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The Obama Quickstep.

Submitted by Skip MacLure on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 13:01

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The lamestream has proclaimed the genius of Barack Obama’s apparent shift to the right. There may be some brain-addled conservatives who have taken Barry’s recent outreach to Republicans to heart. In fact though, I don’t think you’ll find many conservatives out here at all that would trust the ‘new’ Obama, who is once again pretending to be the centrist he ran on in 2008.

We saw how long that lasted. This apparent move to the right is every bit as ephemeral as Obama’s middle class tax-cuts and just about as sincere. Obama will never stray very far from his radical communist upbringing. It’s deeply ingrained in his psyche. It shows in his every move, in his every utterance. It’s apparent in every association he has.

With the Conservative Republican revolution coming down around his ears, Obama doesn’t have much choice but to appear willing to work with Republicans. Even as our young Mr. Obama was making nice with the new Congress, he was scheming away some more of your freedom.

Obama is now creating policy by presidential fiat. In this case, he has signed a presidential directive enabling regulatory agencies to write their own regulations without congressional oversight… as a matter of fact, without any oversight at all.

There’s a name for that. We became really familiar with it in World War Two. It’s called fascism. Gee… hasn’t our little Obama come a long way? Let’s just make sure he exits stage right in 2012.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

Happy Earth Day. Now Go Make Love and Populate the Earth With More Conservatives.

Submitted by Veronica Estrada on Thu, 04/22/2010 - 17:22

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This is a true story.

My little 1st grader got home, just as Mom was pulling out and plugging in the vacuum.

Me: "Hey, Baby, how was your day?"

7-Year-Old Baby: "Great, Mom. Today was Earth Day."

Me: [shouting over vacuum]: "Okaaay, great. Your snack's on the table. I'll be right with you." [VRRROOOOOM!!!!]

..

Pardon me, PC-ers. Hell. It's not even about PC anymore. In today's American progressive body politic, we are openly being bullied into adopting a lifestyle not many of us would have chosen for our own. No one even thinks about who funds the junk science anymore, or who the researchers, hungry for cash to keep themselves employed in this freaking economy, are really working for -- science or the state?

Enviro-statism has wormed its way into every crevice of society, without even being legislated through Congress. It was Ban ki-Moon, the Secretary-General of the UN, who said that these sort of progressive ideas needed to be "embedded into the culture."

Right.

So, now we have children coming home throughout the year, mumbling about recycling, badgering us about our light-bulb usage, showing us their colored recycling diagrams alongside their completed math handouts. We have "Environmental Stimulus Cash Back!" stickers posted on every appliance at Sears (where we just got our new energy-efficient dishwasher). We have recycled milk jugs, our spouses filling out energy consumption reports, our corporations reporting on how they protect the environment via corporate citizenship.

All without passing a single Environmental piece of legislation through Congress.

Some would say, "Without firing a shot."

Do many of us consider the depth of environmental "embedding" into our culture? Do many of us try to trace back or apply true meaning to the policies that are manifest in our daily lives? No.

Too many of us are trying to survive, keep our jobs, feed our children. The time we do have, the time we try to carve out of our meager existence here in America, we try to have fun and remove ourselves from the obvious: that nearly everything we do is politicized.

Where is our "life"?

Well, I know the depth of the embedding .. I know how the progressive agenda is trying to put "meaning" into my life, so to counter that, today, in honor of Earth Day, I will do this: make ferocious love to my husband and do it like there is no tomorrow, in remembrance of God creating man to be stewards and lord of all the Earth and of all the creatures and slimy things.

I will remember the naturalness of our bodies, and how they fit together and were intended to procreate.

I will remember how marriage and procreation glorify God.

I will remember that "children are the embodiment of the marital embrace," as my husband has whispered to me during our lovemaking, and celebrate how children, the fruit of our lovemaking, are a blessing, not a burden or a punishment.

I will remember that we come from the Earth, to be lord over the earth, not its slave, and that the Earth is a gift from God, but that the Earth is not God. Nor is the almighty dollar nor that guy in office.

I will remember that my life is a gift from God, and that lives of my husband and children are gifts from God, and are a gift to me in my lifetime, and are an expression of His love for me.

I will remember that my husband is a gift to me, a most precious gift, from God.

And I will reward my husband, with my body, and show him how much I love and appreciate that he is a conservative, God-fearing man who loves his wife, kids, friends and country.

