice Stephen Field continued: “The constitutions of several States, in providing for religious freedom, have declared expressly that such freedom shall not be construed to excuse acts of licentiousness.”
I’m willing to bet you heard very little at all about these protests. An interesting point is that on a day when celebrations were the order, people took time to actually ‘express’ an opinion when it would have been a lot easier to just attend those Independence Day celebrations. Take the links and see the images of people exercising their rights in a Democracy.
Glenn Reynolds has posted rolling updates with pictures and links to tea party blogging from around the country. His latest update is here. But see his post yesterday as well, “READERS ARE SENDING PHOTOS,” and the reactions at Memeorandum.
Outside some of the local new stations, there’s little coverage of the events in the mainstream national dailies. As David Weigel noted earlier, “Tea Party Movement Loses Steam.”
The Los Angeles Times did get a chance to attack everyday citizens as “un-American.” These are people who took time away from their July 4th community and family events to protest the oppressive Obama administration in Washington. Columnist Chris Erskine spends most of his essay ridiculing local speakers as circus clowns, but he can’t resist the radical smear:
It’s not like Americans don’t have cause for concern. The day before, the state of California began issuing IOUs. Suddenly, California seems one rusty tank from becoming a banana republic.
Thing is, we’re all slicing the ham a little thinner these days — Republicans and Democrats. Many of us, the ones who are working, don’t know how long the job is going to last.
Folks without work have it far worse. They look at the calendar and wonder when . . . when will the phone ring? . . . when can I sleep through the night again without being eaten alive by worry?
Have you looked at a dollar bill lately? George Washington is weeping.
In such a climate, it strikes me as . . . well, almost un-American to be griping so vehemently about helping those less fortunate. Were this a war, we’d all dig a little deeper to buy guns and battleships.
It’s not quite JaneaneGarafolo (who no-showed at yesterday’s Dallas tea party). But it’s pretty disgusting in any case.
Tea party rallies “were planned for nearly 1,500 cities.” Calling regular folks and activists “un-American” on Independence day is just plain bad form.
The digital world has opened up a flood of people to people communications. Blogs, which were cutting edge last week now seem almost staid and old-fashioned. And if there’s a tsunami of info, how easy to delete stuff with a click of the mouse.
You’d think that Barack Obama, America’s first “digital” President would have found a way to respond to the pitiful Internet calls for justice coming out of Iran …other than hitting the delete key, that is.
Now that Independence Day has gone, and it’s Monday, watch the media frenzy as they try to smear Sarah Palin all over again. It’s already started, and Palin’s legal representation is already seeking redress over accusations alread having been put our there. No matter what the smear, it still doesn’t mean you don’t need to be able to actually back up what you say, and say so publically. Smear for smears sake should not be tolerated, and those who do smear will deserve all they get. This is a longer than usual post, but after the page break here is an excellent video clip showing how smear so cleverly detracts from what is actuall happening elsewhere.
When Sarah Palin resigned as Governor of Alaska, Leftist bloggers decided to slime her all over again, on the assumption that anything she did must be sinister.
For weeks the rumors of a criminal investigation against the governor have been brewing. They are rumors, but are swirling fresh again with Palin’s resignation.
Okay, I’ve now been able to get independent information from multiple sources that all of this precedes what are said to be possible federal indictments against Palin, concerning an embezzlement scandal related to the building of Palin’s house and the Wasilla Sports Complex, built during her tenure as Mayor. Both structures, it is said, feature the “same windows, same wood, same products.”
There’s more where that came from, but Sarah Palin doesn’t have to put up with the sliming any more, and won’t. Her lawyer therefore warns::
To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as “fact” that Governor Palin resigned because she is “under federal investigation” for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation. This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law.
A refrain all of us hear on a regular basis is that members of Congress are out of touch with the voters, the very people who elected them to office in the first place.
And the following is a prime example of just how commonplace this has become. The report first aired over a year ago, but the meaning of the message is still the same.
