tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40465389487808577962024-03-08T11:14:50.296-08:00Red State ZombieRed State Zombiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17027566465808295685noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4046538948780857796.post-38176630632357341552011-07-02T09:31:00.000-07:002011-10-07T18:11:15.379-07:00Are you an environmentalist or a conservationist?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I remember taking a forestry class my freshman year of college. The curriculum, presented by a veteran instructor from the California Department of Forestry, covered several related topics that included ecology, biology, life cycles, wild-land fire control, conservation, and commerce based on those natural resources. I never heard the associate professor use the word "environment" or "environmentalist" during the course. Granted, it was years ago, and course outlines do change over time as new information on any given subject becomes available. But, the disconnect suggests the environmentalist movement is a recent concoction that has little basis in traditional resource management and everything to do do with political manipulation and empowerment.<br />
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From my experience, most environmentalists seem to be liberal socialists. Their champions are people like Al Gore, and Van Jones. Both communists. So, what attracts communists to environmentalism? I think they have a tremendous conflict with the concept of private property. Long standing traditions in The United States of America allow for private citizens to own property. Private property is a cornerstone of the American experience. Environmentalism is the only way to attack private property ownership that allows sufficient cover. Since most American communist politicians hate to be outed, environmentalism is the only game in town. They have realized you don't have to own the property to control it. You only need passage of some environmental "protection" laws whitewashed with some noble verbiage, and there you have it. You have exclusive control - or benefit - without the obligations of purchase.<br />
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The liberal socialists have pieced together a coalition of dupes and useful idiots to this end. In addition to the hardcore communist leadership element of the environmentalist movement, their coalition includes those who worship the creation rather than the Creator, sycophants in it for the power and/or money, and some decent people who truly believe they are doing right by the world in which they live. Hey, who wouldn't want clean air and water?<br />
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The point to this rant is this: there is a stark difference between environmentalism and conservationism. I can comfortably state I appreciate clean air and water. I enjoy a beautiful mountain or coastal vista as much as the next guy. I believe God gave the earth, and rights to its bounty, to His ultimate creation : humanity. I'm not willing to place a fundamental right like property ownership, also an inalienable right, on the alter of some socialist, neo-religion like environmentalism. So, my question to you dear reader is this: are you a conservationist, or an environmentalist?</div>Red State Zombiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17027566465808295685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4046538948780857796.post-91945724175046461002011-05-10T09:54:00.000-07:002011-05-10T13:26:43.028-07:00My first dose of Obamacare?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I'm very happy to see the spring weather finally arrive. It seems Old Man Winter just wouldn't go to bed this year. With changes in the weather, comes my spring chest cold. There isn't anything I can do about it except head to the doctor and ask him to treat the symptoms until it clears. That's the routine. However, I discovered the routine isn't so routine anymore. After entering the exam room, I saw a new computer had been set up in the exam room. Nice LCD monitor, sleek key board on a telescoping arm. I asked the nurse about it as she checked my vital signs. She said it was installed in January, and was part of their office upgrades to allow integration into the new national heath care system - something to do with reporting data, and "stuff like that", to insurance providers. She said some things about the system were irksome, but she thought it was "a good thing". My only thought, at the time was, "Huh." You'd think something more profound would have occurred to me, but hey, I was sick after all. <br />
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Ultimately, the doctor showed up, gave me a going over, and decided I needed some meds. Instead of writing it all out on a paper scrip, he did it all on the computer. Pretty nifty. He fired off the prescription to the local drug store, via email I suppose, and told me it would be ready in about fifteen minutes. I thought that was kind of cool. <br />
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This is where it gets interesting. I drove to the drug store, allowing for the fifteen minutes suggested by my doctor. I walked up to the pick-up window, and found a woman in a fairly heated discussion with the pharmacist. I tried to be polite, tuned out the conversation best as I could, and occupied myself with a really nice, near-by massage chair. After saying something about making a call to her doctor, the woman turned from the window and stalked off. Seizing the opportunity, I jumped up and asked the pharmacist if he had filled the prescription emailed by my doctor. He said "not yet" and asked me to take a seat. So, I went back to the chair. The woman returned a few minutes later, and took the seat next to mine. <br />
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After waiting a good twenty minutes, and a series of ignorant expressions offered by the pharmacy crew (blank looks when I made eye contact with them to remind them I was still waiting), I finally broke and went to the window for a status report. The pharmacist said, "Oh. Your prescription was denied." That surprised me. I've never had that happen before. I asked, "It was only for an antibiotic. What's so difficult about that?" He said,"Your insurance company disagreed with your doctor, and denied the prescription." Again, my thought was "Huh." But this "Huh" was immediately followed by a "That was pretty cheeky of them." In the desire to learn more about this situation I asked, "So, insurance companies can now over-ride my doctor's recommendations, without knowing or examining me?" The response was, "Yes." The pharmacist told me he was in the process of contacting my doctor to have him submit a prescription for a different drug, with different dosages, as suggested by my insurance company. He again asked me to, "Take a seat." <br />
