ON THE LINE IN NOVEMBER: INDIVIDUAL FREEDOMS AND LIBERTIES

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Our individual rights, freedoms and liberties have never been under attack to the extent that the Obama Administration and its cohorts have been engaged in over the past two years. When you look back at what has happened, you cannot help but understand that the “regime” has been quietly setting itself up to be the oppressor against us, the oppressed.

In New York City, there was a community Orthodox Church badly damaged by 9/11 that has been trying desperately to get permission to rebuild ever since. On the other hand, you have a Muslim “Center” that has apparent radical connections and you have a Federal and City government bound and determined to let them build next to Ground Zero against the will of the people.

In two major Supreme Court decisions, it was affirmed that Americans have the right to own and bear arms; yet, the two cities most directly affected by those rulings, Washington D.C. and Chicago; both immediately enacted new laws to circumvent the rulings. In cities, counties and states around the country, new laws are being promulgated by the multitudes. Some are outlandish and ridiculous. Take for example, the proposed California law that would require that all guns stamp shell casings with an identification number when the gun is fired; will that stop gun crime by illegal gun owners? Never mind that the technology is not available except by one manufacturer; that fact would simply be another deterrent to gun ownership.

It is no secret that Obama has a vendetta against Fox News. The Administration has openly threatened Beck and his advertisers and it has derided O’Reilly and Hannity to no end; even Van Susteren has felt the heat. They have constantly been pushing the ideas of “Fair and Balanced” broadcasting that would require broadcasting companies to give equal time to opposing views. In this manner, if they put up a talk show host to counter Rush Limbaugh and no one will listen to the opposing view, Limbaugh has to come off the air. This whole scenario really tinkers with my right to listen to who I want to listen to and about what.

The new Health Care Plan is such an assault upon our individual liberties that, had it been put forth in the early days of this country, its authors would have been charged with sedition.

If we reelect those in Congress who support the Administration in these tactics, we are only providing them with the power and courage to continue. They must be stopped and it is up to us to do it.

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.

THE DRUMBEAT OF AMERICA

Once upon a time around 236 years ago, our forefathers were saddled with the job of devising a form of government that would provide for balance of power in the legislative, judicial and executive needs of the country while retaining the real and supreme authority for the people and for the states.  From their endeavors, the strongest and most reliable and long-lasting governmental constitution ever devised by man in any country at any time emerged and became the law of our country 234 years ago. 

Our Constitution has served us well in this country, far outlasting those of other countries in times of national and world peril, through good times and bad.  Here we are in 2010 with an economy that is in very fragile shape, with national security that is strained to keep us safe, with declining morals and ethical values, with high unemployment, with the old pangs of racism freely flowing and with a government that has gone far astray from the core principles and guidelines set forth in our great document. 

We are all very worried in this country about what tomorrow will bring.  If I have heard it once, I’ve heard it thousands of times in the past months:  “I don’t know what or who to believe or what to do.” 

The answer, my friends, lies within the great Constitution that our forefathers belabored over for weeks and months trying, as best they might, to devise a document that would stand the tests of time; their strongest challenge was to retain a balance of power between the branches of government while retaining the real power and authority for the people themselves.  What we have is a situation where the Executive Branch of our government is exerting far too much control over the Legislative Branch and we have a Legislative Branch that has turned its backs on the will of the people. 

That’s the whole problem in a nutshell.  Now what? 

Since the real authority and power of our government lies with the people, it is time for us to exercise our responsibilities and to right the wrongs that are being perpetrated upon us.  We must at once command our Legislative Branch, the Congress, to listen to and obey the will of the people.  Those who have failed to do so must be sanctioned and removed.  It’s just that simple. 

We have set ourselves upon the course of restoring the power and authority of our government to the people in accordance with the provisions of our Constitution.  The members of Congress who face reelection in November are scurrying around like nervous Nellies, spinning their misdeeds and trying to convince us that they have acted only upon our concerns and directions.  Yet, we all know that they have not.  If you sit down at the kitchen table and make two lists, one of all the things they have done which are good and we wanted them to do, and another list of the things we were against and did not want them to do, it will quickly remind you of the despicable disregard they have had for what we think and want.  There should be no doubt that they must all be removed, regardless of how much they whine and tremble in fear. 

We must prepare ourselves and steel our nerves against the onslaughts of protests that will raise their voices louder and louder in the remaining days before the November elections.  We must be firm in our convictions that the power and authority of our government must be restored to the people.  And, in the dust that will arise on November 2^nd, we must rise further to the occasion and begin to prepare ourselves to finish the job in 2012 by removing those who were not up for reelection in 2010 and by resolving the issue that remains in the other branch of our government, the Executive branch. 

