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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

The Conservative's Handbook - Part II

Thanks again, Phil Valentine, for such a well-written and timely book.  "The Conservative's Handbook - Defining the Right Position on Issues from A to Z" should be required reading for every Republican politician and those desiring to seek office on a conservative platform.  This is what our country needs at this critical time in history.  I fear the Obama years will bring our country closer to liberal desires - higher taxes, bigger government, and a weaker country.  To counter-balance these effects, Republicans need to get back on track.  (2010 and 2012 are just around the corner.)    "The Conservative's Handbook"  sums up conservative values and offers real answers - not the liberal "feel good" solutions that just end up perpetuating the very problems they try to solve. 

I truly believe that the majority of Americans want less government intrusion in their daily lives.  They want to be allowed to keep more of their own hard-earned money with lower taxes.  And we must remain a strong nation - especially facing terrorists who wish to kill us simply because we exist.  So, here's a continuation of my earlier post, with the most interesting chapters and key points highlighted  (please note:  given the length of the book, I found it difficult to try to include something from every chapter, so I narrowed my selection down to the most important and provocative issues we currently face).

Here we go:

Chapter 9:  Illegal Immigration is dangerous to this country.

-  We have immigration laws for a reason.  They were designed as a filter to allow us to pick and chose who we want in this country and why.

-  There are basically two groups illegal immigration hurts the most.  The first is the working poor in America.  There's also a reason not to legalize illegal aliens that is completely ignored by the pro-illegal immigrant crowd, and that's the second group harmed by illegal immigration:  those countrymen the illegals leave behind.  The underlying reason most Mexicans come here illegally is because the living conditions in their own country are abominable.  Allowing them to escape their own country's problems does a disservice to their countrymen.  Illegal immigration works as  a release valve, taking pressure off of their government to change it's policies.

-  Aside from the obvious danger of terrorists crossing our borders, there's another issue threatening to boil over while our attention is diverted.  As most Americans look overseas for our next conflict, I (the author) believe the next big problem is brewing right here in our own backyard.  It's the issue of losing control of parts of the Southwest United States.  Think I'm (the author) overreacting?  There is a movement in that part of the country called "La Reconquista" (the reconquest).  It's a calculated effort on the part of some Mexican immigrants, illegal and legal, to gain political control and return to Mexico the areas of the United States lost by the Mexican War of the mid 1840's.  These reconquistas are quite bold and explicit in their desires.  "California is going to become a Hispanic state," reconquista movement leader Mario Obledo warned, "and anybody who doesn't like it should leave!"  That's a view held by many Hispanics inside and outside America.

-  The reconquista movement is all the more reason why English should become the official language of America.  A dominant second language becomes a wedge that drives people apart.

-  The cost of illegal immigration is staggering in monetary terms and lives.  A 1997 Rice University study placed the net cost at $20 billion dollars.  The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) took the Rice study and extrapolated it using figures that took into account the explosion of illegal immigration since 2004.  They came up with a net cost to federal, state, and local governments of $45 billion dollars.  ERS Research released a 2008 study that placed the number of immigrants in the United States, legally and illegally, at 37 million.  They estimated the federal costs alone equaled $346 billion.

-  The human cost of illegal immigration is downright frightening.  According to the Violent Crimes Institute, there are an estimated 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States.  That's 93 sex offenders and 12 serial sex offenders crossing into the United States every day!  On the average, 12 Americans are murdered daily by illegal aliens.  That's 4,380 people per year.  Or, to put it another way, that's more people killed each year than we lost in the first five years of the Iraq War.  Did you see Code Pink nuts protesting against illegal aliens?

-  The illegal alien problem needs to be faced head-on.  Pretending that there isn't a problem or forgiving those who break the law only places our nation in greater peril on many different levels.  Needless to say, if our borders had been tighter, the September 11 terror attacks would not have happened.  If we don't learn from that lesson, the next one might very well be worse.

Chapter 11:  Killing through partial-birth abortion is murder.

-  No matter what your opinion on abortion, reasonable people should be able to agree that partial-birth abortion is murder.  Unfortunately, there are those who choose to be unreasonable.  First, there are those who deny that such a procedure even exists.  There are also those - the hard-line pro-abortion advocates who, when backed into a corner, will argue that a woman has a right to an abortion up until the moment of delivery.  They continue to defend the indefensible.

-  A brief description of a "partial-birth" abortion from Nurse Brenda Pratt Shafer in 1993 (who was originally pro-choice at the time):  "I stood at the doctor's side and watched him perform a partial-birth abortion on a woman who was six months pregnant.  The baby's heartbeat was clearly visible on the ultrasound screen.  The doctor delivered the baby's body and arms, everything but his little head.  The baby's body was moving.  His little fingers were clasping together.  He was kicking his feet.  The doctor took a pair of scissors and inserted them into the back of the baby's head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startle reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall.  Then the doctor opened the scissors up.  Then he stuck the high-powered suction tube into the hole and sucked the baby's brains out.  Now the baby was completely limp.  But I am still haunted by the face of that little boy.  It was the most perfect, angelic face I have ever seen."

-  The  pro-partial birth abortion advocates claim the procedure is necessary, either for the health of the mother or because the child is deformed.  Dr. David Brown studied that very issue and found the majority of partial-birth abortions are elective, having nothing to do with health or deformity.  He said, "The "typical" patients tend to be young, low-income women, often poorly educated or naive, whose reason for waiting so long to end their pregnancies are rarely medical."

-  The great President Ronald Reagan said that "until we could fully determine exactly when life began, he would rather err on the side of life."

 Chapter 12:  Liberalism is an ideology doomed to failure.

-  Liberalism is oftentimes a quick fix, while conservatism takes a little longer.

-  Something else most Americans don't realize, and many liberals try to hide, is that the Ku Klux Klan was a militant offshoot of the Democratic Party.  Klansmen organized in the South primarily to keep blacks away from the polls, in defiance of the Republicans in the North. 

-  Supporting civil rights for blacks was neither conservative nor liberal - it was just right.