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I returned to the massage chair. The woman, from the earlier conversation at the pick-up window, still occupied the adjacent seat. She said, "They did the same thing to me." She went on to say her insurance company was denying her mother's prescriptions. Apparently, the woman's poor mother was dying of stomach cancer, and in the final stages. According to her, their insurance company simply "Didn't want to pay for medication for a woman who was dying anyway." After concluding the brief conversation with the woman, the remaining contents of which I'll keep private, I finally received my updated prescription and left the store. I hoped the circumstances surrounding the woman's mother weren't as dire as she explained them. Since she was still waiting at the pharmacy as I left, the pharmacist was likely working on some sort of resolution for her prescription problem. <br />
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I'm just a bloke who writes a blog. I don't know at what stage the implementation of Obamacare is currently. The dems could have gotten some of it in place before they were slapped down last November. I don't know if the federal government now dictates policy to private insurance providers in this country as part of that process. Supposedly, Obamacare is stalled by court rulings, restive republicans in congress, and some Democrat Party concern for public opinion. That may well be the case. From this experience, I can see what awaits if Obamacare becomes fully operational. It was my wake-up call, my peek at the man behind the curtain. The above incident was just a taste of things to come. Perhaps, much worse awaits than dealing with profit oriented insurance providers.</div>Red State Zombiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17027566465808295685noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4046538948780857796.post-51391536628308252612011-04-08T08:55:00.000-07:002011-04-08T20:21:54.780-07:00A funny thing happened on the way to the Wisconsin Supreme Court<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A far as messed-up elections go, this Kloppenburg-Prosser affair in Wisconsin has been enormously amusing for me. It’s one of those rare occasions when a “clerical error” has gone in favor of a republican candidate. By rare, I mean as rare as hobby-horse dung. By messed-up, I mean it’s one of those typical close elections that attracts liberal socialist thuggery like President Obama attracts re-election endorsements from third-world dictators.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In past elections, with vote totals separated by razor-thin margins, we could count on our socialist friends pulling up in their mobile home with out-of-state tags. They would disgorge the typical bevy of sympathetic lawyers, slack-jawed union muscle, and traitorous news media. We’ve seen their operation in Washington when Gregoire stole the governor’s seat, and in Minnesota with Franken, just to name a few. When stakes could not be higher, the circus comes to Wisconsin. The funny part is, I think they may have been out-maneuvered.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">There are some things in life you can count on. Water is wet, the sun rises in the east, and commies will always act like commies. I don’t know if Kathy Nickolaus, the Waukesha County Clerk, counted on the commie recount van showing up and threw them a curve ball by intentionally withholding those 14,000 votes, or the votes were simply lost in a clerical error. If it was a clerical error, I call it fortuitous. If it was by design, I call it brilliant (as long as the votes were genuine and not fraudulent – if she’s a fraud, she needs to go to jail).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m sure the liberal socialist angst is palpable, specifically after running all the same old dirty tricks in their <i>How to Steal Elections </i>play book. The reporting error provided the socialists with an erroneous target number, the nut they needed to crack to steal this thing. By the time they were done, their candidate was up by 200 votes. Never mind there were indications of over votes in some democratic precincts. Sound familiar? Then, out of the blue, “Oops, I seem to have found 14,000 votes that were previously unreported.” That’s a deficit that will likely not be overcome by our liberal socialist election thieves without a much higher risk of exposure. They have to be mad as hell. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m sure their post-election tantrum will result in investigations, maybe some law suits, because that’s how they roll. They will cite all kinds violated laws and principles in feigned indignation. They will showcase their hypocrisy by calling for the system they loathe to take action against their political foes. I must confess, it’s kind of fun to watch.</span></div></div>Red State Zombiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17027566465808295685noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4046538948780857796.post-48256922548383387132011-01-20T16:34:00.000-08:002011-01-20T20:17:41.339-08:00Outlawed Songs on Outlawed Pipes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Following the tragedy at Tucson, our liberal socialists have again showcased their ability to "never let a good crisis go to waste". Attempting to exploit the grief and sorrow of ordinary Americans, over a horrific event, our liberal socialists shamefully further their own political ambitions by blaming the event on any political dialogue that is opposed to their socialist agenda. You have to admire their persistence and determination as they remain willing to say or do anything to make political headway by publicly demanding we adopt "a more civil political dialogue". It is a bold attempt to define the American political dialogue and assign meaning to words as if we're living in George Orwell's novel "<i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i>", where alternative thinking becomes a thought crime. One character, Syme, says admiringly of the simplicity of the Newspeak vocabulary, "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."<br />
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Therefore, in the spirit of reconciliation, I apologize in advance to any politically sensitive reader looking for a "feel good" kind of experience by reading this posting. I'm just not in the mood. This body of writing contains certain words or ideas some may find offensive. For example, a reader may find words to the effect of...I've had enough of weak-kneed Republicans lasting all of, what? One month? Following their crushing defeat of the liberal socialist agenda in this country, I'm hearing rumors Mr. Boehner is just not feeling it, and is allowing this gambit to force him into calling Obamacare "job destroying" rather than "job killing"? OMG! If this is true, what are you thinking, Sir! If you go down this path, where will it end? Outlawing Bugs Bunny cartoons because Elmer Fudd says, "Shhh! Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits." I'll say this, if Boehner and the Republicans continue to bend at any soft breeze, or continue failing to support conservative candidates like we saw last year, the Tea Party<b> must</b> kick the Republican Party to the curb, let it die a natural death, and start afresh. I'm sorry to say, I'm starting to believe that's where the Tea Party is being pushed.<br />
