Losing My Religion

Once there was a place known as America
where all were said to be free.

A place where many millions came to build
their homes and live in harmony.

For many years in this place known as America

did the good people freely worship the God they could plainly see.
For He gave unto all that lived here
a good life and great prosperity.

What has happened recently to this place known as America

is almost unbelievable to me.
No longer do we live by the rule of law
but instead by judicial decree.

Anyone who knows the origins of this place known as America
understands this was never the way it was meant to be.
Our founding fathers went to great pains in writing the laws
to ensure that we would always enjoy liberty.

But what has happened today in this place known as America
is there for all to plainly see.
The religious freedom of millions stolen away;
what else can it be but TYRANNY?

ONE OF US IS LYING

DEMOCRATIC PARTY RACIAL POLITICS IN ACTION

Regardless of the issue - from immigration to ObamaCare - Democrats, with the complicity of the liberal media, demonize as racist average Americans who oppose their socialist agenda and are unhappy about how President Barack Obama and the Democrats in control of Congress are ruining our economy with massive deficit spending.

Incredibly, Democrats even stoop to condemning as racist anyone who dares to engage in philosophical discussions about the constitutional limitations on federal powers - just ask Rand Paul who dared to voice the fact that a few aspects of the 1964 Civil Rights Act lacked constitutional authority.

Ron Paul

Lost in the media-generated firestorm designed to falsely paint Ron Paul as a racist and derail his bid for US President is any discussion about the reason why civil rights laws were necessary in the first place - Democratic Party racism.

In his new book, "Whites Blacks & Racist Democrats", Wayne Perryman provides startling details about racism in the Democratic Party from 1792 to 2009.  Perryman describes how the Democratic Party became known as the "Party of White Supremacy" that fought to preserve slavery and enacted discriminatory laws to deny civil rights to blacks.

Wayne Perryman

Included in Perryman's book are facts about how the Republican Party that was founded in 1854 as "The Anti-Slavery Party" became the party of freedom and equality for blacks.  Republicans fought to end slavery; amended the U.S. Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote; and pushed to enact every piece of civil rights legislation from the 1860's to the 1960's over the objection of the Democrats.

Perryman brought to light the 1875 Civil Rights Act, the first law that dealt with accommodations and equality and was passed by a Republican-dominated Congress.  To their eternal shame, Democrats in 1883 convinced the United States Supreme Court to declare the 1875 Civil Rights Act as "unconstitutional."  Eleven years later in 1894, Democrats passed the 1894 Repeal Act to overturn the previous civil rights legislation passed during Reconstruction by Republicans.

Senator Olin Johnson

Perryman also revealed that in 1964 while debating the accommodations portion of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Democrat Senator Olin Johnson of South Carolina argued: "Mr. President, this is the blackest day in the U.S. Senate since 1875, when the Congress passed a Civil Rights bill similar to this one.  It was 89 years ago that the [Republican] Congress passed the nefarious Reconstruction era Civil Right laws, identical with what we are now discussing, which were later declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.  The Senate, if it passes this measure before us, will be compounding that unconstitutional error made back in 1875.  I predict that this bill will never be enforced without turning our nation into a police state and without the cost of bloodshed and violence..."

Ignored by the media today, as they attempt to paint all Republicans as racist, is the fact that Jim Crow laws were enacted by Democrats to force private businesses to refuse services to blacks.  Those Jim Crow laws were in violation of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which states, in part:  "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."  The entire text of section 1 of the 14th Amendment is below.

It is rank hypocrisy for the liberal press to give Democrats, including former Klansman Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, a pass for their real racism, while attacking Rand Paul, labeling him as a racist for his theoretical musings about the 1964 Civil Rights Act.  In essence, Paul, who said he detested racism in any form, wondered whether other means, such as boycotts, may have been effective in forcing an end to non-governmental racial discrimination.  Paul focused on the fact that the 14th Amendment to U.S. Constitution provides the federal government only with the power to stop racial discrimination by state and local governments.