-  The liberalism to which I (the author) attach the dismal future of failure is American liberalism of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.  It's a basic philosophy that the government knows better how to run your life than you do.  That's quite condescending, when you get right down to it.  This is best illustrated in our government's wholesale warehousing of the poorest Americans in housing projects.  We have congregated the most desperate of society in one convenient location, making them easy prey for the hucksters, swindlers, pimps, and drug dealers.  How compassionate is that?  The politicians have learned how to bribe people with their own money, enslaving a substantial enough segment that they can use the voting bloc of the government-dependent to confiscate sufficient money from the rest of the population to keep the Ponzi scheme alive.  Eventually, you run out of productive citizens to bilk and the whole thing implodes.  This is the fate awaiting runaway liberalism. 

-  Another reason liberalism is doomed to failure is because it's largely based on emotion instead of facts.  It's what I (the author) refer to as "liberal logic."  A couple of examples:  in order to stop kids from having sex, liberals hand out condoms at school.  Or, to stop innocent citizens from being gunned down, they take away their guns.   Liberal logic is a purely emotional approach to solving a problem.  Liberal logic is an oxymoron because it is completely devoid of logic.

-   AIDS has a cure.  It's called abstinence.  Liberals love to blame conservatives like Ronald Reagan for the AIDS virus.  They claim it's spread by the lack of federal funding.  Actually, it's spread by a lack of common sense.  We know exactly how it is transmitted.  We know exactly who is most at risk.  We know exactly how to prevent it.  You don't need a vaccine.  It's almost wholly a result of reckless behavior.  There are, indeed, horror stories of people contracting AIDS as a result of blood transfusions, but those cases are extremely rare.  That's not to say that we shouldn't have compassion for people afflicted with this disease.  We most certainly should.  People find themselves with all sorts of ailments because of bad choices, and kicking them when they are down serves no purpose.  However, it only serves to perpetuate the problem if we continue to condone the behavior that causes it.  But that is what liberals do.  Instead of facing the facts of why people have AIDS to start with, they insist on spending hard-earned taxpayer dollars to find a cure.  That's the liberal way of solving problems.

-  Our country's approach to the AID's problem has been to throw good money after bad at an elusive cure while failing to condemn the very behavior that is at the root of the problem.  Passing out condoms at school in an effort to stop the spread of AIDS is like handing out low-nicotine cigarettes as a means of stamping out smoking.  Both send the wrong message:  that the behavior is OK as long as you're "safe."  Cities across the country do the same with needle exchange programs instead of attacking the basic problem of intravenous drug use.

-  Steve Kagas, a devoted liberal and political journalist for the Internet site "Votelink" wrote extensively on his website about liberalism.  Some of his writings better illustrate than I (the author) ever could the differences between liberalism and conservatism.  Kangas wrote that "liberalism believes in collectivism (read:  communism), while conservatism believes in individualism.  Liberals are for democracy, while conservatives are for constitutionalism.  He says liberals believe in pacifism, while conservatives believe in armed deterrence."  I (the author) plead guilty on all counts.  Kagas goes on to explain that liberals believe in "progressive taxes, anti-poverty spending, and other forms of regulation."  He says they view "the runaway profits of the rich - especially in the later stages of wealth accumulation - as undeserved, so redistributing them among the workers who produce them is necessary to prevent exploitation."  Undeserved?  Who is Kagas or any other liberal to determine who makes what?  This, is of course, an admission to waging class warfare, something most liberals aren't willing to admit.

-  Ultimately, it's the obsession with class warfare that marks liberalism's failure.  George Bernard Shaw reportedly once said, "A government with the policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul."  The have-nots will always outnumber the haves.  The producers are always going to make more money than the non-producers, or under-producers because they work harder, are smarter, or more tenacious.  Once the nonproducers realize they can vote the producers' money into their pockets, the jigs up.  LIberalism gives the nonproducer no incentive to get off his duff.

-  Capitalism is like cutting more firewood to make your fire as big or bigger than the other guy's. Liberalism, on the other hand, is like taking the wood that the other guy has spent all day chopping because he doesn't deserve that much wood.  Under the liberal scenario, eventually the guy who's been working to amass his pile of firewood, only to have most of it taken from him, is going to stop cutting wood.  At that point, both the fires go out.

Chapter 13:  Military strength deters aggression.

-  "Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." 

-  Bill Clinton began anew the task of dismantling the military.  After sitting at 95% readiness in 1989, the U.S. Air Force had slipped to only 65% readiness by 2000.  The lessons of the Gulf War were lost on the Clinton administration, which sought to castrate the military machine, the very institution Student Clinton wrote that he "loathed." 

-  The sad reality is, the Clinton administration cut our soldiers off at the knees, never allowing them the strength or authority to do their jobs properly.  He had taken the proud military of Reagan and Bush and returned it to near Carteresque levels of readiness. 

-  It's all too easy for us to become complacent and lackadaisical when it comes to protecting our freedom.  Our Founding Fathers didn't have the luxury of basking in freedom; instead, they set about the task of first winning it and then protecting it with their lives.  The liberties we all take for granted these days were gained by strong military might, not disarmament and pacifism.

-  War is certainly not my (the author) first choice as the way to solve problems with errant nations and despots.  Even those of us who have never been to war understand that it is a tragic and horrible thing.  But even more tragic and horrible is the prospect of losing our way of life, of losing our freedom.

-  Sometimes, especially when our core American values are threatened, there's no alternative but war.  The question remains;  at what point are you willing to go to war to protect those things that are most precious to you?  I (the author) suspect that many on the left would say "never."  If they can look at the rubble that was the World Trade Center and not be moved to war, then nothing will move them.

-  The rest of us need to understand where the left is coming from when they spew the "guilt-ridden American" rhetoric in hopes of changing our minds.  They hate our military might.  They're embarrassed by our blatant display of military technology and hardware, but it's this display that deters rogue nations from putting it to the test.

-  The peaceniks look upon our military as a war machine  I (the author) look upon it as a peace machine.  As long as I (the author) can see it, we're safe.  As long as there are men and women willing to give their time and, if need be, their lives to protect this nation, then we're safe.  It's only when we're not strong, when the appeasers win, that we all lose.

Chapter 14:  National Security is the first responsibility of the federal government.

-  Let's face it, if our country is not secure, nothing else matters.

-  It's one thing to argue over foreign wars on distant shores, but domestic tranquility is our birthright.  It's laid out in the preamble of the Constitution. 

-  First and foremost - we must secure our borders.