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Know this Mr. Boehner and all Republicans, the liberal socialist politician is <b>not</b> your friend and has no desire to compromise with you. So, grow some! Their agenda will <i>never</i> die as long as there is one socialist politician in a policy making position in this country. Yes, we are at war with communism in its attempt to destroy our traditional form of government. Unless their ideas and agenda are exposed, and totally discredited in the American political arena, there is a real and present danger to the principles of freedom and liberty this country was founded upon.</div>Red State Zombiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17027566465808295685noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4046538948780857796.post-23912847748471776502010-12-25T19:01:00.000-08:002013-10-23T23:35:52.525-07:00At what point does merit supersede affirmative action?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In my childhood, I always dreamed of being a professional athlete. I played football and baseball in high school. Though I was recruited to play football at a local college, my true love was basketball, a sport I did not play well in high school. I apparently lacked the requisite skills to play that particular sport and was not invited to play on the school basketball team.<br />
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It really was no fault of my own. In fact, some of the factors that made me good at football and baseball were a hindrance in basketball. I was cursed with short legs and a low center of gravity. I simply didn't have the necessary genetic make-up to excel at that sport. As I attended my high school basketball games as a spectator, I watched our basketball stars soar through the air as they slammed the ball home in dramatic form, and thought how unfair life was. Hold that thought.<br />
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This past week I attended my daughter's high school Christmas celebration, grateful my children could attend a high school that still allowed the season to be called Christmas. She was a member of the school's choir. As the program advanced, I was struck by the amount of apparent preparation and planning that went into the presentation by both student and faculty. I also noted the presence of three students who were obvious special-needs kids. They were on stage participating with the performing artists, and clearly performing well below the mean. Two looked to be having a load of fun wandering around the stage, singing on occasion and clapping their hands with the music, while the third didn't seem to be aware of much of anything. I'm sure their families were having a great time watching them on stage and thought their participation on the program a wonderful thing and good for their kids. For them, as well as some in the audience, no doubt it was all good. Not so much for me.<br />
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You may think me an uncaring bigot. I assure you, I'm not. While I have a great deal of respect and sympathy for the families of these kids, believing the over-all performance of the group was hindered by their presence causes me no small degree of guilt. They were distracting to the other kids, had no appreciable music skills to contribute to the performance, and their presence seemed some sort of nod to the surreal that - IMHO - detracted from the general performance. In short, it was like watching me in a Laker uniform.<br />
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I clearly understand the differences between a professional basketball team and a high school choir. But the experience brings a question to my mind. I see the above as metaphor that extends beyond the high school stage. At what point between the high school choir and the Los Angeles Lakers does merit and performance supersede affirmative action? Where is that line? Where can I see it? It seems to be an illusive point moving through politically correct space based solely on the perceptions of intellectual elitists that happen to find themselves in policy-making positions. Unfortunately, those policy makers are quite often our liberal socialists bent on hammering the majority of us into their socialist template where the majority loses their right to excellence to the minority definition of fairness. How unfair life truly is.</div>
Red State Zombiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17027566465808295685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4046538948780857796.post-63166910354628721102010-11-29T06:11:00.000-08:002011-05-10T11:10:18.707-07:00Perception is the mask that hides the monster<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">"What you see is what you get." How many of you believe in that old adage? Ever since Aaron Burr - America's first professional politician - put a lead ball into Alexander Hamilton, Americans have had to be more aware of what truly goes on behind the scenes in Washington, D.C. In our time, we need be similarly concerned with the dark machinations within the minds of our contemporary professional politicians. I believe that if the average American was privy to the behind closed doors conversations and intrigues that occur daily "in our best interest", they would be appalled. Maybe some folks would hang.<br />
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Let's consider the liberal socialists currently walking the hallowed halls of Congress today. What is their goal? How will they accomplish their agenda? They certainly cannot openly discuss the beauty of a Marxist State in a conservative leaning, capitalist country like the United States of America without damning themselves to electoral oblivion for quite sometime. How can they argue for the European socialist model they so dearly love when many European socialists are watching their countries burn down around them due to their very own failed liberal socialist policies of multiculturalism, social justice, and mandated wealth redistribution? There are fundamental reasons communism has failed in every country where it's been implemented. The answer is that our domestic communists must adopt a strategy of camouflage and obfuscation if they are to survive and further their socialist agenda. Satan often comes dressed in white.<br />
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The most effective lies are those that mingle some truth with the corruption. For example, there are some unfortunates within this country that legitimately need and would benefit from a government mandated health care system. However, those numbers would be shockingly small and easily managed through other means if an honest appraisal was made. These extreme cases, often cited by Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Reid, were the whitewash for the diabolical intent of the nationalization of the American Health Care industry<br />
