Despite the efforts of some sections of opinion to talk the place up, America is mired in unhappiness, all the worse for the height from which Obamania has fallen. The economy remains troublesome. There is growth – a good last quarter suggested an annual rate of as high as six per cent, but that figure is probably not reliable – and the latest unemployment figures, last Friday, showed a levelling off. Yet 15 million Americans, or 9.7 per cent of the workforce, have no job. Many millions more are reduced to working part-time. Whole areas of the country, notably in the north and on the eastern seaboard, are industrial wastelands. The once mighty motor city of Detroit appears slowly to be being abandoned, becoming a Jurassic Park of the mid-20th century; unemployment among black people in Mr Obama’s own city of Chicago is estimated at between 20 and 25 per cent. One senior black politician – a Democrat and a supporter of the President – told me of the wrath in his community that a black president appeared to be unable to solve the economic problem among his own people. Cities in the east such as Newark and Baltimore now have drug-dealing as their principal commercial activity: The Wire is only just fictional. Full Piece

In essence America was built by individuals and for individuals. It wasn’t built because of the founders’ love of the country, but because of their love of freedom. In this country we gave when we wanted to, not when the state decided that we shall give. Because when we wanted to give we gave more. This was a country of free, strong, arrogant and selfish individualists. The best by any account place in the world. Was.

A hundred years ago there was a similar story. Vladimir Lenin and his inner circle didn’t like Russia. In effect they hated everything that Russia represented. Not folk songs or landscape, this they liked. They seized an opportunity given by an unpopular war and by collapsing economy and began fundamentally changing what they didn’t like – changing everything they could lay their hands on.

They of course said that they love the country. They expressed tons of love for the people of the country, said that everything they did was for the good of the country. And maybe even it was for the good of the country, but definitely not for the good of people who lived in the country. If old people are not given proper medical care, the country has more resources to build military might for example. Russia added territories from east to west, from north to south and became a huge empire, one of the biggest in the history of humankind. If Josef Stalin would have his way, the Soviet Union would be the only country in the united under the red banner world. Intellectuals in Europe at that time used to say “Better Red then dead” throwing hands in the air giving up their freedom even before they were asked to.

The new tsars of Russia were saying “You can’t make omelets without breaking eggs”. And they broke eggs by millions; all that was done for the good of the country. Millions of lives lost, millions of dreams gone, Gulags and killing fields everywhere. This is the cost of the change, they were saying. If those bad people who resist the change could die or be isolated, the country would live better.

I personally do not care if the country would live better or not – they killed my grandfather for their greater good! I can’t forgive or see beyond that. Sorry, I am probably not a good Christian. I am actually Jewish, like Jesus.

God forbid something like that will start happening in the United States of America. God forbid. I have already heard that Obama is not Stalin, he doesn’t want any hard tyranny… he wants a soft one.  Beware my brothers citizens, the seeds are sown into this blessed land, once being the truly best place for humans in the world. It is done for the good of the sick, and for the good of the oppressed, and for the good of the tribe, and for the world peace… To cure the sick, to feed the hungry… Now you are not doing it because you want to, but because you are told to and soon you will be obligated to. For the good of the country let’s take a trillion from the old who are not producing anymore, who will soon die and it is really not important, they die tomorrow or a year from now. The younger ones need the money, the ones that will do good to the country. Which part you didn’t understand? May it is the part that we are talking about your mom and dad?

Obama hates MY America. He wants to destroy it. He calls it “change”. He tries to introduce his change with all his might. Equality is weakness. There is no equality, and can’t be. When people will start realizing that they had been conned, than time for guns might come. God forbid! The corporations will be blamed again. They will be seized and given to the workers. We will hear from our leaders that it only just since the workers are the ones who gave their sweat and blood to those companies… The wealth shall belong to all – and the state shall take it and keep on our behalf we will be told. And all profits shall be divided among all of us, and the government will divide them most efficiently and honestly. From everyone according to their might, to everyone according to their needs.

If you believe this is possible, why wouldn’t you believe in Clinton not inhaling marijuana or Obama not knowing what his pastor was preaching in his church. Bad times, bad. But we can still fight and get out of this mess. We need people in Congress and the White House who love this country – this country, not a dream utopia that never was and probably never will be. The person whom we will vote next can hate the sunsets and birds singing, but he has to love what we are standing for. Otherwise we will become one more banana republic with nuclear warheads.

