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The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE (OLD) STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
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The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER (MODERN VERSION)
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, And ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green…’
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.”
Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper’s sake, and whimpers, “Gawd DANG the hill-makers!”
President Obama points out that it’s clear the ant ‘acted stupidly’ and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper’s plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the Grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Janeane Garofalo appears in half a dozen YouTube videos, ranting about ‘Green Hate’ being the only reason the ant has no moral barriers to being an Oppressor.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of non-ants and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the ‘Green Czar’ and redistributed to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is later found dead and in possession of some bad grass — and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire neighborhood collapses, then the city, then the county, then finally the state takes notice and steps in to restore order — but the Federal Government intercedes to inform the State that Congress has finally disposed of the rest of the Constitution and the State no longer has the right to police itself. The country falls to chaos, bringing the rest of the free world with it. The only survivors are half of Congress, most of Hollywood, and the major news networks (from this point on, there is never a lack for bad news to report).
MORAL OF THE (NEW) STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!!
A friend sent this along to me. I can’t think of a reason to disagree.
I am sending this to virtually everybody on my e-mail list and that includes conservatives, liberals, and everybody in between. Even though we disagree on a number of issues, I count all of you as friends. My friend and neighbor wants to promote a “Congressional Reform Act of 2010″. It would contain eight provisions, all of which would probably be strongly endorsed by those who drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and would be violently opposed by virtually if not all of our incumbent Senators and Representatives.
I know many of you will say, “this is impossible”. Let me remind you, Congress has the lowest approval of any entity in Government, now is the time when Americans will join together to reform Congress – the entity that represents us, and were ‘hired’ by us.
We need to find a Senator with enough integrity and intestinal fortitude to introduce this bill in the US Senate and a similarly disposed Representative to introduce a similar bill in the US House. These people will become American hero’s..
Thanks,
A Fellow American
*********************************** Congressional Reform Act of 2010
1. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below.
A. Two Six year Senate terms
B. Six Two year House terms
C. One Six year Senate term and three Two Year House terms
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
2. No Tenure / No Pension:
A congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security:
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund moves to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, Congress participates with the American people.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
7. Congress must equally abide in all laws they impose on the American people.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.
The American people did not make this contract with congressmen, congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
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While having a race-based association mete out moral judgments might sound like a good idea to some, it never has been — and the fact that they can come out with this ‘apology’ and try to sound authoritative and humane makes no difference to the reality that the NAAWP was not around to comment on everything that self-serving jerks like Sharpton and Jackson show up to soil with ‘their good names’ (they are not about any issue; these men are only about Sharpton and Jackson).
The Black Panther folks, as one example, are to the Black culture what the terrorists are to Islam — they remove doubt in those who wonder whether to fear another race or culture. The NAACP itself has done nothing but make this worse for the people it supposes to serve, by not loudly correcting, in public, the notion that all Black people stand together to support prejudice against those who don’t look the part.
Maybe I’m just not paying close enough attention, but I have never heard the leadership of an American mosque come to CNN and repeatedly share not only that the actions and the hate of the terrorists are not representative of their faith — but explain to non-Muslims what Islam is really about and why they believe so strongly what they practice. All we hear are the terrorists. All that reaches the microphones and cameras are those separatists preaching blame, hate and death.
All we hear from the ‘Black Community’ is Sharpton, Malik Shabazz, et al.
Imagine if everyone in a house was murdered, and the Capulets had a Montague arrested. It was proven, by evidence and witness accounts, that it would have been impossible for that Montague to have committed the crime — and in fact, it was a Capulet who had in a rage, killed his own kin. But instead of exonerating the man and clearing his name in as much a public manner as his was soiled, the arrested, his accusers, and the Leader of the Land all got together for a beer summit to discuss and agree that ‘this kind of family-on-family murder happens all the time’. Where is the NAACP now? Where is the Advancement? Where is the leadership they profess?
If the NAACP came out with letters like this one every time a public individual acted as selfishly, egotistically, and hatefully as Shirley Sherrod, America might start to think that we are to be judged only by the content of our character.
But just as it takes longer to ‘unring a bell’ than to ring it, those angerly shaking their fist in the air must be left to whine on their own, unsupported, for the damage to begin to unravel. You can’t buy progress with a single letter any more than you can purchase justice with three beers.
