Screaming at the TV

Lately, I find myself in awe of the seemingly total lack of awareness on the part of many TV pundits. So I sit and scream, "NO! NO! NO!", but no one hears. I threaten to write letters, but do not. And as they say, the beat goes on. Along with the screaming.

Following the elections in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, I keep hearing that the country is "swinging to the right". Like the American people have suddenly adopted some strange new philosophy and are launching off into some strange new direction.

There was a time when Americans did abruptly swing to the right. But that was in the late 1700s when they had had quite enough of "times that try men's souls" and sought a better way. That better way was smaller government, lower taxes, greater personal freedom... ideas that have become known as "the Right".

True, there have been groups along the way who have supported those ideas, along with other cherished ideas, like certain fundamental religious beliefs. They trumpeted both ideas with equal volume, and some began to see the two as inseparable. They were not.

In what George Washington described as a miracle, the Americans of the 1700s drew up a basic law of the land - a constitution - which would trump all other laws. There was, not surprisingly, some initial confusion, and so they clarified their intentions by amending that constitution with phrases such as, "Congress shall make no law..." Talk about limited government! Congress shall make NO law abridging certain rights! NO law!

Got the picture? No? Okay, read this: If we herein do not specifically PERMIT the federal government certain rights, or herein DENY the people those rights, than those rights, and any others you can dream up, shall remain the rights of THE PEOPLE!

That is what defines "The Right" and it is where this country began and should remain.

But every few years, some attractive, articulate person comes along and tries to insert some new idea, one that, on the surface, perhaps, seems fairer to some group of Americans. The American people like to be fair, and they go along.

But always, and always, those ideas become expanded to extend more rights to the government and less to the people. Finally, the people say STOP. That is happening now.

That is not a swing to the right. It is like the old gospel song advised, it is "keeping your hand upon the throttle and your eye upon the road." It is holding the steady course on which America was founded.

We are not a "Center right" nation as some are so fond of saying... we are a RIGHT nation. We are not "swinging right". We are simply putting the brakes on attempts to swing to the left.

So Glad You Asked!

I've been meaning to post these since Sunday. We attended Boot Camp with Apostle Claver Saturday, and became indoctrinated in the Raging Elephants Way! I don't think I've posted much here about Raging Elephants...I'll check and, if needed, remedy that soon.

Anyway, these videos are all playlists. The first is introductory stuff from some of our local patriots. They are wonderful people with varying amounts of public speaking ability, from cute to deeply inspirational (read "Angelo Mino"). There are five clips, total about 40 minutes.

The second is the reason we must do this. Eight clips, about an hour and fifteen minutes.

The third is what we're gonna do about it. Ten clips...about an hour and a half.

I strongly recommend them. The video quality is only fair...they kept the lights off much of the time so the presentation was more visible. But I was near the speakers and the audio is good. It was an inspirational day. The plan is good, the strategy simple.






UPDATE: I have been asked not to make the third playlist, the training segment, publicly available. If you would like to view it, let me know and I can send you a private link.

Would love to hear your thoughts if you take the time to watch.

Define "racist"

The word does not have a listing in the first dictionary I grabbed from the shelf. Really! The word racism is listed, and racist is a sub-listing, showing only that it is used as both a noun and an adjective.

For racism, the dictionary says: 1. A belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
2. Racial prejudice or discrimination.

Yep! that's exactly how I see it. Doesn't even mention "fighting for civil rights". Doesn't even mention having a lot of black friends. Doesn't mention supporting the agenda of a black president.

Well, do any of those things make you NOT a racist? Did the fact that Timothy McVeigh never killed anyone before his Oklahoma City bombing make him NOT a mass murderer?

No, the definition of racism is "a belief that -- racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race."

When Harry Reid said that Barack Obama was not too black and didn't sound black (though he could sound black if needed), Reid was clearly demonstrating that he considered Obama to be inferior, because of his race, but might be an acceptable candidate because he was sort of, well, "black lite".

Harry Reid is a blatant racist.

So is the guy who described Obama as a "clean, articulate Negro". His name was Joe Biden.

So is the guy who said "a few years ago, the guy (Obama) would have been fetching us coffee." His name was Bill Clinton.

White Democrats have hated and abused blacks for generations, because they believe they are inherently superior.

Why are so many black Americans still supporting them?

My idea of a fair critique:

The ignorance, the incompetence, the inconsistency, the total inability to govern, currently being displayed by the left, the progressives, the idiots among the Democrats currently running Congress and the Administration, baffle me.

To list all the things they are doing wrong would take a book which, happily, I am sure others are now writing. (Never mind that future clueless liberals will never read those books!)

I just listened to another of their spinners explain for the umteenth time why the Panty Bomber is going to be tried in civilian court. Hey! Richard Reid the shoe bomber, was tried in a civilian court as ordered by BUSH PEOPLE!

An hour, or a channel or a news program earlier, another spinner (defending Obama's insistence that Yemenis currently held at Gitmo be released back to Yemen) insisted that the Yemenis now accused of training, supporting and equipping the panty bomber were once imprisioned at Gitmo but were released from Gitmo by orders from the BUSH PEOPLE!

Suddenly, the actions taken by the Bush Administration are reason enough for repeating those same actions. This after eight years of telling us that everything George W. Bush ever did was wrong, wrong, wrong!

C'mon, you dummies! After telling us something was terribly wrong, shouldn't we expect you to be doing something differently?

No, not when you are ignorant, incompetent, inconsistent and totally devoid of ability. When all those things apply, you just stumble along in your ignorant, incompetent, inconsistent way and when it all goes wrong, you (in honest surprise) exclaim, "Hey, your guy did it first!"