Spoiled Brat Protesters with No Home Training

A few months ago, I got into a discussion on Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government website with some cheeto-munching, Mom’s basement-dwelling Lib with no home training, who proceeded to tell me that he would be proud to defecate on the American Flag.

If I could have reached through my computer monitor and throttled that useless, ungrateful spoiled brat, I would have.

That’s an example of the useful idiots that are comprising these astroturfed paid protests across the country.

For example, in the city so nice they named it twice, New York, New York,what the idiot on Big Government threatened to do, one of the Occupy Wall Street Communists-in-Training actually followed through with on the car of one of Manhattan’s Finest.

According to eye witnesses, when people ran to tell nearby police about the man defecating on the squad car they were ignored.

Standing downwind of the piles of rubbish, bankers walking past the man did a double take before hurrying away.

Brookfield Office Properties, which owns Zuccotti Park, the site of the New York demonstration, have already railed against protesters, who they claim are creating sanitation problems.

‘Sanitation is a growing concern,’ Brookfield said in a statement.

No kiddin’.

‘Normally the park is cleaned and inspected every week night. . . because the protesters refuse to cooperate. . .the park has not been cleaned since Friday, September 16th and as a result, sanitary conditions have reached unacceptable levels,’ CBS News reported.

Although many of the protesters are understood to be making strenuous efforts to clean up after themselves, after three weeks of occupation, the strain of hundreds of people living on the street has begun to take its toll.

The authorities today warned of a dramatic crackdown on Wall Street demonstrators, as the protests spread across America.

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly has promised that if protesters targeted the police, authorities will respond with ‘force.’

I certainly hope so.  And while you’re at it, Commish, could you send some officers up to DC?

From yahoo.com

Protesters clashed with security staff when they tried to enter a museum in Washington on Saturday, prompting one guard to use pepper spray and leading to at least one arrest, a spokeswoman said.

The incident occurred at The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum around 3:15 pm (1915 GMT), after hundreds of activists had marched from Freedom Plaza, near the White House, along the National Mall towards the US Capitol.

Some of those in the demonstration were affiliated with the Occupy DC protest group that sprung up earlier this week as a spin-off of the larger Occupy Wall Street movement in New York, angered at “corporate greed.”

Smithsonian spokeswoman Linda St. Thomas said a group of the protesters were confronted when they tried to push through the doors and enter the Air and Space Museum.

“When they were told they couldn’t bring the banners they were carrying inside one security officer used pepper spray,” she said.

“There were a couple of hundred protesters in the area at the time and Washington police were called. There was one arrest that I know of,” she added, noting that the museum closed its doors two hours early because of the clash.

Occupy DC, a young group of several dozen protesters, is camping out at McPherson Square on Washington’s K Street, where many political lobbyists have their offices.

Meanwhile, one of those lobbyists’ favorite politicians, San Fran Nan Pelosi, who gives senility a bad name, just loooves her some protesters:

During a press conference Thursday afternoon, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi praised those participating in the “Occupy Wall Street” protests. “God bless them,” Pelosi said, “for their spontaneity. It’s independent … it’s young, it’s spontaneous, and it’s focused. And it’s going to be effective.”

“The message of the protesters is a message for the establishment everyplace,” said the House Democrats’ leader. “No longer will the recklessness of some on Wall Street cause massive joblessness on Main Street.”

Pelosi did not comment on–and was not asked about–the law-breaking that occurred during the protest over the weekend. About 700 protesters were arrested by New York City police after the protesters “swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours,” according to CBS News.

When the Tea Party movement emerged in 2009, then-Speaker of the House Pelosi called them “astroturf” and “un-American” people who were “carrying swastikas.”

As San Fran Nan did, the rest of the Democratic Politicians are all trying to compare these protesting Communists-in-Training to the Grassroots Tea Party Movement.

So far, Americans aren’t buying it.

As I said earlier this week, that’s like comparing Janeane Garafalo (aka Lydia the Tattooed Lady) to Taylor Swift.

According to Democratic Leader President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm), these yayhoos are protesting while you and I are actually working, because people are angry because Wall Street had not been “following the rules”.

The Vice-President, the Gaffe-Meister himself, Sheriff Joe Biden, is proclaiming the party line, also:

The core [of the protest] is: the bargain has been breached. The American people do not think the system is fair, or on the level.

The truth of the matter is this:

Average Americans are suffering under the economy of the worst, most ineffectual President of the United States in modern History.

In no way do these Communists-in-Training represent average Americans.

They are the progeny of a Progressive education system, working under the auspices of a massive government bureaucracy, whose sole purpose for existence is to control these protesters’ lives from cradle to grave.

Average Americans simply want to be able to work for a living, to be fairly, not egregiously taxed, and to live a fulfilling life with their loved ones.

Americans do not want to live under a Politboro, nor do they wish to be called the Proletariat.

Battleground: Whiteville, TN…The War Against Christianity in America Continues

On August 27th and September 3rd, I wrote two articles chronicling the efforts of the Freedom From Religion Foundation to end prayer at High School Football Games in DeSoto County, Mississippi.   

Their actions in Northwest Mississippi were their standard modus operandi.  They have sued 50 American high schools, in their attempt to ban prayer from public events.

Now, this bunch of bitter individuals from Wisconsin are once again here in Dixie, making life miserable for average Americans.

Fox News reports:

The mayor of Whiteville, Tenn. said his community is under attack from a national atheist organization that is threatening to sue unless they remove a cross atop the town’s water tower.

“They are terrorists as far as I’m concerned,” said Mayor James Bellar about the Freedom From Religion Foundation. “They are alleging that some Whiteville resident feels very, very intimidated by this cross.”

The mayor told Fox News Radio that the cross was erected on the town’s water tower about eight years ago by a private group of citizens. They collected private donations to cover the costs.

