Thursday, March 29, 2012

Greased in Greece

Massive government entitlements have placed the nation of Greece in a very precarious position. Options for a country this far in the weeds are few, and there is no chance to avoid the comeuppance, as painful austerity measures are necessary to save the country from total collapse, and the citizens don't quite like it.

Nigel Farage was in Greece last week and offered a thorough examination of the status of the Greek economy. It would serve you well to listen to Farage, because if Uncle Sam does not change course immediately, our economic, and social, forecasts could be quite similar. Take a listen:



Greece joined the European Union, as Farage said, in the spirit of trade, friendship and cooperation, but the fine print, as you may suspect, puts the future and sovereignty of Greece, in desperate need of capital, in serious jeopardy.

In order to preserve the EU, a bailout has been extended to Greece, but at a horrendous cost. EU technocrats will determine what Greece spends, and the rules of the game for the Greek economy. With that is lost the entrepreneurial spirit, the opportunity to take on risk and the potential gains in prosperity for the citizenry.

The entitlements are overwhelming the system, and austerity measures implemented against those receiving the benefits have resulted in civil unrest. With growth opportunities smothered and a dependency on the state indoctrinated, the identity of the citizens is stolen and their spirit is broken. All in the name of wealth transformation.

Whether it be under the premise of increasing trade or the curing of non existent global warming, the objective behind the curtain is the transformation of wealth and central planning by technocrats.

In fact, did you hear Vice President Biden call for a global minimum tax yesterday?



Just who will implement and enforce that tax? Who will the revenues benefit? As money is fungible, certainly the revenues will be diverted to other well intentioned (?) projects. Just who in the hell do these people think they are, as Farage said in one of his many tirades.

These people are intellectual faculty lounge elites who seek to hold power over the decisions that are able to be made by the citizens through central planning mechanisms. At the end of the day this is the transformation of wealth, limiting the power of those who have it, to the government to allocate to those they think warrant it. A society where techocrats pick winners and losers rather than free markets dictating successes and failures.

This would be where your freedom, as an individual and as contributing member of society, is greatly diminished. For a picture of what that looks like, complete with civil unrest, see Greece.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Hidden Costs

The Supreme Court is hearing the case of Obamacare this week, and everyone is trying to read the tea leaves. For me, and I am not a lawyer, there is no doubt the law is unconstitutional and I cannot imagine how the SCOTUS could see it any other way.

Beyond that, you recall that Nancy Pelosi and the gang, without reading the bill, were set to resort to deeming it passed if they could not pole vault over the fence against the will of the American people to get it done. The arrogance was beyond appalling.

Additionally, and perhaps most importantly, we were lied to about the costs. One may argue the costs were not known with any sort of accuracy, a problem in itself, but cost estimates were put forth as factual when everyone knew all along they were misrepresented and understated. One representative sounding the alarm was House Budget Chairman, Paul Ryan, (R:WI).

Ryan is the smartest guy in the room on these budgetary items, and he joined Larry Kudlow to inform the electorate once again about the extremely serious financial situation Uncle Sam find himself in, and how Obamacare will not help, but will ratchet debt up exponentially culminating in a crash of the system. Ryan describes it as the most forecast able crisis in history, and we are morally bound to take measurable steps to prohibit it from occurring. Kudlow issues his spot on take, and then Ryan weighs in. Take a listen:



No sane individual operates a budgetary balance sheet in this irresponsible manner, unless you are otherwise motivated to bring about significant economic harm to the prosperity of the United States.

The government running health care is socialized medicine, which gives government the key to the doorway of abandoning freedom for its citizenry. Ronald Reagan warned us about this 50 years ago.

One can only hope the Supreme Court puts our arrogant government of central planners in their place and keeps the power in hands of the people, as our Founding Fathers wanted.

Monday, March 26, 2012

Romper Room Regulators

Provided you were not disciples of Cloward and Piven, in thinking about the juvenile economic actions that have taken place during the Obama administration, you would think a bunch of kindergartners were running things.

