AWOL

Ok, so I've been gone for awhile. I could use the excuse that there were the Holidays, and, work, and etc.etc., but the truth is that I think that many of us, including me, may have had an overload of current events that left us speechless. That, and the fact that I didn't think anyone was listening, or in this case, reading, anyway.

A lot has happened in the last few months. A lot that we thought was not possible in the United States.

We have pretty much trashed the idea of rule by the people. We have changed the structure of the House and Senate, and behaved in a manner unheard of in the history of the country.

We have alienated friends, and embraced long standing regimes that we once abhorred.

It would take me quite awhile to update my section on "Disturbing Quotes of Our Time", but, I will try to catch up.

A few of the most amazingly, disturbing quotes, have happened within the last month.

These are paraphrased but, you get the gist.

Al Sharpton on the events of the day, explained to America that we shouldn't be so astounded at recent developments, since we knew that Obama was running on a Socialist platform and yet, we elected him. Why then, are we so upset when he initiates these proposals.

Well! I thought that when the conservatives mentioned Socialism in the past, that it was an outrageous and bizarre part of our collective imaginations.

Both Pelosi and the Prez stated vehemently and, with little tolerance for the rest of the country's apparent stupidity, that if we would only listen to them once in awhile, we would know that once the Health Care Reform bill was passed, then we, and they, would actually get to see what is in it.

When did Bills, and, eventually laws of the land become demoted to surprise grab bags?

We have been informed by the elected officials of our land themselves that votes now depend on the so called "sweetheart deals", or on the flip side, whatever dirt can be dug up on the official that might just sway his or her vote. No one seems to be embarrassed by this method of vote gathering.

Then, of course, there is the latest Bidenism. What can I say? Biden chooses to use a certain, "non acceptable in public" word, in a very public place, during a very public press conference, and, the Prez thinks it was the best part of the day.

Give me strength!

This Week-Sept. 24

Is it just me or has the U.S.A. totally lost it's way, it's sanity, and it's path in the world.

The president is flying around giving interviews and hitting the late night talk shows like a new super star on tour. He gives speeches and turns it into a pep rally where the people chant back to him in a frenzy as he encourages them to back his every idea.
School children are taught songs praising the "dear leader" and sing them in a cult atmosphere, (one of them to the tune of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic".

Obama claims that he not only hasn't been following the ACORN scandal, he didn't realize that they had been receiving federal funds. He quickly disavowed any knowledge of the group that he represented as an attorney and helped out as a trainer at their seminars, and, following suit, ACORN cut him loose from their records. He was oblivious to the fact that both the House and Senate were in the process of cutting off billions of dollars to ACORN, and said he had more important things to consider. (What's more important than where our tax money goes? Silly me, he didn't care in the Stimulous debacle either did he!)

The feds have issued warnings to insurance companies, instructing them not to send out any more mailers explaining the loss of Medicare benefits in the new health care plan even though it was confirmed that their information was correct. They are now controlling what private companies can and cannot say to their clients?

Leaders of countries met at the U.N., and the most radical of them endorsed and praised the president. Quaddafi called him "my son" and the "black Kenyan president".

England, however, is aghast that not only couldn't the PM get an audience with the president, while the president was presented with a pen holder carved from the ship HMS President, a sister ship of the Resolute, whose timber furnished the wood for the Oval Office desk, the PM was presented with 25 DVDs of old American movies. Winston Churchill's bust has been removed from the Oval Office.

If you don't think that Obama is trying to run his presidency as a budding dictator, complete with children singing praises, and people chanting, and everyone who opposes him being told to "shut up and let him do his thing", then you are part of the problem. Your brain has been washed, your democratic values misplaced, and your Constitutional rights dwindled.

This is serious. Be afraid- be very afraid.

WHAT THE HELL IS ACORN AND WHY AM I FUNDING THEM?

Acorn is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. It was founded in 1970, as a community-based advocacy organization which registers voters, among other things.