Our nation will continue to be divided along racial lines until we bring an end to the Democrats' despicable race-baiting by holding Democrats accountable for their racism - past and present.

Amendment 14 - Citizenship Rights. Ratified 7/9/1868.

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.  

Who You Calling "Muslim"?

The issue of Barack Obama's religion flared up before the 2008 presidential election and seems likely to do so again in anticipation of the one in November 2012. This weblog entry keeps an eye on the discussion, in reverse chronological order:

Rev. Franklin Graham 

Muslims see Obama's as a Muslim. In an exchange with the Rev. Franklin Graham, asked whether he believes Barack Obama is a Christian, replied: "You have to ask that of President Obama."

Graham then noted that Obama has shown strong empathy toward Muslims, and that the president has an Islamic background. "Under Islamic law, under Shariah law, Islam sees him as a son of Islam, because his father was a Muslim, his grandfather was a Muslim, his great-grandfather was a Muslim. So under Islamic law, the Muslim world sees President Obama as a Muslim, as a son of Islam. That's just the way it works. That's the way they see him."

Raymond Ibrahim 

Asked whether he believes Obama is "categorically not a Muslim," Graham said, "I can't say categorically because Islam has gotten a free a pass under Obama." He also argued that Obama's Middle East policies help Islamists while hurting Christian minorities. Raymond Ibrahim assesses the validity of Graham's statement at "Obama: 'Son of Islam'?" and concludes that it is "absolutely right."

Santorum press secretary accuses Obama of "radical Islamic policies": Alice Stewart appeared on an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Feb. 20 during which she criticized what she called Obama's "radical environmentalist policies." One time, however, she referred to "the radical Islamic policies the president has."

Stewart quickly called her to clarify that she had misspoken. Stewart called only moments later—while the show was on the air—to say she regretted the slip of the tongue, and to please note that she had misspoken and did not realize until it was pointed out to her that she had used the word "Islamic" by mistake.

So Barack,  Please, tell us one more time in your own words 

Obama is not religiously Muslim. Culturally, though...well, that's a different matter altogether. In reality, calling Obama a "Muslim" gives him too much credit. We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end." The truth, however, is that few people have thought thoroughly and to a definite end. And Obama is no exception. He hasn't even thought matters through enough to understand the folly of statism. Even more to the point, he is a moral relativist, a position the antithesis of any absolutist faith. Inherent in Islam is that belief that Allah, not man, has authored right and wrong and that, consequently, it isn't a matter of opinion. Thus, Obama cannot truly believe in Islam -- or in Christianity or Judaism, for that matter.

How do I know Obama is a relativist? It's simple: Virtually all leftists are, as the denial of moral reality that is relativism lies at the heart of liberalism.

Adolf Hitler 

Speaking of relativists, this matter of Obama's "faith" much reminds me of Adolf Hitler and paganism. Like Obama, Hitler sometimes feigned a belief in Christianity, but in reality he held the religion in contempt. He believed it was "the greatest trick the Jews ever played on Western civilization" and lamented that it was not a warrior creed like Islam or the ancient Germanic paganism with which the Nazis wanted to replace Christianity, Yet while Hitler's second in command, Heinrich Himmler, certainly believed in the ancient pagan myths -- going so far as to launch expeditions to the Far East to prove them, it's silly to think that the leader himself viewed them as anything but a utilitarian device. He wasn't quite that romantic.

Heinrich Himmler 

But what about culturally? For sure, Hitler preferred seeing Swastikas and runes (respectively, pagan symbols and letters) to crosses and crèches, rebuilt Germanic pagan temples to churches. That was where his passions lay. (If some are upset at a comparison between Hitler and Obama, know that I haven't called the president a National Socialist, yet. He's an international socialist. 

Obama also has passions, and there is no question as to where they lie. Our President continues to openly praise Islam; he bows to Muslim leaders; he claims that the Muslim call to prayer is "the most beautiful sound in the world;" he regularly quotes from the Koran and cites it for directing his life; ...

