NOTE: As Obama enters his second term, it's even more important to recognize what the history of socialism is in our country. Those who haven't lived through this, or known people who have, have a Utopian view of socialism. They expect every one to live in a luxury apartment, with the men voluntarily going out to work in the fields, or factories, singing as they go, and the women accompanying them on a piano from the veranda. It's not Star Trek, people, where you don't need to work, everything is just given to you. America elected Santa Claus for President, meaning the Democratic party who promises them free food, free houses, free phones, free everything. I pity those who are still asleep. I've been trying to wake people up for 4 years now.....I fear for liberty. Don't come crying to me when socialism becomes fascism because that's the only way socialists can get the change they want. You think it's great that only the rich are being taxed? What happens when rich is defined as anyone make over $100,000 a year, or $50,000 a year?
Education is our best defense. I've committed to posting this every month. This is something we can not forget. We will not forget as long as I have breath in me. If the Progressives in office want America to forget, they will have to erase it from our minds, our print, our electronic media. In the old days, you could just burn the books. What are you going to do now, Obama?
August, 2012 Note: Now Obamacare has been upheld by the Supreme Court as a tax and therefore constitutional. It's so funny how it got passed because it WASN'T a tax. I call that taxation without representation. If I could afford it, I'd drop my insurance and pay cash. Kinda hard to do when you're battling cancer, though.
August, 2011 Note: We've now passed the Jobs bill, even though Americans didn't want it either. And hidden in the Jobs bill, are parts of Cap and Trade, waiting for the rest of it. Sooner and later, Cap and Trade, also known as Cap and Tax, will be passed against the will of the people. The arrogance of this administration is unbelievable.
December Note: And now we've passed more legislation than I can remember that the American People don't want. And most was passed during the Lame Duck session. I've only been into politics for a short time, and all these terms are new to me. Why is it that Congressmen who have been voted out of office, get to remain in office for 2 months so they can damage the country? The new congressmen should be sworn in the day after the elections. Don't Ask Don't Tell was repealed. I'm a veteran from 22 years ago. We had gays in the military then, and it wasn't really an issue. I had one woman tell me she would rather bend a straight woman than date another gay woman. Are we going to be dealing with out-right sexual assaults now? How can you file a complaint without being labeled a bigot? We are in a Constitutional Crisis and America needs to wake up!
March note: President Obama has now decided, on his own, that the Defense of Marriage is un-constitutional. This is way beyond the purview of the office of President. Is he now also the judicial branch of our government? He has told the judicial branch to not prosecute. So, what's next?
Progressives in History
My husband has an excellent set of History books, college level, that are just astounding in their insight. As a matter of fact, they're the ones I used in my Open Letter To President Obama. (Which I may post at a later date.) I've been tossing around the concept of the 100 year plan that the Progressives had, and, though it doesn't come out and say they had a 100 year plan, these books are where I got that idea. I've been asked a couple times to explain that, so this is my attempt to do just that.
At the turn of the century, the liberals chose to call themselves Progressives because they figured the people would be for progress. We were making huge leaps in progress at that time. There were new inventions all the time: the telephone, electric lighting, the automobile, the streetcar, the airplane, motion pictures, marketing of goods was quickly being developed, farmers were enjoying unprecedented prosperity and gold had been discovered in 1896 in Alaska. Although there had been a banking panic in 1907, there was a framework of prosperity set. We had a mindset of progress, of prosperity in America. All the progressives had to do was link themselves to reform and progress. And they also linked big government to progress. You had to have big government in order to have progress, in their minds.
They had already established Darwinism as fact by this time. The fittest survive. The unfit die out. There is a quote from John D. Rockefeller: " The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest.....This is not an evil tendency of business. It is merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God." So, by linking these concepts together, they established as fact that those against them were against progress, and would die out because they were weak. They were becoming more elite, a higher form of society, evolving. They were also pushing that the United States was a democracy, or that it ought to be. We are a Republic, not a Democracy. But as you see here, the progressives were the elite, not the conservatives. They were not for the common man.
In 1911, they turned their agenda to the school system. Charles A. Ellwood said, that the schools should be used as "a conscious instrument of social reconstruction." The progressives wanted to throw out religious and humane learning, (I take that as the humanities, or arts) and experiment with what would work. They wanted to "socialize" the young. This is when child-centered education began. This started the schools down the road towards what we have now, with the Department of Education taking the control away from the teacher in the classroom.
The progressives had even crept into the Christian movement, according to these texts, who call them the social gospellers. It calls them the most vicious attackers of the American economic system, calling for reform of our tax system. So, in the early 1900's socialists had infiltrated the churches and were calling on reforms and using God's word to back it up. They are the ones who basically were against the free market and started this whole movement that it was against God to be rich.
This is when muckraking became popular. I guess that's what we're doing. Expose articles became popular because the people were hungry for the truth about what was really going on. They list David Graham Phillips' Treason of the Senate...sound familiar?
Originally, Democratic Parties in the south were deemed private parties and excluded blacks. Even with the 14th amendment, blacks were only allowed to vote in the general elections. I guess they didn't want them voting until they had decided who they could vote for. And the south had become solidly Democratic. The progressives were the ones who pushed for segregation. They turned on the black voters. In the late 1800's there was no segregation, there was natural separation, but no forced segregation. By World War I, widespread segregation had been established in the states of the old Confederacy and the neighboring states. By 1930, Birmingham ordinance prohibited Negroes and whites from playing dominoes or checkers together. Two things need to be noted. Segregation was imposed by whites. White superiority was proclaimed, and black inferiority was assumed. Booker T. Washington, a prominent Black leader of the period, told everyone: "to suffer in silence," and to exercise "patience, forbearance, and self-control in the midst of trying conditions." He wanted them to improve themselves and compete in the market. What a smart man, beyond his years. But I have to admit, I don't think I would be able to under those conditions. I believe it was all orchestrated to chose a scapegoat for their future plans. And it's despicable to choose a whole race for your plans...