Leon Weinstein
http://LeonWeinstein.com/

Copyright ©2010 Leon A. Weinstein

Leon was born in the Soviet Union in 1949, during the Stalin era.  Emigrated to the USA in 1984 and became an American citizen in 1995. The Author of “Looking for Hugh: The Capitalist Guidebook”

They signed a contract for a billion years - in keeping with the church’s belief that Scientologists are immortal. They worked seven days a week, often on little sleep, for sporadic paychecks of $50 a week, at most.  Full Piece

Back in the day, there were “trade schools.” There were schools where certain trades were taught. If a young person wanted to be, oh, say, an auto mechanic, the school would teach them the fundamentals and depending upon the school, much, much, more. It set the student on a path, in his or her young life that would ensure them a trade from which they could make a living, support a family, and contribute to their community. Trade schools were GOOD things.

We have all heard the stories of the high school teacher who assures certain students that they have no business attending college. We tend to recoil in horror at such presumptuousness by anyone, let alone a teacher. But wait! Have you considered the possibility that the teacher might be right? Has it occurred to you that the teacher is in a far better position than you or I to form that conclusion?

Come on, folks. We all know there are, in fact, some folks who only take up space in the classroom whether in high school or college. There are some youngsters for whom life is one continuous party. You cannot honestly believe that THEY deserve to be there, taking the place of a hard working scholar determined to learn as much as he or she can in the four, or more, years they will industriously study to better themselves and the world they occupy and contribute to society.

But in the politically correct world we live in this bit of common sense is frowned upon. In fact, to voice such a stance might get you driven from the room. You have just bumped into the great wall of “inclusivity.” We must be “fair.” We must be “inclusive.” EVERYONE MUST have a chance at a college education and, if at all possible, the government should pay for it.

Of course, when we say the government should pay for it we are really saying the taxpayers should pay for because the government has no money of its own. It takes money from us, the taxpayers and, much to our chagrin, blows it!

Very soon now, I expect to see some sort of bill introduced in our national legislature, which will insure that every American who wants to go to college will be able to do so at taxpayer expense. That is a wrong-headed idea and must be stopped before it ever becomes law. Such a law will only make academia far richer than it is now and will do little, if anything, to better educate the American populace. In fact, one can already see that postsecondary college degrees have been, shall we say, dumbed down?

Let’s face it. There are students who would do far better for themselves, and society, if they studied at a vocational school or a technical school of some variety. We always NEED trained technicians and tradesmen. Every society does.

There is, currently, no RIGHT to a college degree in America. Not yet, at least. But, left to their own devices, the dunces who currently lead our country will certainly make it so. And THAT is wrong! To insist that the taxpayers of America foot the bill for this politically correct act of “inclusivity” is also wrong.

J. D. Longstreet
http://www.csadispatch.blogspot.com/

In private e-mails obtained by The Washington Times, climate scientists at the National Academy of Sciences say they are tired of “being treated like political pawns” and need to fight back in kind. Their strategy includes forming a nonprofit group to organize researchers and use their donations to challenge critics by running a back-page ad in the New York Times. Full Piece

For years, Jibril Hough has represented himself and his North Carolina mosque as “moderate,” while putting Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., on the defensive as an anti-Muslim fanatic who “shoots from the hip” when sounding the alarm about homegrown Islamic terrorism. Myrick, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, co-founded the Capitol Hill caucus after 9/11 to educate Americans about the growing threat from jihadists. Full piece

With the United States Census this year, there is a series of radio ads trying to appeal to our civic duty as a means to protect our ability to spend money on teachers and road repairs. Maybe it’s me, though, but the way they’ve gone about it sounds more like a threat than an honest appeal to our better natures. The tone of the ads are such that the implication is that if you don’t file your census, you’re going to hinder children’s education, prevent potholes from being fixed, and other things more horrible than that. I’m surprised they haven’t gone straight for, “If you don’t fill out your census, we’ll break your kneecaps.”

Let me say at the outset that I have no issue with the census. I’m not anti-government; I’m anti-stupid government, and a decision not to fill out the census as some sort of stance against The Man is truly silly. Granted, some of the questions rumored to be on this year’s census forms are more invasive than having Geraldo Rivera film a colonoscopy, but answering a question about how many people live in your house isn’t that bad.

