An open letter to democrat politicians...
America Rising.
America Rising.
Indeed.
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Showing posts with label protests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protests. Show all posts
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Wow: Charles Krauthammer. Really - wow!
The Last Refuge of a Liberal
By Charles KrauthammerFriday, August 27, 2010
*(all emphases mine)
Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the predicted 40-year liberal ascendancy (James Carville) into a full retreat. Ah, the people, the little people, the small-town people, the "bitter" people, as Barack Obama in an unguarded moment once memorably called them, clinging "to guns or religion" or -- this part is less remembered -- "antipathy toward people who aren't like them."
That's a polite way of saying: clinging to bigotry. And promiscuous charges of bigotry are precisely how our current rulers and their vast media auxiliary react to an obstreperous citizenry that insists on incorrect thinking.
-- Resistance to the vast expansion of government power, intrusiveness and debt, as represented by the Tea Party movement? Why, racist resentment toward a black president.
-- Disgust and alarm with the federal government's unwillingness to curb illegal immigration, as crystallized in the Arizona law? Nativism.
-- Opposition to the most radical redefinition of marriage in human history, as expressed in Proposition 8 in California? Homophobia.
-- Opposition to a 15-story Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero? Islamophobia.
Now we know why the country has become "ungovernable," last year's excuse for the Democrats' failure of governance: Who can possibly govern a nation of racist, nativist, homophobic Islamophobes?
Note what connects these issues. In every one, liberals have lost the argument in the court of public opinion. Majorities -- often lopsided majorities -- oppose President Obama's social-democratic agenda (e.g., the stimulus, Obamacare), support the Arizona law, oppose gay marriage and reject a mosque near Ground Zero.
What's a liberal to do? Pull out the bigotry charge, the trump that preempts debate and gives no credit to the seriousness and substance of the contrary argument. The most venerable of these trumps is, of course, the race card. When the Tea Party arose, a spontaneous, leaderless and perfectly natural (and traditionally American) reaction to the vast expansion of government intrinsic to the president's proudly proclaimed transformational agenda, the liberal commentariat cast it as a mob of angry white yahoos disguising their antipathy to a black president by cleverly speaking in economic terms.
Then came Arizona and S.B. 1070. It seems impossible for the left to believe that people of good will could hold that: (a) illegal immigration should be illegal, (b) the federal government should not hold border enforcement hostage to comprehensive reform, i.e., amnesty, (c) every country has the right to determine the composition of its immigrant population.
As for Proposition 8, is it so hard to see why people might believe that a single judge overturning the will of 7 million voters is an affront to democracy? And that seeing merit in retaining the structure of the most ancient and fundamental of all social institutions is something other than an alleged hatred of gays -- particularly since the opposite-gender requirement has characterized virtually every society in all the millennia until just a few years ago?
And now the mosque near Ground Zero. The intelligentsia is near unanimous that the only possible grounds for opposition is bigotry toward Muslims. This smug attribution of bigotry to two-thirds of the population hinges on the insistence on a complete lack of connection between Islam and radical Islam, a proposition that dovetails perfectly with the Obama administration's pretense that we are at war with nothing more than "violent extremists" of inscrutable motive and indiscernible belief. Those who reject this as both ridiculous and politically correct (an admitted redundancy) are declared Islamophobes, the ad hominem du jour.
It is a measure of the corruption of liberal thought and the collapse of its self-confidence that, finding itself so widely repudiated, it resorts reflexively to the cheapest race-baiting (in a colorful variety of forms). Indeed, how can one reason with a nation of pitchfork-wielding mobs brimming with "antipathy toward people who aren't like them" -- blacks, Hispanics, gays and Muslims -- a nation that is, as Michelle Obama once put it succinctly, "just downright mean"?
The Democrats are going to get beaten badly in November. Not just because the economy is ailing. And not just because Obama over-read his mandate in governing too far left. But because a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites whose undisguised contempt for the great unwashed prevents them from conceding a modicum of serious thought to those who dare oppose them.
By Charles KrauthammerFriday, August 27, 2010
*(all emphases mine)
Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the predicted 40-year liberal ascendancy (James Carville) into a full retreat. Ah, the people, the little people, the small-town people, the "bitter" people, as Barack Obama in an unguarded moment once memorably called them, clinging "to guns or religion" or -- this part is less remembered -- "antipathy toward people who aren't like them."
That's a polite way of saying: clinging to bigotry. And promiscuous charges of bigotry are precisely how our current rulers and their vast media auxiliary react to an obstreperous citizenry that insists on incorrect thinking.
-- Resistance to the vast expansion of government power, intrusiveness and debt, as represented by the Tea Party movement? Why, racist resentment toward a black president.
-- Disgust and alarm with the federal government's unwillingness to curb illegal immigration, as crystallized in the Arizona law? Nativism.
-- Opposition to the most radical redefinition of marriage in human history, as expressed in Proposition 8 in California? Homophobia.
-- Opposition to a 15-story Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero? Islamophobia.
Now we know why the country has become "ungovernable," last year's excuse for the Democrats' failure of governance: Who can possibly govern a nation of racist, nativist, homophobic Islamophobes?
Note what connects these issues. In every one, liberals have lost the argument in the court of public opinion. Majorities -- often lopsided majorities -- oppose President Obama's social-democratic agenda (e.g., the stimulus, Obamacare), support the Arizona law, oppose gay marriage and reject a mosque near Ground Zero.
What's a liberal to do? Pull out the bigotry charge, the trump that preempts debate and gives no credit to the seriousness and substance of the contrary argument. The most venerable of these trumps is, of course, the race card. When the Tea Party arose, a spontaneous, leaderless and perfectly natural (and traditionally American) reaction to the vast expansion of government intrinsic to the president's proudly proclaimed transformational agenda, the liberal commentariat cast it as a mob of angry white yahoos disguising their antipathy to a black president by cleverly speaking in economic terms.
Then came Arizona and S.B. 1070. It seems impossible for the left to believe that people of good will could hold that: (a) illegal immigration should be illegal, (b) the federal government should not hold border enforcement hostage to comprehensive reform, i.e., amnesty, (c) every country has the right to determine the composition of its immigrant population.
As for Proposition 8, is it so hard to see why people might believe that a single judge overturning the will of 7 million voters is an affront to democracy? And that seeing merit in retaining the structure of the most ancient and fundamental of all social institutions is something other than an alleged hatred of gays -- particularly since the opposite-gender requirement has characterized virtually every society in all the millennia until just a few years ago?
And now the mosque near Ground Zero. The intelligentsia is near unanimous that the only possible grounds for opposition is bigotry toward Muslims. This smug attribution of bigotry to two-thirds of the population hinges on the insistence on a complete lack of connection between Islam and radical Islam, a proposition that dovetails perfectly with the Obama administration's pretense that we are at war with nothing more than "violent extremists" of inscrutable motive and indiscernible belief. Those who reject this as both ridiculous and politically correct (an admitted redundancy) are declared Islamophobes, the ad hominem du jour.
It is a measure of the corruption of liberal thought and the collapse of its self-confidence that, finding itself so widely repudiated, it resorts reflexively to the cheapest race-baiting (in a colorful variety of forms). Indeed, how can one reason with a nation of pitchfork-wielding mobs brimming with "antipathy toward people who aren't like them" -- blacks, Hispanics, gays and Muslims -- a nation that is, as Michelle Obama once put it succinctly, "just downright mean"?