-  Think of how far we've come since the inception of our country, when the largest weapon of mass destruction was the cannonball.  Now we have to contend with nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that can wipe out large segments of our population in mere moments.  The apparatus to contend with such threats is massive. 

-  Too much national security power in the wrong hands can spell trouble for American's liberty and freedom.  It can also turn a prosecutor and defender of allies in to a despotic bully.  We, the people, need to be constantly vigilant to make sure those in charge don't overstep their boundaries.  National security should be our government's first and foremost responsibility, but we must continually remind our leaders that it's our freedoms and rights they're protecting.  

-  It's a balancing act to maintain national security without making us prisoners within our own borders.  It's even harder t know when to get involved abroad to thwart perceived threats.  A good rule of thumb is not to be penny wise and pound foolish.  History teaches us that getting involved too late can cost a lot more in terms of lives and money.  In the words of that great philosopher, Barney Fife, sometimes you have to "nip it in the bud."  But "nipping it" needs to be done with caution and commons sense.  One way for us to ensure that delicate balance is to stay informed and stay involved.

Chapter 16:  Political correctness is the liberal version of facism.

-  Just where did all this political correctness garbage come from anyway?  Whatever its orgins, the political correctness movement professes openness and diversity while defining what's open and diverse by its narrow-minded left-wing lexicon.  No matter who dreamt it up, they understood that controlling the language to fit your agenda ranks right up there with controlling the currency.  If left unabated, you soon control the entire society.

-  It started off innocuously enough.  Chairman became chairperson.  Okay.  Fireman became firefighter.  Then came the next phase. Handicapped became physically challenged.  Then we were into the whole hyphenated thing:  African-American, Mexican-American, etc.  We began feeling self-conscious every time we spoke.  Who were we going to offend?  What phrase that I (the author) had always used was now taboo?  We literally became afraid to utter the wrong thing.

-  Once the PC crowd got us used to the new language, they started to dismantle time-honored American traditions.  Gone were musical chairs and dodgeball.   Dodgeball!  

-  Although exasperating, it's almost comical, this political correctness.  In Eugene, Oregon, the city manager banned Christmas trees from public buildings.  Citing the fallacious argument of "separation of church and state,"  he thought it was his duty to cleanse the city of anything religious.  In reality, it's anything Christian, the only politically incorrect religion.  When it comes to other religions, the PC zealots conveniently forget their "separation" tirade.  For example, in the wake of 9/11, many California schools initiated Islam sensitivity training classes in which students dressed in robes, assumed Arab names, and memorized verses from the Koran.  Ultimately, in an attempt to keep from offending a few, they've managed to offend everyone else. 

-  We can laugh at all these idiotic examples of political correctness, but the frightening part is, these PC people are actually serious.  Many of them are also in positions of power and are changing laws, or bending them, to suit their agenda. 

-  Fascism is defined, in part, as oppressive, dictatorial control.  That is exactly what political correctness is.  In the name of tolerance, practitioners are totally intolerant of anyone who disagrees with them.  Political correctness is not about broadening opinion.  It's about restricting what is allowable conduct to that deemed appropriate by the politically correct.

-  After 9/11, in order to better secure our country, Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered the questioning of five thousand Arab men.  The cry went out from the politically correct crowd that we couldn't profile like that; it was a violation of their rights.  Our country was under attack from Arab extremists, and still the politically correct tried to stand in the way of common sense.  Their compatriots in the press continue to do their bidding by publishing biased stories or, in some cases, no stories at all.

-  Political correctness is dangerous to America on many different levels.  It has become a way to limit free speech and label those who disagree with you as not being worthy of consideration.  Left unabated, free speech as we know it will cease to exist.

Wow!  Phil Valentine really nails it on the head with these chapters.   I'll be wrapping up this post with "The Conservative's Handbook - Part III" shortly.   More interesting, factual, and insightful observations to come...

Monday, November 17, 2008

Weekly Question - Gay marriage

Sorry folks for not posting much, but it is hunting season and have to use my guns before Obama takes them away.  Maybe he will want my bow and arrow as well!

Blogging for me will be light, but I do have the questions segment that bothers the left so much.

With all of the talk about Prop 8

Gay marriage should

be legal and given the same rights as heterosexual marriage.

not be legal.  Marriage is between a man and a woman.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

The People Have Spoken!

Milwaukee County Sales Tax Advisory Referendum Passes Yes 51% No 49%


Milwaukee County Sales Tax Referendum By The Numbers

Source Milwaukee County Election Commission municipal clerks


 

Votes Cast


Municipality              Result                  YES                 NO

Bayside                    NO                     1123                1294

Brown Deer             NO                     2866                3395

Cudahy                     NO                     3881                4489

Fox Point                  NO                     1881                2031

Franklin                   NO                     6534                10560

Glendale                 YES                    3884                3711

Greendale                NO                     3066                4975

Greenfield               NO                     7332                10342

Hales Corners        NO                     1599                2528

Milwaukee              YES                    107550              79692

Oak Creek               NO                     6313                9169

River Hills                NO                     431                 596

St. Francis                NO                     2082                2469

Shorewood               YES                   3949                3361

South Milwaukee      NO                    4596                5448
 
Wauwatosa                NO                   11991               14304

West Allis                   NO                   11924               15195

West Milwaukee       YES                    759                 721

Whitefish Bay           NO                     3801                4192


Total                                             185562              178472                       

Yes 51% No 49%

So let us review what the ballot question said: The yes or no advisory referendum question read,


"Shall Wisconsin grant Milwaukee County the authority to provide property tax relief of at least $67 million by levying a 1% use and sales tax to be used to remove the following three items from the property tax levy: parks, recreation and culture; transit; and emergency medical services?"


First, notice it was an “Advisory Referendum,” not a binding referendum!


Next, notice it states, “Shall Wisconsin grant Milwaukee County the authority to provide property tax relief,” they already had the authority to give property tax relief at any time.  No additional authority was needed.


It started out with a promise of property tax relief and yet legally, there’s nothing in the referendum that promises or guarantees that the sales tax increase will go to lowering it. 