That reminded me of when Alex P. Keaton stumbled upon such activity:



While it is always good to get some good laughs, the economic status of our nation is quite serious. We have to conclude that Obama and his team are not village idiots, so therefore, the actions must in fact be well organized. These people think you are stupid, and feel they are far more equipped intellectually to run your life for you.

After all, Obama did say he would transform America. From the greatest, most prosperous country on the planet to what exactly? As the anti-Colonialist Obama is, that is to bring America down to equal economic levels with those countries he thinks we stole wealth from. A global transfer of wealth.

It has to be very clear to any who can engage in comprehension what is happening, and given the conclusions, Obama must be defeated. While apparent GOP nominee Mitt Romney has a boat load of issues, he is a very successful business man and is and never has been a communist.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Still On The Line

It will be the great honor of my family to join Glen Campbell on his Goodbye Tour Saturday in Central Florida.

Campbell has Alzheimer's and is touring for the last time.



I think I need a small vacation, but it don't look like rain.

God Bless the The Rhinestone Cowboy!

UPDATE

The performance by Glen Campbell at Silver Springs in Central Florida on Saturday was a wonderful and heart warming experience. Even though we watched sound check go off with few issues, and enjoyed a performance by Campbell's children Shannon, Ashley and Cal and their band Instant People, there were some sound issues with Campbell's show. However, with a high level of enthusiasm and humor, the show was outstanding.

Even though Silver Springs houses a large bronze statue of Chief Osceola, Ocala is Gator Country, and a large smattering of Orange and Blue littered the crowd as Gator fans missed much if not all of the Gators Elite Eight appearance against Louisville to come out and support Glen Campbell. You were not in attendance by accident and the entire crowd offered their unconditional support of the Rhinestone Cowboy.

While we in great shape on VIP row 15, a fellow concert attendee got great video of Campbell performing his stellar hit Wichita Lineman. Enjoy!

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Obama's Road to Serfdom

Having recently released his docu-ganda promoting his accomplishment title The Road We Have Traveled, Glenn Beck thought it compelling to re-visit this road. Take a listen:



Running on seven cylinders with an overheating transmission and a pair of flat Goodyear Racing Eagles, Uncle Sam's stimulus sponsored Chevrolet is not long for the track.

All kidding aside, the road we are traveling is a road familiar to students of history. The road is Hayek's Road to Serfdom.

Our freedoms are being taken at alarming speed while we are hardly watching. That was some document dump last Friday afternoon was it not?

Free market capitalism remains the best path to prosperity. The road we are traveling leads to the loss of sovereignty by our citizens, and with that comes a broken spirit and loss of entrepreneurship.

If our citizenry does not wake up soon, only Faith will save our soul.

Shooting Straight in Seminole

Normally, I do not offer posts on elements of street crimes that plague our cities, including my own here in Central Florida. If fact, only one post on the Casey Anthony saga here in Orlando was offered. I am not Greta Van Susteren!

Every now and then, unfortunately, a case has issues that go beyond the police blotter and commentary is relevant and helps offer clarity on a more significant issue. Such is the case in the recent shooting death of young man in the town of Sanford, on the north end of Greater Orlando in Seminole County.

From reading local media accounts and hearing the 911 tapes, I gather the following:

A neighborhood crime watch captain, one who appears to have called 911 with a level of frequency above normal, called to report a man walking outside in the gated residential community who was described as "up to no good" by the caller, identified as George Zimmerman. During the call to 911, 911 operators got a description and told Zimmerman to cease any further pursuit and they would handle it from that point. Rather than retreating as directed by the 911 operator, Zimmerman, armed, continued pursuit until engaging the potential suspect, who was identified as 17 year old Trayvon Martin, who it is learned was talking to his girlfriend on the phone while traveling back from a convenience store. An altercation came to pass, and the end result was that Martin was fatally shot by Zimmerman. Obtained by authorities, Zimmerman claimed that he shot Martin in self defense. The Sanford Police Department, who has a less than stellar, and rightfully so, reputation, has not filed charges against Zimmerman.

