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"... Shall Not Be Infringed."

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:09:58 GMT

"� Shall Not Be Infringed.

By J. D. Longstreet

Tell me� what part of "�shall not be infringed" do the "Gungrabbers" not understand? Huh? They just skip right over that part of the law. Yes, the constitution is THE LAW.

For those of you who may be "language challenged" here is the definition of "infringed" from the Free Online Dictionary:

in�fringe

v. in�fringed, in�fring�ing, in�fring�es

v.tr.

1. To transgress or exceed the limits of; violate: infringe a contract; infringe a patent.

2. Obsolete To defeat; invalidate.

v.intr.

To encroach on someone or something; engage in trespassing: an increased workload that infringed on his personal life.

Now, I'm an old country boy and, to a country boy, that means, simply, that I have a right to own, and to carry (bear), firearms and there is not a damned thing you can do about it. That's what it (the US Constitution) says and that's what it means.

So how in the world do the leftists get away with all those attempts to take our weapons or to tax the heck out of the ammo� all the things that present infringements on my constitutional right to own and carry a firearm within the United States? How DO they get away with it? Well, that is an easy one. Our government is controlled from the office of the President, the Executive branch, right through the Legislative branch, the House and the Senate, right on up to, and including, the Judicial branch, the Supreme Court of the US, by leftists~ and~ lately many of them have let us see their true selves, which are socialists.

As long as the left is in a position of power in the US the constitution is in jeopardy. Today the constitution is in DIRE jeopardy!

Americans are arming themselves as never before these days as they prepare for what they feel is coming. The "Tea Parties" the Mainstream Media tried so hard to ignore and to keep out of the pages of their newspapers and the broadcasts of their evening news shows, and the 24-hour cable news channels, are just the "warning shot" across the bow of the US government. Yes, the average American is frightened but he is also determined. Americans are determined that they will not give up their liberty without a fight. The government in Washington, somehow, seems to have missed this. Or have they? Personally, I am not so sure they HAVE missed it. I am beginning to think they not only are aware of it, but THEY ARE PLANNING FOR IT. Rumors abound that US troops are being trained to put down insurrection. (The very word itself sends chills down my spine.)

As a Southern American I live with an ancestral heritage of involvement in the last American vs American clash. It was a horrible time in the history of this continent. More Americans were killed in the war that ensued than in all the wars America has been involved in since it's founding. It was brother against brother and it was merciless, bloody, and totally avoidable. (Much like what many are predicting is about to happen all over again.) We southerners have gaping wounds from that war, which have never healed, and never will.

Today, the average American senses his country is in distress. He senses his liberty is at risk, and he instinctively knows it will be left up to him, and to his neighbors, to man the barricades in defense of his country, his constitution, and his freedom. THAT is what is happening today. Americans are buying up weapons as fast as the manufacturers can turn them out and they are stocking-up on ammunition so fast that ammunition manufacturers, in some cases, have run out and, in others, there is a shortage of the most popular calibers of ammo.

Many Americans have taken to flying the American flag, outside their homes, upside down, which is an international signal of distress. It is also becoming the signal to others of like mind that here lives an American not afraid to defend his freedom.

Many conservative writers warned this would happen long before the election, IF We were laughed off, scoffed at, made fun of, and generally disregarded as some sort of "gun nut." Those who denigrated us then are not laughing now. They are, instead, trembling, and seeking protection from, who else, those in power in the government� the very same entity that brought us to this point in history. Obama were elected.

The Americans purchasing weapons today are under no illusions as to what is about to happen in America. A large portion of those newly purchased weapons will disappear from the face of the each. They will be cached away out of sight of those within the government who will be seeking to find them and seize them.

"Oh, they can't take our weapons! The Constitution says so!" you cry. My reply" "Just watch!" Once the government has implanted the idea of domestic terrorism deeply into the psyche of the average American the stage will be set for a proclamation of some sort which will suspend the 2^nd amendment and THAT'S when they will come after your guns. Most likely it will be a claim of SOME sort of "insurrection" within the population. Already, conservative bloggers, like yours truly, are being labeled as "Domestic Terrorist Bloggers." Yes, the stage is being set even now. The players in Washington are in place and waiting.

I have no idea exactly how they will do it, but rest assured, they WILL DO IT!

Already, the "Gungrabbers" are looking for ways to further shred the constitution. They are offering such suggestions as:

A law allowing only one gun per household

Limiting households to only two (2) ammo clips.

Ammo clips would be limited to only three rounds each.

Placing extremely high taxes on ammunition. (Taxing by the round rather than by the box or the purchase)

Forcing federal registration of all firearms in America.