In the past year alone he made a big deal out of hosting a celebratory dinner to open the month of Ramadan -- held in the state dining room; he refused to attend the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts (an avowed Christian organization), and, refused to attend the National Day of Prayer because he claimed to do so would be offensive to non-Christians.

Obama's Boyhood school

He spent some of his formative years in the world's most populous Muslim country, Indonesia, where he was registered as a Muslim in both schools he attended and sometimes prayed on Fridays in a mosque. Moreover, there is another factor, one most people don't consider.

As many know, there once was a great boxer named Cassius Clay. He converted to Islam in 1964, seemingly bothered that Jesus was portrayed as "a white with blond hair and blue eyes," as he put it, and took the name "Muhammad Ali." Of course, the irony of this is that despite being intensely aware of his slave roots, Ali rejected the name of an abolitionist (Clay) and took the name of a slave-owner (Muhammad). It also perhaps eluded him that Christians were the first ones to outlaw slavery, while Muslims give black Africans rope and chains to this day.

But I mention this because Ali's path is a common one in the black community; it is why we've long had the Black Muslims and why Islamic names are so common among American blacks. Many blacks have bought the bill of goods that Christianity is the white man's religion, the faith of oppressors. And they embrace Islam as part of a rejection of "white" society.

Obviously, being part of this milieu could only have reinforced Obama's affinity for things Muslim and antipathy for things authentically Christian -- of which Western civilization is one. And if Americans hadn't been brainwashed with political correctness, they would understand this. With foreign and domestic Muslim influence; attendance at a Black Liberation Theology, pseudo-Christian church; and alliances with ex-terrorists and declared communists, Obama perfectly fits the profile of an America-hater. The wolf never really wore sheep's clothing; it's just that Americans had wool pulled over their eyes.

As for Obama's eyes, they cannot look heavenward when they're so busy looking down on little people who "cling to guns and religion." I sense that Obama is a certain kind of person, one much like Hitler -- who wanted to create a new German pagan religion with himself at its center -- in a particular sense. This type of person essentially says the following to God: "The universe just isn't big enough for the two of us." And his little world certainly isn't, filled to all corners as it is with his bloated, power-hungry ego. This, by the way, has been acknowledged by more honest secularists. For example, Friedrich Nietzsche, the 19th-century poster boy for atheism who is rumored to have been a philosopher (in reality, he is someone who helped discredit the field), once said through his version of Zarathustra, "If there were gods, how could I endure it to be no God? Therefore there can be no gods." I have a feeling that Obama cannot endure it to be no god.

It is, again, unwise to give Obama too much credit. Good faith is defined as "an act of the will informed by the intellect," and any kind of faith requires submission to something higher than yourself. Obama is neither that intellectual nor that humble. But all humans have passions, and his aren't hard to discern. He is anti-American, anti-Western, anti-Christian (the traditional variety), anti-white, and anti-life. He is more comfortable dining with Bill Ayers than with the Queen of England, more internationalist than nationalist, and perhaps more at home in Dar al-Islam than Dar al-Harb. He has lived abroad and traveled much, but he is a lover of nations like a Casanova is a lover of women: He has known many but loves, and is faithful to, none -- not even the one to which he should be married. He is a cultural traitor, and as Cicero said two thousand years ago, "A murderer is less to be feared."  

Is war between Israel and Iran inevitable?

Israel and the world is edging closer, everyday, to an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. 

Completely disgusted with the Obama Regime’s “pretty please” approach to diplomacy with Iran, and frustrated with the US government’s “hovering” and insistence that Israel notify the US before any such attack, Israel is leaning forward and chomping at the bit to make the hit and make it ASAP. 

An Israeli drone capable of reconnaissance, surveillance, and attack, that crashed on a test flight over Israel recently.  News reports of the incident resulted in tensions being raised one more notch.

Heron TP

The Israeli drone, a Heron TP, has a range of well over 4,000 miles.  Iran is roughly 1,000 miles from Israel.

The Heron is a BIG airplane.  It has a wingspan nearly equal to that of a 737 Airliner, approximately 85 feet. It can carry a payload of well over a ton.