We let the public weigh in on whether the sales tax should be increased and as a county it did pass, but County Executive Scott Walker has vowed to veto it as it comes to his desk again.  This places the County Supervisors in a tight corner.  Do they vote against your districts people’s wishes of NO or go along with the county?  Do they work for the district people or county government!


http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/33947279.html

 To pass the vetoed measure a veto-proof majority of the County Board would be needed to override Walker again to put the measure into effect. A review of votes cast on the sales tax measure found sharp city-suburban differences, with strong support from the city and all but three of the county's 18 suburbs opposed.


Some 57% of city of Milwaukee voters voted yes on the sales tax measure and largely offset the suburban vote margin against the plan, a Journal Sentinel review of unofficial vote tallies found.


Remember from the list that only 3 suburban cites passed it.  Glendale, Shorewood and West Milwaukee were the only suburbs where a majority of voters favored the sales tax.


Now comes the part that bothers me and should you as well.


“Supervisor Patricia Jursik said the city-suburban split in voting should not discourage suburban supervisors from supporting the effort to gain state and further county approvals.  The sales tax plan would benefit the entire community, she said.”


So Supervisor Patricia Jursik doesn’t want to listen to what her constituents want and voted against.  The people’s vote doesn’t matter in the end or at all? 


To me, Supervisor Patricia Jursik is saying; do not be discouraged that the voters said NO, we need to vote YES!


Then why were we asked?  If her people don’t want it, she should be voting NO.  She would risk voting against the people’s wishes in her district.


If the city of Milwaukee and the three other cites wish to raise the sales tax, so be it since they voted for it.  However, Cudahy, South Milwaukee, and St. Francis should not have to pay the price because some County Supervisors think they know better or more than the citizens did!


If you live in Milwaukee County, please email, in the districts that voted “NO” your district’s County Supervisor and tell them that the people’s voice matters.  Tell them to vote “NO” as the people have.  After all, they works for us!

If you do not know whom your Milwaukee County Supervisor is look here. 
http://www.county.milwaukee.gov/MapofSupervisoryDist7780.htm

Please email your district’s County Supervisor and tell them to honor the people’s wishes!


 

Thursday, November 13, 2008

The Conservative's Handbook - Part I

Recently while watching C-Span on cable television, I came across a program in which an author was discussing his book  "The Conservative's Handbook - Defining the Right Position on issues from A to Z."   The book seemed to be very interesting, so  I checked it out from the library (twice, in fact).  After a thorough reading, I just felt at this particular time in history - fresh on the brink of a Democrat-ruled nation as well as state (Wisconsin), the conservatives and Republicans among us need to be reminded of what has made conservative positions so great.  I have gone through a few chapters and have written a few of the key points that we, as conservatives, need to remember going forward.  Hopefully any potential prospects for Republican candidates in 2010 and 2012 will pay attention.   This book should be required reading for our current Republican representatives. Thank you, Phil Valentine, for writing "The Conservative's Handbook!"

Beginning with Chapter 1:  America is good.

-  We must all understand that America is a great nation.  We are generally a positive force in the world.

-  What we have accomplished in a few hundred years far outweighs our mistakes.

-  Freedom is the birth mother of capitalism.  America is a truly capitalist society.  Capitalist nations don't happen by mistake.  They happen by design.  The United States was founded as a capitalist nation.  That's why calls to end capitalism by those on the extreme left aren't just wild ramblings from disgruntled social misfits.  These people are anti-American.  Capitalism and American are inextricably intertwined.  One cannot simultaneously be free and dependent on the government.

-  Our freedom to be all we can be is what makes the United States unique.  It is what makes us good. 

-  Tony Blair summed it up nicely by stating:  "For all their faults, the U.S. is a force of good."

-  The United States is by far the single largest donor of foreign aid in the world.

-  Muslim extremists find our nation repulsive.  The problem with Muslim extremists, like so many liberal extremists in this country, is that they see the issue of good vs. bad as black and white, with no gradiations.  War is never good, but it's sometimes necessary.  Can anyone argue that the U.S. shouldn't have teamed up with the Soviet Union to defeat the Nazi's?  When choosing sides in conflicts, either to protect U.S. interests or to promote a path to freedom, our choices are sometimes between the lesser of two evils.  We've certainly made some missteps in supporting certain groups and governments in the past.  Some of those decisions have come back to haunt us, but at the time we made the best decision based on circumstances.

 Chapter 2:  Belief in God is the cornerstone of our republic.

-  One of the most misused phrases in American culture is "separation of church and state."  There is NO such thing as separation of church and state in the U.S. Constitution.  It is nowhere to be found in the entire document.  The First Amendment simply states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or promoting the free exercise thereof."  It articulates a freedom OF religion, not a freedom FROM religion.

-  The vast majority of people in this country are for keeping God in the pledge of allegiance.  Many people who protest against including "God" in the pledge of allegiance don't care what their child is reciting.  They care what YOUR child is reciting.  They detest God and Religion.  It is their intention to completely undermine your religion and your beliefs because they feel threatened by them.  And that's a violation of YOUR rights.  If they chose not to believe in God, that's fine.  I (the author) chose not to believe in atheists.

-  One thing's for certain:  the writings of our Founding Fathers leave no doubt that belief in God was, and is, a cornerstone of our republic.  And they would be terrified for us if they could see just how far we've tried to distance ourselves from it.

Chapter 3:  Character is the single most important attribute in a leader.

-  Anybody who tells you that character isn't important apparently slept through the Clinton administration.  Aside from the obvious sexual indiscretions, Bill Clinton committed a series of acts that seriously jeopardized national security.  One of the more serious was a waiver he granted that allowed Loral Corporation to provide the Chinese with critical missile guidance technology, a move made over the objections of his own Justice Department.  Flash forward to 2007, and the Chinese have successfully tested a missile that blows satellites out of orbit.  Thanks, Bill.

-  Character flaws are warnings of deeper trouble. 

-  We should expect our presidents to be human but free of troublesome character flaws that might endanger the nation at some future point.

 Skipping forward:

Chapter 5: Entrepreneurs are our economic lifeblood and deserve every penny they make.

-  Class warfare.  It's become the weapon of choice for the left-wing crowd.  It's jealousy, pure and simple, and it's such a powerful, consuming emotion that it is easily exploited.