Sarah Palin, political rock star. Not qualified to be county dog catcher, let alone serve a higher purpose on a national level. Sounds eerily like our current rock star President. He completely and totally obliterated all future quips about political qualifications. He was a community organizer, state senator, U.S. Senator for two years and now he’s doing a bang up job as president of the world and savior of the U.S. economy. Oh wait…
The thing that irritates me the most about the punditry is that they don’t get to choose Presidents, the people do. If the people are willing to ignore Obama’s lack of experience because they wanted a rock star president, there is no amount of political insider speak that will dissuade them from electing a political disaster in progressive, pardon me, political disaster in progress.
Sarah Palin appeals to me because she is fresh, folksy if you want to call it that. “There you go again.” I am not old enough to remember President Reagan delivering that folksy zinger and at the time I was as willing to be a Democrat as most children raised in union family America are. I remember all the jokes, I remember singing in chorus on the play ground, “My president has a first name it’s R-O-N-A-L-D. My president has a second name it’s R-E-A-G-A-N. And if you as me why I’ll say… Rotten Ronnie has a way of screwing up the U-S-A!” Think Oscar Meyer Bologna commercials. Where are the children who sang it with me? They don’t live here in logger country anymore, they moved to Idaho mostly.
As a matter of fact, that elementary school is still there, barely, it’s student population has fallen by 50% and it is still a repository for leftist propaganda and environmental fallacy. President Reagan was elected in landslides. Against all the punditry. Folksy, cheesy, aw shucks, President who did more in eight years to transform America than any President since FDR. Only Reagan started the longest period of economic growth in U.S. history while FDR presided over the great depression.
Is Palin another Reagan? No, nor should we yearn for the past. Rather Palin embodies the optimism and “Shining City on a Hill” view of our nation as Reagan did and when compared to President Obama’s apologizing to the world for being American and our economy headed for possibly the worst down turn since the 1930’s, Sarah Palin could possibly be the next U.S. President because like President Obama she can run as the Un-Presidential candidate who will throw the D.C. bums out of office.
Today’s music video is ‘My House And The River’ from French Orchestra leader Paul Mauriat.
Paul Mauriat is more famous for another beautiful song called ‘Love Is Blue’ which was a huge Worldwide hit for him in 1968. Mauriat had his own orchestra during the Second World War similar to a lot of the other big band era leaders from that era, and has a long history in France as well as around the World, as well as a distinguished recording career.
This song was a minor hit for him in his home Country France, around the same time as his arrangement of Andre Popp’s ‘Love Is Blue’. As with most other big band leaders, they mostly arranged songs from other composers. This song however, was his own composition. He had a style that was all his own, and easily recognisable, smooth and mellow in much the same vein as Percy Faith and Ray Conniff. He stopped performing around the turn of the century and passed away in 2006, leaving a rich legacy of easy listening music.
Remember when the biggest mistake a politician would make was when he or she committed the occasional verbal gaffe? Congress was outraged when they learned that George Washington’s line, “I cannot tell a lie,” was, in fact, a lie. Nowadays, our elected officials are spending their time accepting thousands of dollars in bribes, hiring strippers for a party at the mayor’s residence, and voting for legislation
without reading it first. In hindsight, spelling the word “potato” with an “e” on the end was pretty timid media fodder.
Recently however, many high-ranking public servants are tripping over themselves to see which one of them can be elected POTUS: President of the Unbelievably Stupid. The newest front-runner for that title is South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. Sanford went missing on June 18th and no one knew his exact whereabouts, but members of his staff stated he was hiking the Appalachian Trail. The story made national headlines, while everyone from bounty hunters to Deputy Marshal Sam Gerard volunteered to conduct a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in the area.
These Herculean efforts proved futile, and some started to fear the worst. Was the governor injured? Was he the victim of foul play? Was he filming an episode of Dancing With The Stars? Just when things looked their worst, Sanford was finally found last Wednesday, June 24th, when he appeared at a press conference detailing his illicit, extramarital affair.
“The affair began in the last year and was discovered five months ago, Sanford said without elaborating. He added that he and his wife were trying to work through it.”
