Remember back when?  Back when Warrior and others were straining to get a real conservative to run?  Oh, we were accused of the most awful things.  They said we were in love with Sarah Palin.  They said were were a one note samba, a one horse town, or we were “fixated” on Sarah Palin.  Don’t we wish we had that fresh, cool, conservative breeze now instead of the heated and gaseous winds coming from Newt and Mitt.  Market capitalism?  Why, that there is detestable.  Newt took mony from Freddie Mac.  Mitt closed Unimac (and others) and has now become the Bain of our existence.  Holder and Obama must be having late night laughing parties about the very public Republican train wreck now on display everywhere.

Remember back when some of us said the race card or some other device would be used to undermine our candidates.  Who knew it would be used against a black guy too (Cain in addition to Perry)?  How much sillier the current candidates look.  With liberals voting in the caucuses, they’ve again run the conservatives out (e.g. Bachman) and we are left with the worst market capitalism has to offer – millionaire RINOS with giant egos and voracious appetites for public swill or private greed (and I don’t use that term lightly).

Let us all say a collective prayer that whichever rich Republican phony wins the primary can beat Obama.  We will no longer have the country many of us have known, loved and fought for.  We will be left as a weak sister of Greece, Britain, France all the other failing socialiats European regimes.  Well, even though Warren Buffet can afford to pay higher taxes, I cannot.  Especially to bankroll an army of entitlement happy cast-abouts who believe they have a right to live out of my back pocket.  Ultimately, we cannot all work for or live off of the government.  Someone will have to know how to work and create wealth.  And the work ethic will be just as difficult to rekindle as the welfare mentality was easy to instill.

Why don’t we all take a second and read this:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/07/8684597-fourth-woman-details-sexual-harassment-allegations-against-cain

I know Glory Alred is a gadfly in the conservative ointment, but this looks serious.

And it won’t be the last.  Can Mitt stand up to the public baggage laundering? (Talk about mixed metaphors!)  What about Perry?  Oh yeah, the painted rock incident.  And this will go on and on.

So, I know you don’t want to hear this, but we need to BEG, get on our collective knees and BEG Sarah Palin to rejoin the campaign.  Read my lips: She has been thoroughly vetted.  No October surprises.  No painted rocks. No bimbo erruptions. Etc.  She took on the powers that were in Alaska and won.  Naturally, she created enemies, but she also withstood and WON against all comers.  All the dirt was turned and it is clean.

And let the Left drag Tina Fey out of the closet.  It will look mean spirited by this point.  As much as I wanted to cheer for a Black conservative, I think he may be toast.

BTW, she has had some leftwing freak living next door to her for two years with a camera and a telephoto lens for the express purpose of turning up dirt.  So far, all he has come up with is a book full of lies for which he is now being sued.  PALIN in ’12!

BEG HER I SAY.

Now I hope Streif, Acat and all the other doubters and detractors understand what I was talking about a few months ago.  Gov. Rick Perry has gone from front-runner to fall-behind because of a word painted on a rock, at a hunting camp leased by Perry’s father, which had been painted over many times before, and to which Perry has no real connection.  I said that as soon as the Dems arrange for the most vulnerable Republican candidate to get the nomination as they did with McCain, come October they will pull a big, fat racist surprise out of their hat.  Several commenters told me I was crazy, one even intimated that I was a racist.  And yet, here it is for all to see.  The most nebulous of connections to the “n” word is now enough to bring a candidate down.

And here we are again.  Everybody likes Perry, Perry believes like we do, Perry won’t back down, and, Voila!, the WaPo and son of illigitimate baby-daddy Jesse Junior pull a racist rock out of their collective hat.  If only the Wapo had investigated Jesse Senior’s love life or Jean Francios’ war record as closely.  Alas, this is how we run the risk of 4 more years of incompentent, socialist and puerile bullying from the Black-Lung-in-Chief. (Google images of cigarette smokers’ lungs…)

And this is why Palin is our only real hope.  What are the chances that Mitt Romney’s second cousin’s uncle’s friend once sat on a wooden bus bench under which was scribbled the n-word and later, Romney had a chance to remove the term by scratching it out with a knife (obviously, painting over it is not satisfactory for the angelic hosts at the Wapo,) even though he did not realize it was his duty to do so since the bench was not his?  A HA, you say, but that could happen to Palin.

My answer is, doubtful.  Number one because it is unlikely.  If the left had anything remotely on her, they wouldn’t be so frightened of her.  Number two, she’s had a greasy cretin renting the house next door to her and spying on her and her family for years (a fact which would have sent the big mouths at the Wapo yelping in high dudgeon at the “unfairness of it all” had party affiliations been switched) and he has only been able to scribble a rag full of gossip, lies and calumny of the worst sort and over which he is now, justly and rightly, being sued.

Third, after laughing in their faces, she can respond that she is being attacked by the sexist Obama because of her gender.  He may be used to lording it over every other female in his life, but this woman will not back down.  She is being attacked by a craven sexist, a la Bill “underpants” Clinton.

And finally, she will take the battle to them.  She is not afraid of them, does not respect them and is not intimdated by them.  And that’s all they’ve got.  If they can’t bloviate from the imperious heights and have everyone else shake in their boots, they have NOTHING and she knows it.  She’s got more courage than all the other candidates from both parties and the libmedia knows it.  She will make them look like the pathetic loonies they are just like Ronald Reagan did because she can relate to the average American man and woman.  Will the libs pull out Tina Fey again?  Even that schtick is getting a little old.

And please spare me the details about how she doesn’t have enough experience in this or that area.  We’ve seen from Oh Brother Obama that no one expects world’s of experience anymore.  But the fact is, she has lots of experience and it is just the kind we need — the kind required to stand up to the establishment and say: No more DOEnergy, No more DO Ed, No more CPB, No more NPR, No more foreign aid (except immediate disaster response), No More means tested welfare, No more set asides, No more year-long unemployment benies, No more min wage, No more public schools spoiled by self-interested teachers’ unions, No more self-aggrandizing (and extremely costly) public-employee unions of any kind, No more! No more! No more! etc.

That’s the kind of “experience” we need right now and it scares the heck out of a lot of people — in both parties.

So ya think House Republicans are like terrorists for trying to stop America from going broke by constantly raising the debt limit rather than by fiscal restraint?  Weren’t you once accused of plaiserism?  Let’s see, in ’88 I think it was, you delivered parts of a speech by British Labor leader Neil Kinnock without attribution.  Also, a serious plagierism incident occurred while you were in law school, n’est pas?  You exaggerated your academic record publicly and after reporters started digging, it wasn’t the first time truth was a slippery quality for you.  It seems you had a history of taking quips from other politicians’ speeches without acknowleding their source.

Well, being a forgiving people, we won’t mention any of that today.  We will assume you really did make those terrorist remarks even though you are in full denial mode now.  Let me see if I can find a way to explain how a national debt spiralling into the teen trillions is more dangerous to our national security (much less the “full faith and credit of the U.S.”) than those who oppose it.

Let’s say Obam is like a spoiled 16 year old white girl (yes, hard to imagine, I know.)  She wants what she wants, when she wants it, and without hesitation.  If she doesn’t get it, well, those of you with teenagers know what she does: she screams, she stomps her feet, she cries, she blames others.  Now,  the other characters are dad, the guy who has to pay for the mess.  We will analogize him to Uncle Sam, the U.S. Taxpayer.  Next is Liberal Mother, that is Pelosi, Reid, Sharpton — you know, the usual suspects.  Finally, we have brother “on the dole” Dan - the almost 50% of Americans who now “draw a check” from Uncle Sam under various pretexts, otherwise known as grievance mongering and malingering.  (Yes, I know some folks are legitimately disabled, elderly poor or fatherless children.  They probably make up 15% of the “takers.”  And public policy creates many of those with all kinds of perverse incentives.)

Anyway, back to our story.  Let’s look in on this dysfunctional family.  The Princess (you can guess who she is) is carrying on about wanting a $200 dress for the prom, a car for her Birthday, a $100 purse, and a bump in her allowance to $500 per month.  (She cannot work, you know, that might be asking too much.)  Dad Sam replies, “Princess, we just cannot afford all these new goo gaws.  We are $14 Trillion dollars in debt now.  In fact, I was planing to cut your spending back some.”  The Princess faints at this point.  When she awakens, she dispatches her friends at the New Black Panther Party to man all the poll booths in Philadelphia.

Soft hearted (with OPM) Lib Mama chimes in at this point, “You’re just being hard hearted and selfish.  You know the guy at the (international) bank said we could raise our credit (card) limit.”  “Yes dear,” replies Dad (Uncle) Sam, “but if we do that, in a short time, ALL of the household income will be going to pay the interest on the debt.  We will have to borrow even more just to by groceries, pay the rent, etc. (that is, pay for Constitutional gubmint functions like defneding the nation and maintaininng federal courts, and so forth.)

Stirred from his lethargy induced stupor on the couch, brother “dole” Dan speaks up, saying we can always borrow more, we’re the Big man on the block.  Besides, he needs another COLA for his disability check (pot’s gotten expensive lately.)  Dad says, “Yeah, but we won’t be for long if we owe our soul to everybody in the world.  And quit smokin that dope in the house.”  Sister Princess is emboldened now, and begins to scream that if she doesn’t get the money, she will tell the media that Dad is abusing her (by “threatening” the full faith and credit of the U.S.)  The Princess is never questioned by the media.  any thing she says carries the weight of gold with the simpletons of the dino media. “I want more!” she screams, “I want more!”

