MSNBC SUSPENDS PAT BUCHANAN INDEFINETLY FOR TELLING THE TRUTH

Posted on January 9, 2012 | Leave a comment

Suicide of a Superpower, will America survive to 2025 is the name of Pat Buchanan’s latest book. 

“Our government is engaged in the manic pursuit of equality of rewards, as it seeks to erect an egalitarian utopia that has never before existed.  Less and less do we Americans have in common.  More and more do we fight over religion, morality, politics, history, and heroes. And as our nation disintegrates, our government is failing in its fundamental duties, unable to defend our borders, balance our budgets, or win our wars.”

Truths like that are too inconvenient for MSNBC to tolerate.

MSNBC president Phil Griffin said that Mr. Buchanan argues in his book that the “European and Christian core of our country is shrinking,” which is damaging the nation “ethnically, culturally, morally, politically.”  The book also contains a chapter titled, “The End of White America.”  Mr. Griffin said these ideas aren’t really appropriate for national dialogue, much less the dialogue on MSNBC.

Griffin is right about one thing.  MSNBC is not a place of open dialogue.  Pat Buchanan is a misfit in a network that features Chris Matthews and Ed Schulz in prime time.  However, Buchanan’s ideas are not just appropriate for national dialogue, they are precisely the concepts we should be discussing.

Is Buchanan right?  Is he wrong?  We would never know if Griffin and his book burners controlled the day.  Thank God, they don’t.

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RANDOM THOTS, Jan 8, 2012

Posted on January 8, 2012 | Leave a comment

The signs of protest  –
Have you ever taken note of all those signs that protesters carry about?  I’m not referring to what they say, but how they are made, for example from a side torn from a cardboard box with crude lettering, no artistic talent exhibited, some of them are supported with sticks, others held awkwardly by their edge during march.  Surely they could do better if they wanted to.

But nicely constructed signs are artifacts of the establishment and are out of place in an anti-establishment crowd.  A crisp well drawn sign on a fresh piece of poster board represents an accomplishment.  But the intent is to present an image of impoverishment and oppression.  It takes a motley sign to do that.  So motley signs are what they make.

The labor unions supported Obamacare –
But when they found out what is in it, they didn’t want it.  As I recall, neither did the members of Congress who voted for it.  Oh sure, they wanted it for others, but not for themselves.  Our lawmakers have their own plan.  They know what’s in it and they want to keep it.

One year ago, labor unions like the SEIU and teacher’s unions applied for  waivers to shield 40% of their members from the requirements of Obamacare.  Under this administration, what labor wants, labor gets.  The waivers were granted.

Putting their worst feet forward –
The Republican Party has Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Governors Chris Christie, Scott Walker and Mitch Daniels.  The nominees for the Office of the President are Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Michelle Bachman, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney.  The Party has the right people; unfortunately the best of them are not running for the higher office.

There can be little doubt that consideration of the amount of filth that would be thrown at, not just the candidate, but also at their families is a factor.  It is one thing to be willing to sacrifice yourself.  It is quite another to choose a path that will submit you loved ones to the same heart wrenching fate.

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OBAMA TO LAY OFF 500,000 FROM THE GOVERNMENT PAYROLL

Posted on January 6, 2012 | Leave a comment

The only part of the federal government the President does not want to expand is ?… the military of course.  At the moment the United States is not under attack, but there goes our life insurance.

Some of us are informed enough to know the role the United States played in Europe in World Wars I and II.  Some may even know about the gift the nation of France gave us as the great bastion of freedom.  It’s called the Statue of Liberty.  How many today know the story of the Berlin Airlift or care about the speed with which the U.S. military reaches the world’s biggest natural disaster sites with aid?  Who gives us credit for the Marshall Plan by which we helped restore the lands of those who waged war on us?

Millions of North Koreans live in misery and without the freedom to move around at will, even within their own country.  Meanwhile, South Korea remains free and prosperous thanks to the American armed forces.  It’s a safe bet that the Soviet Union would have taken freedom away from even more people had it not been for the presence of America’s defenders of freedom. No one knows what wars did not start because of our strength and humanitarian resolve. This is just a sampling of many cases where the power and might of the U.S. has been a force for good.  Our president sees none of them.  He sees only our mistakes.

Our president does not believe in America the Good, BBHO.  In the words of Pamela Geller, Barack Hussein Obama is the First Post-American President.

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OBAMA’S ACT OF DICTATORSHIP

Posted on January 5, 2012 | Leave a comment

In brazen defiance of law, President Obama has made four controversial appointments to public office without the approval of Congress as is required by the Constitution.

