Being a liberal means never having to say you’re responsible

Posted on January 22, 2012 by StPeace

During the administration of President George W. Bush a handful of soldiers were foundto be mistreating war prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. The media;being very sensitive to this sort of thing, since apparently most of them were teased relentlessly in High School, immediately accused President Bush and his administration of war crimes and demanded an investigation. The recent incident involving a small group of U.S. Marines urinating on dead Taliban terrorists brought a wholesale indictment of American armed forces but no effort to lay responsibility at the feet of Barack Obama or his administration, and of course there was no effort on the part of the Obama administration to accept responsibility for the actions of soldiers under his command.

Urinating on anyone living or dead is in exceptionally poor taste unless it’s at a Chris Dodd or Barney Frank fundraiser and the responsible individuals should be harshly reprimanded; the incident did not however deserve the firestorm of media attention it received. Was it an embarrassment to our armed services? Yes it was, but on a par with the way a U.S. Congressman (liberal democrat) sending inappropriate pictures of himself to teenage girls is an embarrassment to the House of Representatives. We didn’t indict the entire system for the bad behavior of one pervert and we shouldn’t be doing it now.

Democrat administrations get credit when things go according to plan, but none of the blame when things go wrong. Republican administrations are just the opposite, when the department of labor or any other agency announces a program which the media sees as beneficial to their causes they give credit to the agency never the republican administration; Obama’s administration gets credit if the National Weather Service is right two days in a row.

During the so called Arab Spring when people all across the middle east began protesting the abuses of their governments and demanding more personal liberty, the Obama administration was quick to accept credit for laying the groundwork, claiming that the whirlwind apology tour our president embarked on early in his administration had emboldened people and given them hope, but there is very little chance that he will either accept responsibility for the resulting collapse of relatively stable governments and the ensuing chaos that springs up out of the ashes as militant groups like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood vie for power. Obama was quick to order our military to intervene in Libya and happy to accept credit for the downfall of the Libyan strongman Muammar Gadaffi, but where is he on the efforts of the Syrian people to bring down their totalitarian government, will he be held responsible for the continued human rights abuses of the Syrian government or the deaths of innocent people caught up in a situation not of their own making, why Libya but not Syria?

The Solyndra corporation was given half a billion dollars of the tax payers money to advance the kind of bankrupt thinking that Obama believes is key to Americas economic future. Not one job was created, our money is gone, (That’s right I said our money!) and all questions to determine what happened to it have been met with stonewalling and Fifth Amendment pleas. The taxpaying public deserves to know what happened to their money and Obama claims the republican investigation is going too far and interfering with his administration’s ability to govern. When they say interfering with their ability to govern you should read that as interfering with their ability to spend our money on things that will help his reelection effort. Where is the media outrage and the demand for accountability that accompanies everything a republican administration does?

The Obama administration has been an overwhelming failure and yet there has been very little effort by the media to hold him responsible for any of his mistakes. Thousands of jobs were sacrificed on the altar of environmentalism when the keystone pipeline deal was killed and Obama doesn’t accept any responsibility for it, he says it was the decision of the state department; could it be he doesn’t know that the state department works for him?

Liberals could solve a lot of problems if they worked as hard at finding real solutions as they do at ducking responsibility, so I suggest they take the path of least resistance, if they really want to avoid responsibility the smart move would be; don’t run for office, of course how often do liberals do the smart thing?

 

 

 

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Media Madness

Posted on January 16, 2012 by StPeace

 

The media, the so called fourth estate; print and broadcast journalists, writers of television and movie scripts, ad and marketing people, an entire industry in which nine out of ten people vote democrat and identify with liberal policies and ideals.

On a recent episode of what I am told is a fairly popular sitcom a toddler drops an F*** bomb as a means of entertaining their viewing audience. A luxury car manufacturer (Mercedes) is currently using the image of a notorious mass murder and psychopath Che Guevara to sell automobiles to a public they consider too stupid to know who and what he is. Late night comedians and talk show hosts continue to use the family of former Vice Presidential candidate and Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin as fodder for their sad brand of liberal comedy and investigative journalists who actually investigate Democrat candidates are about as common as verifiable Loch Ness Monster sightings. Are these really the people we want to rely on to choose our Presidential candidate?

The media says that Herman Cain is a womanizer and a misogynist and we withdraw our support, they say Michelle Bachman is unelectable and we withdraw our support, they claim Newt Gingrich has to much baggage to win and we withdraw our support, then they tell us Mitt Romney is the guy their worried about and we trip over each other in a mad rush to vote for him. Republicans are behaving like the stupid sheep that liberals believe most Americans to be. Why in the name of logic and reason would we rely on people who think a two year old saying F*** on prime time TV is cute to guide us in making an informed choice about anything let alone our candidate for president. I am not saying that Romney is the wrong guy or that any of the other candidates are the right one, what I am saying is that we have to stop allowing the media to influence our choice.