It’s just a cross on the water tower,” he said. “All we’re doing is exercising our right to practice our beliefs down here but this organization is now going to stymie that. We’re not out here knocking on doors trying to convert people.”

But the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation said the cross is a violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. They’ve given the mayor until the end of October to remove the cross. If he refuses, they have threatened to sue.

“The law is very clear on this,” Freedom From Religion Foundation co-president Dan Barker told Fox News Radio. “A secular city may not promote or hinder religion. We don’t have a problem with believers putting up crosses wherever they want, but this is a cross put up by the city on the city water tower.”

Barker said they’ve been sending letters to the city since last year demanding that the cross be taken down, acting on behalf of an unnamed resident who complained.

“It offends many residents,” Barker said of the cross. “Many of them think the cross symbol is an offensive symbol – that it’s an insult to humanity.”

But Mayor Bellar said he doesn’t believe that’s true.

“As a matter of fact, I don’t even think it’s a Whiteville resident,” he said. “We don’t have people of that belief here and if we do they’re not going to raise that kind of ruckus for the rest of the town.”

Mayor Bellar said he’s inclined to remove the cross rather than face a costly lawsuit.

However, the town council voted to consult with the Alliance Defense Fund about their legal options.

“This is their cause in life – to ride up and down the highway and find small towns that maybe have a religious symbol somewhere on public property,” he said. “I have to admit it – checking their website, they’re batting 100 percent on this stuff.”

As I remarked, when I wrote about these bitter individuals before, if you are an average American like me, you’re probably asking yourself, gentle reader:

Who are these idiots?

Well, according to David Horowitz’s discoverthenetworks.org:

Founded in 1978, the nonprofit, tax-exempt Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) consists of more than 13,000 members and calls itself “the largest association of freethinkers (atheists and agnostics) in the United States.” Its mission is “to promote free thought and to keep state and church separate.”

According to FFRF, religion invariably has been a negative force in human societies. “The history of Western civilization shows us that most social and moral progress has been brought about by persons free from religion,” the organization says. “… In modern times, the first to speak out for prison reform, for humane treatment of the mentally ill, for abolition of capital punishment, for women’s right to vote, for death with dignity for the terminally ill, and for the right to choose contraception, sterilization and abortion have been freethinkers [i.e., atheists and agnostics], just as they were the first to call for an end to slavery.”

Upon perusing their website, you’ll read the following:

The Foundation recognizes that the United States was first among nations to adopt a secular Constitution. The founders who wrote the U.S. Constitution wanted citizens to be free to support the church of their choice, or no religion at all. Our Constitution was very purposefully written as a godless document, whose only references to religion are exclusionary.

It is vital to buttress the Jeffersonian “wall of separation between church and state” which has served our nation so well.

Funny.  Jefferson was a faithful attendant of Sunday Church that was held at the Capitol Building.  He once explained to a friend while they were walking to church together:

No nation has ever existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been given to man and I, as Chief Magistrate of this nation, am bound to give it the sanction of my example.

He also proclaimed

I have always said and always will say that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make us better citizens.

Atheists always seem to fall back on Revisionist History to buttress their ideology.

Despite the mayor’s and his town’s fervent desire to stand up to the FFRF, Bellar has announced that the cross will be taken down and moved, as the town cannot afford to fight the organization in the courts.  While the townsfolk are still rightfully upset, the mayor has stated that the cross will be placed on private property on a local highway.  Where, he says, the cross will actually be seen by an even larger audience.

Per gallup.com, 92 % of Americans believe in God.  Therefore, it stands to reason that 8 % do not…and that’s their right, for we are still a free country.

However, what the Foundation, Obama, and the other Progressives attempting to remove Our Creator from day-to-day American Life don’t seem to understand is: 

Salvation is an individual experience, not something that happens to a collective. 

And America, our sacred land,  was built upon individual freedom.

Hitting Their Marx: The Astroturf Protests Continue

The “not-so-spontaneous” protests against “corporate greed” that are popping up across the country are quickly being embraced by the Democratic Party and the Main Stream Media, who are growing increasingly desperate in their attempts to camouflage the rapidly failing Obama Presidency.  In fact, yesterday, the news media even tried to start comparing them to the Tea Party.

That’s like comparing Janeane Garafalo to Taylor Swift.

Per foxnews.com:

Protesters who’ve gathered under the banner of “Occupy Wall Street” are looking to light a movement, but as hundreds of demonstrators rally against corporate “greed and corruption,” they have a long way to go before becoming a defined cause like the Tea Party, say political analysts.

That’s not to say they aren’t trying.

In three-weeks time, the Occupy Wall Street crowd has attracted high-profile attention. It has the purported backing of unions like the Teamsters and DC-37, New York City’s largest public employees union. It has attracted Hollywood types who love a good cause to drop in on; and has even generated a discussion group at a convention of liberal leaders taking place in Washington, D.C., this week.

Speaking of  Washington, D.C.:

The mantra of the Occupy DC protests rang out loudly and clearly through downtown Washington Thursday afternoon.

“Where are the jobs?” protesters yelled outside the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.“We need jobs” they shouted in front of the White House.

“Banks got bailed out, we got sold out,” they chanted while marching down K Street.

The group plans to “occupy,” or camp out in, Washington’s Freedom plaza until the government creates a serious jobs program, adds an amendment to the Constitution to take “big money” out of elections by repealing the Citizens United Supreme Court decision and investigates Wall Street bankers that were involved in the financial crisis, said protestor Peter Burr, 64.

“There are very, very few people in the United States who are not being impacted by this, and I don’t know if it will take weeks or months but gradually they are all going to speak up,” said Burr, who drove from Nashville, Tenn., to participate in Thursday’s event.