-  Punishing Microsoft, as the Clinton administration so viciously tried to do, also punished our nation's economy.  I (the author) believe the economic downturn that began in 2001 was at least exacerbated by - if not caused by - the relentless pursuit of Microsoft by the Clinton Justice Department.  Because the left-wingers couldn't stand that Bill Gates had become so wealthy, they tried to bring him down and, in the process, damaged our economy, which had a ripple effect around the world.  In the end, who do you think was harmed by the Microsoft witch hunt?  Oh, Bill Gates may have lost a few hundred million, but he still has billions to spare.  The people hurt most were those who live on the margin of our economy.  Those are the people who were thrown out of work.  This is always the case when governments try to punish people for getting rich.  Ironically, Gates is a Democrat and has given to many left-wing causes.  The Kennedy's, whose fortune was made in bootleg whiskey, are acceptable rich folks, but Gates is not.

-  There are plenty of people out there who believe there is a "finite" amount of money available.  Thus, they believed that anyone who got rich was doing so at the expense of the poor.  This is not true. The very fact that inflation exists defeats this argument.  If there is a finite amount of money, how could a salary of $30,000 in 1990 be worth $35,000 in 1995?  If everybody is making more money as years go buy, and paying more for certain items, how can there be a "finite" amount of money?

-   We aren't guaranteed the right to happiness in this country, but we are guaranteed the right to pursue happiness.  Instead of trying to find ways to dismantle entrepreneurs once they've made it, we should allow them to reap more of the fruits of their labor.  It's those fruits that encourage other entrepreneurs.

Chapter 6:  Families are the building blocks of society.

-  Today, less than 25% of families consist of a father, mother and a child or children.

-  The sexual revolution of the 1960's created the "feel good" generation and little thought was given to the consequences.  Divorces began to skyrocket because "feeling good" took precedence over maritial commitment. 

-  Years ago, there was shame associated when young girls got pregnant.  In retrospect, shame is a good thing.  Sometimes if forced males to remain loyal and marry the girl they got pregnant.  They opted to try to make a go of it.  Some families that resulted out of such situations did indeed work out!

-  With the advent of the pill in 1960, and Roe vs. Wade in 1973, sexual freedom became the norm.  Very acceptable.  Again, if it feels good, do it!  The rate of abortion also skyrocketed.  In 1973, the rate was 23.9 per 1,000 girls.  After Roe vs. Wade was enacted,  it went to 45.5 per 1,000 girls.

-  Today, the government has become the de facto dad in many households.  It's routine for many single women having babies to turn to the government rather than expect anything from the father of their child.  It's a given that the government will provide food and shelter for the family, relieving the father of any responsibility.

-  Michael Argyle, an Oxford-based psychologist, spent the last twenty years of his life researching what made people happy.  Ready for this?  The single institution that made most people happy was marriage.  This was closely followed by the second institution - church! 

-  There is nothing in the Constitution that gives the federal government any say so over marriage.

-  There is a big difference between tolerance and acceptance.  We tolerate a lot of things we might find distasteful.  Acceptance means we think there is nothing wrong with it.  The number of people in our society who believe that homosexuality is morally wrong still outpaces those who think it is morally fine.  To those in favor of governments offering same-sex benefits and legally recognizing gay marriage, I (the author) would ask, why stop there?  Why not allow three or four folks to get married?  Why not allow brothers and sisters to get married?  The answer to these questions is always the same - "that's ridiculous!"  Why not?   Two guys or two girls getting married is just as ridiculous to a majority of people.

- The basic activity we should be encouraging as a society is the procreation and rearing of children in the healthiest environment possible.  Only a man and woman can procreate, and study after study has concluded that raising a child with a mom and dad in the house is the healthiest environment.  Mom, Dad and the kids make up the ideal family.  It's simply a fact.  That's what the government should be encouraging for the overall welfare of society. 

Chapter 7: Guns are good.

-  The notion that guns are evil is one of the most dishonest and hypocritical arguments of the left.  The fact that Rosie O'Donnell ranted and screamed about banning guns, then employed an armed bodyguard for her kids , should have given any intelligent person cause to distrust the anti-gun crowd.

-  Handguns are used for protection more than two million times per year.  That's up to five times more often then they're used to commit crimes and nearly 128 times the total number of murders in the United States.  Those stats alone are enough to blow any anti-gun argument out of the water.  There's more.  According to the National Crime Victimizations Surveys, people who use guns to defend themselves are less likely to be attacked or injured than people who use other methods of protection or don't defend themselves at all.

-  Stop and think for a moment about how important the right to bear arms was to our Founding Fathers.  Of all of the belongings of their day that were important to them - a home, clothing, a horse - guns are the only inanimate object in the entire Constitution that are singled out for protection.  Why?  Thomas Jefferson said, "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against the tyranny in government."  It was George Washington who said, "The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference.  They deserve a place of honor with all that's good."  If you think their thinking is a bit outmoded, contrast their statements with this statement by Adolph Hitler:  "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the people to carry arms.  History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing."

-  The fact is that guns are not bad.  Guns are good.  The problem is, some people are bad.  It is up to good people to protect themselves and their families from these bad people.  And there is no better way to do that than with a gun.

Stay tuned for some more words of wisdom from Paul Valentine and excerpts from "The Conservative's Handbook"....Common sense rules!

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Two broken promises already.

He's not even president yet, but Barack Obama has already broken two campaign promises.  Most rabid Obama supporters probably won't care. But in the big scheme of things, when people actually hope that a man is true to his word, Obama seems to be indifferent.  Now that he is the president-elect, guess we'll have to see which policies or promises he decides to keep or discard.  So far he hasn't shown himself to be very trustworthy.  Obama's latest broken promise includes his pledge to keep lobbyists at bay.  Now we find that Obama has lobbyists on his transition team.  Go figure.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=a2w3IGUcTI5Q&refer=latin_america

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obama-ethics_12nov12,0,973057.story

The very first broken promise came early on in Obama's campaign, when he decided to forgo public financing in favor of private donations for his campaign.  In essence, Obama and Co. were able to far out-distance the McCain campaign in getting to the White House by being able to spend $650 million in their quest.  McCain continued to abide by the promise he made to use the public financing, which left him at a distinct disadvantage.  Unfortunately, the mainstream media refused to point out this major Obama lie.  Guess it was much ado about nothing, if it helped Obama get into the White House. 

http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_fundraisng/2008/11/05/148218.html

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/28/campbell.brown.obama/index.html

To quote John McCain:   “Twice he looked the American people in the eye and said he would sit down with me before he abandoned public financing. He didn’t mean a word of it. When it was in his interest to break his promise, he tossed it aside like it didn’t mean a thing.”