This is not the time to draw a deep breath.  This is not the time to allow the incessant voices of those who have violated our trust to wear down our resolve. This is the time to stand firmly together, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, and to finish the job we know fully well we simply must do. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

TAX, TAX, TAX

We’ve all known they there is no way Obama could keep his rock solid promise not to raise taxes while he was spending, spending, spending. Now he wants to tax, tax, tax and the Democrats in Congress who are already in trouble over their health care votes are nervous, nervous, nervous. In fact, at least one Democrat is openly saying that they don’t care whether Pelosi likes them or not, they are voting FOR extending the Bush tax cuts for everyone.

What a quagmire the dirty rotten politicians got themselves, and us,  into.

To be fair, as we all know, the economic problems did not start with Obama. Nor did they start with Bush or Clinton; they started with Bush 1. But, Obama has not only continued with bad economic policy, he’s made things so bad that even his buddies on The Hill are hiding from him.

Now, what do we do? How do we fix this mess?

Let’s not forget that we have 17% or 18% of eligible Americans out of work. Yes, almost 10% on unemployment plus those who have exhausted their benefits plus those who have given up and quit looking. Foreclosures are at their highest rate since 1926. The economy, regardless of what the meathead in the White House is saying, is in a slump. Now, we’re out of money.

Is raising taxes the right answer under these circumstances?

If you want to see the economy jump start, employers to start hiring, foreclosures to come to a grinding halt and tax revenues take a startling hike, try these ideas on for size:

1. Cancel the new Health Care Plan.
2. Extend all Bush tax cuts.
3. Repay the treasury the unused stimulus funds.
4. Repay the treasury the repaid TARP money.
5. Extend the tax incentive for buying houses.
6. Put on a two-year tax break for interest on consumer interest charges.
7. Put on a two-year tax incentive for hiring additional employees.

Actually, I’m inclined to think that just firing Obama would be just as good as all of the above seven steps combined. There would be a huge jolt to the economy if we could get implement all eight ideas!

We, the people, did not create this mess. Washington created it. You know it and I know it. The Democrats, through their illustrious leader Barack Hussein Obama, have blown the problem way out of proportion and now they want us to pay for it. I say we should repay their imprudence by voting them all out in November. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

GOP HAS JUST "LOST IT"

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Christine O’Donnell took on the political establishment in Delaware and, against all odds, she won. What’s that all about?

Americans are just as ticked off at establishment Republicans who have become part of the problem in Washington as they are at Democrats. For months now, I’ve been pointing out that corruption and cavalier attitudes in Congress transcends both parties, has become a “culture,” and that all longtime incumbents need to be removed.

The Delaware vote exemplified that.

The Republican Party doesn’t get the message. They’re just so beside themselves that O’Donnell picked off Mike Castle, one of their perennial cronies, that they have already announced they will not support her in the November elections.

All of which goes to underscore that, despite their pledges of learning their lesson and being better for America, the Republican Party is still full of assholes.

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.

THE MOSQUE CHANGES THE PLAYING FIELD

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Well, it has been weeks now and the Imam and his cronies show no signs of relenting from their insistence that their sacred “community center” be built next door to the World Trade Center. They have accused us of being anti-Muslim and everything else imaginable. They have sneered at suggestions the “community center” could be built on New York City land a few more blocks down the street.

They squawk to us that we have no right to racially profile them for airport security purposes. They submit to us that they should have the right to prayer in our schools when we do not. I could go on in this vein for the rest of the day and it all adds up to, in short, their position is that we Americans owe them political correctness and they owe us nothing.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t think I want them as my neighbors anymore.

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.

IF ONLY THEY COULD TAKE DOWN THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AGAIN?

Nine years and one day ago, this country was terribly divided, religiously and politically and at all levels of society. Congress was asunder, there was no spirit of unity anywhere in this country and Bush had made some economic decisions bound to lead the country into trouble.

Nine years ago this morning, I awakened to a day of horror shared by all of us Americans everywhere. I was working in the casino business in Reno, Nevada, and arrived at work to discover that not one customer was playing slots or blackjack; there were no customers. The employees on duty were all huddled around the televisions at the bar or in the employee lounge, totally engrossed as the events of the day played out. It seems to me that within hours, certainly not more than a day or two, the American flag was waving at the front of businesses and houses throughout the country and we were unified, religiously and politically and at all levels of society; all of us in his great country stood together in mutual shock and anger at the atrocities of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville, PA.

Nine years down the road, we are now divided both religiously and politically and at all levels of society. Congress is once again asunder, (but much worse), there is no spirit of unity in this country and Obama has proven himself to be a much worse President than either Bush could possibly be capable of. There’s a radical Muslim running amok who is bound and determined to build a Mosque at the site of the World Trade Center for the sole purpose of claiming a victory for Al Queda and Bin Laden and we have a President and a Mayor who seem intent on accommodating this venture of evil doing.