John Boehner described the president’s move as “an extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab by President Obama that defies centuries of practice and the legal advice of his own Justice Department.”  The Speaker is a public figure and must be diplomatic when making public statements.  We are not inhibited by any such restrictions so we call it for what it is, a defiant act of dictatorship. Barack Obama’s action in this instance is consistent with that of a neo-totalitarian government, not a democracy.

John Hinderaker, a lawyer and one of the founders of the Power Line blog has provided excellent coverage on this important issue.  You can read about it there.  There is no limit to where this president may take the country if he is not stopped.

 

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PENOBSCOT BAY ON THE COAST OF MAINE

Posted on January 4, 2012 | 1 comment

Home is where the heart is, so someone once said.  I left the place of my birth and early childhood at the age of 12 when my parents returned to Connecticut from whence they came.  But a piece of me stayed in Maine; and Penobscot bay on the coast of Maine will always be home to me.

Perhaps you have noticed the airplane is gone from the banner on this blog.  It is also gone from my life.  “Two Papa Zulu” has a new home smack in the geographic middle of America in a town named Lee’s Summit. What you now see in its place is a sunset on Penobscot Bay.  I took the picture this past August but the scene hasn’t changed in the 80 years since my birth.

When Two Papa Zulu flew away on New Years Eve my thoughts turned to two seagulls named Tony and Jo. They were my pets for a year.  I raised them from chicks, fed them oatmeal from the cupboard and clams I dug up on our shore when the tide was out.

I also taught them to fly. My parents always disputed that. When their fluff turned to feathers I walked them to a rock and pushed them gently off.  One bird took her lessons well and flew a little further each time.  The other joker simply plopped to the foot of the rock.  That was Tony and he never learned to fly, not an inch.  That is until that day when my parents and I walked the pair down to the shore.  As soon as Jo saw the opening in the woods she took off.  Tony continued walking with us until we all stopped and stood at the edge of the cliff.

By now Jo had flown out of sight.  Then suddenly, with a squawk, a squat and a leap Tony was in the air. He flew along the shoreline and was quickly also out of sight.  I guess my parents were right.  It wasn’t me who taught them how to fly.  In a few minutes they were both back from their flight and we all walked up the hill through the woods and back to the house.  Two days later, once again we made the same walk to the shore.  We knew Tony and Jo wouldn’t be walking back with us this time, and they didn’t.  But it wasn’t the last time we were together.

My mother and I would occasionally walk down to the shore late in the day and stand on a rocky outcrop called Dyers Point.  As each flock of gulls flew back to their nests after a day of foraging, we would call out for Tony and Jo.  If they were in the flock, the two would peel out and land at our feet.  Mom always brought a bowl of oatmeal which they quickly gobbled up.  Then after much chirping and bobbing of heads, off they would go to their own island home somewhere on the bay.

A true story from the life of a young  boy growing up in Maine.

GOOD BYE, OLD FRIEND

THE BEACH AS SEEN TODAY FROM DYER'S POINT. THE HOUSE IS NEW.

VIEW FROM ABOVE THE BEACH

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FORTY THOUSAND NEW LAWS TOOK EFFECT ON JANUARY FIRST

Posted on January 3, 2012 | 4 comments

New laws were added to the tune of 40,000 across the country in various states; and that is just new State laws, not the Fed’s.  There is no report of any laws being extinguished.  Let no one claim we are a lawless nation.

In Idaho it is still legal to blow your nose with the tissue held either hand.  I’m not so sure about California.  At one time it was illegal to cross a bridge over a river or to plant a kiss on your own child on a Sunday in Connecticut.  It wasn’t state law because there were no states.  Connecticut was a colony of the British Empire at the time.  In those days most river crossings were by ferry.  What bridges did exist were private enterprises and you had to pay a toll.  Free enterprise was encouraged 6 days a week, but never on the Sabbath.  I have no idea why mothers were forbidden to kiss their tots on Holy and Fast days.

We certainly are not going back to blue laws, as these religious rules were called, but some of the new ones are just as ridiculous.  In New York you cannot smoke within 100 feet of a public building.  Why 100 feet; are 75, or 25, or 10 not enough?  NYC Legislative Bill A10129 was introduced to outlaw the use of salt by cooks in restaurants.  This is getting beyond mandating screwy light bulbs and half flush toilets in Seattle where there is so much water that only people who love rainy days live there.

I have to check again on the nose blowing rules in California.  Someone told me it is illegal to use tissue in either hand; it’s to save the trees, you know.

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EUROPE’S PROBLEM IS SO SIMPLE

Posted on January 2, 2012 | Leave a comment

Has anyone noticed that the problem in Europe is with governments, not the private sector?  Has anyone pointed this out?  Not that I have seen.  Economies are weak but not in recession, certainly not in depression.  It’s nations that are in virtual bankruptcy, not industry.

