You know, our Country in my lifetime, has been known as the greatest Country on this earth. I’ve always been proud to be a citizen of the United States of America…still am. But, in reality, do I still consider America to be the greatest Country on earth?

I have to say yes, but my feelings waver on this actually quite often anymore. I see far too many things going on in our Country today that if not stopped, will cause the destruction of our Country as I’ve always known it.

What does this mean?

First off it means our children, our grandchildren, and all their children will never experience the America that I knew and loved. This includes the ability to go to work, EARN a living, save, sacrifice, or even start their own business to sell off down the road, or pass down to their children.

Since the inception of our Country, immigrants have flocked here to live the American Dream. The reasoning for this is very simple. Life here was much better than the lives they led in their own countries, and yes, it really is that simple.

America afforded one and all the opportunity to better your lives, build a future, raise your children, and always offered a good, solid education to boot. All good things. You got out of life here in our Country…what you put into it! You worked your rear-end off…you were rewarded. You didn’t, you just scraped by, and…rightfully so.

They came in droves to experience such a lifestyle that once more was not attainable in their own countries, or at least not to the extent that was afforded here. They not only came for all the reasons listed above, but…TO BE FREE!

Free to live their lives. A freedom they, in many cases, weren’t allowed to enjoy in their own countries…and were repressed many times at the barrel of a gun.

Then, the real kicker here is that they came to…BECOME AMERICANS!

They WANTED to learn to speak the language, to obey our laws, to have the opportunity to vote, and to salute and respect our flag. They were thankful for the opportunity to support and live by the rules set forth by our Constitution, and even to lay down their own lives defending these freedoms and our Country as a whole!

Today, in many, many cases this is not true. Many in our Country today…don’t even LIKE our Country, much less love our Country! This statement, as terrible as it is, is the case! It’s not something I “pulled out of the air,” but is fact!

Upon arrival in our Country, many knelt down and kissed the land, so very thankful for just being here! Why…because we were the greatest Country on earth! We were…FREE!

So, with all these tremendous opportunities and attributes that come with being an American, why today, do I state my conviction that we live in the greatest Country on earth is wavering?

Well my friends, the reasons are many, and most of you are quite aware of them yourselves. We live today, here in the United States, with a government that has lost its way, and in many instances is totally out of control.

One example of this is spending! I’ve never in my life witnessed such total and complete waste of monies. NEVER! Not only is this act atrocious, in my belief, it is literally…treasonous! It is!

Isn’t it a simple fact that if you commit acts that are detrimental to your Country, its citizens, and the health and stability of your Country, then these acts are simply…treasonous?

Well, try and get me to understand the passing of many laws that are made by today’s officials, that by the way, many ARE unconstitutional, and through this…are not acts of treason?

Since when do we pass bills, health care is but one, that our House of Representatives and our Senate…DON’T EVEN READ?? Do you remember Pelosi making the statement… “Well, if we want to know what’s in it…we first have to pass it?” Good night people, for God’s sake, WAKE UP!

I spent quite a while this morning watching our “Debt Clock” run. It literally is infuriating. THAT IS, OUR money people, NOT theirs, right?

How’s your standard of living today, versus 5 years ago, or possibly even…5 weeks ago? Watch the debt clock run and you may consider your standard of living…from a mere 5 minutes ago! Really!

www.usdebtclock.org

Our debt is pushing 16 trillion dollars! 16 trillion! The debt per citizen is $50,008 per person…and climbing. Here’s the kicker though, the debt PER TAXPAYER is…$138,213! YET, our administration’s answer is…MORE TAXES! THIS IS insanity.

The US total interest in 2012, as of this moment, is $3,794,131,197.00. This makes the interest payments per citizen a mere…$12,108.00! That’s INTEREST alone, my friends!

THE TOTAL US debt is almost 60 trillion dollars! This makes the total US debt per citizen $182, 947.00, and family debt $691,620.00.

Other examples…

State Revenue is $1,467,343,451,213.00. State Debt is 1,102,840,799.00, BUT, those numbers were obsolete before I ever got them to paper.

Local Revenue is $1,102,797,773,681.00. Local Debt is $1,742,679,345,448.00. Again, obsolete before I penned them.

Assets per citizen are $266,014.00. LIABILITIES PER CITIZEN are $1,045,037.00. That last number, Liabilities PER citizen again is…one million, forty-five thousand, thirty-seven dollars! PER CITIZEN! This is insane!

There are 313,385,834 people in the US. Of which, 113,430,384 are INCOME taxpayers.

