I was shocked at this morning's cartoon on the editorial page.  Our president dancing with Dracula?  I agree that President Obama has crossed the line with regard to abusing the powers of the presidency, but that was way over the line, disrespectful, disgusting, inappropriate, and not at all true.  It isn't the president that is sucking the blood out of our country. He does not control the purse. 

            Now picturing bloodsucking members of congress dancing with Dracula would at least be metaphorically applicable.  Grijalva and his ilk, for example.  They feed off the public, sell their souls for another election.   

         We pay members of the house a salary of  $200,000 a year and provide them with MRA's (Members Representative Allowances of  $1,400,000 year.   Senators get an additional $3,300,000 a year.   All of them are fully vested in the retirement system after only 5 years and by the time they retire, which is always none to soon, they are all millionaires. 

          Martha Stewart went to prison for insider trading, but members of congress get to do it without penalty.  They know they are passing a law on Monday that is going to affect the stock of a company, so on Friday they call their investment advisers.  It's perfectly legal for them.

         I am not a mathematician, so I would appreciate your correcting me if I'm wrong (http://www.senate.gov/CRSReports/crs-publish.cfm?pid='0E%2C*PL%5B%3D%23P%20%20%0A), but I think that means that we pay those bloodsuckers a trillion dollars a year and they can't even pass a budget.  Their one duty, their only real responsibility is to meet every year and establish a budget, and they can't get it done.

            When Nimrod gathered his people to build the Tower of Babel and create this perfect society, God blessed us all by confusing our languages and dispersing us to the ends of the earth. God intended that we should live free without the constraints of big government.
            Can you imagine how He would feel about letting the United Nations herd us into carefully designed sustainable development patterns. It's an uncanny coincidence that the new parliament building in Strasbourg looks so much like the ancient tower of Babel.
           "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me."  I'm pretty sure that includes the United Nations, our federal government, our state legislatures, even our city planners.  If we learn one thing from history, we learn that individually we are remarkable beings, but that collectively we are capable of great evil.
             Even if that weren't true, do you really believe that George Sorros or Al Gore or Alec Baldwin would huddle with us in high rises sandwiched between office buildings at the top and sandwich shops and grocery stories at the lower levels.  They'd traverse the world in their jets an enjoy their castles because they'd have us all penned up.  We wouldn't even have to leave the building.  All our needs satisfied under one roof.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL34H_PvTzg

                Anthony Barnosky, professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, says the earth is reaching a tipping point. 

               He points to climate change as evidence and suggests that the way we are using the land has interrupted the natural order of things. Had he read the article in this month’s National Geographic about the unusual solar activity we’ve been experiencing, he might have realized that there is more going on in the universe than can be explained and solved by his peewee brain.  What vanity!  (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/solar-storms/ferris-text)

Did he watch Venus rising last week?  That little speck, roughly the size of our planet, passed in front of our sun, 1,300,000 times as large, where a trillion nuclear explosions blast unceasingly.  Watching that should teach us, once again, one truth that God hopes we will hold fast to.  We are insignificant specks of dust held in the palm of his hand. 

Dr. Anthony Barnosky says we need to plan for the future, “for the long term in order to drive the planet in directions we want it to go.”  Thank you Mr. Barnosky , but I do not want some new version of William Burrows’ Dr Benway  or H. G. Wells’ Dr Moreau driving my planet.  There is nothing scarier to me than to let some PhD, or a group of PhD’s who are so full of themselves they think they can manage the universe.  Go find another planet to drive

I spent Memorial Day weekend on an emotional high.  When I signed up for the trip to DC, I had no idea I would have the privilege of flying with a bunch of WWII vets. We sang “God Bless America” as fire trucks doused the plane in gushers of water saluting the soldiers.  I swallowed tears when crowds of people lined the gate cheering the soldiers as they deplaned in Baltimore. This is a similar deplaning Reagan International, but that's the experience.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FgecqttxoQg#!