Dad is about driven to distraction by the endless caterwauling, so, after endless nagging by lib Mama, dole Dan, the Princess and the Media, he finally gives in.  Tune in next time as we visit the dysfunctional family in five years or so.

Oh great.  Now the presumption of innocence is on celebrities and their thugs, even when the incident has been clearly recorded on a security video.  You can view it on YouTube by typing in: “Houston Airport: beating West Point cadet assault”.  What you may not see, depending on the version you view, is the cadet, Houston resident Richard King, walking out of the terminal PRIOR to the incident.  He was not weaving, he was not stumbling, indeed, he was barely distinguishable from the other deplaning passengers exiting the building to catch a ride home.  This is important because Houston Police later dismissed the incident, or rather, took Madame LaBelle’s side of it, because the cadet had allegedly “been drinking.”

My question is, so what?  It’s not illegal to drink in this country, especially on airplanes.  And, as you can plainly see, the cadet had not imbibed enough even to impair his gait.  Several witnesses stated that LaBelle ordered her thug crew to push King away because he was, get this, standing too close to her luggage.  The video shows the thugs plainly pushing King first and throwing the first punch.  Then, he obviously was attacked by not one, not two, but three of LaBelle’s cowardly pigs and as a result fell and hit his head against a concrete pillar.

Hang on, the worst is yet to come.  Later, the video shows two of Houston’s finest, or at least oldest, police officers showing up to…investigate?  No.  Take statements?  No.  Search for clues?  No.  Conduct  forensic tests?  No.  These two clowns end up having their photos taken with the fat has-been LaBelle while practically standing in a pool of Cadet King’s blood.  Too bad her thugs did not beat up one of their sons, we might have seen a different response.  Their actual explanation for such lackadaisical and thoroughly unprofessional conduct?  Well, said they, King smelled of alcohol.  Again, so what?

Here we have a young guy who has dedicated himself to serving his country.  A man who has suffered some of the worst hazing and most stringent discipline still in existence in this country.  A person who is likely to end up fighting in one of Obama’s three wars.  And even he cannot get a break.  That’s the chilling part.

Although I’m a veteran, I’m really nothing special in the grand scheme of things.  So, if I have the misfortune of standing too close to some fat idiot’s luggage after having had a few drinks, I run the risk of being  beaten by thugs and ignored by police.  This is not the America I grew up in.  And the worse is still yet to come.

Not only did the Keystone cops at HPD not render assistance, or even the presumption of innocence to this fine young man, they called his superiors (obviously in rank only)  at West Point.  The commanding weenies there, purely on the basis of a telephone conversation, initiated severe punishment on the kid.  According to published reports, the cowardly command staff at West Point stated King would have to serve in the enlisted ranks for a year before being considered again as a cadet and/or as an officer.  All this on the basis of the arrogant whims of a fat, smart-mouthed, over-indulged celebrity has-been. Boy.  That beats everything.

One is reminded of the Duke LaCrosse team’s experience with so-called justice in North Carolina.  Yet, one might say that at least they initiated their incident by hiring a couple of strippers for entertainment.  Yes, bad judgement, I agree.  Of course, college sports stars are not necessarily known for their maturity.  But this guy?  He was just standing their talking on his phone.  It easily could that have been you or I.  How many of us blab away endlessly while being nearly oblivious to our surroundings?  Yes, most of us.

Here’s what should happen.  First, the three thugs involved should be charged with aggaravated battery at least.  Since it was a black on white crime, it qualifies as a “hate” crime as well and should carry an extra long sentence.  (I know it doesn’t, but it should.)  If it is proven that the obese tub of lard LaBelle ordered it, she should be charged with a conspiracy to commit battary and do serious time as well.

Both, or all three, Houston Police “officers” should be stripped of all rank, privileges, pensions and retirement benefits and fired from the force forthwith.  Charges of neglect of duty should be investigated.  They should be made to do 1000 hours of community service in the ER of a major hospital mopping up blood.

The “commander” or “commanders” at West Point who ordered punishment on the basis of a phone call should also be stripped of all rank, privileges, pension and retirement benefits and sent packing with a dishonorable discharge.  To ruin a man’s career on the basis of the specious and horribly flimsy evidence offered in this case is dishonorable at best.  I frankly have had enough of the kiss and tell, panty-waist, PC military that jumps on it’s knees and whimpers at the hint of any politically incorrect whining by anybody.  All future commanding officers at West Point should be checked for a pair BEFORE being allowed to command there.

Finally, Cadet King should sue and sue and sue: the Houston Airport; the City of Houston; the Houston Police Department; Patti (the FAT sow) LaBelle; the three thugs in her employ; the U.S. Army; the U.S. Gubmint and anyone else in sight who might possibly be culpable.  Now, I’m not usually a litigious person.  But this nonesense begs for it.

We are eventually going to run out of fine young men who are willing to put their lives on the line to defend us.  And what exactly are they defending?  A country in which a minor, has-been celebrity can get away with assaulting an innocent man for no reason.  This is truly Obama’s America.

A lot of cheap politicians like
Clinton, Obama and Jackson run around blaming this, that and the other thing
for Americans no longer being able to realize the American dream. Such an
assertion may or may not be true, but what these types usually mean is that
somehow “evil forces” are at work. The usual implication is that big
corporations, racism or Republicans have treated certain segments of the
population, e.g. “the poor,” unfairly. The idea is, of course, that
the private economy is a zero sum game and thus anyone enjoying wealth must
have “gotton” it from someone else. If only people were so easily
convinced that as untrue as that assertion is for the private sector, it is an
exact description of every dime, nickel and cent spent by the federal gubmint.
Alas, that will have to wait for another article.

First, what is the American dream?  Well, it is certainly not what it has become
in the popular imagination, some kind of guarantee of the good life.  No one ever had that, except maybe a Kennedy.  It never meant putting in 19 hours at the
Wal-Mart and doing hair on the side was going to get you out of the projects, trailer
park or wherever you are now that you do not want to be.  It never meant that even if you had a full
time job and put in 40 hours a week you would end up with a home, car and
vacation.  It never meant that because you
work hard someone owes you more than your productive worth.  

It never meant the gubmint owed
it to you, either.  I don’t care if you
are a high school drop-out and managed to get yourself a job at a union shop
making 80 dollars an hour.  If that
little gig folds, it is not the gubmint’s place to ensure that you continue to
live on wages that are far above you productive worth.  And working for the gubmint itself at any
level is not (or should not be) some kind of life-long access to an overly generous
and eternally bounteous claim on the federal, state or local treasuries. 

First, no one is forced to work
for the gubmint.  Second, the job
security written into the civil service code (even without union meddling) is enough
to keep gubmint people on the job until retirement barring anything short of murder,
and I’m not too sure of that.  Third, no
adversarial management exists to demand low wages, indeed, the opposite is
true.  What passes for management are
politicians beholden to union money for their next re-election, so they have absolutely
no incentive to say “no” to almost any request from a public employee union
(and every incentive to say yes.)  And
that’s why public employee unions were banned until JFK came along.

What the American Dream has
always meant was that, after one has secured food, clothing, shelter and insurance,
paid their taxes and debts for themselves and their families, then were they free
to get a second or third job, enroll in night school, start a company, work
seven days a week and so on to pursue something more.  It is not magic.  It just requires hard work, sacrifice and
delay of gratification.  Does this mean
one is free to drop out of high school, run out and have two or three children out
of wedlock and then expect to enjoy an affluent lifestyle?  Probably not. 
That is some kind of dream-world alright, but it is not the American
dream. 

In America, one is free to do for
one’s self, or at least one once was.  Obama
& Co. are about killing the American dream and installing the Marxist nightmare.  We cannot all be equally successful (for
reason having to do with character, not race, creed, color, or the other usual
suspects.)  But we can certainly all be
equally poor, which is exactly where the “O” man’s policies are leaving
us.  Only someone who is thoroughly corrupt,
maniaclly ideological or just plain stupid would think that using the gubmint to
spend us into penury by the trillions is the solution to the debt crisis and
slow national economy.  Boy, he must
think we are the stupid ones for buying into such nonsense.  I guess he can always count on his lap dog
media to put the quietus on any speculations to the contrary. 

In any event, we need someone who
is not afraid to point out this idiocy and call it what it is, not another blue
suit, red tie wearing go-along-to get along like Boehner.  I used to love Gingrich, but talk about
baggage!  Wasn’t that the big criticism
against Sarah Palin?  Seriously, we need
a fighter and a winner come the ’12 elections. 
A smooth-talking white guy with a genius for oh-so-clever double-speak
WILL NOT DO. 

The American people have now seen
Obama play this role for the last four years and they get it.  Yes, black people are capable of being poll-obsessed,
air-headed, valueless, insider, both-sides-of-their-mouth speaking, TEL-E-PROMP-TER
reading mouthpieces for whatever-ya’ll want to hear disasters, too!  Kum-ba-yah and we have all seen the
light!  Hallelujah, we have been healed and
are cleansed of ALL middle-class white guilt from now until the Second Coming,
HooRay!  However, now we also have a real
crisis on our hands and we need a real leader and not only that, one who is
impervious to taunts of “privilege,” “dynasty” “boring white guy” and all the
rest. 