The Democrats are going to get beaten badly in November. Not just because the economy is ailing. And not just because Obama over-read his mandate in governing too far left. But because a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites whose undisguised contempt for the great unwashed prevents them from conceding a modicum of serious thought to those who dare oppose them.
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Ouch.
Perfect.
Thank you, God, for Charles Krauthammer!
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
MY hometown Tea Party Protester PUNCHED!
(...and btw, it's all GWB's fault!!)
Folks, it doesn't get any closer to me than if I had been there myself.
Saw this on Fox & Friends this morning:
My ears perked when I heard "North Carolina;" & I remind myself to research it. I go to my email & find this news story in a bundle from my local GOP headquarters folks. (Link gives much more info. than FNC video.)
Then I realize - these are MY people! I KNOW Nathan Tabor! I also know some of the others in the video. I have sat on their picnic blankets @ Tea Parties. They are not extremists. They are not the 'fringe Right.' They are average citizens (moms, dads, business owners, farmers, librarians) of my county who are not taking the G'ment steamroller lying down.
Bravo to Mr. Tabor! Bravo to the rest who are exercising our right to speak out against the over-reach of G'ment.
Folks, it doesn't get any closer to me than if I had been there myself.
Saw this on Fox & Friends this morning:
My ears perked when I heard "North Carolina;" & I remind myself to research it. I go to my email & find this news story in a bundle from my local GOP headquarters folks. (Link gives much more info. than FNC video.)
Then I realize - these are MY people! I KNOW Nathan Tabor! I also know some of the others in the video. I have sat on their picnic blankets @ Tea Parties. They are not extremists. They are not the 'fringe Right.' They are average citizens (moms, dads, business owners, farmers, librarians) of my county who are not taking the G'ment steamroller lying down.
Bravo to Mr. Tabor! Bravo to the rest who are exercising our right to speak out against the over-reach of G'ment.
If not now, than never, friends. Do NOT remain silent!
The fight for our nation doesn't get any closer than this.
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NO MORE SILENCE! Anti-Christian Bigotry must STOP.
This article says most everything I would like to say:
Comedy Central's uneven irreverence
By L. Brent Bozell III
president, Media Research Center
Comedians often pride themselves on being irreverent, and in today's popular culture a favorite thing to ridicule is religion. The network Comedy Central has made laughing at religion its bread and butter. Their irreverence has limits, however, and it has nothing to do with taste. When radical Muslims wrote ominously online that the creators of "South Park" could end up like Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh - shot eight times on the street - mockery of Muhammed was formally and publicly censored.
Within weeks of that very public retreat, Comedy Central announced plans to work up a series laughing at Jesus Christ called "JC," a half-hour animated show about Jesus trying to live a normal life in New York City to escape the "enormous shadow" of his "powerful but apathetic father." God the Father is preoccupied with playing video games while Christ is the "ultimate fish out of water."
Beyond the glaring double standard there is this question: Where is the market demand for an entire television series dedicated to attacks on Jesus Christ? What did Jesus Christ do to Comedy Central that they must relentlessly mock Him by portraying him defecating and talking about his "yummy, yummy crap" on "South Park" and roast him on specials titled "Merry F--ing Christmas"? Why the visuals of Jesus Christ being stabbed to death? Of the Blessed Virgin Mary menstruating? To call these attacks "juvenile" is an insult to juveniles.
Enough is enough. Citizens Against Religious Bigotry, a coalition of some 20 organizations and leaders, some Christian, some Jewish and some secular, in all representing millions of Americans, has come together to demand that the advertising community withhold their sponsorship dollars from this show, based on Comedy Central's documented history of anti-Christian bigotry. To sponsor this show is to support that anti-Christian bigotry. In reply, network spokesman Tony Fox declared that this show is only a vague idea and perhaps our group "should save their energy for the moment if and when this series ever makes air." But if "JC" is too vague to deserve comment, why did Comedy Central announce it with flagrant God-bashing fanfare?
It's amazing that the Comedy Central folks consider this putrid material to be "art" and wrap themselves with the blanket of artistic freedom of expression. Said programming head Kent Alterman: "The beauty of working at a place like Comedy Central is you can empower people to actualize their vision in a really unfiltered way.
"Unless, of course, the "vision" is an attack on Muhammed, in which case there will be immediate self-imposed censorship.
Comedy Central loves the idea that irreverence is the highest value that inspires the biggest laughs. Christians are called to love the opposite idea: that reverence to God is the highest value. We are called to take up the cross of Jesus daily, and that as a result people will "utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account."
If you want to ACT against this cowardly, disgusting tripe, go the Family Research Council site.
Comedy Central's uneven irreverence
By L. Brent Bozell III
president, Media Research Center
Comedians often pride themselves on being irreverent, and in today's popular culture a favorite thing to ridicule is religion. The network Comedy Central has made laughing at religion its bread and butter. Their irreverence has limits, however, and it has nothing to do with taste. When radical Muslims wrote ominously online that the creators of "South Park" could end up like Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh - shot eight times on the street - mockery of Muhammed was formally and publicly censored.
Within weeks of that very public retreat, Comedy Central announced plans to work up a series laughing at Jesus Christ called "JC," a half-hour animated show about Jesus trying to live a normal life in New York City to escape the "enormous shadow" of his "powerful but apathetic father." God the Father is preoccupied with playing video games while Christ is the "ultimate fish out of water."
Beyond the glaring double standard there is this question: Where is the market demand for an entire television series dedicated to attacks on Jesus Christ? What did Jesus Christ do to Comedy Central that they must relentlessly mock Him by portraying him defecating and talking about his "yummy, yummy crap" on "South Park" and roast him on specials titled "Merry F--ing Christmas"? Why the visuals of Jesus Christ being stabbed to death? Of the Blessed Virgin Mary menstruating? To call these attacks "juvenile" is an insult to juveniles.
Enough is enough. Citizens Against Religious Bigotry, a coalition of some 20 organizations and leaders, some Christian, some Jewish and some secular, in all representing millions of Americans, has come together to demand that the advertising community withhold their sponsorship dollars from this show, based on Comedy Central's documented history of anti-Christian bigotry. To sponsor this show is to support that anti-Christian bigotry. In reply, network spokesman Tony Fox declared that this show is only a vague idea and perhaps our group "should save their energy for the moment if and when this series ever makes air." But if "JC" is too vague to deserve comment, why did Comedy Central announce it with flagrant God-bashing fanfare?
It's amazing that the Comedy Central folks consider this putrid material to be "art" and wrap themselves with the blanket of artistic freedom of expression. Said programming head Kent Alterman: "The beauty of working at a place like Comedy Central is you can empower people to actualize their vision in a really unfiltered way.
"Unless, of course, the "vision" is an attack on Muhammed, in which case there will be immediate self-imposed censorship.
Comedy Central loves the idea that irreverence is the highest value that inspires the biggest laughs. Christians are called to love the opposite idea: that reverence to God is the highest value. We are called to take up the cross of Jesus daily, and that as a result people will "utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account."
We will not be silent. This anti-Christian bigotry must stop.
