Miss Manners sent us this amazing news coverage. Seen below, with breathless anticipation, the crowd awaits the unveiling of the new Obama Statue in Washington, DC.
For those of you who think America is on a downward trajectory, heading for violent impact soon, here is a video Mr Green found, showing the glory years of Detroit. We weren’t always ruled by a Marxist Kenyan intent on collapsing the system and destroying the middle class, pushing the middle class down to ghetto levels. If you scroll back a ways or use a keyword search, you can find a video maybe two pages back that covers what Detroit once was and what it is now. Also, you can search for Mr White’s essays on the topic.
BEGINS:
http://www.archive.org/details/LostLandscapesOfDetroit2010
Anyone who knows Detroit from the old days should find this of interest. It is a compilation of historic footage and some old home movies that give glimpses into Detroit from the 1920s until about 1970.
It is an hour long, so you might want to skip ahead. Worth watching are the following time codes:
15:15 – A news feature about the anti-Vietnam war protests going on, circa 1970
28:15 – Glimpses of various local businesses and car dealers
31:15 – A cool old “Hot Rod Shop” building
40:00—A Detroit Police Dept public relations film, circa 1950
52:40 – A PR film for Detroit “City on the Move”, circa 1963
How times have changed!
Bryan Suits has a weekend show that plays on KFI640 in LA. Considering KFI is dominated by weirdo hosts who express the weirdo views of most contemporary Angelenos (my grandparents would spin in their graves if their caskets had radio antennae), it’s surprising this station hosts Limbaugh and Suits.
On weekend afternoons, Suits has a 2- or 3-hour show that covers military matters. He seems to be based in Seattle, but I’m not sure. If you don’t get him on your local radio channels, visit KFI’s website, or use ask.com or other search engine to find him. On our Facebook page, I see many women who seem to be military spouses. You might find this guy interesting.
I try to watch a bit of MSNBC every day, to better understand the insanity of leftists. Rachel Maddow is the left’s equivalent of Sean Hannity: a squawking parrot that delivers talking points. At least Hannity is on the right side, though he pimps for the Republicans.
Maddow is a Lesbian, with a “partner.” Of course, she hates “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” Yesterday she had a former Navy pilot (Naval Aviator) on who was complaining that he had been outed and thus asked to leave the service. Well, dude, when you’re locked up on a steel tub with several thousand other guys and you have no access to the charming, soft and warm comforts of a woman, you sure as hell don’t want a bunch of twinkle toes running around. You are a cancer that attacks the morale of normal men. Being locked up on a fighting ship is tough enough.
Also, Mr Camo once brought along an assistant on a work project. He was retired Navy. His father had been a maverick in the Navy. I asked this fellow about don’t ask, don’t tell. You know what he said? “There’s two things you can’t tolerate on a boat: a thief and a queer.” If you are either, you will get a “blanket party,” and no, that’s not the sort of blanket party Barney Frank would like to attend. You get a blanket over your head and a serious ass-kicking. Healthy men can tolerate deprivation for awhile, knowing that there’s a woman somewhere. But you ask them to tolerate a bunch of twinkle toes scampering about? That rips it.
Onthis same broadcast, Rachel Maddow attacked the Commandant of the Marine Corps, and dug up a few of his more inflammatory comments. This is the Alinksy method. She is trying to “freeze” him, and then attack him in order to discredit him. Maddow attacked the Commandant for statements he’s made in the past about “minority” officer candidates. When asked why there were not MORE “minority” officers in the Marine Corps, the Commandant stated that if there were not more the minority officers, it must be that they’re not hacking it. I can’t remember the specifics of the quote, but clearly that was the intent. He was being ruthless and blunt, but then that’s what we want in a Marine.
I have a relative who was a Marine. He served in the sand box. Others in my extended family have served the Corps, and one is serving now. So, Rachel, here’s the juice: To be a Marine, you have to measure up as a Marine. To placate people like you, physical standards were lowered in the other branches of the military, to make the military more PC. Hell, I’m a middle-aged goat and I could probably clip the mile quickly enough to make the Army, though I’d be sucking wind by the end of it.