We need someone who had the guts
to stand up to oil-rich fat-cats in her own party and WIN.  Yes, I know she’s not perfect, but she is the
only conservative candidate people can vote for without feeling the imaginary,
media created lash of “racism.”  And it
is because she is representative of another “minority” group which has been oppressed
for many years that she is impervious to charges of “ruling class” elitism and
such.  2012 can be the NEW decade of the
woman if we have the guts to make it so and Katie Couric be DAMNED.

Let’s see…Bush ’43 was castigated by the dino media for a whopping 4% unemployment rate.  Lately, one rarely hears of the ‘O’ man’s killa’ 10% rate in the lame-media.  G.W.’s economy was growing at a “languid” avg. of 3.3 % (first three years,) yet MSNBC is “optimistic” about Obama’s 1.8 % in the first quarter.  G.W. was lambasted by members of his own party as a “big spender” for running up a $500 billion debt.  After Stim I, Stim II, QE I and QE II (do I have them straight?  Please correct…) we now host an outstanding public debt, as of 8 May 2011, 02:38:21 AM GMT, of $14,330,530,472,254.16 — a full 60% of GDP (8 trillion dollars.)  NPR’s reaction is anger at the Republican House because it is unlikely to vote for further deficit spending and impatience with voters because the idea of refusing to throw good money after bad has achieved “resonance” with voters.  [I'd say it has achieved a great deal more than that with me.]  To keep up current spending levels, even NPR suggests the only real solution is to go borrow more money from China.  (Does everyone realize if we lose our triple A bond rating it will cost much, much more to do this?)  

Politically, in ’08 Obama ran on “bringing the boys home,” closing Gitmo, getting to the bottom of the CIA’s use of EIT’s and universal healthcare.  The budget problem he “inherited” from G.W. was of course formed, amended and enacted with the help of a neophytic senator from Illinois named Barack Hussein Obama…same with foreign relations problems; the Soc. Sec. problem; the Medicare problem; the health care problem; the DADT problem; well, you get the idea.  And so boys and girls, between McCain’s refusal to mention Obama’s nefarious friends, pals and fellow travelers; Chris Matthews’ “first black prez” leg tingling enervations; and the implied threat that to oppose Sen. Obama was like, man, despicable racism – the big “O” got himself elected.  Yes he did. 

Now, in ’12, he is going to run again?  On what?  Jobs and growth will not be happenin’ anytime soon.  Cuts sufficient to dent the enormous debt will not be happnin’ in the near future either.  We are engaged in three wars rather than two.  And now, worse for Obama, the GWOT has culminated in great success with the termination of one Osama bin Laden.  (G.W. did all the heavy lifting on this one.  Anybody heard the ‘O’ praise him for it?  Me neither.)  And A.G. Holder is still prosecuting the CIA men responsible for dropping the SEALTEAM SIX BOMB (Hoorah!) on Osama thanks to info gathered from KSM (and just two others) by, guess what?  If you said, “by using Enhanced Interrogation Techniques,” go to the head of the class.  Furthermore, Obama’s ultra-left base must be incensed that Gitmo remains open and busier than ever.  (Prosecutors for the KSM trial are buying their whites even as we speak.)  And Obamacare?  Investigations have already begun into the exact criteria for receiving a waiver allowing one to dodge this monstrosity.  Over a thousand waivers have already been issued to various politically favored entities, e.g. unions, big DNC contributors, the state of Maine, etc.  [BTW, if universal healthcare is so great, why do all of Obama's pals and cronies want out of it?]

The solution for Christian conservatives, female conservatives, secular-conservatives, neo-conservatives, gay-conservatives and plain old conservatives, if not necessarily Republicans, is not going to be Mitt Romney, Donald Trump or any other white guy.  Obama got elected because he is black.  He had no administrative experience, none in the private sector, indeed, no real record of any traditional kind — nothing.  As Boy Clinton famously said, he would have been getting Clinton and Kennedy coffee had he not been black, much less running for and getting elected president.  If the ‘R’ ticket contains another white man, Al not-so-Sharp-ton and Co. will just crank up ‘Ye Ole Racism machine’ again and it will work again!  Remember, a great number of folks in flyover country still cling to white guilt as if it were a salvic talisman or gold-plated “Get Out of Jail” card.  (Please do not suggest a conservative black guy, the country is not really ready for that yet.  Think Michael Steele.)  There is only one real answer: Sarah Palin.  The Historicity.  The Conservative.  The Victory.

However, playing the devil’s advocate, let us say that Palin is out for the time being.  We still have Michele Bachmann and a host of other attractive and qualified conservative women who can run (an explanation for why “looks” are important will be forthcoming.)  If Hillary runs, we will lose with Mitt Romney.  We have to run a woman if the Dems do in order to take away what Warrior has coined “the novelty coup factor.”  Look, a barely qualified black guy beat a much experienced, respected and revered war hero simply so Brian Williams et al. could holla about the “Historicity” of electing the first black prez.  It will just be a repeat with the first woman prez if we do not counter.  The only reason some blacks voted was to bring a black guy into office.  So will it be for the first woman president. 

Now, yours truly claims no expertise on the handicapping of national electoral politics.  I do know it is an art as well as a science.  The zeitgeist plays as much a part as poll numbers, demographic studies, and voter trends.  But, as mentioned in Palin or Bachmann, Vol. I, several critics have put me off my Sarah feed for a while, anyway.  They often cite the Dem primaries in ’08 as instructive of how gender is not relevant, since a black guy beat a woman in that mash up.  However, the ’08 primary encounter was a totally different animal.

First, Hillary had Bill Clinton baggage.  Second, in the oppression/grievance sweepstakes, blacks are (or were) number one.  Now that that particular fire has been doused briefly, women are the next protected class to demand their representation (and who can blame them?)  If the Dems run a woman and we run a man of any race, we will lose, period.  And if we do not beat them to the punch and chose a woman AFTER they do, they will simply call our candidate a token or Jenny-come-lately- chosen only for her plumbing.

As mentioned, we have a parade of attractive conservative women available, starting with Michele Bachmann.  One must wonder why attractive conservative women are so threatening to the left.  The lamestream media vilifies everybody from Sarah Palin to Christine O’Donnell to Ann Coulter to S.E. Cupp.  Why are looks so important to the Dems?  To begin with, one of their major constituencies is the MTV crowd, i.e. the youth vote.  But beyond that, psychologically and historically, it goes deep into who they present, and actually believe, themselves to be.  Also, starting with the Nixon/Kennedy debates, they have realized and traded on the power of visual appeal.  Camelot is not an enduring leftwing delusion for nothing.

Basically, it’s sex appeal, but not in the traditional, cheesecake kind of way.  With the Dems, it is part and parcel of their whole philosophy.  “Look at us,” they say, “we are newer, younger, prettier.  Our IDEAS, therefore, are new, fresh and exciting.  We are the party of the future, the new kid in town, the fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”  Or, as “O” the Oracle once put it, “We are the change we’ve been waiting for.”  This is the Obama girl cheer.  This is why they are never held responsible for the enduring mess they’ve made of this country. 

(Just think about it.  Almost every problem with which we are now dealing as a national polity began as a great new idea from the left.  Social Security?  We are now drowning in debt because of it.  The Great Society?  We now have a veritable army of gubmint dependents and fatherless children.  Medicare/Medicaid?  It has skewed the marketplace provision of healthcare to the point that another charlatan from the left now wants to make it systemic as well as endemic with the snake oil of “Obamacare.”  HA!  The whole problem began with gubmint interference in that field.  And we have not even begun to discuss the moral hazards involved, the law of unintended consequences, the vast expansion of gubmint intrusion, power, corruption, etc.  However, I digress, that’s for another diary…)

And this is why ANY conservative woman, especially an attractive one, will be anathema to the left and why they will stop at nothing short of assassination to stop her — whomever she may turn out eventually to be.  And this is also one of the main reasons why, with John McCain mechanically labeling everyone in sight with the robotic, inauthentic, almost comical if not so scary “My friend,” we lost the presidency in ’08.  Yes, I know there were other reasons.  However, even for an election coming immediately after the two-term presidency of another Republican, and even with McCain failing to mention Obama’s close association with racists, communists and felons, it was still a mighty close call.

Many critics, several on RS, have just about quenched my fire for Sarah Palin.  I guess I like her because she is not intimidated by the media.  Or maybe it’s because she sounds like an average woman when she talks and not some over-prepped, Tel-E-Prom-Ter poseur.  Maybe it is because she stood up to the oil cabal in Alaska and won.  But, let me answer a few anticipated arguments against her running as a viable presidential candidate one by one. 

First, if we can elect a freshman STATE senator with no experience at anything but community organizing, i.e. extorting money from various private and public entities, I will not even address the “underqualified”  charge, except to say that Gov. Palin had more admin experience in ’08 than the “O” man had.  Next, as to her supposed divisiveness, the lib media is going to make any conservative candidate appear “polarizing.”  Look how they vilified a couple of rank middle-of-the-roaders like Bush ’41 and ’43!  And as far as needing to stay home and take care of her family, I’d like to see anyone on the left make that remark.  They would suddenly experience a huge Juan Williams moment for buying into a stereotype as crass as anything approaching “a woman’s place is in the home.”  As for media hostility towards her, NO conservative is going to get an “even break” from them in this country.