The community is outraged, and from what I have been able to ascertain, I share their outrage. The local media is on fire, and the story has gained national attention. In fact, Al Sharpton is scheduled to be here on Thursday.

I have absolutely no use for Sharpton, who I see as a racism pimp. You see, Zimmerman is Hispanic and Martin was black, which, as justice is color blind, should not be an issue. Sharpton does not show up attempting to help families of Americans, only black Americans.

Mr. Zimmerman is innocent until proven guilty. However, it seems to me we have a potentially racist overzealous neighborhood crime watch volunteer who failed to respect the advice of the 911 operator and took action miles beyond his very limited authority which resulted in the death of an innocent young man with a seemingly bright future. I am not a lawyer, but I call that manslaughter.

Most unfortunately, the Sanford PD has failed the community once again, and more powerful authorities need to intervene. The community has been legally active in protest, which seems warranted. Whether the victim was black, white, or polka dot, it appears an injustice is taking place in Sanford.

We don't need Al Sharpton to know that.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Breaker One Nine

Stuart Chase, who was an economist and MIT educated engineer, often credited with coining the phrase The New Deal, wrote a book in 1942 titled The Road We Are Traveling: Guidelines to America's Future. It is nothing more than a road map to Communism. Glenn Beck has more on Chase and his history over at The Blaze.

Glenn Beck, who has been on this topic for some time, discusses the horrifying details on his radio show last week. Make sure you are sitting down:



Often times, for things to really sink in, reading for complete comprehension is preferred. So review the list once again below:

1. A STRONG, CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT.

2. AN EXECUTIVE ARM GROWING AT THE EXPENSE OF THE LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL ARMS.

3. THE CONTROL OF BANKING, CREDIT AND SECURITY EXCHANGES BY THE GOVERNMENT.

4. THE UNDERWRITING OF EMPLOYMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT, EITHER THROUGH ARMAMENTS OR PUBLIC WORKS.

5. THE UNDERWRITING OF SOCIAL SECURITY BY THE GOVERNMENT – OLD-AGE PENSIONS, MOTHERS’ PENSIONS, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND THE LIKE.

6. THE UNDERWRITING OF GOOD HOUSING AND MEDICAL CARE, BY THE GOVERNMENT.

7. THE USE OF THE DEFICIT SPENDING TECHNIQUE TO FINANCE THESE UNDER WRITINGS. THE ANNUALLY BALANCED BUDGET HAS LOST ITS OLD-TIME SANCTITY.

8. THE ABANDONMENT OF GOLD IN FAVOR OF MANAGED CURRENCIES

9. THE CONTROL OF FOREIGN TRADE BY THE GOVERNMENT, WITH INCREASING EMPHASIS ON BILATERAL AGREEMENTS AND BARTER DEALS .

10. THE CONTROL OF NATURAL RESOURCES, WITH INCREASING EMPHASIS ON SELF-SUFFICIENCY.

11. THE CONTROL OF ENERGY SOURCES – HYDROELECTRIC POWER, COAL, PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS.

12. THE CONTROL OF TRANSPORTATION – RAILWAYS, HIGHWAYS, AIRWAYS AND WATERWAYS.

13. THE CONTROL OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION.

14. THE CONTROL OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS, OFTEN TO THE POINT OF PROHIBITING STRIKES.

15. THE ENLISTMENT OF YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN IN YOUTH CORPS DEVOTED TO HEALTH, DISCIPLINE, COMMUNITY SERVICE AND IDEOLOGIES CONSISTENT WITH THOSE OF THE AUTHORITIES.