Lately there has been a lot of criticism of Barack Obama in the media and many people point to this as the beginning of the end; it’s not, it’s just the beginning of their end game.  The media is simply laying the ground work necessary for a miraculous rebound by candidate Obama as the actual election draws near. Once the GOP candidate is chosen you will see a tidal wave of stories about economic improvement and declining unemployment and the criticism today merely makes the phony stories of tomorrow seem credible, especially to a public willing to buy high priced automobiles being sold by Che Guevara.

The guy in a tinfoil hat claiming he just saw Elvis having lunch with big foot has at least as much credibility as most journalists. When the once great Dan Rather claimed he had the goods on President Bush no amount of hard evidence could stop him from presenting his counterfeit documents as genuine, and even when the network decided they couldn’t continue to support his story he continued to claim that even though his documents might be fake no one was denying the underlying facts. Why should anyone have to deny the underlying “facts” supported by phony documents? In my view every story Dan Rather ever worked on, particularly the ones involving Republican office holders should be called into question.

The media claims to be able to present news in a fair and balance manner, and they probably can; if the story is a burning building and the only ones hurt are greedy Republican capitalists. The media will always view political events through the distorted filter provided by their college professors; Republicans lie, Democrats misspeak, Republicans steal, Democrats commit minor administrative errors. When the media interviews a Republican they ask questions about foreign affairs in remote backwater countries, when they interview Democrats they ask them tough questions like; how great is it to be you?

Barrack Obama has been an absolute disaster as President and nothing is more important than sending him home. We the people; using the power of the ballot box, have the power to change the course of our countries future, but with this power comes an awesome responsibility. We must decide who we are as a people. Are we the descendants of pioneers and trail blazers ready and willing to take on the world and make the best life that we can for ourselves or are we victims and whiners preferring to rely on whatever safety net our government is able to provide.

 

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The Magic of Smoke and Mirrors

Posted on August 21, 2011 by StPeace

Fall is approaching fast and like so many of the other seasonal markers; Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, it seems like the new election cycle starts sooner every election year. This year begins with the media, also known as the public relations arm of the Democrat National Committee, discussing what President Obama can do to recapture the magic of 2008. I think that the logical place to start would be by realizing that the magic of 08 was really just a lot of smoke and mirrors, the mantra of hope and change has been replaced by I hope we change Presidents.
Barrack (he whose middle name may not be mentioned) Obama, is not the most unqualified person to run for President, but he is easily the most unqualified person to actually get the job. The past two years have been nothing short of a national tragedy as this Illinois community organizer capitalized on the media hype which launched him into the white house to accomplish great things like; the beer summit, the auto industry takeover, the student loan takeover, the insurance industry and healthcare takeover. This man has taken over everything except responsibility for the state of the economy, which he continues to blame on George W. Bush.
Barack Obama the one time agent of hope and change quickly became the agent of blame and deny, as he continually reminded the media that he inherited a struggling economy and high unemployment from his predecessor President Bush. While it is certainly true the economy was struggling to recover from the incessant tinkering of democrats going back as far as the Carter administration; tinkering which lead to the inevitable bursting of the subprime loan bubble, and the collapse of the American housing industry. However unemployment at the time of President Obama’s election was well below 8 percent, a mark that his economic advisers assured us it would never reach if their plan for economic recovery were implemented, but much like the wares of any other snake oil salesman their plan turned out to be just another foul tasting concoction with no real benefits, except of course to their allies in the unions.
There can be no question that at the time President Bush left office the economy was struggling to deal with problems that leaders in congress had simply denied or ignored for far too long, and by far too long I mean more than fifty years, but because they are politicians the future is never further away than their next election so they did what they have always done, what they continue to do even today after seeing firsthand what can result from congressional inaction, they simply pushed the problem down the road and hoped for the best, meaning they hoped they hadn’t done anything which might upset their reelection efforts.
Every President of the United States inherits the problems of his predecessor as well as the successes, they know that going in, maybe if Barrack Obama the U.S. Senator from the nearly bankrupt state of Illinois had found the time to show up for work more often he would have been better prepared and perhaps might even have considered not running at all since the problems he inherited are obviously not in his area of expertise. The problems America currently faces are big, they’re always big. We are the world’s only superpower; we send our son’s and daughter’s to the most remote corners of the world to confront evil in whatever form it takes and they do it without question, without regret and without the need to point the finger of blame at anyone. Our citizen farmers feed the world; our charitable organizations house the homeless and provide food and clothing to people in time of need, for decades our nation and its people have been the targets of terrorists, tyrants and rogue nations whose leaders simply have no respect for human life. Like any other Country we have endured our share of tragedies some natural (hurricane Katrina) and some not (Gulf Oil Spill) and if all of that isn’t enough we also play host to the United Nations, so yes we know Mr. President you inherited some problems, but you also inherited the greatest economic and military power that the world has ever seen, you inherited the stewardship of a country that put a man on the moon, eradicated dozens of diseases, overcame a great depression just in time to win a global conflict and eventually went on to survive four years of Jimmy Carter.
The job of President of these great United States is tough even when things are at their best, there is no time for on the job training, you are either up to the task or you aren’t. A real leader would see America’s problems as a personal challenge and an opportunity to demonstrate leadership, not point fingers and assign blame. The twenty first century has brought with it new challenges as countries that have long been hostile to America’s interests begin to emerge from the dark ages of communism and compete for jobs and markets which were once unquestionably ours. We continually find ourselves falling further and further behind to nations which a few short years ago were little more than backwater dictatorships and banana republics. Winning the future is going to require a leader with the heart of a warrior, who embodies the pioneer spirit of our ancestors and who believes in the exceptionalism of our nation and in the potential of its people, it’s time to replace hope with action.