According to a report in the Washington Times the Heron TP, which soars as high as 40,000 feet, would likely play a key role in an attack on Iran.  The plane can be utilized for recon and surveillance or “for firing rockets, and can be used in a variety of missions such as aerial refueling, jamming communications and relaying ground control in Israel to manned aircraft over a distant target.

The Heron TP is not a new aircraft.  It has been in service for at least two years.

While Israel feels pressure from Iran, it also must keep an eye over it’s should watching the “New” Egyptian government. Egypt’s recently elected parliament has said it has no intention of renewing the its long standing peace treaty with Israel. To Israel’s north, Syria is in flames with Assad’s government slaughtering its citizens in a near Syrian civil war.

Assad

It is not outside the realm of possibility that Assad, Syria’s dictator, could stir up trouble with its southern neighbor, Israel, to redirect the attention of its people and take some of the pressure off Syria’s unpopular government.

Israel is in a world of trouble with threats from all sides -- not including the so-called Palestinians, who are, in fact, Arabs, from Jorden. They are pushing the UN to carve a Palestinian state out of Israeli land.

The entire Middle East is in flames with a regional war almost certain in the immediate future.  Any “regional” war in the Middle East, will, of necessity, involve most of the industrialized nations of the west – including the US and the UK.  The Middle East is, of course, the source of much of the world’s oil and that oil must continue to flow even if the price is paid, as it almost certainly will be, in blood.





Here in America, we are confused at our government’s downsizing of the US military.  It makes no sense.  We are on the cusp of a war that has the potential to make the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and even Libya, look like Sunday school picnics.

I have a theory as to why Obama is pushing this draw down of the US military.  It is far-fetched, I grant you, but the Obama Regime is a past master at utterly stupid decision making, so this theory is as good as anyone else’s – at the moment.

Hypothetically, just suppose, the idea is to allow the Middle East to engage in a war with very little involvement by the US. It would most likely be a protracted war that would reduce the flow of oil to a trickle.  That would send oil prices and fuel prices for transportation, fuel to heat our homes, and the myriad other uses we have for petroleum products astronomically high.

Americans would, of necessity, be forced to cut back on oil consumption.  That would, supposedly, be good for the environment. Of course, our economy would collapse entirely and set the stage for a takeover of the American government by socialists who will provide a way to “restore” America -- as a socialist country.

Far-fetched, you say?  Really?  Is it really THAT far-fetched?  Think about it:  These are leftists, Marxists, socialists, communists, democrats, anarchists, and yes, environmentalist.  We have come to believe that environmentalism is nothing more than a religion based on Marxism.

Remember:  Just because it is a conspiracy theory doesn’t mean there isn’t a conspiracy.

The US is about to be drawn into a near world war – and we are cutting back our military?   This entire scenario lends itself to all sorts of conspiracy theories.  I’m sure you have your own.

In the meantime, the Obama Regime is allowing our only friend in the region, Israel, to hang out there, twisting in the wind, feeling for all the world like a sacrificial lamb.

Yes, a war between Israel and Iran is on the agenda.  It could be months away, or it could be before sunrise tomorrow. And it could be a nuclear war.

Identifying The Big Government Mindset

Liberal, Big Government and propagandistic point of view, interestingly, but not surprisingly, has absolutely no free market suggestions or ideas in any of it's plans for America that I have been able to find, anywhere ... none. I do see and hear a-lot of Soros-style “Open Society” stuff, and nonsense about a “need for a new economic model,” and the notion that we are all in the same global pot. This is all bull-crap to me.

 To my mind, the only people with a real and genuine right to complain about the current mess are true Conservatives who have been predicting this collapse and warnings about Keynesian or "Fascist" economics and “Syndicalism Capitalism” since the last Great Depression.

We dissenters have been called lunatics, mean-spirited, uninformed and worse. [Name-calling is the trade of those who can’t think.] After all ...  as FDR famously quipped [I paraphrase],” ... we only owe this money to ourselves.” Well, not any more! 