These are just a tiny, tiny, fraction of the ways they seek to do exactly what the constitution says they can't do and that is to "infringe" upon your right to own and carry a firearm in America.

There is no denying America is no longer a united country. In name, of course, we are, but, frankly, that is all. The country is split right down the middle. We have, in fact, two Americas. Those who believe in freedom and cherish the idea of freedom and liberty and desire to protect the constitution and all it stands for� and� the other half� that covets a "new" America, a socialist country, where freedom is defined by the state, where the state replaces God, and the citizens are allowed to exist with only so much as they absolutely need to survive� and no more. In exchange the state will look after their needs ("Needs" also defined by the state) from the cradle to the grave. The so-called "Nanny State". This defines America (as it is today) as I sit here at this keyboard and tap out his missive.

I had hoped my life would end before what is happening in America today happened. But, alas, it is upon us.

Back in the middle of the last century I took an oath, as I was sworn into the US Army, to protect the constitution. There was no expiration date on that oath. I feel as bound by that oath today as I did then. Many veterans feel the same way.

Woodrow Wilson, a former US President, once said: "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance." President Wilson was wrong about a lot of things. But on this one thing he was absolutely correct.

J. D. Longstreet

A Formula for Failure ... by Alan Caruba

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:49:07 GMT

A Formula for Failure

By Alan Caruba

Oil producing nations such as Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, along with Venezuela, will grow rich while Americans will be faced with high costs for gasoline, motor and heating oil, and everything else that depends on oil such as asphalt or even Vaseline.

Meanwhile, oil producers in America, large and small, will take a financial beating. If you don't like living in a modern, advanced and industrialized society, you will favor this. If you think Americans consume too much, drive too much, and deserve to be punished for it, you will favor this.

Recently, Barry Russell, the president of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, released a statement in which he said, "President Obama delivered a devastating blow to the American oil and natural gas industry by proposing an astonishing $30 billion tax increase (as part of his FY 2010 budget) on American energy producers, most of whom are small businesses."

"Ninety percent of the oil and natural gas wells developed in the United States are done by small, independent businesses�not so called 'Big Oil'�so tax increases hurt these companies most." It also, of course, hurts any prospect for the discovery and production of new sources of oil and natural gas in America.

In a world where more oil and natural gas is required by developing nations such as India and China, the Obama administration proposes:

(1) A repeal of expensing of intangible drilling costs; a repeal of percentage depletion that allows for the depreciation of existing small, barely economic wells;

(2) A repeal of marginal well tax credit, a safety net for wells that produce small amounts of oil and gas that, collectively, supply almost 20% of the nation's oil and 12% of its gas;

(3) A repeal of the enhanced oil recovery credit that allows industry to get more energy from wells that are depleted instead of drilling new wells;

(4) Increases the costs of geological and geophysical amortization costs involving the high cost of doing seismic and other high-tech surveys;

(5) An excise tax on Gulf of Mexico production;

(6) And a repeal of the manufacturing tax deduction, a provision given to every other American manufacturer and which allows independent oil and natural gas producers to put more money into new energy projects.

It is a plan to destroy the American oil and natural gas industry, and with it the nation's economy.

Right now, however, the Obama administration has installed an "energy team" that is completely opposed to the development of any energy resources in America, from offshore and ANWR oil to coal mining or the construction of coal-fired plants to generate electricity. Coal currently produces 50% of the nation's electricity.

Steven Chu, the Secretary of Energy, is on record saying, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." It is $8 a gallon there.

Ken Salazar, the Secretary of the Interior, the agency that administers energy leasing on federal lands and most offshore areas, has a long record of opposition to such leasing of oil, natural gas, and coal exploration and extraction. He has already nullified recently awarded leases for natural gas drilling in federal land in Utah. Salazar is responsible for legislation blocking the development of shale oil.

Obama's science advisor, John Holdren, out-does Al Gore with predictions of global warming calamities. Back in the 1970s he was worrying whether mankind would survive the "threat of making the planet too cold."

Meanwhile, Wall Street is watching investment drop like a stone as Timothy Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury, testifies that U.S. oil and natural gas producing companies should not receive federal subsidies in the form of tax breaks because their businesses contribute to global warming!

This attack on energy companies and access to energy resources in America is a formula for failure.

Alan Caruba writes a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. Every week, he posts a column on the website of The National Anxiety Center, www.anxietycenter.com.

� Alan Caruba, April 2009

Obama Most Polarizing President in the History of the United States!

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:16:50 GMT

Obama Most Polarizing President in the History of the United States!

�And this is surprising, how???