L. Brent Bozell III is founder and president of the Media Research Center.
L. Brent Bozell III is founder and president of the Media Research Center.
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If you want to ACT against this cowardly, disgusting tripe, go the Family Research Council site.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Remember November.
THIS is must see video. Brief, searing commentary:
View & forward, please.
Then get active in your community.
The time is now, friends.
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2012 will be too late.
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Prelude to a Revolution
They say History repeats itself...
THIS DAY March 22, 1765 the British Parliment passed the Stamp Act, imposing an oppressive, direct tax against the American Colonies. They did it to offset the costs of the military endeavor of the King in the colonies.
Wicked offense was taken by the colonists, that taxation from the Crown was directly imposed on the people - not in order to simply provide a loose regulatory structure for commerce - but to raise money for the Crown, for something the People didn't want, didn't need, & certainly did not wish to pay for.
Some colonists fell to despair, believing that they had no recourse. But by May 30th of the same year, 4 of Patrick Henry's Stamp Act Resolutions were passed:
1) Demanding their rights as citizens be preserved, and
2) Insisting the people's voices against oppressive taxation be heard & acknowledged, lest their 'ancient constitution' be obliterated.
This courageous 'sedition' led to the Stamp Act's repeal on March 18th, 1766, less than a year later.
Oppression must seek the bursting of Springtime. And it can be fought. And it can be defeated. Will we cower & fall into despair, as some colonists did? Thank God they didn't. And thank God we have their same fighting spirit within us. Will we remember? Will we call upon it?
THIS DAY March 22, 1765 the British Parliment passed the Stamp Act, imposing an oppressive, direct tax against the American Colonies. They did it to offset the costs of the military endeavor of the King in the colonies.
Wicked offense was taken by the colonists, that taxation from the Crown was directly imposed on the people - not in order to simply provide a loose regulatory structure for commerce - but to raise money for the Crown, for something the People didn't want, didn't need, & certainly did not wish to pay for.
Some colonists fell to despair, believing that they had no recourse. But by May 30th of the same year, 4 of Patrick Henry's Stamp Act Resolutions were passed:
1) Demanding their rights as citizens be preserved, and
2) Insisting the people's voices against oppressive taxation be heard & acknowledged, lest their 'ancient constitution' be obliterated.
This courageous 'sedition' led to the Stamp Act's repeal on March 18th, 1766, less than a year later.
Oppression must seek the bursting of Springtime. And it can be fought. And it can be defeated. Will we cower & fall into despair, as some colonists did? Thank God they didn't. And thank God we have their same fighting spirit within us. Will we remember? Will we call upon it?
If not now, never.
We are in this place 'for such a time as this.'
Do not discount your efforts.
This is our time.
It is our imperative, toward our posterity.
We have received our calling.
Join me.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
We've been - I'm sorry - Screwed.
God in heaven, help us. God help us.
219 Democrats in the House of Representatives just passed Obamacare. 219 Democrats took it upon themselves to change the fabric of my country - against the will of 200 Million American citizens; a change that involves 1/6 of our nation's economy, a change that inserts the Government into the most private, personal, intimate areas of our lives, a change that begins the washing away of our Republic & the ushering in of Marxism. (And don't kid yourselves, for that's EXACTLY what this does.)
Mark my words. Next on the list (in the name of tolerance, of course): Sharia law. It'll come incrementally, tiptoe-ing through our courts. It'll slither up beside us (Terror trials in civilian courts? Gitmo transfers? Honor killings, anyone? Anyone??) & before we know it, it'll be another entitlement, as our country slides further into the abyss. God help us.
Found this video @ Joe's blog. Take a moment to watch - this guy expresses my sentiments, & maybe yours. (Sorry: technical difficulty; could only get code for link, not video.)
219 Democrats in the House of Representatives just passed Obamacare. 219 Democrats took it upon themselves to change the fabric of my country - against the will of 200 Million American citizens; a change that involves 1/6 of our nation's economy, a change that inserts the Government into the most private, personal, intimate areas of our lives, a change that begins the washing away of our Republic & the ushering in of Marxism. (And don't kid yourselves, for that's EXACTLY what this does.)
Mark my words. Next on the list (in the name of tolerance, of course): Sharia law. It'll come incrementally, tiptoe-ing through our courts. It'll slither up beside us (Terror trials in civilian courts? Gitmo transfers? Honor killings, anyone? Anyone??) & before we know it, it'll be another entitlement, as our country slides further into the abyss. God help us.
Found this video @ Joe's blog. Take a moment to watch - this guy expresses my sentiments, & maybe yours. (Sorry: technical difficulty; could only get code for link, not video.)
Have we awoken from our complacent slumber yet, my friends?
Don't tread on me.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Kill the Bill!!
Update:
Got out my cellphone today & called the list of Congressional Dems. from 3-13's post (please see below). It took only 15 minutes. Got several busy signals, several 'mailbox full' messages & managed to get through to about 8. I'm calling until they've all heard from me.
Go to Twitter & run a search for #killthebill to see what people are saying. There are reports of people shouting outside of Congressional offices "Kill the bill! Kill the bill!" (You'd think we were still in the Clinton Administration. But no, this is FAR more serious.)
Call, my friends. Take 15 minutes & call. Register your 'vehement opposition' to this healthcare bill. Or simply say, "Kill the bill!!"
Got out my cellphone today & called the list of Congressional Dems. from 3-13's post (please see below). It took only 15 minutes. Got several busy signals, several 'mailbox full' messages & managed to get through to about 8. I'm calling until they've all heard from me.
Go to Twitter & run a search for #killthebill to see what people are saying. There are reports of people shouting outside of Congressional offices "Kill the bill! Kill the bill!" (You'd think we were still in the Clinton Administration. But no, this is FAR more serious.)
Call, my friends. Take 15 minutes & call. Register your 'vehement opposition' to this healthcare bill. Or simply say, "Kill the bill!!"
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Call Congress Now
My fellow Conservative Activists:
It's time to flood the phone banks & email accounts of Congress. The House is attempting to scrape up votes to pass the Senate's illegitimate ObamaCare bill. We must apply all the pressure at our disposal. CALL/EMAIL today:
Call these 30 congressmen below. They represent Swing Votes who can make a difference. They Voted Yes the first time, but they're from districts that went for McCain and Palin 2008. They are terrified about their chances in November!
They will know you're not from their district; don't worry. JUST TELL THEM IF THEY VOTE FOR THE HEALTH CARE BILL, YOU AND ALL YOUR FRIENDS WILL DONATE MONEY $ TO WHOMEVER RUNS AGAINST THEM IN NOVEMBER!
The list below shows the number for their DC Office first then their local office, CALL BOTH. Call in the day so you get to talk to a live person, not a machine!
