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I don’t know why, but I frequently check FoxNews.com to read the days headlines. Their presentation of the news is somewhat different than they like to portray  – hard hitting fair and balanced news. I am tired of going to Fox News to read actual news, but get bombarded by such meaningless garbage like today’s headline, “Con Job – Coworker says mom scammed ID to pull off kidnapping job.” Everyday it’s something like this. WHO CARES?! This is their headliner for crying out loud! N. Korea’s pointing nukes at us, Iran is doing the same, our country is being taken over by a bunch of communists, and this is your headline?! Granted, the main stories are on the page somewhere, but you have to dig.

If you read Fox News, the network of Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity, ironically, you would hardly ever know we are still at war. News about deadly attacks in Pakistan, growing Taliban support, and Iraq war updates are relegated to one-liners jumbled in with the rest of our crazy country’s news.

Then there’s the “Pop Tart” section that is pretty much a summary of how trashy Hollywood has become. It’s a glorification of everything that is bad about this country. I can imagine millions click on these dreadful headlines everyday. That is why they are there. But isn’t it unfortunate that our society relishes tabloid media? Also unfortunate that Fox News does not rise above it.

For TV, I would rather watch Fox News because I don’t want to hear the regurgitation of socialist press, I mean, associated press headlines and stories from CNN and others. Fox News has them beat on content. As for the websites, however, I would choose CNN as a more credible news source. They have more clear and concise headlines about more meaningful news in our country.

They needed a “refresh” of their photos of Air Force One. Most of us can’t afford a refresh of our athletic shoes right now.

Yesterday’s flyby of Air force one and its military F-16 entourage should tell you something about much the Federal government really gives a rat’s ass about regular people in this country. From the white house to the court house – THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT US.

When everyone else is concerned about making ends meet and keeping their jobs, the Government is concerned about marketing. They needed a “refresh” of their photos of Air Force One. Most of us can’t afford a refresh of our athletic shoes right now.

The photo shoot cost a fortune. You’re talking about employing close to a billion dollars worth of aviation equipment, fuel costs, and staff costs. Just the wages for the people in the aircraft and the fuel probably cost a hundred thousand dollars. Then you’ve got all the law enforcement agencies on alert. Then you have the printing of the refreshed “photo material”. I am pretty sure I’d be appalled to know how much this cost in total. My guess – a few million dollars. All in the space of a few minutes.

Then we have the practical question. Why wasn’t the public notified? I just watched a video from battery park. People were legitimately scared! Instead, this could have been turned into a celebrated spectacle. Men and women could have been telling their sons and daughters – “look – that’s air force One! That’s what the president rides in!”. But instead, fear gripped New York.

The highest office in the land is responsible. Obama should have known what the White House Military Office was doing.

By the way, Obama asked his cabinet to cut $100 million from its budget last week. Don’t you think this mission should have been included in that cut?

And also – couldn’t they have chosen another spot? Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon, something besides a CITY THAT WAS BOMBED BY AIRCRAFT 7 1/2 years ago? Or has the white house military staff already forgotten about 9/11. It wouldn’t surprise me. As I said in the opening paragraph, THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT US.

This weekend I was at my mom’s house. She opened her mail. In it, there was a letter from the US Treasury. The letter notified my mom of a $250 check she would be receiving from the federal government as a part of the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Question: What is my mom’s taxable income?
Answer: $0

My mom is on Social Security Disability. The government is already paying her.

I knew that some working people who are set to receive these checks have a net Federal tax bill (after refunds) of, essentially, $0. At least those people are providing the government with temporary income until the refunds are issued (and they all pay FICA, too).

But can you believe we’re giving credits to people with ABSOLUTELY NO TAXABLE INCOME ?!?

My mom, who voted Libertarian in the 2008 presidential election, thinks it’s ridiculous, even though she’s of course glad to get the money. It will no doubt go toward paying medical bills or buying supplies for her disability.

I’m sure that the majority of Americans think this is the “moral thing to do”. But I argue that it’s not moral at all. It makes no sense to give a credit to people who didn’t pay any tax. It makes no sense to take $250 out of my pocket and give it to someone who not only didn’t pay tax, but already reaps a social security check every month. Literally, this is stealing money from other people and giving it to people the government, not the people think needs it more. This is wealth redistribution, plain and simple. It can’t get any more plain.

Is there any wonder why people talk about communism and fascism these days?

But before waxing philosophical, we must see this for what it is. This is nothing more than vote-buying by the socialist Democrats.

As Neal Boortz always likes to say: “When you rob Peter to pay Paul you can always count on Paul’s vote.”

Welcome to Socialism.

$250 may not sound like a lot, but let’s go back to the beginnings of the income tax system. If the income tax system is any barometer, our trend of pure wealth redistribution will start small and become huge.