Bad planning, embezzlement, inefficiency, and over spending at a corporation will put the company out of business.  It creates a hardship, but only for the people who worked there and only until they find another job.  The process eliminates a poorly acting member of the economy and acts as a discipline and incentive for other members of the private sector to do better.  But when bad planning, corruption, inefficiency and over spending occur in a government, the government doesn’t go out of business, it increases taxes to pay for continuation of the same destructive pattern.  There is very little discipline to curb over spending in a democracy because the people vote for the candidate that promises the most and delivers the most of those very things that are the cause of the insolvency.

The problem is simple, too much government spending.  The solution is also simple; it’s just not palatable.  Churchill said it well with his inimitable wit, “Democracy is the worst form of government,…except all others”.

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CINDY SHEEHAN’S HERO HUGO

Posted on December 30, 2011 | 1 comment

Sean Penn, Cindy Sheehan, Harry Belafonte and Danny Glover are liberal pals of the Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.  All of these folks are well meaning and seek to make the world a better place with their activism.  This man they admire so much is now floating the absurd notion that the United States policies are causing cancer to break out among leaders of South American countries.

LIKE MINDS


Hank Johnson, the man liberal Democratic voters of Georgia chose to represent them in Congress, warned the nation that the Pacific island of Guam may tip over and sink because there are more buildings on one side of the island than on the other.

Former Speaker and liberal Democrat Nancy Pelosi told us it was vital that our leaders pass the most sweeping legislation since the Civil Rights Act into law without knowing what was in the law they were creating.  The legislative leader of the Democratic Party that wrote the law didn’t know what they wrote.

Is it any wonder that the Right thinks the Left is stupid?  I suppose you could say the same thing about Republicans.  Dan Quayle misspelled potato.  Joe Biden never did that.

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JOB HUNTING OBAMA STYLE IS LIKE DEER HUNTING, THE AIM IS TO KILL

Posted on December 29, 2011 | Leave a comment

Investors Business Daily is biased.  Is there a newspaper today that isn’t?  But all bias is not political; the IBD’s bias doesn’t lean left or right.  As the name implies, the paper is pro investor, pro business and pro capitalism.  That means they are biased in favor of jobs.  The IBD is purely an investment and business paper and they report on these endeavors every day.  That makes the paper somewhat of an expert on the subjects of economic growth and job creation.

In a recent article titled Obama’s Job-Killing Machine Rolls On, the IBD points out some glaring examples of how Obama has snuffed out jobs.  AT&T was ready to hire 5,000 people for well paying new jobs until Eric Holder’s Justice Department sued and the FCC came forth and opposed AT&T’s merger with T-Mobile.  And then there is the infamous Keystone Pipeline which was steadfastly opposed by Obama until the Republican Party in control of the House of Representatives forced his hand.  More than 10,000 jobs were at stake.  Obama has kept one promise he made on the campaign trail; electricity bills are skyrocketing.  New EPA rules have caused three generating plants to be closed already with the attendant jobs lost.

Obama doesn’t just fail to create jobs; his administration pro-actively takes steps that kill jobs, new jobs that would occur naturally, jobs that need no assistance from stimulation programs, no subsidies and no cost to taxpayers.  President Reagan was never more correct than when he said “Government isn’t the solution to the problem.  Government is the problem!”

 

 

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HOPE FOR AMERICA

Posted on December 27, 2011 | Leave a comment

Ask a 5 year old what vocation they have chosen as a career.  And then, after you explain that what you meant was – what do you want to be when you grow up, the most common responses will be fireman, policeman, teacher or nurse.  These are the fields of endeavor that a 5year old knows best.

We recently reported the story of Cody Jackson who makes regular trips to the airport to welcome and to thank returning troops.  By the time a child reaches Cody’s age they have added sixty percent to their lifespan.  They are older and wiser.  Cody, I believe is eight, going on nine.  Excuse me for a moment dear reader; I want to say something to Cody.  (Cody, I put in the “going on nine” especially for you.  When I was eight I wanted people to know I was more than just eight.  You are only eight on your birthday.  After that you are over eight, older and wiser.  In case you are wondering, Cody, I am 80 and a half, going on 80 and three quarters).

I’m back.  Thanks for waiting.  As I was saying, at five years of age, seven is half of a lifetime later.  The answers to the question of what you want to be when you grow up may be the same, but the reasons behind them are new.  Policeman and fireman are still on the list, joined by Soldier and Marine, now the draw for young boys is the appeal of adventure, a chance to see the world, a sense of manliness that wins the admiration of your peers and last but not least, the uniform.

With Cody, it’s different.  I’m sure he thinks the uniform is cool or snazzy or whatever the “in” word for that sort of thing is these days, but this young man is driven by what he can give, not by what he can get.  With that kind of spirit, maybe we can save this great country yet!

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