16. HEAVY TAXATION, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE ESTATES AND INCOMES OF THE RICH.

17. NOT MUCH “TAKING OVER” OF PROPERTY OR INDUSTRIES IN THE OLD SOCIALISTIC SENSE. THE FORMULA APPEARS TO BE CONTROL WITHOUT OWNERSHIP. IT IS INTERESTING TO RECALL THE SAME FORMULA IS USED BY THE MANAGEMENT OF GREAT CORPORATIONS IN DEPRIVING STOCKHOLDERS OF POWER.

18. THE STATE CONTROL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND PROPAGANDA.

Speaking of propaganda, the Obama administration has put forth a movie highlighting his accomplishments, and there are plenty if you are a Progressive.

The title of Obama's documentary, in yet another stunning level of arrogance, is The Road We Have Traveled. Note the title, which I can assure you, is not by coincidence. In fact, as Beck appropriately points out, this is a slap in the face to opponents of the Obama doctrine.

Every single listed goal above is done or very close to being accomplished. Although it seems we are being required to, this is not a road America aims to travel. Breaker One nine, this here the Rubber Duck! Time for hard u-turn. Keep the bugs off your glass and the bears off your ass!

It is time to get serious. We won the Cold War fighting against communism, and we certainly cannot stand idly by while some arrogant upstart Marxist and his team of faculty lounge lizards transform our great country.

Certainly, there is time for guilty pleasures and you must continue to live your life. But, being an American carries with a responsibility to protect our freedoms through all legally permissible means and make our country a better place for our children and grandchildren.

The time is now. As Ronald Reagan said, If not now, when? If not you, who?

HT/The Blaze, GBTV and My Daily Soapbox

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Cabalistic Commander in Chief

During the 2008 presidential election, the media failed to adequately vet Sen. Barack Obama, and thus, with many seeking a change from the Bush administration, place a bet on an inexperienced well spoken black man with soaring rhetoric full of promise.

For those of us who did the homework, we found it easy to recognize that this was not your parents customary Democrat. This was a narcissistic ideologue who did not see America as exceptional, but rather as an oppressor.

Dinesh D'Souza describes Obama, accurately in my view, as an anti-Colonialist in his book title The Roots of Obama's Rage. D'Souza points out Obama aims to use his fathers dreams as a blueprint for action, and these dreams call for America to be brought down for supposedly oppressing others along the way.

D'Souza recently spoke at CPAC, and offered a glimpse of a new movie coming this summer, which will forecast what America might look like in 2016 if Obama should win another term. Take a listen:



By almost any statistical measure, the Obama presidency has been abysmal. However, if you understand the mindset of Obama and how he sees our country and her place in the world, he would get high grades for the work he has done in transforming America.

Unfortunately, most Americans do regard America as exceptional and have been appalled at the actions of Obama. It is imperative he not get a second term, where unchecked and not accountable, irreversible damage would likely occur in the form of freedom lost and an economy overwhelmed by entitlements and governed from the top down in oppressive fashion.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Governmental Behavior Bump

With Congress increasingly irrelevant, the Obama administration is gaining control of our lives in a frantic and terrifying pace; and you may not know hardly anything about it.

Probably the most widely known example of this would center around regulations on energy imposed through a series of executive order. For example, Cap and Trade was shut down by Congress but elements of the proposed legislation are being enacted through regulation by the EPA.

The regime is not actually taking property over per se, but controlling without ownership by imposing high regulation and taxation. Limits on permitting unless stringent environmental standards are met, with HVAC and lead based paint being two examples, nudge, or force your compliance.

If you are not familiar with Cass Sunstein, Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President Obama, you better get yourself acquainted promptly. As Obama sets to transform America, it is Sunstein, author of the book Nudge, who is "nudging" you to make decisions the regime finds favorable.


While our media is complicit in the production of propaganda in support of Obama, an eleven year old girl from Scholastic America had to call Michelle Obama on the carpet. In response to the exchange, over on the wonderful GBTV, Glenn Beck cover in alarming detail the answer provided by our First Lady and the actions taking place now that are efforting, fairly successfully, to modify your behavior by nudging you into making choices the administration prefers.