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Since the goal of the liberal socialist is the incremental, yet complete control of all national wealth, they must magnify these needs and fears in order to foist their various programs on the people of this country. They will use the above model over and over again. They effectively seized the U.S. banking industry last year by following that model. Next, a series of disasters like the gulf oil spill, will provide the cover for the nationalization of the petroleum industry. Much touted environmental concerns will circumvent private property ownership through environmental law. They are even floating trial balloons regarding the seizure of our private retirement accounts. After all, retirement accounts are just too important to leave exposed to the ravages of an open market and private account managers.<br />
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A socialist paradigm does not work. It is a giant ponzi scheme that is in constant need of fresh capital to maintain the appearance of vitality while sucking the life from its host. Nancy and Harry need your wealth. Unfortunately, we are running short of the stuff. Recent turn of political events have given me some hope. The real hope. Not the faux hope Mr. Obama cleverly used as a campaign slogan in yet another stroke of the whitewash brush. I am anxious to see what the new congress will do starting in January. I've heard some rumor of a Repeal Amendment. The purpose of which is to give the states an opportunity to repeal federal legislation with a two-thirds vote. That will place power back with the states, where it belongs,and limit future federal encroachment on our freedoms.<br />
</div>Red State Zombiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17027566465808295685noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4046538948780857796.post-18466240687294168052010-11-12T00:22:00.000-08:002011-01-20T20:01:21.508-08:00The Five Pillars of Liberalism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">During my consideration of contemporary politics, I have noticed five <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">reoccurring</span></span> themes regarding liberal socialist thought. The <i><b>Five Pillars of Liberalism</b></i> detailed below, seem to capture the prevailing position taken by most every liberal socialist to which I have had the pleasure of conversing. I have put their collective thought into words, and organized them for your pleasure.</span></span><br />
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<div style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">1)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Scorn - America is bad</div><br />
In order for a world socialist workers utopia to have any chance at realization, the United States of America, as we know it, must cease to exist. The reason all prior communist revolutions have failed is because the United States of America, a minority of the world population, consumes the clear majority of the world’s resources. This consumption deprives non-Americans of their rightful portion of the world’s bounty, and keeps a majority of the world’s population in poverty.<br />
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</div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">2)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Diversity - Divide and conquer </div><br />
American exceptionalism, and the American identity must be attacked and broken down in order to expedite the conversion of The United States of America to a Marxist paradigm. Corruption of borders, mingling of language, and dilution of prevailing culture must be accomplished to these ends. <br />
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<div style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">3)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Hauteur - Few are fit to lead</div><br />
Expect the worst in people. People are stupid. They are incapable of any degree of independent, or intellectual thought. They must be told what to think. Words must be defined so people will understand them within the socialist model. Any political discussion must be limited to socialist themes. Any deviance from a socialist theme, or consideration of unorthodox thought, is undesirable. However, debate within any socialist theme should be as brisk as possible to further the movement (Chomsky). Few have the requisite intelligence to define words as they pertain to the revolution. Those who do will lead the masses, and their authority will be absolute. Political strategy should be based on the assumption people are stupid and will respond to greed, lethargy, and racism.<br />
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4) Hubris - Government is salvation<br />
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There is no God, but god. There can be no authority above that of the government. All vestiges and symbols of any higher authority must be purged from the public conscience. Religious fervor and devotion are serious obstacles to the revolution. Therefore, priestly functions must be infiltrated to add a revolutionary voice to the people’s communion to advance the liberal socialist agenda. Government is the final arbitrator, not God. <br />
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<div style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">5)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Ambition - Ends justify the means</div><br />
Those who dissent and resist do not understand the ultimate goal of the revolution. If they did, they would welcome the end result. Those voices must be overcome by any means necessary. Once the objective of the world socialist worker’s utopia has been achieved, all will understand the beauty, and forgive any transgressions perceived along the way. Any murder, theft, or lie may be forgiven by the grace offered through the victory of the masses.</div></div>Red State Zombiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17027566465808295685noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4046538948780857796.post-45471483008750378372010-11-06T22:04:00.000-07:002010-11-11T00:13:12.022-08:00Election-day mistakes aren't random<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span serif??,?serif??="" style="font-family: ';">As of late, I have been impressed with the number of electoral irregularities that have been reported during the past several election cycles. By electoral irregularities, I mean all these lost-and-found ballot boxes and bags, miscalibrated voting machines, judicial interventions, etc. Please understand, I am no mathematician or statistician, but I would think the very nature of any series of errors leading to those irregularities would be random, i.e. those errors would favor democrats and republicans equally. In fact, a decent dictionary definition of the word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">random </i>could be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a process of selection in which each item of a set has an equal probability of being chosen. </i>So, my argument would be it is mathematically impossible, over the long run, for either democrats or republicans to have a clear majority of electoral irregularities that benefit their candidate, unless someone's cheating. Unfortunately, that appears to be the case.</span><br />