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Tea Party Wins

Posted on August 10, 2011 by StPeace

The recent debate over the debt ceiling has finally
concluded with the main stream media declaring the Tea Party the big winners.
Thank God we won because I shudder to imagine the carnage we would be dealing
with if we had lost. What exactly did our big victory produce? Trillions of
dollars in new debt have been piled on to the shoulders of the already
overburdened American tax payer, new spending on so called shovel ready jobs;
which will help no one, create nothing useful, and eventually lead to the need for
more new debt so that we can protect the investment we’ve already made. This is
a victory? This is a big win for the Tea Party?

The main stream media believes that because the deal did not
include taxes on the rich, meaning anyone with a job that the Tea Party was
able to force Congress into merely allowing trillions in new debt and new
spending and this is to their feeble little minds, somehow a victory. When the
so called “Bush tax cuts” expire our taxes will go up, that’s a tax increase.
When Obamacare kicks in, a nearly unlimited number of new taxes kick in with it
this too is a tax increase. New spending on all these wonderful shovel ready
jobs is only going to result in new budget items that can never be done away
with and further tighten the noose around the taxpaying public.

The only positive thing to come from the debt negotiations
was the irrefutable proof of what a complete failure Obama is as President. The
only shovel ready thing coming from this administration comes out of Obama’s
mouth every time he opens it. I lost track of the number of times he held press
conferences to plead with his followers to call their elected officials and
tell them to support Obama’s position on the debt negotiations. We don’t know
exactly what Obama’s position was because his explanation was drowned out by
the gentle sound of crickets chirping in the background. This man is an
incompetent fool and has got to be replaced while there is still a country left
for someone to lead.

Then there is the magnificent Republican leadership, what a
job they did for us holding the democrats feet to the fire waiting until we had
them right where they wanted them before finally caving in and giving them
exactly what they wanted. The debt and entitlement reform should have been THE
topic of discussion during the upcoming election cycle and providing the
democrats with political cover in exchange for a few token spending cuts is
unforgivable, and what was it all for? Did we preserve The United States AAA
credit rating? Did we protect the stock markets from huge losses? Did we cut a
deal that would allow employers to start hiring and investors to start
investing? The answer to those and many other similar questions is a resounding
NO! So why did the Republicans in the Senate cave when their country needed
them most? The answer is that they are terrified of what the media will say
about them.

Listen up Republicans, the media does not love you, they
have never loved you, and they will never love you. The media has despised you
and everything that you stand for since the moment you chose to pursue your
first elected office and do it as a republican.  The media is going to use their position to
misinform, manipulate and deceive the public no matter what you do so stop
trying to please the media and start showing a little leadership or get out of
the way and let someone with a spine have your job. There is no point in
working to get Republican control of the Senate if all we are doing is
replacing members of the Democrat party with Republicans who act like Democrats.

Last but not least, why are we forming yet another special committee
to do the job that all the other committees aren’t willing to do? Obama formed
a special commission to make recommendations on the economy and spending, and
when he didn’t like their recommendations he ignored it, What is yet another committee
going to accomplish, and why does anyone think it will work? Does adding the
word super give these individuals accounting powers beyond the abilities of
ordinary accountants, are we going to solve our debt problems with some new 21st
century accounting gimmicks, or will this simply be another group with no real
power, and no real desire to solve anything, and even if they do make some real
recommendations what is to keep Obama from ignoring them the way he ignores
American immigration law or his responsibility to consult congress before
committing our troops to a new war front in Libya?

