National ID Card Or A Number Tattooed On Your Arm?

National ID Card Or A Number Tattooed On Your Arm?

By: J. D. Longstreet
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I read recently that a proposal for a National I.D. card for American citizens may soon be back on the table for consideration by US Lawmakers. There are some who believe approval for a National ID card is growing.

I have to ask: what is wrong with Americans? Are we sheep to be herded by a National Shepherd? Where is the individualism that won this country from the British and then stretched it across the entire continent to the shores of the Pacific? Even the oceans could not hold back our burning desire for FREEDOM! Yet, today, we are begging the federal government to take our freedoms away! This is scandalous! This borders on cowardice of the highest magnitude!

Are we so quick to give back the liberties bought with the precious blood of our forefathers, our ancestors, and in many cases our immediate relatives? In cemeteries all over the globe lie the bodies of American men and women who put their lives on the line and shed their blood up to the "last full measure" to ensure you and I the freedoms we are now begging the Federal Government to take away!

Some example we are setting for the rest of the world! Look at the cowardly Americans. They talk a good game but when the going gets tough they run to hide under the wings of the Federal Nanny!

Our national motto is: "In God We Trust." Apparently it’s a lie! If we truly placed our trust in God we would not be so hasty to misplace it in a government, which is already too big and intrusive.

There comes a time when we have to stand on our own two feet. Sure there is risk involved in living free! That's why it's called freedom. It means, simply, that you (you and I) take responsibility for ourselves! Example: If I'm afraid to get on a plane.... then I WON'T get on a plane! We have to understand, as did our forefathers, that living free does not mean, necessarily, living secure! To live free, it is required that we must live with certain insecurities, or risks.

There is also the thing called “respect” and “self-respect.” Respect is earned. You earn the respect of your fellowman, and the respect of the world, by standing on your own two feet as a man! You do not earn respect by leaning on others… and that includes leaning on the government. Modern day Americans have forgotten that that. I am embarrassed, as an American, to find that I even feel I have to explain that to my fellow Americans!

Something profound has happened to Americans. That steel in our character is gone. That “damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead” characteristic of American manhood is not there anymore. As a result, our way of life, our freedom, indeed, our nation is at risk. American used to be known for sticking their finger in the eye of government.

I don’t know. Maybe it’s just me. I am proud of my ancestors who were bootleggers and smugglers. They left me more than fond memories. They left me with a strong distrust of government. I think that distrust is healthy. They left me something else as well. They made me understand that the government is not responsible for me. They taught me that a man is always responsible for himself. They taught me that the more I depended on government the more dependence government would require until I had nothing left to give and then I would find that I was a slave to that government.

The historian Edward Gibbon had it about right when he wrote of ancient Athens: "In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life and they lost it all… security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted NOT TO GIVE TO SOCIETY BUT FOR SOCIETY TO GIVE TO THEM, when the freedom they wanted most was FREEDOM FROM RESPONSIBILITY, then ATHENS CEASED TO BE FREE...AND NEVER WAS FREE AGAIN!

I agree that we need some government. But, I believe, as did our forefathers, that the government, especially the federal government was, and is, intended to be an agent of the states, and not the other way around! Our American Founders believed a federal government was answerable to the states… not the states to the federal government.

I believe the government does some things well.... as it should. One such thing is "provide for the common defense" with a well trained and equipped military. I believe as did one of our founding fathers, Thomas Paine, one of the early “pamphleteers” (Most likely a “Blogger” today!) who said: "Government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in it's worse state, and intolerable one." (From: Common Sense).

In this Democratic Republic we call America; it is up to us, the citizens, to keep our government on a short rein. Indeed, it is our duty, as citizens, to keep the tentacles of government out of our every day existence. They have no business there. We must be wary of "Knee-Jerk" responses to danger, real or imagined, such as I believe the National I.D. Card to be. If the government wants to "Card" somebody, why not make every one not a citizen of this country carry one (An I.D. Card) while inside our borders?