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<span serif??,?serif??="" style="font-family: ';">I have conducted a non-scientific study of all the news reports I can find addressing voting irregularities since the Bush v. Gore Florida debacle. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I looked at reports from local, state, and national elections. I am not including any of the reports listed on Fox's voter fraud report web page because anyone can call in a report for inclusion, substantiated or not. I'm only including reports that turned out to be headline material. I’ll admit, the sample data is flawed since I cannot guarantee I have found all relevant reports. With that said, I have found fourteen reports of voting irregularities benefiting democratic candidates, and only two where republican candidates have been the beneficiaries. Though I beleive the Bush vs. Gore Florida recount to have been caused by a democrat attempt to steal the presidencey, I’m including the Supreme Court ruling resulting in the Bush Presidency among the two republican scenarios since Bush benefited from the decision. I am not including the Murkowski thing in Alaska. I do not consider Murkowski to be a republican, nor can I count her as a democrat – yet.</span><br />
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<span serif??,?serif??="" style="font-family: ';">I do <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">not </b>want to believe the democrats are manipulating the American electoral process as it seems they are. Democrats are Americans too, aren’t they? Tampering with the electoral process violates the law and the core beliefs most of America shares. Why would someone cheat the nation by illegal manipulation of the sacred voting process? So, can someone find and post any examples of voting irregularities benefiting republicans? I’ve already noted the Bush/Gore recount in Florida. Bring me something else. I need at least twelve examples for the math to work out for me and make things right in my world. I'm really into the whole seeking balance and order in the universe thing.</span></span></div>Red State Zombiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17027566465808295685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4046538948780857796.post-65641019138859653542010-11-04T01:24:00.000-07:002011-06-12T17:42:13.539-07:00Murkowski is a cheater, a traitor to her party, and shouldn’t be trusted - travels "Bridge to Nowhere"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In addition to potential theft of elected office I see in various parts of the country, the debacle in Alaska is turning my stomach. Lisa Murkowski has shown she is unworthy of any serious consideration as an elected official. Other than democrats, I’m actually shocked any appreciable number of Alaskans voted for her. She is the next self-promoting loser in the parade of blue-blood republicans willing to do whatever it takes to stay attached to the government teat. It is behavior I expect in a liberal socialist, and disappointed to see in a republican. Specter, Crist, and now Murkowski all put “self” above “service”. At least Crist had enough integrity to run as an independant. Not Murky. She knew she lacked the level of support she needed to beat Miller as an independant, so she turned the general election into a de facto second republican primary effectively opening the door for democrats to have a say in which of the two candidates <em><strong>they</strong></em> prefered . If establishment republicans, like Murkowski, adopt a continued strategy of running write-ins like this, i.e. running as a second republican , the TPM may be forced to become The Tea Party proper to protect their candidates. How would the republicans like that?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Knowing their candidate couldn’t win, and preferring a RINO over a proven conservative, I believe a large number of democrats “crossed over” to support the Murkowski write-in candidacy. That number may be large enough to keep Miller, the conservative candidate, out of the Senate. A combination of the democrat cross-over vote, combined with the Ted Stevens republican vote may be enough to do the trick, though Ms. Murkowski’s ego is likely unable to accept the possibility any potential win was provided by such a twist.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I really can’t blame the democrats who crossed over to vote for Murky. It was a smart move on their part. I would do the same thing if the roles were reversed. If the strategy proves to be successful, they will have eliminated a principled conservative in favor of a woman who has shown to be willing to place her own ambitions above anything else. She has proven to be the type of practical politician that liberal socialists are comfortable working with in Washington, D.C. And believe me, after hiking her skirt like that, the Dems will come courting.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If Ms. Murkowski is seated, I would say to Senate republicans – beware. Though Ms. Murkowski says she will caucus with republicans, she has shown she cannot be trusted to stay within established practices and traditions. I don’t believe it a far stretch to fear she is capable of switching parties if something pretty is dangled in front of her. If she is successful in her write-in campaign, she will have cheated her party out of their candidate of choice and robbed Americans of a much needed conservative voice in Congress at a critical time.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
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<span serif??,?serif??="" style="font-family: ';">As I stayed up late on election night watching results pour in from across the nation, many thoughts crossed my mind. I was impressed by the rarity of what I was witnessing. In less than two short years, a unique grassroots political movement sprouted from the on-air rant of an American business reporter and grew to a fearsome stature. Also interesting was the ever-present ramblings of political commentators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some were socialists, some were conservative, and some were clueless.</span><br />
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<span serif??,?serif??="" style="font-family: ';">It seemed liberal socialist commentary fixated upon the O’Donnell and Angle races like they were deciding the fate of the universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps, in the pundit’s minds they were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smugly calling the two women “tea party candidates”, liberal after liberal proclaimed a rejection of tea party extremism while they downplayed other tea party backed candidates who were successful elsewhere in the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure the MSM will spend the next several days in detailed analysis determining exactly how badly tea party credibility was hurt by the losses in Nevada and Delaware, and what it means to the future of the failing TPM movement.</span><br />