Did you know that in 1894 they tried to institute an income tax but found it to be unconstitutional? The constitution says that taxes are to be given out by the states according to population, and by consent...and that's not an income tax, is it? The progressives got around that by amending the tariff bill. This was our first redistribution of wealth, from the rich to the subsidized or unproductive in society. In 1913 is also when we ratified direct election of our Senators. Originally, the Senators were to represent the States, not the people. It was supposed to be one of the checks and balances, so the States had some control over congress.
The progressives were in power nationally from 1901 until 1921, covering the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. Roosevelt referred to his program as the Square Deal, and Wilson had his New Freedom. Neither one professed to be socialists, but they set the country on a path towards socialism. Roosevelt said himself, "The New Nationalism puts the national need before sectional or personal advantage. . . .This New Nationalism regards the executive power as the steward of the public welfare. It demands of the judiciary that it shall be interested primarily in human welfare rather than property..." Wilson said of his New Freedom, "I believe that the time has come when the government of this country, both state and national, have to set the stage...for the doing of justice to men in every relationship of life....Without the watchful interference, the resolute interference, of the government, there can be no fair play between individuals and such powerful institutions as the trusts. Freedom today is something more than being let alone. The program of a government of freedom must in these days be positive, not negative merely." In other words, it's the government's job to be pro-active.
The history book says that in the 1920's, the intellectuals felt alienated from America. They fled to Europe.
The Great Depression began with the stock market crash of 1929. Herbert Hoover was the President, and was considered a cold and calloused president. Actually, he believed that the government should play no roll in picking Americans up out of the low place they were in, that it should be the place of private charities and businesses. He said that once government became the saviour, they would forever be dependant on government aide of some kind. Sound familiar? The Depression was the end of the conservatives in power. So the conservatives only had power from 1922-1932. Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected in 1932, and the progressives were back in office. He accused the present administration of too much spending, but said that he would spend money on American citizens in order to keep them from starving in the depression. Does that sound familiar? Blame the past administration and spend, spend, spend, but I have an excuse to do so.
At no point in history had any administration had so much been done in the first 100 days to "take care" of the American people, or assert so much authority over our economy. Unless you count the current administration. At one point Roosevelt openly threatened congress, saying if they didn't act, he would take the power and act himself. We were in the midst of a Depression, so the American people didn't see it as a usurpation of power.
One of the biggest lies, apparently, was Social Security. It was also the biggest redistribution of wealth programs the socialists ever came up with. It was set up as a 1% tax on wages and a 1% match by employers and was to be put in a trust fund in the Treasury. An accumulation was to occur. It was set up to slowly increase. Later it was described as an insurance program, I suppose for insuring when you retire. There were programs set up within Social Security that were redistribution programs from the beginning: unemployment compensation, aid to dependant children, maternal and child care, to crippled children, to neglected children, for public health programs. Social Security turned out to be a pyramid scheme. The people coming in to Social Security pay the ones who came in a long time ago. Don't people go to jail for setting up pyramid schemes?
Harry S. Truman became President upon FDR's death, but it doesn't claim he was a progressive. Although he didn't run as a progressive, his Fair Deal plan included a national health insurance for Americans, new "civil rights" legislation, Fair Employment Practices enactments, housing legislation, farming legislation with subsidies, and expansion of the welfare programs...sounds progressive to me. He instituted subsidies to reduce the rent for low income families. The minimum wage was increased to 75 cents an hour. They also increased low interest loans to farmers. The national health insurance was voted down because the people realized it was the first step to socialized medicine. One bill called for paying subsidies directly to farmers instead of driving up the cost of farm products when farm income fell below a certain level. They said it sounded too much like socialism.
When Eisenhower got elected in 1956 there was little known about his political views. Would he get rid of the welfare state? He was the first Republican since the beginning of the New Deal. He described himself as "basically conservative," and said that, "in the last twenty years creeping socialism has been striking in the United States." But, by 1954, it was clear that he wasn't going to take on the welfare state. Eisenhower accepted the Welfare state as fact. Eisenhower came in talking about how frugal we should be, but he had the highest deficit in peacetime history to that point: 12.4 billion. He turned out to be a middle of the road Republican. Or is it a DIABLO (Democrat In All But Label Only)? Either way, he couldn't turn the tide back from the path to socialism.
In 1960, we elected John F. Kennedy, the youngest man elected to the office of President of the United States of America. He did institute several programs, but this series said he had a hostile Democratic congress. Upon his assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson became President.
Johnson pushed the Great Society, which was real close to being openly socialist. Apparently, Barry Goldwater saw the significance of it, and he pushed for liberty in his campaign and lost the moderates to Johnson. Johnson wasn't bothered by scruples, and used a combination of arm twisting, cajolery and trades to get the bills he wanted passed in a Democrat controlled Congress. the National Republican Congressional Committee classified it as a 3B congress: bullied, badgered and brainwashed. Does that sound familiar? Johnson probably did more for the socialist movement than did any modern president. The only thing that stopped his momentum was the Viet Nam War. It also ended his presidency.
After World War II, America has even pushed Welfare abroad. As quoted from this history book, " ...the United States promoted welfarism and subsidized socialism in Europe." The European Recovery Program allows countries to trade with each other, yet shields them from the world market. They are also dependant on the United States.