The official unemployment numbers are 12,842,892. THE ACTUAL unemployment numbers are 22,735,634.

There ARE 15,398,055 state/local employees.

There ARE 4,337,886 federal employees. Both these are growing. Funded and paid for…BY THE TAXPAYER!

THERE ARE 46,809,042 FOOD STAMP RECIPIENTS!

Our demise as a Country is being funded, and paid for in full…by we, the taxpayer. Again, and please understand your dilemma as a US taxpayer…YOU ARE FUNDING YOUR OWN DEMISE!! Plain and simple truths. The destruction of your Country is being paid for …by you!

Cloward and Piven’s stated that in order to “CHANGE America,” it could be done by simply over burdening the Country’s resources by not getting people off of welfare rolls, BUT BY GETTING MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ONTO WELFARE ROLLS!

So, through the destruction , or orchestration of an economic collapse, recession, depression, or whatever they want to call it, America as we know it will cease to exist.

What are the promises of our leaders today…we WILL help the poor! Well, since the mid-sixties, and the establishment of “programs to help the poor,” there are more “poor” in America today than ever before…and these numbers grow daily! IT AIN’T workin folks! Of course, Am-Trak, the Postal Service, and any other government sponsored program are either!

This entire scenario is being orchestrated by our elected officials, the unions, the mainstream media, our educational system, and who knows who else? IT IS the buying of votes, for mere pennies on the dollar, and through the dumbing down of our citizen’s, our government is now running roughshod, and trampling our Constitution in the process!

We the people are now ignored. Our voices are not heard, and our politicians have become so arrogant and powerful, through the sheer numbers of constituents who now believe, and have been indoctrinated by our politicians…that what’s ours, is now theirs!

We’ve allowed our leaders, for their own personal wealth and power to shred our Constitution, and by doing so, take more and more control over our lives, and the ability to work and feed our families. It is…a sad day in our Country!

We have the ability to manufacture, or produce ANYTHING we need right here in the good ole USA. Yet through government regulation, unionization, taxation, and the “poor entitled folks” RELAXATION, our Country is being destroyed.

I look at union employees, and wonder what those guys are thinking. I mean, how many union jobs have been lost, forever mind you, simply because of excessive salaries, health care and retirement packages, and retirement pensions?

All forced upon the companies they were employed by! These same companies abilities to create jobs for the union employees now gone to other countries? This, simply because their abilities to make a profit while still being able to compete with foreign companies was no longer part of the equation.

Jobs that are now gone forever…to other countries! Greed from the unions, greed from the government through excessive taxation, as well as regulations placed upon them by the government no longer allowed these companies to conduct business here in the US.

So why have we lost SO many jobs? Thank Uncle Sam and his cronies. No work, this causing more unemployed, all being forced into some type of government program just to exist, and before long…TOTAL CONTROL! GOOD BYE USA!

So in closing today, we are losing our Country, our freedoms, our morals, and our rights as citizens through political correctness, or “the watering down of our system.”

Our Country was born upon our belief in God, our right to free speech, and the liberties provided to us by our Constitution.

Yet, our free speech is being limited, if not a liberal or even if not a person of color. This is true. Today, we the “non-racists” are labeled…as racist!

If you believe in our Founding Fathers vision of our Country, we the “non-terrorists or radicals” are labeled as…terrorists and radicals.

If you believe our government and our elected officials have run amok, we’re labeled as…right wing extremists.

We as a Country have become like a glass of wine. A glass of pure, undiluted wine is a very good thing, and one of life’s pleasures, right? Yet, you keep bringing other properties, water as an example, and adding this to the product, then the wine becomes less and less what it once was.

This is where we’re at today in our Country. We are becoming so broken down, or diluted, through political correctness, that our abilities to enjoy our lives as Americans, becomes less and less what they once were.

Our good friend John sent us an e-mail that I thoroughly enjoyed…19,000 words. Here’s one of the examples I’m talking about that is expressed much better than I possibly could express it, but sums up all my above jibberish…

“TRUTH…it’s the new Hate Speech!”

“During the times of universal deceit, telling the TRUTH becomes a revolutionary act!”

George Orwell

So in today’s post, that’s exactly what I’ve been trying to say! Remember…GET OUT and vote. Vote as if your very life depended on it, because literally, our WAY of life does!

You guys have a great day, and God Bless. Deb says to keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart!

Dub and Deb

You guys know that we don’t do too much politically in regards to our writing, or bull crap, whatever you want to call it. We like to talk about our garden, or related projects, throw up some recipes, or just “jerk your chain” a little.

