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Monday, October 3, 2011
More Intelligentsia Show Their Shining Faces
SIGH. OK, so tonight the coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests revealed 2 things:
1.) Occupy Wall Street protestors do not believe in bringing the American flag to their protest. Not one.
2.) Most of them have no idea why they're there, evidenced by their answers to the question, "Why are you here?"
One of the young men, sitting on the ground, playing songs on his guitar said, "You know, I really don't know. I just know my faith in humanity has been restored," when asked why he was there. Another man, in answer to the question said, "There's just a lot of unhappiness." When asked why he was unhappy, he said, "Sometimes you don't know why you're unhappy. And that's ok." Another young man said that pollution is wrong. "Like that building over there. Why is it being built? So it can be filled up with garbage?", he said. This is the point at which my 17-year-old son said to me, "I think I just started to get stupid." So I shut it off. We don't believe in child endangerment.
Here's the thing: a house built on sand cannot stand. This protest is built on shifting sand and these people aren't grounded in anything. Their message is white noise, mixed in with some "blah blah blah." The tea party, on the other hand, is built on solid ground. It is NOT going anywhere and will NOT fizzle, much to the frustration of liberals, who are the minority. The people at EVERY tea party event I've been to espouse the exact same message and it all boils down to this: We the People have GOT to get a handle on our government. We love our military. We love the free market. We embrace personal responsibility. We cherish our freedom. The message never changes and it always resonates. You can ask any attendee and they'll tell you the same thing. That's precisely why this movement took off like a rocket ship 2.5 years ago. We didn't need to get our game plan. We already had it. We just needed to act.
What an honor the be living in such a consequential time in our nation's history! What stories we get to pass down! We're making history.
1.) Occupy Wall Street protestors do not believe in bringing the American flag to their protest. Not one.
2.) Most of them have no idea why they're there, evidenced by their answers to the question, "Why are you here?"
One of the young men, sitting on the ground, playing songs on his guitar said, "You know, I really don't know. I just know my faith in humanity has been restored," when asked why he was there. Another man, in answer to the question said, "There's just a lot of unhappiness." When asked why he was unhappy, he said, "Sometimes you don't know why you're unhappy. And that's ok." Another young man said that pollution is wrong. "Like that building over there. Why is it being built? So it can be filled up with garbage?", he said. This is the point at which my 17-year-old son said to me, "I think I just started to get stupid." So I shut it off. We don't believe in child endangerment.
Here's the thing: a house built on sand cannot stand. This protest is built on shifting sand and these people aren't grounded in anything. Their message is white noise, mixed in with some "blah blah blah." The tea party, on the other hand, is built on solid ground. It is NOT going anywhere and will NOT fizzle, much to the frustration of liberals, who are the minority. The people at EVERY tea party event I've been to espouse the exact same message and it all boils down to this: We the People have GOT to get a handle on our government. We love our military. We love the free market. We embrace personal responsibility. We cherish our freedom. The message never changes and it always resonates. You can ask any attendee and they'll tell you the same thing. That's precisely why this movement took off like a rocket ship 2.5 years ago. We didn't need to get our game plan. We already had it. We just needed to act.
What an honor the be living in such a consequential time in our nation's history! What stories we get to pass down! We're making history.
Wall Street Protests
This is bugging me to no end. I'd like to know what the protesters in Manhattan are protesting, exactly. The fact that Wall Street makes money?? What is it they want? It is deeply offensive to have people in this country, demanding the wealth of others be forcibly taken from them. If they're unhappy with how Wall Street operates, they need to work through Congress to fix any possibility of inappropriate exchanges.
I saw on the news last night a husband and wife and their young child, who were at the protest. The man said he's an attorney and he works long and hard but doesn't feel he makes enough money for his work. His wife said they were there because they wish they had better health coverage and they're living on credit. Sorry, but I'm not fully grasping what Wall Street is supposed to do about the fact you wish you made more money and are living on credit. That's your problem to figure out. Go do something else instead of demanding someone else fix it for you. Helplessness in capable people is a disgusting attribute.
Like so many conservatives have said, liberal people believe money is static and the "rich" have too big a piece of the pie, rather than believing wealth, by nature, increases and anyone can participate and become successful on their own merits. One is a negative, self-defeating approach and the other is a positive, hope-filled approach. I'll take hope.