By: J. D. Longstreet

According to the Pew Research Center Barack Hussein Obama is the most polarizing President in the history of the US. What is surprising to this scribe is that THIS is surprising to ANYONE!

You can read the story on this HERE.

In his first 8 weeks in office, President Barack Obama has succeeded in widening the political gulf among Americans more than any other president in modern history, according to a new poll. The "partisan gap" between Republicans and Democrats is 10 points larger than it was under George W. Bush.

By comparison, the gap for President George W. Bush at a similar point in his administration was 51 points. It was 45 for Bill Clinton, 38 for George H. W. Bush, and 46 for Ronald Reagan. And the "gulf" is showing signs that it intends to widen still more!

Still there are those who cry for bipartanship. Look, I hate to tell you this� but BIPARTANSHIP is "UNAMERICAN"! This is a partisan country. Partisans founded it. It was founded because there was a HUGE difference of opinion between the people of the colonies and the King of England. Democracy is "partisan". It is the nature of our country and the nature of our government.

Allow me to tell you a short story that might help clear up the misunderstanding about the partisan and bipartisan nature of our country and government:

There was a truly bitter election back in the year 1800 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. When all the voting was finished Thomas Jefferson had won. But� and here is the big but� as the result of a quirk in the way the Electoral College worked at the time, Jefferson was tied with his own Vice-Presidential candidate, Aaron Burr.

If you are ahead of me here. You know that things just got completely out of hand. See, the election went to the House of Representatives. The Federalists, who had supported John Adams, hated Thomas Jefferson so much they decided to throw all their support to his Vice-Presidential candidate Aaron Burr. Now, at the very moment Burr understood that he just MIGHT become President, well, it was "Katie bar the door!" Burr pulled out all the stops and he began maneuvering for those votes.

Back then the rules required the House of Representatives to vote by state. Well, on the first ballot Jefferson had eight states. That was one state short of what he needed. Six states voted for Burr and two states were tied. Now, over the next few days the House of Representatives had thirty-two more ballots� and guess what? Nothing changed; Jefferson and Burr remained tied as the vote totals remained unchanged!

Things were getting hot in The House... And that's putting it mildly! Why, Jefferson's supporters threatened to arm themselves and cause all sorts of bad things, including throwing some hot lead around the Well of the House, if Jefferson was not elected! And� they were not kidding! President John Adams, himself, is on record as having wrote: "a civil war was expected." Things were so hot and tempers were so inflamed and the fear of violence was so grave that the governor of Virginia, who, by the way, was a Jefferson supporter, placed guards around a supply of 4,000 firearms to prevent them being seized by the Federalist and possibly used in forcing an outcome favoring their candidate.

The sole congressman from Delaware, a fellow by the name of John Bayard, controlled his state's vote. The Federalists had been, up to this point, supporting Burr. But, after three days of ballot after ballot, Bayard announced that he was going to abstain. That would throw the election to Jefferson. Some really angry Federalist took to the floor of the house and shouted "Traitor, Traitor" at Bayard. But ole John Bayard stood his ground. He later said he did it to save his country.

As a result, the deadlock was broken and Thomas Jefferson became the President. Some four years later Alexander Hamilton was shot and killed in a duel with Aaron Burr. Hamilton had been one of the Federalists who refused to support Burr under any circumstances. Hamilton referred to Burr as �the most unfit man in the U.S. for the office of President.�

I share this wee bit of US history in an attempt to demonstrate that partisanship in the government of the US is in no way new. No. Absolutely not! It is the way the government works, it is the way the government was planned to work. Those loud calls for bipartanship are deceptive as can be. They are used often as a tool to divert your attention away from the conniving behind the scenes by the very congresspersons calling loudest for bipartanship. Understand that in a bipartisan House of Representatives, for example, it would insure that every piece of legislation coming before that body would be passed. That includes the rotten pieces of legislation as well as the good. At least with a partisan House the legislation will be debated and examined before it is passed or defeated.

The fact that Obama is polarizing the country is no surprise to those of us who have been around the block a few times. That was a given from the "git go." The country is split, almost exactly in half, over Obama and his henchman's plans for the country. I count myself, proudly, amongst that half who wants to see Obama's presidency fail, utterly, and his plans and machinations all come to naught. If I am right, and I believe that I am, things are going to get a lot worse in the Polarization Department as the months and years go by, and all the trials and tribulations the American people are going to have to bear under an Obama regime unfold.

Many of those Americans who voted for Obama are just now coming to understand that the Obama reigning as President is not the Obama they THOUGHT they were voting for. Had they listened to the warnings from us "old bulls" they could have saved themselves, and the country, a lot of grief.