Harry Mitchell (202) 225-2190 (480) 946-2411
Gabrielle Giffords (202) 225-2542 (520) 881-3588
Ann Kirkpatrick (202) 225-2315 (928) 226-6914
Jerry McNerney (202) 225-1947 (925) 833-0643
John Salazar (202) 225-4761 (970) 245-7107
Jim Hines (202) 225-5541 (866) 453-0028
Alan Grayson (202) 225-2176 (407) 841-1757
Bill Foster (202) 225-2976 (630) 406-1145
Baron Hill (202) 225 5315 (812) 288 3999
Mark Schauer (202) 225-6276 (517) 780-9075
Gary Peters (202) 225-5802 (248) 273-4227
Dina Titus (202) 225-3252 (702) 256-DINA (3462)
Carol Shea-Porter (202) 225-5456 (603) 743-4813
Tim Bishop (202) 225-3826 (631) 696-6500
John Hall (202) 225-5441 (845) 225-3641 x49371
Bill Owens (202) 225-4611 (315) 782-3150
Mike Arcuri (202) 225-3665 (315)793-8146
Dan Maffei (202) 225-3701 (315) 423-5657
Earl Pomneroy (202) 225-2611 (701) 224-0355
Steven Driehaus (202) 225-2216 (513) 684-2723
Mary Jo Kilroy (202) 225-2015 (614) 294-2196
Zach Space (202) 225-6265 (330) 364-4300
Kathy Dahlkemper (202) 225-5406 (814) 456-2038
Patrick Murphy (202) 225-4276 (215) 826-1963
Christopher Carney (202) 225-3731 (570) 585-9988
Paul Kanjorski (202) 225-6511 (570) 825-2200
John Spratt (202) 225-5501 (803) 327-1114
Tom Perriello (202) 225-4711 (276) 656-2291
Alan Mollohan (202) 225-4172 (304) 623-4422
Nick Rahall (202) 225-3452 (304) 252-5000
Steve Kagen (202) 225-5665 (920) 437-1954
From Reagan Conservatives group on Facebook
It's time to flood the phone banks & email accounts of Congress. The House is attempting to scrape up votes to pass the Senate's illegitimate ObamaCare bill. We must apply all the pressure at our disposal. CALL/EMAIL today:
Call these 30 congressmen below. They represent Swing Votes who can make a difference. They Voted Yes the first time, but they're from districts that went for McCain and Palin 2008. They are terrified about their chances in November!
They will know you're not from their district; don't worry. JUST TELL THEM IF THEY VOTE FOR THE HEALTH CARE BILL, YOU AND ALL YOUR FRIENDS WILL DONATE MONEY $ TO WHOMEVER RUNS AGAINST THEM IN NOVEMBER!
The list below shows the number for their DC Office first then their local office, CALL BOTH. Call in the day so you get to talk to a live person, not a machine!
Harry Mitchell (202) 225-2190 (480) 946-2411
Gabrielle Giffords (202) 225-2542 (520) 881-3588
Ann Kirkpatrick (202) 225-2315 (928) 226-6914
Jerry McNerney (202) 225-1947 (925) 833-0643
John Salazar (202) 225-4761 (970) 245-7107
Jim Hines (202) 225-5541 (866) 453-0028
Alan Grayson (202) 225-2176 (407) 841-1757
Bill Foster (202) 225-2976 (630) 406-1145
Baron Hill (202) 225 5315 (812) 288 3999
Mark Schauer (202) 225-6276 (517) 780-9075
Gary Peters (202) 225-5802 (248) 273-4227
Dina Titus (202) 225-3252 (702) 256-DINA (3462)
Carol Shea-Porter (202) 225-5456 (603) 743-4813
Tim Bishop (202) 225-3826 (631) 696-6500
John Hall (202) 225-5441 (845) 225-3641 x49371
Bill Owens (202) 225-4611 (315) 782-3150
Mike Arcuri (202) 225-3665 (315)793-8146
Dan Maffei (202) 225-3701 (315) 423-5657
Earl Pomneroy (202) 225-2611 (701) 224-0355
Steven Driehaus (202) 225-2216 (513) 684-2723
Mary Jo Kilroy (202) 225-2015 (614) 294-2196
Zach Space (202) 225-6265 (330) 364-4300
Kathy Dahlkemper (202) 225-5406 (814) 456-2038
Patrick Murphy (202) 225-4276 (215) 826-1963
Christopher Carney (202) 225-3731 (570) 585-9988
Paul Kanjorski (202) 225-6511 (570) 825-2200
John Spratt (202) 225-5501 (803) 327-1114
Tom Perriello (202) 225-4711 (276) 656-2291
Alan Mollohan (202) 225-4172 (304) 623-4422
Nick Rahall (202) 225-3452 (304) 252-5000
Steve Kagen (202) 225-5665 (920) 437-1954
From Reagan Conservatives group on Facebook
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Curtsy to 'Read my lipstick network' for this post. Great work!
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
2010 via Lloyd Marcus
In my most recent post, I had a visit from a new friend named Lloyd Marcus. He left a link & suggested we take a look. With his permission, I'm posting this really, really cool link for your enjoyment. Hopefully it'll lift your spirits & give you a boost!
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Cool, huh?
I thought so too. ;)
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
They're SINGING!
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again.
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums,
There is a life about to start
Who will not be slaves again.
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums,
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!"
December 16, 1773
Colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians dumped 342 chests of English tea in to Boston Harbor.
April 19, 1775
Revolutionary War began with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
July 4, 1776
Colonists declare their independence from the British Empire.
Friends, this is who we come from. This is the stuff we’re made of…This is who we are.
We’re fighters , & we have an exquisite sense of fairness & justice. When we believe that sensibility has been trampled, we’re not afraid to stand up against those who’ve perpetrated the offense (April 15th, 2009).
July 21, 1969
We can do things others have said we can't...
July 3, 2004
or shouldn't...
Or had better NOT...
WE ARE AMERICANS.
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Maybe we do know who we are,
Maybe we have begun to remember...
We still need heroes; now more than ever.
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Can you hear it? Can you be it?
Do you hear the people sing?
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
SCOTT BROWN in MA!!!
GLORY HALLELUJAH!!!!!!
SCOTT BROWN WINS IN MASSACHUSETTS!!!!
We the People have spoken: STOP DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY!!!!!!
It's time to get our country back, people.
Thank Heaven.
Thank GOD!
Glory Hallelujah.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Fear, Freedom & the 'Wonderful Listener'
Before the Presidential election, the pro-Obama Left lauded him as the ‘wonderful listener!’ (Correction: he touted himself as the wonderful listener, & they fell in line like the brace of waddling ducks that they remain...)
Back then, I suffered through a conversation with one who lapped up his autobiographies (who but a narcissist writes more than one??) like a hungry kitten, & dewy-eyed & earnest said, “He’s someone who will really listen!” Not wanting to spew my coffee across Panera’s finely appointed decor, I breathed deeply, closed my eyes, & rolled them fiercely under my lids.
How excruciatingly naïve, I thought. When the campaign was over, & owning that perhaps my cynicism had over-reached, I haltingly decided to sweat through the next 4 years, wishing my country well. And sweat, I have. Not only is this President’s agenda as damaging as I feared, it’s worse; and gets more treacherous by the day.
We told him we didn’t want a ‘stimulus’ bill, & he didn’t listen. We told him we didn’t want Government taking over private industry, banks, unions, health care & he didn’t listen. Not only did he not listen, but told us that we aren’t angry about it, that actually only a small faction was 'faking it' (astro-turf, anyone?). Further, those who are ‘faking it’ should be ashamed of themselves for obscuring the true progress (government ownership of all things) that real (obedient, submissive) patriots want.