This brings our history up to modern times, so I'll quit here. Besides, my mind is boggled. I am now in my generation, and had just no idea of what had gone on before my birth. The victor writes history. And history is being rewritten all the time. Luckily, we have the power to elect our officials, and we have periodically disrupted their plan through out these 100 years. But you can see how the path has wandered and meandered through our history. We are well on the path to a nanny state. I have gotten a much better appreciation for President Hoover. I had always heard that he was the cold and callous man, that he wouldn't even help people during the depression. But that isn't entirely true, is it? It's like the Bible says. Give a man a fish and help him for a day. Teach him to fish and help him for a life time. If we continue to put people on welfare, and leave them there, they will have learned helplessness. I have a handicapped son. When I was teaching him self-care when he was very young, I was told not to give up when he acted as though he didn't know how to do it. Any child will act as though he doesn't know how to get dressed if he thinks you're going to dress him. Why put out the effort if he doesn't have to? If he can stand there and hold up his arms and you'll put on his shirt, why should he struggle to do it himself? It's called learned helplessness. If I show how hard of a time I'm having, you'll come help me, and I won't have to do it. I did the same thing to get out of weeding the cucumbers with my mother. I weeded the cucumbers instead of the weeds. It's human nature.
Sooner or later you have to cut off the aide. I'm not against Welfare. Maybe there should be a time limit. That would encourage people to do something to better themselves. Everyone falls on hard times, and needs a hand up. But, there are an awful lot of nanny state programs, and there are people out there to tell you how to play the government and get your "fair" share. And to broaden government aide to include 150% of poverty and include government run health care? I don't think so. We should be shrinking government involvement. We need another Herbert Hoover about now.
Source: A Basic History of the United States, Volumes 1-5, by Clarence B. Carson, copyright American Textbook Committee, 1985, Tenth Printing, July 1994
Note added in March...the health care bill has passed, signed by Obama, and he's even bribing the American people. There are entitlements for Americans who make 400% of poverty. They are penalizing the young, by causing all student loans to go through the government. What a crock. And pre-existing conditions for children up to 26 were supposed to be covered immediately, but they forgot to put it in the bill. Rep Stupak caved on Pro-life language, based on an executive order, which he admits isn't worth the paper it's written on. Obama has been making deals, threatening congressmen, twisting arms, to get this bill passed, when in the past he has admitted that if you pass health care with less than 60%, you can't govern a nation. So, what does he intend to do? There is 76% of the United States against this bill, but he shoved it down our throats anyway. He wants a revolution so he can declare martial law and suspend the election and declare himself a dictator. Educate yourself. These are radicals from the 60-70's who would have already turned to burning the streets had the tables been turned. They can't figure out why we haven't.
I say we all start wearing tie dye shirts and make fun of them. Let's bring back the groovy talk, wear our hair long, in pony tails and start sporting peace signs. Peace out....groovy....freaky, deaky...man.
Lori Ann Smith
Fighting for Freedom with my dying breath.
Pray for peace
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Saturday, November 3, 2012
How Politics Divides
I guess it's a really sad comment on the situation today. I've been friends with a black woman from my church for at least 5 years. She's on disability (though she works VBS every year and walks a lot). She's not married (never been as far as I know) and has 4 children. The youngest being 13. I don't know if they all have the same father or not. She's a prime example of abuse of the system. She lives in a rent subsidized house, gets SSI and doesn't work, yet all 4 of her kids and she own a Blackberry phone. I suppose it could be one of those Obama phones. She gets her hair done nicely, nails, etc. She eats out a lot, because she was also a friend on face book and checked in or commented every time she went out.
I remember when her son got a job. He also has a child with a woman he didn't marry, and doesn't support. Somehow the government found out he had a job, so they cut down her rent subsidy. She threw a fit, because he didn't give her any of that money, it was all spent on his clothes. Well, duh, that means you don't need to buy him anything, he just became a renter. When her oldest child moved out, they were going to make her move into a house with one less bedroom, because she no longer needed a 4 bedroom. (Two of the girls are very close in age and shared a room.) She threw a fit about that, too. Moving would be such a hardship.
I've always known she was an Obama supporter. Who wouldn't be when you get so much free stuff? She doesn't care about his politics, he's the first black president. She probably wouldn't believe anyone if they told her what he stands for. I don't understand how a Christian can vote for someone who is pro-abortion and pro-Gay marriage. I've been posting all the articles from black conservatives that I can find, like the BlackSphere (who I love, by the way, you should look him up on Face Book), Loyd Marcus (the Black Tea Party activist) and Bishop E. W. Jackson, Sr., etc who speak out against President Obama. Some have religious reasons, some see he's a Marxist, American-hating bigot who wants to destroy free enterprise. I guess what do they have to lose? They don't pay taxes, so they think they're immune to tax increases. They get all this free stuff from the government, so why change it? They just are too stupid to realize that when the unemployment rate goes up, less people are putting in taxes to pay for your free stuff. They are probably afraid if the Republicans get control, they might actually change the welfare system so that it's not a way of life anymore. Then the government won't pay her to watch her illegitimate grandbaby or allow her, as an able-bodied person, to collect SSI, foodstamps and welfare. I feel real sorry for them when the economy crashes. Just like the poor people on the East coast....EBT cards don't work if you don't have power.
It's been a long tradition to "hang in effigy" people you don't agree with. Here's the definition of effigy:
I remember when her son got a job. He also has a child with a woman he didn't marry, and doesn't support. Somehow the government found out he had a job, so they cut down her rent subsidy. She threw a fit, because he didn't give her any of that money, it was all spent on his clothes. Well, duh, that means you don't need to buy him anything, he just became a renter. When her oldest child moved out, they were going to make her move into a house with one less bedroom, because she no longer needed a 4 bedroom. (Two of the girls are very close in age and shared a room.) She threw a fit about that, too. Moving would be such a hardship.