J. D. Longstreet

The Coming Battle Between Barry and Bibi

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:15:44 GMT

The Coming Battle between Barry and Bibi

J. D. Longstreet

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The Obama Administration is preparing the battlefield for the coming battle with the new prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. We warned weeks ago that this battle was just over the horizon and it appears the folks in the White House and the left-wing State Department of the US understand that they now face a man of conviction in Bibi Netanyahu. When pushed, Mr. Netanyahu pushes back. Look for a lot of shoving in the next few weeks and months.

Obama knows he is about to "lock horns" with Netanyahu over Netanyahu's refusal to support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. The Obama Administration is frightened by the prospect that Netanyahu may go directly to the US Congress in an attempt to gain support there for his refusal to submit to the Obama "Two State" policy (The State of Israel and the State of Palestine). If Netanyahu can withstand the coming "Obama Storm" it will make Mr. Obama look unable to control a client state of America and will lower his stock worldwide.

Obama says his Two State Policy is a must for his plans for Middle East peace and he intends to press Mr. Netanyahu to standby all the commitments made by the governments preceding that of Mr. Netanyahu's in Israel. Obama insists that Netanyahu accept the principle of a Palestinian state; plus, Obama insists that Israel freeze settlement activity; as well as evacuate "illegal" outposts; and, to top it off, Israel must provide economic and security assistance to the Palestinian Authority. In other words, Netanyahu is expected to bow down and kiss Obama's feet in full view of the remainder of the world.

Netanyahu is not about to do that.

The US government has yet to understand that a Palestinian State and "peace in the Middle East" are contradictions. One must be deaf, dumb, and blind not to see this. The so-called Palestinians don't really want a Palestinian state. No! They want Israel gone� whatever the cost may be.

What does Netanyahu say about all this? He has called U.S. backed peace talks a waste of time while at the same time refusing to commit to the same two state solution that other Israeli leaders have. And, Netanyahu has said this: "Right now, the peace talks are based on only one thing, only on peace talks. It makes no sense at this point to talk about the most contractible issue. It's Jerusalem or bust, or right of return or bust. That has led to failure and is likely to lead to failure again.... We must weave an economic peace alongside a political process. That means that we have to strengthen the moderate parts of the Palestinian economy by handing rapid growth in those area, rapid economic growth that gives a stake for peace for the ordinary Palestinians." He has advocated time and again, an approach based on economic cooperation and joint effort rather than continuous contention over political and diplomatic issues.

Back in January of 2009, Netanyahu said he would continue the policy of the Israeli governments of Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert by expanding settlements in the West Bank, in contravention of the much-touted Road Map, but, he has promised not build new ones.

For the moment, he is holding his cards close to his chest on the issue of a Palestinian state. All the while he is being pounded by the US, the EU, the UN and sundry other countries that don't get it!

But what about Iran's vow to wipe Israel off the map? Well, Netanyahu has this to say: "It's 1938, and Iran is Germany, and Iran is racing to arm itself with atomic bombs." He said that there is only one difference between Nazi Germany and the Islamic Republic of Iran, namely that the first entered a worldwide conflict and then sought atomic weapons, while the latter is first seeking atomic weapons and, once it has them, will then start a world war.

Iran is making a fatal mistake if they do not believe Israel, under Netanyahu, will not attack their nuclear facilities. Netanyahu is a former Captain in the Saveret Matkal, a sort of "special" Special Forces unit of the IDF. That should speak for itself.

While Bibi is preparing to do whatever it takes to protect his country against annihilation by Iran's nuclear weapons, the Obama administration is busy drafting some sort of policy which would distinguish between Iran's so-called "right" to have nuclear technology, including uranium enrichment done under international supervision, and the actual building of a nuclear weapon.

The folks in Eastern Europe should be calling Bibi and offering any assistance he needs rather than pounding on him to bow to pressure from the Obama Administration over anything.

When you look at these two men, Obama and Netanyahu, and consider their qualifications and their backgrounds, it is mere child's play to choose the real leader.

J. D. Longstreet

Who Should Fear Israel? ... by Alan Caruba

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:14:14 GMT

Who Should Fear Israel?
By: Alan Caruba

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On Thursday Jews in Israel and around the world will celebrate Passover. It is devoted to the story of their escape from slavery in ancient Egypt.

It took three millennia for the Jews to reestablish Israel as their homeland and they have not enjoyed a day of true peace in sixty years. The world shuns the Israelis, but they have learned the true meaning of "Never again" and it is a lesson the world needs to learn as well.