In short, our country now stands pulled apart in every direction and, frankly, every person in this country now has someone to hate or despise, whether it is someone of a different religion, another race, another level of society, a different political party, with more money or less money… someone in some category has become more than an acquaintance or associate and they have become an enemy to some extent. Even more ominous, those in the seats of power in Washington have morphed into being the enemy of all of us, refusing to consider our opinions in the polls or on blogs, denigrating us for forming alliances such as the Tea Parties while chastising us for demanding that our individual rights be recognized.

What happened to that spirit of national unity and patriotism that rose from the ashes of 9/11? Where did those days go when our government responded to we, the people, in a moment of national crisis? What have we done with the flags we so proudly displayed in those days, weeks and months?

Why have we allowed our country to deteriorate into a far worse condition than existed nine years and one day ago? What will it take to shock us back into reality and to encourage us to take charge of the situation? Can we see that the things that adversely affect our country today all emanate from the halls of power in Washington?

Do we need another World Trade Center event, or are we capable of rising to the occasion ourselves and of ridding ourselves of the sources of evil that exist in our government? Can we, the people, return our country to the days of national unity and patriotism or do we need another national disaster to make that happen?

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

DEMOCRATS WON’T STUMP ON HEALTHCARE

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Remember Nancy Pelosi’s sweet words of advice, that we really wouldn’t know what a great deal we were getting on health care until we read the bill, but that we wouldn’t read it until after it was passed? Remember all of the back-room payoffs and bribes without money that took place in order to pass this “wonderful” legislation? Can’t you still visualize good old Harry and Nancy and Barry slapping each other on their backs in joyful glee because they had just passed this great, terrific bill that was going to save us money and improve our health care?

Here we are, heading pell-mell toward the November elections and you’d think they’d all be rallying around their great piece of creative legislation and leading us on to bigger and greater things that can be accomplished with their re-election and another two years of doing good for America.

Their resounding silence on the subject speaks volumes about it, doesn’t it? As a matter of fact, if you bring the subject up you’ll see their eyes turn quickly away as if to search for a backdoor way out of the room. Just a few months ago, they didn’t give a damn what Americans thought about their dirty deeds. Now, they’re shucking and ducking like cats on a hot tin roof.

When you walk into the polls this November, remember good old Harry, Nancy and Barry and their back-thumping; remember the faces of those treacherous traitors to the American will as the stood proudly behind those three as the Bill was signed into law. Remember the names they called us when we raised hell about the costs and the forthcoming results.

Then, use your vote to let them know how very much you appreciate their sorry asses.

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

AMERICANS GET A B+

We are now down to the final 60 days of the 2010 off-year political season and it’s time we took stock of how we have been doing as Americans in paying attention to what has to be done for the future of our country.

I’ve been saying for months that we simply have to get the message to Washington that we are sick and tired of their lying, cheating, manipulating, spending, cavalier and irresponsible ways. We have had enough of their condescending attitudes, their name calling and talk downs. We still don’t want their health care plan that is going to add over $1 trillion to our national debt, raise our insurance premiums, lower our medical coverage and screw our seniors…. A bill that was passed, signed, sealed and delivered in the face of 75% opposition on the part of the citizens.

I pointed out that our problems have been created by all politicians, Republican, Libertarian, Independent and Democrat alike, but the attitude that created the atmosphere in which these misdeeds have been done has been festering around the halls of Washington for several decades. I advised that the “attitude” had become a “culture” in that it had morphed into being an acceptable way of “doing business as usual” in Washington. Then, I suggested that the only way to destroy this “culture” was to remove the incumbents… all of them.

Well, with just 60 days to go before the elections and now that most of the primaries are behind us, how have we done?

The fact is that incumbents have been falling like dominoes. Yes, far too many incumbents remain in the races as we head into November, but we have done a pretty fair job of eliminating a ton of them. By and large, those who remain ran in the primaries against other long-time career politicians who had also become tainted, to varying degrees, by the “culture of corruption.”

We now must begin to concentrate on the remaining task at hand, that of eliminating the remaining incumbents and seizing back the power of our nation’s government from the politicians in Washington and restoring that power to the states and to ourselves.

We can do this job; we have proven that we are up to the challenge. We have stood shoulder to shoulder, elbow to elbow, we have looked the enemy in the eye and we have prevailed. We can continue to learn, to educate ourselves on what is really wrong with our country, to speak out and challenge those who would have us all dry up and blow away… we can grind their misguided souls into submission and we can emerge from this process a stronger nation, ready to meet the challenges of our economy and getting people back to work, ready to repeal health care and to set our country onto a course of our choosing, not theirs.

We can, we must, we will.