Call me a partisan if you like. But know that even those with hard-line Washingtonian sensibilities have called him out:
Here’s what Peggy Noonan says about the recent elections:
“There's a new detachment between the president and the electorate he won a year ago by 9.5 million votes…The White House and Congress chose to go down one path at the exact moment voters went down a different one…Mr. Obama carried Democratic Jersey by more than 15 points exactly one year ago. The Democratic governor lost by nearly five points this week. That is a 20-point swing. Mr. Obama won Virginia a year ago by six points. The Democratic candidate for governor lost by more than 18 points. That is a 24-point plummet.
“Mr. Obama…should start paying attention to what the people are saying…Something's wrong, fix it, change course. Show humility. Bow to the public. ‘Public opinion is everything,’ Lincoln is said to have said. It is. It can be changed and it can be shaped, but it always has to be listened to. This White House has gotten bad at listening. It paid the price for that on Tuesday.”
So much for the ‘Wonderful Listener’…
Rush Limbaugh caught a lot of flack for speaking without fear, hoping Barack Obama fails. He was referencing BHO’s radical agenda which had been clear to those of us who WERE LISTENING to the erstwhile candidate!
So, am I gratified by the voices from New Jersey & Virginia?
Yes, the way one is who has every right to say, “I told you so!” And no, because ‘gratified’ means it really is worse than I feared. I realize that fear is a distraction to be faced & defeated in order to reclaim our nation, but that’s no small task.
Those like my coffee shop friend must grow up & learn how to fight their way out of a wet paper bag. The ‘Wonderful Listener’ has proven himself a fraud, & the fight ahead will be much more difficult. I’m willing to share ‘gratified,’ as a bolster to our courage, because we'll need ample supply, & we need to draw others to our flank.
As I type, I’m hearing a phrase once spoken to a courageous & determined people who, after being beaten down by uncertainty & immobilized by fear, reclaimed themselves & snatched long victory from the jaws of despair. It was spoken at a time of desperation, & those who were listening, heard & were gratified. We are now the ‘wonderful listeners,’ friends. We are also those same courageous & determined people.
Listen, and join me in the hearing, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
Back then, I suffered through a conversation with one who lapped up his autobiographies (who but a narcissist writes more than one??) like a hungry kitten, & dewy-eyed & earnest said, “He’s someone who will really listen!” Not wanting to spew my coffee across Panera’s finely appointed decor, I breathed deeply, closed my eyes, & rolled them fiercely under my lids.
How excruciatingly naïve, I thought. When the campaign was over, & owning that perhaps my cynicism had over-reached, I haltingly decided to sweat through the next 4 years, wishing my country well. And sweat, I have. Not only is this President’s agenda as damaging as I feared, it’s worse; and gets more treacherous by the day.
We told him we didn’t want a ‘stimulus’ bill, & he didn’t listen. We told him we didn’t want Government taking over private industry, banks, unions, health care & he didn’t listen. Not only did he not listen, but told us that we aren’t angry about it, that actually only a small faction was 'faking it' (astro-turf, anyone?). Further, those who are ‘faking it’ should be ashamed of themselves for obscuring the true progress (government ownership of all things) that real (obedient, submissive) patriots want.
Call me a partisan if you like. But know that even those with hard-line Washingtonian sensibilities have called him out:
Here’s what Peggy Noonan says about the recent elections:
“There's a new detachment between the president and the electorate he won a year ago by 9.5 million votes…The White House and Congress chose to go down one path at the exact moment voters went down a different one…Mr. Obama carried Democratic Jersey by more than 15 points exactly one year ago. The Democratic governor lost by nearly five points this week. That is a 20-point swing. Mr. Obama won Virginia a year ago by six points. The Democratic candidate for governor lost by more than 18 points. That is a 24-point plummet.
“Mr. Obama…should start paying attention to what the people are saying…Something's wrong, fix it, change course. Show humility. Bow to the public. ‘Public opinion is everything,’ Lincoln is said to have said. It is. It can be changed and it can be shaped, but it always has to be listened to. This White House has gotten bad at listening. It paid the price for that on Tuesday.”
So much for the ‘Wonderful Listener’…
Rush Limbaugh caught a lot of flack for speaking without fear, hoping Barack Obama fails. He was referencing BHO’s radical agenda which had been clear to those of us who WERE LISTENING to the erstwhile candidate!
So, am I gratified by the voices from New Jersey & Virginia?
Yes, the way one is who has every right to say, “I told you so!” And no, because ‘gratified’ means it really is worse than I feared. I realize that fear is a distraction to be faced & defeated in order to reclaim our nation, but that’s no small task.
Those like my coffee shop friend must grow up & learn how to fight their way out of a wet paper bag. The ‘Wonderful Listener’ has proven himself a fraud, & the fight ahead will be much more difficult. I’m willing to share ‘gratified,’ as a bolster to our courage, because we'll need ample supply, & we need to draw others to our flank.
As I type, I’m hearing a phrase once spoken to a courageous & determined people who, after being beaten down by uncertainty & immobilized by fear, reclaimed themselves & snatched long victory from the jaws of despair. It was spoken at a time of desperation, & those who were listening, heard & were gratified. We are now the ‘wonderful listeners,’ friends. We are also those same courageous & determined people.
Listen, and join me in the hearing, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
~~~
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Obama Youth??
Friends, by now you've probably heard about the "address" that the President will deliver to the nation's public school children - simultaneously - while they're in school - on Tuesday. For some children, it will be the start of their year. For others, it's the first day back after a Labor Day break. Either way, parents will be caught unawares, uninformed & unable to give/deny permission for their children's participation in this unprecedented 'Presidential address' to the captive audience of our nation's school children.
A few days ago, I went to a luncheon sponsored by Freedomworks where author Mason Weaver & Fmr. Hs. Majority Leader Dick Armey were speaking. They said a lot of things about the state of our government, but the main point that each man stressed? Decide today, Act tomorrow! I had arrived decided (that we must act), but was still perplexed as to what I could actually do...
Next day, I answered my phone to a voice speaking with agonizing urgency, "Have you heard?...This is how these things get started...look at history...Hitler Youth..." It was time to act...
What follows is the exchange I had w/ my school Superintendent. I share it in hopes that, in the slender window between now & 9-8, anyone who can use it & ACT on it, will:
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 1:59 PM
Subject: President Obama to address school children
Dear Dr. M & Board Members,
Just today, I learned of an address that President Obama is scheduled to make to the nation's public school children on Tuesday, September 8th.
President Obama’s Address to Students Across America September 8, 2009
I would like to know if our School System in taking part by having children K-6 (or older) watch/listen to this address. Please let me know.
From Dr. M: We are working on that using an internet link. I haven't heard whether all the logistics have been worked out. We will be posting something about this on our website home page.
From Dr. M.: It is my understanding that the student message (duration is supposed to be in the 5-7 minute range) will be broadcast at noon next Tuesday. Obviously many of our students will be at lunch and will have to miss it. I am certain that this speech will not be partisan in any way - it will encourage students to do well in school so that our country can remain competitive. I think that you would approve of his message and I would encourage you to watch it on C-Span or come to school. If your children are eating lunch at noon, they won't be watching it.
From me- final response:
Dr. M,
Thank you for your prompt response to my email, and I appreciate your anticipation of my concerns. Whether the President’s “address” is partisan or not is not at issue. (I assume it will not be, having read the curriculum that accompanies it.)