In December 2008 Hamas felt the sting of retaliation for firing more than six thousand rockets into Israel from Gaza over a period of several years. Then, of course, they declared victory.

To the north, Hezbollah has brought ruin to Beirut and parts of Lebanon by taking on Israel in 2006. Though the Israelis did not perform up to their usual standard, they nonetheless inflicted enough damage to discourage further attacks since then. The exercise in Gaza was masterful, demonstrating they had learned some new tactics.

Both Hamas and Hezbollah have reason to fear Israel.The Palestine Liberation Organization, also known as Fatah, is kept alive by the Israelis in order to have someone with whom to negotiate, but Fatah, headquartered on the West Bank, barely escaped alive from your typical internecine Arab warfare when Hamas kicked it out of Gaza.

Iran, long on fiery and provocative rhetoric will soon get a taste of what happens when you threaten Israel with nuclear annihilation.

When Syria tried to build some kind of nuclear facility, the Israelis made a parking lot out of the place in September 2007, but Iran's ayatollahs and its annoying president, Mamoud Ahmadinejad, probably think Israel will not attack their nuclear facilities.

Iran should fear Israel.

The United States will not be consulted, primarily because it cannot be trusted not to tip off the Iranians or anyone else for that matter. The latest blather out of Foggy Bottom, otherwise known as the State Department, is the same old sad stuff about not building more settlements on the West Bank and working harder with Fatah for a two-state solution.

Well, it's a new day in Israel and two men in particular are going to write some history together. One, of course, is the estimable Benjamin Netanyahu, the new prime minister, and the other is Avigdor Lieberman, the new foreign minister. These are two Jews of a generation that grew up during the many early wars that Israel had to fight for its very survival. They have a very different world view.

In taking his new office, Lieberman said, "The fact that we say the word 'peace' twenty times a day will not bring peace any closer."

Lieberman had some advice for the free world. "The Westphalia order of states is dead, replaced by a modern system that includes states, semi-states, and irrational international players." That is as neat a summation of the way things are as you will hear from any statesman.

As for the irrational players, one has little doubt he is referring to al Qaeda and Iran.

Almost always ignored in any comments directed at Israel are the herculean efforts it has made over decades to engage the Palestinians in an effort to achieve peace and a two-state solution of which the Oslo Accords are perhaps the best known.

Lieberman and Netanyahu are no fans of concessions. They saw what happened after Israel pulled out of South Lebanon and after the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza. It did not bring peace. From Lieberman's point of view, the only thing concessions have brought Israel is further isolation on the world stage and more death to Israelis.

Masterminding and leading that isolation has been the United Nations. We shall watch it in action during Durban II later in April. The first such conference was infamous for its anti-Semitism and the second is likely to be a repeat.

Of the entire world's population, the Jews represent about 0.03 percent. Israel, a tiny spot on the map of the Middle East with some seven million Jews (and more than a million Muslim citizens as well) will do what it must to survive against enemies that deny the Holocaust, defile them daily with rank condemnation, and want them all dead.

When the Israelis are through ensuring their safety and the smoke clears, the world will pay attention. The most fundamental right of individuals and nations is self-defense.

Alan Caruba

Alan Caruba blogs daily at "Facts not Fantasy" at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com

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The �S� Word IS Accurate.

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:14:44 GMT

The �S� Word IS Accurate.

By: J. D. Longstreet

The comments herein have been made necessary, in my opinion, by the left�s campaign to redefine socialism. The campaign is about to slip into high gear as the MsM (Mainstream Media) has taken up the banner and, from all appearances; they intend to run with it. The left-wing media folks have not yet settled on a common definition for �The New Socialism,� as of this hour, but soon they will, and it will be off to the races!

When I began using the word �Socialism� and �Socialist� to describe our new government� mainly the executive and legislative branches of said government, I was among the very few commentators to �call it as I saw it.� I was being honest. I use the word to describe that which I am observing, as it is being acted out right before my eyes.

Whilst using the words �Socialist� and �Socialism� correctly (as defined by the dictionaries I referenced) I must tell you� I wondered how long it would be before the leftist/socialists in the mainstream Media would protest the accurate description of the current US Government. Honestly� it took longer than I ever thought it would!

There is an old saw that says: �The truth hurts� and, indeed, it must, because the socialist media is coming after Conservatives who choose to use the �S� word. Yes, the leftists are coming after we capitalists with a vengeance.

