Blatant corruption in Washington

This is why we don't trust these clowns any more:

Sentaor John Kerry's "climate change" lies

It is unfortunate that Senator John Kerry is so set on his agenda, and likely the agenda of the businesses who contribute to his campaign, that he openly lies to "prove" his point.

SEIU opposes community service of Boy Scouts

You just can't make this stuff up.

In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson, 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an east Allentown park.

Little did the do-gooder know that his altruistic act would put him in the cross hairs of the city's largest municipal union.

Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees International Union, told Allentown City Council Tuesday that the union is considering filing a grievance against the city for allowing Anderson to clear a 1,000-foot walking and biking path at Kimmets Lock Park.

"We'll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails," Balzano told the council.

Seriously, unions oppose volunteerism? Isn't it enough that many people perceive union members as lazy, having no incentive to be high achievers? Now the SEIU is openly opposing working for free for the good of one's own community. What is this world coming to?

Stop apologizing for America and apologize for yourself!

Seriously, can our President learn the decorum of being the leader of the United States of America?

Did you see this?


That is the President of the United States of America bowing to the Emperor of Japan, symbolizing subjection to the Emperor. Will the White House lie about this like they did when the President bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia?

Michelle Malkin is right when she calls this sign directed at President Obama "one of [her] favorite Tea Party Signs:

The words of an "extremist"

"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Thomas Jefferson would be seen as some nut-job extremist if he lived and spoke today. This is the state of our society.

Does affordable private health insurance exist?

Does affordable private health insurance exist? This question seems to no longer even be asked, with the assumption being made that it does not. However, economist Mark J. Perry points out that affordable private health insurance does in fact exist!

Go read his blog here. No really, if you haven't clicked the link to the left, then click this one. If you still haven't clicked yet, you are clearly too significantly influenced by the real "fear mongers", so have it as you will.

Ayn Rand's thoughts on where we are headed

Ayn Rand wrote:

A “mixed economy” [socialism/capitalism] is a society in the process of committing suicide.

A nation cannot survive half-slave, half-free. Consider the condition of a nation in which every other social group becomes both the slave and the enslaved of every other group. Ask yourself how long such a condition can last and what its inevitable outcome will be.

Statism is a system of perpetual civil war. And that war in a “mixed economy” takes the form of “pressure group" warfare, each group fighting for legislation to extort its own advantage by force from all other groups.

STATISM is nothing more than gang rule.

We are already in a mixed economy. Giving the government control over another 1/6 of our economy tips the scales even further and the "pressure group warfare," as Rand calls it will only become greater and greater.

HT: Beetle Blogger via Atlas Shrugs blog

Not an outdated concept

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

-10th Amendment to the US Constitution

How many of our legislators today even care that is this is one of the laws of our land?

Unemployment hits 10.2% - repeal the "stimulus" now!

Do you remember when President-elect Obama said his supposed "stimulus" package "will likely save or create three to four million jobs"? Today the US Department of Labor released October's unemployment statistics and it is not pretty. 10.2% unemployment is what the Keynesian stimulus has brought us. Obama claims he "created or saved" (as if you can actually calculate "saved") exactly 640,329 jobs. Okay, I'll give him that. Congratulations on blowing approximately $150-$200 billion of our dollars to reduce unemployment by about 0.4% (640,329 "saved or created" / 153.9MM workers)! The effect on employment of the President's destructive polices is far greater than even his own fuzzy-calculated 640,329 jobs number.

It is clear that the supposed stimulus and recovery package is neither. It must be repealed immediately. Hopefully we will see actual conservatives run for Congress this next election cycle that run on, amongst other things, repealing the stimulus pork package.

Graphically, here are two charts showing the unemployment rate under Obama's careful watch via Gateway Pundit:

Al Gore lies but I'm okay with that

Tuesday Diane Sawyer called out Al Gore on his global warming climate change whatever sounds best this week hypocrisy and Gore continued to lie without blinking (full transcript here). Unfortunately Sawyer didn't pursue the obvious question that should have come out of Gore's response.