Occupy D.C. is an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement that has taken up residence in downtown New York City for the past three weeks. Both the president and vice president spoke out in solidarity with the “occupy” protestors today.

“What is the core of that protest?” asked Vice President Joe Biden at the Washington Ideas Forum. “The core is: The bargain has been breached. The core is the American people do not think the system is fair or on the level. That is the core is what you’re seeing with Wall Street.”

At a White House press conference, President Obama said the Wall Street protest “expresses the frustrations that the American people feel.”

“We had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country, all across Main Street,” Obama said. “And yet you’re still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on abusive practices that got us into this problem in the first place.”

As about 600 citizens marched through the streets of downtown Washington they chanted, “We are 99 percent,” as in the 99 percent of Americans who share the same amount of wealth as the top 1 percent.

The question remains:  Who else, besides the Unions, is financing these idiots?

The Alliance for Global Justice, a nonprofit with 501c3 status, helped Occupy Wall Street to collect tax-exempt donations and open a credit union account to centralize funds.

The Washington-based organization’s most recent 2009 tax return has revenues of $843,547, including contributions and grants of $789,509, records show.

Pete Dutro, 36, a business technology management student at NYU-Poly has also joined the finance committee and said several heavy-hitter benefactors have contacted Occupy Wall Street to find out ways to give financial support.

The committee requested they hold off donating money until mechanisms are in place to handle the cash, Dutro said.

Any of the many organizational committees seeking to spend more than $100 – for, say, blankets or food – has to get approval from the hyper-democratic general assembly, the de facto leadership body for the protest.

Yet the finance brains behind the movement have ambitions of giving each entity its own budget. Some money will be used to pay bail for arrested demonstrators.

“We want to make sure we have ways of using the money effectively,” Dutro said.

“We are trying to be transparent about it.”

Per David Horowitz’s discoverthe networks.org:

The Alliance for Global Justice (AGJ) is a Washington, D.C.-based charity that promotes opposition to free-market capitalism, particularly in Latin America, under the cover of engaging in “education on human, environmental and worker rights.” AGJ underwrites and publicizes the activities of revolutionary Marxist movements from Nicaragua to Mexico and trains young activists to work toward its distinctly radical conception of “economic justice.”

…In addition to its efforts to stoke revolution in other countries, AGJ also funds revolutionary groups within the United States. For instance, it is the main financial sponsor of World Can’t Wait, a direct-action movement affiliated with the Revolutionary Communist Party.

Norman Matoon Thomas (1884-1968) was a six-time Presidential Candidate  representing the Socialist Party of America.  In a campaign interview in 1948, he said the following:

The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

Not only are these protesters around the country, idiots, apparently, as far as those advocating the spread of Marxism in the United States are concerned, they’re useful idiots.

Palin’s Not Running. Nothing Has Changed.

By now,  you all know (unless you’ve been living under a rock) that former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin announced on the Mark Levin Show last evening that she would not enter the Republican Presidential Primary.  Here is the written announcement:

October 5, 2011

Wasilla, Alaska

After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States. As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.

My decision is based upon a review of what common sense Conservatives and Independents have accomplished, especially over the last year. I believe that at this time I can be more effective in a decisive role to help elect other true public servants to office – from the nation’s governors to Congressional seats and the Presidency. We need to continue to actively and aggressively help those who will stop the “fundamental transformation” of our nation and instead seek the restoration of our greatness, our goodness and our constitutional republic based on the rule of law.

From the bottom of my heart I thank those who have supported me and defended my record throughout the years, and encouraged me to run for President. Know that by working together we can bring this country back – and as I’ve always said, one doesn’t need a title to help do it.

I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets, including in the race for President where our candidates must embrace immediate action toward energy independence through domestic resource developments of conventional energy sources, along with renewables. We must reduce tax burdens and onerous regulations that kill American industry, and our candidates must always push to minimize government to strengthen the economy and allow the private sector to create jobs.

Those will be our priorities so Americans can be confident that a smaller, smarter government that is truly of the people, by the people, and for the people can better serve this most exceptional nation.

In the coming weeks I will help coordinate strategies to assist in replacing the President, re-taking the Senate, and maintaining the House.

Thank you again for all your support. Let’s unite to restore this country!

God bless America.

– Sarah Palin

Needless to say, I’m disappointed.  I wanted Governor Palin in the race, because she is a Conservative, she’s not a Washington Insider,  and because she’s not afraid to speak her mind.

I guess I was being idealistic.  I understand why she chose to do what she did.

This frees her up to continue to be a Conservative voice, speaking truth to power.  She’ll be beholden to no Beltway Power Broker and the path she travels will be her own.

But, where does that leave actual Conservatives? 

We’re really only left with 2 choices:  Herman Cain and Texas Governor Rick Perry.

If you like Mitt Romney and think he is a Conservative, I’ll bet you like to be taken snipe hunting, also.

Of the two aforementioned individuals, one has a lot of economic expertise, but no experience in government, which may or may not be a liability, at this point.

Herman Cain is a straight-shooter, and seems to be very effective at making Liberal heads explode, which is quite enjoyable.  However, the question remains, is Herman Cain just the flavor of the month, or can he be an effective Republican Candidate for President?

Then there’s Governor Rick Perry, a good man, who seems to be an effective Governor.

On the down side, he seems to have a blind spot when it comes to the Texas Dream Act, which gives college educations to the children of illegals for the price of a oath of allegiance to this country.

Perry, who started out strong, has faltered during the recent primary debates.  In fact, his popularity has been declining, while Cain’s has been rising.

My fervent hope is that these two men do not cancel each other out, and we wind up with the squishy GOP Elite “Legacy” Mitt Romney.  His triumph in the Republican Primary would ensure that President Barack Hussein Obama would win re-election.