We have a Super Committee that is there to provide direction
and solve these problems when they arise; it’s called the United States
Congress. The need for men and women of character in elected office has never
been more apparent, the new election cycle is approaching, and it’s time for
the American taxpayer to make himself heard, let these spineless parasites know
that the future we are concerned about is the future of our children and our
children’s children, not their next election.

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What is a conservative

Posted on August 3, 2011 by StPeace

Conservative as defined by Merriam Webster is “marked by moderation or caution” and “disposed toward maintaining traditions and values”. Conservative as defined by the main stream media is a red necked racist homophobe, who is generally well armed and uses the Christian Bible as a manifesto to justify hate and intolerance toward anyone they believe to be different.
The media has for too long now been permitted to define conservatives in this offensive and demeaning manner without being challenged. Racist is a hateful term that should never be applied lightly; however the media, liberal politicians and many Hollywood celebrities use the term as a means to instantly discredit anyone who does not share their point of view. Failure to support massive spending on social programs makes you a racist, if you don’t support abortion you’re a religious fanatic and a racist, don’t agree with liberal environmental policy, you hate the earth, you want to poison the air and water and you’re a racist. Consider the treatment that most of the media gave to the Tea Party during the last two years; there was little or no discussion about the movements views on anything, just offensive labels applied indiscriminately and unfairly.
I am a conservative; I do own a gun and am more than a little familiar with the Bible, I am a fan of beer and NASCAR, i.e.; a redneck, (I also like good Scotch and expensive cigars). I do not hate anyone however I do have a great deal of intolerance for stupid people regardless of; race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. I find people of different ethnic groups to be either interesting or uninteresting for a variety of reasons none of which have anything to do with their; skin color, hair color, height, weight, accent or sexual orientation. I do not have a problem with homosexuals, as long as they’re not stupid, I believe that if you are able to find genuine affection and companionship with another human being you should pursue it, however I also believe that a marriage is a bond between a man and a woman and the homosexual communities demand to be allowed to use the title of marriage has more to do with offending people than anything else.
Politically I vote Republican, not because the GOP always has the best political candidates, I have huge disagreements with the views of many Republican office holders and truly wish many of them would consider either a change in career or political party, career politicians are one of the biggest problems with our system of governance, too many members of both parties come to see themselves as part of an elite ruling class rather than servants of the people. I vote Republican because it is the closest to being in line with my personal views, which are very conservative. Which brings me to my point, what is a conservative?
I certainly can’t speak for all conservatives but I do have some thoughts on what I believe it means to be a conservative.
I believe that the Constitution is the Alpha and the Omega of American jurisprudence, it means what it says, and if it is indeed a living document open to endless interpretation then what purpose does the amendment process serve? I believe that the purpose of the amendment process is not merely to slow down and prevent reckless changes to our system of government, but that it is meant to include the people in the process. You know, Government of the people by the people for the people.
I believe that the Federal Government is restricted by the constitution to the enumerated powers listed there. The federal government is meant to; establish justice, insure domestic tranquility provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our prosperity, and it is supposed to do that without seizing control of healthcare, automobile manufacturing, the banking industry, the insurance industry, student loans or any of the other many aspects of American business it has assumed responsibility for, it is not supposed bankrupt us while attempting to see to our every need in life, that’s the responsibility of the individual. Do we really want an office of the federal government issuing us the version of the American dream that they believe were entitled to?
I believe that being a conservative means upholding the values and traditions of our ancestors. This does not mean that I want to bring back slavery, slavery was wrong then and it would most certainly be wrong now. The United States of America was founded on conservative Christian principles and slavery was a violation of those principles, over the course of our history we have made some mistakes but you do not throw out the successes that have brought about the greatest nation in the history of man over a mistake.
I believe that every time we step up to a ballot box prepared to cast our vote in favor of the politician that has made the biggest promise to whatever victims group we believe we belong to, that we are trading a piece of our individual liberties for the vague and generally empty promises of men and women who cannot see beyond their next election and will happily trade our future and our children’s future for just one more term in office.
I believe that the individual citizen holds the answer not just to their own problems but to our nation’s problems as well. We as individuals hold more power than any elected official; it is only when we allow ourselves to be pigeonholed as part of some group that we become just another faceless and mostly powerless part of the crowd. The new world, part of which eventually became the United States was settled by men and women who were willing to risk everything for the chance at a better life for themselves and for their children. They did not set out across hundreds of miles of dangerous ocean because someone had guaranteed them free healthcare and a government check at the end of the month, they came here determined to build something, and over the course of American history the spirit of those brave and hardworking individuals has produced a way of life that is the envy of the world; as a conservative I believe that the pioneer spirit of our ancestors is something worth teaching to our children as a lesson in the ability of the individual to change not only their own lives but the course of human history as well.