How dangerous is Big Government? Well, I believe Alexis de Tocqueville summed it up nicely when writing of the dangers of big government. Tocqueville said of big government: "it covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds, and the most energetic characters, cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, extinguishes, and stupefies people, 'til each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." (Alexis de Tocqueville on "Big Government".)

Well, there you have it. Animals with a shepherd!

I don't know about you, but I don't want to be counted among the animals that need a shepherd. I, like millions of Americans before me, will live free! I do not choose to beg the government to take back the liberty my ancestors fought and died that I might have. It's blasphemy!

I want my grandchildren to live, and grow up, in a free country. A country, which will allow them to be everything they are capable of being. I don't want their prospects to be lessened by the intrusions of government. I owe them that. I owe them an America in which they can be FREE. Free to succeed and, yes, free to fail! I owe them an America my father, and my forefathers, placed in my safe keeping (as did yours) at my (our) birth. To be worthy custodians of this nation’s freedom, we must insure that we pass it along no less free that when we received it!

As I look about me today, at modern day America, I have to conclude we have failed at the single most important task we have as adult Americans. That task is to preserve freedom in this country… to guarantee a future for our children in a free nation. A National ID card is much the same as a tattooed number on your forearm. It is proof of ownership… by someone other than you. Next will come the National RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chip implanted at birth. It will broadcast a radio signal all the days of your life telling the government who you are, and where you are, at all times. National ID, of any kind, takes away one of your basic rights, the right to privacy.

It is time to get a grip, America! Our National Anthem says: “…The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.” Well, don’t you think it is about time we began to act like it? A National ID card would say to the world just the opposite.

J. D. Longstreet

*** For an interesting read go HERE. and HERE.

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conservative+privacy+National+ID+Card

A Special Report by Alan Caruba: "Skeptics, Deniers, and World Class Scientists"

"SPECIAL REPORT!!"... by Alan Caruba

Skeptics, Deniers, and World Class Scientists
By Alan Caruba

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After spending time at the largest gathering of world class climatologists, meteorologists, physicists, engineers, and economists, among other very brainy folks, I came away with the feeling that the battle remains joined by this hearty group, otherwise derided as skeptics and deniers of global warming.

The occasion was the second annual International Conference on Climate Change sponsored by The Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based free market think tank. The place was New York City and the gathering involved seminars on all aspects of the bogus science put forth by the global warming alarmists. The conclusion should come as no surprise. There simply is no valid science that supports the claim that the Earth has warmed dramatically, is warming dramatically, or is likely to warm dramatically.

I find it almost amusing—if it weren’t so important—that the alarmists never make any mention of the fact, verified by weather satellites, that the Earth has been in a decade-long cooling trend and some who have examined it think it will continue for twenty or thirty more years. The increased severity of winter weather events around the world is testament to that. It is not getting warmer. It is getting colder.

Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic and serving also in a rotating term as president of the European Union, received a standing ovation at the beginning and end of his presentation. “Their true plans and ambitions (are) to stop economic development and return mankind centuries back,” said Klaus of the globally united environmental organizations and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

It’s worth pointing out that the IPCC is not about “science”; it is about “government” as the name implies and, despite claims of scientific authority, its computer climate models and the claims based on them are held in universal disdain by the relative handful of men who understand climate or weather.

As Klaus noted, the alarmists are “not able to explain why the global temperature increased from 1918, decreased from 1940 to 1976, increased from 1976 to 1998, and decreased from 1998 to the present, irrespective of the fact that the people have been adding increasing amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.”“It is evident that the environmentalists don’t want to change the climate. They want to change our behavior…to control and manipulate us,” said Klaus. That’s what all totalitarian regimes want to do.

Sadly, anyone watching the behavior of leading scientific organizations knows that they have thrown their prestige behind the alarmists, giving awards and honors to the likes of Al Gore and NASA’s James Hansen when it is obvious to all that both are engaged in the worst kind of hucksterism and charlatanism. Many of these organization’s members are less than thrilled by this further evidence of the politicization of science.