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL

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If you look closely, you can see our President down there.  No?  You can't see Obama?  He's too small to pick out?  

Don't you wonder how such a small, insignificant speck can be creating such havoc in the overall scheme of things? 

Even if you add Pelosi and Reid, you still can't pick them out.  Suppose we add all of Congress, the ones who have been ignoring the will of the people for at least 20 or 30 years?  Now can you see them?  

It seems to me that, if they are so miniscule and they are raising so much ruckus, maybe we should send them to another planet.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

TEMPORARY ABSENCE

MY AMERICAN OPINION WILL RETURN SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

NUCLEAR REACTION: After Iran, What’s Next?

As you are reading this posting, Russia and Iran are beginning the process of loading nuclear rods into Iran’s new nuclear generator. From this point on, the odds of Israel or any other country bombing and destroying that nuclear facility are greatly diminishing, simply because such an event would undoubtedly spread radioactivity around the nearby landscape and into the air where it could travel to another nearby country. Russia and Iran have professed an agreement between them whereby Russia will be removing any weapons-grade material from the reactor and taking it back to Russia. Of course, we know that the Russians and the Iranians are well-known for lying through their collective teeth.

For all intents and purposes, Iran is now a nuclear country and will shortly have an additional source of supply for bomb-making materiel. So, what happens now?

Well, the immediate concern is that we allowed Iran to do this. How can we now justify preventing Syria, Egypt, Yemen and other Middle East countries from following suit? We have just opened the door that we and other nations have long sought to prevent: nuclear proliferation. Furthermore, with this list of rogue nations being involved the odds of nuclear material or bombs falling into the hands of terrorists has just gone sky high.

No wonder Obama left town for ten days.

When you are dealing with the enemy, you should always deal from a position of strength. As long as we had nukes and they didn’t, our margin of strength was ultimately sufficient. Within a very short time, that margin is going to evaporate. You can expect that those countries, now led by Iran, will gear up their rhetoric against this country and its allies. You can expect an increase in the level of terrorist activities. You can expect a growing trend of belligerence.

I think I have to say that our President has not handled the issue of our national security at all well in this instance. And in determining what we should do next, we have to understand that we are saddled with Barack Hussein Obama in the White House for the next 28 months. Given what Obama has done to this country over the past 20 months, we must understand that we need a change in the balance of power in Washington.

Yes, this next election should be about removing the incompetent, holier-than-thou incumbents regardless of political party. But, there has now been a not-so-subtle shift in my thinking. Now more than ever, we need to isolate Obama and neutralize his ability to make decisions that will continue to adversely affect our national security, our economy, and our freedom.

This is not by any remote possibility about any mandate for the Republicans, although that undoubtedly will try to use it as such. But, I guess we’re going to have to vote Republican simply for the purpose of reigning Obama in. Then, we’re going to have to go after the Republicans and watch them like hawks.

Based on everything that is happening and the fact that the Republicans are still as dense as their Democrat counterparts, I predict that the Tea Party will evolve into a political party before the 2012 elections.

In the meanwhile, I guess we’ll all have to sit on our porches with our rifles in our laps, waiting for one of those nuclear-equipped terrorists to come by.

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

ECONOMIC WOES; THE AUDACITY OF OUR PRESIDENT

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It was in the news this morning; first time jobless claims rose to 500,000 last month, the highest figure since November of 2009. Wafting out of the putrid cellars of Washington earlier this week came the news that some 200 cities across the country are going to be faced with higher unemployment and near-hopeless budget deficits. The Congressional Budget Office this morning released news that the nation's debt will increase by almost $1.5 trillion average each year over the next three years. Housing sales, both new and used, are in the tank; foreclosures are up. Pressure to raise interest rates is mounting.

And here we have our President of the United States running around flapping his gums over the building of a Muslim Mosque.

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

THE 14TH AMENDMENT: IS CITIZENSHIP A BIRTH RIGHT?

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

Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

There it is in its whole context, just for your information. It’s Section 1 that is being used to allow illegal aliens to crawl over the border and have a baby, thereby having a U.S. citizen in the family and, presumably, gaining the right to live here forever at our expense. There are some people out there who latch onto the words “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” as a means of rejecting citizenship for those babies.

I don’t get it. If they are here, they are subject to our jurisdiction. To me, the argument is fallacious.

So, do we go ahead and modify or repeal this section of the 14th Amendment?

I don’t know why we simply refuse… refuse… to uphold the laws of the United States as they exist. Number one, if you cross the border illegally, you get sent home. Period. Number two, if you cross the border illegally and have a child here, you get sent home. Period. Having a child here gives you no rights. Where does it say you have rights if you have a child here? You go home, back to Mexico, and you either take your U.S. citizen child with you, or you leave him or her here. If you leave them here, you give up your parental rights.

