Showing posts with label Election issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Election issues. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Brave new world: elderly man attacked by Obama supporter

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The election may be over, but not my outrage. Sorry to keep repeating myself, but I still can't believe what I'm seeing. What kind of a country have we become? I've devoted two ardent blog posts to this problem already and will keep mentioning the problem again and again as it rears its ugly head. And it's these very folks who keep crying out how hateful we are, all evidence to the contrary.

The malady runs deep, and even if our new president were to miraculously ask people to be civil-- unlikely since division seems to be the ongoing point-- that alone isn't likely to cause a core shift in ethics and behavior.

My thanks to the Moonbattery blog for this video link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSO-mdZPWB8

If this is where Change (tm) is helping to take us, I'll go back to when character and civility meant something.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Some borrowed artwork for my comrades

A huge THANK YOU to my comrades at peoplescube.com

Election day prayer

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Dear God,

For weeks now I have tried to be optimistic, but in my heart I have been preparing for the worst. I pray our country makes the right choice. If we prevail it will be by the slimmest of margins. We have much work to do regardless of who takes office, but if we lose our great nation to a dangerous radical leftist, we will need to call upon all of our collective strength to save the greatest nation the world has ever known from self-inflicted mortal injury. This bad situation didn't happen overnight. I should have been paying more attention; I thought I was, but clearly it wasn't enough.

I've always loved my country, though, and never took it for granted. We are doing so much good in the world; we've achieved so much here at home. Good people are living their lives and pursuing their dreams. I've always felt fortunate to be here.

We have millions of decent people, people who want to work hard and be part of what America should be. These people do not hang anyone in effigy, even on Halloween. They do not cheat when voting or making campaign contributions. They do not cheer in approval as a candidate flips a bird during a speech, or joke about gang-raping a mother. They don't storm into campaign offices and use mace. They don't have friends who stomp on the flag or damn our country from the pulpit, or set off bombs that kill police officers on our own soil.

We have true friends who are counting on us, and can't worry about false friends that want to drag us down.

We don't laugh at common people because we are the common people, the good people.

Regardless of the outcome, I am making a vow within this prayer: I pledge a committment to my country- not an apologetic country that would capitulate to our enemies, but a country founded on the Constitution, a country strong and clearminded enough to defend it.

It's true that I'm unhappy about the huge ideological chasm that has cracked open within my own family. But I am grateful to have met so many people online, my new friends from all across the globe who feel like I do. You people are my new family, and I am making a pledge to you as well, that I will do all I can, regardless of what happens this week, to stand alongside you and be part of America's solutions as best as I can. Thank you and bless all of you.

Whoever and whatever you are, dear God, you know that my religious beliefs are essentially Christian, although you know I'm still more of a seeker than one who serves. But I will defend the Judeo-Christian core of our great government and pray for our deliverance. The good people of the world of all beliefs who try to follow your commandments need to stand together.

Thank you for hearing my prayer. People always pray when they're in the foxhole, I know, but I will never ever forget the sick and anxious feelings I felt these long weeks, no matter how things turn out. It's certainly not just another election.

We have much to do.

And now, I want to make one final statement in writing. I pledge alliegance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Amen.

your humble servant

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

LA Times Disgrace: front page news

Or at least it should be. This journalism scandal is the latest blogosphere news, justifiably at the top of the list.

The question isn't whether the Los Angeles times has a video tape of mainstream media's favorite presidential candidate at a posh Jew-bashing dinner party. The rag has admitted they have a tape of the would-be president knee-deep in an event praising PLO operative and anti-Semite Rashid Khalidi, and they've already written a tepid story about it.


But this "news" institution adamantly refuses to air the damning tape itself. What happened to people's right to know? Or do we only have the right to know about wardrobes and tax returns?

The Times knows full well the damage this shocking, quite probably election-losing look at reality that video would create. In their infinite wisdom, they've decided what we don't need to see.

Not surprisingly, domestic terrorists William Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn were apparently on hand for the videotaped fete. And just to be clear, the media darling candidate and his wife weren't eight years old at the time, either. These particular wine glasses were raised in recent history. We're not talking the exploratory identity-forming adventures of a college student. This is a US senator in post 9-11 America.

Los Angeles Times, your ideology-driven suppression of vital news is obscene.

Leading the charge against this incredible affrontery are Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit, Michelle Malkin, and other alternative-media notables; Newt Gingrich and others have offered large rewards for copies of this tape. Make no mistake, Rashid Khalidi is not this candidate's only anti-Israel connection, but seeing him in the room with a smile on his face is more than enough to open some eyes.

Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times is working hard to secure its rightful place in the bottom of readers' catboxes.

In this nightmare of an election year, the challenge each day is deciding which of the dozens of insults to reason and attacks on liberty is most noteworthy. Today it's no contest.