I've always known she was an Obama supporter. Who wouldn't be when you get so much free stuff? She doesn't care about his politics, he's the first black president. She probably wouldn't believe anyone if they told her what he stands for. I don't understand how a Christian can vote for someone who is pro-abortion and pro-Gay marriage. I've been posting all the articles from black conservatives that I can find, like the BlackSphere (who I love, by the way, you should look him up on Face Book), Loyd Marcus (the Black Tea Party activist) and Bishop E. W. Jackson, Sr., etc who speak out against President Obama. Some have religious reasons, some see he's a Marxist, American-hating bigot who wants to destroy free enterprise. I guess what do they have to lose? They don't pay taxes, so they think they're immune to tax increases. They get all this free stuff from the government, so why change it? They just are too stupid to realize that when the unemployment rate goes up, less people are putting in taxes to pay for your free stuff. They are probably afraid if the Republicans get control, they might actually change the welfare system so that it's not a way of life anymore. Then the government won't pay her to watch her illegitimate grandbaby or allow her, as an able-bodied person, to collect SSI, foodstamps and welfare. I feel real sorry for them when the economy crashes. Just like the poor people on the East coast....EBT cards don't work if you don't have power.
It's been a long tradition to "hang in effigy" people you don't agree with. Here's the definition of effigy:
ef·fi·gy
[ef-i-jee]
noun, plural ef·fi·gies.
2. a crude representation of someone disliked, used for purposes of ridicule.
Used for purposes of ridicule. It's been a tradition since we were a colony. I personally don't agree with it, as it seems (these days) to suggest violence on that person. The left hung President Bush in effigy (and set him of fire), they did it to Sarah Palin.
My friend posted a picture where her second youngest daughter is going to college in southern Texas of a man who has an effigy of President Obama. (I still haven't figured out how she can afford to send a child to college, I know I couldn't.) Of course, whenever you say "hang" and "blackman" together in one sentence, you're a racist. All her little minded friends chimed in about how racist it was, how awful, how despicable. I was having a bad day (there have been a lot of those recently, possibly due to facing my own mortality through cancer, or just the number of idiots I run across on a daily basis), and I had to answer. I asked the question: Bet you didn't say anything when they hung President Bush in effigy. First of all, they probably don't even know what effigy means...and aren't smart enough to look it up. They see a "g" in a word associated with a blackman and think the "N" word. She told me to get off her page. I couldn't let that one go, because she's too stupid to realize that anything she comments on gets posted to my "wall." So I told her, it gets posted to my wall, I'm not on your page. So she said she'd have to delete me. I saved her the trouble and unfriended her.
A week or so ago, I was talking to another dear friend of mine, a neighbor. My husband and I were telling him about Obama and the Down Low club in Chicago. He's also black, but 65 years old and a veteran of the United States Navy (Korea). I asked him if he thought I was racist (Obama has me paranoid) and he laughed and asked why I would even ask something like that. You see, I sometimes make comments without thinking with the politically correct mentality. I don't look at color, I look at how someone treats me. This friend is widowed, and if I were single and 10 years older, I'd be flirting with him. He us just such a sweet guy. I never even considered race until 2008. I've only been called a racist because I don't like Obama. Like it's been said before: I don't like his white half either.
I get all the time, the comment that I just don't know what it's like to be prejudiced against. Really? Maybe I don't know what it's like to be black, but I know what prejudice is. I lived 4 years in Hawaii, where white people are the minority. I have an aunt who house sat for someone in Hawaii, and had to come home because she couldn't take being the minority. I have a handicapped child. I've actually had people steer their kids away from mine and not let them play with him because of his handicap. Down Syndrome is not contagious, people. I know the pain of prejudice.
And for my final comment, get out of the past. They drag up slavery all the time...we want to be treated better because our ancestors were slaves. First of all, my ancestors were indentured servants, which is just a glorified word for slave. Tell me something: how is lowering the standards for black people helping them? How does affirmative action help educate black people? If you lower the standards, all you are doing is admitting that the black person isn't capable of learning. So, we, as conservatives, try to educate them on how the Democratic party keeps them dependent on welfare and holds them down. We point out how not one single Democrat voted to free the black man. And what are we told? That's the past, it doesn't matter. Really? I have never owned a slave, why should I be passed over because someone not as smart as me, but black, wants the same job?
Sunday, October 28, 2012
What would happen if we didn't have Oil?
OK, I've really had it with the argument that we can live without oil, as if oil is only used for transportation. Being refined into gasoline and diesel is only a fraction of what oil is actually used for. You think if we didn't have a supply of oil we could just use wind power and water power, and solar power? Think again. I found this site, but for those that don't want to read it, I'll summarize....
Here is a list of the products that are made with oil:
Ink, telephones, cameras, movie film, loud speakers, VCR tapes, LP records, cassette tapes for communication departments. That means no ink for your printer, or speakers for your computer and no news reels to propagandize us with. No TV cabinets, which also transfers to computer cases, phone cases, etc.
Dish washing liquids, floor wax, soap dishes, hand lotion, mops, ammonia, ice cube trays, ice chests, ice buckets, and detergents. This means, no washing dishes, no mopping the floor, and if you think it's no big deal that we won't have ice chests or ice buckets, you also won't have the insulation in your refrigerator. Hope you don't like to keep your food cold. You'll be digging a hole in the back yard and burying it.
Shaving cream, shoe polish, tooth paste, nail polish, perfume, toothbrushes, hair coloring, lipstick, hair curlers, combs, deodorant, soft contact lenses, shampoo, toilet seats, shower doors, shower curtains, curtains and cold cream. So, you'll be shaving with home made lye soap, brushing your teeth with baking soda and hydrogen peroxide on your finger and pooping over a hole in the floor and everyone will see you take a shower. And don't even get me started on the Divas who won't have their nail polish or lipstick. But continue on, because they won't be shopping anyway.
Shoe polish, slacks, pajamas, purses, panty hose, permanent press clothes, sweaters, dresses and shoes. Doesn't matter I suppose that you don't have shoe polish, because you won't have shoes....unless you go back to leather for shoes. How's that gonna sit with the PETA people? We'll also have to go back to animal skins for clothing, because I don't think there's enough cotton in the world, and it's treated anyway. So, Diva's, no more playing dress up....you'll be wearing home made clothes. And (horror for me) no yarn either, to make you're own clothes. I guess I'd better learn to spin yarn from natural fibers.