Today, when he gets home, I will show him that no single man has it better than him, and that for all his sacred honor and the noble life I know he would give in a moment to protect me, our kids, and our country, I will be Me, Every Woman and No Other Woman to him.

This is the prerogative and duty of every conservative woman out there.

The femni-Nazi, pro-abortion whores who belittle the Conservative Woman and the Conservative Mother, they have no holds over us, girls. We will love our men and steal our families back from the brink of hell, which is Progressivism, even if it means doing it with our own bodies, just as the men we love would sacrifice their bodies so that we may live.

Our bodies.

They've been to hell and back and we can handle it. Especially while giving joy to the ones we love most, and having fun while doing it.

What we can give, the pleasure we can bestow, it's almost nothing, yet everything at the same time.

..

So.. after the vacuuming:

Me: Okay, Baby, tell me what happened today.

7-year-old-Baby: Mom, we're having a very special day..

Me: You mean Earth Day?

7-year-old-Baby: No, Mom .. we have a very special day coming up.

Me: What's that?

7-year-old-Baby: Mother's Day! Today we started making our cards for you!

What a damn, cool teacher.

Earth Day, ladies and gents. Go celebrate your earthy selves, maybe try to make an earthy baby to add to the conservative population to kick these Progressives the hell out of office in future, and steal back our American democracy they want to steal away from us for all perpetuity.

Tonight, log off of Twitter, close your browser, shut down the computer, and put down your cell phone with all those cool apps.

Tonight, make love, not political war.

Let's thank and remember God, first and foremost, for our ability to do so.

While we still can, before the size of our family is "embedded" away.

America Closed. Move Back.

Submitted by Veronica Estrada on Tue, 04/20/2010 - 23:26

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Note to America: These.

: Dover Photo-Op

Not these.

: Vets, Public & Press censored by BO

No dissent.

Only useful service.

- with Hugo Estrada.

Veronica Estrada's blog

Death of Free Speech

Submitted by Veronica Estrada on Tue, 04/20/2010 - 16:05

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Servicemen handcuffed themselves to the White House gate to protest the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy.

: Vets self-handcuffed to the WH Gate, censored by BO

Pic via RS.

In response, the Obama Administration not only closed Penn Avenue. He closed Lafayette Park across the street from the White House and had the both the public and the media pushed back.

No access, no pictures, no recording of American public dissention.

When the Obama Administration censors the civil protestation of members from his very own constituency, Obama has thoroughly closed the door on Free Speech and, in this case, Freedom of the Press.

"Transparency" becomes a side issue as we tread in waters that are entirely un-American.

See the "Get Back!" video here.

This comes on the heels of Obama coming unhinged at a DNC fundraiser where he was heckled by protestors of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" over the weekend.

See Obama unhinged here.

If he doesn't want us to see the goings-on of his own political base, can you imagine what else Obama restricts public access to?

Totalitarianism On the March

Submitted by ddemilo on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 18:36

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Totalitarianism is once again on the march. It's coming at us so fast and from so many directions it is difficult to see as a whole, though the pieces are quite familiar.

Let's start with President Obama's most recent encroachment on the private sector, the putative firing of GM's CEO. Nothing in the Constitution tells us that Presidents should maniuplate the leadership of private enterprise, or usurp the responsibilities of shareholders and boards. While I shed no tears for GM or its failed CEO, I wonder about Obama's vision of the Presidency when he behaves more like Hugo Chavez than Teddy Roosevelt, our most activist President when it came to clipping the excesses of big business.

When in modern times has a President taken such invasive action in the private sector, apart from Richard Nixon's imposition of wage and price controls?

To understand the fascismo sentiment behind Obama's largely symbolic sacking, hold your nose and read Michael Moore's defense of it in, appropriately, The Daily Beast:

"He has the massive will of the American people behind him -- and he has been granted permission by us to do what he sees fit. If you liked this week's all-net 3-pointer, stay tuned."

To do what he sees fit. We're a long, long way now from the American political heritage of Rousseau, Locke, Burke, and Jefferson when we think like this.

Tough economic times are opportune moments for totalitarianism, and sometimes it comes with charismatic leaders who buff it up with charm and soaring rhetoric. Finally, though, all they offer are their own beliefs about what is fair, just and right. And when the timing is right, a lot of people will agree with them.

What is fair, just and right is usually defined against a fearful backdrop of scoundrels, represented by dehumanized stereotypes: The rich, bankers, lawyers, hedge fund managers, and usually Jews (don't worry -- that's coming).

