Let’s Vote `Em Out!

These are the eight GOP turncoats that need to be put in the unemployment line!

This is part of the “Big Picture” of what has been done, and is continuing to be done to OUR COUNTRY. Time to get angry!

If this doesn’t get you angry, then you do not deserve to be free!

NO HUMOR THIS FRIDAY BECAUSE THIS JUST AIN’T FUNNY!

The high cost of winning,maintaining and sustaining freedom

As we sit in our comfortable homes and watch our big screen high definition televisions and gripe about how our government is not listening to us, a few people in a far off land take to the streets against a very oppressive theocratic dictatorial government to protest what they think was an election fraudulent in its outcome. These folks are risking sure death and even torture to attend this protest if caught and taken into custody.

And for what?

For nothing more than to have a say in which of the two hand picked candidates should hold the office of President in that far off country.

What is a Theocratic Dictatorship?

It is a country run by a supreme religious ruler, and in this case he runs his country with a very heavy hand. That religious ruler is never selected by the people of that country, he (and it shall always be a he) is selected by his cronies – fellow religious leaders who are of the same oppressive religion and a like mind as the others.

This religious leader selects who can run for what office and who cannot, and in this case he decides who will win the elections. It is no secret throughout this country that this is how their country is run.

So why are these people protesting?

They are protesting for nothing more than to have their votes count. That is it, nothing more and nothing less. They all know who they voted for, and they all know that the supreme religious leader said that the one that they did not vote for won the election in a landslide just four hours after the polls closed. That is their protest and that is why they are rioting and risking their lives and livelihood. The news has reported that the family of one of the protesters who had been killed by government militia has now been kicked out of their home by the government, and still the others continue to take to the streets in even more protests.

For nothing more than to have a say in which one of the supreme religious leaders hand picked candidates gets to hold that office.

That isn’t even a speck of dust of the freedom that we in this country still enjoy.

Yet, here we sit, griping and groaning about how our government continues to ignore us and do whatever it wants in spite of our peaceful tax day tea party protest. We do this as we sit in front of our high definition televisions, watching “so you think you can dance” and other pseudo reality programs and eat our fattening foods, snacks and beer and belch out a tear or two at the news that Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson all passed away this week.

We citizens of the United States of America have long forgotten about the high cost of maintaining and sustaining our freedoms that were guaranteed us in our Constitution almost two hundred and thirty three years ago by a group of men who in their time were just like those protesters in Teheran Iran – Angry that they could not have a voice in what their oppressive government was doing to them and who could rule in their government.

How soon we forget.

In the vast course of Human History, two hundred and thirty three years is not even a blink of an eye.

How soon we forget.

We The People of these United States of America need only to look toward those desperate and brave protesters in the Theocratic Dictatorship of Iran to be reminded as to how precious and fragile freedom is, and how much the cost of winning, maintaining and sustaining that precious freedom really is.

They are willing to pay their price, for just a smidgeon of a hint of freedom.

How soon we all have forgotten!

“Laissez-Faire-Et-Laissez-Passer”

From Miriam-Webster Online Dictionary

laissez-faire

One entry found.

Main Entry:

lais·sez–faire

Pronunciation:

\ˌle-ˌsā-ˈfer, ˌlā-, -ˌzā-\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

French laissez faire, imperative of laisser faire to let (people) do (as they choose)

Date:

1825

1 : a doctrine opposing governmental interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for the maintenance of peace and property rights 2 : a philosophy or practice characterized by a usually deliberate abstention from direction or interference especially with individual freedom of choice and action

— laissez–faire adjective

From Wikipedia Online

Laissez-faire (pronunciation: French, [lɛsefɛʁ] (help·info); English, ˌleɪseɪˈfɛər (help·info)) is a term used to describe a policy of allowing events to take their own course. The term is a French phrase literally meaning "let do". It is a doctrine that states that government generally should not intervene in the marketplace.^[1]

The term is often used to refer to various economic philosophies and political philosophies which seek to minimize or eliminate government intervention in most or all aspects of society.

 

What the heck is going on here?

Today my wife and I had a small spat(something that has been extremely rare in our 40yrs of marriage), and which I did not assert myself as to what my feelings were. I did so on purpose, for the sole reason that I suddenly became aware that her attitude was in fact what was actually happening with the great majority of the population of not only the United States of America – But the ENTIRE POPULATION OF PLANET EARTH!

People are tired. Pure and simple, people are tired of fighting “City Hall”. People have developed a Laissez-Faire attitude toward everything political in general and they are not going to pay attention to what the politicians do any more until it directly affects them.

What was this spat we had? It was about something that Glenn Beck was saying about our government spending and being out of control. My wife looked at me and said, “So what? We all write to them and they just ignore us and do whatever they want! Look at what they said about the Tea Party we attended, they just wrote us off as right wing radicals spouting off and did nothing about what we were protesting about! So what good does it do for us to protest, they will just ignore us again and do what ever they want! Why bother at all?”