My Lefty friends maintain that our last President thinks he’s better than us — explaining (what they believe was) his primary failing. Our current President likes to stir up hatred for ‘Elitists’ that are the supposed ‘Enemy from the Right’ and heroes of Capitalism. Perhaps from opposite sides of the aisle, either man could be considered an Elitist. But regardless of your like/dislike of George W. Bush (he had his shortcomings), I have to wonder:
From the mailbag:
If George W. Bush had been the first President to religiously use a teleprompter, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan’s holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?
If George W. Bush had bowed to every national leader sporting a ribbon, crown, or turban (besides the Burger King), would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?
If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?
If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word “advice” would you have hammered him for it for years, like Dan Quayle and potatoe, as proof of what a dunce he is?
If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?
If George W. Bush’s administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?
If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?
If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 or more Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had spent more than all the Presidents combined since George Washington, would you have approved?
So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can’t think of anything? Don’t worry. He did all of this in his first 10 months — so you’ll have several more years to come up with an answer.
Notice my domain name is ‘MacBigot.com‘, not ‘AppleBigot.com‘; meaning, it’s their MacOS that I like so much — not necessarily their business practices.
We liked LaLa because of their web interface, their non-DRM songs, their (lower than iTunes) price — and Apple saw a good thing too and bought it up. So they could turn off the spigot. I have no idea how successful LaLa was financially; but I wasn’t going there for their business acumen — they had tunage, cheap and legal.
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Comedy Central played the smart dhimmi by diluting a recent episode of South Park that depicted a certain religious figure in a less-than-flattering manner. Though viewers are used to seeing other religious figures lampooned (in both loving and not-so-loving ways), none of the followers of those other figures are threatening daily to blow up believers of other faiths, erase entire countries from the planet, or provide a limitless supply of dead voters for Obama’s next run.
On the other hand, there are still some who can make their point without drawing a target on their collective backs:
It’s not that the terrorists are right. It’s not that their ideology is more correct than anyone else’s. It’s that they scare the shit out of everyone.
Their god would be proud. If he were real, that is. For the record, some of us believe in a God who is powerful enough to do His own killing (without the help of any koolaid-drinking, knife-wielding zealots).
The nice folks at TaxFoundation.org have a well-tooled explanation posted about what they call Tax Freedom Day [PDF] on their site; but the short version is this: If you were to add up all the tax responsibilities of the average American, and plot the number of days on a calendar that it would take you to fulfill those responsibilities, ‘Tax Freedom Day’ is the first day on the calendar you are getting to keep some (any) of the money you earn.
Having said that, knowing now that roughly half of Americans pay no tax to the Federal government at all means it’s likely a bit later in the year for me, since Tax Freedom Day for non-contributors is January 1st. For clarity, that means for every person who does not contribute to Americans’ tax burden, someone else is paying — and for every voter who supports the idiotic claims that ‘the rich aren’t carrying their fair share’, I remind you of our previous story: “How Taxes Work — or, ‘How to Pay for Beer’“, appearing again below for your convenience.
From the mailbag:
“How Taxes Work — or, ‘How to Pay for Beer,
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100.
If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. The seventh would pay $7. The eighth would pay $12. The ninth would pay $18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that’s what they decided to do.
The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. ‘Since you are all such good customers,’ he said, ‘I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20.’ Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men – the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his ‘fair share?’
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer.
So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay. And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings). The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings). The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings). The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings). The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings). The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free.
But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
‘I only got a dollar out of the $20′ declared the sixth man. Then he pointed at the tenth man, ‘but he got $10!’
‘Yeah, that’s right,’ exclaimed the fifth man. ‘I only saved a dollar, too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more than I!’
‘That’s true!!’ shouted the seventh man. ‘Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!’
‘Wait a minute,’ yelled the first four men in unison. ‘We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!’
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him.
But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works.
The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction.
Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore.
In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
-David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D. Professor of Economics University of Georgia”
Our conversation is with Yuri Alexandrovic Bezmenov. Mr. Bezmenov was born in 1939 in a suburb of Moscow. He was the son of a high ranking Soviet Army officer. He was educated in the elite schools inside the Soviet Union; and became an expert in Indian culture and Indian languages.
He had an outstanding career with Novosti, which was, and still is, I should say, the press arm or press agency of the Soviet Union; it turns out this is also a front, for the KGB.