Look, I was born before the 2^nd World War. I have seen and observed Socialism as it crept it�s slimy way out of Russia, or as it was most recently known, �The Soviet Union�, and spread it�s malignant tentacles across the face of the European continent, and crossed the North Sea and the English Channel into the British Isles. I have observed socialism take root in South America and bring a few countries there to �a head� (reminiscent of a pus-filled boil about to burst). I have a lifetime of observing socialism. So, do not tell me I don�t know it when I see it� because� I DO! I have lived on the same planet with socialism all my life and my education predates the takeover of the pubic education system in America by the left and their hordes of revisionists.

What we are seeing, dear reader, is a move by the leftist/socialists to �redefine� socialism in a vain attempt to camouflage it so the less educated, the less sophisticated among us, won�t recognize it as the �Nation-Killer� that it is. Given the absolutely absurd public education system in America and the two generations that are products of that system� their task will not be a difficult one. What I mean is� Modern Americans are too dumb to know the difference between REAL socialism and whatever the socialists, now in charge of the US Government, and the ever �faithful-to-Obama� Mainstream Media, tells them it is.

Try a simple experiment. Read the �A� section and the �business section� of your newspaper. Now before you turn your attention elsewhere, get your dictionary and look-up socialism, and compare what you have just read in your newspaper against the dictionary�s definition of the word �socialism�. But� do it quickly, before the next edition of the dictionaries is published. Why do I urge you to hurry? Because, the current definition of the word socialism WILL be CHANGED! Bet on it!

I am a Southern-American and I have seen what revisionists can do when they set their collective minds to it. As an example, I have seen the reasons for the American Civil War go from �States Rights,� taxes, and tariffs, to being about one thing, and one thing ONLY. Slavery.

Two generations of American kids have been taught that slavery was the reason behind that war. Now they believe it, completely, even though it is a bald-faced lie. The same two generations of Americans have been spoon-fed the myth of �Global-Warming� and they have swallowed it line, hook, and sinker! So, do not think for one moment, they cannot change the definition of Socialism�because they Can� and they Will!

American has now begun her slide into obscurity. Socialism will eat the heart out of this country. Just look around you and observe how our society is already crumbling right before our very eyes. That collapse is partly dues to the current government�s drive to redistribute the nation�s wealth. It is a simple fact of economics that when you take away the producer�s money� the producer stops producing! His incentive to produce has been taken away by the government. Socialism is, well, killing the goose that lays the golden egg.

Voltaire summed it up. He said: "In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other." Even Norman Mailer got it right when he said: "The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.� Ayn Rand said this: "Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good." And finally a quote from on of the outstanding thinkers of his time and one of the Founders of what came to be known as the United States of America, Thomas Jefferson. He said: "To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, 'the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it.'"

As I said above, America has only just begun her ignoble journey to the dust heap of history. Socialism will eat the heart out of the country and, by �country� I don�t mean only the collection of people, places, and things we define as �a country.� I also mean us, you, and me. Just look around you. Let it sink in. Store it away in your memory bank somewhere, for soon that is all the America you and I have known will be. It will be just a memory� a DISTANT memory.

J. D. Longstreet

�BIG Brother� OBAMA Coming After The INTERNET!

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:22:42 GMT

"BIG Brother" OBAMA Coming After The INTERNET!
We Warned You They Would Do This!
By: J. D. Longstreet

The White House will have new powers to access private online data, regulate the cyber security industry and even shut down Internet traffic under the provisions of Senate bills No. 773 and 778, introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V.. It's called the Cybersecurity Act of 2009.

Read the story HERE.

Read the working draft of the bills HERE.

Can you say "BIG BROTHER?" Would you care to guess who will be declared persona no grata as soon as the Socialists in the White House have control of the Internet? Can you say "Conservative Bloggers?"

Did we not warn you that Obama and his socialist cohort would come after us at the very first opportunity?

Forget the 1st Amendment! That was in the OLD USA! It does not apply today in the New Socialist States of America! Somehow, you folks are confused. Did you not know this was a part of the CHANGE Obama was bringing? Were you not paying attention?

It seems more and more, every day, as if the Constitution has been suspended.

This piece of hell-spawned legislation must be stopped. It is time to contact your Senators and Representatives and demand they stop it cold in its tracks. Frankly, I don't believe it will be stopped and, to be totally honest, I don't think it CAN be stopped. The socialists have a stranglehold on our government and they are tightening their grip every day with constitution-bypassing legislation such as this.

In any event we must make a "best effort" try to stop this thing!

J. D. Longstreet

Conservatives Need Their OWN Political Party! ... by: J. D. Longstreet

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:46:46 GMT

Conservatives Need Their OWN Political Party!