Sanford explained that by “working through it,” he really meant that he was dodging airborne frying pans and working through the night to avoid the scorn and disdain of his family, friends, and co-workers.
“The South Carolina governor had not been seen in public since June 18. When questioned, Sanford’s staff told media outlets Sanford was hiking on the Appalachian Trail. But Sanford was spotted Wednesday in Atlanta, Georgia’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
Sanford said he had been in Buenos Aires. He said it was his fault for ‘shrouding this larger trip.’”
One was elected the second President and the other was elected the third.
Once political enemies, they became close friends in later life.
An awe swept America when they both died on the same day, JULY 4, 1826, exactly 50 years since they passed the Declaration of Independence.
Their names were John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
In his Second Annual Message to Congress, December 5, 1826, President John Quincy Adams referred to Jefferson and Adams, stating: “Since your last meeting at this place, the fiftieth anniversary of the day when our independence was declared…two of the principal actors in that solemn scene – the hand that penned the ever-memorable Declaration and the voice that sustained it in debate – were by one summons, at the distance of 700 miles from each other, called before the Judge of All to account for their deeds done upon earth.”
President John Quincy Adams added in an Executive Order, July 11, 1826: “A coincidence…so wonderful gives confidence…that the patriotic efforts of these…men were Heaven directed, and furnishes a new…hope that the prosperity of these States is under the special protection of a kind Providence.”
The day after Independence Day, another reminder of why the U.S. is such a World leader. Only the U.S. has had the vision, and the technology stemming from that to put a man on the Moon. Buzz is a known non believer in the Climate Change hype, but not a word of that in these days when something like that is okay to believe, as long as it’s not reported.
Strangely, however, the green-preaching paper doesn’t mention at all Aldrin’s recent news-making comments on the hottest topic of the day:
“I think the climate has been changing for billions of years,” he said.
“If it’s warming now, it may cool off later. I’m not in favour of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.
“I’m not necessarily of the school that we are causing it all, I think the world is causing it.”
Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.
On this momentous day for all Americans, there will be news stories that might take the headlines, and people could be tempted to take more notice of those stories than they might on some quiet reflection. There will also be celebrations all across the Country.
However, it might just be worth taking some time for that quiet reflection.
Remember the time you are celebrating. Those men who gave you all of this. They were probably a lot more frightened than you might think. Worried about the momentous step they were taking to move THEIR Country in the direction THEY chose for it. It was THOSE men who gave you what you have today.
Look around the World. There are democracies at work. Some work well, and here in Australia, we count ourselves as one that does work, and work well.
There are Theocracies, Autocracies, Dictatorships, and Countries that say they have a democracy, a democracy they like to tout as a democracy, but in reality a democracy in name only, where just saying that the people have the vote means democracy, when in fact that vote is more of a sham than a free right of free men and women, people who cannot freely express their opinion.
You in the United States have a real democracy, one that THOSE men gave you.
Never take your eye off that.
Do not allow it to be watered down. Do not allow people with a separate agenda to water it down ….. on your behalf.
A true democracy means diversity of opinion, being allowed to express that opinion in a free and open manner, and not to stifle the other persons opinion for any reason, just because you disagree with it.
Once you lose that freedom of diversity of opinion freely expressed, you lose democracy.
This day is a truly special day for all Americans, and as a humble Australian, I give you my best wishes.
Today we mark the anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence.
Fifty-six men signed what what is beyond a doubt one of the greatest political documents ever written.
What price did they ultimately pay for this heroic action?
During the Revolutionary War, some were captured by the British Army and held as prisoners of war, many had their homes vandalized and looted, and in some cases destroyed, one had his wife held as a captive of the British for months, many were left destitute at the end of the war, and one suffered the loss of a son killed in battle.
President Obama said something at his White House healthcare event last week that offers a disturbing hint of our future under his vision of health reform.
He suggested one way to save costs is not to spend on procedures that “evidence shows [are] not necessarily going to improve care” for the sick and the dying.
“Maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller,” the President said.