Other critics say she has reached the tether end of her competency, i.e. the Peter Principle argument.  It does not apply to Sarah Palin because she did not seek national celebrity or office.  It was thrust upon her.  Her neighbors encouraged her to run for the Wasilla city council.  Others saw and appreciated that Sarah’s strength and intelligence could be used in the political realm long before she did.  Indeed, you would have never heard of her had she not been persuaded to run for local office.  And remember, it was John McCain who picked her out of the blue as his VP candidate, she did not offer or politic for it.

As far as Sarah Palin being a known quantity, i.e. damaged goods, this is probably the weakest argument.  Everyone from Nixon to Kennedy to Reagan had been a known national quantity before being elected president.  Besides, what is known is almost all admirable.  She was raised in a modest home in Alaska.  She raised five children herself in another modest, but godly home in Alaska.  She courageously chose to have a baby with problems rather than taking the easy way out.  She served twice in the city council, twice in the mayor’s office and again as governor of the state.  She transmitted these values to her family as she now has a son serving in Afghanistan as we speak.

And finally, Gov. Palin is paying a huge personal price for what she did not ask for, but only accepted as her duty.  She now has some intrusive man living next door who surveils her and her family’s every move.  She is not rich.  She does not live behind security fences and guard dogs.  She was forced to resign from the governor’s office and self-promote in order to fend off specious ethics charges lodged against her by political enemies who neither experienced nor risked any repercussions, regardless of their accusations’ known veracity or lack thereof.  Under Alaska law, she had to personally finance her defense against this unjustifiable calumny.  And every one of these baseless counts has either been dropped or decided in her favor.

Yes, her enemies on the left know her and they are scared to death of her.  Remember, she has been tried by the national political media fire and has come out a winner.  She chose her family over politics.  She has extricated herself from a vicious and totally unethical ethics attack and overcome.  Once her domestic situation has calmed, she can choose to return to national politics.  Let us welcome her in some capacity – especially since she will likely be the one to choose it. 

Oh, so you think my wife and kids are ugly, huh?  I got news for you dummy.  Beauty is skin deep, but ugly is to the bone and brother, your as ugly as they come.  Ugly is as ugly does and your big mouth is beyond ugly.  You need to wake up from your (alleged) cocaine infested delusions and smell the coffee.  Nobody cares about you, your (alleged) drugs, your whores, your useless sycophants or your sick life style.  I would not trade my life for ten of yours.  You’re pathetic.  The rest of us are happily going about our business, enjoying our lives, raising our families and not giving you a second thought — not until you show up on radio and TV to insult us. 

But Charlie Sheen, you are the denoument of the left wing dream.  Your rant is indicative of the self-righteous arrogance which characterizes nearly everybody on the left.  You think you are better than everyone else because you believe you are prettier?  Ha!  What an imbecile.  I agree that you are a pretty boy, but your intellect is a vast wasteland.  With all that money, all you can think of to do is hire hookers and get drunk.  What a lame-brain!

This is exactly where value free, non-judgmental, politically correct socialism leads — to a life bereft of meaning and purpose.  Charlie, the only thing you have left is a coterie of drooling lackeys telling you whatever you want to hear in an effort to stay in the supposed “circle of cool.”  Surprise, even mindless debauchery has its limits.  The tide is swiftly turning so that soon your “big star” cachet will dim to the point that even your crowd of (alleged) dope using pals will desert you.  Where will you be then, genius?  If anyone ever wonders what a country dominated by godless, leftist mooonbats will look like, all they need do is cast a weary glance your way.  The river of putrid sewage which has become your life would very soon become characteristic of our national ethos.

As one grows older and, with hope, wiser, one begins to see that a life free of personal responsibility is not worth living.  A completely selfish existence is in truth a hellish nightmare – kind of like yours.  Look at all the supposed “little people” you have put out of work.  And some of them may even be decent folks trying to raise families.  You are the harbinger of morbid excess, not George W. Bush.  You are the anti-paraclete of the Evil Spirit and the demon of the sinful Nature of Man.  You are what happens when a man makes choices free of moral obligation or personal conviction. 

The sad thing is, there are thousands, nay, millions of poor slobs just like you out there who have drunk the kool-aid of personal aggrandizement and abhored the milk of personal responsibility.  Unfortunately, but thanks to your example and the example of others like you, they are leading lives which are equally empty, disgusting and sick.  Some sit in boardrooms and some stand in welfare lines, but they have all been duped by Hollywood’s endless show of holier-than-thou haughtiness and infantile mockery of decent Americans in “fly over” country.  The tragedy is, most do not have the money to buy their way out of the crappy mess they make while pursuing the “glam lifestyle” so often portrayed by Hollyweird.  Most of them end up as wards of the state who now must live off public assistance.  Here’s another news flash Charlie — I cannot afford much more of that crap either!!!

So, congrats to you, Carlos Irwin Estevez.  You are living the fantasy of every thirteen-year-old boy in the world.  Too bad you are a 44 year-old “man” with SIX children.  What a ridiculous loser.  Get help Charlie, you are one sick star.

in most states.  Not when there are unions which have to be sated.  And not when 20 year-olds who would rather have a Wave Runner than a healthcare policy must have it foisted on them by the gubmint.  But we have taken several steps backward in the care of the mentally ill over the last few decades.

The 1971 Wyatt lawsuit in Alabama, for instance, sought to stop truly brutal treatment of the mentally ill and misuse of the system as a whole.  Ricky Wyatt was a 15 y/o who had been sent to Bryce (the state’s mental hospital) for misbehaving at a children’s group home.  Since he was not mentally ill, this was obviously a horrible violation of the spirit of such institutions, if not of the law at that time.  And there were many other abuses.  But the answer was not to virtually close the hospitals down and send the patients to non-existent “community group homes,” for which there never has been sufficient funding. 

Even today, forty years after Judge Johnson’s ruling, many mentally ill in Alabama (and elsewhere) continue to live on the streets, under bridges and in boxes by choice.  Indeed, due to lawsuits backed by the ACLU and other leftie outfits, most states have had to close some and turn the remaining hospitals into temporary hotels for the mentally ill, keeping them for observation a few days, then turning them loose.  Less known or understood is the fact that many states were more than happy to oblige, since such facilities are a huge drain on the state’s budget.  So, now, the mentally ill have become living footballs for the state and the various localities to kick back and forth in the name of “budgetary priorities.” 

“These people have rights” one hears the advocates of such policies say.  Well, of course they do.  But with rights come responsibilities and given the nature of their mental incapacities, many are unable to rationally make important decisions about their lives.  They simply cannot function in society and truly should be cared for in a humane, supervised environment.  All the left has done is throw these very vulnerable babies out with the otherwise stinking bathwater.  So, the reality of unrestricted “rights” for the mentally ill, as mentioned earlier, is the right to live on the street where they are prey to every thug and criminal; the right to be stabbed to death for the coat on their backs; the right to starve in hobo jungles or freeze to death in a cardboard box. 

And they are free to give in to the awful mental demons that beseech them to hurt and kill themselves, or others, or both.  If you’ve ever seen “The Soloist” with Jamie Foxx or “A Beautiful Mind” with Russell Crowe, you have some slight idea what these guys are going through.  Is it really more humane and compassionate to sentence them to a life on the street than to a warm, safe hospital or other group facility?

Now, of course, I don’t know this character, Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged Arizona shooting suspect.  What I do know is that unwilling thought insertion by nebulous gubmint entities is almost a textbook description of the fixed delusional sytsems at play in many persons with psychotic disorders.  And such has been the case long before the advent of the Tea Party or the indroduction of Sarah Palin onto the national scene.  I also know that the onset of many severe mental illnesses is in early adulthood.  Mr. Loughner is 22 I believe.  So, chances are good that the man was trying to relieve some psychic pain which could, to his mind, not be otherwise ameliorated.

Yet, here we are again.  One injustice, i.e. Ricky Wyatt, or even a series of them, and we over-react and make the problem worse.  We simply cannot write blanket laws to cover every possible situation.  At some point, someone’s judgement has to be used and not second-guessed.  Someone, somewhere has to appeal to common sense and not fear being sued or put in jail for it later. 

I truly believe the excesses of plaintiffs’ attorneys and other lawsuit happy frauds like John Edwards have gone a long way towards undermining even an approximation of justice in this country.  And here we see again, in painful and stark relief, the results of such a misguided system.  The perfect has now, at long last, become the enemy of the good and we as a society will continue to pay the price.  For as long as Democrats and libs believe man and gubmint can be perfected, we will continue to witness gruelling and graphic examples of why that will never be true.

So says Obama, but one wonders.  Is it only sycophants who are starving on a “modest” $172K a year?  What about the carpet layer in Sheboygan who employs his brother-in-law and son and who splits his $200K gross earnings with two relatives and gubmint at all levels?  Is HE, then, the “rich” slacker lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills?  (And what about the avg family income in the U.S. — $55K per year.  Man, they must really be in poverty by the “O’s” standards.) 