But Deb and I both are becoming so frustrated from the complete and total arrogance of our politicians, and their lack of concern of what they’re doing to our Country, that sometimes we have to stop and throw “our two-cents” in! I guess unfortunately for some, this just happens to be one of those days…God Bless ya’ll!

They’re spending us into oblivion without the least bit of concern for “We the People,” or, our families. This is fact, you only have to look.

Check this out, it was sent to us by a good friend of ours. It’s a great story, but one not condoned by much of our political “elite,” media, or for sure our more liberal society today…

A Great Story

Can you guys believe that? This is an example of another Country’s gratitude to the United States of America, and its Armed Forces, for the sacrifice given by our men and women to liberate them. Far too many gave the ultimate sacrifice, but these people STILL appreciate everything those men and women did in their behalf…so many years ago!

These people STILL consider the United States to be a great, and caring Country, sadly, far too many that LIVE here today don’t look at it this way, and it starts…at the top!

This is election year my friends, and it’s time WE do something about the goings on in our Country. Although in my examples this morning, I’ll be “preaching to the choir” to an awful lot of folks, I still feel it very appropriate to do so.

First off, last election, far too many examples of our current President’s beliefs, ideals, and his associates, were covered up, or “swept under the rug,” by our media. We WEREN’T allowed to discuss these things, right down to the use of his middle name, remember? All of which, to the left and their distortion of the word…political correctness, were examples of anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, reverse-racism and the guilt implied through it towards good, hard-working, America loving citizens, causing “guilt votes”…in my opinion.

They wanted us to BELIEVE, that past offences toward “people of color” were…our fault, and that we owed a debt to society for past wrongs. Wrongs by the way that we had absolutely NOTHING to do with us. So in reality, we’re supposed to pay for the sins of past generations? Why?

Well, this is actually the case in point, America has come along way for our past sins on this topic, and I live in the South. We hardly ever hear racial remarks, honestly, BUT once more, I assure you, this will once again be a pounding point in the upcoming election, even though it’s a blatant lie, in almost every case.

Without going off any further into this topic let me say this, “I don’t care what color or ethnic group you are a part of. This to me makes NO difference. What I am concerned with is that whoever we elect, or choose to represent us, or even lead companies in our growth as a Country through supplying jobs for American citizens, that they be, the most qualified for the job…again, the MOST QUALIFIED! NOT decided by a “quota to be met” in regards of…we need so many whites, or so many Hispanic or people of color. Nor by a quota designating this many must be women, or even homosexuals, BUT again, THE MOST QUALIFIED!

If this happens to be a man or woman of color, a homosexual, a white man or woman, or a “man from Mars,” I don’t care, AS LONG as they ARE the most qualified! Color to me has no matter…it’s what in the person’s heart that matters, that’s all. If they have the desire and motivation to “grab the bull by the horns,” and help to lead our Country back to the greatness it deserves…I’m all for them!

This morning let’s look back at a few things. Things I’m not going to say I said, BUT things “THEY said.” Again, I know these issues have been discussed before, especially among conservative Americans…Americans who treasure and value the things that made our Country great to begin with.

Yet today, these same people, of which me and my family are a part of, are considered racist, hate-mongering, anti-American, redneck, and even…EXTREMISTS! Why…because we don’t adhere to, or abide by, the socialist indoctrination of our people, that’s why.

Once more these topics are “old news,” but are news that our media refused to make us aware of, or even attempted to validate such remarks…last election cycle, BUT, they all are still pertinent today.

Why, because in my heart, I don’t believe for one second that these people in power today are really what “We the People” want leading our Country. They’re radicals…one and all.

Look back, refresh your memories of who these people REALLY are. Listen closely…they tell you who they are quite frankly, if you’ll only lend an ear.

THIS election, all these points and issues need to be brought TO EVERYONE’s attention, again, and again, and again. Last election they weren’t! Look what it got us!

You must know the truth. Without the truth, how can anyone make a correct decision…about anything? This is their way…dumbing us down, and not broadcasting the truth! How critical is that? Let’s see…

Mark Lloyd, Obama appointee as the FCC “Diversity Chief,” or, Czar. This on free speech, and the importance of the media in Hugo Chavez’s regime…oh, by the way, he clearly states, “Chavez’s GREAT REVOLUTION.”

“The property owners rebelled?” No doubt. These people are radicals, born, bred and true believers of. EVERYTHING America stands for is despised by them all.