Our country’s current political climate has produced unparalleled Government control in our society, and has raised to high alert suspicions of socialist motivations (& worse). In such a climate, for the President to deliver an unprecedented “address” to every child in the nation’s public schools (w/o parental informed consent, on the day after a holiday break) is inappropriate. It further ignites fears of an intrusive Government “Nanny State”. It also demonstrates abuse of the station of his office against parental authority. Our public school children are a captive audience whose parents have not chosen, nor been informed, nor given permission for their children to participate in this event.
Our family respects the Office of the President, but we demand that the man who holds this office respect the reach of his authority and influence in our daily lives. Further, we find offensive the school system’s lack of the due diligence of informed parental consent in this matter, regardless of the content or duration of the address. Therefore (because we happened to stumble across this knowledge), our children will not be in their school buildings during the President’s “address” on Tuesday.
Thank you again for your timely response to my inquiry...
I'm thankful that my friend came upon her information. I'm thankful that my mind & posture had been prepared by those two fine speakers toward doing something. Mr. Mason had asked of our lunch group, "Are you frightened, or are you motivated? Decide now what your country is going to be, then act to make it happen.
This is our country, friends. It's time to take it back.
A few days ago, I went to a luncheon sponsored by Freedomworks where author Mason Weaver & Fmr. Hs. Majority Leader Dick Armey were speaking. They said a lot of things about the state of our government, but the main point that each man stressed? Decide today, Act tomorrow! I had arrived decided (that we must act), but was still perplexed as to what I could actually do...
Next day, I answered my phone to a voice speaking with agonizing urgency, "Have you heard?...This is how these things get started...look at history...Hitler Youth..." It was time to act...
What follows is the exchange I had w/ my school Superintendent. I share it in hopes that, in the slender window between now & 9-8, anyone who can use it & ACT on it, will:
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 1:59 PM
Subject: President Obama to address school children
Dear Dr. M & Board Members,
Just today, I learned of an address that President Obama is scheduled to make to the nation's public school children on Tuesday, September 8th.
President Obama’s Address to Students Across America September 8, 2009
I would like to know if our School System in taking part by having children K-6 (or older) watch/listen to this address. Please let me know.
From Dr. M: We are working on that using an internet link. I haven't heard whether all the logistics have been worked out. We will be posting something about this on our website home page.
From Dr. M.: It is my understanding that the student message (duration is supposed to be in the 5-7 minute range) will be broadcast at noon next Tuesday. Obviously many of our students will be at lunch and will have to miss it. I am certain that this speech will not be partisan in any way - it will encourage students to do well in school so that our country can remain competitive. I think that you would approve of his message and I would encourage you to watch it on C-Span or come to school. If your children are eating lunch at noon, they won't be watching it.
From me- final response:
Dr. M,
Thank you for your prompt response to my email, and I appreciate your anticipation of my concerns. Whether the President’s “address” is partisan or not is not at issue. (I assume it will not be, having read the curriculum that accompanies it.)
Our country’s current political climate has produced unparalleled Government control in our society, and has raised to high alert suspicions of socialist motivations (& worse). In such a climate, for the President to deliver an unprecedented “address” to every child in the nation’s public schools (w/o parental informed consent, on the day after a holiday break) is inappropriate. It further ignites fears of an intrusive Government “Nanny State”. It also demonstrates abuse of the station of his office against parental authority. Our public school children are a captive audience whose parents have not chosen, nor been informed, nor given permission for their children to participate in this event.
Our family respects the Office of the President, but we demand that the man who holds this office respect the reach of his authority and influence in our daily lives. Further, we find offensive the school system’s lack of the due diligence of informed parental consent in this matter, regardless of the content or duration of the address. Therefore (because we happened to stumble across this knowledge), our children will not be in their school buildings during the President’s “address” on Tuesday.
Thank you again for your timely response to my inquiry...
I'm thankful that my friend came upon her information. I'm thankful that my mind & posture had been prepared by those two fine speakers toward doing something. Mr. Mason had asked of our lunch group, "Are you frightened, or are you motivated? Decide now what your country is going to be, then act to make it happen.
This is our country, friends. It's time to take it back.
~~~
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Enough of the mob? Not yet.
Did you know that you’re now being sarcastically & dismissively referred to as the Right-wing extremist Republican base? Did you know that your voices – legitimately expressing earnest concerns – are being accused of mob activity? That’s right. You’re now THE MOB…watch:
You. Me. Tax Paying, law-abiding citizens who are DEEPLY & INCREDIBLY CONCERNED about the Democratically controlled Congress’ attempt to force us into socialized medicine.
The White House (BHO) & Congressional Democrats say that scenes of vigorous dissent among voters @ town hall meetings & health care forums are an orchestrated, “manufactured” effort by Republicans & special interest groups.
Sorry, but my children & I passed one of those forums 2 days ago, on our way to buy football cleats. We stopped, signed petitions, grabbed a few for friends, took part in a few head-to-heads, then went home. I ASSURE you, these episodes are not orchestrated.
WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said today, with a chortle in his throat & perma-grin on his lips, “There are groups that are, uh, have spread out people across the country to go to these things & to specifically generate videos that can be posted on internet sites…”
Jay Rockefeller (D) WV, said of the dissent “It disrupts the message. The story becomes the disruption, not the message.”
What a GENIUS!! He has gotten ‘the message’, but notice how he’s tell us to shut up, sit down & be obedient; that WE’VE gotten it all wrong.
Guess what, J. Rockefeller…THE STORY IS THE DISRUPTION!!! YOU ARE THE ONE WHO ISN’T GETTING THE MESSAGE!!!
We. Do. NOT. Want. This.
We. Do. NOT. Want. This.
Get it? I don’t know what it’s gonna take, folks, but PLEASE KEEP IT UP!!
BE the MOB you wish to see!!!
You. Me. Tax Paying, law-abiding citizens who are DEEPLY & INCREDIBLY CONCERNED about the Democratically controlled Congress’ attempt to force us into socialized medicine.
The White House (BHO) & Congressional Democrats say that scenes of vigorous dissent among voters @ town hall meetings & health care forums are an orchestrated, “manufactured” effort by Republicans & special interest groups.
Sorry, but my children & I passed one of those forums 2 days ago, on our way to buy football cleats. We stopped, signed petitions, grabbed a few for friends, took part in a few head-to-heads, then went home. I ASSURE you, these episodes are not orchestrated.
WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said today, with a chortle in his throat & perma-grin on his lips, “There are groups that are, uh, have spread out people across the country to go to these things & to specifically generate videos that can be posted on internet sites…”
Jay Rockefeller (D) WV, said of the dissent “It disrupts the message. The story becomes the disruption, not the message.”
What a GENIUS!! He has gotten ‘the message’, but notice how he’s tell us to shut up, sit down & be obedient; that WE’VE gotten it all wrong.
Guess what, J. Rockefeller…THE STORY IS THE DISRUPTION!!! YOU ARE THE ONE WHO ISN’T GETTING THE MESSAGE!!!
We. Do. NOT. Want. This.
We. Do. NOT. Want. This.
Get it? I don’t know what it’s gonna take, folks, but PLEASE KEEP IT UP!!
BE the MOB you wish to see!!!
~~~
Monday, June 22, 2009
In Which Soraya M Awakens Me.
Why am I so bothered by President Obama’s non-reaction to Iran’s election turmoil?