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<span serif??,?serif??="" style="font-family: ';">Some so called conservative commentators failed to do much better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many republicans rued the candidacies of O’Donnell and Angle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently, if the two women had not been backed by the TPM, and not won their primary contests, better candidates would have emerged enabling the republicans to win the ten seats necessary for a Senate majority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They blamed the intransient “ideological purity” of the tea partiers for the trouble, which got me to thinking…what benefit does intransient ideological purity bring to the fight? Several benefits come to mind, but space will allow for only a brief exploration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span serif??,?serif??="" style="font-family: ';">To begin with, I see a rejection of the idea of a practical politician: a man or woman who lacks any core beliefs, or integrity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Washington is already full of elected officials who seek to further their ambitions and protect personal viability at the expense of what’s best for the people they represent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How’s that good for the future of our country?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, does that explain why the tea party would support candidates opposing RINOs in their local primaries even if the tea party candidate appears to be the weaker of the two in the general?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why are they willing to sacrifice a candidacy to the “greater good”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe the answer is not that elusive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has immediate positive effects on republicans, and long term negative effects for democrats.</span><br />
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<span serif??,?serif??="" style="font-family: ';">As for how the democrats are affected, the DNC viewed the Nevada contest as a battle between Obama and the tea party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Period: end of story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perception is paramount to the liberal socialist. Perception is the mask that hides the monster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They couldn’t allow Mr. Reid, the face of Obama’s policies, to be defeated by a neobarb (new barbarian) “tea party candidate”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t imagine the amount of money and personnel hours spent in Nevada saving Reid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s money and time pulled from a dozen democrat candidates across the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of those candidates risked their jobs in supporting the Obama agenda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, pulling cash from those candidates made the news cycle recently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were sacrificed on Obama's alter to save a single figurehead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saving Reid was practical politics at its worst.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The final landscape of this election is much different because of the Angle candidacy alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ripples of that action will damn the democrats for years to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No democrat candidate will trust the national party with any verve, and any democrat elected to Congress will be less likely to support a party line vote on a return promise because of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span serif??,?serif??="" style="font-family: ';">Republicans have learned, through their primary experience, they must refrain from practicing practical politics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No playing the ear mark game, or reaching across the aisle like Bennett (R-Utah) so loved to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lesson there: you probably won’t survive your state’s primary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O’Donnell helped to teach the republicans that lesson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The TPM caused all republicans to take a hard look at themselves, and to take stock in their core principles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will be better for it.</span><br />
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<span serif??,?serif??="" style="font-family: ';">To both women, I say thank you for your service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a rare thing for a person to be willing to endure what those two have in the service of others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span serif??,?serif??="" style="font-family: ";">A further breakdown of polling data indicates major shifts within the dead demographic. While interest among groups traditionally supporting democrat candidates remains strong, even dead conservatives now seem poised to cast votes for democratic candidates on Tuesday.</span><br />
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<span serif??,?serif??="" style="font-family: ";">Senator Harry Reid said about the development, “I’m pleased with the news, obviously. I can’t just rely on the voting-machine gremlins at this point. While we have traditionally enjoyed support from the lifeless in prior election cycles, any additional bump right now would be welcome.” Senator Reid was not alone in his enthusiasm. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) reports in a recent press release, “…launching a major get-out-the-vote project to allow for maximum voter participation.” SEIU representatives said they plan on canvassing morgues, obituaries, and cemeteries throughout the country to uncover any likely voters. The SEIU press release further states, “If we can find enough dead voters, maybe we can have a positive impact on some of these close races. If we’re polling within two points on Tuesday, we can win it.”</span><br />
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<span serif??,?serif??="" style="font-family: ";">The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is publically supporting the SEIU effort. ACLU public affairs staff warns, “Any attempts by the far-right fringe to disenfranchise voters will be met with aggressive legal action. The integrity of the American electoral process must be preserved.” When asked if the dead vote could help turn the election around for the democrats, an ACLU attorney cautioned, "Referring to them as <em><span serif??,?serif??="" style="font-family: ";">dead</span></em> simply plays into the far-right's attempts at marginalizing Americans that don't breathe. In my opinion, that's a form of hate speech. Please refer to them as metabolically challenged."