Consider Glenn Beck's questioning of Connecticut's Attorney General, who could not offer any legal grounds for harrassing the bonus babies of AIG. Finally, he fell back on his perception of popular sentiment -- that AIG employees got "money they don't deserve."

Who's to be the judge of that, if not your boss? Apparently, more and more people feel comfortable making Obama the final judge of more and more things: What should taxpayers subsidize, who should be taxed more, what people ought to earn, what constitutes social justice.

To do what he sees fit. It is really no different than what Germans, Argentinian Peronistas, Spanish Francists, Italian fascists, and Nicaraguan Sandinistas granted to their leaders.

Come now, you say -- Obama's no Hitler! He is not. But National Socialism and every other fascist movement took root with government control of private industry and institutions (especially universities, and press). Private ownership, government control. Take away the funny mustaches and silly uniforms, and that's what totalitarianism is. Sometimes it is accompanied by imperialism and mass slaughter, but sometimes it is quieter than that (Tito, Castro, Peron, Chavez). Only the scapegoats change to suit the Leader's needs.

You won't catch President Obama wearing a funny uniform, but his minions in Congress just passed a bill that triples funding for Americorps, and organizes them into "local cadres," with uniforms, military-style discipline, and a committee to consider compulsory service for Americans of all ages. Even the San Francisco Examiner, hardly a conservative oracle, called it "creepy authoritarianism." And those same minions are considering passing his reduction of tax deductions for charitable contributions -- a move no doubt designed make the non-profit private sector more dependent on government, and less on private donors.

All of these policies, and more, show us a President who is a classid statist, with a profound distrust of the individual, and a will to curb individual freedoms in the interest of groups -- favored political classes of people. Most people won't be among those favored groups when it's all said and done.

The rising totalitarian sentiment is not confined to the left. It's worth remembering that our modern left and right, Communist and fascist movements, both originated from the dialectic philosophy of Hegel. Increasingly, we see fascist and Communist flags in public demonstrations in the streets of London and Paris , not to mention long-forgotten fascist flags and insignia increasing displayed at professional football matches in Europe.

Unconnected things, perhaps. I think not. I think we're seeing social phenomena -- Obama is one example -- that reflect people's reactions to widespread economic insecurity and fear for the future, a call for someone to just fix it, to make things right again. To do what he sees fit.

Why I Prefer to Be a Bad Sport for Now

Submitted by R. Thomas Risk on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 16:49

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On November 5 John Kasich wrote: “We must figure out how to reorganize and restructure ourselves so that we can once again command the confidence and respect of not only the members of our own party, but voters of all stripes.” I certainly agree that conservatism must be redefined, and I will offer my suggestions in a moment. But I submit that none of us is ready for the task just yet.

In her 1969 groundbreaker On Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., introduced a model known as the Five Stages of Grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. While not every process entails all five stages, the good doctor stated categorically that everyone experiences at least two. But it appears that virtually every conservative commentator has tossed the model out and substituted his own single-phase paradigm: Submission. No sooner had Senator McCain delivered his concession speech than some of my favorite radio talk show hosts – who had been breathing fire just hours earlier – blandly appealed to my optimism as though the proponents of capitalism and self-determination had merely lost a preseason football game. Perhaps they don’t want to appear sore losers. Perhaps they want to come across as “high-roaders.” But in whose eyes? I guarantee you the liberals are so drunk with victory that they don’t care whether we lost sportingly or otherwise. Besides, it is a bit late for conservatives to worry about image. We have been drubbed. We have been bulldozed, hoodwinked, ground into the muck. We fought fair while they pulled every dirty trick in the playbook, and they clobbered us silly.

Where is the outrage, ladies and gentlemen? Do liberals hold a patent on passion? Did someone outlaw indignation while I wasn’t looking? The liberals seem to wield it freely enough. History instructs that we can not move forward until we fully appreciate where we are. Permit me to remind all of those blasé “we’ll-gettum-next-timers” a few facts I can recall off the top of my head about the man who just gave conservatism a bloody nose. Barack Hussein Obama: (1) exhibited blatant sexism during the primaries, then thumbed his nose at feminism by snubbing Senator Clinton in favor of “Conehead” Biden; (2) showed the “common man” his true elitist colors when he rejected public campaign financing and outspent Senator McCain by a factor of 7 to 1; (3) would turn our courts into tools for “redistributive justice”; (4) used government computers and databases to find dirt that would discredit Joe the Plumber; (5) has bragged about the fact that he wants to increase the tax burden on the producers of this country so that he can guarantee a better living for the 30-40% who are freeloaders; (6) was endorsed by both Hugo Chavez and Iran’s parliament; and (7) has little patience for the notion of individual rights.