J. D. Longstreet

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I have been sickened by the lack of action by the so-called conservatives we elected to the House and the Senate. Even President Bush, who fashioned a new name for himself by referring to himself as a Compassionate Conservative turned out to be nothing more that a moderate, at best, and a liberal, at worst. George Bush was not and is not a conservative. At best, he is a moderate, as is his father.

I must tell you I am seriously concerned over the prospects of remaining in a political party, which does not represent my core beliefs. The GOP has backhanded its conservative base and no longer deserves our support. Instead, I feel it is time, actually past time, for Conservatives to have their own Conservative Party!

I am sick at the prospect of our Military Forces being, once again, shamed by their civilian leaders and forced to withdraw in the face of an inferior enemy. A withdrawal from Iraq will do nothing to ease the Islamofacist's attacks against the US. In fact, it will only embolden them to strike at our heartland� and they will. Count on it!

The slate of candidates for President, the GOP offered last year, was no better for America than the candidates the Democrats offered their side. . There was none among the Republicans I, as a conservative, could support. There was no way, and I was not alone as the figures plainly show, about to vote for someone who did not represent a drastic change from the policies of spend, spend, borrow some more and spend it, too!

I am tired of "big tent political parties". I'm tired of being told I must share that tent with liberal Republicans, and moderate Republicans, and the hosts of special interest groups who feel it is in their best interests to be under that tent. I want a party I can point to with pride and say, I belong to THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY!

We can have such a party. It will take work, determination, and the ability to ignore the nay sayers who insist that a third party will not work.

I must tell you� I am having a great deal of difficulty supporting a Republican Party, which does not represent me. I will leave the Republican Party, which has been my home since I registered to vote the first time, on my 21st birthday, in South Carolina... as soon as I have a political party, which actually represents me, as an alternative.

It seems to me, Conservatives owe it to the American people to give them a clear-cut choice between the Democrats and a Conservative Party. As it stands today, the Republican Party is not providing that choice. If they are anything, the current Republican Party is Democrat-lite!

As the GOP spirals downward, even farther that it has already, this is something we conservatives must consider... if we want to survive as a political force in America. To do nothing is unthinkable. What say you?

With some 2,000 Tea Parties scheduled this month, you�d think a Conservative Party would be on, or near, the top of their agenda. Let�s hope that it is. For currently, this conservative is in a state akin to �limbo�.

Look, the GOP can forget the conservative vote in 2010. It is not going to get those votes. Why? Simple. Conservatives do not trust the Republican Party any longer. The GOP is grasping at straws if it believes we conservatives will be scared back into the fold by Obama�s socialism. That is not going to happen.

I know of one conservative who went to the polls last November sick at heart over the republican slate of candidates and wrote in the name of Sarah Palin for President, even though she was on the ticket as the GOP�s Vice-Presidential candidate. You see, SHE WAS A CONSERVATIVE and that voter knew it and he voted for her!

We desperately need a Conservative Party. Someone in this formerly great country must step up to fight the rampant socialism the current crop of Congresspersons and Senators and even the President are �locking-in� in the minds of the those voters not equipped to think for themselves and not in possession of all the material they need to make an informed decision in the voting booth. They won in 2008 because they bought Obama�s message of socialism. It was a sparkling victory for ignorance in the USA.

If we conservatives want to change that, then we are going to have to do it ourselves and stop relying on the Republican Party to do it for us. That means we MUST have a viable Third Party� and the sooner the better!

J. D. Longstreet

Our Country calls� Once Again!

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:08:04 GMT

Our Country calls� Once Again!

By: J. D. Longstreet

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THE FLAG CODE Title 36, U.S.C., Chapter 10 As amended by P.L. 344, 94th Congress Approved July 7, 1976

� 176. Respect for flag:

No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.

(a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.

Americans have a long and storied history of rising to the occasion when the nation is in jeopardy. I was born before the Second World War and I must tell you that, in my opinion, the nation is in more jeopardy, this very moment than it has been since even BEFORE WW-II.

Our government is dragging at least half the nation's population, kicking and screaming, into SOCIALISM, which is, as we know, only one small step away from COMMUNISM. The nation is in serious trouble and I don't mean from businesses going belly-up.

Until January 20th of 2009, this nation was a capitalist nation. In a capitalist nation business is the bedrock of the society. Consumers decide which businesses live and which businesses die. Not the government! The Socialist way is for the government to decide, for the consumer, which businesses live and which don't.

The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines Socialism as follows:

Main Entry: so�cial�ism
Pronunciation:
ˈsō-shə-ˌli-zəm
Function: noun
Date: 1837

1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

2 a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property
b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state

3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done.