Mr. Lloyd again…this time in regards to race. Making whites step down to enable more “people of color,” women, or even homosexuals to hold positions of power. There’s exactly what I was talking about earlier…a man, or woman being appointed to positions of power through…their credentials, not their race or ethnicity!

Here’s Anita Dunn stating Mao was a great political philosopher. Mao had over 20 million of his own Countrymen killed at the very least…once more, these people ARE radicals, and adhere to such as this.

How about Ron Bloom…Mao once again…

“Political power largely comes from the barrel of a gun… a quote from Mao.” Boy, these are true Americans at heart, huh? It gets even better…

The first lady stated they were unaware of these ornaments!

Aren’t they proud of what this Country, of which prior to the election she stated she’d “never been proud of, in her adult life,” enabled her and her husband to do! The “American Dream,” has been hijacked. Used by every one of them, our free speech too, to undermine the morals, standards and values that made this Country great! Everything American, they find appalling. But, I guess Mao did too!

Bill Ayers…President Obama’s friend, oh but he states not, yet…he was and probably still is. His wife, Bernadine Dohrn…same mold, or cut from the same cloth. Radicals, one and all!

Remember Rev. Wrights continuous bashing of everything American, claiming that the whites introduced AIDS to Africa, and the chickens were coming home to roost describing 9-11, and his vehement race bashing of whites and Jews alike, EVEN other balacks…if they don’t condone his way of thinking.

One quick case in point…the good Reverend and the like-minded proclaim vehemently AND steadfastly that if a black American doesn’t go along with their views…they’re labeled as “Uncle Tom’s,” “House-niggras,” or “Want to be whiteys!” These ARE…their words.

Do you remember a phrase used throughout history…”Divide and Conquer!” This is what is going on today…they’re dividing us as a people…class warfare is the intent, to this there’s no question. Listen to them for God’s sake!

Our President attended the good Reverend’s church for 20 years or more, but dern, he never heard this type of rhetoric coming from the good Reverends mouth?? How could this be? Oh, this is because, he says so! I gotcha.

This statement from the same man who refused to put his hand over his heart during the playing of our National Anthem, who also was running for, and later WON the election and is now the President of the United States of America?? Our National anthem playing, and he standing there with his hands folded across his crotch?? He loves our Country, doesn’t he? What a great example to the people, our children and our grandchildren!

To all of our troops throughout history, who have given the ultimate sacrifice, or lost limbs, were wounded, and, or, spent long periods of time away from their own families, so we could live with ours safely…this type of behavior is blasphemy!

Our President refused to begin with to wear a US flag pin?? I personally found this incomprehensible. Let’s see, his reasoning for this was… “I don’t believe I’ll wear THAT pin on my chest…”

Uh, uh, uh, I still can’t believe ANYONE running for the Presidency of the United States of America not being PROUD to wear it??

UNTIL, a disabled Vet handed him one to wear…”I believe I’ll go ahead and put that on…because of your service…it means a lot coming from you.”

Prior to this moment, he refused wearing “THAT pin.” Do you believe his change of heart came from realizing the mistake he’d made prior, or simply that it HAD become an issue with Americans and HAD to be done because of political survivability…through deceit and…meaning VOTES??What do you think?

Look, we can go on and on with examples of their views, their opinions, their agendas, and their goals. All of which should be very, very clear to the American people at this point and time. But the reason for this post today is to remind each and every one of you what our politicians have come to represent.

Do I condone this type of representation of the current administration…no, I sure don’t. But this is not for the reasons our media likes to portray such feelings as I have. To them, once again, I’m a racist, I’m an Extremist, I, to them, represent everything that is evil. These portrayals of my character are placed upon me by a society of people who consider Lucifer, one of the greatest radicals in history! Once more, this is not MY statement, but one of their “great philosophers…”

“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history… the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”

This quote is from, who? Saul Alinsky.

A few other examples…

“Obama learned his lesson well. I am proud to see that my father’s model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday.” –Letter from L. DAVID ALINSKY, son of Neo-Marxist Saul Alinsky.

“True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism, Alinsky taught. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties…. Many leftists view Hillary as a sell-out because she claims to hold moderate views on some issues. However, Hillary is simply following Alinsky’s counsel to do and say whatever it takes to gain power.