President-elect Barack Obama seems to have a bit of a problem keeping his promises and he is not even in the White House yet.  I sincerely "hope" this is not a sign of things to come in the next four years...

Two Votes, One Lame Excuse

The story of the Milwaukee woman who voted twice and then turned herself in has me conflicted.  Her name is Edna Byrd, 51 years old, and she admits she voted absentee days before the election and then showed up on Election Day.  She was given a ballot and voted again.

She committed a felony.  Do you charge her, or not?

In her interview with Channel 12 she seems like a nice enough woman, but she broke the law.

http://www.wisn.com/video/17959899/index.html


And I don’t believe her reason for one minute: I was trying to test the system.

Maybe she should be charged just because she couldn’t come up with a better excuse.  It sure wouldn’t fly in any other felony case:

Judge, I murdered my wife just to see if I could get away with it--just to see if the system would catch me.

Your Honor, I broke into a neighbor’s home and stole 10-grand in jewelry just to see if the system worked.  I just really wanted to know how good the Waukesha detectives were, sir. 

This is just conjecture, but I believe what we have here is a woman who was an overzealous Obama supporter.  She really, really wanted Obama to win, and she thought she’d found a way to vote twice. Then she had an attack of conscience or realized hey, they can track me, so she turned herself in and came up with the I was testing the system excuse.

Podcast on this

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Congratulations Amy L. Geiger-Hemmer

A big congratulation goes out to Amy for having her letter printed in the MJS and having her voice heard.

BARACK OBAMA
Too late to ask about Obama as leader

"How will he lead?" asked the front-page article regarding President-elect Barack Obama (Nov. 9).

Gee, if the mainstream media had been doing its job and asking Obama about his leadership qualifications and problem-solving abilities during the campaign, maybe voters would have known the answer to this question before going to the polls on Nov. 4. However, the election results may not have been the same.

Amy L. Geiger-Hemmer
Hartland

http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/34230719.html

Thank you, Veterans, for your service and your sacrifice!

This Veterans Day, we pause to remember the brave men and women who have sacrificed so much in the defense of our freedoms and way of life.

We would like to take some time to thank our veterans across the greatest country in the world. 

If you see a veteran shake their hand and thank them for their selfless service to our great country.  They have earned nothing less than the highest respect, praise, and thanks from our entire country.

To our Veterans:

You are the pillars of strength for those who have followed you and will soon follow you into battle. 

You are the heart of the United States. 

You lead by example with courage, honor, integrity and resolve. 

You stand today as a bright light for all to follow. 

For those who have served and those who have fallen with selfless sacrifice, we salute you. 

May God watch over you and your families and this country!


 

Monday, November 10, 2008

MPS Spending Database

Tomorrow night Nov. 11th at 10:00 PM on Today's TMJ 4 newscast, they will be doing a story about the Milwaukee Public Schools spending database. You should be able to access this database sometime tomorrow at www.crgnetwork.com

These is more than $2.6 Billion dollars of spending over the past 2 and 1/2 years. In a nutschell, it is all spending to outside contractors in the above time period.

I have not seen the entire database yet, but I have seen small portions of the database and the results should astound everyone. I will let everyone make up their own minds as to what is outrageous spending but I think you will find more than enough to go around.

My only suggestion is make sure that you are sitting down when you take a look at this.

Just like the other CRG spending databases, this one will give you the vendor, the dollar amount of the check and in most cases, a invoice number. If you want to see the receipt or invoice, you will have to do an Open Records Request to MPS.

 

Good Luck

In the spirit of bipartisanship...

After reading Ann Coulter's latest column regarding the presidential election, "The Reign of Lame falls mainly on McCain", I had a few good laughs and came away encouraged for the future of conservatism. 

Even if you hate Ann - and I know a lot of liberals consider her the anti-Christ - give the article a quick read.  It sums up things in a new perspective as only Ann Coulter can do.

The last paragraph of her article is what really caught my eye.  It reads:

"For now, we have a new president-elect.  In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president."

Whoa!  Ann!  Those are fightin' words if I ever heard them!  Liberals and Democrats should look back on the past eight years and examine just how horribly they treated President Bush.   And they did.  The examples are too numerous to deny. 

Did they show him respect?  No. 

Did they show him loyalty?  No.  Quite the opposite. 

Did they support him as he tried to protect our country from terrorists?  No.

Did they show support for our troops and mission in Iraq as they should have during a time of war?  No. 

Yet, Republicans have never been as nasty as Democrats.  It is highly unlikely that Obama will be treated with the same hatred, disrespect and disdain that the left showered on President Bush for eight years.  And our mainstream media shares a good portion of the blame for trying to undermine Bush at  every opportunity they had.   

In the spirit of good faith, maybe a few apologies are due?  Nah....the left would never, ever admit that maybe their treatment of our president was a bit.....over the edge (to put it mildly).

Bush-bashing was an acceptable sport these last eight years.  Now, in an effort to "unite" our country, the left is asking half the population that did not vote for Obama to support him.  Given that conservatives and Republicans have a strong sense of "doing the right thing" and tend to act like grown-ups, I think most on the right (including myself) will indeed give Obama a chance.  Like I have said before, Obama is the great unknown.  If he can lead and put the country first, he will have earned my respect and support.  As for right now, I am part of the "loyal opposition" group.  The "wait and see" group....

Hey -actually most of the country is in a "wait and see' mode, since we know very little about Obama or his leadership abilities.  So far he has the benefit of the doubt...

Obamamania – Plans to Make A National Holiday For Obama

Are You Ready for the Obama National Holiday?

Plans are being made to promote a national holiday for Barack Obama, who will become the nation’s 44th president when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20.

“Yes We Can” planning rallies will be at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. every Tuesday at the downtown McDonald’s restaurant, 1100 Kansas Ave., until Jan. 13. The goals are to secure a national holiday in Obama’s honor, to organize celebrations around his inauguration and to celebrate the 200th birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, who was born on Feb. 12 1809.


http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/11/09/are-you-ready-for-the-obama-national-holiday/

Obamamania – Michelle Obama’s Transition Team Almost Ready!