Having said that, the census commercials come off as more than a little ham-fisted, not to mention more than a little misleading. The reason the Founding Fathers set up the census in the first place is to get an accurate headcount of the number of people living in the country so that Congressional representation could be established. Since then, the census has become a great tool in figuring out just how many people are getting screwed by the federal government, but that’s only a side benefit.

The underlying sentiment of the commercials is that without accurate census numbers, there won’t be accurate representation in Congress and, thus, your state might not get the money it would need to take care of basic needs. This is true to a point. Accurate census numbers give a great snapshot at our population growth, which has a direct impact on the number of Representative each state gets in the House of Representatives and the number of Congressional Districts a state has. It also has an impact on the number of Electoral College votes a state has, as each state gets a number of votes equal to the total number of Congressional representatives, House and Senate, a state has.

Where the census commercials get it wrong is that representation may not have that much of an impact on how much money gets back to a state. Just because you have a Representative doesn’t mean he or she is going to be able to get the federal gravy train heading back to your state Capitol. Your one representative is one out of over 400, and if you’re in the minority party, the likelihood that you’ll get a significant chunk of the federal government pie is less than the likelihood that Joe Biden will resign the Vice Presidency to Glenn Beck. Then again, we might be able to trick him into that…

Also, the “you need to fill out the census so you get represented” argument falls flat because there’s no guarantee that the person who gets elected will even bother to think about the needs of the state. All you need to do is get elected once and you’re pretty much set for life unless you or your party does something incredibly stupid. And we all know how infrequently that happens. Seriously, how many times can John Murtha make statements that make George W. Bush sound like Albert Einstein and still keep his job? Though, from what I’m hearing from that neck of the woods, that number may be shrinking faster than we think.

This brings me to one other aspect of the census commercials that they get wrong. Since the census tracks population and Congressional representation is based on population, representation in this nation would benefit population inflation more than population deflation, thus causing frustration. (Sorry. I was channeling Jesse Jackson there for a moment.) In other words, areas of the country experiencing population decreases, like my home state of Iowa, would likely see less representation with an accurate census count, while areas of the country with exploding populations, like California, would see more representation. I’m sorry, but I don’t like the one Nancy Pelosi we already have in power, let alone the Pelosi clones that could come from an accurate census.

If the Census Bureau really wants us to participate in this year’s census, I have a suggestion. Try a little kindness. The tactic you’ve taken so far is as warm and fuzzy as a dead porcupine. Don’t scare us into participating. Add to that the misleading statements from the ads you’ve put out so far, and you have a campaign that is destined for failure. Fear and dishonesty are never the right way to go to get us to do something. Instead, go with the tried and true method that has worked for hundreds of years.

Bribery. Ask Mary Landrieu for advice if you’re not sure how to do it.

And that’s the Bottom Line.

Thomas Lindaman

Who wrote that? The answer is Adolf Hitler in “Mein Kampf”, published in his1925 autobiography. During World War Two the U.S. government’s Office of Strategic Services, which later would evolve into the Central Intelligence Agency, assessed Hitler’s methods:

“His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people would sooner or later believe it.”

I have been reading David Kupelian’s new book, “How Evil Works” and thinking a lot lately about lies, lying, and liars. At the heart of great frauds is the lie and it seems to me that Americans have lately been subjected to a surfeit of lies that began with the 2008 election campaign in which a virtually unknown, first term Illinois Senator announced he was running for President.

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes” is attributed to Mark Twain and the truth of that is more evident than ever because technology has increased the speed with which lies travel. It has, fortunately, also given speed to those who debunk the lies and the result is a dizzying avalanche of conflicting claims.

Being ignorant of the intent of our nation’s Founding Fathers, of the limitations on the federal government found in the U.S. Constitution, of the deliberate separation of powers in our government’s executive, judicial, and legislative branches, and of history in general puts people at a disadvantage to recognize a threat to the nation and their freedom.

Edgar Watson Howe, (1853-1937) a newspaper and magazine editor in the early years of the last century said, “Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.”

I think he was reflecting on the influence of the broadcast and print media of his day, but it is no less true today. Most certainly, the presidency is an enormous platform for the person holding the office to advance policy by telling lies.

A President, however, who is perceived to be a serial liar, soon begins to lose credibility and popularity. President Obama’s credibility and popularity has fallen at an astonishing rate in just over a year in office.

It is worth noting, too, that the credibility of newspapers as a source of objective reporting has been in decline as the Internet has grown, offering an enormous number of news and opinion websites from which anyone can determine the truth or falsehood of public debate.