“Obama is also an Alinskyite…. Obama spent years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method. In 1985 he began a four-year stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an Alinskyite group called the Developing Communities Project…. Camouflage is key to Alinsky-style organizing. While trying to build coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama caught flak for not attending church himself. He became an instant churchgoer.” (By Richard Poe, 11-27-07)

Here also is a link to Hillary Clinton’s Political Science Thesis. I wonder what topic this was on? Let’s take a peek, okay? OH…Saul Alinsky??

http://nukegingrich.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/hillaryclintonthesis.pdf

So you see, the truth is simply that I want our children and grandchildren to enjoy the same opportunities that I had in this great Country of ours. Again, I couldn’t care less about the color of a person’s skin…I only care about what’s in a person’s heart, and it really is, that simple.

This is not JUST about Democrat or Republican politicians, because sadly today there are WAY too many of both parties that have become only about…THEM.

Where are our political candidates today, that are screaming about the above political agendas, and what they’re doing to our Country? Doesn’t it seem that they would be screaming this at every opportunity? I’d think so, yet can’t figure out why they aren’t…can you?

This will not change unless “We the People” DEMAND change. They’re destroying everything we have always stood for. This has to stop. This is election year, please, go to the polls and vote. Let’s have record turnout and show these people, on both sides of the aisle, that WE are the true power in our Country, not them, as they’ve convinced themselves that they are!

The reasoning for this post today is to once again, refresh your memories of who we have in power today. Remember this…don’t forget! Pass this along to all your friends and family. I know that also, to many of you, I’m preaching to the choir, but remember how last election this was not reported, touched on yes, but NOT REPORTED, to “We the People.” It was…swept under the rug!

Thanks for your time, and hopefully we’ve touched upon you all the importance of this upcoming election!

Just look at the first part of the post again in regards to the town welcoming, and honoring American troops. Those people ARE PROUD of us and what we represent…isn’t it past time we wake our Country up and show her how proud of her we are again ourselves? I’d say so!

God Bless you, God Bless America, and God Bless us all! Through all of this, Deb says to tell you to keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart!

Dub and Deb

A neo-Reaganite grand strategy offers the surest guide for restoring and sustaining American greatness in the 21st century. It incorporates the principles of the Founding without slight6ing the perennial imperatives of power and geopolitics. It inoculates us from pessimism of unrealistic realists, who underestimate the possibility of provisional justice, and the dangerous illusions of idealists, who underrate the obstacles of achieving it in international politics. It can facilitate the expansion of stable liberal democracy and economic prosperity, thereby minimizing the number and gravity of the threats the United States faces. Its commitment of American exceptionalism and American military preeminence not only enhances deterrence, but reduces the blood, toil, tears, and sweat of the wars that the United States must fight. And it contrasts favorably with any other plausible alternative, be it unrealistic realism, liberal internationalism, isolationism, or utopian versions of neoconservatism unconstrained by geopolitical imperatives…….Robert Kaufman

Few Presidents have surpassed the achievements of Ronald Reagan, the greatest American President since World War 2 with FDR his only peer in the 20th century. The remarkable success of Reagan’s foreign, in particular is his indispensable role he played in defeating the Soviet Union, an evil, totalitarian empire that threatened freedom and world peace for over FOUR DECADES. His economic policies, based on free markets, low taxes, and less intrusive government regulations of private enterprise, catalyzed three decades of unprecedented economic dynamism and laid the foundation of America’s military primacy, on which the robustness of freedom still exists.

The man in the White House, who claims he killed Ben Laden, led to the demise of the dictator of Libya, surely will not move off his appeasement mode of those who threaten the peace of the world, nor do I see any of the Republican candidates, challenging the President’s goal of changing America into a Socialistic, or Marxist state.
HOW TO LOSE AN ELECTION…….BE A REPUBLICAN …….GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell famously said a year ago that his main task in the 112th Congress was to make sure President Obama would not be re-elected. Given how he and House Speaker John Boehner have handled the payroll tax debate, it would not be a miracle that they might end up re-electing the President before the 2012 elections take place.

The GOP leaders have some now managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing the one year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass. This no easy double play. Republicans have also achieved the small miracle of letting Obama position himself as an election-year tax cutter, although he has spent most of his Presidency promoting tax increases and he would hit the economy with one of the largest tax increases ever in 2013. This should be impossible…..most people blame Boehner and his Tea Party for the mess up. In reality, the house had passed a one year extension that included spending cuts to offset the $120 billion, or so, in revenue, such as a freeze on raises for federal employees. Then McConnell met with Senate President Reid. Ended with a TWO MONTH extension financed by higher fees (oh for sure) from the two Freddie’s among other things. Reid immediately had the Senate approve the 2 month extension 89 -10…..someone must of cut the telephone lines between the Senate and the House while Mr. Reid and the White House are having too much fun blaming the Republicans for “raising taxes “on the middle class” as of January, just in time for Obama’s State of the Union address before a national audience.