For example, how could Romney challenge Obama in a debate on the passage of the National Health Care law, when he’s the Father of Romneycare? What’s he going to say,

I like mandates, but your mandates are wrong?

Give me a break.

In closing, I’ll repeat what I wrote yesterday about the potential Republican Nominee:

The American Spirit Reagan spoke about 31 years ago is still alive today, regardless of all the efforts in the last few years to extinguish its flame. 

If the Republican Presidential Candidate can connect with that Spirit, he/she will win the election.

Leadership like Ronald Reagan’s is what Americans are craving….and only a Conservative president will provide it.

The Republican Primary: A Conservative Surge

Liberal Democrat and GOP Elite heads are exploding in a cacophonous symphony of panic and dread.

CBS.com reports that:

(Tea Party favorite) Herman Cain has moved into a tie with (GOP Elite Choice) Mitt Romney atop the field of Republican presidential candidates, according to a new CBS News poll, while Rick Perry has fallen 11 percentage points in just two weeks.

The poll shows Cain, who stood at just five percent support two weeks ago, now holding 17 percent support among Republican primary voters. That puts the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO into a tie with Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, whose support has essentially held steady over the past two weeks.

Perry, meanwhile, has dropped from 23 percent support to just 12 percent support over the past two weeks, a sign that the Texas governor’s shaky debate performances – in which he has alienated portions of both the Republican base and the party establishment – have taken their toll.

Eight in ten Republican primary voters said the candidates’ debate performances are at least somewhat important to them, and 58 percent said they have watched the debates that have already taken place. Just ten percent of Republican primary voters said they agreed with Perry that the children of illegal immigrants should be allowed to get in-state tuition, a contentious topic in recent debates.

The silver lining for Perry is the race remains fluid: Three in four Republican primary voters who chose a candidate also said it was too early to make up their minds completely. Just 19 percent said they had definitively decided who they would support.

D0n’t worry, Conservative-haters on both sides of the aisle.  New Jersey Governor and erstwhile RINO Chris Christie will enter the race and maintain your precious status quo.

Errr…then again…maybe not:

Per msn.com:

Chris Christie said Tuesday that he wouldn’t seek the Republican presidential nomination, resisting the overtures of Republicans who had urged the New Jersey governor to reconsider his opposition to running.

Speaking at a press conference at New Jersey’s state capitol, Christie explained that he felt an obligation to stick with his promise to continue to serve as governor.

“For months, I’ve been adamant about the fact that I would not run for president,” he said. “For me, the answer was never anything but ‘no.'”

Christie admitted rethinking his pledge not to run over the weekend, but characteristically joked that New Jersey voters are “stuck” with him for now.

“In the end what I always felt was the right decision remains the right decision today: Now is not my time,” he said, explaining several times that it “never felt right” to abandon the state at this juncture in his career.

And while a sinking Squish has dogpaddled safely to shore, a Conservative is testing the waters.

Per Maggie Haberman and Ken Vogel of politico.com, their sources are telling them that

…calls were made on behalf of a mystery candidate to various early states to determine presidential filing deadlines.

The calls were made by representatives of the law firm Baker Hostetler – a firm that employs lawyer Mark Braden, who represents Sarah PAC, her political action committee.

As Ken notes, while he nor representatives of Palin’s campaign would comment on the calls, Palin is the only GOP politician eying the presidential race who is represented by the firm.

The current thinking in GOP election law circles is that the first hard cut-off for entering the race is Oct. 28, when presidential candidates who hope to appear on the ballot in the New Hampshire primary would be required to submit a filing fee from a federally registered presidential campaign committee.

On July 17, 1980, Republican President Nominee Ronald Reagan said the following during his acceptance speech at the Republican Convention:

…Our problems are both acute and chronic, yet all we hear from those in positions of leadership are the same tired proposals for more government tinkering, more meddling and more control — all of which led us to this state in the first place.

Can anyone look at the record of this administration and say, “Well done?” Can anyone compare the state of our economy when the Carter Administration took office with where we are today and say, “Keep up the good work?” Can anyone look at our reduced standing in the world today and say, “Let’s have four more years of this?”

I believe the American people are going to answer these questions the first week of November and their answer will be, “No–we’ve had enough.” And, then it will be up to us — beginning next January 20th — to offer an administration and congressional leadership of competence and more than a little courage.

We must have the clarity of vision to see the difference between what is essential and what is merely desirable, and then the courage to bring our government back under control and make it acceptable to the people.

…Tonight, let us dedicate ourselves to renewing the American compact. I ask you not simply to “Trust me,” but to trust your values–our values–and to hold me responsible for living up to them. I ask you to trust that American spirit which knows no ethnic, religious, social, political, regional, or economic boundaries; the spirit that burned with zeal in the hearts of millions of immigrants from every corner of the Earth who came here in search of freedom.

The American Spirit Reagan spoke about 31 years ago is still alive today, regardless of all the efforts in the last few years to extinguish its flame. 

If the Republican Presidential Candidate can connect with that Spirit, he/she will win the election.

Leadership like Ronald Reagan’s is what Americans are craving….and only a Conservative president will provide it.

 

Barack and Bocephus

I can’t believe that former Clinton Administration figure and current ABC News Host George Stephanopolous had the intestinal fortitude to ask the 44th President of the United States the following obvious question:

George Stephanopoulos, ABC News: “And a lot of anger out there. There’s so many people who simply don’t think they’re better off than they were four years ago. How do you convince them that they are?”

President Obama: “Well, I don’t think they’re better off than they were four years ago. They’re not better off than they were before Lehman’s collapse, before the financial crisis, before this extraordinary recession that we’re going through. I think that what we’ve seen is that we’ve been able to make steady progress to stabilize the economy, but the unemployment rate is still way too high. And that’s why it’s so critical for us to make sure that we are taking every action we can take to put people back to work.”