The Marines never gave an inch to the politically correct agenda. They did not lower standards. Man, woman, white, black, brown, yellow or red, if you hack it, you’re a Marine. Why do you think Marines kick ass? Why do the Marines get the call when it’s time to kick ass and take names? Why? Because if you’re a Marine, you know in your heart and soul that you’re a Marine, as tough and hard as any other man (or woman) who has ever served the Corps. That’s tradition.
My relative told me once that when you’re in the uniform, people know who and what you are. They don’t know you, but they know what kind of man you are. They know what’s on the inside. Doesn’t matter if you’re white, black, etc. You’re a Marine.
As to “Don’t ask, don’t tell,” go to hell, Rachel Madcow.
There is no other way to say it: The president and the Democrat-controlled congress have declared war on the American people, the constitution and freedom. They have done so by substituting their ideas and ideals, pushing them through via questionable legislative tricks, and lying about what they are doing and seek to accomplish. In this they have been aided by a somnambulant opposition, supportive media machine, and a public that is not used to fighting the long war.
The more complacent suggest that the administration, Reid and Pelosi will do nothing more than turn the U.S. into a quasi-socialist democracy on the order of Germany or England. To which I say, not only have these commentators forgotten the dark days these countries endured—inflation, the loss of the manufacturing base, wildcat strikes by unions with communist tendencies—they forget that Europe has lived for nearly 70 years off the growth, prosperity and freedom of the United States of America. Without our help, our money, our soldiers, our blood and treasure, Europe would have been drawn into the Soviet sphere before collapsing into satellites of Mother Russia. We kept them intact. Unfortunately, we also allowed them to cast aside their responsibilities and follow the easy way of socialism while we kept the world safe and working.
Without a strong United States as the engine of commerce, democracy and freedom, the superstructure collapses. All are drawn into the vortex of the black hole of socialism-cum-communism that puts a happy face on centralized control at the national and global level. We no longer work for ourselves, our families, our communities and our ideals, we work for the government. We work at its pleasure. We work for its health. We work to support its growth.
The fight over health care in this country is just one of many battles we are facing. Just one. Yet it is the one that will determine whether or not we survive as a nation, a people, a beacon of hope to all who strive and yearn to be free. We are in the current mess with health care prices precisely because the government has been involved in the process since the Great Depression. Unable to give employees greater compensation for the fear that it would create hyperinflation of the type seen in post-World War I Germany, the federal government mandated that companies must give any pay increase above a pre-set rate in benefits. To sweeten the pot, tax breaks were given to the companies that acquiesced. And with this, company-supplied health care was born.
This seemingly innocent move has blossomed into a system that, due to state law, prevents insurance companies from competing across state lines, the move of doctors into highly paid specialties from general medicine, and a bonanza for trial lawyers looking for a lucrative payday should things go wrong. Though there are occasions when incompetence and/or negligence need to be severely punished, remember that one of the highest paid and most effective medical malpractice attorneys in the United States was none other than former presidential candidate and philanderer John Edwards. His courtroom tactics were about as honest as his pronouncements that he didn’t know Rielle Hunter, and that he was not the father of her child.
But while we have been focused on healthcare, the administration and its useful idiots have been at work undermining our freedom, sovereignty and well being elsewhere. Take, for example, cap and trade.
The House passed cap and trade legislation while the Senate did not. Yet, it is not dead. Now the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided that carbon dioxide is a threat to life on the planet. Therefore, it is readying a plan to legislate just how much CO2 companies and individuals can emit. In response, the Obama administration warns that it would be better if legislators pass a version of cap and trade as the EPA’s rules might prove to be “draconian.”
The EPA administrator answers to the executive and legislative branches. He is not a rogue official able to set by fiat the parameters by which we must play. Especially at a time when global warming/climate change or whatever else you want to call it is being called into question. Damning e-mails have been discovered. Calculations have been faked. Sources have been proven to be far from peer-reviewed. Yet we rush head-long to a taxation scheme that will crush our economy in the name of a geophysical pagan religion and for the benefit of a ruling class and its financial supporters. For what? So Al Gore and George Soros can have more?