Republicans would do best to cut their loss and find a way to extend the tax holiday quickly, go home, and return in January with a united House-Senate tragedy that forces Democrats to make positive specific choices that high light the differences between the parties on spending, taxes and regulation.

The most notable Tea Party, is a reference t0 the Boston Tea Party, who in 1773, objected to a British tax on tea, and demonstrated by dumping British tea from three ships docked in the harbor….that was then, and the new “Tea Party” began in 2009, with no central leadership but is composed of a loose affiliation of national and local groups that determine their own platforms and agendas, most consider themselves as Republicans. Endorsing reduced government spending, reduction of the National Debt, and federal budget deficit and adherence to an originality interpretation of the United States Constitution. And there lies the problem within the Republican program, which is more political than idealistic; hopefully this Tea Party will support the main stream Republican leaders.

“If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will as a nation go under”……..Ronald Reagan

GROUNDHOG DAY……In the coming New Year 2012, both Groundhog Day and the President’s State of the Union address will occur on the same day…….this is an ironic juxtaposition of events.

One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to an insignificant creature of little intelligence for prognostication. The other involves a groundhog.

THE ARAB REVOLT in RETROSPECT……In the waning days of the SHAH, Egypt resembles nothing as much as Iran, in which a comparatively modern regime led by a sickly despot confronts a restive and radical public. Several weeks ago before the demonstrators arrived in Tahrir Square and Hillary Clinton reflexively judged the Mubarak regime “stable”. One doesn’t have to be particular clever to point out the obvious. But what to say of the State Department that failed to reach the same conclusion?

“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins”………..Ben Franklin

VACLAV HAVEL, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS ON BEHALF OF LIBERTY…..When Vaclav Havel and 241 others signed Charter 17 during the Cold War in 1977, they were denounced by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia as “traitors and renegades and agents of imperialism. Havel spent years behind Communist bars for resisting the Party’s dogmas. Catapulting from prison to presidency of post-Communist Czechoslovakia in 1989, he resigned the office in1992, because of the country’s breakup into Czech and Slovak components had not voted on the change. Returned to the Presidency of the Czech Republic in1993 served another decade and became a statesman-celebrity almost on par with Nelson Mandela. When he died at the age of 76, he knew his legacy lived on with freedom seeking people around the world, not least the imprisoned signatures.

THE DRAFT DODGER and the SPAMMER……history repeats itself: first as a sitcom, then as a farce……..Amid falling poll numbers, and with no record to run on, Obama’s campaign sent an e-mail to supporters asking them to make A THREE DOLLAR ($3 DOLLAR) DONATION AND SUPPLY THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF THEIR REPUBLICAN FRIENDS….They claim this is a fund raising effort, but it smells more of the Orwellian Big Brother tactics Obama political machine is accustomed to employing.

In 2008, the Obama campaign launched “STOP the SMEARS” in an effort to silence the critics. The 2012, the Obama campaign earlier this year set up the “ATTACK WATCH “web-site to once again have people report any e-mail, website, blog or news article that that dared question Obama’s failed leadership. Now they want to develop a data base of Republican e-mail addresses to target conservative voters with miss-information and attacks against GOP candidates in 2012.

“Life is rough, it’s even tougher if you are stupid”………..John Wayne

IOWA AND THE FUTURE OF THE GOP…….No matter the outcome, Ron Paul’s strength indicates a resurgence of the libertarian and the isolationist wings of the Republican Party…………Judging by some of the television images of the 2012 Republican presidential race in Iowa, the contest is among a bunch of small-bore candidates courting farmers and born-again Christians out on the chilly prairie.

Look again. The 2012 Republican contest in Iowa is very much a battle over what the GOP should stand for in the years ahead. Just as Republican leaders in Washington can’t seem to reach a consensus of what they are for, so can’t rank and file activists here. Throughout the campaign, a variety of candidates have risen and fallen as caucus-goers have fallen love and then be struck by buyer’s remorse.

Today most leads in polls of the race are within the margin of error. One thing pollsters agree on: a majority of likely caucus-goers say that even at this eleventh hour, they could be persuaded to changing their minds before January 3rd. Get these balances right, and the GOP nominee can easily brush Obama from the White House as Reagan did Carter. Get it wrong by OVER DOING IT IN IOWA AND THE PARTY CAN WANDER THROUGH THE WILDERNESS FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS.