The English publisher and writer, Ernest Benn (1875-1954) said, “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedy.”

We are seeing this play out in the effort to “reform” Medicare by President Obama and the Democrat Party. Even Republicans know that Medicare is in need of some changes to improve the program. Tort reform and the ability to purchase health insurance across state lines are but two improvements that make perfectly good sense to most people.

However, the reform being proffered by the White House is nothing more than a socialist expansion of a government that is already too large and too unwieldy to serve the interests of Americans. It would, as is often pointed out, destroy the best health system in the world and put one sixth of the nation’s economy under the control of government.

In the process of putting forth Medicare “reform” President Obama has told so many lies that it is only with great difficulty that one can keep track of them.

Little wonder that the great historian, Edward Gibbon, wrote that “History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.”

No greater modern example of this is found in the global warming fraud. Since the 1980s the deliberate distorting of “science” has been the basis for the Big Lie that the Earth’s overall temperature is rising rapidly and that mankind is responsible for it through the use of coal, oil, and natural gas as fuels for industry use and the production of electrical power.

The greatest lies of the modern era, however, have been communism and its baby sister, socialism. The deaths of millions are attributed to Communism as practiced in the former Soviet Union and in the early years of the Peoples Republic of China. Nazism, a form of socialism, led to the deaths of millions in World War Two.

Nations that have embraced socialism are experiencing serious financial crisises these days. These political systems have proven to be failures wherever they have been introduced and imposed.

The greatest domestic challenge to Americans today is the combination of socialism, a system that has been slowly introduced into the governance of the nation since the 1930s, and the recent election of a “messiah” promising “hope and change.”

Beyond and within our shores, the other Big Lie, Islam, threatens our freedoms and it too must be resisted and defeated.

Today, however, Americans need to embrace the U.S. Constitution as never before. It is our shield against despotism and the lies that advance it.

Alan Caruba
http://alancaruba.com/

© Alan Caruba, 2010

Back in Soviet times, Pravda was the official mouthpiece of the Russian Communist Party and quite critical of American capitalism. But now it seems to have as much freedom as any publication in the West, and what it now writes about events in America is quite ironic. In its issue of April 29, 2009, Stanislav Mishin writes:

“It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American descent into Marxism is happening with breathtaking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people. Full Piece

By that I’m not suggesting, nor was he, that voting should be limited to those who hold Ph.D.s or any degree of higher education. However, voters should be able to demonstrate some understanding and appreciation of our system of government and how it was designed to work before they can register to vote. At the very least, we should require new registrants to pass a basic civics test, the kind given to immigrants seeking to become naturalized U.S. citizens. Full Piece

Something fundamental is eluding these folks here, and the prominence of some of them should not engender incredulity regarding their ignorance of what is transpiring; it is likely that the “unthinkable” and outrageous nature of Obama’s objectives account for their escaping these otherwise astute men and women. Indeed, the president’s design has always been to drive the U.S. economy over a cliff. It is only in this way that he will be able to implement the drastic measures that, no doubt, he will claim to hate as much as he “hated” the bank bailout, but which will secure the presidency (read: Obama) unprecedented latitude, to put it very mildly.  Full Piece

Programs like this throughout the country have proven popular with students, teachers and parents. The computers enhance the students’ capabilities in understanding assignments, keeping track of deadlines for work and researching topics, for example. Teachers and parents can better track performance in the classroom and with homework assignments. 

But Harriton High School student Blake Robbins discovered a more sinister use of these computers by the school administration – a use that students, teachers and parents were not aware of.  Full Piece

Quick one-paragraph refresher: Seduction basically means smiling and being nice while you’re lying to your intended victim and trying to get what you want from them. Intimidation means threatening them with harm if they don’t comply with your wishes. Thus, while a man could flatter, wine and dine a woman to get her into bed, he could also bypass the pretence and just force himself on her - either method, seduction or intimidation, leading to the same destination. Frequently people switch from one tactic to the other - like the impatient parent who tries “being nice” to his or her kids to get them to comply, and then when that doesn’t work switches to threats and intimidation to get the same result. Get it?  Full Piece

The ability to receive expedited American citizenship from within the Army, speculates CBN Military Correspondent Chuck Holton, “must present a tempting opportunity for jihadi extremists with ulterior motives.” Full Piece

“I made statements on that panel that I now recognize were ill-conceived or not well-formulated,” Hussain said, referring to a 2004 conference at which he discussed the case. Full Piece