It was founded by Wade Rathke, an activist for labor unions and low income workers, and Gary Delgado, an activist on issues of race and social justice.

According to Acorn, they have chapters in 110 cities, Canada, Mexico, and Peru. It has become far-reaching, influential, and a bit frightening if you care at all about the possibility of a world government and socialism.

Departure from ACORN

The New York Times reported on July 9th, 2008, that Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN's founder Wade Rathke, was found to have embezzled $948,607.50 from the group and affiliated charitable organizations back in 1999 and 2000.^[1] ACORN executives decided to handle it as an internal matter, and did not inform most of the board members or law enforcement, and instead signed an enforceable restitution agreement with the Rathke family to repay the amount of the embezzlement. Wade Rathke told the Times, "the decision to keep the matter secret was not made to protect his brother but because word of the embezzlement would have put a 'weapon' into the hands of enemies of Acorn, a liberal group that is a frequent target of conservatives who object to ACORN's often strident advocacy on behalf of low- and moderate-income families and workers." A whistleblower revealed the embezzlement in 2008. On June 2, 2008, Dale Rathke was dismissed, and Wade stepped down as ACORN's chief organizer, but he remains chief organizer for Acorn International L.L.C.^[1]

According to an article in the New York Post, Oct. 8, 2008, 40% of Acorn's operations are funded through grants it receives from the government through various agencies, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, and the Justice Dept.

So, while Acorn has vehemently declared that they are not mentioned in any way, shape, or form in any stimulus package, they are right. What they don't point out, is that money directed at other agencies has already been earmarked to be funneled through to Acorn and other organizations similar to Acorn.

According to http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/ACORN, Acorn also receives funding from private organizations such as the Bauman Family Foundation, George Soros Open Society Institute and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and several labor unions.

Included in the funding participants are, JP Morgan Chase Foundation, Ben & Jerry's foundation, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Citigroup, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation and a foundation associated with the founder of the UPS! Very interesting.

Acorn is a growing social organization that is in no way non-partisan in it's approach, unbiased in it's voter registration agenda, or non-committal in it's efforts to influence people as to their liberal programs. It certainly is no organization that I would want to conduct a census!

While they may be within their rights to accept money from any group, or government faction, I personally do not want to fund them.

Funding draws criticism - From Ballotpedia

Donations to ACORN from traditionally "progressive" groups has drawn criticism to the social justice organization from other political organizations. The Consumer Rights League (CRL), in particular, has focused on ACORN's funding. They assert that ACORN's budget is "is fed by extracting immense resources from labor unions, government grants, private foundations, its members, and "settlements" with targeted businesses".^[13].

A press release from CRL on June 18, 2008 claimed, "The ACORN Housing Association (AHC), an ACORN affiliate that receives over 40% of its funding from government sources, claims to be a consumer advocate. In a newly-released report from CRL, however, a series of documents obtained from a whistleblower source reveals hypocritical and potentially illegal use of taxpayer dollars by ACORN and its related organizations."^[14]

ACORN's financial construction has also led to investigation by authorities. According to an October 21, 2008 article in the New York Times, "Acorn faces demands for back taxes by the Internal Revenue Service and various state tax authorities."

Requests to end government funding

On October 22, House Republican leader John Boehner asked President Bush to block all federal funds to ACORN because of the voter fraud allegations surrounding the group. Boehner said, "It is evident that ACORN is incapable of using federal funds in a manner that is consistent with the law," Boehner, R-Ohio, wrote Bush, saying that funds should be blocked until all federal investigations into the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now are completed.^[15]

The following is part of an editorial from- Washingtonexaminer.com The Examiner

May 24, 2009

Under the guise of due process concerns, congressional Democrats have opened the way for organizations with criminal histories to gain greater access to taxpayer funds. Exhibit A here is the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN), now under investigation in at least 14 states for voter registration fraud.

