For years we have been living under a political correctness filter that is now endangering our lives. I am either more sensitive to it since 9/11 or the country has fallen down further into this rabbit hole. The events at Ft. Hood shine a light on this painful truth in America: Our political correctness is destroying us. And this is not just the case when it comes to Islam and Jihadists, although that is the most glaring example. Our political correctness has led us to elect a panty-waist leader who has become an apologist to the world. We’re sorry for being prosperous and Capitalistic. We’re sorry for being free. This apologist attitude has left us whimpering at the door of Iran. Iran will have the nuclear weapon in time and we will be left living under a fear that the Cold War never instilled. At least the Soviet Union cared a bit for its people. Jihadists and Muslim extremists – who are the norm, no PC here – do not even care about their own lives.
Political correctness has given way to a zero tolerance zoning in schools that leaves six-year-olds expelled for having Boy Scout equipment with them and teenagers with survival gear losing college prospects. Political correctness has led us to push God out of the center square because we do not want to offend anyone. How dare we Christians wish someone “Merry Christmas”. Now we have winter festivals and Xmas decorations. We take down the ten commandments and yank prayer out of school, unless you’re a Muslim. Little old ladies are given the full pat down at airports, while dark-skinned men wearing turbans are ignored.
Political correctness keeps people from speaking their minds, which erodes our free speech. Sometimes that free speech may hurt, but it is a fundamental right that this country is erasing. The Fairness Doctrine seeks to make talk radio more “fair” and keep conservativism from sweeping the internet. Political correctness keeps people from telling the truth and then sometimes it is too late.
Political correctness is a fundamental problem in this country and the Ft, Hood Massacre only shines light on that fact. Freedom’s Wings is a no PC zone, so I say what I want and welcome others to do the same. I have never erased a comment or edited it except for profanity or being spam.
The new global economic order that the world seems hell bent on creating continues to weaken to the dollar. And with America contributing just as heartily to that fate by increasing our deficit spending, printing unbacked dollars as quickly as ink can meet paper and monetizing our debt, the dollar really has no chance in the world. Countries are quickly backing away from the dollar and the International Monetary Fund has been playing for months with the idea of creating a basket of currencies for nations to use as backing. The one item that seems to be gaining ground in this currency turmoil is gold. Gold has been setting records for weeks and has now reached an all time high.
Today gold prices hit a record above 1,100 dollars. The reason is because ministers at this weekend’s G20 meeting pledged to continue the fiscal stimulus measures similar to what we have been doing in America. This is just more easy money, which will eventually collapse under the weight of being propped up by nothing other than the hot air of world economic leaders.
In morning trading, gold struck an all-time peak of 1,109.50 dollars an ounce as the euro rose to 1.50 dollars for the first time in two weeks. So obviously, if you can get gold get some. The dollar’s death knell is tolling.
These fools running Congress have no idea what they have just unleashed on this country. Several Democrat leaders extolled the wonders encased inside the ObamaCare Bill that just passed the House this evening. I find myself wondering what exactly they are referring to. Could it be the unconstitutional individual mandate that will fine and jail people for not purchasing health insurance? Or is it the part that prevents people from purchasing private insurance after 2013? How about the $1.2 trillion price tag? Or is it the funding of veterinarian education? The huge cuts to Medicare and dismantling of Medicare Advantage perhaps? The soon to come rationing and control of our bodies by the government maybe? No, I’m sure it is the 111 new bureaucracies this bill sets up.
The House passed the bill in a 220-215 vote. One Republican RINO joined the ranks of the Democrats to give PlastiGirl the ability to claim that the bill is bi-partisan and that was Joseph Cao from Louisiana. Thirty-nine Democrats stood for some principles and voted against the bill. It is believed that the “magic bullet” that helped get the bill passed was the passage of Rep. Bart Stupak’s (D-Mich.) amendment, which barred plans that cover abortion from receiving federal subsidies. This helped convince some Blue Dog Democrats to vote “yes”.
On a day that we commemorate the fall of the Iron Curtain, we just watched the House begin building one here in America. This is a sad day indeed for America.
My. my, my how the RINOs are erupting all over Washington DC and beyond. First, we have the bafoons in New York choosing Dede Schozzafava as the Republican candidate. Then Newt Gingrich endorses that move and defends his decision by claiming he had to for the good of the Party. I have since removed the link to American Solutions from all of my websites and have no use for Gingrich who appears to be a RINO.