During the interview, Obama tried to elicit a sympathy vote, by whining:

Calling himself an “underdog,” President Obama today said the faltering economy is a drag on his presidency and seriously impairing his chances of winning again in 2012.

“Absolutely,” he said in response to a question from ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos about whether the odds were against him come November 2012, given the economy. “I’m used to being the underdog. But at the end of the day people are going to ask — who’s got a vision?”

Unfortunately for you, Scooter, as of right now, Americans are saying that it is not you.

wlsam.com reports that:

Just 37 percent of people in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say they expect Obama to win re-election in November 2012; 55 percent instead expect the eventual Republican nominee to win.

It’s a challenging finding for the president because expectations can fuel voter enthusiasm — precisely the ingredient that led the GOP to its broad success in the 2010 midterms, when charged-up conservatives turned out while dispirited Democrats stayed home.

Democrats do expect Obama to win, but they say so only by 58-33 percent — a comparatively tepid vote of confidence within his own party. Republicans, by contrast, smell victory by a vast 83-13 percent. Independents by 54-36 percent expect the Republican candidate to beat Obama.

This poll, produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates, finds that the divisions among ideological groups tell a similar story. Conservatives are far more confident about the Republican nominee than are liberals about Obama, and moderates, albeit narrowly, are more likely to expect the challenger to win.

The poll also notes Americans who lack a college degree think, by 57-35 points, that the Republican nominee will beat Obama; those with a college degree think so too, but by a narrower 49-41 percent.

So, if you were Obama and/or his supporters, would you do anything that might upset potential voters?

NO?  Well, evidently ABC/Disney/ESPN is not as bright as you are, gentle reader.

Two years ago tomorrow, on ESPN’s Monday Night Football, the Minnesota Vikings’ 30-23 scored a home victory over the Green Bay Packers in Brett Favre’s first game against his former team.  The contest drew the biggest audience in the history of cable television and the highest rating in ESPN’s 30-year history. The game earned a 15.3 rating, which means they garnered 15,136,000 homes (21,839,000 P2+), surpassing the previous cable viewership record, ESPN’s Philadelphia Eagles-Dallas Cowboys Monday Night Football telecast of September 15, 2008 (12,953,000 homes, based on a 13.3 rating, 18,608,000 P2+).

Are you ready for some censorship?

Per usatoday.com:

ESPN has dropped Hank Williams Jr. from opening Monday Night Football tonight after Williams’ controversial comments Monday about President Obama.

Says ESPN, in a statement: “While Hank Williams Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize he is closely linked to our company through the opening to Monday Night Football. We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result have decided to pull the open from tonight’s telecast.”

Williams, perhaps best known for his “are you ready for some football?” lead-in to ESPN’s Monday Night Football, Monday compared this summer’s so-called golf summit between Obama and House Speaker John Boehner as “one of the biggest political mistakes ever.”

As Williams put it on Fox News’ Fox & Friends: “It would be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli leader) Benjamin Netanyahu.”

When asked on Fox to explain his analogy, Williams said Obama and Vice President Biden are “the enemy.”

Although ESPN has a policy about its on-air personalities getting involved in politics, Williams has said he’s interested in running as a Republican in 2012 for a U.S. Senate seat in Tennessee.

In one fell swoop, ABC/Disney/ESPN just cost Obama any professional football and country music voters that may be contemplating voting for his re-election.

Heckuva job there, fellers.

But that’s okay, Mr. President.  I’m sure you’ve still got your base.  I’m sure that Black Leaders like Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television will still rock the vote for you.

Oh, wait…maybe not.

Per realclearpolitics.com:

BET founder Robert Johnson on the “FOX News Sunday” program: “Well, I think the president has to recalibrate his message. You don’t get people to like you by attacking them or demeaning their success. You know, I grew up in a family of 10 kids, first one to go to college, and I’ve earned my success. I’ve earned my right to fly private if I choose to do so.

“And by attacking me it is not going to convince me that I should take a bigger hit because I happen to be wealthy. You know, it is the old — I think Ted and Fred and I we both sort of take the old Ethel Merman approach to life. I’ve tried poor and I tried rich and I like rich better. It doesn’t mean that I am a bad guy.

“I didn’t go in to business to create a public policy success for either party, Republican or Democrat. I went in business to create jobs and opportunity, create opportunity, create value for myself and my investors. And that’s what the president should be praising, not demagoguing us simply because Warren Buffet says he pays more than his secretary. He should pay the secretary more and she will pay more.”

Well gosh, Mr. President.  Things aren’t going so well for you, are they?  Your situation reminds of a classic scene.  The great comedian “Lonesome” George Gobel, appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson one evening.  He was the last one on the set.  George looked down the couch and saw Bob Hope, John Wayne, and Dean Martin sitting next to him.

George smiled a wry smile, looked straight into the camera, and without missing a beat, he asked:

Did you ever feel like the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?

Sho’ ’nuff hate it for you, Scooter.

The New Protesters: Loud, Organized, and Hypocritical

People protesting in the streets.  Is America reliving the 60s?  As Yogi Berra would say, is it Deja vu…all over again?

Per foxnews.com:

Protesters who have been camping out in Manhattan’s Financial District say their movement has grown and become more organized, and they have no intention of stopping as they move into their third week, following the second weekend in a row of mass arrests.

The Occupy Wall Street demonstration started out small last month, with less than a dozen college students spending days and nights in Zuccotti Park, a private plaza off Broadway. It has grown sizably, however, both in New York City and elsewhere as people in other communities across the country display their solidarity in similar protests.

The event has drawn protesters of diverse ages and occupations who are speaking out against corporate greed, social inequality, global climate change and other concerns.

Other protests around the country are beginning to pop up:

In Los Angeles, protesters gathered in front of City Hall and danced on buses with “peace” emblazoned on the side.