And yet, The Won stated very recently that earning $200K per year meant one was a member of the hated “rich.”  Which is it Oh Great One?  The carpet layer?  His job certainly is as difficult as is that of the sweaty pool boy Gibbs.  And, in addition, he provides a needed service, employs two other people, supports three families AND contributes to the “modest” salary of the ever-truthful Gibbs (and thousands of others like him.)  I’m sorry.  It doesn’t wash with me.  I’ve got far more education and have been in my field far longer than Gibbs and I don’t make an eighth what he makes.  And pressure?  Let’s not talk pressure.  My job has at least as much pressure as being official mouth-piece for the One.

No, I’m afraid Obama’s Freudian slip is an excellent clue into the mind of the average Federal worker.  They believe they don’t make near enough while the rest of us slobs should get used to starving.  We OWE them, don’t you see.  Yes, yes, I know the avg fed worker has a more specialized skill set than the avg private sector employee, but that is only because the private sector employs a much wider range of occupations.  However, even after allowing for that anomaly, fed “workers” bring home nearly twice, in salary and benefits, what the avg Joe (in a comparable private sector job) makes. 

And, due to public employee unions, this is a trend that will be very hard to break.  Now, the left will respond with, well, conservatives are not serious about cutting salaries in particular or budget cuts in general “until Defense is on the table.”  Nonesense.  Defense is one of the few Constitutionally mandated perogatives of the Federal gubmint.  We NEED Defense.  So, I have a more accurate proposition.  The Dems are not serious about cutting the budget until all non-Constitutional programs have been wiped out.  Then we can worry about cutting “waste, fraud and abuse” from Defense.  Besides, I really don’t mind paying Defense people well.  We don’t want the lowest common “civil service” denominators and shiftless time-servers working on advanced missle systems, for instance, do we? 

No, I’m afraid the welfare mentality has seeped into the thnking of otherwise mature and responsible people working for the gubmint.  The old deal was, you got a job for life, more or less, but you will not make as much as the risk-takers.  (Which is another reason Omama wants to bail companies out and another good reason to oppose such shenanigans, but I digress…)  I think everyone was willing to live with that.  Now, however, we have a gynormous force of gubmint people at all levels who believe, not only should they make more than us, they are better than us as well and so are ENTITLED to as much of our earnings as they want.  And we better not forget it or our streets will not get plowed.  When the federal gubmint starts bailing out states overextended by golden retirement and health programs, we will truly begin to see the error of our ways.  I hope.

As everyone knows by now, Juan Williams was sacked by the taxpayer funded NPR yesterday for suggesting burka and keffiyeh clad muslims boarding airplanes give him the willies.  Well, guess what?  They do me too.  Any sentient being who has read a newspaper in the past twenty years should be similarly affected.  Kinda’ like the Reverend Jessie “Love Child” Jackson’s admission that he is relieved to look behind him on a dark street and the teens behind him turn out to be white.  None of this is really debatable or surprising to the average jack or jill.

Ah, but we’re not in Kansas anymore.  We’re in the funhouse mirror distortion of left-wing spin on the eve of a 21st century election cycle and no you may not assume that “up” is above you and “down” is below.  Now, the very evil part of me really wants to gloat at Mister Lib Williams decrying at full bleat that “I am not a racist” and doing that while sharing a couch with a bunch of conservatives on a FOX News show.  Personally, I feel sorry for the guy.  You try to be open-minded around here and the Nina “Maybe Jesse Helms wil get AIDS through a transfusion” Totenbergs of the world will serve you up to the wolves every time.

And poor Juan looked SOOO surprised!  It always amazes me when libs get shafted by their very own fascist PC enforcers and then end up being shocked, shocked.  Look, here’s a message from an old hand at being called a “racist” –  if you express an honest feeling or an original thought which doesn’t pass muster with the PC gestapo, get ready…it’s coming.  It’s inevitable.  It’s their ONLY weapon.  That’s why we could be discussing how to divide the cheese on the moon and conservatives or anyone else who steps out of the Brian Williams, John Colbert, George Soros Axis of “thought” will be labeled a “racist” and called out for misbehavior.

Don’t like gubmint healthcare?  You’re a racist.  Tired of seeing poor black children locked into failing gubmint schools by the teachers’ unions?  You’re a racist.  Object to left-wing academicians filling vulnerable 18 year-old heads with stale socialist swill?  You guessed it — racist.

I’ll never forget my first personal accusation of racism.  A guy I had known, and more illustrative, who had known me, for twenty years, suddenly decides I’m a racist because I suggested that moving the poverty, crime and chaos of the inner city into the suburbs, at taxpayer expense no less, was a terrible idea.  My thought was, “What is anyone to learn or gain from this besides a healthy snicker at the fools who have worked all their lives from the former ghetto dwellers and a serious hate for the gubmint from the suburbanites?”  But I digress.

Unfortunately, my first response to this erstwhile friend was “And you’re a f**king idiot.”  ( I later apologized for the profanity.)  If I hadn’t been so surprised at my formerly even-tempered “friend” calling me names, I would have retorted, “And you’re a fascist,” which is far more descriptive, if not nearly as satisfying.  Alas, it was ever thus.  Get used to it.  Until people tire of such obviously juvenile railing and ubiquitous puerile baiting, we’ll never hear the end of it.

One thing’s for sure.  It’s time to pull the tax-money plug from NPR, CPB and all other gubmint broadcast outfits which have become little more than elitist bully pulpits from which the liberal gliterati scolds us commoners at our own expense.  If they can bear Nina Totenberg practically begging for the death of Jesse Helms on air, they can handle Juan Williams suggesting that yet another muslim suicide bomber may be boarding yet another jet airliner to blow up yet another symbolic outpost of the Great Satan.

But maybe I’m expecting too much of the American people.  Maybe we are, in Eric Holder’s famous words, a bunch of cowards.  Want lower taxes?  You’re a racist!

–  “O.K. boss.  You are right.  I am so sorry for suggesting that half my income and half my inheritance is too much for the gubmint to take, especially when they waste, steal or lose 40% of it easy.  Please don’t call me any more names.  I’ll be good.  I won’t rock the boat anymore.  Please, just let me keep what I got now and I promise to be a good little citizen.  Allow me to run my business and I’m O.K. with whatever you let me keep.  I dare not raise a ruckus because, unlike my forefathers who pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor for freedom, I’m willing to swear away all or most of my earnings for a little temporary safety and security.  Please oh please, just don’t call me any more names…”

Suppose the DEMS win in Nov.  They continue to borrow money and kow-tow to our enemies.  They raise taxes, entitlements, minimum wages, extend unemployment benefits, strengthen the unions and pass more crushing red tape and regulations on start-ups.  They expand the welfare state so fully 80% of all Americans are now eligible for immediate Medicaid and or Medicaid benefits.  Socialized medicine comes in (suppose another Dem [Hillary, worst case] is elected after Obama) and now SILWS (standing in line while sick) becomes the new national pastime.

Private fortunes, millionaires and billionaires move away to more favorable climes for the most part.  So much for hating “the rich.”  Class warfare become just another sick joke.  Only two classes are left, the Haves and the Have-Nots.

Because of funding cut backs, we pull out of the Far East, except for a token force.  The Chinese are emboldened to attack Taiwan and do so.  We’ve long since handed over the 38th parallel to the South Koreans so the North is likewise confident of victory and attacks the South.  The Russians attack and subvert Georgia once again, as well as several other oil-rich former satellites with names ending in “stan.”  Since we no longer seriously back Israel, Iran gets and uses the Bomb on our former ally.  Turkey and Paksistan get scared and suddenly become super muslim countries and no longer trustworthy alllies of the U.S.  The Chinese close the Panama Canal.

Now, strategically isolated in the world, we also owe trillions of dollars to China.  Our entire GDP goes toward financing the debt.  And no one wants our debt anymore since our bond rating has tanked.  The deficit is also huge and although the Fed has kept interest rates artificially low, most commerce is now done on the blackmarket, so it doesn’t matter.  Laws are so numerous that it is truly impossible even for the most honest and earnest among us to go through the day without breaking some law or statute instituted for our own good by our betters in Washington, which now has a fence (built quickly, BTW, and with little fuss) around it to protect our noble solons from the masses.

{Yes, there were a few brief years of “fun,” i.e. three month vacations, three and four day work weeks, five years worth of unemployment benefits, etc.  But the Golden Goose was dying and everyone knew it.  The first to sense what was going on began cashing-in, getting out, embezzling, stealing or plain old getting while the getting was good.  Alas, however, we were just too far in debt to live the “Greek model” for long.  We very soon ran out of money.}

The tried and true nostrum that even a collection of the world’s smartest and most educated people cannot know enough in a timely enough fashion to make a market run efficiently is again played out as our economy tanks.  We become another second-world mediocrity like Mexico.  Indeed, the drug world and gangland cartels are now real powers in most urban centers.  Buses and cabs are armour-plated and small businesses, such as they are, pay protection to the black market bosses.  BTW, some of these bosses are black, some hispanic and some white.  “Racism” as an accusation or phenomenon has become yet another sick joke.  The wags of the day jest that we have real diversity now – diversity in death.

Everyone who can get one carries a gun now.  Everyone who doesn’t lives in fear and subjugation.  The Federal gubmint tried to round up guns a while ago, but there were so many, it was impossible.  The result is, they go in with overwhelming force now, assume you have a gun and kill you if you show the slightest resistance.  But, unfortunately, the gubmint is not the largest predator now.  It’s people looking for food, clothing and shelter.  Small patches are farmed under armed guard.  The barter and the blackmarket are the major forms of trade.  Corruption abounds.