Great dangers do exist for Americans and others around the world for whom the Big Lie of carbon dioxide emissions is being used by the White House and in Congress to justify legislation that would impose “cap and trade” regulations and by an Environmental Protection Agency that is poised to regulate CO2 as a “pollutant” under auspices of the Clean Air Act. It is a massive fraud.

It will prove enormously costly to every kind of business and industry in America. It has the potential of undermining the economy to a point where we shall never be able to recover from the present financial crisis.

All this was on the minds of those attending the conference. It should be on your mind too and it is why you have to ask your elected representatives and senators, “Why do you want to raise my energy prices?” That’s the ultimate punishment every American will bear because regulation of CO2 is about energy use of every description.

Why do you want to raise my energy prices? If they tell you it’s because of global warming, tell them you will not vote for them and in 2010, vote them out of office!

Compared to the thousands of environmentalists running about issuing notices of doom, a gathering of 800 men and women from around the world may not seem like much, but they have something beyond value on their side; the truth!

Alan Caruba writes a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/. Every week, he posts a column on the website of The National Anxiety Center, http://www.anxietycenter.com/.

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Global+Warming+Climate+Change+Religion+Pagan+Socialism+Ethanol+carbon+Tax+hoax

OBAMA THE PARTY ANIMAL!! FIDDLES WHILE AMERICA BURNS?

OBAMA THE PARTY ANIMAL!!

FIDDLES WHILE AMERICA BURNS?

By J. D. Longstreet
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Parrrr… TAY!

If there is a party in DC it must be at the White House and it must be the Obamas!

Turns out the Obamas are the America’s number one party animals!

While the rest of America stays home at night, burns the lights as little as possible to conserve on electricity, and the precious money it takes to pay the power bill, the Obamas are partying! Yeah, man, party ON!

While Americans hit the sack early so they can be out bright and early the next morning, job-hunting, the Obamas are partying until well after midnight!

Yep! The two things Obama has in common with the Roman emperor Nero… both were/are party animals and both had their countries crumbling about them as they partied!

There is a great piece on the “party scene” at the Obama White House HERE.

Why does this not surprise me? Because we, here at IOF, had the man pegged right out of the shute! Look, a politician must be able to feign (fake) earnestness. Once you can do that, and do it well, you’ve got it made in politics. Obama is absolutely splendid at faking earnestness. The shrinks will tell you people will follow a person who seems to know where he is going. Thus, the expression “Sheeple.”

Oh, did I mention that is your money? Uh-huh. Yep. Maybe not ALL of it, but certainly a HUGE chunk of it comes from the US treasury.

Look, I have done my time at cocktail parties, dinner parties, and dances and I learned I am about as comfortable in the dentist’s chair as I am at a gathering of that type. But, that is just me. As I remember, though, I attended only two dinner parties that were funded by taxpayers and both those were with the governor at the gubernatorial mansion. And the great state of North Carolina was not crumbling around us as we partied!

It is just unseemly. It is just not done! Not in polite circles. You don’t throw a party in the middle of misery… unless, apparently, you are the Obamas.

So now “Freedom Watch” is investigating the parties in an attempt to determine from the General Services Administration how much taxpayer money is actually being spent on these lavish galas. Larry Klayman, founder, Chairman and General Counsel of Freedom Watch issued the following statement:

“This party atmosphere sends the wrong message to the American people. As the Obama-Clinton crowd party on, the American people are suffering greatly. It was right to criticize corporate execs for using taxpayer bailout money on bonuses and corporate junkets. In the face of this criticism, it is an outrage for Barack and Michelle Obama to party on, as Rome burns. It’s like throwing a party at a funeral.” You can read their press release HERE.

Now that I have completely shot any chance I’ll EVER have of getting an invitation to one of those Obama shindigs, I will close this rant. It’s time to PARTY!

J. D. Longstreet

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Conservativ+US. President+Obama+Parties

Does White House Control Of The Census Mean More Voter Fraud?