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Resistance is Futile

Posted on July 6, 2011 by StPeace

 

The Fox News website is running a poll this weekend asking
visitors if they are proud of their country as they prepare for a weekend of
celebrating our nation’s independence. I took the poll and without hesitation I
selected yes and submit, I have to admit I was a little surprised to see that
slightly less than half of the respondents had said yes and a full 31 percent
had said no, but after a few moments thought I started to wonder exactly why I
had said yes.

The United States of
America is a nation on the brink of financial ruin, decades of politics
disguised as good intentions have brought us to a point of unsustainable debt,
our economy has been crippled by a collapse of the housing market which was
also caused by good intentions gone wild and our current leadership in the
Senate have not passed, or even proposed a budget in more than two years out of
concern for their reelection hopes. The current inhabitant of the Whitehouse
was elected on a campaign platform of hope and change, the only change we have
gotten has been change for the worse as unemployment soared to ten percent, the
national debt more than doubled, and a new war front was opened in Libya.
Liberalism is destroying the greatest nation on earth and far too many of its citizens
are not only quietly watching it happen but are participating in the process.

There are very few people who would have the nerve to walk
next door and ask their neighbor to help them pay their bills and feed their
families, but if you make people part of a collective of victims and allow the
government to take your neighbors money and give it to you, suddenly it’s not
such a big deal, after all plenty of people earn more than they need what’s
wrong with the government asking them to “spread the wealth”, as the most
unqualified and incompetent President in history would say. The problem is that
the wealth he wants to spread doesn’t belong to him any more than it belongs to
the lazy deadbeats he wants to give it to. We currently have more than 70 million
citizens in the United States who are completely dependent on the taxpayers for
their food, shelter and healthcare. That’s right it’s the taxpayers, not the
government who provide the necessities of life to people who cannot or will not
provide for themselves, the same people these deadbeats would never approach in
person are responsible for feeding and clothing their families, all the
government does is make the transaction anonymous, no shame for the deadbeat
and no thanks for the taxpayer.

The United States Government produces nothing of any value,
the money that it spends is not earned it is taken out of the hands of
hardworking people from all walks of life and redistributed to anyone who can
make some claim of having victim status. Liberalism needs victims in order to
grow, more victims mean more bureaucracy,
more bureaucracy means more money taken from the private sector, and the
more money the liberals take from the private sector the more opportunities are
destroyed, opportunities which might have kept someone from assuming victim
status and becoming dependent on the government for their survival, the more
opportunities that are destroyed the more victims that are created, this cycle
is senseless, vicious and intentional.

Even as we celebrate 235 years of independence we find
ourselves as a nation sinking further into dependency; dependency on foreign
nations to help us meet our energy needs and to manage our ever increasing debt
and dependency as individuals on a government which is slowly collapsing under the
weight of decades of ill considered promises and good intentions.

The legacy of the founding fathers is in the opportunities
made possible by our individual liberties, not in the entitlements made
available when we allow ourselves to be assimilated into the great collective
of victims. We the people make the great experiment that is the United States
of America the amazing success story that it is, as a nation we have made our
share of missteps and have occasionally stumbled but we stand today as a
shining beacon of hope in a world which offers little to so many of its
inhabitants, it’s only as individuals that our real shame becomes apparent as
more and more of us trade the liberties and freedoms for which so many have
sacrificed so much, for the empty promises of politicians.

The question, am I proud of my country? Is an easy one to
answer, it is absolutely a big, hell yeah I’m proud. The question that Fox news
and other media outlets should be asking as we begin to celebrate 235 years of
independence is, are we proud of ourselves?

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Dear Penthouse

Posted on June 18, 2011 by StPeace

Congressman Anthony Weiner is a disgrace and should retire
from public life, the people of his district deserve better, however according
to many reports they don’t want better, they want him. What is it that
attracted the voters of New York’s 9th district to him in the first
place? Was there some single character trait that distinguished him from the
pack, perhaps it was some promise he made, or it could be that all the other
candidates were just so lacking in character and credibility that Weiner was
the best choice, doesn’t speak well for politics in New York does it? Imagine
what an e-mail dump of all of Congressman Wiener’s correspondence would look
like, Dear Penthouse, I never believed all those stories were true, until I got
elected to congress.