Some of the old folks who have been cared-for off the gubmint healthcare grid (and illegally BTW) sit around and cackle heartily about how they told us so.  (We have to keep them out of sight now, since the max age on gubmint healthcare is about 50.  Anyone much older sticks out like a sore thumb.)  A form of civilization continues, as it does in some third world countries now, behind high walls, dogs, alarm systems and armed guards.  However, no one lives without fear, because even the guards might get ideas about why they have to stand guard while everyone else party’s hearty.  It’s kind of like Castro admitted the other day to The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, “the Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.”  Surprise!  Remeber all those conservatives, from William F. Buckley to Thomas Sowell to Warrior, who used to patiently explain over and over again why socialism doesn’t work in the real world?  Well, they were right!  Err, correct! 

It wasn’t just a “Republican talking point,” as such luminous figures of the Left as Maureen Dowd and Brian Williams were wont to complain (Mo Do and Brie Wii, HA!).  Oh well, it’s a lot tougher to build the greatest Democratic Republic on earth than it was for Babs Streisand, Babs “Yes Ma’am” Boxer and Barney’s Frank to tear it down with their lies, hysteria and corruption.  Remember when Barney’s Frank said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac needed no overhaul or regulation, that they were doing just fine?  Oh yeah, that was right before they spread insolvent securities around the world like dust in a tornado and began our nation’s percipitous rush to the bottom.  (And Frank’s confabulation was right after one George W. Bush insisted that they DID need serious overhaul.)  Of course, later, after his pals were in power, he switched 180 degrees (no pun) and actually seemed to agree with the hated GWB: Voila! Mirabile Dictu!  these quasi-governmental monstrosities DID need oversight after all.  But, that was right before he called for their discontinuation altogether.  Well, that’s what happens when an entity or a person is no longer needed by the Leftist cabal in power.  That’s right, it or you get thrown under the bus.

Of course, OUR GUBMINT stills tries to take care of everyone.  Some have so called Gubmint Jobs, i.e. they pretend to work and the gubmint pretends to pay them.  Alas, SILWS has become just the first in a series of new pastimes, e.g. SILFF (Standing in Line for Food,) SILFC (Standing in Line for Coal, and not the clean-burning kind either) and the most popular, SILTROYN (Standing in line to Rat on Your Neighbor.)  You see, even a “benevolent” gubmint has enemies and our new Liberal one has turned the most mild-mannered “Undecideds” into rebels, saboteurs, guerrillas and , you guessed it, revolutionaries.  LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION.  So, anyway, gubmint apparatchiks pay well for information on these upstarts who don’t believe the gubmint is so great.  You might get an extra piece of coal or a live chicken if you really get the sho’ ’nuff dope on someone.

All this can be avoided, however, by voting Tea Party, Conservative and Republican, in that order, come November.  No excuses.  If your guy doesn’t win in the primaries, too bad.  YOU must vote anyway.  See you at the polls.

Pastor,

 I appreciate the Biblical command that we serve “the needy.”  You mentioned that “the needy” are in “the projects.”  I wonder.  As a case manager for the severely mentally ill, I was a guest in many apartments in “the projects.”  I could see no need for anything but responsible choices.  1st John talks of the “world’s goods.”  Well brother, they have got them.  I have big screen T.V.’s, they’ve got big screen T.V.’s.  I’ve got a microwave, they’ve got a microwave.  I’ve got a serviceable automobile, they’ve got a serviceable automobile.  I have food in the refrigerator, they’ve got food in the refrigerator.  I have new shoes, they have new shoes.  I pay monthly to live where I am, and they don’t.  I pay for my food, and they don’t.  etc. etc.  But the point is, why do we consider them “needy”?  Unless by “needy” you mean “spiritually lost,” I don’t think we should consider them so.  And certainly “worldly goods” by no means imparts or ensures Salvation.  Indeed, the more money supplied for their needs, the more money some of them have free to spend on their wants, e.g. cigarettes, liquor and drugs.  Money is fungible, so unless someone is held accountable for their spending, it can be used for anything.

You also spoke of “the poor.”  Now, what are the Bible’s examples of “the poor”?  One is from Luke 16, Lazarus, a beggar and a leper.  He was poor through no fault of his own.  He was a leper and could not work.  The dogs licked his sores.  You wonder that anyone should ask people why they cannot get out of poverty as we did, and I wonder that we shouldn’t ask.  The only real “poor people” in the U.S. today are the children of drug addicts and alcoholics who burn up the family finances getting high and they are not necessarily on public assistance.  Now, in Mexico, Central America, South America, Asia, Africa and many other places on earth you are likely to find truly “poor” people.  When John talks of “the world’s goods,” he is not talking about plasma T.V.’s and Maxima’s.  He is speaking of food, shelter and clothing. 

In many parts of the world, no welfare exists, there are no unemployment benefits and worse yet, no opportunity to not need them exists either.  They have no jobs.  We, on the other hand, have transferred easily over a trillion dollars to “the poor” in LBJ’s “War on Poverty” since the sixties.  And what is the result?  Not only is there significantly more poverty, the country itself is beginning to crumble economically since by ”enabling” people so we’ve convinced armies of folks they are no longer responsible for providing their own bed and bread.  And worse yet, we’ve discouraged millions of others who want to work, but decidedly do not want to support still others who simply won’t.  I contend that this scenario, i.e. the current state of social welfare programs in the U.S., is anti-Christian.  I submit that we are being very poor stewards of God’s money indeed by handing it out without the slightest attempt at accountability, which can only come through private organizations, specifically and ideally the church.

Although safety-nets are a moral imperative in affluent societies, wealth transfer payments funded and enforced at the point of an IRS gun and distributed without any oversight DO NOT CONSTITUTE CHRISTIAN CHARITY.  As you mentioned in your sermon, Christian charity means SACRIFICIAL and VOLUNTARY giving of one’s time, effort, goods and money.  It is not and cannot ever be carried forward as a tax program.  Sorry.  No one gets any spiritual points for voting for more and more social engineering or wealth transfer payments.  Indeed, a system of endless government checks by which people become enslaved to all sorts of traps set by Satan, e.g. indolence, drugs, prostitution, pornography, alcohol, gambling, theft, etc. is obviously antithetical to the very idea of Christianity.

Also, did you have anyone particular in mind when you inveighed against racism.  If not, what was the purpose of bringing it up to our congregation.  Our very presence at The Village Church [a "mixed" or "integrated" church] obviates such a description of any one of the planting families.  If you meant visitors, it could have a purpose, but not a very tactical one insofar as we are trying to build membership and we can certainly work on each other’s faults at some later date in the manner put forth by Scripture.  I grew up in the Jim Crow South, which ended long before your time.  I can assure you, a real racist would not come within a 100 yards of our church with any but the most malevolent of intent. 

I know you have a sermon to preach and you have to say something.  But, this is the second Sunday I have been disturbed at what seems to be political cant dressed up as preaching.  Last week, you equated the Tea Party and the New Black Panther Party.  Certainly, your reference to them was tertiary and seemingly expositional only.  However, the distinct feeling I got was that you were saying that these were simply two equivalent sources of distraction to us as Christians.  Now, I don’t need to elaborate as to the history of the Black Panthers.  I lived during their time and they were little more than street thugs and murderers.  The New BP Party seems little better, in that they blocked a polling place in Philadelphia, intimdated white voters there and their leader, one King Shabazz, regularly calls for the death of “white babies.” 

On the other hand, the Tea Party is a political movement whose only aim is keeping taxes from swallowing us up whole and destroying our economy.  Although accused by the NAACP of being racist, and even though many charges have been made as to particular racist behavior, the “incidences” have either been shown as hoaxes or there has been NO evidence thereof forthcoming.  Indeed, Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) claims to have been called the “n” word fifteen times during one rally.  Subsequently, Andrew Breitbart offered $100,000 to ANYONE with evidence to support the charge.  With everyone carrying a cell phone, blackberry or droid around these days, ALL with video and audio capabilities, one would think this to be an easy charge to prove.  NOT ONE PERSON HAS COME FORWARD TO CLAIM THE REWARD even though the rally was attended by thousands of people.  So, you have casually, and inadvertently I hope, smeared a large group of people and falsely accused them of something onerous, even if innocently and without intent to do so.

My question is, why go there anyway?  Why not use one of a thousand other reasons by which Christians might get distracted from the Bible or their role as Christians.  For instance, pornography is a huge detriment to modern Christianity, as is drinking, gambling, adultery, drugs, affairs, divorce, greed, etc, etc.  In other words, why be controversial and run the risk of being misunderstood when an example culled from the litany of man’s sinful nature would do the job better anyway? 

Anyway, I know it is tough being a Pastor because you have to listen to a lot of criticism from folks like me.  But, don’t let me discourage you.  You are doing a great job.  I only wish the political content and references could be turned down several notches and the voice of Christ be turned up.

Thanks,

A Congregant

Aside from the fact that no one alive today had anything to do with slavery, let us consider what specious nonsense apologies and/or reparations truly are.

1. All labor, black, white, Irish or Chinese, was paid a subsistence wage only — no one made any actual money for labor at that time. Room and board — that was it. And BTW, most sharecroppers were white and most cotton was picked by whites. Sorry, lefties and white guilt aficionados, to sink your self-righteous ship on that account.