Does White House Control Of The Census Mean More Voter Fraud?
By: J. D. Longstreet

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We have been warning for months now that we feel the presidential election of 2008 was the last “free” election this country will ever see. I must tell you, the Obama administration is doing nothing to ease my mind and, in fact, continues to make moves that solidify our belief that the 2010 election, and elections beyond, will be nothing more than shams.

With the White House controlling the US Census, opportunities for cooking the numbers, any numbers, are abundant. Some are calling Obama’s grab for the census "the biggest White House power grab ever.” Earlier, Republicans in the US House of Representatives said the White House had "an unprecedented plan" for the census that "will taint results and open doors to massive waste of taxpayer funds.”

So… what the heck is going on? I mean, this is the C E N S U S, already! Why is the census so almighty important to one side, or the other, in DC?

Well, it turns out there really is a red hot power struggle going on between Republicans and Democrats over which party will control the 2010 census. Mostly below the radar, it hasn’t gained much notice… until now.

Remember, it has been 30 years since the last census was taken under a democratic administration. You may recall that when Republican Senator Judd Gregg announced, a few days ago, that he no longer wanted to be the US Secretary of Commerce nominee he said that the decision was based, in part, on serious disagreements with the Obama White House over the 2010 census. Yep, that’s what he said… and it flew right past my head without me even seeing it!

Turns out the fur began to fly on the democratic side of the aisle upon the announcement that Gregg, a Republican, would be in charge of the head count. Finally, Obama’s people had to issue a statement that, yeah, Gregg would be in charge, but… he would be “working CLOSELY with White House Senior Management.”
Well, that statement rankled folks on BOTH sides of the aisle up to, and including Gregg! Some on the left saw it as a change in policy. On the right, they saw it as a “power grab.” Nobody was happy and everybody, it seems, was PO’ed…. again, up to and including Gregg. It was along about this point when the White House issued a statement that: "this administration has not proposed removing the Census from the Department of Commerce." So that clarified everything and everybody settled down, right? Well… NO.

Now, you gotta ask… why the heck is counting heads so dad-blamed important, anyway?

To give you a broad answer… it goes something like this: Republicans tend to favor “undercounts” while Democrats tend to favor “overcounts.”

Still don’t get it?

OK. Lemme try again: Turns out that overcounts and undercounts can result in vastly different numbers for demographic groups and localities — and they have huge political and policy implications. Basically this fight is over WHOM the census counts and HOW the census goes about counting them.

The US Constitution demands that every ten years the government must count heads to learn how many Americans there really are. It has been done every ten years since 1790. Counting Americans is and always has been a real pain in the posterior! America is a fluid society. Americans are aways, it seems, in motion. The Census Bureau first mails out those aggravating questionnaires Americans are supposed to fill out and send back in. Then, the bureau sends out “census takers” to hunt down those folks who did not send their questionnaire back and/or those people living in US unknown to the government. See, the census is supposed to determine how many people are living in the United States, both legals and illegals. They will try to visit those folks who have not returned the questionnaire and they must also try to count people who have no address such as the “homeless”, and prisoners, and the elderly in nursing homes and such. Needless to say, there are folks living in the US who had rather the government, or the government’s minions, not know they are here. So they get scarce until the census takers move on. And, of course, there are folks who had rather the government knew as little about them as possible. Children, we have learned, are often left out of census figures. To put it mildly, it ain’t easy!

People get left out. Even whole communities get left out of the head count and some communities get counted more than once, some multiple times. Again, to put it mildly, it is a mess! Back in 1990 some 8 million people were not counted. Wait, that is an estimate. The truth is… they STILL don’t know, for sure, how many people were not counted. Some 4 million white folks were counted twice… uh… they think.

We’ve learned the Census Bureau uses statistical modeling and sampling methods to come up with estimated counts of many, many, demographic groups in the country but the argument about the accuracy of those methods grinds ever onward as to whether the estimates generated by those methods actually make the census more accurate or less accurate. The argument is substantive enough that the Supreme Court decided, back in 1999, that estimates generated from sampling could not be used for reapportionment of congressional seats.