And another thing. Let us not forget that, despite his silken demeanor, the man is an empty suit when it comes to concrete solutions. I know attorneys because I am one. The first lesson they teach in law school is how to use as many of the biggest words available to say as little as possible. Our new chief executive took that lesson to heart. People are weeping and screaming and dancing in the streets because “we” made history on November 4 by electing the first African American in U.S. history. Unfortunately, a majority of the voters got so caught up in making history that they forgot to ask what kind of person lay beneath the fashionable skin they were about to vote for. Let’s face it. Obama didn’t have to make sense. He needed no substance. And he didn’t need to curry favor with moderates. All he needed was to be a good looking, well-spoken black man who hung out with “cool” people like Madonna and Bruce Springsteen. And he knew it from day one. When I was a boy I was taught that the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s would someday stamp out racism. I’m sorry to report that racism is still with us; it has merely switched sides.

This is the America our complacency has nurtured. So spare me the silver-lining pablum. I want to hear some emotionally healthy yelling and desk-pounding out there. I’m not talking about rioting or bullying. Those of you with an established forum in the media know exactly what to do. I only hope you’ll find the motivation to do it. As for the rest of you, try this as an example. When I moved to a college town some years back, I confess that I allowed my vitriolic liberal brother-in-law to temper my philosophies. Whenever he would rant about the evils he perceived Bush to have perpetrated, I was quick to remind him that the common enemy wasn’t Bush – it was career politicians and elitists in general. When he simmered down I patted myself on the back for "remaining above the fray." But one evening my 9-year-old nephew bragged to me that he had browbeaten a schoolmate of his into “voting” for a liberal in an important race. With the glassy-eyed exuberance of a Hitler youth, he recited the mantra he had heard night after night from his father. I decided I had placated the brother-in-law for the last time. Though I don’t hang out as much with my sister’s family as a result, I can rest assured that my nephew now knows his father’s way of thinking is not the only way.

So conservatism as we know it has been pulverized. It lies dead in the gutter. How do we resurrect it? The first thing we do is reintroduce ourselves to some fundamental principles many of us have forgotten: lower taxes; limited government intervention; disciplined government spending; individualism. All variations of the concepts of tradition and convention must be eliminated from our lexicon. Who do we attract? On the count of three, let’s all scratch our heads. One … two … three … and there is our answer: Real People. But just what is a real person? As a rule of thumb, real people don’t toe the party line or wear the homogenous blue blazer. Take me, for instance. I’m into The Who, Pearl Jam and the Black Keys, but I refuse to buy a suit that is anything but double-breasted. I have tattoos, but I believe shoelaces should be tied, belt loops should be belted and undershorts should be covered in public. I am licensed to carry a concealed weapon, and I will not hesitate to go for the kill shot if someone breaks into my home. On the other hand, I have never understood, and will never understand, the attraction of game hunting. I am an agnostic. I detest abortion, but I think an outright ban ignores reality. Though I am a heterosexual, I don’t understand how letting gays get married diminishes the institution for straights. By the same token, I don’t understand why gays feel the need to impose an archaic religious ritual on an otherwise fulfilling relationship. I don’t indulge in illegal recreational drugs; just the same, I don’t see the harm in legalizing marijuana or cocaine – people bent on destroying themselves will do it one way or another, so there’s no reason to spoil the party for responsible users. Blah, blah, enough about me.

The point is that today’s conservative is not as easy to peg as was the little twerp Michael J. Fox played on prime time television in the 1980s. That is why there were so many so-called Independents out there for Obama and his string-pullers to swoop up this time around. The key to redefining conservatism is to refrain from overdefining it. Agree on a very limited number of core principles, leave the rest of the slate clean and welcome the deluge of fresh new faces with bold ideas who will inevitably flock to your doorstep.

-R. Thomas Risk

The Obama Quickstep.

Happy Earth Day. Now Go Make Love and Populate the Earth With More Conservatives.

America Closed. Move Back.

Death of Free Speech

Totalitarianism On the March

Why I Prefer to Be a Bad Sport for Now

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