Maybe. But the question is, who decides?
What Happens Next?
Since the current economic crisis started, Porter Stansberry’s dead-on predictions have caught the attention of CNN, Barron’s, and Forbes…
That’s why many of his readers are now much wealthier, like Donald Scheidt, for example: “You helped make the last two years of my father’s life something great… you made him a millionaire.”
A Bureaucrat’s Concern Isn’t You, It’s the Government’s Bottom Line
Who decides if those extra dollars will or will not be spent on your care or the care of someone you love? Under the plan advocated by President Obama and his allies, that someone will be a government bureaucrat.
And even if that bureaucrat has the best of intentions, and even if he does his job well – especially if he does his job well – his main concern won’t be you or your loved one.
His only concern, if he’s doing his job right, will be for the government’s bottom line.
It’s his choice, not yours. Surgery costs too much. Make do with the painkiller.
The Declaration of Independence was approved JULY 4, 1776.
John Hancock signed first, saying “the price on my head has just doubled.”
Benjamin Franklin said “We must hang together or most assuredly we shall hang separately.”
Of the 56 signers: 17 served in the military, 11 had their homes destroyed, 5 were hunted and captured, Abraham Clark had two sons imprisoned on the British starving ship Jersey, John Witherspoon’s son was killed in battle, Francis Lewis’ wife was imprisoned and died from the harsh treatment, many, such as Thomas Nelson and Carter Braxton, lost their fortunes and 9 died during the War.
When Samuel Adams signed the Declaration, he said: “We have this day restored the Sovereign to whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.”
John Adams said: “I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.”
John Adams continued: “I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration…Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory…Posterity will triumph in that day’s transaction, even though we [may regret] it, which I trust in God we shall not.”
The White House sure likes to put on a show. Fresh off its joint stage production with ABC News, the Obama administration broadcast another health-care propaganda play this week under the guise of a citizen “town hall.”
Chicago consigliere and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett managed the floor and human props for Obama. In a telling moment as the event kicked off, she protested a wee bit much: “I want to emphasize that the president has not seen the questions ahead of time.” The audience responded with polite laughter.
But the denials of pre-planning and stacked decks deserve nothing but derisive mockery. Obama’s town hall was filled with backroom players and a supporting cast of socialized medicine activists and ideologues. One of the three lucky audience members whom Obama chose for questioning was Jason Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum works for the Washington, D.C.-based Health Care for America Now (HCAN). That’s the same K Street Astroturf outfit I reported on last week — the one with a $40 million budget to lobby for government-run health care. The one inextricably linked to left-wing billionaire George Soros.
Let’s look at who else miraculously drew a golden ticket. Another one of the three softball-tossing citizen questioners at the White House forum identified herself as a member of the Service Employees International Union. That’s the same SEIU whose president, Andy Stern, boasted of spending nearly $61 million in members’ dues to elect Barack Obama. It’s the same union that produced Patrick Gaspard, former SEIU health-care lobbyist and now White House director of the Office of Political Affairs.
But the Obama health-care town hall’s climactic moment came when the consoler in chief plucked Debby Smith from the crowd to tell her personal health-care horror story. She choked back tears as she talked of her battle with kidney cancer, her joblessness and her lack of insurance. Obama hugged the trembling woman and dubbed her “Exhibit A” for his massive entitlement program. Read the rest of this entry »
This is the day to reflect on all the blessings we have as a Democratic Republic. To remember those who have fought and died to preserve our way of life.
Even though things are bad now, due to the manipulation by the Marxist, power-hungry, Politicians we have elected to office, we have the power to un-elect them and place in office those who actually do care about the common citizen and about the Constitution of this Great Country of Ours. —ed
TonyfromOz prefaces ….. This is just the first story of many about this that will come. I can just see the mainstream media frenzy that will start now, all trying to find ‘dirt’, and a perceived reason on why she has made this personal decision, one that is in her own best interests, the interests of her family, her State and her Country. This decision shows class in my view. Now just watch the liberal media aim up on her, and they’ve already started.