I saw on the news last night a husband and wife and their young child, who were at the protest. The man said he's an attorney and he works long and hard but doesn't feel he makes enough money for his work. His wife said they were there because they wish they had better health coverage and they're living on credit. Sorry, but I'm not fully grasping what Wall Street is supposed to do about the fact you wish you made more money and are living on credit. That's your problem to figure out. Go do something else instead of demanding someone else fix it for you. Helplessness in capable people is a disgusting attribute.
Like so many conservatives have said, liberal people believe money is static and the "rich" have too big a piece of the pie, rather than believing wealth, by nature, increases and anyone can participate and become successful on their own merits. One is a negative, self-defeating approach and the other is a positive, hope-filled approach. I'll take hope.
Good News for Susan Sarandon
Opportunist Susan Sarandon descended on the Occupy Wall Street protests recently and said the following super de duper intelligent thing:
"We can't let our Arab brothers and sisters get ahead of us in terms of how they're changing things. Hopefully the tool kit exists here for a non-violent change."
Newsflash, Susan: The "tool kit" for "non-violent change" is known as the Tea Party. Perhaps you've heard of them. I'm wondering, too, if you've heard about how Saudi Arabian women can be lashed if they're caught driving. Or how, in some Middle Eastern countries, women can be stoned to death if they're caught in adultery or if they are found guilty of being a rape victim. Do you recall, Susan, when the Iranian people were marching in the streets, protesting the fact their votes were stolen from them in an election and Ahmadinejad was declared the "winner?" Those people marched, carrying protest signs written in ENGLISH--the language WE speak--demanding freedom. I believe those placards could have been interpreted as messages directly to US--in OUR living rooms. I have a feeling your desire to emulate them would be incomprehensible to most Middle Easterners.
Besides Susan Sarandon and Michael Moore, there was a protestor on the street, who was approached by Geraldo Rivera, who asked him to tell about himself. "How old are you? What do you do?" The man replied, "It doesn't matter who I am as a person but, rather, who I am as a spirit." OK, then. That pretty much tells us everything we need to know about these Wall Street protests.
"We can't let our Arab brothers and sisters get ahead of us in terms of how they're changing things. Hopefully the tool kit exists here for a non-violent change."
Newsflash, Susan: The "tool kit" for "non-violent change" is known as the Tea Party. Perhaps you've heard of them. I'm wondering, too, if you've heard about how Saudi Arabian women can be lashed if they're caught driving. Or how, in some Middle Eastern countries, women can be stoned to death if they're caught in adultery or if they are found guilty of being a rape victim. Do you recall, Susan, when the Iranian people were marching in the streets, protesting the fact their votes were stolen from them in an election and Ahmadinejad was declared the "winner?" Those people marched, carrying protest signs written in ENGLISH--the language WE speak--demanding freedom. I believe those placards could have been interpreted as messages directly to US--in OUR living rooms. I have a feeling your desire to emulate them would be incomprehensible to most Middle Easterners.
Besides Susan Sarandon and Michael Moore, there was a protestor on the street, who was approached by Geraldo Rivera, who asked him to tell about himself. "How old are you? What do you do?" The man replied, "It doesn't matter who I am as a person but, rather, who I am as a spirit." OK, then. That pretty much tells us everything we need to know about these Wall Street protests.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
AP: “With al-Alwaki Dead, al-Qaida Lacks Western Voice”
Am I living on Mars? What I read into this headline from the Associated Press is how poor, poor al-Qaida has suffered a set-back and now their western voice is gone! Gee, I hope they can recover from this damaging blow and reinstate their western voice. We all know how much their western voice has contributed to the world. These “journalists” are bizarre people. How about one of these headlines, instead:
“U.S. Forces Score a Major Victory on Our Behalf”
“USA Military Showcases Unmatched Skill in Enemy Takedown”
“American Safety Further Secured With Elimination of Key Terrorist”
Oh, but that would first require the AP to acknowledge al-Qaida is a dark, evil enemy whose sole purpose is complete destruction of the western way of life. Do they have any concept of this? This is not simply a playground dispute where 2 parties need to learn to share and exhibit kindness toward each other. Gentle, re-guiding discipline is not going to cut it. The only choice al-Qaida has given us is to seek their destruction. They are the ones threatening us. Not the other way around. As I’ve asked my son before, if someone is chasing you with a knife, do you just stand there and let him wield it or do you fight back? No, you did not ask for the attack, but it is happening and you either fight back or simply accept your own demise. It is no more complicated than that. Bullies are never appeased.