He escaped to the West in 1970 after becoming totally disgusted with the Soviet system; and he did this at great risk to his life. He certainly is one of the worlds outstanding experts on the subject of Soviet propaganda; and disinformation and active measures.
ED GRIFFIN:
Well, you spoke before about “ideological subversion” and that’s a phrase that I’m afraid some Americans don’t understand. When the Soviets use the phrase “ideological subversion” what do they mean by it?
YURI BEZMENOV:
1. Ideological subversion is the process which is [a] legitimate, old word, and open. You can see it with your own eyes. All American mass media has to do is to “unplug bananas” from their ears, open up their eyes, and they can see it. There is no mystery.
It has nothing to do with espionage. I know that espionage intelligence gathering looks more romantic. It sells more deodorants through the advertising.
That’s probably why your Hollywood producers are so crazy about James Bond types of films. But in reality the main emphasis of the KGB is NOT in the area of intelligence at all.
According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such.
The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.
It’s a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.
The first stage being “demoralization”. It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation.
Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy.
In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism.
Most of the activity of the department [KGB] was to compile huge amount / volume of information, on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion.
Publishers, editors, journalists, uh actors, educationalists, professors of political science. Members of parliament, representatives of business circles.
Most of these people were divided roughly into two groups: those who would tow the Soviet foreign policy, they would be promoted to positions of power through media and public manipulation; [and] those who refuse the Soviet influence in their own country would be character assassinated OR executed physically, come Revolution.
Same way as in a small town of Hua in South Vietnam; several thousands of Vietnamese were executed in one night when the city was captured by [the] Viet Cong for only two days; and American CIA could never figure out – how could [the communists] possibly know each Individual, where he lives, where to get him; and [in order that they] would be arrested in one night basically in four hours before dawn, put on a van, driven out of the city limits and shot.
The answer is very simple. Long before communists occupy the city, there was extensive network of informers; local Vietnamese citizens who knew absolutely everything about people who are instrumental in public opinion – including Barbers and Taxi Drivers.
Everyone who was sympathetic to United States was executed. Same thing was done under the guidance of the Soviet Embassy in Hanoi, and same thing I was doing in New Delhi.
To my horror, I discovered that in the files were people who were doomed to execution. There were names of pro-Soviet Journalists, with whom I was personally friendly.
ED GRIFFIN:
Pro Soviet?
YURI BEZMENOV:
Yes, absolutely. They were idealistically minded leftist communists who had made several visits to the USSR; and yet the KGB decided, that come Revolution, or drastic changes in political structure of India – they will have to go. ED GRIFFIN: Why is that?
YURI BEZMENOV:
Because they know too much. Simply, because, you see the USEFUL IDIOTS; the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of Soviet or Communist or Socialist or whatever system; when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies.
That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point, “never bother with leftists, forget about these political prostitutes – aim higher” this was my instruction.
Try to get into, uh, large circulation, established conservative media. Reach filthy rich movie makers, intellectuals in so-called academic circles. Cynical, ego-centric people who can look into your eyes with angelic expression and tell you a lie. This are the most recruitable people; people who lack moral principals – who are either too greedy or too, uh, suffer from self-importance, uh, they feel that they matter a lot. Uh, these are the people who KGB wanted very much to recruit.
ED GRIFFIN:
But to eliminate the others; to execute the others, don’t they serve some purpose – wouldn’t they be the one’s to rely on?
YURI BEZMENOV:
No they serve purpose only [up] to the stage of destabilization of a nation. For example, your leftists in [the] United States; all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders.
They are instrumental in the process of the subversion; only to destabilize a nation.
When the job is completed, they are not needed anymore. They know too much.
Some of them, when they get disillusioned – when they see that Marxist-Leninist come to power. Obviously they get offended; they think that THEY will come to power.
That will never happen, of course; they will be lined up against the wall and shot.
But they may turn into the most bitter enemies of Marxist-Leninists when they come to power; and that’s what happened in Nicaragua.
You remember most of these former Marxist-Leninists were either put to prison or one of them split and now he’s working against the Sandinistas
It happened in Grenada when Maurice Bishop, he was already a Marxist – he was executed by the new Marxists who was more Marxist than this Marxist.