Toys, dolls, fishing lures, golf balls, motorcycle helmets, tents, model cars, golf balls, skies, roller skate wheels, fishing rods, golf balls, dice, TV cabinets, sports car bodies, golf bags, safety glasses, movie film, life jackets, golf bags, beach umbrellas, tennis rackets, beach umbrellas, golf balls, guitar strings, luggage, ball point pens, golf balls, and did I mention golf bags? So I suppose you'll have to play kick the can. And you do realize that if you're not going to have sports car bodies, made of plastic, you also won't have the plastic protective gear that sports players wear. So, not only can you not play any sports, you can't watch any sports. OMGosh, what will the President do if he can't play B-ball?
Linoleum, paint brushes, paint rollers, paint, electrician's tape, glue, plastic wood, trash bags, transparent tape, synthetic rubber, car battery cases, safety glass, eye glasses, plywood adhesive, roofing shingles, caulking, roofing, rubber cement, faucet washers, garden hose, folding doors, tool racks, and wire insulation. I suppose that would mean no more new houses. You won't be able to paint, unless you make one out of animal hair (good way to get rid of the wild boar problem in Texas), but you have to use real wood, and nail it together because the fake wood won't be available, and you can't glue the chips together to make plywood. I suppose under this plan, the price of housing will necessarily sky rocket.
Antiseptics, anesthetics, disposable diapers, rubbing alcohol, vitamin capsules, insect repellent, cortisone, petroleum jelly (note the word PETROLEUM in that?), artificial limbs, vaporizers, aspirin, heart valves, antihistamines, false teeth and bandages. I guess we all had better learn Homeopathic medicine practices. And you'd better not get sick. I guess we can say those who want to get rid of oil just want to see people die, can't we? Hmm. And you can use cloth diapers, but you have to wash them in lye homemade soap. And I won't even go into the President needing petroleum jelly. And we can always cut down all the willow trees for our pain relievers. And I know it doesn't list it, but you do realize that "rubbers" are not made out of rubber right? And birth control pills come in a plastic blister pack, so we won't even talk about free birth control, because all you'll have left is the rhythm method. And get your abortion without anesthesia.
And the number one thing that uses oil? Credit cards. Gee, there goes the idea of a cashless society. You will have to choose, cashless society that puts everything on a debit card, or oil. And heaven forbid, we'll have to give up that EBT card and go back to those embarrassing food stamps. I suppose we can print them with the Food Stamp President's picture on them.
Still think we can give up oil? We'll be a third world country, or else we'll be living the life of our pre-Industrial age ancestors.
Here is a list of the products that are made with oil:
Ink, telephones, cameras, movie film, loud speakers, VCR tapes, LP records, cassette tapes for communication departments. That means no ink for your printer, or speakers for your computer and no news reels to propagandize us with. No TV cabinets, which also transfers to computer cases, phone cases, etc.
Dish washing liquids, floor wax, soap dishes, hand lotion, mops, ammonia, ice cube trays, ice chests, ice buckets, and detergents. This means, no washing dishes, no mopping the floor, and if you think it's no big deal that we won't have ice chests or ice buckets, you also won't have the insulation in your refrigerator. Hope you don't like to keep your food cold. You'll be digging a hole in the back yard and burying it.
Shaving cream, shoe polish, tooth paste, nail polish, perfume, toothbrushes, hair coloring, lipstick, hair curlers, combs, deodorant, soft contact lenses, shampoo, toilet seats, shower doors, shower curtains, curtains and cold cream. So, you'll be shaving with home made lye soap, brushing your teeth with baking soda and hydrogen peroxide on your finger and pooping over a hole in the floor and everyone will see you take a shower. And don't even get me started on the Divas who won't have their nail polish or lipstick. But continue on, because they won't be shopping anyway.
Shoe polish, slacks, pajamas, purses, panty hose, permanent press clothes, sweaters, dresses and shoes. Doesn't matter I suppose that you don't have shoe polish, because you won't have shoes....unless you go back to
Toys, dolls, fishing lures, golf balls, motorcycle helmets, tents, model cars, golf balls, skies, roller skate wheels, fishing rods, golf balls, dice, TV cabinets, sports car bodies, golf bags, safety glasses, movie film, life jackets, golf bags, beach umbrellas, tennis rackets, beach umbrellas, golf balls, guitar strings, luggage, ball point pens, golf balls, and did I mention golf bags? So I suppose you'll have to play kick the can. And you do realize that if you're not going to have sports car bodies, made of plastic, you also won't have the plastic protective gear that sports players wear. So, not only can you not play any sports, you can't watch any sports. OMGosh, what will the President do if he can't play B-ball?
Linoleum, paint brushes, paint rollers, paint, electrician's tape, glue, plastic wood, trash bags, transparent tape, synthetic rubber, car battery cases, safety glass, eye glasses, plywood adhesive, roofing shingles, caulking, roofing, rubber cement, faucet washers, garden hose, folding doors, tool racks, and wire insulation. I suppose that would mean no more new houses. You won't be able to paint, unless you make one out of animal hair (good way to get rid of the wild boar problem in Texas), but you have to use real wood, and nail it together because the fake wood won't be available, and you can't glue the chips together to make plywood. I suppose under this plan, the price of housing will necessarily sky rocket.
Antiseptics, anesthetics, disposable diapers, rubbing alcohol, vitamin capsules, insect repellent, cortisone, petroleum jelly (note the word PETROLEUM in that?), artificial limbs, vaporizers, aspirin, heart valves, antihistamines, false teeth and bandages. I guess we all had better learn Homeopathic medicine practices. And you'd better not get sick. I guess we can say those who want to get rid of oil just want to see people die, can't we? Hmm. And you can use cloth diapers, but you have to wash them in lye homemade soap. And I won't even go into the President needing petroleum jelly. And we can always cut down all the willow trees for our pain relievers. And I know it doesn't list it, but you do realize that "rubbers" are not made out of rubber right? And birth control pills come in a plastic blister pack, so we won't even talk about free birth control, because all you'll have left is the rhythm method. And get your abortion without anesthesia.