Remember; they know better than you about how you should live your life. As such, your freedom is being taken from you right before your eyes. Before you know it, the removal of choices will knock you right on the head. You better get yourself together on this or pretty soon, or you will be asking, as John Lennon put it, What in the world were you thinking of?

Before we wonder how we lost our freedoms, lets get ourselves together now and stop this unlawful encroachment. Time is running out.

Sea of Red

When George W. Bush had his approval rating hit news lows, this was breaking news over on CNN. Wolf Blitzer was beset with glee!

A recent CBS poll showed a record low number of Americans approve of the job President Obama is doing. The number is reported to be 41%. It is much worse than that, and rightfully so.

Unless there is exponential levels of voter fraud, which is possible with dead people voting, or our country has morphed into a collection of village idiots, there is no way Obama will win re-election.

I could go into the thousands of negative things Obama has done and continues to do, but by the time I would finish, the NCAA tournament would be over and we would be turning our attention to the NFL draft.

The economy is not getting better. Revenues may have stabilized or perhaps experienced a dead cat bounce off historic lows, but costs through regulation, inflation and taxation are rapidly increasing, and when coupled with $5 a gallon gas, revenue slowdown is imminent. Recent stock market highs are great for companies, like Coca Cola, of which I am a shareholder, who have international exposure and have access to low cost capital, but Aunt Mary and Uncle Bob are scared about retaining employment and have limited access to cheap capital.

Below is my prediction for the final electoral college tabulation. Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum or Foghorn Leghorn, it does not matter. This country does not appreciate top down government control being exercised on our citizens by elites who think they know better.


We will see how if shakes out, but America looks like a football Saturday in Nebraska, a Sea of Red.

Listening to the mainstream media forecast, or better stated cheer lead, Obama for his accomplishments most of the country is too absent to comprehend is a waste of time. Out here in the real world, those working the streets know better.

If Obama wins, freedoms you enjoy our ancestors fought and died for will quickly contract. The government, who knows best, will rule your decisions. If not, we have a chance.

That being said, 2016 will be the real battle. Assuming Obama loses, the decisions he made will bear down on America and whoever is Commander in Chief will have their hands full. Debt is debt, and it must be paid. There is no free lunch.

Even left wing pundits are contemplating this, as evidenced by a recent editorial in Investors Business Daily.

Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton lead the Progressive bench, but they are up in years. Andrew Cuomo is fooling a lot of folks in New York, but the reality is he is the Architect of Ruin and is in deep with and among those who crashed the housing market. Perhaps others among Martin O'Malley, Ed Rendell, Elizabeth Warren, Tim Kaine, Mark Warner, Cory Booker, Claire MaCaskill or maybe Howard Dean would try again. Anyhow, at this juncture, this looks bleak for the Democrats.

Provided we have a country left, either Romney or Santorum will likely be primaried. Although things will be improving, it will not seem like it. Who could be among those that could challenge? I suspect Marco Rubio will be VP, so his time will come later. That would leave a bench consisting of Paul Ryan, Rick Sanotrum (if he loses to Romney), Chris Christie, Sarah Palin, Scott Walker, Bobby Jindal and re-runs potentially by Michele Bachmann or Mike Huckabee.

Top down government control against free market capitalism. Let freedom ring!

Monday, March 12, 2012

A Lack of Civility

The pressure is building and the intensity is increasing in the war room these days.

No, I am not referring to the draft headquarters of the members of the National Football League in preparation for next months draft. Rather, the imploding presidency of Barack Obama.

By almost any measure, for most Americans, the first term of Obama has been abysmal. Just part of the miserable tale would be escorting the violation of contract law, the significant increasing of the national debt, smothering regulatory actions, divisive rhetoric, crony capitalism, seedy associations, wealth transformation; all accompanied by a staggering level of arrogance.

Obama is however leading by example in the fight to keep political rhetoric on a civil level.