A United States Congressman, whether it is a Senator or
member of the House of Representatives is a public service employee, they are
employed to serve the public, and they work for us in every sense of the word.
What job other than politician prizes skills like a highly developed ability to
manipulate, obfuscate and deceive? Who in their right mind would put such
talents on their resume? Yet there are a limitless number of stories of
shameful and occasionally illegal behavior by government employees at every level,
half of the SEC were looking at porn while the housing market was collapsing
and Bernie Madoff was robbing people blind. In 1969 Teddy Kennedy left the
scene of an accident in which he was driving under the influence, resulting in
the death of a young woman and the people of Massachusetts sentenced him to
fifty years in the United States Senate. Eliot Spitzer former Governor of New
York left office in disgrace after being caught up in a high priced
prostitution ring and CNN gave him a talk show, how long will it be until this
latest liberal disgrace is given a job in the main stream media, is Katie
Couric’s job still available? I know there are plenty of stories suitable only
for the pages of the sleaziest men’s magazines from both sides of the political
aisle, but at least when conservatives are caught with their pants down they
have the decency to resign and go away.

Ultimately the voters are responsible for the behavior of
their elected officials just like any other employer. We set the tone for what
we are willing to tolerate, and it is up to us to say enough. Unfortunately, it
would appear that the 9th district of New York doesn’t have a
problem with politicians who are too stupid to realize what a public medium
twitter is, and who devote much of their time to pursuing inappropriate
relationships through social networks and lying about it publicly. Congressman
Weiner was elected by a relatively small handful of voters yet we are all
forced to live with him and his disgraceful behavior. I know there will always
be a healthy disagreement over which ideological school of thought is best for
the nation’s interest, but how could anyone who doesn’t have their head shoved firmly
up their rear end possibly  believe that
Anthony Weiner is fit to serve as a member of our nation’s House of
Representatives?

Anthony Weiner has spent all of his adult life in the murky
world of Washington D.C. politics, a world which thrives on word parsing, half
truths, and deception, for many politicians like Weiner, having no personal
code of conduct simply makes it easier to navigate the shark filled waters of
politics at the federal level, it also makes it easier to be recklessly
inappropriate without regard for right and wrong. The voting public has got to
assume its responsibility as the heart and soul of our political system and
stop electing people with the moral compass of an alley cat to represent us; we
cannot continue to cast our vote based solely on the size of an empty promise.

Government of the people demands more of us than showing up
at a polling place every year or two and pulling a lever. The right to vote is
easily among our most important and precious rights, but with it comes an
awesome responsibility, the responsibility to look beyond our own narrow self
interests and elect men and women of substance to represent us. Throughout most
of human history the ordinary citizen had virtually no say in how they were governed,
leaders ruled by right of birth or they acquired power through violence and
brutality, government of the people changed that, it made the average citizen
master of his own fate and gave him a stake in how we are governed.

In his Gettysburg address President Abraham Lincoln spoke of
the need to dedicate ourselves to a great task remaining before us, that task
was to ensure that Government of the People, by the people, for the people
shall not perish from the earth. The next election cycle is approaching and the
responsibility for preservation of Government of the People has fallen to us, I
hope first of all that each and every one of you will vote and secondly that
you will cast your vote to make events like the one involving Anthony Weiner
rare.

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Magic Meatball Economics

Posted on June 10, 2011 by StPeace

The other night my young son was watching one of the few kid
appropriate channels on cable television and because I was trying to avoid some
bookkeeping task I was supposed to be doing I became caught up in the mostly
juvenile storyline. One of the main characters, a twenty something adult had
recently rediscovered a favorite toy from his childhood; the toy was called a
magic meatball. The purpose of this toy was to answer questions using vague
phrases such as; “probably not”, “don’t count on it” or “you bet”, and in some
cases a direct yes or no. The story unfolds with the owner of said meatball
asking it a couple of questions and because he liked the answers he received,
making the decision to allow this toy to do all his important decision making
for him. The episode concluded with the character coming to his senses and
realizing he had made a lot of ridiculous decisions, one of which was buying an
ostrich, all based on the random answers of a childs toy.

The reason I have elected to relate this story to you my
faithful readers, is because I believe this raises an interesting question. Are
they handing out magic meatballs to members of congress? Does the President of
the United States consult a cheap plastic toy before making important decisions
on our nation’s economy?

Since his election President Obama has had almost all of his
team of economic advisers abandon his sinking economic ship of state. These
people came to Washington confident in their ability to turn around an economy
which had been hammered by a collapsing housing market, a failing auto
industry, rising unemployment, rising prices for oil and gas and a general
decline in most if not all key economic indicators. These people came from well
known Universities such as Harvard and Berkley where they were held in high
regard by other members of their field who believed in the same Keynesian
socialism nonsense that the President and his “economic experts” have been
trying to shove down our throats for more than two years now.