And the number one thing that uses oil? Credit cards. Gee, there goes the idea of a cashless society. You will have to choose, cashless society that puts everything on a debit card, or oil. And heaven forbid, we'll have to give up that EBT card and go back to those embarrassing food stamps. I suppose we can print them with the Food Stamp President's picture on them.
Still think we can give up oil? We'll be a third world country, or else we'll be living the life of our pre-Industrial age ancestors.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Benghazi-gate
I've been thinking about this for quite a while. Rush Limbaugh brought my thoughts into focus when he had a Lt. Colonel, former special ops guy, on his show.
http://youtu.be/FDw6snlQ3P0
I've said before that I was active duty Navy, and that my job was to track submarines. I was an Ocean Systems Technician, Analyst. I've been out for 24 years, though. I was stationed in Bermuda when the Soviet Submarine went down off the coast of Bermuda. It was 1986. We were conducting a drill at the time. In a drill, we play tapes for the people on duty and run war game scenarios. You know, "The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!" My job, since I was day staff, was to get the teletype message off the teletype (drill only) and take them to the drill watch officer. We also ran normal operations. Normal operations weren't usually very busy in Bermuda, which means there wasn't a lot of traffic real time. We usually ran the drill on specific equipment, having certain equipment dedicated to live time. I won't go into detail on the equipment due to security reasons.
I hear the teletype go off and go to check for drill messages. I read the message. I'll never forget the phrase that jumped out at me. They gave the contact number assigned to the contact, which after 24 years I don't remember and wouldn't post if I did remember, and said it was "on the surface spewing green smoke." I'll never forget that phrase. I started scanning the message for the word D R I L L. which usually is posted top and bottom of a drill message. It should have had at the top * * * * * * * D R I L L * * * * * * all across, and at the bottom as well. If you give a drill over the speaker system, you start with, "This is a drill," state your message and then say again, "This is only a drill." I couldn't find drill anywhere on that message. I was also familiar with plotting, and there were no drill contacts with that number. I only knew drill, as at the time I was a drills administrator. I wasn't familiar with the real time contacts.
So, I take the message to the real time watch officer. The drill was over, because we had an emergency on our hands. Every analyst available hit the floor and looked for the history of the noises we monitor. We did find the time the submarine experienced an explosion, but it took an experienced analyst to interpret it. We also found the signature of when it did an emergency surface. I never got to see it, though, being a day worker at the time.
We report to Norfolk (at the time), who reports to Washington, D.C., though possibly through further parts of the chain of command. We got word down from Norfolk that they wanted ALL data from a certain time period to be sent to them. Even if we record something and play it back later, the time marks will show when it actually happened. That meant all data concerning the event was confiscated. We had nothing left to prove we saw it. I know, because it's not classified if it doesn't have time or frequency marks on it. There was talk of making laminated badges with the signature of the explosion and emergency surface on it. That was prevented when all information was confiscated.
Here's what happened as I was told. Someone fired a nuclear missile (not armed) with the tube doors shut. That means all the propellant blew up inside the torpedo room. We were told it killed three men right off the bat. The submarine then did an emergency surface, where they blow all ballast tanks and come up just like Hunt for Red October. They actually jump a little out of the water, they come up so fast. The United States had already offered to rescue all the sailors, but Russia denied the help. They sent a Russian surface ship down to get the men off the submarine. It was actually the first time I had seen the signature of a real time Russian Surface ship, beyond "fishing vessels" that station over our sound equipment. After all the men were taken off the submarine, they put depth charges on the submarine and put her on the bottom of the Atlantic.
Our "Airedales" dropped sonar buoys in the water as the submarine was sinking. I got to hear those tapes, and it's the eeriest sound I've ever heard, or expect I'll ever hear. It sounded like a woman screaming, with intermittent explosions as it imploded.
The reason I tell this story is because that information went immediately right up the chain of command. And they weren't even our soldiers/sailors. They were Russian and we were right there to rescue them. I also am able to tell this story because I'm past my contractual gag order. I signed a document saying I wouldn't talk about what I did for 10 years after I got out, and it's been 24. The President was well aware of the events happening in Benghazi. He knew within minutes. It was something like 4:00 in the afternoon. At 5:00 he was scheduled to be in a meeting, so he wasn't on the golf course, unavailable. And the Lt. Colonel in the call to Rush was asked just that question: what would happen if they couldn't reach the President? He said there are standing orders to preserve life. Was life preserved? No. We lost an Ambassador, his assistant and 2 former Navy Seals.
Here are my questions for the President:
There are rumors that you watch EVERY single drone attack, were you watching this time when the drones were in the air over Benghazi?
We are hearing that the embassies have an emergency alert that trips live video of what's happening to alert Washington, D.C. Did you receive this video or is there something wrong with our communications systems? How big of a security risk is that?
I know information of this nature goes up the chain of command to the very top. As in my case, the United States can not offer to rescue Russian personnel without the President's approval. Are you saying that someone stopped the upward flow of information and usurped your authority on this matter? If so, who stopped it? Why were you not alerted to the fact that an Ambassador couldn't be found in a hot spot?
Unless the standard standing orders of preserving life were suspended after you became President, why were they not followed? I know from my experience in the Navy that no lower level military person would do something on their own. Our men chose to disobey after the third request. No one can override standing orders except the President. Once again, who usurped your power as President and told them to stand down?
Why was help not sent until you had confirmation that the Ambassador was dead?