SAAB FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY………..Another casualty of how the government resolved the General Motors settlement, who while giving up owner ship, had the power to block takeover attempts by China, which concerned GM was SAAB’s technology would end up in the hands of the Chinese. Any deal to sell can be negated by GM who holds crucial licenses. That determines the value of the company… At the time of the bankruptcy, SAAB employed over 3,000 employees, sales, peaked in 2006, and dwindled by 2009.

SENATOR JOHN McCain STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF KIM JONG 11 McCain who was tortured as a prisoner during the Vietnam war, didn.t pull any punches, when he said “I can only express satisfaction that the Dear Leader is joining the likes of Qaddafi, bin Laden, Hitler and Stalin in a warm corner of hell.”

“Power corrupts: absolute power corrupts absolutely. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work”……..Anonymous

THE NLRB’s BOEING SHAM……..WHAT A SHAM , OR SCAM……….Last week, the International Association of Machinists approved an extension of their existing contract with Boeing, in which the company agreed to manufacture it’s Max jet with union labor in Washington State. The very next day, after receiving the all-clear from the machinists, the National Labor Relations Board (NCLB) dropped their lawsuit against Boeing in South Carolina. I always thought the NLRB was supposed to be an independent agency? This settlement now allows Boeing to continue making their787’s MAX in South Carolina By dropping the case, the Obama team at the NLRB, can now claim it delivered a lesson without having to go to court… This gives Democrat Tim Kaine in Virginia being spared from having to endorse a union position that is unpopular in this right to work state.

TROUBLE IN IRAQ….a day after U.S withdrawal, a sectarian compromise unravels……..any one surprised? Only the speed and gravity of the crises now unfolding comes as a surprise…….

In hosting Prime Minister al-Maliki at the White House last week, President Obama hailed Iraq as “a sovereign, self-reliant and democratic”. Mr. Maliki returned home and immediately began a putsch against his Sunni coalition partners. Before television cameras, Maliki announced that his Vice President al-Hashemi a Sunni was a terrorist and ordered for his arrest, during which time Mr.Hashemi fled to autonomous north Kurdish region. Instability, renewed violence or a breakup of Iraq would be welcomed by Tehran, some of its Shiite proxies in Iraq, al-Qaeda inspirited terrorist.

American military presence had calmed these sectarian fevers. In the opinion of Iraqis, U.S. soldiers were honest (no such word in the Iraqis dictionary) brokers in Kurdish and Sunni eyes, shielding them from Maliki’s heavy hand, at the same time Maliki had less reason to fear threats from his rivals. U.S. commanders recommended a force of 15,000 to 18,000 to stay no, which was welcomed by the Kurds and Sunnis, especially the Sunnis, interspersed with Shiites, realizing the Shiites in a “get even mode” would force the Sunnis to leave, but with no place to go.

President Obama determination to end the “bad war”, making sure every NATO soldier would be out of Iraq by year’s end, as promised…

NAVY BUYS BIOFUELS FOR $15 PER GALLON FROM STIMULUS-LINKED FIRM. The Institute for Energy Research unearthed this recent contract. “Last week, the navy signed a contract with two biofuel companies to purchase 450,000 gallons of advanced fuel biofuels at $12 million to assist in President Obama’s goal to establish a domestic biofuel industry and to advance it ways that does “not require Congressional approval.”. While this purchase is only a drop in the bucket compared to the Navy’s annual usage of more than 670 million gallons, their goal is to fuel a normal Navy mission with 50% blend of biofuels and gasoline by 2016… ……the Company selling the fuel is called “SOLAZYME”, and the company’s corporate board includes former and Chief Operations Officer of the Department of Energy, meaning he has experience dealing with energy issues on both sides of the regulatory equation. The Administration seems to be looking for ways to push alternative fuels “WITH OUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL “and the military is a logical place to start. The Heritage’s Jack Spencer noticed the trend last year, “the Pentagon and the environmental movement have found a common cause by linking “America’s national security to the basic tenets in the President’s green agenda. Unfortunately, there are real costs for national security, energy technology the tax payer, and the American consumer.” GOVERNMENT EFFORTS TO PROP UP FAVORED INDUSTRIES ALSO TEND TO BENEFIT THE POLICALLY CONNECTED, SOLAZYME CERTAINLY FITS THE BILL…….