One might say, “Leave it alone. It’s not our business.” Some have said, “Who are we to tell them how to run their own government business?” There’s a point to that, when a people are fully engaged in electing their own leaders, when their voices are expressed freely & heard easily by the world. Even our President said so, in his statement about Iran’s election, “When I see violence directed @ peaceful protesters, when I see peaceful dissent being suppressed, wherever that takes place, it is of concern to me & it is of concern to the Am. People…”
So what’s worrying the tucked-away-place in the back of my brain? Not two breaths before the above he’d said, “…I have deep concerns about the election, & I think that the world has deep concerns about the election. You’ve seen in Iran some initial reaction from the Supreme Leader that indicates he understands the Iranian people have deep concerns about the election.” How can one man use so many words, trying to act like he’s saying so much, only to say so painfully little?
Maybe my disquiet relates to how the “Supreme Leader” of this 'peaceful religion' treats the most defenseless of his own people. Maybe it’s something about my country’s President referring to a theocratic despot as “the Supreme Leader”, as if he must approach said lofty potentate with reverence, or suffer some secret consequence. Maybe it’s that despite Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s “firm line against any threats to the regime, warning Iranians to unite behind the country's Islamic system (as authorities imposed severe restrictions on independent media),” that these oppressed & desperate people began to get their voices heard.
Does cutting off internet access, cell phone connections, & information access to foreign & domestic Iranian media not qualify to our President as “peaceful dissent being suppressed”?
I don’t believe Mr. Obama is really as stupid as these statements make him seem. And this is partly why I’m bothered, because he isn’t stupid. His final statement on the matter, “It’s not productive, given the history of US/Iranian relations, to be seen as meddling – the US Pres – meddling in Iranian elections…” sent me on important errands of research. It begged my question, “Why not? Why shouldn’t the strong & powerful stand up for the voice of the oppressed?" (Shouldn’t the Community Organizer schtick come in handy here?) These questions sneaked to the back of my brain & settled themselves quietly under my consciousness…
Until this morning, when I read Andrew Klavan’s “Iran and the Tragedy of Bad Ideas”. Mr. Klavan was wrestling with some of the same thoughts I was, from the angle of “The Stoning of Soraya M” a true story of an Iranian woman falsely accused, convicted & stoned to death for adultery that she did not commit.
There is SOMETHING DESPERATELY WRONG with a society that throws its accused -- helpless, defenseless & stripped of her humanity -- into the blood-thirsty, drooling, yawning jaws of Theocratic Tyranny. There is something desperately wrong with that. The people who fall victim to it must be given voice. Who better than the American President to give them stamina?
Mr. Klavan describes the tragedy of Obama’s weakness this way:
“Tragedies of bad ideas are the most common, pervasive and destructive man-made mass disasters. Yet our thinking class has become powerless to oppose them or even recognize them for what they are….too many of our intellectuals are themselves ensnared in a bad idea: the notion that no system or government is inherently better than any other... Thus there are no enduring human truths…
This bad idea has all but silenced our nation at a moment when the world most needs our voice. Thousands of people in Iran are marching in the streets, protesting a sham election, heroically risking life and limb to try to tear some little breathing space in the smothering shroud of theocracy. Yet President Barack Obama, the leader of the most powerful free nation on earth, responds with mealy-mouthed strategic dithering. ..There comes a time in the affairs of men when bad ideas can be -- and therefore must be -- powerfully opposed by good ones.
Compare, if you can bear it, President Ronald Reagan's response to the 1982 crackdown on the Polish union Solidarity by the Soviet Union: "The struggle in the world today for the hearts and minds of mankind is based on one simple question: Is man born to be free, or slave? In country after country, people have long known the answer to that question. We are free by divine right." In less than a decade, in startlingly large measure because this one idea found so mighty a voice, the Soviet Union was gone…”
Thus, the niggling of my consciousness awakened to new & more sinister questions, ones I really do hate to admit. (Doesn’t he get that this society, this 'peaceful religion' oppresses its people, especially its women?) This man has a wife, young daughters…
I get it. I’m a woman who has the right to speak, so I’ll voice the lingering, nagging questions about my President:
Why will he not put the full power of the American President’s voice behind those who’re fighting, literally, for free & fair elections?
Why will he not, as his predecessors have done, support freedom “wherever it takes place”?
What is he doing here?
And whose side is he on, anyway?
When a people’s freedom is squelched by the iron grip of tyranny,
the strong & powerful should stand up for the oppressed…
Would that someone had done it for Soraya M.
One might say, “Leave it alone. It’s not our business.” Some have said, “Who are we to tell them how to run their own government business?” There’s a point to that, when a people are fully engaged in electing their own leaders, when their voices are expressed freely & heard easily by the world. Even our President said so, in his statement about Iran’s election, “When I see violence directed @ peaceful protesters, when I see peaceful dissent being suppressed, wherever that takes place, it is of concern to me & it is of concern to the Am. People…”
So what’s worrying the tucked-away-place in the back of my brain? Not two breaths before the above he’d said, “…I have deep concerns about the election, & I think that the world has deep concerns about the election. You’ve seen in Iran some initial reaction from the Supreme Leader that indicates he understands the Iranian people have deep concerns about the election.” How can one man use so many words, trying to act like he’s saying so much, only to say so painfully little?
Maybe my disquiet relates to how the “Supreme Leader” of this 'peaceful religion' treats the most defenseless of his own people. Maybe it’s something about my country’s President referring to a theocratic despot as “the Supreme Leader”, as if he must approach said lofty potentate with reverence, or suffer some secret consequence. Maybe it’s that despite Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s “firm line against any threats to the regime, warning Iranians to unite behind the country's Islamic system (as authorities imposed severe restrictions on independent media),” that these oppressed & desperate people began to get their voices heard.
Does cutting off internet access, cell phone connections, & information access to foreign & domestic Iranian media not qualify to our President as “peaceful dissent being suppressed”?
I don’t believe Mr. Obama is really as stupid as these statements make him seem. And this is partly why I’m bothered, because he isn’t stupid. His final statement on the matter, “It’s not productive, given the history of US/Iranian relations, to be seen as meddling – the US Pres – meddling in Iranian elections…” sent me on important errands of research. It begged my question, “Why not? Why shouldn’t the strong & powerful stand up for the voice of the oppressed?" (Shouldn’t the Community Organizer schtick come in handy here?) These questions sneaked to the back of my brain & settled themselves quietly under my consciousness…
Until this morning, when I read Andrew Klavan’s “Iran and the Tragedy of Bad Ideas”. Mr. Klavan was wrestling with some of the same thoughts I was, from the angle of “The Stoning of Soraya M” a true story of an Iranian woman falsely accused, convicted & stoned to death for adultery that she did not commit.
There is SOMETHING DESPERATELY WRONG with a society that throws its accused -- helpless, defenseless & stripped of her humanity -- into the blood-thirsty, drooling, yawning jaws of Theocratic Tyranny. There is something desperately wrong with that. The people who fall victim to it must be given voice. Who better than the American President to give them stamina?