What about the people who don’t have what these folks do? Are they not deserving of a chance? Not according to the Saul Alinsky acolytes who have taken over the Democrat party and threatened the Republicans into acquiescence or, worse yet, silence. The poor, the downtrodden, the oppressed are to be wards of the state for the odds are stacked against them. Only by tying their wagons to the über welfare state can they be saved. Have we forgotten what Jesus said? First, if you give a man a fish he eats for a day, but if you teach him to fish he can feed himself forever. Second, that the “poor will always be with you.” Then again, what the hell does Jesus know? He never had to get re-elected. He never knew earthly power. And we no longer know the satisfaction and humanity of helping our fellow man become a better person, of helping a poor man to his feet, of sacrificing of ourselves for the good of all but at a level we determine.
Instead we, to use an exquisite phrase coined by Bill Bennett, define deviancy down. We lower the threshold to “save” more, but in the process lose our own footing and our own souls. And we stand by flabbergasted when things get worse. However, the farther we go down this road to serfdom, the harder it is to change course. The harder it is to establish high standards. The tougher it is to ask that people reach higher rather than stoop lower in self-pity.
And here we sit, swimming in the shark tank as the professional political class brings us ever closer to the precipice of benevolent dictatorship. We are like Thomas Aquinas. “Teach me discipline Lord, but not yet. Make me chaste Lord, but not yet. Help me mold my will to yours Lord, but not yet.” It’s too tough, and we don’t want to give up our vices or our belongings. But give them up we will when the state rips them from our hands for “the greater good.” We will be like the townspeople in the hilarious Simon Pegg movie Hot Fuzz, turning a blind eye as jay walkers and graffiti painters and everyone who stands in the way of the council’s idea of earthly perfection are murdered and their bodies stashed out of sight. For it is such an idyllic little town. Until they come for us, that is. By then it will be too late.
Ask yourself as you sit reading this post what you have done to stop the wholesale loss of our freedom, liberty, and property. We are fast approaching a point where the productive class throws up its hands in disgust and takes a holiday, leaving the whole structure to crumble under its own weight. Filled with the lies about health care, global warming, alternative fuels, the environmental impact of drilling for oil or using coal or building nuclear powerplants, the criminality of the United States, the “outdated” constitution, the need to promote self-esteem over competency, and myriad other things, large sections of the population are walling themselves off from reality and the consequences of their actions. Will we wake up when we discover, as it was put it so eloquently in the movie Patton, “At a time when we have conquered the seas and the skies, what makes us believe that we cannot conquer the impediments of man?”
The battle ahead is long. It is tough. It will demand vigilance and sacrifice. If we do not fight this battle, we will turn our individual, regional, national and global futures over to those for whom personal power is paramount. At that point there will be no life, no liberty, no property and no pursuit of happiness. There will be sorrow and toil and an end to human dignity. We may not wish to believe it to be true, but this is where we are headed under the leadership of Obama, Pelosi and Reid. This is a war we cannot afford to lose.
While drinking coffee this morning, I watched the news. What a mistake. Further evidence was beamed straight into my home that Obama is an insane African dictator–operating in OUR White House. Now a Harvard study supports the argument he’s been pushing: to teach us peasants how to behave properly and obey Al Gore, gasoline must cost $7 a gallon. Hey, that wouldn’t hurt the US economy, would it? Gas at $4/gallon crippled the economy and sent food prices (shipping costs) spiraling. If we more than double the price of gas, shucks, that won’t cause the least trouble. Here is the story on the need for $7/gallon gasoline in the Red Diaper Baby Gazette, also known as the New York Times.This is another means of imposing a “carbon tax,” which is cap and trade. These measures will castrate the US economy and ruin any hope of a recovery.
You think adding $3-4 in tax to every gallon of gas will help pay for, oh, health care to the unproductive class?
The Joker is insane. He has no intention of listening to anything we have to say. He is mistakenly convinced he’s smarter than everyone else, and he can completely restructure the biggest and until recently the most dynamic economy in the world from the top down. That’s called dictatorship.