Same happened in Afghanistan, when, uh, first there was Taraki he was killed by Amin, then Amin was killed by Karmal with the help of KGB.
Same happened in Bangladesh where Mujibur Rahman, very pro-soviet leftist; was assassinated by his own Marxist-Leninist military comrades.
It’s the same pattern everywhere. The moment they serve their purpose, all the useful idiots are either executed entirely; all the idealistically minded Marxists.
Or exiled, or put in prisons like in Cuba many former Marxists are in Cuba, and in prison.
So basically America is stuck, with demoralization; and unless, even if you start right now this minute; you start educating new generation of Americans – it will still take you 15 to 20 years to turn the tide of uh, ideological perception of reality; uh back to normalcy and patriotism.
The result? The result you can see — most of the people who graduated in the 60′s, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, and educational systems. You are stuck with them.
You can’t get rid of to them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]. You can not change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information.
Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior.
In other words [for] these people the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible. To rid society of these people you need another 15 or 20 years to educate a new generation of patriotically minded and common sense people who would be acting in favor and in the interests of United States society.
ED GRIFFIN:
And yet these people who have been programmed and as you say [are] in place and who are favorable to an opening with the Soviet concept [meaning NEW WORLD ORDER]- these are the very people who would be marked for extermination in this country?
YURI BEZMENOV:
Most of them, yes. Simply because the psychological shock when they will see in [the] future what the beautiful society of EQUALITY and social justice means in practice, obviously they will revolt.
They will be very unhappy [and] frustrated people, and Marxist Leninist regime does not tolerate these people. Obviously they will join the [ranks] of dissenters; dissidents.
Unlike the present [1984] United States there will be no place for dissent in future Marxist-Leninist America.
[Now] you can get popular like Daniel Ellsberg and filthy rich like Jane Fonda for being a dissident [and] for criticizing your Pentagon.
In [the] future these people will simply be [he makes a squishy noise] squashed like cockroaches for criticizing the government.
Nobody is going to pay them nothing for their beautiful [and] noble ideas of EQUALITY. This they don’t understand and it will be the greatest shock for them, of course.
The demoralization process in the United States is basically completed already for the last 25 years.
Actually, it’s over fulfilled because demoralization now reaches such areas where not even Comrade Andropov and all his experts would even dream of such tremendous success.
Most of it is done by Americans to Americans thanks to lack of moral standards. As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore.
A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures.
Even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him the concentration camps…he will refuse to believe it…. until he is going to receive a kick in his fat bottom.
When the military boot crashes – then he will understand. But not before that. That’s the tragedy of the situation of demoralization.
2. The next stage is destabilization….
this time, subverter does not care about your ideas and the patterns of your consumption. Whether you eat junk food and get fat and flabby doesn’t matter any more.
It only takes 2 to 5 years to destabilize a nation. This time what matters is essentials; economy, foreign relations, [and] defense systems.
And you can see it quite clearly that in some… sensitive areas such as defense and [the] economy, the influence of Marxist-Leninist ideas in the United States is absolutely fantastic.
I could never believe it 14 years ago when I landed in this part of the world that the process will go that fast.
3. The next stage of course is crisis, which may take only up to 6 weeks to bring a country to the verge of crisis. You can see it in Central America now; and after crisis, with the violent change of power structure and economy, you have the period of so called “normalization” [which] it may last indefinitely.
Normalization is a cynical expression, borrower from Soviet Propaganda. When the Soviet tanks moved into Czechoslovakia in 1968, comrade Brezhnev said “Now the situation in brotherly Czechoslovakia is normalized”. This is what will happen in [the] United States if you allow all the shmucks to bring the country to crisis.
To promise people all kinds of goodies, and the paradise on Earth. Uh to destabilize your economy to eliminate the principal of free market competition; and to put a big brother government in Washington D.C.; with benevolent dictators like [1984] Walter Mondale [2008 Obama] who will promise lots of things – Never mind whether the promises are fulfilled or not.
He [the dictator] will go to Moscow to kiss the bottoms of a new generation of Soviet Assassins. Never mind [nothing to see here, move along], he will create false illusions that the situation is under control.
Situation is NOT under control. Situation is disgustingly out of control.
Most of the American politicians, media, and educational system train another generation of people who think they are living at the peacetime. False.