“U.S. Forces Score a Major Victory on Our Behalf”
“USA Military Showcases Unmatched Skill in Enemy Takedown”
“American Safety Further Secured With Elimination of Key Terrorist”
Oh, but that would first require the AP to acknowledge al-Qaida is a dark, evil enemy whose sole purpose is complete destruction of the western way of life. Do they have any concept of this? This is not simply a playground dispute where 2 parties need to learn to share and exhibit kindness toward each other. Gentle, re-guiding discipline is not going to cut it. The only choice al-Qaida has given us is to seek their destruction. They are the ones threatening us. Not the other way around. As I’ve asked my son before, if someone is chasing you with a knife, do you just stand there and let him wield it or do you fight back? No, you did not ask for the attack, but it is happening and you either fight back or simply accept your own demise. It is no more complicated than that. Bullies are never appeased.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Sharpen Your Axe
Abe Lincoln once said, "Give me six hours to cut down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
This is precisely the strategy being employed by the conservative insurgence. We've been sharpening the axe for 2.5 years and the tree will sustain a major blow on November 6, 2012. The effect of the conservative insurgence, though, runs so much more deeply than what anyone can actually measure. The sharpening of the axe goes all the way down to party delegates, school boards, city councils, county commission boards, state representatives and so on. The insurgence runs deep and strong and because of the deep, undetectable roots, there will be no eradication. The most obvious result of just how engrained the constitutional, conservative sentiment is in the country will come in the presidential election, but that office will be only the tip of the iceberg. We the People know exactly what we're doing and we will not be out-maneuvered or out-worked. Neither will we be fooled.
Abraham Lincoln also said on February 23, 1861:
"Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be, beaten."
What the elitists in both parties and the permanent political class will never understand nor accept is that freedom is a force with which to be reckoned and it is bigger than even the free themselves.
This is precisely the strategy being employed by the conservative insurgence. We've been sharpening the axe for 2.5 years and the tree will sustain a major blow on November 6, 2012. The effect of the conservative insurgence, though, runs so much more deeply than what anyone can actually measure. The sharpening of the axe goes all the way down to party delegates, school boards, city councils, county commission boards, state representatives and so on. The insurgence runs deep and strong and because of the deep, undetectable roots, there will be no eradication. The most obvious result of just how engrained the constitutional, conservative sentiment is in the country will come in the presidential election, but that office will be only the tip of the iceberg. We the People know exactly what we're doing and we will not be out-maneuvered or out-worked. Neither will we be fooled.
Abraham Lincoln also said on February 23, 1861:
"Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be, beaten."
What the elitists in both parties and the permanent political class will never understand nor accept is that freedom is a force with which to be reckoned and it is bigger than even the free themselves.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Common Sense and Government Are Mutually Exclusive
Several weeks ago, our 17-year-old son accidentally flew through a stop sign on his way home from a trip. The stop sign he blew was at the intersection of 2 highways, with the one he crossed being a very well-traveled one. Thank God he was not harmed. Later, when crossing through that intersection ourselves, we realized there are no rumble strips on the road and thought that would be a very simple, likely inexpensive and highly valuable feature to add to that intersection, adding the possibility of saving lives. My husband placed a call to an official today to make the suggestion/request and was told the State of Minnesota requires counties to add rumble strips to ALL their highways, if they're going to add them to one. I'd like to know the name of the idiot who thought that would be a totally awesome mandate to place on local officials. I don't know about you, but I am sick and tired of OUR [read: we own them] government TELLING us how it's going to be. When do they begin regulating underwear? Bath soap? Toothpicks? Fly swatters? Thumb tacks? Fingernail clippers? The length of my child's hair? My child's bedtime? The words I use in my private conversations? How many shirts I own? I mean, this is so totally out of hand that it's enraging! I cannot wait until election day. Is it ok to more eagerly anticipate that than my own wedding day? OK, maybe it isn't to that point yet, but if this junk keeps up, it might just push me over. And, actually, I'm not waiting, and haven't been waiting, until election day to do something about the gross misuse of our governmental structure. The elites have totally screwed themselves. I wonder when they'll realize it.
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