Income tax was 1% for most people in 1913. There was a marginal rate of 1% additional for people who made more than $20,000 (which was a LOT back in those days). There were higher tax brackets, but they didn’t apply to anyone except the very wealthiest — that is — until inflation kicked in. A few years later, some of those higher brackets became mainstream.

Imagine those days back in 1913. You could keep what you earned — virtually all of it! As you can imagine, there was a huge amount of controversy over the 1% tax. Today, on average, we pay more than 1/3 of our incomes to the Federal Government. With policies like Obama’s “Wealth Redistribution Act of 2009″ (my nickname for it), it will only get worse.

Where’s the controversy? These days, if we protest taxes, we’re labeled as right wing extremists! Oh what a difference 100 years makes.

The government will let you keep just enough of your money to fool you into believing you can build wealth. Then, as time goes on, they will continue to inflate away and tax away your earnings.

Dear readers, I’m afraid that the “Paul”s of the world are in the majority now, thanks to the Federal Government. The Federal Government caused this growing lower class (and class warfare) and the Federal Government will continue to ensure it continues, because their power grows as they take over more and more of the functions of the economy.

“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 knowing how it happened.” –Norman Thomas

Source of tax data: Wikipedia

The answer to all our problems on this issue is so blatantly obvious, yet no one discusses it along these lines. It’s as simple as this. Gay people can have civil unions and enjoy all the rights and freedoms as everyone else. Marriage is left up to the church to decide whether or not they want to marry a same sex couple. From this point, LEAVE THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF IT! The media and liberal extremists will continue to ignore the distinction between marriage and civil unions in order to continue to be portrayed as some oppressed, victimized people group with no rights.

It’s amazing to me the double standard with these liberal extremists. They are all about separation of church and state except for when it benefits their cause. I just don’t understand the insanity over this issue when the answer is clear. The government has no business meddling in church affairs. Leave it to the courtroom, allow civil unions in all states, and leave the rest to churches, and let’s all move on!

The problem is that all media outlets make it seem as if gay people cannot be married – equating it with the courtroom style of “marriage”. What kills me is that no one ever says, “California has left marriage between same sex couple in the hands of the church, however, gays are able to go to the courthouse and have access to the same rights and freedoms as anyone else and will not be legally discriminated upon. NOOOOO. That would be too easy and a picture of the truth. The media, in order to bolster its ratings, will continue to force conservative minded people into the awkward situation of answering questions on the issue, making the person look like a bigot, and slandering every Christian in the country, and therefore continuing the rage. It’s an awful situation.

What would be a more awful situation is if the government could arrest ministers if they refuse to marry a same sex couple. That would be against our constitution. This is what our country is headed for, however. There are already hate crime laws in other countries which prohibit any talk from the pulpit calling homosexual relationships sin. It is coming to a state near you.

Janeane looks down from upon her New York City throne on the rest of the country with disdain.  Oh we should bow down to her, queen of morals and righteousness.

Except that Garofalo would rather judge conservatism of tax day protests without opening the cover.

This stupid woman really thinks that tax day protests are all about Racism. She’s probably never even been outside the Northeast. Janeane probably never has *actually* met a real “redneck” before. What makes her such an authority on Rednecks? Maybe the tax protests up north all *are* about racism. Down south, on the contrary, the protests were about opposing big government. I for one, don’t limit my disdain to Democrats. It’s BOTH parties. It isn’t about race, it’s about spending.

I’m not the only Libertarian or Republican who is glad that we have a Black president for the reasons of breaking down racial barriers. However, I’m also not the only Libertarian or Republican that’s ticked off that our president is exactly as billed. He’s a socialist and a government expansionist. He clearly views the role of government as a cradle to grave service center for all Americans. There are those of us who oppose progressivism and liberalism. We’re not racists. We’re conservatives.

Janeane doesn’t know how many little old ladies and good ol’ gentlemen down south actually voted for Barack Obama. Janeane: More Georgians voted for Barack than any Democratic president since Carter (who of course was from Georgia). What’s more: Barack won the majority of the red states in the Democratic primary over the rest of the pack who were — WHITE. Don’t you think Hillary would have carried more of the red states if we were really all a bunch of racists? Not even the mighty spin of Hannity and Rush on the Jeramiah Wright issue could turn out enough rednecks to make him lose. (And it was spin and it didn’t work, because WE’RE NOT RACIST DOWN HERE… for the most part).

In her attack, Janeane forgets three additional facts: 

1. Not all Republicans are conservatives.
2. An overwhelming majority of conservatives are not racists.
3. The per capita giving of conservatives at all income levels to charities (even excluding churches) is higher than that of Democrats, Liberals, and Progressives. (We’re not selfish, we’re not stingy, and we seek to serve society).