What did Ambassador Stevens know that you wanted suppressed?
http://youtu.be/FDw6snlQ3P0
I've said before that I was active duty Navy, and that my job was to track submarines. I was an Ocean Systems Technician, Analyst. I've been out for 24 years, though. I was stationed in Bermuda when the Soviet Submarine went down off the coast of Bermuda. It was 1986. We were conducting a drill at the time. In a drill, we play tapes for the people on duty and run war game scenarios. You know, "The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!" My job, since I was day staff, was to get the teletype message off the teletype (drill only) and take them to the drill watch officer. We also ran normal operations. Normal operations weren't usually very busy in Bermuda, which means there wasn't a lot of traffic real time. We usually ran the drill on specific equipment, having certain equipment dedicated to live time. I won't go into detail on the equipment due to security reasons.
I hear the teletype go off and go to check for drill messages. I read the message. I'll never forget the phrase that jumped out at me. They gave the contact number assigned to the contact, which after 24 years I don't remember and wouldn't post if I did remember, and said it was "on the surface spewing green smoke." I'll never forget that phrase. I started scanning the message for the word D R I L L. which usually is posted top and bottom of a drill message. It should have had at the top * * * * * * * D R I L L * * * * * * all across, and at the bottom as well. If you give a drill over the speaker system, you start with, "This is a drill," state your message and then say again, "This is only a drill." I couldn't find drill anywhere on that message. I was also familiar with plotting, and there were no drill contacts with that number. I only knew drill, as at the time I was a drills administrator. I wasn't familiar with the real time contacts.
So, I take the message to the real time watch officer. The drill was over, because we had an emergency on our hands. Every analyst available hit the floor and looked for the history of the noises we monitor. We did find the time the submarine experienced an explosion, but it took an experienced analyst to interpret it. We also found the signature of when it did an emergency surface. I never got to see it, though, being a day worker at the time.
We report to Norfolk (at the time), who reports to Washington, D.C., though possibly through further parts of the chain of command. We got word down from Norfolk that they wanted ALL data from a certain time period to be sent to them. Even if we record something and play it back later, the time marks will show when it actually happened. That meant all data concerning the event was confiscated. We had nothing left to prove we saw it. I know, because it's not classified if it doesn't have time or frequency marks on it. There was talk of making laminated badges with the signature of the explosion and emergency surface on it. That was prevented when all information was confiscated.
Here's what happened as I was told. Someone fired a nuclear missile (not armed) with the tube doors shut. That means all the propellant blew up inside the torpedo room. We were told it killed three men right off the bat. The submarine then did an emergency surface, where they blow all ballast tanks and come up just like Hunt for Red October. They actually jump a little out of the water, they come up so fast. The United States had already offered to rescue all the sailors, but Russia denied the help. They sent a Russian surface ship down to get the men off the submarine. It was actually the first time I had seen the signature of a real time Russian Surface ship, beyond "fishing vessels" that station over our sound equipment. After all the men were taken off the submarine, they put depth charges on the submarine and put her on the bottom of the Atlantic.
Our "Airedales" dropped sonar buoys in the water as the submarine was sinking. I got to hear those tapes, and it's the eeriest sound I've ever heard, or expect I'll ever hear. It sounded like a woman screaming, with intermittent explosions as it imploded.
The reason I tell this story is because that information went immediately right up the chain of command. And they weren't even our soldiers/sailors. They were Russian and we were right there to rescue them. I also am able to tell this story because I'm past my contractual gag order. I signed a document saying I wouldn't talk about what I did for 10 years after I got out, and it's been 24. The President was well aware of the events happening in Benghazi. He knew within minutes. It was something like 4:00 in the afternoon. At 5:00 he was scheduled to be in a meeting, so he wasn't on the golf course, unavailable. And the Lt. Colonel in the call to Rush was asked just that question: what would happen if they couldn't reach the President? He said there are standing orders to preserve life. Was life preserved? No. We lost an Ambassador, his assistant and 2 former Navy Seals.
Here are my questions for the President:
There are rumors that you watch EVERY single drone attack, were you watching this time when the drones were in the air over Benghazi?
We are hearing that the embassies have an emergency alert that trips live video of what's happening to alert Washington, D.C. Did you receive this video or is there something wrong with our communications systems? How big of a security risk is that?
I know information of this nature goes up the chain of command to the very top. As in my case, the United States can not offer to rescue Russian personnel without the President's approval. Are you saying that someone stopped the upward flow of information and usurped your authority on this matter? If so, who stopped it? Why were you not alerted to the fact that an Ambassador couldn't be found in a hot spot?
Unless the standard standing orders of preserving life were suspended after you became President, why were they not followed? I know from my experience in the Navy that no lower level military person would do something on their own. Our men chose to disobey after the third request. No one can override standing orders except the President. Once again, who usurped your power as President and told them to stand down?
Why was help not sent until you had confirmation that the Ambassador was dead?
What did Ambassador Stevens know that you wanted suppressed?
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Death and Deceipt in Benghazi
This has been posted on Face Book and YouTube, so I assume it's not copy righted. I listened to part of it and I couldn't help but notice a few things that were implied and not out right said, so I wanted to go over it.
The compound where they had their consulate wasn't really a fortress. It was some one's residential compound. It had a main residence with several bedrooms, a Cantina where staff ate and an armory. It also had a barracks type building near the main gate that housed a Libyan security force. Our government raised the walls around this compound and made a "panic room" inside that was basically a jail cell and was only intended to keep someone safe until reinforcements could come rescue them. But the forces that would have helped save the ambassador left a month before the attack.
I also noticed that the White House is playing semantics. They keep saying that they were not asked for more security. In a way, they're right. They were asked to NOT have the security that was in place removed. They didn't listen. John Bolton thinks they withdrew troops in order to make the appearance of them not being needed. If we actually let people know we needed the added security, then they would have to admit that Al Queda wasn't defeated.
When the attack hit, the report says that Ambassador Stevens had already "turned in" around 9 PM. The attack hit about 9:40. It also says that the alert system was activated immediately. This means that Washington was getting LIVE shots of what was happening outside. The security man in the main living quarters went to the bedroom to get Stevens, and it somehow obliquely admits that he took Stevens along with his advisor, Shaun Smith to the panic room. And I have to wonder, just where did he pick up Shaun at? Was he in the bedroom with Stevens, or another bedroom? He is just suddenly there with Stevens and the security guy.