The Joker now wants a simple up-or-down vote on the healthcare plan that was drafted in secret–no CSPAN transparency, of course. President Joker put on his nonsense healthcare summit and then announced there would be no more discussion with Republicans because it was obvious that Republicans with cojones had completely different concepts to offer. I guess the Joker didn’t like what non-Marxists had to say. He has summarily dismissed any of the free market ideas that have been offered.
What a joke. Listen to this video. Basically, he’s saying “I listened to you and I am ignoring you.” Could this clown be any more arrogant? And coming from me, a truly arrogant bastard, that’s something. The Joker is insufferable. The DMV of Healthcare.
This morning, I saw a news clip of the Joker stating, and I paraphrase here, “Republicans think the answer on healthcare is to start over. Well, the insurance companies are not starting over.” In other words, I’m a dictator and I will ram this through without the consent of the people. About 44-45 percent of the country supposedly supports this plan. They comprise the unproductive and useless portion of the economy and useless portion of the population, which has been allowed to grow far too large. Government workers and welfare recipients. Oh, wait. Those are the same thing, aren’t they? Toss in the Joker’s union pals at SEIU, AFL-CIO, UAW, and the teacher’s unions, and you have the problem. Tell them to move to Canada.
The productive class is going to revolt against this. We’ve had enough with the deadbeats who think they’re owed a beer, a free color TV, a pitcher of “dat purple drink,” and a sofa so they can watch Oprah in comfort every afternoon while the rest of us work.
He is flat lying to us. He is pushing the takeover of the healthcare industry. This will lead to single-payer.
A point that Mr White will make? Europe could afford this type of nonsense welfare state for some decades because the US provided air cover. We defended them from the Rooskies. We gave them generous access to our markets so they could rebuild and prosper after WW II. You think every Mercedes in Germany is as luxed-up as the ones sold here? I think not. They’re taxi cabs. We made the Europeans rich. Yet even they couldn’t make socialism work because they were forced to import millions of Muslims to assemble their Peugeots and sweep their streets. Now the Europeans are going bankrupt, they are infested with Muslims who breed like rats, and they will soon be swamped unless they grow spines and take action. If we remove our military protection, they’ll be destroyed in a day.
President Joker must be removed from office. He intends to ruin the nation. He is making it clear that destroying the productive sector of the population is his goal.
You know my plaint:
- Reform the Republican Party
- Retake Congress
- Impeach this bony Kenyan liar
- If we can retake the senate, remove the Joker from office, then ship him to Cuba, Angola or Kenya
- If it can be arranged, tar and feathers for Pelosi, Reid, Raumie, Axelrod and all the other red diaper babies who have infested the White House. They are psychotics.
Mr White is currently working on a more carefully crafted piece on this topic. I’m merely venting. Can’t I just have my country back? No? I’m gonna have to fight for it? OK. We’re coming.
Mr Red posted this video earlier in the week. I want to make sure it stays at the forefront of this blog for awhile. The presenter in this video correctly identifies one of the great lies spread by Josef Stalin and other Marxists: that somehow Hitler, Nazis, and fascists are “right-wing.” They are not. This lie was promoted by Stalin, and his lackeys in the west. Watch this video and you will begin to understand why you can’t decide if Obama, Pelosi and Reid are Marxists or Nazis. They are not quite that far to the left, yet. But they believe in an all-powerful government that controls all the actions of its citizens. Remember, Mussolini and Hitler were socialists first, and they established totalitarian governments.
What else can you take from this video? Our form of government is precious and rare. Europeans, Japanese and Koreans have attempted to recreate the freedoms we have enjoyed for more than two centuries, but none has come close. Yet we could lose it all in a moment, snuffed out. We can’t lay down and grow complacent at this point. We have this entire year to fight, till November. Remember, first we reconstruct the Republicans in our image, then we field candidates who represent OUR beliefs, and not those of the current Republican leadership. We take the House, and we impeach Obama. If we can take the Senate, we remove him from power. Obama is a dangerous agent. We can’t go back to sleep.
I’m in a Dr. Zhivago frame of mind–hey, it’s tough to sort out the useful segments of this film. In the segment below, Zhivago is kidnapped and forced to serve as a doctor under threat of death. His family does not know what has happened to him.