And that, my intelligent readers, is EXACTLY the attitude that this administration wants everyone in America to adopt!

Laissez-Faire!

Or more specifically “Laissez-Faire-Et-Laissez-Passer” . . . In English – “Let Do And Let Pass”.

In other words, just let the government do whatever the government wants to do and do not bother yourself with the business of government!

We need to wake the American people up and get them involved in what this government is doing to them. I have used what happened in 1930’s Germany as an example and that hasn’t worked, I have tried to point out the similarities with the Soviet Union and that hasn’t worked, I have pointed out that all this spending will result in extremely higher taxes and runaway inflation and that hasn’t worked. I do not know what will wake these people up before it is too late, but I do know that we have to wake them up – and P.D.Q!

Maybe we need to try and wake the rest of the people on this planet up! What do you think? How could we do that? And if the rest of the people of Earth started waking up, would that cause the rest of the American people to start waking up as well?

Do you see where my thinking is leading me?

Maybe this really isn’t just an American problem any more, maybe this is really a planetary problem!?

What do you think? Am I getting any where near the ballpark on this?

United States Of America . . . A.K.A. DOGPATCH!

 

Does anyone remember a famous man named Alfred Gerald Caplin?

No?

Perhaps you remember what it was he created, the little community known as Dogpatch and its many memorable characters – Mainly one young man named Li’l Abner.

Alfred Gerald Caplin was known more by his artistic name of Al Capp, the creator of the Li’l Abner comic strip character of who I was a fan during my formative years way back in the late Forties and early Fifties of the 20^th Century.

Mr. Capp created many characters in that cartoon strip, one of them I remember very well. He was an imposing figure and was known as General Bullmoose. I also remember that characters most famous saying – “What’s good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A.”

I recently looked up information on that character and I have discovered that the name came from an American Auto Industry giant whose former CEO had become President Eisenhower’s Secretary of defense. That Auto Industry giant was none other than General Motors, and what that former CEO had once said went something like this (I can’t remember exactly the words) “If it is good for General Motors, then it must be good for America.”

I take it that Mr. Capp didn’t like General Motors or its former CEO and maybe that is what spawned the idea of the General Bullmoose character and his favorite saying.

Okay, enough of the history lesson, now back to our 21^st Century year of 2009.

President Obama has engineered the Government takeover of General Motors, Chrysler, and several financial institutions – Moves that I believe are not only unconstitutional, but they are Impeachable acts. More on that in another post at a later date.

All these shady goings on up there in Washington DC have got me to thinking that perhaps good ol’ Dogpatch has metastasized itself into the entire United States of America with President Barack Hussein Obama as none other than General Bullmoose himself!

After all, as I remember the citizens of Dogpatch had nary two pennies to rub together, and with the President and the Congress seemingly intent on spending the U.S. into a third world country, it looks like we might as well be citizens of Dogpatch.

I mean that town had a politician that was as useless as teats on a boar hog, a town hero known for his running away from the enemy, a shifty character named Evil Eye who could destroy anything in sight, and they all drank a concoction called Kickapoo Joy Juice that was sure to knock your socks off and get you caught on Sadie Hawkins Day!

Does any of this sound familiar, Mr. & Mrs. John Q. American? Do you see what we are being turned into by this bunch of nutcases we have elected to run our once great country? Do you?

Beware! Sadie Hawkins Day is just around the corner!

The REAL American Idols!

My Guide To Simple Solutions For Problems Caused By Over-Complication In Our Political System

 

There are problems in this country, and those problems were compounded by the over complication of everything from soup to nuts – This over complication was initially caused by those in the legal profession being given ivory pedestal status by the common man. Here is how it works;

If you have ever had to retain a lawyer for anything, and I hope that you haven’t, take out the paperwork and read it again . . . while you are reading it count how many references there are to “The Party of the first part” and other jargon that sometimes seems like a foreign language, such as “The litigants”. It is language like this that makes legal documents so cotton picking long and complicated. I once asked a good friend of mine who is an attorney just why this kind of language is in these documents. His answer was there is no other reason than to make it look like the lawyers and the judges know much more than the common man. Now before you all crucify me for that statement, think about it for a second or two. The statement “The party of the first part” can actually be replaced by a name, either of an individual or a company or an organization – but a name none the less. I have always demanded that my lawyer translate any and all documents that concern me into common language that anyone with a fifth grade education can understand and you will be surprised at just how many fewer pages of paper it takes to say the same thing that volumes used to cover!

These complicated ways have overflowed into our political system much to the advantage of the politicos who get re-elected time after time. They have used legal jargon to further their political careers over and above what the framers of our Constitution actually intended for them to be. Now it is time for the common man or as the words in the Declaration Of Independence actually describe us; “We The People” to retake control of the politicos of this nation and put things right again.

The founding fathers and the framers of the Constitution gave us all the tools we need to do this. The first steps we must take is to get the word out to each and every state in the union that we have the tools in hand to put this country back on track again, and then keep it there.