Mr. Klavan describes the tragedy of Obama’s weakness this way:
“Tragedies of bad ideas are the most common, pervasive and destructive man-made mass disasters. Yet our thinking class has become powerless to oppose them or even recognize them for what they are….too many of our intellectuals are themselves ensnared in a bad idea: the notion that no system or government is inherently better than any other... Thus there are no enduring human truths…
This bad idea has all but silenced our nation at a moment when the world most needs our voice. Thousands of people in Iran are marching in the streets, protesting a sham election, heroically risking life and limb to try to tear some little breathing space in the smothering shroud of theocracy. Yet President Barack Obama, the leader of the most powerful free nation on earth, responds with mealy-mouthed strategic dithering. ..There comes a time in the affairs of men when bad ideas can be -- and therefore must be -- powerfully opposed by good ones.
Compare, if you can bear it, President Ronald Reagan's response to the 1982 crackdown on the Polish union Solidarity by the Soviet Union: "The struggle in the world today for the hearts and minds of mankind is based on one simple question: Is man born to be free, or slave? In country after country, people have long known the answer to that question. We are free by divine right." In less than a decade, in startlingly large measure because this one idea found so mighty a voice, the Soviet Union was gone…”
Thus, the niggling of my consciousness awakened to new & more sinister questions, ones I really do hate to admit. (Doesn’t he get that this society, this 'peaceful religion' oppresses its people, especially its women?) This man has a wife, young daughters…
I get it. I’m a woman who has the right to speak, so I’ll voice the lingering, nagging questions about my President:
Why will he not put the full power of the American President’s voice behind those who’re fighting, literally, for free & fair elections?
Why will he not, as his predecessors have done, support freedom “wherever it takes place”?
What is he doing here?
And whose side is he on, anyway?
When a people’s freedom is squelched by the iron grip of tyranny,
the strong & powerful should stand up for the oppressed…
Would that someone had done it for Soraya M.
~~~
Saturday, April 18, 2009
In which MSNBC's Keith Olbermann gives voice
Oh boy.
Just so you know, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is at it too. In a feat of daring, he invites world renowned Historian, Neuroscientist, Psychiatrist & Potentate over all Women's Issues Janine Garafalo (oops! I forgot Melonie's "uber-cool activist") to postulate & theorize on tax Tea Parties.
Sorry Keith, Janine, but you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. You guys are the 'fomenters.' Did you even GO to a Tea Party? I'll not even try to defend myself against the racism accusation. People who know me, know. As I said...sneering, smug, dismissive...
Enough said.
Just so you know, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is at it too. In a feat of daring, he invites world renowned Historian, Neuroscientist, Psychiatrist & Potentate over all Women's Issues Janine Garafalo (oops! I forgot Melonie's "uber-cool activist") to postulate & theorize on tax Tea Parties.
Sorry Keith, Janine, but you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. You guys are the 'fomenters.' Did you even GO to a Tea Party? I'll not even try to defend myself against the racism accusation. People who know me, know. As I said...sneering, smug, dismissive...
Enough said.
~~~
In Which the Left Reports Tax Tea Parties...
You know, I'm actually surprised they reported it at all. If the MSM wanted to salvage any journalistic integrity, this was their chance. Friends, they just couldn't help themselves. What's the old saying? "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear..."
Lone Ranger came to the rescue by leaving a very helpful comment @ Mark's blog .
This is Greg Gutfeld w/ Fox's Red Eye. (Warning: Offensive material)
This is Gutfeld's entire panel discussion. (Warning...)
Oh, & here's MSNBC's Rachel Madow's classy take. (Warning. again.)
So. If I'm hearing them correctly...When the George Soros ilk finances the traveling band of Cindy Sheehans (bless their hearts), it is headline news, intense journalism. But when I call a few friends, buy poster board & markers, make signs w/ my own hands, then drive to a site having NO idea what or how many await me (only to find almost 2,000 have done the same thing-with very little financing & organizing, save our own wallets & personal emails), to exercise my right to Free Speech...When hundreds of thousands across the country have simultaneously done the same... This, this is MSM's fodder for sexual ridicule, dismissed as peasantry, wholly written off with sneering, smug dispatch.
If this is what the MSM calls free press journalism, somebody get a bugle & play Taps. We just witnessed its dying gasp.
Lone Ranger came to the rescue by leaving a very helpful comment @ Mark's blog .
This is Greg Gutfeld w/ Fox's Red Eye. (Warning: Offensive material)
This is Gutfeld's entire panel discussion. (Warning...)
Oh, & here's MSNBC's Rachel Madow's classy take. (Warning. again.)
So. If I'm hearing them correctly...When the George Soros ilk finances the traveling band of Cindy Sheehans (bless their hearts), it is headline news, intense journalism. But when I call a few friends, buy poster board & markers, make signs w/ my own hands, then drive to a site having NO idea what or how many await me (only to find almost 2,000 have done the same thing-with very little financing & organizing, save our own wallets & personal emails), to exercise my right to Free Speech...When hundreds of thousands across the country have simultaneously done the same... This, this is MSM's fodder for sexual ridicule, dismissed as peasantry, wholly written off with sneering, smug dispatch.
If this is what the MSM calls free press journalism, somebody get a bugle & play Taps. We just witnessed its dying gasp.
~~~
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Memo to Napolitano: Tea Party Report
Taking heed of Janet Napolitano’s 4-7-09 memo to US Law Enforcement offices, I accepted an undercover mission to root out man-made-disaster experts in their dens of antipathy. The mission required that I carefully craft a disguise, as not to be outed a spy. I wore red/white/blue, waved an American flag & took my mother (mild-mannered Grandmother of 8, Bible study leader, Garden Club member) & her neighbor (also Grandmother & wife to retired Naval Officer) with me. These women exuded threat & diverted any suspicions of my spy-status. While they frothed at the gills with rage in their eyes, I remained calm & steady. It was vigorous work, & I even had to carry protest signs: “TEA: Taxed Enough Already” & “Stop the Looting” in order not to be suspected an infiltrator.
Their group was almost 2,000 strong in the small city of Winston-Salem, NC (the closest den of hate we could find) & I was swimming in a sea of propaganda. By the time the speakers finished spouting their Right Wing Terrorist propaganda of Life, Liberty, & the pursuit of happiness, the value & meaning of the US Constitution, radical ideas of People keeping wages in their own wallets, & forcing the Government to be accountable for spending of the People’s money, I was thoroughly disgusted. Toughing it out, I channeled my inner ‘Susan Sarandon’ & acted the part: chanting “USA, USA, USA…” & cheering wildly for Government accountability/responsiblity. Let me tell you, it was grueling work, but I got the goods. I have the evidence:
These people were menacing, threatening & dangerous. They must be reigned in – before they take over the country!
Their group was almost 2,000 strong in the small city of Winston-Salem, NC (the closest den of hate we could find) & I was swimming in a sea of propaganda. By the time the speakers finished spouting their Right Wing Terrorist propaganda of Life, Liberty, & the pursuit of happiness, the value & meaning of the US Constitution, radical ideas of People keeping wages in their own wallets, & forcing the Government to be accountable for spending of the People’s money, I was thoroughly disgusted. Toughing it out, I channeled my inner ‘Susan Sarandon’ & acted the part: chanting “USA, USA, USA…” & cheering wildly for Government accountability/responsiblity. Let me tell you, it was grueling work, but I got the goods. I have the evidence:
These people were menacing, threatening & dangerous. They must be reigned in – before they take over the country!
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