Obama wants to do the same thing to all our doctors. He will strip doctor’s of their freedom and force them to serve in a communist medical industry. Remember, Obama said doctors in the United States amputated limbs and removed body parts unnecessarily for profit. Clearly, the man has no respect for our doctors.
Why will we allow these jerks to seize a large portion of our private economy? And how will they lower costs while providing medical service to tens of millions of US citizens who currently have no insurance? And provide service to illegal aliens? Huh? How’s that work? And how will this system work when so many older doctors will simply retire, leaving us with a crushing shortage of trained, experienced doctors? How is that good for any of us?
In the video below, pay attention to the words of the political officer. Political hacks at the Medical DMV will dictate what happens under Obamacare. You won’t. Your doctor won’t.
Obama has demonized doctors on many occasions. I don’t. Ff doctors make plenty of money, well, they deserve it. Four years pre-med. Four years in medical school. Residency. Additional years to specialize. Specialist surgeons must keep up to date with regular study. If that surgeon makes a million or two in a year, I don’t care. That doctor might save my life, or the life of someone I love. Good for him. And good for me, too. To repeat, my life is complete and rewarding because I had access to an incredible surgeon about ten years ago. I’m not terribly religious, but every morning I wake up, I thank God that skinny little woman was there. I also give thanks that I had the freedom and money to ask for multiple attempts to fix the problem. With Obamacare, I’d be hobbled now, deemed unworthy of the investment.
Obama wants to take the first step toward single-payer government-run health care. He is now willing to use the “nuclear option” and ram healthcare through the House and Senate, even though we have all heard the sounds bytes of Senator Obama stating that reconciliation as a legislative tool subverts the intent of the founding fathers. “Reconciliation” is meant to work out minor issues of cost on any given bill. Because it now suits his needs, Obama will use reconciliation as a tool of dictatorship.
Poor Dr. Zhivago. All he wanted to do was practice medicine, write poetry, and dither his way from one beautiful woman to another, always with a surprised look on his face. Then Zhivago was kidnapped by a group of Obama supporters and forced to practice medicine in hostile, unpleasant environments.
In the video below, you’ll want to slide the player to about 4:30 minutes on this segment of Dr. Zhivago. The message? Infiltration. Many will try to glom on to the tea party movement. Some will do so to ultimately humiliate us. Others will see opportunity. We received a link to the campaign website of a man hoping to challenge Barbara Boxer, one of my two pathetic senators here in California. He clearly lifted language and ideas straight from our site. We have a few quirky ideas embedded here and there, and they are distinctive. This fellow picked up those ideas. Good ideas, but peculiar to us. We’re not yet sure who he is, but we’re looking into it.
We’d like to see Michael Steele gone, or see proof of his conversion. remember, Michael Steele of the GOP said the Republicans needed to go hip hop and urban to survive. Uh, no. No, thanks, Michael.
We need the RNC and GOP to visit tea parties and meet potential candidates. They need to be vetted. They need to represent OUR views, not those of the Republican oligarchy. Then they need to draft and circulate the Contract with America on which they will stand and be judged by “we the people,” meaning all of us.
I received this from a friend who has connections to the oil industry. The numbers we can check, we have. This seems to make sense. The numbers add up.
Working in the oilfield with others such as me and a wealth of combined experience, we understand the accuracy of the following.
Think of cash for clunkers and Obama’s Marxist economics this way:
- A clunker that travels 12,000 miles a year at 15 mpg uses 800 gallons of gas a year.
- A vehicle that travels 12,000 miles a year at 25 mpg uses 480 gallons a year.
- So, the average Cash for Clunkers transaction will reduce US gasoline consumption by 320 gallons per year.
- They claim 700,000 vehicles so that’s 224 million gallons saved per year.
- That equates to a bit over 5 million barrels of oil.
- Five million barrels is about 5 hours worth of US consumption.
- More importantly, 5 million barrels of oil at $70 per barrel costs about $350 million dollars.
- So, the government paid $3 billion of our tax dollars to save $350 million.
- We spent $8.57 for every dollar we saved.
I’m pretty sure they will do a great job with our health care, though.