Here’s the thing: redistricting of local districts and reapportionment of congressional seats is based on census counts. See, a state could pick up a seat(s) or lose a seat(s) based on its population. The size, and sometimes the shapes, of political districts within a state are determined by population increases, decreases, and shifts within the state itself. Remember, redrawing political boundaries is based on the census numbers. You can easily see how a political party’s influence in a state, and the Congress, is affected by the census count.

And then there is the money. Those same census numbers help to determine which states get how much, or how little, federal money in federal grants and other federal disbursements of money. Democrats say Republicans deliberately undercount to keep money from cash starved communities. Republicans say democrats overcount to create new congressional districts favorable to them, to keep them in power. Plus, the Republicans say the sampling method is unconstitutional since the constitution calls for an actual count, not estimates generated by some mathematical formula.

So, the fight over the 2010 census has just begun. It will get worse as we get closer to the actual counting. You can look for the “F” word… “fraud”… to be thrown around a lot. Since the Democrats own the White House, this time around, look for them to be on the receiving end of the vast majority of the slings and arrows of the latest decennial debate.

J. D. Longstreet

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Conservative+US+Census

Reagan Wept.

Reagan Wept!
J. D. Longstreet

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A friend asked me the other day what I thought President Ronald Reagan would think of Obama. It only took a moment to answer. "He'd laugh!", I said. Then I added: "A real side-splitter!" It was an honest answer and one I believe is true.

I think Ronald Reagan, if he were to suddenly re-appear upon this earth for a brief visit and be told that Obama was President, would, indeed, break up in near uncontrollable laughter. Reagan would think someone was playing a practical joke on him. He would just KNOW Americans had better sense!

I can hear Ronnie saying, "Why, he's just a, uh, child! A grown man, yes. But, still a naive child. A narcissistic child, at that!" Then, he'd laugh again, enjoying the joke, still unconvinced that Americans could do that to themselves and to their country.


After Reagan watched a few videos of Obama's speeches, the smile would slowly drain from Reagan's face as he scanned the adoring, worshipful, faces of the crowd while some fainted in their passion for the boy/man "messiah" and I can hear the crestfallen President say in a voice grown husky in bitter remembrance: "I've seen those faces before.... in Berlin in the 1930's." Then, Ronald Reagan would weep.


One of my "E-mail Buddies" sent me the piece below a few days ago. I have no idea who put it together, but I'd like to thank them. As America continues her decline and collapse, under the heavy hand of socialism, Americans are going to need memories of the America we used to know to hold on to, to sustain us, until we can rescue our beloved America from the clutches of the power-hungry, left-wing elite currently strangling the life out of her.


As you read the "Reagan Gems" below and remember the America of greatness, the America that once led the world, challenge yourself to do all in your power to keep those memories alive. And prepare. As Thomas Jefferson said: " Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."


You know, democracy is, quite likely, the greatest gamble a nation can take. For there is no guarantee "The People" will not vote in a tyrant as their leader. When that happens, as it sometimes does, then it is up to the same people to prepare for the tyrants reign and the tyrant's removal.


British author Aldous Huxley once said: "So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable." That was the danger some of us on the right tried so dutifully to warn America of during the last presidential campaign.


Thomas Jefferson once said: "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." I ask you to look objectively at our government today and ask yourself if you are truly comfortable with that much power in the hands of THOSE people. If you find you are comfortable, then, dear reader, you need to wake up and begin paying attention!


Now we have the yoke of socialism chained across our shoulders and around our necks. We Americans, yes, WE placed it there. Soon we will be completely dependent upon the government for our very existence. To my fellow Americans I say, that is NOT living FREE! That is SLAVERY!


To see what a REAL President says, and means, and believes... read the "Reagan Gems" below:
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We may never see another like him. Every phrase below is a gem!



'Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.'- Ronald Reagan

'The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' - Ronald Reagan

'The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so'- Ronald Reagan


'Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.' - Ronald Reagan

'I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.'- Ronald Reagan

'The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.'