United States is in a state of war; undeclared, total war against the basic principles and foundations of this system. And the initiator of this war is not Comrade Andropov of course – it’s the system. However, ridiculous it may sound, [it is] the world Communist system, or the world Communist conspiracy. Whether I scare some people or not, I don’t give a hoot.
If you’re not scared by now, nothing can scare you. You don’t have to be paranoid about it. What actually happens now; that unlike myself, you have literally several years to live on unless United States wake up. The time bomb is ticking.
With every second the disaster is coming closer. Unlike myself, you will have nowhere to defect to, unless you want to live in Antarctica with penguins.
This is it, this is the last country with freedom and possibility.
ED GRIFFIN:
Okay, so what do we do? What is your recommendation to the American people?
YURI BEZMENOV:
Well, the immediate thing that comes to mind is, of course, there must be a very strong national effort to educate people in the spirit of REAL patriotism, number one. Number two, to explain [to] them the real danger of socialist, communist, welfare state, Big Brother government. If people fail to grasp the impending danger; nothing ever will help the United States. You may kiss goodbye your freedoms, including [sending] homosexuals to prison inmate. All this freedom will vanish in 5 seconds – including your precious lives.
The moment at least part of [the] United States population is convinced that the danger is real, they have to FORCE their government, and I’m not talking about sending letters, signing petitions, and all this beautiful, noble activity, I’m talking about FORCING [the] United States government to stop aiding Communism….
Think the Presidential ‘Book of Secrets’ depicted in the movie ‘National Treasure II‘ was too far-fetched? Perhaps the movie just didn’t go far enough to explain that in addition to alien abductions and the answers to half the conspiracy theories ever concocted — there are personal secrets of our Presidents that are protected by the same legal barriers.
…which was revoked and replaced by Executive Order 13489, by President Barack Hussein Obama, on January 21, 2009. (He was inaugurated the day before, on January 20, 2009).
Never mind all the campaign speeches in which he told throngs of Believers that on his first day in office, he would do their bidding before anything else. Instead, the Icon of Change first did what every politician since the beginning of time has done — he covered his own ass.
Okaaaaay, once more for the kids in the back row (who were too busy carefully forming spitwads to pay attention in History or Math class to realize that they might need this stuff to be able to VOTE effectively as adults):
“Projected Deficit In the first independent analysis, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concluded that President Obama’s budget would rack up massive deficits even after the economy recovers, forcing the nation to borrow nearly $9.3 trillion over the next decade.”
“WELL, AT LEAST WE AREN’T GIVING THE SAME TAX BREAKS TO THE RICH THAT BUSH WAS, RIGHT?”
That’s correct, we won’t be — nor will YOU be getting the same tax breaks. Oh, you didn’t know that YOU benefited as much as ‘those evil rich folks’ from Bush’s growth-incentive tax plan? Here’s what you gleefully gave up when you elected The One as your ‘Tax Savior’ (we’ll post another chart with a third column after Obama’s fourth year):
For a clearer picture of why the Progressives hope American voters are too stupid, ignorant, and uninformed to do the math, take a moment to read the illuminating post from last year: How Taxes Work — or, ‘How to Pay for Beer’.
There are ‘media professionals’ who we used to rely on to be objective, that now are firmly in the camp of more government, less individual freedoms — purely on the basis of their own philosophical wants (and completely aside from any evidence that such a utopia can be engineered despite the thousands of years of human history that says otherwise). Those media people, like Chris Matthews, who act as the mouthpiece of some imagined Moral Majority use tactics like ridicule, defamation, and sheer volume to shout down anyone who dares ask the right questions.
Wonder out loud if the government has a right to change the rules or business and finance ‘just to even out the playing field’? Your professionalism, work ethic, and personal life are now targets for the Leftist media to drag through the streets like the entrails of a half-dead dog.
Find it odd that our President has no paper trail, no historical archive of college term papers, no certifiable birth certificate? You’re a kook, and as crazy as the ‘Moon Truthers’.
Want Congressional ‘transparency’ to stop being an ongoing campaign slogan, and to actually occur while it might still do some good? Your elected representatives are just acting in an obstructionist fashion by demanding to sit at the table, and asking C-SPAN to be let into the room.
Do you find it easier to find Socialist similarities between what is happening now under Obama’s watch, with the Left-heavy Congress patting each other on the back behind closed doors — and Hitler’s rise to power — despite all the ‘BusHitler’ name-calling of the last 8 years? You’re a Racist.