A smaller protest was held in Chicago’s financial district where protesters held placards demanding “Jobs Not Cuts”.

Protesters also turned out in Denver, gathering downtown before marching into the city chanting, “Occupy the streets.”

All the protests were inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement which has seen hundreds of people camping out near the financial district in New York City and conducting marches calling for an end to home foreclosures and high unemployment.

Things got a little heated in Beantown, also:

Police have arrested two dozen protesters for trespassing during a demonstration against Bank of America’s foreclosure practices at the banking giant’s offices in downtown Boston.

The Boston Herald reports that the event was an act of civil disobedience that the organizers intended to send the message that the lender’s practices were unfair.

‘They wanted to be arrested, and we obliged,’ Boston police Commissioner Edward F. Davis told the newspaper.

Organizers say about 3,000 people joined the protest.

Bank of America spokesman T.J. Crawford dismissed the demonstration as a publicity stunt.

There was no mention of Bank of America’s planned debit card fees, which recently have generated headlines and frustrated customers nationwide.

The Bank of America website crashed yesterday after being overwhelmed by angry customers following the decision to charge them to use $5 a month if they use their debit cards.

The site went down for hours in the morning and hours later service was still intermittent.

The breakdown came less than 24 hours after the bank revealed it will roll out the fee early next year.

All of this civil unrest breaking out at the same time is giving retired hippies LSD Flashbacks. 

Some coincidence, huh?

As NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs says:

I don’t believe in coincidences.

Paul Joseph Watson, writing for infowars.com, also thinks something smells…and it’s not Teen Spirit:

Something is very wrong with this picture.

The usual suspects, mega-rich foundations and elitists, behind the young radicals have also started to emerge – George Soros, The Ruckus Society, the Tides Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

“The belated crusade against Wall Street is even more pathetic as it is coordinated by groups who wouldn’t exist without men like Soros, who made their money from deals that make the Street look sparkling clean. It’s class warfare as a cynical jab at the populist center, the people who mutter to themselves that the Street is full of crooks and so is Congress,” writes Daniel Greenfield.

The thousands of Americans currently expressing their disgust at Wall Street and the bankers who have ruined the economy to the detriment of the poor and middle class should be commended for getting off their hind ends and doing something, unlike the millions who will continue to watch American Idol, drink beer and laugh in ignorance as the country is flushed down the toilet. It should also be added that there is a sprinkling of “End the Fed” demonstrators who truly understand the root cause of the problem.

However, the fact that the majority of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are advocating “solutions” which the very elite they claim to be protesting against also want should set alarm bells ringing.

The official Occupy Wall Street website vehemently supports Obama’s tax agenda, again in the deluded belief that Obama, the ultimate Wall Street puppet, genuinely wants to go after big corporations who use loopholes to avoid paying income tax.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but back in the 60s, didn’t the protesters despise “The Man”, not idolize him?

Saul Alinsky wrote a book titled “Rules for Radicals”, a favorite of the 60s counter culture, which was also on the reading list of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, and his Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Let’s look at rule #8 – rule #13:

8. Keep the pressure on with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.

9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

10. The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.

11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside.

12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

It’s very apparent that somebody’s read Alinsky’s book.  And the “protesters” are following it step by step.

My question is:  Who is pulling the strings?

A Righteous Man and an Unholy Alliance

As Americans sit around, relaxing on a sunday afternoon, a man whose only crime is preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ awaits execution in the barbaric country of Iran.

And while this servant of God awaits his fate, the United States Government is in pursuit of an unholy alliance with an organization who can be tracked back to as the root of Islamic Terrorism.

International Business Times reports that:

Iran said on Saturday that Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani was sentenced to death for rape, not for the crime of abandoning Islam.

Previous reports indicated that Nadarkhani was found guilty of apostasy because he converted to Christianity as a teenager. Nadarkhani has been sentenced to death by hanging for the crime, which is technically not in Iran’s penal code but is a religious doctrine enforced by an official fatwa.

“His crime is not, as some claim, converting others to Christianity,” Gholomali Rezvani, the Gilan province deputy governor, told Farsn news agency. “He is guilty of security-related crimes.”

However, a December 2010 court ruling issued and signed by Supreme Court judges Morteza Fazel and Azizoallah Razaghi mentions the religious charges against Nadarkhani and nothing more.

But, hey, don’t worry, Pastor, the Obama Administration sent the mullahs in Iran a harshly worded letter on your behalf:

Pastor Nadarkhani has done nothing more than maintain his devout faith, which is a universal right for all people,” the statement released by the White House read. “That the Iranian authorities would try to force him to renounce that faith violates the religious values they claim to defend, crosses all bounds of decency, and breaches Iran’s own international obligations. A decision to impose the death penalty would further demonstrate the Iranian authorities’ utter disregard for religious freedom, and highlight Iran’s continuing violation of the universal rights of its citizens. We call upon the Iranian authorities to release Pastor Nadarkhani, and demonstrate a commitment to basic, universal human rights, including freedom of religion.

While at the same time, Obama and his administration are trying to make nice with one of radical Islam’s biggest organizations:

Per reuters.com

U.S. officials have met members of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party, a U.S. diplomat said, after Washington announced it would have direct contacts with Egypt’s biggest Islamist group whose role has grown since U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak was ousted.

Washington announced the plans in June, portraying such contacts as the continuation of an earlier policy. But analysts said it reflected a new approach to the way it dealt with a group which Mubarak banned from politics.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked in an interview broadcast on Saturday with Egypt’s Al-Hayat television whether Washington would be ready to work with a future government that included members of the Brotherhood.

“We will be willing to and open to working with a government that has representatives who are committed to non-violence, who are committed to human rights, who are committed to the democracy that I think was hoped for in Tahrir Square,” she replied, according to a U.S. transcript.