Christina Romer, Larry Summers, Peter Orszag, and Austan
Goolsbee have done more for the nation’s economy by leaving than they did while
occupying the positions they were appointed to by a President whose sole
economic experience was obtained as a community organizer, and Junior Senator
in the essentially bankrupt state of Illinois. These people are not leaving on
a high note either, the housing market is still a mess and teetering on the
brink of another collapse, unemployment which Miss Romer assured us would never
surpass eight percent with her in charge continues to hover above the nine
percent mark. The price of gasoline is averaging four dollars a gallon and
impacting the cost of virtually everything, cutting deeply into the average
American’s standard of living and eroding consumer confidence, and yet these people
will return to their lives in the fantasy world that is modern academia, where
they will be welcomed with open arms and encouraged to continue teaching the
same failed nonsense to another generation of our children.

What was the process for deciding to bring this group of
colossal failures to Washington in the first place? Was there indeed a magic
meatball being employed at the Whitehouse, maybe a magical teleprompter, or
perhaps our President just got some bad advice from his barber. Whatever the
case it is clear that just as in the case of the children’s TV show our
president is accepting as experts people who have answers that fit his template
for fundamentally changing America not people who have any actual experience
with the problems our nation is facing. Did any of Obama’s failed economics
team ever have any real world experience in the housing industry or the field of
Automobile manufacturing? Just purchasing a car or a home are not enough to
make you an expert, I bought gas today and I am no expert on the oil industry. So
why, given the complete lack of working experience with any of the problems
they were appointed to tackle did the Senate confirm them? Did every member of
the Senate receive a magic meatball for Christmas? The process of
rubberstamping unqualified appointees has done, and continues to do
immeasurable damage to our country, there has got to be some point in the
process where someone stands up for the taxpaying public.

In the TV show the central character eventually came to his
senses and realized he had been relying on bad advice before too much damage
had been done. The President however does not seem to be on the verge of any
such discovery and so I am certain the new group of economic advisors will be
plucked from the same stagnant pool of academic mediocrity as the last bunch
and economics by magic meatball will continue for at least the foreseeable
future.

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Media and the Mean Girls

Posted on June 7, 2011 by StPeace

What does it mean to be cool? How do you know when your
cool? In Junior High School being cool means that you get to sit at the lunch
table with the kids that all the other kids admire and respect, but who decided
they were cool? Nobody takes a vote to determine your place on the social
ladder, yet anyone who ever attended public school can tell you that ladder
exists, and we all had our place on it. But then High School came and went and
we moved on, went to college got jobs and started our lives. Most issues of
social status worked themselves out, things that mattered in High School
suddenly became trivial and unimportant, life in the real world is not about
who you are its about what you can do. Life in the real world is about results,
except in politics.

Politics, especially at the Federal level, is a never ending
popularity contest. Politicians spend a fortune during every election cycle on
public relations and image consultants, all so that when the time comes they
can appear to be the man or woman that Joe or Jane citizen is looking for.
Manage the people’s perception of the candidate and with a little luck none of
the grittier realities of life will ever come to light. Needless to say a good
relationship with the media is essential to the process.

The role of the media, the so called fourth estate, is to
inform the public, to look past the spin and uncover the truth so the public
can make an informed decision, at least that’s what their supposed to do. The
role the media actually plays is more like that of the “mean girls” in the
movie by that name. Many of them view themselves as Kingmakers or in the sad
case of Dan Rather; King slayers, in any case the media rarely show an interest
in reporting facts because the facts are so often an obstacle to the story they
want to tell, they prefer to rely on rumor, gossip and of course the “Unnamed
source close to the story”. These so called journalists will report at length
on polls which support their positions while making light of or ignoring those
that don’t. The message is “you’re either with us or we’ll treat you like we
treat Sarah Palin”.

Republicans, from the media point of view will always be
that nerdy kid in the ill fitting clothes doomed to wander the lunch room
looking for a place to sit. Occasionally the media will feign interest in a Republican
candidate, sort of the way a bunch of drunken Frat brothers would do to recruit
dates for an ugliest date party, especially if the candidate is working hard to
ingratiate themselves by playing the part of the RINO, (Republican in Name
Only). These candidates always include a lot of key words and phrases in their
message, words like compromise and non partisan or phrases such as crossing the
aisle, and consensus building. This is usually an indication of a candidate
that is desperate for media acceptance and should not be taken seriously by
voters looking for a candidate with true conservative values, in fact the more
positive things that you hear from the media mean girls about a Republican
candidate the less likely he is to govern as a conservative.

The true test of a conservative is in how much negative
press their campaign generates, if the media feels that a candidate has a
message that will truly resonate with the values of the average American they
will pull out all the stops in an effort to paint them as; stupid, incompetent,
uneducated and even racist. Nothing will prevent them from telling the
candidates story the way they want it told, especially not facts. The primary
weapon in the medias bag of tricks is the same weapon used so effectively by
the mean girls of every High School in the country; rumor, innuendo and unnamed
sources.