- Ronald Reagan

'Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.'- Ronald Reagan

'The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.'- Ronald Reagan


'It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.'- Ronald Reagan

'Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.'

Ronald Reagan

'Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.'- Ronald Reagan

'No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.'- Ronald Reagan


'If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.'- Ronald Reagan

Forcing Out Obama ... By Alan Caruba

Forcing Out Obama
By Alan Caruba

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Permit me to indulge in a bit of wishful thinking. Not quite a prediction, but a possible scenario that would remove President Obama from office before he does further damage to the nation. History provides a template.

Americans survived the Great Depression despite the fact that the successive Roosevelt administrations did exactly what the present-day Obama administration is doing; prolonging it by raising taxes, increasing the deficit, and spending wildly on social programs.

The difference in the 1930s was that the only news Americans could get was their daily newspaper—as liberal then as they are today. News magazines were still a relatively new concept. The radio was a primary source and the Movietone News in the form of newsreels if you went to the movies. There was, of course, no television.

As a result, Roosevelt with his “fireside chats”, all carefully scripted in the same way Obama will not speak publicly without his TelePrompter, was able to convince people that expanding government and the fact that the economy just never really recovered, was just a passing phase.

In the meantime, the FDR administration sponsored all manner of make-work projects in addition to some useful infrastructure ones. The problem then as now is that all those projects had to be paid for with taxes. That meant Americans had less money to spend on their own needs, to start new businesses or expand existing ones. Insanely, industries were required by law to collude to set prices and one could actually go to jail for offering a product or service for less!

Roosevelt was not a fan of Wall Street or corporate executives whom he frequently called economic “malefactors.” In his personal life, all of his business schemes lost money and, although he had acquired a law degree, he wasn’t good at that profession. Politics was his métier and he was very good at that. Not until World War II came along was the American economy able to dig itself out of the same deep hole in which we find ourselves today.

As this is being written, joblessness has hit a 25 year high. The Dow is plunging and neither Obama nor Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner can open their mouths without making it go lower.

There’s one sure sign of distress and distrust; few people want to join the top ranks of his administration.

Thanks to the Watergate scandal, in August 1974 Sen. Barry Goldwater and a delegation of Washington politicos paid a visit to then-President Richard M. Nixon and in effect handed him a letter of resignation to sign. Nixon was gone in days. He avoided impeachment.

Jerry Ford took over and was then replaced by the very toothy Jimmy Carter. It took Carter a bit longer to lose the confidence of the American people, but it was thorough and complete by the time he was defeated by Ronald Reagan. Carter was an idiot, but he wasn’t deliberately trying to destroy the economy.

Bill Clinton managed to avoid being impeached and still skates by with all that Bubba charm, but it might well be that senators didn’t want to have to deal with a “President Gore” if Clinton was removed from office.

Now let’s look at the future. No other President in the history of the nation has lost the confidence of the people as swiftly as Obama. Forget the polls. Ask your friends, family and co-workers. That’s the best poll.

There will always be true believers for whom reality never intrudes, but it has not escaped anyone’s attention that even the worshipful media is beginning to ask why things are going so badly. so fast, and beginning to blame Obama.

The answer for the swift decline is that Obama is a pathological narcissist and dedicated socialist who has surrounded himself for the most part with former Clinton operatives. Obama is, plainly speaking, a liar. Increasingly, the adoration heaped upon him by his supporters is beginning to resemble the same as that in the 1930s which led the Germans down the path to war, ruin, and the abomination of the Holocaust.

The key factor, however, is that these are not the 1930s. These are times in which everyone is connected to each other, the blogosphere, and a broad range of news media. The national mood coalesces in weeks, not months or years as in the past.

Obama is running out of time. Politically, the 2010 midterm elections are just around the corner and Democrats in the House and those in the Senate up for reelection know that Obama will put them all in the ranks of the unemployed. The anger directed at Congress is palpable. The White House will see increasing desertions as congressmen and women refuse to goosestep off the cliff for him.