 I thought my heart would break riding the tram through Arlington Cemetery, among “Endless rows for all to see. Freedoms seeds in sorrow sown. These blades of grass and pure white stones.”  I was especially moved by the fields of stones where lay the American Negros who fought for our country in the Civil War.  So much hope.  So much sorrow. 

We had the priviledge of singing at the Kennedy Center accompanied by the Army Symphony Orchestgra.  You see me there, don't you, way up there in the top row?


We visited a number of monuments.  At the base of the North Dakota pillar in the WWII memorial someone had left a frame with pictures of the six Jacobson brothers died in WWII fighting for our freedoms.  The caption read, “It takes a whole family to win a war.” 

The next day I heard Chris Hays explaining that he was “uncomfortable” about calling America’s fallen soldiers “heroes” because it was “rhetorically proximate” to justifications for more war.  His apology the next day was “rhetorically” difficult, but I think he said he regretted the disconnect between the likes of him and those rubes in fly over country who do not have the intellectual capacity to understand his discomfort. 

He sits at that desk in the most affluent city in the world, and he doesn’t seem to understand that that privilege rests upon those graves.  They made his life possible, but he senses a disconnect.   Chris Hays is emblematic of the internal cultural rot that causes a society to decline. 

Our great universities are producing generations of effete snobs who are way too smart to buy into the drivel produced by our founding fathers.  They see nothing exceptional about our country, so in their eyes those silly soldiers die for naught, for foolishness.   

And that’s what divides us from them.  We know that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and that the single purpose of government is to protect those rights.   We recognize that no other government on earth was established for that purpose and that purpose alone. 

We recognize that it is only a free people living in a free country where courage and initiative and daring and skill are still rewarded in spite of the restrictions those stunningly brilliant intelligentsia are trying  to harness us with.

We are at a tipping point, however.  Both Democrats and Republicans have conspired to create a government so huge and so intrusive that only the companies that are “too big to fail” have the money and the lawyers and the expertise to work their way through the morass of red tape.  That cultural rot at the head is eating away at the heart of a great nation.

     Christ Mathews says, “In terms of the long march towards freedom, liberals have always been pushing forward for the rights of all kinds of people, but another army feeds on their souls.  They are wolves and they’re out there feeding right now.”

      First of all, he has NO sense of history. It was his party that fought tooth and nail against abolition and suffrage and voting rights. 

       Second, he has no sense of good taste. Do you think a conservative would last long on network suggesting democrats are wolves feeding on the souls of the unfortunate? 

It IS 1984!!!!!

     Obama has just appointed a new czar. Samantha Power (Cass Sunstein'wife...Oh yeah!) will head the Atrocities Prevention Board.

        NOW GET THIS In a 2002 at U Berkeley she was asked how the U.S. should respond if “one party or another” were “moving toward genocide” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

       She replied: “What we need is a willingness to actually put something on the line in sort of helping the situation. And putting something on the line might mean alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import.”

        What kind of speech is that?  What does it mean? 

       The radicals over there, all of them, say their goal is to push the Jews into the sea. Does the language she uses sound like she'll to anything to prevent that?

     I have determined that liberals are not liberal. They are intolerant. They try to sensor speech at every juncture. If you make an attempt to refute their favorite mantras, they want you silenced.
       First in was Glenn Beck, then it was Rush Limbaugh, more recently it’s Jesse Lee Peterson because he said women’s suffrage was America’s greatest mistake.
      The most recent example that spurred me to respond was a story about the Norwegian elite silencing the Oslo Freedom Forum. Thor Havorssen’s, a Venezuelan American, head of Human Rights Foundation in New York, is an outspoken opponent of Hugo Chavez and invited challengers of Chávez and Castro to the conference.Yes, you read that right – in Norway, it just isn’t done to invite opponents of Chávez and Castro to a human-rights conference.