Michelle Obama has her own transition to work out!

Yes, she has her own transition to work out

This is the transition you don't hear so much about: Michelle Obama is getting ready for a new life as first lady, giving plenty of thought to what kind of profile she will carve out for herself in the White House.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gF6i4iEHstfMbiVDziPEgI7m6pFAD94C20HO1

We will keep you up-to-date with developments.  As Obamamania sweeps the world, you will know about it.  Please stay tune for these major developments!

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Milwaukee Urinal/Sentinel never ceases to amaze - part II

"HOW WILL HE LEAD?"

This question was a front page headline regarding president-elect Barack Obama in today's Sunday (11/9/08) Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel.  I had to do a double-take on this one.  "HOW WILL HE LEAD?"   If the mainstream media had been doing their jobs all along during the years of the presidential campaign, this question would have been - and should have been - answered BEFORE voters went to the polls on November 4th, 2008. 

Yet, in their zeal to protect Barack Obama from any intense or much-needed scrutiny, the media chose to never "vet" the president-to-be.  They never really dug  into his qualifications.  His experience (or lack of).  His views.  His solutions to problems.  His real beliefs.  His character. His past.  Obama was given a free pass on everything that really matters in a presidential leader.   It is apparent that the desire to get Obama elected clearly outweighed any sense of journalistic integrity.  The mainstream media, during this presidential campaign,  became an extension of the Democratic party.  Their goal was to get their candidate in office at any cost.  They did their job well.  Now, however, reality is setting in.  (And we are still getting stories bashing Sarah Palin!  Or a really important story like what type of dog the Obama family is going to get...)

Obama made a lot of promises while running for president that sounded good at the time.  How many of those promises he will hold to remains to be seen. The first promise Obama backed out of (before even being elected) involved accepting public financing for his campaign.  Initially he had said he would, then Obama backed out when it became apparent he could raise much more money outside of that realm.  In doing so, he did break a promise, but the media chose to ignore this little indiscretion.    http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20080620/NEWS02/32387180/1089/NEWS07   How many journalists would have jumped all over McCain if he had done the same thing?   How many journalists would have criticized McCain spending the $650 million that Barack Obama did to get into the White House? 

In getting back to the articles in today's Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, it is apparent that many esteemed reporters are now trying to cover themselves when it comes to selecting a rather "unknown" as President.   Here are a few quote's from the newspaper:   

"The poor man has his hands tied by the economic and financial mess we have right now."  (Is this the first hint that Obama's promised tax cuts to 95% of taxpayers will not happen?  Or that we have the potential for higher taxes down the road?)

"If there's one thing both sides can agree on about this election, it's that the president-elect ran a remarkably skillful campaign.  So does that tell us anything about how he'll run the country?   The question looms large in Democrat Barack Obama's case because his track record in Washington is so brief and because the campaign he ran was the chief credential his supporters cited when opponents assailed his lack of executive experience."

Presidential scholar Charles O. Jones (a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution) said:  "How he will deal with a crisis is really hard to say."

Karl Rove summed it up by stating:  "the poetry phase (campaigning) must now give way to the "prosaic" phase (governing)."

"The biggest challenge will be the gap between his enormous personal mandate and the policies he will need to pursue, for which his campaign provided few substantive clues." said Don Kettl - a political scientist from the University of Pennsylvania.

Charles O. Jones also added:  "the campaign has put Obama's political abilities on display but can't fundamentally answer questions about his leadership and decision-making."

Everyone seems to be in agreement that there is a "big difference between campaigning - a complex enterprise organized around a single person and a single task (winning an election) - and governing."

Even liberals like Tom Brokaw and George Stephanopolous were asking AFTER Obama won  - "how will Obama lead?  From the left?  middle? or right?"  Shouldn't the American people, as well as Obama supporters, have had these answers before the election? 

Hindsight is 20/20.  It is just very unsettling to think that the American people have elected a new President that very few people really know much about.  We are all in this together now - whether we like it or not.  The voters have spoken - whether they were as informed as they should have been is a big question.    The next four years, rather than being able to support a man we know we can trust and rely on to do the right thing, is up in the air.  The next four years will consist of "discovery".   The mainstream media will only be able to protect Barack Obama and his Democratic cronies for a short time.  Then, the blame - or credit - will fall squarely on their shoulders.  It will be interesting to see what happens.  Hopefully America will not suffer in the meantime.

Saturday, November 08, 2008

Obamamania - Breaking News from the News conference

Obama: Presidential Dog Can't Be 'Mutt Like Me'
President-elect Barack Obama uses throwaway remark "mutt like me" in reference to what his family is not looking for in the First Dog.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/08/obama-presidential-dog-mutt-like/

We will keep you up-to-date with developments.  If it gets worms, fleas, or pisses in the white house, we will know about it.

Friday, November 07, 2008

Yes We Can!

I tried to find something to bring some sort of levity to the results of Tuesday’s election.

 

Here is something funny from the Onion with a slight dip of truth. 

 

Yes We Can!…… Yes We Can! . . . . . Yes We Can! . . . . . Yes We Can!

 

 

H/T Ed Furey

 

 

Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are


Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are

Obama Dog Watch

I am sooooo glad the MSM is picking up the fact and story that the Obama’s have a crisis of which type of dog and what to name it!

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=6192603&page=1
http://www.chicagotribune.com/community/chi-barack-obama-first-dog,0,409656.story
http://www.jsonline.com/news/president/34062824.html

Obama promises a puppy to his daughters – He will keep that promise!

This is a priority number one task!

CNN even had it as a breaking news story

http://www.cnn.com/video/

We don’t want to know that Obama’s first choice sent a dead goldfish to someone that pissed him off.  NO!!! We don’t want to know that Obama will not govern from the center.

We don’t want to know Obama’s reaction to IRAN or Russia’s latest actions.  NO!!!

Even our MJS has a poll about the Obama Dog crisis!

http://www.jsonline.com/forums/34042464.html

http://www.jsonline.com/forums/34037629.html

Obama: Choosing Family Dog Is a 'Pressing Issue'

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/07/obama-choosing-family-dog-pressing-issue/

Next week’s crisis is Michelle’s hair style for the party!