So the real question here is, “Are the Progressives/Liberals who run our three branches of government CORRECT — Are You Stupid?“
“This isn’t the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock — I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut-butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.”
- John Ratzenberger at a rally for Massachusetts Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown
Remember when it was reported decades ago that the United States Federal government was paying hundreds of dollars — each — for toilet seats and hammers?
Later, it was found that the high cost of seemingly mundane items had been engineered to mask the dollars truthfully spent on huge government waste, individuals treating their expense accounts like personal piggy banks, and pet projects that never would have passed muster if reviewed and vetted through proper channels.
Now we are spending millions on dozens of federal web sites that are designed to make us all feel better about… the millions of dollars being spent to grow the government.
But these are all turning out to be so untrustworthy that we would settle for mere ‘propaganda’ — at least with propaganda, much of what you are told is true. What happens when the information posted to these multi-million-dollar web sites is actually examined and cross-checked with known facts?
“The Web site listed $6.4 billion going to 440 congressional districts that don’t exist. Congress only has 435 real districts.
The Franklin Center report also showed how Recovery.gov had the four American territories receiving stimulus money in their 23 congressional districts, when in fact they have zero districts.
In Washington D.C., there is just one congresswoman, but Recovery.gov shows the city has 12 congressional districts getting hefty amounts of stimulus funds.
In Arizona, the Web site has almost $35 million going to the state’s 15th and 86th districts — neither exist.”
Watch the report:
Years from now, we may find that all the millions wasted on these feel-good-but-don’t-check-the-math web sites are just a newer, more modern way to buy $400 toilet seats… although this time it’s plain to see — there really is a lot of shit passing through the center of this taxpayer-funded travesty.
What is the difference between someone who is a leader, and someone who is simply in charge?
You may or may not have an opinion on Ronald Reagan; though it’s likely you have an opinion about those who claim allegiance to Reagan ideals. But this generation, and by that I mean most of us under the age of 50, has no solid recollection of what a Reagan speech was, back when we had real leadership in Washington D.C.
Before the government controlled nearly as much as it does now, there were actual leaders to be found, who met to discuss the heady and weighty matters that affected Americans everywhere. Leaders who understood that the hearts of Americans needed trust and guidance from their elected representatives — not whips, handcuffs and prosecution.
There was an expectation that the smartest found among us would be sent to Washington to belabor the concerns we had, and come back with solutions — not create problems that simply surpassed or replaced other problems.
Since most everyone I have recently spoken to has lost whatever memory they might have had of those who have gone before, I recommend that you take half an hour of your life, and watch (or read) a speech by Ronald Reagan, from back in 1964 (a few years before I was born).
It’s not just the calming cadence of his voice that matters — some say we’ve had plenty of that in later Presidents. It’s not the tireless intellect that provides an impression of trustworthy competance — most believe we have had that in every other President (though which is which is up for debate).
But there was always an understanding, a teachable moment, that came from his speeches — crafted such that even if you disagreed with him, you likely would still believe that the country is in good hands, with good men at the helm.
Allt-too-faint memories of speeches like this are why there are so many in this country moving from the Republican Party, and toward a possible, new, Conservative Party. It’s become obvious why the Democrats are losing the ears and eyes of those who can or will read a newspaper or any web page so long it requires scrolling — and the Republican Party is trying hard but quietly dying off in it’s own ignorance.
Here are the links to a transcript, and the YouTube of this memorable half hour of our history.
In many states, there are primaries, local municipal races, school board issues, real estate tax reform, and the all-important race for City Dog-Catcher. But maybe you’re not sure where to look for information on the battle that is local to you…
We can’t tell you how to vote, where to vote, or how often (there are plenty of others who are doing that already). We just hope you take a couple of evenings, read a few newspapers, and do the homework. And then vote, whenever the opportunity presents itself.
This list of web sites isn’t comprehensive, but hopefully will give you a head start. And, if you have a favorite to add, please let us know.
Does this seem like a whole lot of work for a ballot box that doesn’t seem to be getting any play in the news anyway? Doesn’t it seem a little strange that the media isn’t interested in the possibility of unseating the incumbents who manage our national checkbook? Consider this a ‘practice run’ for the ‘real election’ next year…