Now, you can call me whatever you want. I’m in no way denying anyone the right to move here and live here legally. But, if you cross the border illegally, you have no rights. You’re definitely not a citizen and you are not here on a visa or passport, so you have no rights.

That’s the law, that’s the way it was intended to be, and that’s the way it should be. If they don’t like it, they shouldn’t cross the damned border illegally. Furthermore, anyone who aids and abets should be charged with a crime. If you aid a bank robber, you go to jail. If you aid an illegal, you go to jail.

So, just what is so damned difficult about that? 

THE NEW YORK MOSQUE: WHY IT IS A DEAD RINGER FOR OBAMACARE

I am outraged at the insensitivity of the New Yorker liberal left who think they have the almighty power to force Americans to rub their faces in the atrocities of the Muslim world so horribly played out in this country on September 11, 2001. Who gives a damn whether they are Japs who just bombed Pearl Harbor or Muslims who just bombed New York City? We don’t want their damned shrine sitting next to the U.S.S. Arizona OR the World Trade Center. It’s not religious intolerance and it’s not ethnic insensitivity, it’s just a plain damned fact.

How dare they allow this Muslim Shrine to be built in that spot… with a scheduled opening of September 11, 2011, ten years to the day from the horrible disaster they perpetrated on this country. Yes, they are all together in perpetrating this terrible injustice, from the time the plans were made to bring the World Trade Center down to the purchase of this land and the plans to open it as a mosque ten years later. The people involved are followers of Sharia Law; study it.

And, the far-left liberals in this country are bound and determined to shove the faces of those patriotic Americans who still believe in what this country once stood for as far into the camel dung as they possibly can. That Mayor Bloomberg, presumably a Jew, can tolerate even the thought of this project is beyond my comprehension.

When did this project get started? Is it a coincidence that, when Chairman Barack and his Deputy Chairman Holder announced they were going to try Khalid Sheik Mohamed in almost that same location and American public became outraged… Is it a coincidence that the “dream” for this shrine was born at that time? Is it not obvious that the radical Muslim world wants to lay the shame of our weakness in the shadows of where the World Trade Center once stood? If they can’t have their trial to shame us, then they will have their mosque?

The proof of their intent is that they refuse to build this mosque, this shrine, anywhere else in this entire country or anywhere else in New York City. It has to be there, at that spot; otherwise, they cannot teach us their lesson.

It has morphed into a matter of… they will get their way or else. They resorted to trickery, thievery, bribery, corruption, lies, threats and everything else to pass the Health Care Bill, totally against the American will. This is a matter of demonstrating to us where the power in this country is, that we have none, that we are too weak to stand up for ourselves. When we were outraged over their health care plan, they conspired to show us who is in charge of this country.

The mosque project in New York City has lined itself up in the same manner. They intend to rub our noses in the stench of 9/11 one way or another and they do not give one iota what we think about it. Once again, they will demonstrate to us that we, the people, are weak and willing to put up with whatever they, the elite far-left radical bastards want to dish out.

Enough is enough.

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully and angrily submitted. 

OUR GOVERNMENT HAS BECOME OUR ENEMY

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Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said Monday that “Our own government has become our enemy.” He was referring to the Justice Department‘s taking Arizona to court over its immigration bill, but the plain fact is our government has become our enemy in just about every facet of our daily lives and every tenet of our personal and religious belief systems. Obama has rubbed our noses in it and Congress has been complicit in it.

We all know the stories, from health care to the immigration issue to the economy to deficit spending to unemployment….. There’s not enough room on this blog to list all of the yelling and screaming we have done over all of the issues raised. Yet, Chairman Barack, the Czars and the Congress have ignored the will of the people and shoved it all up our fannies. The following is but one example:

In 1934, war veterans erected a cross in the Mojave Desert about 30 miles east of Baker, California to honor those killed in war. Anti-Christian, atheist organizations and the ACLU filed suit in 2001 to have it taken down, as it was on federally-owned land. The case made its way through the courts over many years and, On April 28, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the cross could stay. On May 10th, “unknown vandals” stole it. 

The VFW erected a replica of the cross and the National Park Service immediately removed the replica, alleging that the Supreme Court ruling only covered the original cross and not the replacement cross. An appeal was made to Eric Holder and the Department of Justice and they refused to budge.

Obviously, what happened here is that those who wanted the cross torn down, having lost their case, arranged for someone to take it down and our government, directly ignoring the intent of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the matter, allowed for the injustice to be carried out… despite the objections of hundreds of thousands of U.S. military veterans and the general public.

To be short and to the point, this and so many other instances underscore the fact that…our government has become our enemy.

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.