Looking at this situation more broadly, talk radio needs to continue its campaign to warn people about the dangers of an America like the one we're seeing, where mainstream news picks a side and stumps without apology while liberal politicians demand the end of talk radio under the guise of the fairness doctrine.

Liberty in America will just be a memory if this tide isn't turned. Will we allow a so-called fairness doctrine to turn us into an Orwellian nightmare?


Under such a doctrine, the blog you are now reading could well be illegal.

Think about it.

Meanwhile, here's one of many places to check out the story:

http://tinyurl.com/5bbm57


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Friday, October 24, 2008

American Thinker, thank you

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The online news and opinion source American Thinker has just published a short essay of mine you might find of interest. The editor retitled it The Threat of Obama, originally called Thought Experiment. In part, it's a meditation on the significance of careful decision-making.

Here's the link to their main page:

http://www.americanthinker.com/

You can also find American Thinker on my list of permanent links here.

A special thank you to Thomas Lifson and the staff and contributors at this high-quality publication.

While you are there, have a look at article The Supreme Court on the Ohio voting case, by Eileen McDevitt and Larrey Anderson. Both pieces are now archived under Special Features.


Brenda Giguere

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Write Turn Cafe: where to begin?

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Journalism's 'sub-tabloid' assault on truth and America

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One of my dreams is that this election, among other things, creates a tipping point of awareness in America. Outrageously biased and undeniably agenda-driven, our behemoth mainstream journalism machine needs to be outed once and for all, held accountable for countless grievances against truth.


When journalists are encouraged by their editors to indulge in lies, clear distortions, and deliberate misdirection, it's unacceptable not to hold the institutions accountable.

With freedom of the press comes serious responsibility, and we the people need to demand a more ethical journalism.


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Notes to self: a few other nagging issues

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The Ayers Problem: well, he wasn't eight years old when Ayers appears to have written much of that amazing autobiography; helpful friends you've got there, Barry

The Citizenship Question: Berg may be flaky, but I think he's onto something; Mr. Candidate, please show us the proof and then we'll be quiet about it

The Constitutional Crisis: who decides who has "standing" to bring suits and why; the decay of our Constitution

The Economy 1: if you're part of the problem, you can't be part of the solution; Raines and those dems too close to our economic collape for comfort

The Economy 2: 40% pay no taxes so you can't lower taxes for 95% of Americans without it becoming a welfare state; all math answers are not created equal

The Deification Project: we haven't heard you deny you're the messiah; candles and shrines for the annointed one

voter fraud
media bias
campaign contribution fraud, domestic
campaign contribution fraud, foreign
lies and distortions to citizens
unsavory alliances with frightening agendas
new world order/ global village/ UN problem
appeasement of enemies
reduced millitary strength
hanging Israel out to dry
the Africa problem
the Indonesia problem(s)
the Michelle-writes Most-whites-in-the-US- are-racist problem
Rules for Radicals phrases in speeches
the Rezco association and home loan problem
the Marxist agenda problem
the "No More Pre-existing conditions exclusion" plan for insurance collapse

the end of 401K?

the end of talk radio (Fairness Doctrine)?

To be continued...

draft; work in progress.

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Saturday, October 18, 2008

Write Turn Cafe: Culture wars, media, and conservatism, part 1

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Today's conservative voice has many built-in frustrations. If we speak out against the dangers of socialism we are labelled McCarthyites. If we question Obama's citizenship or even criticize the man himself, we must surely be racists... never mind that we'd all vote for Thomas Sowell in a heartbeat. If we recognize the threat of Islamofascism, we are dangerously intolerant of Muslims. And everyone who has absorbed the relentless message of liberal mainstream culture knows that a Republican is either a vacuous Thurston Howell III smugly enjoying his probably unearned wealth, or a wild-eyed outcast poking his rifle out the window of his cabin.

In our daily lives, convervatives make rather less an issue of image than liberals do (as I've observed in my considerable personal experience with the unapologetically left-wing media industry, as well as my year at UC Berkeley), but that doesn't mean we're not aware of it. Do we disregard issues related to our image and currency within an arena defined and all but owned by our ideological adversaries? How can we carry messages across this divide? Even someone like David Horowitz, who was an active participant in radical politics before he awakened to his new beliefs-- views expressed with exacting care and powerful eloquence-- has far less mainstream acknowledgement than he should. Instead of these rare first-hand insights being given all due respect, his perspective brands him as someone who has sold out. At worst, we see ad hominem attacks; at best, we hear the sound of silence.

So what do you do when the culture itself is a kind of funhouse mirror?

Unfortunately, this seems a rhetorical question, at least for now. We preach largely to the choir, in hopes that someone from the other side wanders by the church and hears our message through the walls.

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Friday, October 17, 2008

Giuliani on the Ayers Problem-- short video


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'America's Mayor' Rudy Giuliani briefly explains why it may not be such a great idea to elect someone to the office of president a candidate who seems to pal around with a domestic terrorist and a variety of other criminals and unapologetic Marxist-leaning characters.