After Sawyer referred to the finding in a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations that methane is 20 times more damaging than CO2 (the report actually says 23 times more damaging), Gore respond:

Well, you know, there is a serious issue about the connection between the growing meat intensity of diets around the world and damage to the environment. That is a legitimate issue. And like a lot of people, I eat less meat now than I used to. I'm not a vegetarian, don't plan to become one, but it's a healthy choice to eat more vegetables than fruits. So it's not a laughable issue. Diet is an issue that's connected but the biggest issue by far is CO2.

So, to paraphrase, Al Gore basically said, "Blah blah blah. I hope you stopped paying attention so you don't hear what I'm actually going to say. Blah blah blah. I'm not going to stop eating meat even if methane is 23 times more damaging to the environment. Blah blah blah. Even though the UN says methane is 23 times more damaging the biggest issue by far is CO2 because that's how I make my fortune. Blah blah blah. . . ."

Of course, Sawyer didn't exactly start the interview on honest terms when she claimed early on that Al Gore "saved" 1,513 innocent little trees that could never be replanted. Except for the fact that had Al Gore's new book not been published, something essential like, I don't know, toilet paper could have used the recycled material that "saved" 1,513 trees. So in reality Gore's book removed resources from the market pool, which eventually did lead to 1,513 trees being ruthlessly slaughter, as there is not enough recyclable paper available to meet all paper needs. He is guilty of massacring 1,513 trees, though not directly. It's like he ordered the hit because he didn't want the blood (sap?) on his hands.

Look, I am all for Al Gore preaching his Earth doctrine using whatever fallacies he uses to sell it and making all the profit he can by doing it because I'm a capitalist and I believe in the consumer freely making their own choices. But the media being complicit in upholding his lies is just too much. Diane Sawyer started down the wrong path with the "trees saved", then tried to actually ask an honest question, but left Gore to preach his hypocrisy. With "questioning" like that from the World News Tonight anchor-elect, it is no wonder network news has a minimal audience these days. Which brings us back to consumer choices in what is left of our free market.

The people of Maine stand for marriage!

Maine is the 31st state to take gay "marriage" to the people and Maine is the 31st state whose people have rejected this special "right". It is very heartening to see the people of this country stand up for families and morality.

This morning I happened to read a quote from a man I revere as a prophet of God that is quite apropos:

And I, God said unto mine Only Begotten, which was with me from the beginning: Let us make man [not a separate man, but a complete man, which is husband and wife] in our image, after our likeness; and it was so.” What a beautiful partnership! Adam and Eve were married for eternity by the Lord. Such a marriage extends beyond the grave. All peoples should call for this kind of marriage. . . .

“This is a partnership. Then when they had created them in the image of God, to them was given the eternal command, ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it’, and as they completed this magnificent creation, they looked it over and pronounced it ‘good, very good’—something that isn’t to be improved upon by our modern intellectuals; the male to till the ground, support the family, to give proper leadership; the woman to cooperate, to bear the children, and to rear and teach them. It was ‘good, very good.’

“And that’s the way the Lord organized it. This wasn’t an experiment. He knew what he was doing.”

-Spencer W. Kimball

The family as defined since the beginning of time is not an experiment. God knew exactly what he was doing when he blessed us with families. Regardless of the changing social winds, this is the standard. Thankfully the people of Maine are the latest to raise up in support of this standard.

I'm not impressed with the gubernatorial elections

It seems Americans continue to vote for the alternative for the alternative's sake. I'm not impressed. I will not be impressed until we send true conservatives with traditional American values to Washington. I think the Republican Party power brokers will see this as a shift in their direction. I believe they are wrong.

The true litmus test here will be if conservatives will vote with their beliefs. Doug Hoffman's rise from unknown conservative independent to nearly bucking the entire ridiculous two-party system should be seen by conservatives as the beginning, not the end due to his loss.

The time to follow through on the stand many of us have taken beginning with the tea parties is here. We must continue to support conservative candidates, not the Republicans or Democrats for the sake of their party affiliation. We can and we will win. If a goofy unknown guy like Doug Hoffman can come out of nowhere and nearly win a Congressional seat in New York, real conservatives and regular people like Hoffman can and will win all over the country.

Though I'm not impressed with Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell's election win, I am impressed with America by Doug Hoffman's 40%+ vote.

So repeat after me:

YOU ARE NOT WASTING YOUR VOTE WHEN VOTING YOUR CONSCIENCE!

Now say it again and again and again. Now practice it.