CHAIRMAN BARACK: THE STORY ON 73,000 BLOGS IS JUST THE BEGINNING

Last week, I ranted about 73,000 blogs being shut down by the Obama Gestapo without any charges being filed or Court order issued. This is a violation of every facet of American freedom and is akin to storm troopers ramming down your doors, accusing you of issuing statements against the regime, and throwing you in a gulag forever… or worse.

The fact that the White House has not commented and the mainstream media has not followed up on this story is solid evidence that the “machine” has something nasty to hide. Remember… this is the site where you first learned about the Black Panthers intimidating Philadelphia voters in 2008, when the mainstream media didn’t carry the story and the White House refused comment. Now, 20 months later, it’s a story.

Well, so is the story about the 73,000 blogs being shut down without Court Order, without a hearing, without any charges being filed. It’s a story, and you need to tune in to it. 

Pay attention to news now seeping out of the new Financial Reform Act: A provision buried in the financial reform bill allows the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to ignore a vast array of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. That is, the SEC could now be allowed to ignore any and all requests for information about its activities.

Why?

The issue came to a head last week as part of an ongoing FOIA dispute between the SEC and the FOX Business Network.  FOX Business sued the SEC in March 2009 for failing to produce documents related to the agency’s botched investigations of the Madoff and Stanford Ponzi schemes. Now the SEC is taking the position that a provision in the recently passed Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act exempts the agency from releasing any documents related to FOX Business’s request. This means that the SEC has become exempt from telling anyone what it is doing, providing information or answering to the public for what it does. It gives the SEC more powers of secrecy than the CIA has.  

Why?

The FBI, under the direction of Attorney General Holder, acting under the cover of a technical change to existing legislation, is now about to seize power to require businesses to turn over emails and other electronic communications without Court order or warrant. It will require Internet providers to turn over meta-data about a user's traffic habits without having to show any justification. Moreover, the initiative requires the business not to tell the internet user that the records have been seized. 

Why? 

Can you honestly sit there and tell me that these secretive moves by the government are not tantamount to S.S. operations carried out in the Soviet Union or Hitler’s Germany? This is not simple skirting of law; it is a direction violation of rights to privacy, freedom and justice. 

As for the 73,000 blogs, there has been a complete and total blackout of information imposed by someone in a position of power to do so. The initial story was that the blogs were shut down for violations of copyright law and similar offenses. Then, a story circulated that the blogs, all 73,000 of them, were associated with terrorist activities. Now, we hear that the agency that shut the blogs down was the Department of Immigration and Naturalization.

What gives?

It appears to me that Barack Hussein Obama has set himself up to be the “front man,” the Chairman Mao who sets about trying to dissuade and mislead the masses while the real culprits, the White House Czars, set about their nefarious activities associated with taking away our liberties and overthrowing our system of government. I cannot think of any other reason as to why these activities are taking place today, here in the United States of America. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.

WE SALUTE THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

HAPPY 100TH ANNIVERSARY

For God and Country

IS THE STORY ON 73,000 BLOGS BEING COVERED UP BY THE WHITE HOUSE?

That may not sound like much, just 73,000 blogs out of millions on the Internet. But, why has not the White House commented on the story? Why has it not been covered by the “main stream media?”

Just in case you, like millions of other Americans, have been denied the story, here’s the essence. Blogetery.com, which carried more than 73,000 blogs, was recently shut down. Nobody seems willing to say why or who is responsible. The loose knit story is that “law enforcement agencies” shut Blogetry.com down. Initial reports state that the sites were shut down because they contained copyrighted and intellectual material without the consent of the authors. 

What authors?  What content?  

Whatever happened, here are some facts: no civil or criminal court charges have been filed. No court hearing has taken place. No court order has been issued. This is akin to storm troopers ramming down your doors, accusing you of issuing statements against the regime, and throwing you in jail.

There now is the excuse being floated by left-wingers that the sites contained terrorist threats and bomb making instructions. Okay, why isn’t the White House trumpeting the fact that they caught these terrorist sites and shut them down? While I haven’t mentioned it because I have not been able to verify it, there are those who say that the shutdowns occurred because the bloggers were posting anti-Obama or anti-Administration messages.

That’s a serious very charge.

Stop and think about the implications. If Obama and his Czars can shut down 73,000 websites without even a mention in the mainstream media, why can’t they shut down 250,000 or even a million? Granted, if there were in fact 73,000 websites espousing terrorist activities, we would want them shut down. Without due process? No. Without fair hearings? No.

In the absence of comment from the White House, and given the fact that the mainstream media has not covered the story, what are we left to presume? That there’s a blackout on the story? If so, why?

Are you willing to give this story a pass? Or, do you want answers?

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

THE SHERROD AFFAIR: Obama’s Last Stand?