Thursday, November 06, 2008

The death of Common Sense

The results of the November 4th elections motivated one of my conservative readers to forward the following e-mail on to me.  

I thought this e-mail was very appropriate for the time, given that in  Milwaukee County - during a period of recession - 68% of the voters asked for and will receive a 1% sales tax increase (baffling in itself - do people wake up in the morning and say "tax me more, please?"), and that many people voted for a mandate to require all businesses in Milwaukee County to pay for nine days of sick leave.  Such a "gimme" vote will only serve to devastate small businesses in the area.   

In addition, we have elected an "unknown" presidential candidate to lead our country - Barack Obama.  Very telling were comments AFTER the election from liberals like Tom Brokaw and George Stephanopoulos.  Both men were pondering  "how will Obama lead? -   from the left, middle or right?"  Shouldn't the voters have known the answer to that question BEFORE they elected him?  Shouldn't our mainstream media have been ASKING such relevant questions BEFORE the election?    It is too late now. 

However, we soon shall see how President-elect Obama will lead.  We shall soon see which promises Mr. Obama keeps and which ones he breaks.  We shall soon see if "spread the wealth" becomes a reality.  And on a more frightening level, we shall soon see how other countries "test" our new leader.  Remember, our newly-elected VP, Joe Biden, has promised that America will face an international crisis within six months of an Obama presidency...

Here is the e-mail that sums up where America is headed, especially after the November 4th election:

OBITUARY OF THE LATE MR. COMMON SENSE (by Denise Joseph):

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years.  No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.

He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as knowing when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worn, why life isn't always fair, and "maybe it was my fault."

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies:  Don't spend more than you earn.

And reliable strategies:  Adults, not children, are in charge. 

His health began to deteriorate when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer Tylenol, sun lotion or a band-aid to a student, but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband, churches became businesses, and criminals received better treatment than their victims.

Common Sense took a beating when it became punishable for you to defend yourself from a burglar in your own home, but the burglar could sue you for assault.

He began to lose ground rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place.  Reports of a 6 year old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate, teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch, and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot.  She spilled a little in her lap and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents:  Truth and Trust; his wife:  Discretion; his daughter:  Responsibility; and his son:  Reason. 

He is survived by three stepbrothers:  "I know my rights";  "Someone else is to blame", and "I'm a victim."

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

My top five positives from the 2008 presidential election.

Last night, America elected a new president.   The race between Barack Obama and John McCain served to bring out voters like never before.  Democracy in action!  Given the state of the economy as well as the unhappiness with the war in Iraq, it was amazing to me how well John McCain actually did as the Republican nominee.  However, in the end, Barack Obama emerged as the 44th President of the United States.  Being the eternal conservative optimist, here are my top five positives that came out of last night's election: 

 Number 5:  It was our daughter's 11th birthday!  We spent part of the evening at the Country Springs Hotel where the GOP was holding a presidential election night party.  It was a wonderful civics lesson for the children and an interesting, if a bit depressing,  night!   

Number 4:  Conservatism got a good kick in the pants.  If nothing else, bringing Sarah Palin in as a Vice-Presidential hopeful helped to re-energize a lethargic Republican Party.  The results of last night will hopefully serve to continue to generate the enthusiasm that has been missing from the Republican Party.    Conservatives and Republicans must remember that we are still a huge part of America.  America is still the greatest country in the world.    I see the conservative and Republican party rebounding back stronger and more committed than ever before.  Come 2010 and 2012, the political landscape should change again.  After all, politics is a very cyclical business.

Number 3:  We don't have to hear or see any more campaign ads for a few years!  ('Nuff said.)

Number 2:  Barack Obama as President should provide lots of material for conservative talk shows as well as bloggers like myself.  I look forward to more things to write about as Americans finally get their first glimpse to see what Mr. Obama really stands for.   Is it "hope" and "change" or is it "socialism" and a weaker country?  We will find out soon enough.  (Hopefully the "Fairness Doctrine" which will try to silence the conservative viewpoint will never become a reality, so conservatives such as myself will continue to have a voice.)  I will be a part of the "loyal opposition" to the Obama presidency.  I will not root for him to fail, as Democrats have done to President Bush.  As they have done in regards to the war in Iraq.   That is wrong.  Obama will have my support as long as he puts  America first. 

Number 1:  The Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate did not receive their "super majorities" they were hoping for.  Liberals and Democrats in power are not "filibuster proof", which is a good thing.  And in two years, if those on the right can get their act together, Republicans can re-claim some lost seats. 

  Whether you like the results of last night's election or not, all of America did witness history in the making.  Barack Obama was elected the first black president of the United States and deserves to be congratulated.  However, in my honest opinion,  Obama doesn't have the experience necessary to be president.  And whether you like it or not, it is a fact that Obama has had some very questionable associations in his past with people that don't like America.    Moving forward,  all of the smooth rhetoric from Obama that liberals swooned over must become more than words.  "Hope" and "Change" have to have substance.  Just what that substance will be is unknown.    On the other hand, four years does go by quickly.  If the American people come to the conclusion that they have been "bamboozled" by Obama, the elections in both 2010 and 2012 will be an opportunity for conservatives and Republicans to get back on track.   Only time will tell. 

The People Have Spoken!

It was not the outcome that I wanted, but we will have to learn to live with it.  Let us hope and pray that Obama governs like he ran not like his past shows.  He ran as if he was a conservative and a moderate not the far left like he has shown in the past.

The only silver lining is that the left did not get 60 seats and the world has met Sarah Palin the future of the conservative movement.  John McCain didn’t lose because of Palin!  She gave him the only shot he had.

It was simple that John McCain was not the right choice and that moderates are not the answer but moving back to conservatives is!

Did voter fraud happen?  YES, but the election was not lost because of that.

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

55,000 fraudulent votes in Wisconsin? A real possibility.

 From the Wall Street Journal (11/4/08) by John Fund:

Last week Mike Sandvick, head of the Milwaukee Police Department's five-man Special Investigative Unit, was told by superiors not to send anyone to polling places on Election Day. He was also told his unit -- which wrote the book on how fraud could subvert the vote in his hometown -- would be disbanded.

"We know what to look for," he told me, "and that scares some people." In disgust, Mr. Sandvick plans to retire. (A police spokeswoman claims the unit isn't being disbanded and that any ch