Has this woman ever heard of a Libertarian? Are we racist? NO. Are we Republicans? NO. But do we show up to tax protests? You bet we do.

Has this woman ever heard of a “Blue Dog” Democrat? Clearly not!

Oh, well I guess it doesn’t matter: Blue Dogs and Libertarians are all racists, too.

There’s no sense in saying any more. This video pretty much speaks for itself. Garofalo is as dumb as they come. What a bigot! What an idiot! Let’s call her what she is. What a Bitch!

First of all, the Dept. of Homeland Security document released last week is a communist rag promoting not only the marginalization of conservatives, but plans for outright oppression and defensive action against legitimate opposition.  

The report is so disgraceful that I shouldn’t waste my time writing about it, but it is so outrageous and so blatant that I must write something. It is a preemptive attack that will paint with a broad brush opposition as terrorists or some enemy of the state. With one mighty stroke, upright conservative individuals are grouped with the KKK, anti-semites, abortion clinic bombers, and folks like Timothy McVeigh.

Unbelievable is an understatement regarding the marginalization of conservatism. But it is happening. And before conservatives can get a head of steam, the government warns of “extremist activity”. The media will fall in line. The country will continue to be brainwashed. The media brainwashing, along with expanded government handouts, will keep the majority of our country bound by dissoulusion. I misspelled that on purpose – because this country is headed for disoulusion. Our souls have been sold to the government, the Chinese, Communist dictators around the world. And for what? – in the name of crisis. Our values have been minimized, our success degraded, and our country described as no better than any other. I am reminded of this profound verse from the Bible to describe the current situation:

Matthew 7:6 “Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.”

The irony revealed in this report is incredible and beyond unbelievable. These examples prove it:

The dissolution of Communist countries in Eastern Europe and the end of the Soviet Union in the 1990s led some rightwing extremists to believe that a “New World Order” would bring about a world government that would usurp the sovereignty of the United States and its Constitution, thus infringing upon their liberty.

Is this not what is actually going on? Have we not seen government overreach into the private sector to take over private business? Have we not seen an expansion of government benefits which clearly indicates the goal of the democrat party -  to get more people dependant on government benefits to secure votes? Have we not seen an outright one-sided media whose goal is to sway common people into one way of thinking? Have we not seen handshaking with communists dictators like never before? Have we not seen a large push toward socialized medicine? Have we not heard talk of a one world currency? Have we not heard talk of doing whatever the U.N wants to do? Most of all, and this report proves it, have we not seen a dramatic push to silence any opposition? Do these things not warrant some questioning or opposition? It is obvious to me! I hope to God it is becoming more obvious to the common person out there.

The picture has been painted so that if one were to move in any direction mentioned in this report, such as clinging to a gun, or opposing our president, standing up against abortion, being pro-capitalist, anti-tax, anti immigration, a Christian, or use your constitutional right to protest, you could be called out as a member of a group mentioned in this report.

The media will use the DHS report to justify the villification of ANY activity remotely close to opposition as “right wing” conservatism a.k.a. extremism. The democrats and media will continue to link good intentioned conservatives to extremists in order to marginalize and beat down the opposition.

These are communist tactics. There is no other way to put it. If it hurts your feelings that I feel this way, maybe it’s time for you to find another country in which to live, because activities of late are not representative of this country.

I was reading this article on CNN.com this morning about the charges against former US Senator Ted Stevens being dropped by the justice department.

Stevens may have illegally accepted free benefits from a contractor such as renovations on his home without disclosing it on mandatory forms. There’s some alleged prosecutorial misconduct, and Stevens has said he’s innocent from the beginning.

I think there’s only two messages the Justice Department sends by dropping this case instead of continuing it to completion:

1. It’s OK to lie (as in Tim Geithner’s (and 4 other Obama cabinet members’ taxes)
2. –or– We’ll harass you as long as it takes to get you out of office, then you’re off the hook.

What other two signals could this possibly send?

My opinion:

Stevens may have failed to disclose his home improvements, but he isn’t being accused of being a tax cheat. He has committed no crime. The liberal congress wanted Stevens out of office. Now that he’s out, all the charges are dropped – because the charges were bogus in the first place.

My guess as to the reason for going after him — maybe it was in case Sarah Palin won the VP spot. They just couldn’t stand two powerful Alaskans (a Senior Senator and a VP) in Washington. Why should a red state of less than 1% of the population of the US get all that power?

The socialists are coming.

Hello friends and neighbors!

After the 4th letter from the Republican National Committee in about three weeks, I had a dream last night.  I dreamt that I was in my car and drove by Senator Chambliss (who was standing on the side of the road.)  I leaned out the car and asked him, “do you want me to throw a pie or a pork chop in your face?”  He just looked at me and blinked.