In the aftermath of the most unfortunate shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, President Obama spoke at a service for those killed and injured. Obama spoke of curbing the rhetoric on the political front, hoping to establish a more civil political arena.

It was his friends on the left who were at the forefront of the vitriol. Within hours of the shooting, Sarah Palin was being blamed. Palin had issued a Facebook post targeting districts ripe for the taking by the GOP putting them in the cross hairs. For the left, this was inexcusable. Forget that Democrat operative Bob Beckel "invented" the targeting of districts decades back.

The Tea Party are labeled terrorists, not by some dimwit blogging in his underpants in his grandmothers basement, but by VP Joe Biden, who threw this out. Hard to recall a Vice President calling our citizens terrorists. Instances of this type of non sensible and divisive rhetoric on the left are endless. Recently, Rep. Maxine Waters (D:CA) said she wanted Tea Party members to "go straight to hell'. Lovely.

After attacking the Catholic Church and promoting a false argument about the GOP attacking women and decreasing their ability to obtain contraceptive tools, it seems the poll numbers for Obama have taken a significant hit. After all, contraception for women is readily available with very reasonable costs associated with obtaining it, and contrary to the Progressive narrative, nobody, and I mean nobody, is seeking to make any changes in this regard.

The first move of this campaign ploy was when George Stephanopoulos asked, out of left field, a question about contraception in an earlier GOP debate. The left is calculating, you have to give them that. In fact, these moves were well coordinated, with the help of former Obama communications director and self described Chairman Mao admirer Anita Dunn.

Given the poll numbers, the move has failed miserably. Good.

Prior to launching this failed strike, perhaps in anticipation of a presidential run by Sarah Palin, the movie Game Change was being produced. The movie script has ventured far from the book, in an effort discredit Palin and re-present yet another false narrative that she is an idiot. Furthermore, these efforts were in fact coordinated, in part with former Obama communications director and self described Chairman Mao fan Anita Dunn.

Civil discourse be damned when up against plummeting poll numbers. Obama, under his campaign arm, has issued a new attack to coincide with the release of Game Change with the following attack ad against Sarah Palin, who most unfortunately, is not running for office.

For the record, every comment made by Palin in the video is accurate. In fact, she is going easy on Obama. Sadly, many Americans are not ready to digest the degree of the truth.

Entertainer Bill Maher, a top left wing cheerleader, has unleashed countless attacks on Conservative women, most specifically Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. I am still puzzled as to why he is popular, but at any rate, any sensible individual would find his comments disgusting and not fit for discourse by responsible adults. Perhaps, like me, you may wonder what folks in the audience find laughable.

Maher has recently donated 1 million dollars to Obama's PAC. Therefore, Obama must not have issue with Maher and his cruel and
juvenile rhetoric. Get a load of Maher below.



In response to Obama's attack ad, Palin has asked that we discuss the issues of the day, the ones that are really concerning to our citizens. Record high unemployment would come to mind.

As the political process continues, I hope that any readers on the fence would step back from the issues from time to time and take notice of which group operates with an acceptable level of discourse and which demonstrates a lack of civility.

Conservatives can win on the playing field of ideas, and resorting to gimmicks and disrespecting those searching for answers is not part of the game plan. It is the left that could use a game change.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Seminoles Snaer ACC Tournament Title

Florida State endured a furious rally By North Carolina to win the 2012 ACC Tournament in Atlanta, the Seminoles first ever ACC Championship.

Michael Snaer, tournament MVP, led the way, but this was a team effort, a merger of pinpoint 3 point shooting, timely offensive bursts and a healthy dose of top notch defense.

This was no fluke. After disposing of state rival Miami, the Seminoles took out the storied programs of Duke and North Carolina. FSU had beaten both previously in the season, and ended the Blue Devils 45 game home winning streak.

Seminole Nation is very proud of Coach Leonard Hamilton and the Seminoles for this significant accomplishment, no doubt a defining moment for our basketball program.