Many of the people I speak to on the topic of Presidential
candidates believe that Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska and Vice
Presidential candidate has been far too damaged by the media to be an effective
candidate for President in 2012, and there is no question that the media
despise her, the question we should be asking ourselves is why. The general belief
among people in her home state is that as Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska and later as
Governor, Sarah Palin was a very effective administrator, yet she was perceived
by the media as far less qualified than an Illinois community organizer. Twenty
years spent sitting in the church of a race baiting fanatic, friendships with
admitted domestic terrorists like William Ayres and confirmed Communists like
Van Jones did nothing to diminish Barack Hussein Obama in the eyes of the media,
but Sarah Louise Palin’s difficult decision to carry a Down syndrome baby to
term and being the mother of a pregnant teenager continue to make her an object
of ridicule in the media. Where the children of the anointed one are considered
to be off limits, the children of Governor Palin continue to provide material
for late night comedy perverts and bitter talk show shrews, long after the
election was over, even in victory the Medias mean girls are incapable of being
gracious.

In every election the media votes overwhelmingly in favor of
liberal democrat candidates and their reporting reflects their liberal point of
view. Scientific polls conducted by a variety of sources consistently find that
most Americans identify with conservative values, which is why the media is so
desperate to paint conservative candidates and organizations as greedy, racist
or incompetent. They portray us all as victims and use class envy to separate us
from our values. The time has come to end the Medias stranglehold on our
political process, we must learn to ignore the noise and distraction of the
media and vote for the candidate who shares our values, voting is our sacred right
as American citizens. Making an informed choice is a responsibility that we owe
to ourselves and to each other and it is a responsibility we cannot continue to
ignore.

 

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B.S. By any other name

Posted on May 31, 2011 by StPeace

Global Cooling, Global Warming, Climate Change, B.S. by any
other name would still smell like compost. Science, when it is used to support
a predetermined position is not science it’s a carnival act with government
grant money as the prize for every half baked theory on how man is destroying
the environment. Former Vice President Al Gore should open his global warming
traveling show wearing a turban and gazing into a crystal ball. Warm winter,
cool summer, wet weather, dry weather, hot or cold it’s all global warming. I’m
sorry it’s actually “climate change”. The name had to be changed in order to
refute the thinking of people who were applying the unreliable scientific
principles of logic and reason to the ecological catastrophe predicted by the
lunatic fringe on the left.

The Democrat party supports the global warming movement
because it represents the ultimate victims group, the earth itself is under
assault by the forces of greed within the Republican Party. Never mind the fact
that some very prominent democrats are making a lot of money with their fear
mongering and manipulation of highly suspect data. A lot of their conclusions
are based on decades of temperature recordings which have been somehow misplaced.
Al Gore likes to make the point that this is proven science that has been
subjected to extensive peer review, if all the data is missing what did they
review, spelling and grammar?

The public relations battle being waged by the environmental
zealots of the left continues to be a very effective weapon, it is impossible
to put a positive spin on oil soaked birds or the sight of a polar bear and its
young cubs slowly floating toward extinction. I suppose the oil companies could
show the devastation wreaked on a flock of birds by the so called
environmentally friendly wind farms or perhaps they could educate the public on
just how far a polar bear can swim, but the media generated image of “big oil”
as a bunch of tycoons in cowboy hats smoking cigars drinking bourbon and
discussing the best way to cheat people out of their life savings is still
going to be with us.

The debate on environmental change has for too long
consisted of distorted fact and misinformation presented as settled science in
the name of saving the planet. Distorting facts in an effort to frighten people
into a particular behavior is despicable and has no place in honest debate. The
environment, the water we drink and the air that we breathe are vital to each
and every one of us. The land and all its resources are a precious commodity
and a key component of America’s economic engine, we as human beings have a God
given right to the use of those resources, and a sacred obligation to use them
wisely. Continuing the mindless pursuit of alternate energy and green economics
is killing jobs damaging the economy and hampering efforts to find realistic
solutions to real problems.

America is currently on the brink of financial ruin with
debt that will impact the lives of countless future generations; high fuel
prices are choking the economy and driving up everyone’s cost of living. The
price of oil is impacted by the ongoing instability in the Middle East and the
increased energy demands of emerging nations such as India and China. We can’t
do anything about either of these things, what we can do is develop America’s
energy resources. We do not have to continue to be at the mercy of the foreign
oil cartels and we absolutely should not continue to allow environmental
fanatics to determine America’s energy policy. The debate on energy should not
be about whether or not to drill, it should be about how to best utilize our
energy resources in an efficient and environmentally responsible way, when an
alternative to; oil, coal and nuclear energy becomes available then we can
discuss ending their use but until then oil remains the only sensible answer to
America’s energy needs.

 

 

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