It was a good dream.

It did provoke this letter – I sent it to RNC Chairman Steele, My two Senators (Chambliss and Isakson), and my Representative in Congress, Tom Price.  Enjoy!

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Chairman Steele –

You sent me a letter saying “the Party is a mess because insiders turned deaf ears to you and the millions like you who share our beliefs. The Party drifted too far from what you expected – Republicans did not listen, spent like out of control liberals an voters made them pay for their mistakes in 2006 and 2008.”

I think you are right. To reinforce your point, I am including a letter I sent to Senator Saxby Chambliss on October 15^th, 2008. I cc’d Senator Isakson, my representative Tom Price and Chairman Duncan. The responses I got from them are borderline laughable. Please read my original letter before you complete this one.

According to the Taxpayers for Common Sense:

• Senator Chambliss is responsible for $48,372,125 in 69 separate earmarks in the omnibus budget.
• Senator Isakson is responsible for $30,902,375 in 50 separate earmarks in the omnibus budget.

Yet both of them say they are opposed to earmarks and consistently vote against them. You know what I call a person that says one thing but acts like another?

A hypocrite.

I applaud Senators Coburn, DeMint, and McCain for having the gumption and courage to insert ZERO earmarks into this budget.

I can admire and appreciate your consistent strong words indicating that you want to change the party, but clearly (in your words) the insiders still aren’t listening yet. Because of that you don’t get any of my money. I formally request you cease sending me letters asking me to donate, because I won’t do it UNTIL the Party shows me they are serious about change. The country put you on notice – what more do you need???

Sincerely,

mel

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True believers, that’s what I think.  What do you think?  More importantly, have you contacted your elected officials lately?

If you’re a Republican, you are siding with LOSERS. Let’s make a new party, people.

Democrats are dumb, but Republicans are even dumber. Don’t get me wrong, this fact doesn’t make me want to vote for a Democrat. I wouldn’t vote for a Democrat in a zillion years.

I read this article from Jack Cafferty today, stating that the GOP is becoming a “cartoon”. I can’t help but agree with him on many of his points.

Instead of doubling the Federal budget, had the Bush Administration presided over 8 years of fiscal conservatism, we wouldn’t be here today.

Democrats today are able to market their socialist policies very, very effectively. The Democrats spout rhetoric about the “failed policy of the last 8 years”, and equate the Bush era to limited government and free market capitalism. They cite limited government and free market capitalism as “failed”. This is a lie.

If you do your research, you will find that the last 8 years was *not* an era of limited government and free market capitalism. It was an era of growing government and increased federal boondoggling, particularly as it relates to the financial industry, the fault resting with Republicans and Democrats alike. Bush’s tax cuts were the only bright spot, but they also, mistakenly and incorrectly, get lumped into the failed policies.

Essentially, Republicans are the reason why the Democrats are able to lie about the last 8 years and get away with it. Mind you – the Democrats don’t lie about “failed policies”, but they definitely lie when they call the Bush era an era of free market capitalism and limited government. Now, liberals and progressives have carte blanche to create the new “Nanny State”.

When are Republican voters going to wake up and realize that their own party is the one that made this possible? The public beleived the Republican rhetoric of limited government, though it wasn’t being practiced. The public now beleives free market capitalism and limited government are to blame, and that Obama’s plan to make the government the solution to all problems is the correct answer. CHANGE means GOVERNMENT.

The liberal campaign’s success IS A DIRECT RESULT of Republican hypocrisy.

Revolution within the Republican party or within the country as a whole is the only way to reverse this.

Until we have a truly fiscally conservative political party, this country is heading straight for outright socialism, even communism. Want Freedom? Move. Government control is coming your way, thanks to Republicans.

And by the way SHAME ON THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS FROM RED STATES who couldn’t resist the earmarks in the liberal Omnibus budget bill.

The Republican legacy of failure and hypocrisy continues.

If you’re a Republican, you are siding with LOSERS. Let’s make a new party, people.

Check out this new tax program proposed by Georgia Republicans.

The idea is a state tax on groceries that can be refunded to those who file a tax return. How do you qualify for a refund? You either claim dependents on your tax return, or you clip receipts if you have no dependents.

The Georgia Republican spin: People from out of state will pay the tax.

The real story: Not only will the non-filing poor pay the tax. Wealth will be redistributed from those who don’t have dependents to those who do. These Republicans sound exactly like Democrats.

It seems that there are no fiscal conservatives left in Georgia. The Georgia Republicans are also busy working on a proposal to make embryonic stem cell research criminal in the state of Georgia. The idiocy is maddening.

What we want is Freedom, not more government.