The spending habits of big government, like Frank-Dodd manipulations of Fannie-Mae/Freddie-Mac and other market redistribution regulations helped create this "New Soft Depression" contrary to what you've been told that it was the fault of Capitalism. Free Market manipulation and regulation by Central Banks and Big Government programs and Labor unions are the problem. Workers are the “everyday heroes”  of this nations economic engine.

I have a few more musings from another point of view. Just call me silly, but is this not all a re-hash of redistributionist Marxism fighting against Fascism? Is this not the old 20th Century “Middle Way” Fascism repackaged for a faux “battle of ideas” with new improved Marxism identified now as the environmentalist protectors of Earth? Only the one side is presented. This is what Obama does too. As long as you want to bring only Socialist ideas to the table, he will discuss them; otherwise, go fish! Red Herring. Shibboleth. Potemkin. “Iceland Spring.” Call it whatever you want. It is brainwashing and deceit at its best. It is the remnant struggle between the “Ancient Regime” with mid-Nineteenth Century “Liberal” [early Marxist-Collectivist] uprisings throughout Europe.

Old reporting of old ideas to cover cyclic events with the same old Marxist-anarchist solutions. It is nothing new under the sun. Still blaming the same villains, still spurring the same dead horse; now there is a new, young generation of deceived people even further removed from the horrendous wars fought by these very same antagonists with very similar results beginning in the 18th century. How anyone can repeat the same mistakes and think that the way out of the mess is the same road on which we came in, i.e., more of the same? Well, who are the crazy ones here?

This is not about economic justice at all. These Elites could care less about “economic justice” [whatever that is]. It is just the old utopian arguments. The real solution to problems involves deconstruction of the Nanny State, a return to sound fiscal discipline, and the removal of many regulations over Free Market Enterprise. That Nanny State” system will die hard in Europe, because we [the USA] pampered and protected Europe for 70 years after World War II to keep them at peace. But, when they get hungry, cold and angry enough there will be some collectivist revolt [Leftists always take it to the streets] Let me bring this fact home to you "Occupy Wall Street".

There will be death, hunger and perhaps a “Thermidor” period for reconstruction where the “winner” swoops in with government “Guardians” to the rescue. They, and we, are still in denial if we buy this stuff. For reasons already known to the perspicacious among us, Americans are being lured to this very same class warfare and welfare strife in America [with a healthy dose of race-baiting thrown in] so that Obama’s  “Fundamental Transformation” can be completed in one term, or have you not been paying attention?

Maurice Strong

Prepare for Obama's re-election campaign. Expect more of them from Big Brother, whether in print format or on the nightly news. It is all very clever collectivist revolutionary propaganda. I’d wager that Maurice Strong and George Soros have some skin in this game ... even if they aren’t mentioned out loud, or interviews, or their ideas discussed in a public context.

George Soros

 I also didn’t notice George Soros or Maurice Strong or Warren Buffet or any other of the world’s wealthiest in the cast of villains that are destroying the economies of nations. Soros has been instrumental in hurting the American markets with his Hedge Fund maneuverings, just as he did before in Britain. There are thousands of profession Hedge Funds and day traders bleeding Mom & Pop investors dry by “shorting” the market and controlling/dominating commodities. When you control or manipulate that much of the capital, there are eventually fewer investors ... just a casual observation.

One might be surprised how many leaders, self-annointeds, and hangers-on would “sell Granny short” in order to be part of the privileged class of apparatchiks. The “Marketeers” and predatory banking interests and elites learned well from Metternich, Napoleon, Hegel, Mussolini, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao how to be ruthless and without conscience for the “greater good”, after all, we have heard our leaders quote and praise these people. 

Still, I am not too much into buying the whole conspiracy thing. This is because I do think these folks operate largely in the open. They tell us what they are doing by their actions. They are careful not to be conspiracists. Some of the involved people could be hapless products of the “Peter Principle but I doubt it.” Most of a Fascist mindset, constructing an “American Syndicalism.” Other, including certain bankers and insurance moguls, are simply greedy or otherwise bottom-lined oriented, or tied in with other bigger entities who have an Open Society world vision several steps removed.