If you find you cannot take my word for it, can you take the word of this renowned dictionary?

So... what to do? First we have to accept that the America we knew, the America that dates back to even before the year 1776, is GONE! We also have to accept the fact that the US Constitution is being ignored. Soon with a turnover of Justices on the Supreme Court the Judiciary branch of the government will join the Executive and Legislative branches as a socialist entity and the transformation will be complete.

If we continue to tell ourselves that we only have to wait until 2010, and the next round of elections for Congress, we can change the government back to a democratic representative republic as The Founders intended, then we are setting ourselves up for total defeat.

By 2010 the country can, and probably will, be in such dire straights, financially, that the government can declare a national emergency and "postpone" the election. I would not put it past the bunch in control of our government, currently, to do just that. Once your right to vote is rescinded, what do you do then? Time is not on the side of those who wish to reinstate a representative republic in America.

The Republican Party cannot be counted on to do whatever is necessary to retard the socialist stranglehold on America. As a registered republican it gives me great pain to acknowledge this fact. But, there it is!

Soon, the socialist government of the US will be coming after the Internet, especially we conservative bloggers. You can be sure they are burning the midnight oil searching for ways to shut us up even as I write these words. Paranoia, you say? Well, "when an entire government is after you, paranoia is just damned good thinking!"

We must begin NOW. We cannot wait. As I said above... time is not on our side.

May God Save America!

J. D. Longstreet

America Must Keep The Death Penalty

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:16:42 GMT

America Must Keep The Death Penalty

By: J. D. Longstreet

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It will probably come as no surprise to you, if you are a regular reader, that I support the death penalty.

North Carolina is a death penalty state. Although there are forces here making a strong push to have the death penalty overturned in this state. I hope they do not succeed. Currently there is the Death Penalty Moratorium group, and there is the on again, off again, debate over physicians attending at an actual execution. Both, in my opinion, are simply steps in the escalation of the anti-death penalty crowd to ultimately do away with the death penalty in North Carolina.

I don't get it. Seems to me that if you take the life of another you forfeit your life. I don't tie myself in knots worrying about becoming as bad as the murderer when my state takes the life of that murderer for what he has done. It simply doesn't make sense to me.

I don't worry about the death penalty's effect upon recidivism. I, frankly, don't know if the death penalty has any effect, at all, on recidivism. But, I do know that the executed convict certainly will not repeat his/her offense again� ever!

Is the death Penalty a deterrence to crime? Well, here is what John Adams of Marquette University/Department of Political Science had to say about it: "If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers, and doing so would in fact have deterred other murders, we have allowed the killing of a bunch of innocent victims. I would much rather risk the former. This, to me, is not a tough call."

In fact, the Supreme Court of the US has said:"Indeed, the decision that capital punishment may be the appropriate sanction in extreme cases is an expression of the community's belief that certain crimes are themselves so grievous an affront to humanity that the only adequate response may be the penalty of death."

Death penalty advocates do not see the death penalty as a solution to violent crime, as we are often accused. No. The simple fact is we believe, as the Supreme Court has rightly said, that there are some crimes so grievous that only the death penalty is an acceptable response.

Then� there is evil. Whether we choose to believe it, or not, pure raw evil stalks the earth. It really doesn't matter whether you believe there is such a thing as evil, it still exists, and it wreaks havoc in a civilized society. As long as evil stalks the earth heinous crimes will be committed. A civilized society cannot remain civilized if we allow the perpetrators of evil to continue to live among us.

Why do I broach this subject now? Considering the liberal/socialists now in charge of our government, I believe there will be a strong push in the next few months, or years, to have the death penalty repealed in the US. We can't allow that to happen.

Look, already we are having a running debate over punishing the enemies of our country�those who would kill us by the hundreds, even thousands. That movement springs from a form of guilt the liberal movement feels. Yes, it is based on emotion, as is the anti-death penalty movement. An adult must be able to overcome his, or her emotions and do what must be done at any given moment. Unfortunately, we are plagued with a host of leaders in this country who, apparently, have not yet reached adulthood. And� they have a multitude of followers. And, I might mention, that quite often, the "leaders," are led by those with stronger constitutions than they. Unfortunately, it is a curse this country must bear.

The bottom line is, if we wish to remain a civilized society then we must be ready to execute those who break our laws, and nature's law, by murdering another human being or bringing massive amounts of pain upon our society by some action short of murder. If we cannot screw up enough courage to do what is necessary we will become like that part of the world, which today, feels they are above such things and rely upon the people of the United States to do their dirty work for them. I ask you, if we become like them, then WHOM will WE depend upon?

J. D. Longstreet