2. Almost a million (mostly white) men were casualties in the war which ended slavery. 620,000 (mostly white) men died in that war. Not enough reparations for you? Most folks in the South were driven into poverty after the war, were terrorized by gangs of union soldiers demanding loyalty oaths on penalty of death and were ravaged mercilessly by hordes of carpetbaggers whether they owned slaves or not — most did not.

3. Any wealth created by Southern slavery went to well-off planters, and most of that wealth in turn went to finance the Civil War — so much for “building this country” and other rhetorical blather put forward by the state-run media and its’ cabal of well-to-do white liberals.  BTW, I’m fairly certain the NY Times (and other left wing propaganda outlets) profited from slavery, so we’ll be watching for your first big check to the NAACP.  Oh that’s right, you’re paying them off with biased news reporting.  I forgot, it’s cheaper.

4. Black Africans were sold into slavery by other black Africans. Indeed, it was so profitable to them, African Kings traveled to London and Paris to lobby AGAINST proposals to ban the slave trade. Such measures were eventually passed (in England, which started the ball rolling) thanks largely to the herculean efforts of one white man, William Wilberforce.

5. The original movement, in fact the first organized group ever to demand an end to slavery were a bunch of (white) New England Puritans — you know, the same people the Times, the Daily Kos, the HufPo and their fellow travelers are fond of ridiculing today: Christians and such. Yes, I know, other individuals had spoken out against slavery, and certainly any historical group of slaves favored their own freedom, but it took a church full of white Christians to create a serious, organized, large-scale movement to oppose, fight and abolish slavery as an institution.

6. Grateful for slavery? Yes, and contemporary black folks can be grateful also that an earlier generation bought their freedom — FROM AFRICA!  Instead of starving to death in Ethiopia, being hacked to pieces by machetes in Rwanda, or dying miserably in Tongogara (a refugee camp in Zimbabwe,) many American blacks are getting degrees, building families and careers, and living happy middle class lives. Like it or not, the ONLY reason American blacks have it so good is that their ancestors were brought out of Africa to this country. (For a really good look at modern day Africa through the eyes of a black journalist, read Keith Richburg’s “Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa”.)

7. Focusing on the past only misdirects the attention of blacks from their current laundry list of social pathologies — problems which only they can solve. Of course, this misdirection works fine for the professional race hustlers, the state-run media, and the Democratic party. The first group makes lots of cold, hard cash stirring up racial issues (see Kenneth Timmerman’s “Shakedown” for a detailed summary), the second group sells more airtime (TV) and advertising space (newspapers) by keeping the pot boiling, and the Dems get votes by presenting themselves as political saviors to benighted minorities, “Better Living Through Large & Intrusive Gubmint,” you might say, and thereby keeping many blacks at once dependent on government and slaves to the lie that they cannot make it on their own.

8. Every race on earth has been enslaved at one time or another. The very term itself comes from a group of white, central Europeans known as the Slavs.  Just as automobiles are take for granted today, thus was slavery for most of the world’s history.  Indeed, slavery is alive and well today in places like, SURPRISE, Africa. Why is all this energy going toward meaningless rhetorical machinations in the U.S. and not toward attempts to free current African slaves?  Could it possibly be because the latter doesn’t pay as well?  (So much for lefty “compassion,” much less credibility.)

9. Slavery existed in Africa for a thousand years before whites ever saw the place. Apologies from most long-term African slave states have not been forthcoming, and those that have most assuredly did not contain any cash.  (Seen Jesse doing anything in Africa lately besides influence peddling?)

10. Show me the geneology! One would have to prove which black folk actually descended from slaves, and which whites actually descended from slave owners. Everyone else is out of the picture. Even this is flawed insofar as white descendents might very well have inherited nothing and be currently living in poverty. Conversely, descendants of slaves might very well have worked and studied hard, taken advantage of the opportunities provided by democratic capitalism, and be quite well off today. (I am very proud to have graduated from an HBC founded by a former slave.) Besides, no one can apologize for or accept a true apology from a deceased third party. The notion is absurd.

11. SO STOP IT!  You’re dooming thousands, if not millions of black kids to poverty, rage, and an early death by propagating the idea that blacks must have gubmint patronage to make it. The very last thing a kid needs is an excuse to do nothing. You’re doing a huge disservice to young blacks by constantly bombarding them with the idea that they are helpless and hopeless without the nanny state. Besides, most “reparation” (read extortion) money collected by the very Reverend Jesse “Love-Child” Jackson & the most Reverend Al “Freddy’s Fashion Mart” Sharpton goes not to poor blacks, but to the Reverends’ families, cronies and pals.

A side note to the state-run media:

You know, you people at the NY Times, WaPo et al should thank your lucky stars every day that there is not a true opposition (conservative) news force.  And I don’t mean Fox News and a couple of radio shows (although they do a wonderful job at this already.)  On the very few occasions that I’ve read your stuff, I am amazed that anyone takes you seriously.  If I had 750 or a thousand words published by someone I trusted and disseminated widely (and did not have to spend my time supporting the bloated Obamma nanny state by working,) I would tear apart not only your editorials, but your so-called “news” articles as well.  Your editorialists would have to hide their liberal heads in shame and move out of town after I got through trashing their puerile and witless bloviations.  (Brent Bozell’s MRC does a great job of this already.)

In general, your editorial boards need to wake up, look at a calendar, and see that the sixties are OVER. No more flower children, no more draft dodging, no more tuning in, turning on, and dropping out. It’s time to grow up and try to start fixing the mess you have made of our country.

A good book on the subject is “The Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About The Sixties” by two leaders of the radical “New” left at that time, Peter Collier and David Horowitz. Although, considering the drivel lefties turn out day after day, it’s a wonder they can read at all.

(Thanks to D. Horowitz’s “Ten Reasons why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks – and Racist Too!” for some of the above list content.  His ver batim ad can be found at www.adversity.net/reparations/anti_reparations_ad.htm )

Unfortunately, Orwell was quite predictive of the kulturesmog (thanks Emmett Tyrrell) which exists today and the reality that facts aren’t as important in polemical contests as they once were.  Therefore, to win, we conservatives will have to remove the only weapon they have, i.e. the accusation of “racism” itself.  We must endure it, confront it, root it out, marginalize it and minimize it.  Without it, the dems cannot win.

We must make them prove it.  And disagreeing with their irresponsible public policy initiatives DOES NOT constitute proof of racism.  That is, we cannot let the lie continue that one group of people is inherently “better” or more caring than another simply because they are more anxious to spend other peoples’ money to prove it.  In fact, it is becoming increasingly clear that spending money we don’t have will end up hurting everyone, with “poor and minorities hit hardest” (until recently, the left’s favorite headline about attempts to control outlandish gubmint spending.)  We must confront it on the beaches, we must confront it on the landing grounds, we must confront it in the hills; we shall never surrender… (apologies to Sir Winston Churchill.)  Capiche?

Just yesterday (Sunday), our young (black) pastor was holding forth about how we as Christians should not be overly influenced by any group, “…like the Republicans, Liberals, The Tea Party or the New Black Panther Party…”  Now, his ostensible main point is well taken – of course we should not be instructed by anything but Scripture – we should be “in” the world but not “of” the world.  I’m totally down with that. 

However, he is implying equivalence (naively and without guile, let’s hope) between the Tea Party and the NBPP – a blatant and groundless accusation of racism.  Absolutely no real evidence exists that the Tea Party is racist.  Some have claimed they “heard someone” use the “n” word at a Tea Party rally and so on, but no real proof exists.  Any time actual racists have attempted to associate themselves with the Tea Party, or current members shown themselves, if not racists, then extremely classless and ignorant, as in the Mark Williams affair, the Tea Party has quickly, completely and publicly disavowed them.

Contrast that to the NBPP where King Shamir Shabazz has quite PUBLICLY called for the “killing of white babies”,  not to mention standing in front of a voting place in Philliy with another NBPP thug, wearing paramilitary outfits, swinging billy clubs and daring white people to vote there.  Are these hateful remarks and violent shennanigans at all comparable to the Tea Party?  Hardly.

No, indeed, any rational being wouldn’t hesitate in calling Holder & Obama racists for failing to prosecute these yahoos — even going so far as to interfere with a prosecution which had already taken place.  But rationality is not at play here.  Name-calling and false equivalency is.

Would it have been any less fair for our erstwhile young pastor to cite “the KKK and the NAACP, the Nazi Party and the New Black Panther Party” as groups not to allow influence over our thinking?  Alas, the cleric had predicated his remarks with a long disquisition about how people are often ”taken out of context” on many occasions.  It does make one wonder whether he was being too clever by half in an effort to draw equivalency between the NBPP and the Tea Party and maintain plausible deniability, even a pre-existing offensive tool to vanquish any who might question him on the matter. 

I would truly hope my youthful pastor is not so cynical and devious as to have made all these considerations beforehand.  I would like to think he was simply trying to be relevant and emphatic.  Making false and defamatory equivalencies is indeed quite a contemporary PC meme and thus quite relevant in its’ own way.  However, since he usually makes an effort to be politically neutral, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.  Besides, if you can’t trust your pastor, who can you trust?