So here’s my wishful thinking. At some point early in 2010 a delegation of Congress critters will show up in the Oval Office and hand the resident lunatic a resignation letter to sign. Some plausible excuse would be made to cover his exit. No doubt it would be hastened if Obama was confronted with evidence of misdeeds from the Chicago political cesspool in which he thrived.

If they don’t force his departure, the 2010 elections will likely repeat the 1994 turnover of Congress as voters of all descriptions elect any Republican candidate on the ticket.

In three months Obama has accomplished what some thought was impossible. He has made us nostalgic for George W. Bush.

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Conservativ+US+Obama+Resign e

The America Republic -vs- Socialist America.

Conservatives want a Constitutional Government in the US. That’s all!

By: J. D. Longstreet
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Look at the title of this piece again. Read it closely... and let it sink in.

The difference between Conservative Government and a Socialist Government (that of the American Left) when shaken down to its raw essentials will make, or break, the United States of America.

The American Democrat Party, which is, in truth, the socialist party, does not see it that way. Actually they do see it that way, but the problem they have is that they cannot exist under a Constitutional government in the US. Freedom and Socialism cannot exist in the same place, much like “Matter” and “Anti-Matter”. And therein lies the problem, which is rotting away at the foundation of the United States.

Let me see if I can break it down a bit more:

Under a Constitutional government, the power of the government is limited. Limited government allows the citizens to rule their country.

Under the Socialist brand of government, sometimes called an “Administrative state”, citizens do not rule their country, bureaucrats do, and with them the elite intellectuals. At least THEY think they are elite!

The United States was founded as a free country. Its citizens were autonomous. They were free. The US had a free economy. That was the way the designers of this land, the Founding Fathers, planned it. And it worked… right up to the dawn of “Socialism in American” during the reign of, and as the direct results of actions taken by, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It has been downhill for America ever since.

Socialism is a creeping disease. It is quiet and deadly. It offers much and deliver almost nothing.

Simply put, Socialism is a trade off. A people must give up freedom for security. It is just that simple. IF you would be a free people, then you cannot allow socialism, in any form, in your country’s government. If, on the other hand, you wish to be secure, from want and fear, then you absolutely MUST give up your freedom. That is the choice.

The American Left is the driving force behind socialism in America. Lets be clear: Socialism is anti-American.

The Founding Fathers did not give us a socialist state; they gave us a Representative Republic. America is NOT a Democracy as you may have been taught in school. America is a representative republic.

Look… Americans , indeed, human beings, are not equal. A stroll down any beach, on a hot summer day, will give the lie to that! And the Founding Fathers knew that. That was not what they meant when they noted in “The Declaration” that “all men are created equal”. They were referring to those inalienable rights, and natural rights, which are the endowment of all mankind as a gift from our Creator. So they set about designing a form of government, which would balance freedom and equality in a state, which would allow both. That was a near impossible task, if not entirely impossible. But they made a grand attempt at it and it worked right up ‘til the FDR Administration.

You see, under the original Constitution, the people of the United States were, indeed, a free people. We were autonomous. And… WE were sovereign. The Government was created, by the Founding Fathers, to be a servant of the people of the U.S. Roosevelt and the American Left didn’t see it that way and they began to change it. There had been, previously, a contract, a covenant, if you will, between the American people and the American government under which the American people would grant the American government certain powers… while at the same time granting themselves certain rights. The government had no power of it’s own, All government power was derived from the people and the government could grant themselves none.

But Roosevelt, and the American Left, changed that. The Left decided the agreement, the contract, if you will, between the people of the US and their government was backwards. They decided that instead of the people deciding the powers granted to the government, the government would grasp power and the government would decide the limits of the people’s freedom and the sovereignty of the people! No longer would the people dictate to the government. Now, the government dictates to the people. The government is no longer OF the people. It is run, and ruled over, by bureaucrats and intellectual elites who know better, what you need and want, than you do! What we have today is a government running this country, which has never stood for election… ever! The elected officials are simply shills of that shadow government of bureaucrats and intellectuals who actually pull the strings, and push the buttons.