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Once again the Obama Administration has shown its total callousness toward everyone and everything that exists beyond the fence line at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Now comes Shirley Sherrod, an employee of the U.S.D.A. whose remarks were taken out of context and blown up to be something that they were not. Totally without hearing all of the remarks, the White House and Sherrod’s supervisor suffered from a knee-jerk reaction, concluded that Sherrod was engaged in reverse racism and summarily fired her.

Now, after watching the full tape of the remarks and in the middle of a firestorm, the White House has taken a sudden reversal, begged for Sherrod to come back and issued an apology. They waited until the press and the media got a hold of the truth and aired it on national television to finally review the whole tape. And, they evidently want Sherrod to roll over, come back to work and play like nothing ever happened.

There’s the total lack of understanding on the illegal immigration issue, the Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial, the Gulf Oil Disaster, the Health Care debacle, the economy, unemployment, the issue of making the military buy their own health insurance… Really, when is enough enough? Is this finally the straw that will break the back?

Everyone knows what Obama is; when are we going to do something about it? He needs to be so isolated in his fancy White House after November that he can’t do a damned thing. He needs to be made politically impotent.

I never thought I would say this, but I am finally convinced that every seat up for election in November needs to be filled with a Republican, and then we must ride herd on the Republicans to make sure they step up to the plate.

I think enough IS enough.

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

SHARRON ANGLE DESERVES NATIONAL SUPPORT

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Harry Reid has done a total disservice to this country by spearheading programs that are strictly socialistic and by supporting spending legislation that has led us to the brink of bankruptcy. He has shown his cheating, lying ways; remember the Ben Nelson deal during the health care debates?

Sharron Angle is tight-fisted with the tax payer’s money and has a strong record in the Nevada legislature for conservative ideals and for listening to her constituents. I no longer live in Nevada, but I believe it is important enough for Reid to be defeated that I am putting my money where my mouth is.

The Reid political machine that has been created over decades of power in Washington is being fed by far-left radical groups that want Reid to continue undermining the basic and fundamental pieces of our history and culture. Reid’s campaign chest is the largest of any Senator in the history of Nevada. Sharron is refreshingly new to the Washington political scene and needs our support. Please consider sending her campaign a contribution today.

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

YESTERDAY, TYLER ROADS CAME HOME

Yesterday would have done anyone proud. In a small town in the Cascades of northern California, everyone dropped what they were doing, grabbed their American Flags and headed on down to Main Street. Yesterday was the day that Lance Corporal Tyler Roads, USMC, came home to Burney for the last time.

Roads was the second United States Marine from Burney to die in the Afghanistan war. Larry Snelling, Superintendent of the local school district said it all: “He was fulfilling a dream to serve his country and follow in his grandfather’s footsteps.” He was a Marine, he was an American.

As the motorcade bringing the body of American Marine Tyler Roads from the airport in Redding to Burney started down Main Street, an ominous silence fell over town… a silence that was punctuated only by the siren of the Highway Patrol vehicle leading the procession. Literally everyone in Burney and nearby Johnson Park was there, lining Main Street on both sides all of the way through town to the mortuary. Almost everyone carried an American flag; until this day, I never knew or suspected that the town of Burney had that many American flags in it.

As the motorcade turned off of Main Street and into the mortuary, one of the motorcycle honor guards yelled to the throng of bystanders, “My God, thank you. Thank all of you.”

To which an observer replied, “No… thank YOU.”

We all watched in reverent silence as the United States Marines carried the casket in to the funeral home. Yes, we were all saddened by the cause of this event; but, we were all proud to be Americans. This young man gave the ultimate sacrifice in the service of his country.

Those of us who have had the honor to serve our country know full well the sacrifice that this American hero made. We know the choices that he made in his life, particularly the one to serve. We know the commitment he made to his country and the risks that he agreed to assume.

As the doors to the funeral home closed behind the Marines who were carrying American Marine Tyler Roads home, I made a pledge to myself. I urge all of you to take a moment and to digest what I have said here. Again, this man was an American who willingly put himself in harm’s way in service of his country. I cannot think of a more patriotic gift that any man or woman can give.

I will be damned if I will allow anyone, including the President of the United States who has never served, to denigrate the history of this country and to trample upon all of the historic traditional values we stand for. I will not allow this President and his Czarist henchmen to besmirch the American way. I will not allow any Congressman or Senator to sell this country down the drain in order to gain personal favors or money. I will fight these things with every ounce of my breath and every moment of my life. I will overtly combat any activity by any one or any agency or organization that makes the life of Tyler Roads any less honorable. So help me God.

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.

FOMENTING HATRED AND DISCONTENT IN AMERICA

And they’re doing it. At every turn of the hour or day, Obama and his fascist czars along with Pelosi, Reid and Frank, are out there actively and purposefully turning every segment of American society against each other.