Under the former Egyptian president, the Brotherhood was banned and its members often detained. Mubarak often presented himself as the bulwark preventing Egypt’s slide into Islamist hands, an approach that analysts said help secure him backing from Washington and other Western powers wary that Egypt could turn into another Iran or Gaza.

The group took a backseat in the early part of the anti-Mubarak uprising, which was broadly led by youth groups who put national concerns above religion. But the Brotherhood and its party have taken a increasingly prominent role since.

The diplomat said the U.S. contacts had been with “high-level” members of the Brotherhood’s party but did not give names. From the U.S. side, he said the contacts were not at ambassadorial level but he did not give further details.

Why did I call the Muslim Brotherhood one of radical Islam’s biggest organizations?

David Horowitz’s discoverthenetworks.org explains:

The “family tree” of modern-day terrorist groups traces its roots back to the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni organization founded in 1928 by the Egyptian activist Hasan al-Banna. Egypt has historically been the center of the Brotherhood’s operations, though the group maintains offshoots throughout the Arab-Muslim world and is also active in the United States and Europe. Islam expert Robert Spencer has called the Muslim Brotherhood “the parent organization of Hamas and al Qaeda.”

The Brotherhood was founded in accordance with al-Banna’s proclamation that Islam should be “given hegemony over all matters of life.” Accordingly, the organization seeks to establish a unified caliphate (kingdom) spanning the entire Muslim world. It also aspires to make Islamic law (Shari’a) the sole basis of jurisprudence and governance on earth. Toward this purpose — encapsulated in the Brotherhood’s militant credo: “God is our objective, the Koran is our Constitution, the Prophet is our leader, struggle is our way, and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations” — the Brotherhood since its founding has supported the use of armed jihad to achieve its ends against its enemies, most notably the United States and Israel.

One of the Muslim Brotherhood’s offshoots, al Qaeda, is most famous for having carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The group was founded in approximately 1988 by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and Muhammad Atef — the latter a native Egyptian and a onetime member of the terrorist group Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Al Qaeda’s overriding objective is to establish a worldwide caliphate governing all the earth via the dictates of Islamic Law. Crucial to the achievement of that goal is the destruction of America by any means necessary. As one Al Qaeda Training Manual makes explicitly clear, violence is the preferred method of dealing with the enemy:

“Islamic governments have never and will never be established through peaceful solutions and cooperative councils. They are established as they [always] have been by pen and gun, by word and bullet, by tongue and teeth.”

The manual further exhorts jihadists to “pledge … to make their [the infidels’] women widows and their children orphans … to slaughter them like lambs and let the [rivers] flow with their blood.”

Just think, the Government of the United States of America, who have sworn to protect and defend us from enemies foreign and domestic, is negotiating with these barbarians.

God save the Union.

American Influences: Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Little Debbie

Growing up as an All-American boy, there were certain foods that were staples around our house:  foods like Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix and Uncle Ben’s Rice and, if my older sisters didn’t grab them first, Little Debbie Oatmeal Cakes.

Like me, I’m sure some of you grew up as a child, thinking these kindly characters were real people.

Aunt Jemima actually was…and made personal appearances!

According to food reference.com:

Chris L. Rutt and Charles G. Underwood purchased the Pearl Milling Company in 1889, and came up with the novel idea of creating a ready-mixed pancake flour. Rutt named it for a catchy tune called ‘Aunt Jemima’ which he had recently heard in a vaudeville show.

Rutt and Underwood went broke in 1890, and sold the formula for Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix to the R.T. Davis Milling Company. Davis looked for a woman to represent the product, and hired an African American woman named Nancy Green (Nov 17, 1834 – September 23, 1923) from Chicago, Illinois.

At the 1893 Colombian Exposition in Chicago, Davis made an all-out effort to promote the new pancake mix, and built the world’s largest flour barrel. ‘Aunt Jemima’ (Nancy Green) demonstrated how to use the new mix, and the exhibit was so popular, police had to control the crowds at the Aunt Jemima booth. Nancy Green was awarded a medal and proclaimed ‘Pancake Queen’ by the Fair officials. Soon signed to a lifetime contract by Davis, Green was a hit all across the country, as she toured demonstrating the new Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix, and by 1910 it was available nationally.

She played the part of Aunt Jemima until her death on September 24, 1923 (she died in a car accident).

Aunt Jemima Mills were purchased in 1925 by the Quaker Oats Company of Chicago.

Uncle Ben?  Not so much.

In the 1910s, the German-British scientist Eric(h) Huzenlaub (1899–1964) invented a form of parboiling designed to retain more of the nutrients in rice, now known as the Huzenlaub Process. It involves first vacuum drying of the whole grain, then steaming, and finally vacuum drying and husking. Besides increasing rice’s nutritional value[citation needed], it also made it resistant to weevils and reduced cooking time.

In 1942, Huzenlaub partnered with a Houston food broker, Gordon L. Harwell, forming Converted Rice, Inc., which sold its entire output to the U.S. Armed Forces.[2] In 1944, with additional financing from the Defense Plant Corporation and an investment by Forrest Mars, Sr., it built a second large plant. Not long afterwards, Mars bought out the founders and merged the company into his Food Manufacturers, Inc..

When white South Carolina planters were unable to make their rice crops thrive, “slaves from West Africa’s rice region tutored planters in growing the crop.”

Uncle Ben’s products carry the image of an elderly African-American man dressed in a bow tie, said to have been the visage of a Chicago maitre d’hotel named Frank Brown. According to Mars, Uncle Ben was an African-American rice grower known for the quality of his rice. Gordon L. Harwell, an entrepreneur who had supplied rice to the armed forces in World War II, chose the name Uncle Ben’s as a means to expand his marketing efforts to the general public.