Off to the NCAA tournament, the Seminoles, behind their smothering defense and improving offensive field goal percentage, are poised for a deep run.

Not bad at all for a football school.


PHOTO/AP

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Upcoming Occupy Oscillation

Friends, family and colleagues gathered today in Los Angeles to pay final respects to Andrew Breibart, who we lost much to soon late last week. It will be next to impossible to replace Breibart, but the lessons he taught and leadership he exhibited will span many to continue his work in his honor.

America will need it.

Among the many items Breibart was working on when he passed so suddenly, was the nucleus of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The mainstream media reports that the movement was a flare whose light has dimmed, a spontaneous gathering group of young Americans we can all be proud of.

Nothing could be further from the truth!

The group are for the most part useful idiot looter foot soldiers of a well financed machine of anti-capitalist, anti-American Marxist radicals, most of whom have not forgotten their efforts in the 1960's. The heavy hand of big government and all their tentacles coming together is their aspiration in effort to re-create '68.

While this video is lengthy, please allow our lost warrior Andrew Breibart to introduce you to some of the players and a handful of their nefarious objectives.



Although some of these folks are intellectually sound, many in the mid to lower levels of the Occupy movement are nothing short of useful idiots. Should the objectives of the movement meet with success, these folks will be swept under away in the tide under the hand of the intellectually elite leaders, who no longer have a use for them.

Among the topics discussed in the video, one hits very close to home for me. As a Realtor, Residential Real Estate Investor and Appraiser, I am very concerned about the effort to occupy homes, not just in an effort to re-write contracts through intimidation, but to establish a new market based on a price they dictated by socialists inspired by fairness.

Actually, price, and in turn marketplace equilibrium, is established between parties engaged in arms length transactions who through a series of sales provide a range of prices which indicate a median and a mean. Third party morons, who aspire for social justice have no place intercepting contracts, but President Obama did just that during the takeover of the car companies, and gave them precedent.

For me locally, if you are not paying your contractual obligation for any of my properties, you will be evicted as quickly as the law allows. As I say, if you are not paying, you are not staying.

If we get to a point where contract law is compromised or meaningless, the integrity of the marketplace is lost. Investors will refrain from taking any risks, and thus, growth under free market capitalism turns to nothing short of communism.

It must be recognized that this is the goal of those who are organizing the Occupy Wall Street protests. It has been a 100 year effort, and the window for opportunity to seize control is now open like never before. These power players are hoping to slam the door on capitalism before you wake up.

Efforts through health care, the churches, Big Education, the EPA inclusive of Agenda 21, regulation and taxation, the banking system, pro-Islamic (flotillas) and anti Israel actions are part of the tentacles the octopus is strangling us with.

Occupy Wall Street will move to the forefront as the summer approaches. You need to know who our opponents are and act accordingly. In the event of a crisis, the heavy hand of government will seize the chance to freedom away from the people.

Freedom is not free. In defeating this unprecedented internal threat, it is time to pay up America.

Monday, March 5, 2012

The Will of the People

Back when I was in college, before cable networks had a 24 hours news cycle, ABC's World News Tonight was my preferred source on national news matters. Man, have times changed.

Washington Post opinion writer and ABC's George Will has some advice for Republicans as the 2012 presidential election draws near. With the likely nominee for the GOP being Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum, Will thinks both would lose to Obama, so he thinks the GOP should go with Plan B.

"If so, there would come a point when, taking stock of reality, conservatives turn their energies to a goal much more attainable than, and not much less important than, electing Romney or Santorum president. It is the goal of retaining control of the House and winning control of the Senate."

"Several possible Supreme Court nominations and the staffing of the regulatory state are among the important reasons conservatives should try to elect whomever the GOP nominates. But conservatives this year should have as their primary goal making sure Republicans wield all the gavels in Congress in 2013."

Will is among the most respected mainstream media pundits who lean right. That respect is held by many Americans who have not come around to recognizing who slanted the big three news organizations are. In the absence of this knowledge, these folks continue to respect the major network evening news programs, and this includes editorial commentator George Will.