Lindsey Grahamnesty two weeks ago wrote an Op-Ed with John Kerry in support of Crap & Tax and claimed that he was not a part of the angry white guy group, referring to the conservatives within the GOP. Grahamnesty and John McCain have been big proponents of Amnesty and supported TARP. And now…Eric Cantor has entered the fray of RINOs. These people do realize we are taking names?
Cantor is calling for the GOP to be more inclusive. I really have no idea what he is talking about because his comments appear to be pushing conservatives out of the GOP. He took issue with Rush Limbaugh referencing Hitler when discussing actions of the Obama administration and said, “Do I condone the mention of Hitler in any discussion about politics? No, I don’t, because obviously that is something that conjures up images that frankly are not, I think, very helpful.” He went on to take issue with other harsh rhetoric coming from fellow House Republicans and claimed that the recent elections proved that we must stay unified. Somehow I do not think he means including conservatives and following our lead. As long as they stay out of touch with us, the GOP will remain split and they will continue to lose races. And we will keep this up as long as it takes for us to get back a Party that values the Constitution and conservative values.
Cantor was critical of Republicans such as Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, who called the Democratic health-care plan a greater threat to America than terrorists, and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who took fellow Republican Olympia Snowe to task for voting with Democrats. Pawlenty later said the Maine senator is “absolutely welcome” in the party.
Cantor defended Snowe, saying she “is talking to Democrats the way she does a lot, the way we all do.”
The House and Senate, Cantor said, are “plagued by a political mandate” from Democrats. “The only time that you would have a chance to get an insertion in the bill is to talk to a Democrat.”
Yesterday’s heinous attack at Ft. Hood Texas from a Muslim soldier that left 13 people dead and another 28 wounded begs the question of whether we can truly trust Muslims serving in the military. We obviously cannot ban them because we have Freedom of Religion in this country, but can our troops function well when they have doubts about the Muslims in their midst. This is the second high profile case of a Muslim soldier attacking his comrades in arms. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but every terrorist has been a Muslim and indeed Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is a terrorist. The mainstream media and his family are trying to paint him as a lonesome loner who was mistreated by fellow soldiers for his beliefs and that he was suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, but the truth will prove to be something quite different.
Already we are hearing reports that he praised homicide bombers at various websites and that he declared “Allah Akbar!” before he started murdering innocent people. And how does someone who has never seen battle get Post Traumatic Stress? And the theory that he was afraid to be deployed to Afghanistan rings hollow because he was going to be serving in the medical field and would never see the front lines. But he definitely had qualms about fighting against fellow Muslims and he was against both the war in Iraq and the one in Afghanistan. And his years of hearing horror stories about war from patients is no excuse either, otherwise we would have military psychologists everywhere taking up arms.
It is important to note that his parents are of Palestinian descent and there is much turmoil between Israel and the Palestinians in the Middle East and we are seen as being on the side of Israel although this President is trying to change that. Whatever reason this waste of human skin had for committing his act of cowardous, the fact is that Americans need to get serious about the Muslims in our midst (we have had several cells pop up around the country) and the military needs to get serious as well. And possibly rethink their policy of not arming our soldiers on base.
Today, 75,000 American citizens protested in Washington DC against the House’s new version of the ObamaCare Bill that they plan to vote on this weekend. The event started with a rally on the Capitol steps and then the protesters entered the Capitol to confront their representatives in person and expressed their desire to have this piece of crap go down in flames. Several protesters were rewarded by being arrested at the request of their representatives. So much for our freedom to assemble, particularly when this assembly took place in the People’s House.
At Joe Lieberman’s office, nine protesters were arrested after conducting a sit-in. Apparently, twenty protesters marched into the senator’s office in the morning and demanded to speak with him and their requests were denied. My former stomping grounds of Colorado has graced DC with another representative who saw fit to have his constituents arrested. Democrat Michael Bennet had the Capitol Police arrest protesters who showed up at the office at 10 am for unlawful entry. And a crowd outside of Nancy PlastiGirl Pelosi’s office who were singing “God Bless America” and chanting “Kill the Bill” were arrested for unlawful entry and unlawful conduct in the hallway.
What a sad day in America to realize that those sworn to protect the Constitution not only completely ignore it, but work to destroy it.
Upon reading the heading of this blog, most people would be scratching their heads wondering what I was referring to since Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman lost the race in NY23 in the special election for a House seat. It is disappointing to not have garnered a win with obtaining the seat, but we did win in a major way. Conservatives let the GOP know in no uncertain terms that they need us if they want to win. They can no longer ignore us and choose whoever they assume will win. Conservatives no longer vote the party line for Republicans. We will not vote for the lesser of two evils any longer.