The fact that this big bauble always gets hung around Bush’s neck is largely visual sophistry. George W. Bush is culpable to a much lesser degree than Obama. Obama is but the American instrument in a consortium of power-brokers who pose as philanthropists to redistribute wealth for the Open Society. But the President is not “Mr. Big” here. Still, we could be working our way out of this mess, just as Canada is now doing, if we were not saddled with Obama, Reid and Pelosi and the trillions of dollars sent down the rat hole of Keynesian fictions.  Did we learn anything from the failed New Deal of 1931-1940? Apparently not! This garbage is still being taught as economic salvation in HS and College texts by Leftist teachers and Professors and I know this for a fact, i'm a teacher. Simply amazing.


George Soros: Open Society Faces Chinese Hostility by FORAtv


The Open Society folks have their power and position. They do not realize that the most of the American People still treasure freedom more than security, bread, or circus. Still, we must beware. Civilization is but a thin veneer. That fine line tread between civilization today is maintained not through finance ministers and bankers, but through power brokers like Strong and Soros who bring countries to their knees by leveraging their market savvy into political power to carry out their own vision. When collapse is imminent, they ride on to the rescue posing as wise men. Even certain “Conservative” news outlets continue to report Soros’ thoughts as if he is an oracle. He is not. He and others are playing sorcerer’s apprentice right now. They just think that they know what happens next. They think they are able to keep it from going down the tubes. They can’t play the balancing act and deception forever.

It is up to free-thinking, constitutionally oriented leaders in this next election to point out and lead us back on the path to economic freedom, freedom from bureaucratic domination, freedom from government intimidation, demagoguery and fear mongering. If we are ever going to recover freedom, we had better be able to start viewing all such media programs with a clear thinking mind and a good understanding of our American freedoms, or we are finished. See the Emperor in his new clothes. Modern Liberalism, Socialism and Fascism are not synonymous with Freedom.

The 2012 Up-In-The-Air Report

We have, in case you've not noticed, a Presidential election brewing throughout most of 2012.  (It already seems this has gone on way too long.)

Iran continues to make itself more and more likely to experience some kind of action being taken against it.  The way in which Iran's leaders are behaving, it seems they wish for such action to be taken against them.  If it isn't threatening the U.S. Navy so far as passing through the Strait of Hormuz, it is the announcement that full scale uranium enrichment is going on under a mountain in southern Iran.  If it isn't testing a new missile that can reach Israel or U.S. military installations, it is finding an American citizen guilty of spying without benefit of anything approaching an open trial as we know open trials.

 Ahmadinejad tours uranium enrichment facility 

Much of the world's oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz and that is being threatened with Iran saying it will close the Strait.  The Strait is quite narrow and could be disrupted by sinking multiple oil carriers.  If nothing else, the economy of the world would be in tough condition.

All this, of course, seems timed to be happening as we work to elect the next President of our country.  I have no way of knowing what the Iranian end-game is, but they are taking delight in what they see as the repeated challenges they issue to us and to our allies.

President Obama will have his hands full with this hot spot but will no doubt be spending a huge amount of his time campaigning.  Any President would be doing the same in all likelihood.  The Republican candidate, whomever that ends up being, will walk a very fine line in the campaign having to give voice to the Iranian issue but also needing to be sensitive to over-stepping onto the President's turf.  Maybe that is what is driving Iran in the direction it is taking.  Maybe Iran thinks we can't have a political free-for-all and fight a battle at the same time.  Maybe Iran thinks the current President will see this as an opportunity to appear strong militarily during the campaign. 


 Maybe Iran thinks our Congress will self-destruct in the process.  Maybe Iran simply plans to enjoy the whole situation thinking that neither the U.S. nor Israel will dare to mount a military strike.

This is a treacherous game they seem intent on playing.  If this part of the world explodes, none of us will win.