We've heard reports of Stevens being raped by the Muslims, that the government denies. Is this because they knew Stevens was in a relationship with Smith? Did the Muslims also know this? There are just so many unanswered questions to even this report. Why would you send a known homosexual to a Muslim country that kills homosexuals? Did President Obama feel so comfortable with the Muslim community that he never dreamed that he could do anything wrong with them? Did he think because we are so tolerant and swallow lies about the Muslims, that the Muslims could be convinced that homosexuality was just an alternative life style and should be tolerated? Did he ignore the fact because Stevens knew something? And if Stevens knew there was trouble brewing, and went anyway to Benghazi, why would he go to bed so early? Why would they not be on high alert?
At this point, after they couldn't get to Stevens in the panic room, they poured diesel fuel around the building, lit it and left. After a while, the three trapped men decide to leave. The security man gets a window open and leaves, but Stevens and Smith don't follow. He went in several times in order to save them, but can't find them. He's overcome with smoke and gets to the roof.
At this point, I have to wonder, did one of the terrorists have a gas mask and was waiting for them? Is this the point in time where the Ambassador was taken? Another team does find Smith, and he's already dead. My question at this point is what killed him? Was it smoke inhalation or bullets? The report doesn't say and I've not heard. At this point, live feeds are showing real time pictures to the white house of a place with all three buildings on fire, men running around shooting and our forces leaving in a panic. And President Obama went to sleep.
At 11:00 PM, the security men take Smith's body and leave because they can no longer hold the compound. They drive to another building a mile away. This all started at about 9:40, so we're talking an hour and 20 minutes. Some time after midnight, looters go in to the building where Stevens is and find him. Now it's been about 2.5 hours. He arrives around 1 AM at the hospital and dies of smoke inhalation (asphyxiation).
If Washington was getting live feeds of real time action, why did they insist it was a demonstration gone bad? Why did they insist it was all over an Internet story? I think everyone is learning that it was because the Obama administration has been running for reelection on the fact that they have Al Queda on the run, that they are winning the war on terror, when in fact the opposite is true. The Muslims are not tucking their tails and running like our fearless leader insists. They are in fact getting stronger with the smell of blood from us. They smell indecision and hesitation and are going in for the kill.
The compound where they had their consulate wasn't really a fortress. It was some one's residential compound. It had a main residence with several bedrooms, a Cantina where staff ate and an armory. It also had a barracks type building near the main gate that housed a Libyan security force. Our government raised the walls around this compound and made a "panic room" inside that was basically a jail cell and was only intended to keep someone safe until reinforcements could come rescue them. But the forces that would have helped save the ambassador left a month before the attack.
I also noticed that the White House is playing semantics. They keep saying that they were not asked for more security. In a way, they're right. They were asked to NOT have the security that was in place removed. They didn't listen. John Bolton thinks they withdrew troops in order to make the appearance of them not being needed. If we actually let people know we needed the added security, then they would have to admit that Al Queda wasn't defeated.
When the attack hit, the report says that Ambassador Stevens had already "turned in" around 9 PM. The attack hit about 9:40. It also says that the alert system was activated immediately. This means that Washington was getting LIVE shots of what was happening outside. The security man in the main living quarters went to the bedroom to get Stevens, and it somehow obliquely admits that he took Stevens along with his advisor, Shaun Smith to the panic room. And I have to wonder, just where did he pick up Shaun at? Was he in the bedroom with Stevens, or another bedroom? He is just suddenly there with Stevens and the security guy.
We've heard reports of Stevens being raped by the Muslims, that the government denies. Is this because they knew Stevens was in a relationship with Smith? Did the Muslims also know this? There are just so many unanswered questions to even this report. Why would you send a known homosexual to a Muslim country that kills homosexuals? Did President Obama feel so comfortable with the Muslim community that he never dreamed that he could do anything wrong with them? Did he think because we are so tolerant and swallow lies about the Muslims, that the Muslims could be convinced that homosexuality was just an alternative life style and should be tolerated? Did he ignore the fact because Stevens knew something? And if Stevens knew there was trouble brewing, and went anyway to Benghazi, why would he go to bed so early? Why would they not be on high alert?
At this point, after they couldn't get to Stevens in the panic room, they poured diesel fuel around the building, lit it and left. After a while, the three trapped men decide to leave. The security man gets a window open and leaves, but Stevens and Smith don't follow. He went in several times in order to save them, but can't find them. He's overcome with smoke and gets to the roof.
At this point, I have to wonder, did one of the terrorists have a gas mask and was waiting for them? Is this the point in time where the Ambassador was taken? Another team does find Smith, and he's already dead. My question at this point is what killed him? Was it smoke inhalation or bullets? The report doesn't say and I've not heard. At this point, live feeds are showing real time pictures to the white house of a place with all three buildings on fire, men running around shooting and our forces leaving in a panic. And President Obama went to sleep.
At 11:00 PM, the security men take Smith's body and leave because they can no longer hold the compound. They drive to another building a mile away. This all started at about 9:40, so we're talking an hour and 20 minutes. Some time after midnight, looters go in to the building where Stevens is and find him. Now it's been about 2.5 hours. He arrives around 1 AM at the hospital and dies of smoke inhalation (asphyxiation).
If Washington was getting live feeds of real time action, why did they insist it was a demonstration gone bad? Why did they insist it was all over an Internet story? I think everyone is learning that it was because the Obama administration has been running for reelection on the fact that they have Al Queda on the run, that they are winning the war on terror, when in fact the opposite is true. The Muslims are not tucking their tails and running like our fearless leader insists. They are in fact getting stronger with the smell of blood from us. They smell indecision and hesitation and are going in for the kill.
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