Will is far off the mark on this line of thinking, and Americans had better come to know it and recognize the narrative being presented.

Barack Obama cannot be re-elected. Better stated, our country as we have known it all our lives will cease to exist should Obama win re-election.

The goals Will sets forth are only a part of what needs to occur to prevent our our freedoms from becoming significantly constricted. The goal is much larger than Will visualizes, and it must be, for a myriad of reasons. Sadly, Will obviously has no clue of the many reasons why, with sovereignty at the top of the lengthy list.

The most important action that must take place is to control the next Supreme Court Justice nominees. Presently, we are one Supreme Court justice from game over. This cannot be understated. If Obama were to place perhaps the next two justices, the balance of the court would tilt to a radical left court which would serve the interests of unions, anti-capitalist, entitlement friendly anti government loyalists. Freedom would then be lost to darkness.

While gaining control of the Senate, and keeping control of the House, is critical, that would only minimally prohibit Obama from harmful action. An Obama victory against a GOP Congress will damage his ability to win legislation, but he will just continue to operate outside the Congress through executive order, as he has been doing for some time. In an ongoing example, the inability to get cap and trade going legislatively only resulted in increasing burdensome regulatory actions being handed out by the EPA.

Sadly, there are Progressives in both parties. Many in the GOP unfortunately do not grasp the grave economic position Uncle Sam is in, and think it is just a normal political year where they may gain control the purse strings for their pet projects. Instead, all the purse strings need to be violently yanked back.

For Will to provide the false narrative in the mainstream media that it would be acceptable for Obama to win the presidency if the GOP could control the Congress is slap in the face to Americans out of work, a brake applied to economic growth, energy independence, and entrepreneurship across the fruited plain.

If members of the mainstream media presented the truth to the American people about how dreadful the Obama tenure has been, a ham sandwich could defeat him. Most folks are working their fingers to the bone to keep afloat, and spend time with their families when they get home. They do not have time to search alternative media outlets seeking the truth the mainstream media does not provide them. Therefore, these false narratives create far more harm than imagined.

If they knew, they would shout from the roof tops in support of whoever Obama's opponent is, Foghorn Leghorn included. No one could care about which companies or academic institutions offer birth control when the very existence of the country hangs in the balance.

Will should well know that. I suspect he does, and given that, he is no longer to be considered an honest broker. Patrick J. Buchanan thinks Will should have his pundit's license suspended. I quite agree.

Will will be at play in November. The will of the American people, that is.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Brightness of Breitbart

The news that came over the airwaves at the conclusion of the first hour of The Glenn Beck Program was stunning and tragic. A ferocious and tireless leader of the Conservative movement, Andrew Breibart, has passed away, at the all too early age of 43.

Breibart had a brightness about him, no doubt. As they once said, sunlight is the best disinfectant. To refer to him as intellectually bright would be an understatement, but Breibart made the sun shine bright on those plotting the demise of America.

Breibart helped shine the light of the nefarious actions by government and Hollywood through his family of websites, often advancing information others refrained from reporting. Breibart used his new media presence to place each discovery on display for America to comprehend, as many never knew these activities were taking place. See ACORN.

As a fearless and formidable foe of the progressive left, in pure Alinsky form, Breibart was ridiculed and targeted by the progressive left, and he quite liked it. While many hid from the front line of the fight, Breibart stood tall in light taking on all comers, including the complicit media.

This is a devastating loss for the good guys. I never got the chance to meet Andrew Breibart, but I feel as though I have lost an old friend. Breibart was a true American Patriot, a fearless friend of freedom and champion of free market capitalism. In addition, he appreciated an honest fight on the issues, one where he knew he would be victorious as he shined the light on the truth, exposing the bad actors to the public from sea to shining sea.

God Bless Andrew Breibart and his family. We will never forget your passion and leadership as the fight for freedom marches on. Thanks for shining in the light!