</span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Rarely has the political differences dividing our country been so stark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certainly, the antebellum period prior to the Civil War was such a time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Civil War itself remaining a clear reminder of what happens when political policies and actions are taken to extremes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two very different interpretations of the 10<sup>th</sup> Amendment, protectionism of northern industry the Confederacy viewed as biased against southern agriculture, and a popular abolitionist movement in the north proved to be a volatile combination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rest is, well, history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Please, no flames - I know the causes of the Civil War were more complex and varied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the interest of space, I listed just a few.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Today, there are political policies and actions that can be readily perceived as extreme. Warning to my readers, I have chosen sides and this article will reflect those affections. Certainly, the liberal socialists currently in power in the United States of America will view any political action contrary to their socialist catechism as an “extreme movement”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s in Alinsky’s book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s why one can see pure vitriol reviling any conservative, or the tea party movement, spewing forth from Washington and their supporting media organs on any given day. The Republican Party, such as it is of late, has been tamed or bought off and is not esteemed by our liberal socialists as much of a threat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the tea party…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The tea party represents a clear and present danger to all that Karl Marx holds dear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a focused, moving target, comprised of possibly thousands of sub-units acting in concert to abolish the socialist cancer that has started to metastasize into an inoperable state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tea party is like chemotherapy or radiation in that regard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is flowing through the American body politic via the Republican Party not because tea partiers hold the GOP in any particular esteem; the GOP is simply the path of least resistance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The liberal socialists know it will be easier to catch wind in a bottle than to stop a grass roots movement by the masses of this magnitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll bet they are currently enduring a gut wrenching jealously that such a populist movement, which reminds some of them of their heady anti-war days during the 1960s, is not fueled by socialist revolutionary zeal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The perception of these liberal socialists can become a significant problem when considered within the template of their primary world view – “that if only everyone could see the end result of our work…the beauty of our new world socialist worker’s utopia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then they would understand what were working towards and agree that any means necessarily employed along the way was well worth it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know about you, but that frightens me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What will such an animal do when faced with extinction?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hide? Fight?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kill? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">World history has answered that question and shown us the extremes of communism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Manifesting itself in this country, the above world view has given us Sandy Berger stealing documents from the National Archives; a liberal socialist President committing adultery in the Oval Office; dead people voting; reports of voting machines rigged to vote “D” when the lever for “R” is pulled; cigarettes, food, and cash traded for votes; shill tea party candidates placed on ballots to confuse voters and steal votes intended for another; disenfranchised overseas military voters while non-Americans vote; reports of a liberal socialist candidate’s name appearing already checked on ballots in Nevada;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a liberal socialist narrowly elected as Governor of the State Washington thanks to more votes cast in King County than there were registered voters; union thugs posing as tea partiers beating up an old black man in an attempt to frame the tea party as racist; socialist New Black Panther Party activists threatening voters at a polling place with impunity; the list could go on, and on. How do they live with themselves, you ask? It's all in their world view: the philosophy of the ends justifying the means.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Do we live in a country of political extremes?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d say so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does the future hold for our country?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish I knew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do fear “We the people” have not been vigilant during our stewardship. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We should have not let the problems get this far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are the last of the checks and balances built into our political system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re awake now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s get out there on November 2 and push that tsunami home.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What I find most interesting about the topic is the extent to which potential 2012 presidential contenders seem willing to go to harness the tea party momentum. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It reminds me of when I was in high school, and a hot new girl transfers in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the suave “chick magnets” come out and start busting a move.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes two or three adolescents at a time would be lurking nearby, waiting for an opportunity to get her attention. Some resourceful suitors would give little gifts, open doors, or promise to take her to “really cool places” on dates. Others, more sophisticated, would resort to flattery and guile.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What they usually found was the hot girl, the object of their adoration and/or lust, already had a life of her own and had other plans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was already dating a college football player, or some pro hockey player.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Preppy</span> school boys simply held little or no appeal.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Anyone following contemporary American politics knows the names of most GOP presidential hopefuls looking to 2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have my favorites, but I believe any would be preferable to what currently sits in the Whitehouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My advice to any GOP presidential candidate looking to court the tea party passion -- beware;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>she may be too hot to handle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tea partiers are a savvy group. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason they <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">are </i></b>tea partiers is because they know they are beautiful; they are tired of all the pick-up lines that have been tossed their way over the years; they have been promised presents and taken to places they did not want to go; and have been caressed in the night by lotharios only to be abandoned the following day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you seek a relationship with the tea party, the best strategy if you are a true conservative, is to be yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Others need not apply. </span>If the tea party gets the idea that you are posing, or playing them, 2012 is over for you.</span></div>Red State Zombiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17027566465808295685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4046538948780857796.post-20040856856489595652010-10-22T20:09:00.001-07:002011-07-02T22:55:00.632-07:00Diversity vs. E Pluribus Unum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Diversity. What a pleasant sounding word. I see colorful posters bearing the word placed in prominence around the office where I work. I often see the word applied in noble motto: “Strength in Diversity” or “Celebrate Diversity”. What a lovely sentiment. What could be wrong with that? I am a German American, whose original German-born ancestor arrived in the United States of America in 1853 following the death of his first wife. I’m quite sure his life in Germany was shattered. He came to America destitute, with small children in tow. He remarried an Ohio woman and settled in the fertile fields of Illinois to continue his life as a farmer. I have an appreciation for Oktoberfest that may well be genetic. I’m sure my love of the food is at any rate. Growing up in the South-West, I also dearly love the Cinco de Mayo celebration (also for the food and drink – Mexican food is the bomb!). I often found myself in the racial minority on some of the streets where I grew up. My first serious girlfriend in High School was a Latina. Is that what “Celebrate Diversity” means? Successfully living and working alongside those who are different than us? That’s what it may seem, unless you think about it a bit more.<br />
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I believe those of the liberal persuasion who find themselves in contemporary positions of power and policy making (i.e. the guys who write the quaint sayings) could define “Diversity” as a variety or multiformity based on a point or respect in which things differ. It's not that simple. In socialist political theory, diversity is the strength of the masses as derived from the individual socio-ethnic, economic, and racial class from which the individual comes; the greater those differences, the greater the power of the masses. Unfortunately, there are some among us who seek to empower themselves by promoting and harnessing those differences. The greater the differences, or needs of the individual, the greater their value to the liberal society or politician. I believe this definition is one of the pillars of liberalism, and the clear antithesis to the original spirit of E Pluribus Unum as promoted by our Founding Fathers.<br />
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I have found that for every lovely idea or mechanism that exists in the physical world there is a diabolical counterfeit intended to obfuscate the intent and values embodied in the original. In the world of politics I’ve noticed the counterfeits are most often foisted upon us by those promoting elitist multicultural materialism (liberals). Charitable giving is replaced with government mandated wealth redistribution; the church is replaced by the state as the source of divine authority; and the “village” replaces the family as the primary nurturing force for our children. Diversity is simply another diabolical counterfeit. <br />
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On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress empaneled a committee to oversee the design of a Great Seal of the United States of America. A number of suggestions were considered, with input by Benjamin Franklin and Charles Thomson. The Latin motto E Pluribus Unum was ultimately approved for inclusion on the obverse of the seal. Its translation closely means “Out of many, one”. It also describes an action of “Many uniting into one”. Charles Thomson said the motto refers to the union of states, but I believe the ideal of E Pluribus Unum could go beyond that. If the states comprise the nation, it can be said that the people comprise the states.<br />
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My best friend in High School is second generation American. His father legally came to the United States just in time to enlist in the U.S. Army during World War Two. Following the war, this man worked and put himself through college earning a B.S. Degree in Engineering. Following graduation, he secured a life-time job as an aero-space engineer in Southern California. I remember this father not allowing his children to speak Spanish in their home claiming, “You’re Americans now! Speak English!” At the time, I thought that was a bit harsh, and that learning Spanish would be an advantage for someone living in California. But, their father greatly valued the United States more than his origins, and was more than willing to place all he had upon her alters. In fact, my friend recently retired from the United States Air Force following a successful career as a bomber pilot. All those siblings consider themselves Americans, first and foremost. I never saw anyone in this family look back after coming to this country. <br />
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As for my German ancestor, he enlisted in the 15th Illinois Cavalry, United States Army when the Civil War broke out in 1861. He campaigned in the western theater until he suffered a debilitating injury. His grandson fought in France during World War One, against Germany. Later, many on my “German side of the family” fought during World War Two, several again fighting in Europe. And me? I did my bit in Iraq.<br />
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The ultimate point of this rodomontade is simply this; I believe this country is being torn apart by diverse groups seeking their own vain ambitions. Being an American is no longer as important as achieving those ambitions. The extensive entitlement state that attracts dead weight must be eliminated quickly and efficiently if we are to have a chance at pulling out of the current nose dive. I’m all for giving anyone who wants to be an American a chance at that dream, but they have to truly want to be American and understand what that means. Remember “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”</div>Red State Zombiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17027566465808295685noreply@blogger.com0