Think about it. They now have whites vs. blacks totally stirred up again for the first time in decades. They’re favoring blacks and letting blacks commit crimes against whites without retribution. You have the leader of the Blank Panther Party running around advocating violence and mayhem against whites and intimidating them at the polls, and you have a justice department that drops its case against him.

They have Christians vs. Muslims, atheists vs. Christians, Jews vs. Muslims… they’ve really stirred up the religious community. NASA has been told that is primary mission is to be nicer to Muslims. Muslims are building a huge mosque just down the street from the World Trade Center and they’re making no apologies in the process.

Legal Americans vs. illegal Mexicans, and any state that stands with the legal Americans gets sued.

Unemployed vs. employed and vs. the government. They’ve given nothing but lip service to the plight of millions of Americans without jobs. Instead of creating jobs with the stimulus money they stole from us, they’re pissing away that money on such projects as forcing grocery stores to convert their inventories to more healthy foods, regardless of what consumers want.

They want Americans to report bloggers who blog against the government. They want oil workers to lose their jobs in the gulf, but refuse to allow more exploration on land. They turn states against the central government by refusing to provide disaster support until they’re actively threatened with being lynched; then, when they allow help in the Gulf they send out enforcement agents and regulators to hamper those who are trying to clean up the mess.

They turn citizens against law enforcement by insinuating that law enforcement is incapable of enforcing the law without being discriminatory because they are uneducated, trigger happy nitwits.

They deny Americans the right to speak out. They deny Americans the right to defend themselves. They turn Tea Partiers against union members, union members against gun owners, gun owners against the government, Americans against business, and they seek to shut down the media that reports these things.

This coming election is not about conservatism vs. liberalism, nor is it about Republicans vs. Democrats. It is about throwing the bums in Washington out, out, out because, in the final analysis, in the process of their fomentation of hatred on all fronts they have finally convinced us that we hate Washington and what it has become.

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

ON THE NOT-SO-FRIENDLY ROAD

Travelling right along in the Pacific Northwest, I landed at a LaQuinta Inn in Oregon. Turns out that some bright accounting type guy decided that the Inn could cut expenses if all of the lights, the TV and the air conditioning in the room automatically shut off when the guest leaves the room. So, the deal is that you have to stick your magnetic room-entry card into the wall to turn those things on and when you leave, of course, you take your key with you so that everything turns off a few minutes after you close the door.

To me, this smacks of the narrow toilet paper that Northern Tissue now puts out. They don’t care what the customer thinks, they just do it. It’s a cost-saving mode and screw the customer, right? Well, the customers raised hell because they would come back to their rooms expecting them to be at the temperature they wanted before going to bed and the good folks at LaQuinta started to provide extra keys so that you could leave one in the wall while you went to have pizza.

Equally dumb was the Subway in Oregon that doesn’t have a tip jar out. The reason was that the employees were constantly complaining about the split of the tips, so the management took away the tip jar and said that every employee was on his own. Now, there were two people involved in making my sandwich. Who do I tip? If I have to decide, it’ll be no one. They surely shot themselves in the foot over that move.

So did the guy at Pilot in Oregon. By law, they have to fill your tank; no self service allowed. Okay, he didn’t clean the windshield. Every other time I’ve been in Oregon, they cleaned my windshield, too. One even checked my oil; he got a tip. This guy quite plainly told me that the law says they have to pump gas, not clean windshields, and if I wanted my windshield cleaned I could get my butt out of the car and do it myself. Guess I won’t go there again.

Heard on the news that numnuts and his EPA are shutting down refineries in Texas. Nothing like putting another 10 or 20,000 employees out of work. Why? He’s probably ticked off about the court decision that says he can’t shut down off-shore production “pending a safety review.” If you shut down the refineries, what are they going to do with the crude, anyway? What an ass! I changed radio stations, I was so angry.

Then, he gave a speech on what he’s going to do about the immigration problem. That was another peachy-keen bit of Presidential wisdom; make a lot of thunder, fart in the wind and then pronounce that everything is going to be better as soon as Jan Brewer kisses his ring and worships the hallowed ground that the walks on.

How about the Office Depot place where the gal goes through the printing order drill… how many copies, color of paper, double-side or single sided… you know the myriad of questions. Followed by, “When do you need this? Saturday? There’s no way we can have it ready by Saturday at noon. If you really need it that fast, you’ll have to take it someplace else.” Last I heard, they were getting ready to close their doors. Don’t you wonder why?

Numnuts saved 143 million jobs last week. Yeah, I know that unemployment went up again, but he saved 143 million jobs last week. Yes, I do know that new and used housing sales have tanked and that several prominent economists are warning that we are about to enter another Great Depression. But, he saved 143 million jobs…. Oh? There are not that many jobs in the country? Well, what the hell, the math doesn’t matter anyway.

I just love traveling.

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, on the road.