But I will confront every intimation that those who favor a smaller gubmint are racists.  I will fight every accusation that those who believe in personal responsibility are racists.  And I will contest any proposal that suggests all argument has been foreclosed based simply on the provision of a false and politcally charged ad hominem attack made by mostly disingenuous and hotly interested parties.

Eric Erickson wrote an article on RS this AM (7/13/10) in which he proclaimed himself “speechless” by Anita Dunn, former Obamma WH Comms director, who blatantly proclaimed that “tax cuts were spending, too” (presumably by the federal gubmint.)  I had to reply.  However, although the current diatribe began as my brief rejoinder to that article, it soon transmogrified itself into a free-floating, stream-of-consciousness venting of ALL THAT’S WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY.  Lately, I’ve been busy trying to keep the gubmint afloat, so I haven’t had a good long rave in quite a while.  Please bear with me.

Lefties from Wilson to FDR to Jimma Cata have been busy for decades laying the ”intellectual” foundation (and I use the term loosely, it’s more like an excuse for conceited moral preening or worse, as we will see) for this nonsense in the schools, in the media and in the public discourse.  The academic version is called “deconstruction”, the media version is known as “social justice” and the political version is, of course, socialism.  I have written extensively about, and will not rehearse here, why the historical claim that anyone’s “wealth,” as we know it today, was “stolen” from them is an absurd idea.  Unless someone wants to write me a really big check for the delays and deprivations visited on me by fortune and genetics, e.g. being born in an orphanage, not knowing my parents, having several “living arrangements” by the aqe of three, suffering the torments of clinical depression, enduring the degradation of alcoholism and living with the nightmare of drug addiction (and that’s just the stuff I dare to speak of publicly,) please spare me long-winded explanations and Dickensian bloviations about who did what to whom 150 years ago.

Thus, the standard leftie, “share-the-wealth” trope goes something like this:
There is no such thing as truth.  All politics, systems of gubmint and canons of instruction are soley expressions of power and efforts aimed at its’ eternal possession.  The white man has used this strategy to keep people of color “down”, robbing them of their wealth and using it as a bulwark against anyone else getting it.  (Never mind that they had their own, powerful and influential cultures much earlier than paler civilizations and could have consolidated power and wealth themselves had it not been for the very slow technical and intellectual develoment in said lands.  Of course, some did, but have since passed away on their own, as have Western cultures, e.g. Rome… ) 

Anyway, along comes MLK, an avowed communist, the power of a sympathetic and guilty media (look at newspapers from ealier times, the popular media perpetrated racism in a particularly virulent way back then and now feel they must make some sort of cosmic attonement for it, as if that were possible) and a whole horde of “me generation” kids looking for a ticket to stay in the U.S. during Vietnam and an excuse for using psychotropic drugs.  Initially, what I call the legitimate civil rights movement had truth and right on their side and the Framers’ ideals of freedom and the dignity of man on their lips.  I was a very early proponent of this kind of civil rights, i.e. back before it was “popular” to do so.  My idealism has been tarnished a great deal since then due to the bastardization of the movement as a crass, but effective way to line the pockets of the Right Rev. Jesse “Love Child” Jackson and his cronies, along with a long, infamous stream of fellow rank opportunists.

Fast forward to today’s subject, Obamma, Holder, Axlerod, etc., who are only the latest, albeit the smoothest and most sophisticated, if simultaneously the most guileful purveyors of the fiction that all American wealth was created on the backs of minorities.  Were injustices done?  Of course.  The expected life span of an Irish immigrant was much shorter than that of a southern plantation slave.  As was the life of a Chinese coolie working on the Pacific railroad.  As was the life of an original member of the Mayflower or Jamestown populations.  Or those who settled the American West.  And so on and so on. 

The upshot is, EVERY race, creed and color has paid a price to live in this great country.  Some a long time ago, some more recently.  But, the fact is we still have a bountiful, beautiful and safe country.  However, unless we stop Obamma & Co., who are even now propagandizing a poorly educated electorate in the above-described strawman trifecta of Cosmic Justice, grievance mongering and the politics of envy, we will have one only a short time more.  Something about the goose and the golden egg.

Oh yeah, now I remember.  People only work for someone else’s benefit half-heartedly.  And they work for the state even less than that.  Especially if the money is worthless and there are no consumer goods to purchase.  Can’t happen here you say?  No one in Weimar Germany thought so either.  Yet all it took was a good “crisis” and a fairly charismatic rabble rouser.  And top down economics have never worked.  Rememeber the Soviet factory worker’s reply when asked how much he made?  “Well,” said he, “they pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.”  Sounds like a gubmint owned union company to me.  

Socialism/communism/collectivism – whatever one wishes to call it – has always been simply a power and cash grab by people who knew it is to be so all along.  Can Obamma, Michelle, Holder & Co. be that cynical?  Can they be that deceitful?  Could they be that naive?  Yes, yes and no.  They know exactly what they are doing.

Greg Baer is deputy general counsel for corporate law at Bank of America.  On a quiet Sunday afternoon two weeks ago his house was swarmed by 14 busloads of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) agitators who showed up at his front door uninvited.  His 14 year old son was home alone and terrified.  Their sqwak was BOA is “Greedy” because millions of people are having trouble paying the mortgages they freely and in some instances gleefully agreed to.  Some are losing their homes to foreclosure.  It’s quite ashamed.  Yet why is this BOA’s fault?  Most, if not all of them, KNEW full well they couldn’t afford what they were getting into, but went ahead anyway, as if they had won the lottery.  Now they are all sittin’ around crying about “greed” and waiting on “Obama money.”  Now, again, why is this anyone else’s fault?

It’s BOA’s fault because they have a legal (and moral) responsibilty to enforce contracts that were eagerly enetered into by people who thought they were going to get something for nothing.  When it didn’t turn out that way, why, it’s BOA’s fault, it’s “greed’s” fault, it’s Bush’s fault, it’s SOMEBODY ELSE’S fault.  But it sho’ as heck ain’t their fault.  Unfortunately, the death of personal responsibility is only one of the lessons to be learned from this mob of Klanesque rabble rousers.

The man in question, Greg Baer, of course, does not deserve such harrassement.  However, I’ll bet he thought he was immune to it.  Listen to this from Nina Easton, “Of course, HuffPost readers responding to the coverage [from HufPo, the ONLY media present] assumed that Baer was an evil former Bush official. He’s not. A lifelong Democrat, Baer worked for the Clinton Treasury Department, and his wife, Shirley Sagawa, author of the book The American Way to Change and a former adviser to Hillary Clinton, is a prominent national service advocate.”  So, lesson number two is that personal liberalism will not protect you from the mob if you happen to dance (accidentally or intentionally) across the ideological fault line.

And just how did Ms. Nina Easton come to know the details of this metaphorical cross burning?  Unfortunately for SEIU, she happens to live next door to the Baer’s.  Having just put her toddler down for the afternoon, she also was shocked by the jackbooted union thugs.  Here lies lesson number three: being a Berkely grad, shilling for CNN and living in Chevy Chase will not protect you from the fallout of the mob.  (Yes, I know she comments on Fox and appears to have changed her stries to a degree.)  Anyway, lesson number four is that demagoguery has consequences, often unintended.  Publicly villify and accuse an innocent group of people of ”greed” long enough and someone is likely to get hurt.  And it may be YOU – peace symbol and all.

The fifth lesson to be learned is the police will not protect us if anything bad happens.  Here this from Nina, “Intimidation was the whole point of this exercise, and it worked-even on the police. A trio of officers who belatedly answered our calls confessed a fear that arrests might “incite” these trespassers.”  Let me explain that if a couple of neighbors had come out with shotguns and pumped a few rounds into the air, these erstwhile Klansmen would have run fast and far away.  So, give up your 2nd amendment rights at your own peril.  What if these SEIU characters had decided to do some harm to someone?  If they had known no neighbor legally possessed a gun, they might have.  Think about it.

We won’t even delve into the side issues which stink like a whorehouse at low tide.  For instance, we won’t mention that the financially strapped SEIU owes the BOA over $4 Million.  Neither will we disclose that the SEIU is actively trying to unionize bank tellers and call-centers at BOA.  And, finally, we won’t reveal that one way to force unions on unwilling companies is to make them look bad, like calling them “greedy” and such.

The upshot is, we are truly in danger of becoming a third world thugocracy.  Do you think your city could provide better services cheaper by privatizing them?  Better not mention it out loud.  The next thing you know, a gang from the local public employees union might be trying to burn your house down.  Think your state is wasting money trying to educate teenaged thugs who couldn’t care less about education?  Watch out, your wife might be the next political assault victim. 

Do you think this is all far-fetched alarmism?  No.  I’m afraid that the once-cherished ideas of self-sufficiency, personal responsibility and earnig your own bed and bread is now considered just the quaint drivel of some old bunch of drooling eccentrics.  Don’t you know that THE STATE OWES YOU A JOB; THE BANKS OWE YOU A HOUSE; THE SCHOOLS OWE YOU AN EDUCATION; THE WORLD OWES YOU A LIVING??

If you didn’t, you do now.  Now go on home and shut the hell up.  Let those more enlightened than yourself take care of all your petty concerns.  Don’t you realize Hillary, Holder and Obama went to elite schools and you’re just a provincial bum?  You had better START realizing it or they will send elements of the NEW Black Panther Party to a polling place near you…