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How Obama makes things worse for black America

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The friends I've never met over at PajamasMedia are careful journalists. This post by Andrew Walden (with quotes from the Washington Post) was painful for me to read, but to my knowledge these are all facts about Obama's track record, and there's every indication it's a snapshot of how he would address the challenges in the black community:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/barack-obama%e2%80%99s-war-on-black-america/2/


If you go to the PajamasMedia site, be sure to check out the articles by the two Iraqi writers who are part of their group. The phrase journalistic integrity comes to mind.

More later.

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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Negligence, criminal and otherwise, part 2

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Here's another video I ran into recently, one with more cringe-inducing footage of republican warnings and democratic congressmen denying there were any problems with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Community Reinvestment Act-related loaning mandates.


No assessment of the current economic meltdown is complete without a good look at the loan crisis and those who, wittingly or not, enabled it. As with all of my posts here, I certainly make no claim of expertise. But I have a pretty good idea how to follow a logical argument, check public records, choose my sources of information with care, look at cause and effect, and put two and two together.

There's nothing quite like actually seeing and hearing some of the key players in action. No, it doesn't give me any satisfaction, but it does give me some insights.

Even so, when is the d-camp going to look at each other, grit their teeth and agree with Bill Clinton's admission that they should have done something long ago, before all this mess happened? I hate to be cynical, but I think Bill is going to be the exception here.

The economic disaster didn't just fall out of the sky one morning when we were having coffee. This problem was years in the making, but denial was, and remains, rampant. And in some ways, that's a tougher problem than mere greed.

To compound the situation during this fallout period, the convervatives who sounded the alarm, and those who are beginning to point this out, are now being accused by some bureaucrats of blaming poor blacks for the problem. This claim is utter nonsense and a clear straw man argument; no such accusation on the part of conservatives is made or implied at all. But I ran into precisely this race card today on the progressillinois.com site.

There's more to this tale, beyond my ability to narrate, but democrats: Your congressmen (and women) let you down... and the rest of us while they were at it.


We'll have plenty of time to reflect on this while we wait for our economy (and our retirement money) to come back, all subject, of course, to whether we willingly bring a socialist with undeniable Marxist ties to the world's most important leadership position.

http://election.newsmax.com/bailout_fanniefreddy.html?s=al&promo_code=6BE0-1

Thank you.

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Indefensible

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You don't create peace by pretending we're not at war.

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Today I thought it would be good to bring up the subject of national defense. With our far-left candidate making it very clear he would cut defense spending dramatically-- an amazing statement in this age of Jihad--your humble reporter has been looking online for a worthwhile piece addressing this subject from a historical perspective.

Here is a piece from the Los Angeles Times with some facts of recent history half our country would apparently prefer to ignore, presented calmly and logically:


http://tinyurl.com/2wcw5t

All Americans should be concerned about this, but my sense is that half the country is in serious denial. I live in San Diego, a target city, but an attack anywhere would be a tragic blow. Our government has averted several attacks in the last seven years, and we know the war against western freedom is not over.

Thank you.

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Monday, October 13, 2008

Berg and the lawsuit, part 1

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One doesn't hear as much about the Berg lawsuit these days.

Understandable; everyone in our camp has their hands full getting the word out on domestic terrorist and Obama associate Ayers, ACORN's outrageous widespread illegal vote-recruiting activities, the largely democrat-facilitated money collapse, and little side issues like explaining to a wide-eyed 50 percent of our people why socialism is historically catastrophic and indefensible... all in the fifteen minutes or so we have left before the Left comes to unprecedented power.

But this ten-minute interview video is well worth watching. Pay particular attention to his discussion of conflict-of-interest.

If your media diet has consisted mostly of television and newspapers, you might not even know about this attorney's lawsuit claiming that Obama is not a citizen, which would render the DNC's campaign and Obama's possible presidency unconstitutional. By the way, Berg is a longtime democrat. Admittedly he has a history of making outrageous high-profile claims, which goes to reducing his credibility. But even so, given the evidence he presents and how he presents it, he seems to be onto something here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyspCRmJv7w

The lack of open and forthcoming response shown in this piece isn't limited to Obama's citizenship issue. Equally dubious are the Obama camp's donation records. The McCain camp has apparently produced without delay their detailed clear records of every single campaign donation, no matter how small. Not so for Obama, however, and reports indicate at least 3.3 million dollars in overseas donations (illegal, for obvious reasons) have apparently been discovered so far at the time of this writing when combing through their less-than-straightforward documents.

Is all of this relevant? Maybe not, if what you're talking about is finally bringing home the revolution instead of electing the next leader of the free world via our Constitutional law. Why didn't the DNP sort this out ages ago?

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"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."



– Norman Thomas, American socialist

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