The first and strongest of these tools is in Article V of the Constitution, the article concerning amendments to the Constitution. It reads, in part, “The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments” (Italics and underlining are mine for the purpose of getting your attention).

With this most powerful tool, “We The People” can and should get the states to call that convention! But before we do that we must have a plan in place, and here are some ideas for that plan;

We need to repeal the 16^th and 17^th amendments and replace them with practical measures. The first being returning the control of the individual Senators to their respective State Legislators, but limit their number of appointments and limit their stature in the scheme of things, i.e., their pay and privileges and control the costs of their office operations to within a reasonable budget.

The 16^th Amendment should be replaced wit a set and unchangeable amount of earnings tax that should be an across the board type tax that all would pay, no deductions, no exceptions, no ifs ands or buts. My idea is 10% that would be locked in and unchangeable.

Another Idea I have is to abolish all political parties thereby restricting any and all candidates to run on their own ideas and merits so that the individual voter could see just who it is that they are voting for.

Still another idea is to restrict any legislation to one topic and one topic only. That would effectively end the “backdoor legislative process” for good. No more hidden “Pork Barrel” projects for legislators. Everything would be out in the open for all to see.

The last idea that I have for now is to make all Federal Judges an elective position, this to include United States Supreme Court Justices, and restrict that body of the Judicial to ruling on matters of the Constitution only. This I believe would end the currant practice of “Legislating From The Bench” as it is now called.

These things can be accomplished by “We The People” if we become organized in each and every state, not as a new political party, but as a grassroots movement such as when the tax day tea parties were organized. We common folks are what make this nation great, not the intellectual elite or the great philosophers of our time nor the political elite that now reside in our nation’s capitol. “We The People” or we the common folks of these United States of America, we are the ones who get up every morning and go to our jobs to work and make a living to feed, house and clothe our families. We are the ones who don the uniforms of our several armed forces and go out in harms way for the protection of all the people of this nation, not the political elite.

What we need to do is not hard, not complicated at all. We just need to come together and get it done.

Our Government Designed Car Of The Future! Happy Motoring!

From “We The People” – An idea is forming.

What is now needed

 

I have been called impatient by some who I hold in high regard, for the simple reason that I want to use the tools that our founding fathers left in place for us – “We The People” – to use to keep this Republic that they founded on the right track.

We have let it jump the track and now we must use those tools to put it back on track, and not only that but to build safeguards to prevent it from ever wandering off track again.

They gave us the Amendment process. Not only that, they gave use the petition process as well. I believe that they did that for just the very reason we see what is happening today. Our government is out of control and speeding headlong into the biggest train wreck in the history of mankind!

It is up to “We The People” to stop it.

It has been said that we need a new form of government that will give individual freedoms the forward place that it belongs in. No we don’t. We do not need a new form of government. All we need to do is retake control of our present form of government, then reset the freedoms that were put into it in the first place.

I know, easier said than done. However it will be much easier and much simpler than discarding what we have and drawing up an entirely new form of government.

Think about that for a minute . . . How would we convince literally everyone in the world, let alone those in our country, that we need to dump the U.S. of A. into a junkyard and start all over again?

Isn’t that what Barack Hussein Obama meant when he said that the U.S. is the greatest country in the history of the world, so lets help him change it?

“We The People” do not want to change it, we just want it back the way it is supposed to be!

I do not believe that is too much to ask for or too much to achieve!

We can start by organizing petitioners in each and every state to get signatures of registered voters to demand that our states force the federal government to convene a constitutional congress with the express purpose of putting forth certain constitutional amendments to restrict where government gets its operating capital and how it can use that capital and to also return the Senators to the control of the individual states.

Once the above is accomplished – and do not get me wrong here, this may take a long while since we will be fought at every turn by the House and Senate who are now controlled by the political parties who do not want to give up their non-elected power – we can then start to reshape our government back into what it once was.

Remember that our government was originally intended to be controlled by the people and what it has morphed into is something that is demanding and getting more and more control over the people – THAT is where our individual freedoms have been slowly but surely stripped away over the past decades, and that is how we can put an end to that and return it to where it is supposed to be.

It is way past time to get up off our lazy butts and get organized and get things moving.

The longer we wait, the worse it will get – and before we know it, it will be . . . . .

A Day Of Gratitude

D-Day, June 6^th, 1944

This is the day that we Americans began the liberation of Europe from the Nazi’s.

This day I ask all who read this blog to give thanks to that generation that went forth and gave their lives to save the world from the evils of Fascism and Tyranny.

r/s

Gerald Allen Rowe

GYSGT, U.S.M.C. (ret)

Look At What I Found Being Passed Around The Internet!!!!!!!

American capitalism gone with a whimper!

This was supposedly in a Russian Newspaper this weekend!

If this doesn’t get your anger up, then NOTHING WILL!

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people. True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters. Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper...but a "freeman" whimper.

So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set "fair" maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.

The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.