In March 2007, Uncle Ben’s image was “promoted” to the “chairman of the board” by a new advertising campaign designed to distance the brand from its iconography depicting a domestic servant.

Finally, what about Little Debbie:  was she a real person?  You betcha!

According to the folks who should know at littledebbie.com:

In 1960, McKee Foods founder O.D. McKee was trying to come up with a catchy name for their new family-pack cartons of snack cakes. Packaging supplier Bob Mosher suggested using a family member’s name. Thinking of what could be a good fit for the brand, O.D. arrived at the name of his 4-year-old granddaughter Debbie. Inspired by a photo of Debbie in play clothes and her favorite straw hat, he decided to use the name Little Debbie® and the image of her on the logo. Not until the first cartons were being printed did Debbie’s parents, Ellsworth and Sharon McKee, discover that their daughter was the namesake of the new brand.

The first family-pack was produced in August of that year and consisted of the original snack cake, the Oatmeal Creme Pie. Family-packs were one of the first multiple-item baked goods available with individually wrapped products. The cost per carton was only 49 cents. By combining a quality product with outstanding value, Little Debbie® quickly became a member of America’s households. After its initial introduction, more than 14 million cakes were sold within 10 months. While the Oatmeal Creme Pie was the original Little Debbie® snack cake, there were 14 different varieties by 1964 including the ever-popular Nutty Bars® Wafer Bars and Swiss Cake Roll.

So, there you have it.  Brand names for foods that became American icons.  Now, if you’ll excuse me, gentle reader, I’ll take my leave.  I’m hungry.

The Repeal of DADT: The Descent Down the Slippery Slope Begins

Since time in memorial, ambitious and unscrupulous politicians have viewed the military of their nation as their own personal playthings, expendable lab rats to be experimented on and used as chattel to further their own political ambitions.

America’s Liberal Leaders are no different.  They have taken the finest fighting force in the world, America’s Best and Brightest, and used them as the subject of an experiment in social engineering, involving a population, who represents just 5 % of the population of this country.

Of course, I’m referring to the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t  Tell”.

Here is a brief history, leading up to its repeal:

A “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Timeline

1950 – President Harry S. Truman signs the Uniform Code of Military Justice, setting up discharge rules for homosexual service members.

1982 – President Ronald Reagan issues a defense directive stating that “homosexuality is incompatible with military service” and those who engaged in homosexual or bisexual acts were discharged.

1992 – Democratic Presidential Candidate Bill Clinton promises to lift the ban.

1993 – “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is introduced by Clinton as a compromise. However, Congress inserts wording which upholds President Reagan’s Defense Directive. In December, Clinton issues his own Defense Directive stating that military applicants should not be asked about their sexual orientation. Thereafter known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”.

2003 – Former President Clinton calls for an end to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”.

2006 – The United States Supreme Court unanimously upholds DADT, forcing Liberally-run universities to accept military recruiters on campus.

2008 – Democratic President Candidate Barack Hussein Obama runs on the promise of repealing DADT.

2010 – In May, the House and Senate committee approved an amendment on a military spending bill which would end DADT. However, they added a provision which stated that the rule will stay in effect until a report on how lifting DADT would affect military readiness was completed.

The report was turned in on November 30th, claiming that repealing DADT would be a low risk to the effectiveness of America’s Armed Forces.

2010 – On December 9th, Republicans filibustered a vote on repealing the ban.

2010 – On December 15th, the Democratically-controlled House of Representatives, in a Lame Duck Session, passes the repeal.

They are followed on December 18th, during the same Lame Duck Session, by the Democratically-controlled Senate, who passes the repeal of DADT by the vote of 65-31.

Following the repeal Conservative Americans expressed their concern that allowing gays to serve openly would be a disruption, damaging our forces’ morale, and leading to a socially-engineered sojourn down a slippery slope.

Liberals,  Moderates and Fiscal Conservatives (a.k.a. Libertarians), en masse, shouted Conservatives down, claiming that we were overreacting, and this was a Civil Rights Issue, not a Politically-driven experiment in social engineering.

Yeah, right.  Conservatives can now say: 

We told ya so!

The Washington Post reports:

The Pentagon will permit military chaplains to perform same-sex marriage as long as such ceremonies are not prohibited in the states where they reside, it said Friday.

Defense Department guidance issued to military chaplains said they may participate in ceremonies on or off military bases in states that recognize gay unions. Chaplains are not required to officiate at same-sex weddings if doing so is counter to their religious or personal beliefs, the guidance said.

And regardless of the Pentagon guidance, military chaplains will still need to take cues from their religious order, said Gary Pollitt, spokesman for the Military Chaplains Association.

“Just because the Department of Defense says this can happen, the chaplains perform such rites in keeping with their ecclesiastical authorization. Period,” Pollitt said.

Gay couples may get married in Washington, D.C. and six states — Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. Maryland and several other states recognize same-sex marriages but do not grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Forty-one states have either laws or constitutional amendments prohibiting same-sex marriage.

The decision validates a move made by the Navy in May that earned the ire of conservative critics and Pentagon observers, because Navy officials acted on their own instead of in tandem with other military services. The guidance also irked Republican lawmakers who were still attempting to block plans to end the ban on gays serving openly in the military, known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

But the Pentagon officially ended the ban 10 days ago.

So, how does this impact the shower room in the barracks?  I mean, you’ll potentially have homosexual married couples showering together in front of the other men.

It boggles the mind.

Now, don’t get me wrong.  I’ve known and worked with homosexuals over the last 30 years.  I’ve laughed with them, ate with them, and prayed for them. I  have great respect for those homosexuals who, like have served discretely, professionally, and honorably in our military.  However, to use our Best and Brightest as Lab Rats for the sake of political pandering, while advancing an agenda of homosexual activism and social engineering…is just plain wrong.