It takes very little thought and consideration to see that this form of government is absolutely NOT what the Founding Fathers wanted, and planned, for this country.

In effect, what we have had in this country is a coup-de-tat, American Style!

To put it plainly, the US government has been hi-jacked!

Those Americans, my age, look around us and we do not recognize this socialist state, this welfare state, this “nanny state”. It certainly is NOT the America of our youth, where a man was free to be what he wanted and to suffer the consequences of bad decisions, and bad choices, as well as good decisions and good choices.

Equality was understood to mean Equality of Endowment by the Creator. Not equality of social status, of income, of education, of well, the modern day list goes on and on. Each time a rule, or law, was passed to make society more equal… somebody lost. Americans lost. What did we lose? Freedom is what we lost.

The American Left has decided they are the elite Americans who know, better than you, how you should live your life, worship your God, do your job, enjoy your vacation, build your house, drive your car, get an education, which doctor you visit, which hospital you select, even to the last detail of how you groom your lawn, or whether you can fly a US flag outside the home you THINK you own! The American Left is into every aspect of your daily life. Because they are convinced that you and I, the rabble, the “great unwashed”, are not capable of taking care of ourselves. No one is required to be responsible for his or her actions anymore. It is now understood that when someone commits a heinous act, it is not the perpetrator’s fault! That is a part of the bargain struck with the American Left.

The American Left simply seized the power as a “Beneficent Dictator”. And Americans allowed it; indeed some welcomed it with open arms! (The slow-witted among us, the least ambitious among us, those who sought to milk the system for every dime they could, and of course, those who sought power for themselves in the New American Socialism.)

What Americans forgot was… that dictators, beneficent or otherwise, take your freedom! A dictator cannot exist in a free environment. Today’s America has become content to allow “others” to govern us, to rule over us. We know longer believe ourselves capable of ruling ourselves.

The Great Ronald Reagan, in a speech he made in 1964, said the following:
“It doesn’t require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property? Such machinery already exists. The government can find some charge to bring against any concern it chooses to prosecute. Every businessman has his own tale of harassment. Somewhere a perversion has taken place. Our natural, inalienable, rights are now considered to be dispensation of government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp, as it is at this very moment!” And THAT, dear reader was in 1964!


The American left is slick. They have packaged themselves as loving, tolerant, do-gooders, who seek only to make your life easier and to make, and keep, you secure. You needn’t worry about a thing ‘cause they have it covered! Americans have bought it… hook, line, and sinker. At least those of the baby boom generation have.

Those of us born before World War Two experienced the actual loss of our country. We slipped though the Public School System ahead of the changes, which “dumbed down an entire generation of American kids” while stoking their self-esteem. We came out the other side of the American education system aware of the value of a free country. The baby boom generation did not. It is entirely the product of the American Left.

Today, the New American Socialism reigns supreme. The result? A nation in decline! A nation, having not yet reached its zenith, has sold its birthright to the devil. Now, America is reaping, what it has sown.

We are quickly becoming a second rate power. Our citizens are among the least educated in the world. We no longer have an economy based on research, development, and manufacturing, we have only a “service economy”. We service that which others build! Our society is quite likely the most amoral society on earth. It has been said that if God, Himself does not destroy us, then HE owes an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah! Yes, we, America, have/has become the kind of country to which we used to send missionaries!

Oh, yeah, that Baby Boom Generation, the American generation “dumbed down” but filled with carefully stoked self-esteem… well, they ran, head long, into reality. And… they folded like a cheap suit!

Like a virulent cancer the American Left’s brand of socialism is eating away the bedrock of America. It is relentlessly chewing away at the fabric of what was once the greatest nation on earth. Socialism, like the evil that it is, lies. All the promises of “paradise on earth” are all lies.

America has bought the Big Lie. The price was freedom. America is no longer free. America is, once again, only a dream in the restless night of those of us who knew her when she was “that bright shining city on a hill”. Like Camelot, it was only a passing, ethereal, grandiose, dream. A dream the American Left has turned into a nightmare.

J. D. Longstreet

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