Doug Hoffman was beat by Democrat Bill Owens, but he trounced Dede Scozzafavva and ran her out of the race before voting even had begun. Hoffman was able to shine a light on the frauds within our movement as well. Newt Gingrich has proven to be the biggest fraud of them all. he has attended and spoken at tea parties. He started American Solutions to formulate solutions with every day people to the country’s problems. I became suspicious of Gingrich when he made that “green” ad with Plastigirl Pelosi. His endorsement of Dede Scozzafavva proved my suspicions to be right.
The Republican Party has no option but to rebuild with conservatives at the helm. We will now be choosing our candidates. The primaries in 2010 will prove that out. Michael Steele needs to sit back and start taking notes. Erick Erickson of Red State made some great points along these lines as well:
Secondly, and just as importantly, there has all of a sudden been a huge movement among some activists to go the third party route. We see in NY-23 that this is not possible as third parties are not viable.
Third parties lack funding and ability for a host of reasons. Conservatives are going to have to work from within the GOP. The GOP had better pay attention.
For all intents and purposes, NY-23 is a trial run for Florida. And in Florida, the conservative candidate is operating inside the GOP. If John Cornyn and the NRSC do not want to see Florida go the way of NY-23, they better stand down.
This is indeed a news flash for Charlie Crist who better be very worried. And the GOP better stand down from full on support of Charlie Crist. The people on the ground in Florida want Marco Rubio and if they turn against him it will be Charlie Crist’s loss they will be setting up.
Today, a reporter asked the White House Spokesmoron Robert Gibbs whether White House lawyers had reviewed the individual mandate that is present in both the Senate and House’s healthcare bills. Gibbs responds to the question was, “Not that I know of. I don’t think it has gotten to the point where anybody questions the legitimacy of it.” What?! He does not think this has gotten to the point where anybody is questioning the legitimacy?! Now I know the White House, including this dim bulb, has spent much of the summer maligning protestors at tea parties and questioners at town halls, so we know they know that people are questioning ObamaCare. And specifically questioning how ObamaCare fits into the Constitution.
Senator Orrin Hatch is on his way out of the Senate if We The People are successful, but he did make some great points in reference as to whether forcing Americans to buy health insurance is Constitutional. He said, “But here would be the first time where our government would demand that people buy something that they may or may not want. And, you know, if that’s the case, then we didn’t need a ‘Cash for Clunkers,’ all we had to do is have the federal government say you all got to buy new cars, no matter how tough it is on you. You know, they could require you to buy anything. And that isn’t America. That’s not freedom. That’s not constitutionally sound. Now, there may be some gimmicky way that they can do this, but I can’t think of a gimmicky way that would be constitutionally justified.”
The reporter who was questioning Gibbs continued by asking, “Well, Orin Hatch questions the legitimacy of it.”
Gibbs responded, “Well, you should ask him.”
The reporter then asked, “Do you not feel there is any concern at all about whether it is constitutional for Congress to impose a mandate?”
“No,” Gibbs answered.
If not for the months and months of the Obama administration demonstrating that they do not care about the Constitution, nor what Americans want from their government, I would have found this dialogue between the Spokesmoron and the reporter unbelievable. It does not matter what the Birthers claim about Obama and whether he can or cannot present a birth certificate. He is illegitimate as a President for his betrayal of the oath of office and his sincere disregard for Constitutional principles – our founding principles.
In a shocking move Dede Scozzafava, the GOP’s pick to run for Congress in New York’s 23rd District, has stepped down just days before the election. She claims that this is the right thing to do for the Republican Party and since she is running in third place in the polls, she decided to quit. Being the cynic that I am, I am willing to believe that the GOP leadership pressured her to step down for a number of reasons:
1. They realized that they made a huge mistake in picking her.
2. They realize that they will not win with Democrat-lite anymore.
3. They need to save face and do not want to admit that a bunch of grassroots Americans have more power than they do to affect real change in America.
4. They want to keep the Democrat out of office and realize that there best chance is Hoffman and want to ensure he gets more votes by garnering the votes of Scozzafava’s supporters. Although I believe those people lean to the left.
Republicans will derive two lessons from the results of this race. One is that the activist base of the party is becoming increasingly powerful in the one area that had eluded them: candidate selection. Other conservative Republicans may now feel more comfortable if they decide to challenge incumbents in primaries. Democrats, believing that Republicans will conservatize-themselves to death demographically, will take this as a positive trend for the long-term. The second lesson is that populist, regular guy candidates win in supposedly “moderate” districts.
All I have to say is, “Good riddance.” The Republicans better have learned their lesson.
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