“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl, is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves”…….Albert Einstein

MIA ON THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI……The United States defers to Qatar and the UN in Libya….President Obama often criticized the Bush Administration for failing to “finish the job” in Afghanistan, so it’s odd to see him leave himself vulnerable to the same charge in Libya. Two months after the death of Gadhafi, the cautious and reluctant White House follow up the NATO war resembles its approach to this year’s Arab upheavals in general. The demobilization of dozens of militias and clashes with the new government police, underscore the need for a new arm and police force.

This may be an opening for Washington, under the NATO flag. Cost can’t be an issue, rich in oil and gas; Libyan authorities can easily pick up the tab. The Europeans, who pushed hard for a NATO intervention, seem to care more about buying Libya’s oil than “mid-wifing”a new Arab democracy.. Libyans are grateful to the U.S. for helping topple Gadhafi and they want help to build their new country. Assisting them would be in the U.S. interest- to prevent another radical regime from taking over, and more important to show Arabs across the Middle East. That there is a better future (despite the mess up in Iraq) when a dictator falls. Mr. Obama’s Libyan intervention will not be a success unless he finishes this job.

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just….whatever you are, be a good one”

TO PRESIDENT OBAMA and all 535 VOTING MEMBERS of CONGRESS, PAST and PRESENT. In ORDER to be CLASSIFIED as a “DO NOTHING” CONGRESS, YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING TO IMPROVE PAST ACTS OF THE CONGRESS, WHICH MAKES YOU A MORON…….. U.S. Postal Service. Was established in 1775, you have had 236 years to get it right, and is broke…… B….Social Security was established in 1935,you have had 76 years to make it profitable…..C..Fannie Mae was established in 1938,. you have it for 73 years to make it profitable…..D….War on Poverty started in 1964. After 47 years and over $1 trillion dollars each year, it is still broke……E..Medicare and Medicaid were established 1965, you have had it for46 ears and it is still broke………F..Freddie Mac was established in1970, you have had 41 years to correct, still broke………G,,Dept. of Energy was established in 1977 to lessen our need to buy from foreign countries, It has ballooned to 18,000 employees, 34 years later we import more oil than ever before……..YOU HAVE FAILED IN EVERY “GOVERNMENT SERVCE” THAT YOU CREATED AND SHOVED DOWN OUR THROATS WHILE OVER SPENDING OUR TAX DOLLARS……HAVE WE LOST OUR MINDS TO” POLITICAL CORRECTNESS”………Maybe we should be thinking of turning over these, and others, to WAL-MART, who handles 8,2 billion different purchases per year, (Earth’s population is about 6.5 billion)…….90% of all AMERICANS live within 15 miles from a WAL-MART, NO!!! I DO NOT OWN ANY WAL-MART Stock!.. and this idea probably originated when there was talk about WAL- MART placing a Post Office at each location.

While watching TV and hunting for a closing statement, sure enough it did not take too long to find a story that illustrates what is happening to our country. The subject matter was about who should be paying for some work on the World Trade Center Memorial, which still does not have a name, but thousands of folks visit the site daily. While these three political “hacks”, one from New Jersey, one from the Port Authority and the Mayor of New York, each represent the governing body of the site……..while these three were stating their arguments, close to 100 workers dropped their tools and went home. And that is an example how government works, and why the Memorial is still not finished, nor has a name……..this “story” is repeated many times, in fact this example is probably one of the reasons why our country is stagnant, and millions of people are out of work, and the related costs continue to rise.

Well folks this is the last day in December 2011, a year most of us will take a deep sigh of relief. I was a depression child, and remember it well. We were one of the more fortunate, as my father had a job throughout this period. He started to sell attached homes, and observe the construction of a project in Rosedale, Queens County. I don’t think it paid very well, like watching my mother make meat loaf, which was a combination of chopped meat mixed with hard boiled eggs in the middle, and a half a loaf of wet white bread. Selling houses during this period, was limited to those who were cops, firemen, school teachers, employees of the gas and electric companies, who were able to obtain mortgages, about 10 t0 15 % buyers were either self-employed, or worked for a credit worthy firm. My father’s job had some perks, we occupied one of the many empty house, every time a house was sold, my father would notify the moving company the milk company, the laundry company, the coal company and the bakery, for which we received free milk and dairy, fresh rolls, ice, discounted coal and other goodies.

Let me take a moment to wish you and your families a most Happy and Healthy New Year, and that the “Revolution” will contain only good news, and civility will once again exist amongst all of us……….see y’all in the funny papers……..AP