Earlier this month, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-MA, sponsored an amendment to the $140 million Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act. The Frank measure allowed organizations being investigated by state or federal authorities on corruption charges to receive federal funds as long as they avoid conviction. Frank argued that his amendment, which was approved by the House, protected the presumption of innocence in federal spending.

In the light of what transpired this week, it would seem that what we all knew about ACORN is not only true, but rampant. And, there were those, that for many years have been calling for the investigation of this organization and were ignored, because ACORN is, of course, the champion of liberal causes and candidates.

On the surface, any group that is actively trying to help the poor, the homeless, and the underdog is a good thing. But, not if they are merely a front for more sinister purposes, and illegal tactics. ACORN has only lasted this long because the atmosphere of political correctness has chastised anyone who dared investigate them, or deny funding to them. Hopefully, they will lose their preferred status, and finally be exposed for what they are.

You Go Joe!

Recently, Joe Wilson committed an unforgivable act during a speech by the president (I know it’s technically supposed to be capitalized). He acted without restraint, in an abusive, irrational and, according to some, who read his mind and knew what he was really thinking, racial manner. In a rare moment of unrestrained rationality, which is rare in Washington, and even more endangered in Obamaland, he called someone out on a lie.

Perhaps, it just might be possible, that this man, like many of us, has just had enough of the half-truths, coded little passages meant to throw us off the real agenda, and down right lies that have plagued this “ transparent administration.”

Bear in mind that this man works in the inner circle, where he sees, on a daily basis what deception, contradiction, boot-licking, and game playing ensues. I believe that anyone with a conscience left in their soul would eventually break under these circumstances, or at the very least, become physically sick.

Never-the-less, he apologized to the president and the vice for his act- the act of calling him out at an inappropriate moment. Not for accusing him, of, what was later to be discovered was indeed a lie, (or an oversight if you’re in the Obama camp).

So- the left is worried about a breach of decorum in a joint session while their president delivers his speech. Pelosi struts about and demands that he be chastised further.
They are without blame. They certainly never booed President Bush, or called him a liar. They have always acted with perfect protocol in their dealings with others, mocking the Tea Party protesters, calling the CIA liars, accusing the right of everything from being Nazis to racists.

I know that it was a breach of protocol. I know that both sides have criticized him. I know that by saying it he only gave the left more ammunition. I know that everyone agrees that he shouldn't have said it.
Everyone but me.

YOU GO JOE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Carter is Still Oblivious

While I always believed that Jimmy Carter was a few peanuts short of a full jar, he really topped all my expectations of his incompetency when he stated that the reason people are disagreeing with Obama is because they are racist and against blacks in general.

I have to assume that either, one, Jimmy has family members kidnapped and threatened by ACORN, and has been forced to proclaim further stupidity to the world, or, two, his mind has been affected, (possibly by finally reviewing his presidency).

When are these morons going to realize that the chasm between Obama, his liberal radicals and the rest of the country is ideological and not racial. Were he a conservative, or at this point, even a centrist, with a clean background, substantial morals, and a constitutionally sound plan for this country, he would be applauded by the heartland, regardless of race.

Those who are using the liberal war cry of racism do no good for their country. They divide neighbors, insult the legitimate concerns of average Americans, and, divert attention from the real problems at hand.

The very fact that they would try to create false situations, and foster unrest and divisions in the country to further their political agenda is disgraceful and alarming, but not surprising.

In Honor of the Victims of 9/11

This is a day of remembrance, honor, sorrow, and renewed pride in our country. Thanks to the leadership of George W. Bush, we defended our country, learned from our lapses in security,became stronger because of our tragedies, and went after those who attacked us.

We wore flag pins, and flew flags on our homes and car windows, and bought patriotic t-shirts- not because, as our current leader said, out of some phony act of patriotism, but because, sometimes, it takes a tragedy to bring out our real feelings about our country, ourselves and our fellow citizens.

Obama has dubbed 9/11, the First National Day of Service and Remembrance, bringing his own socialist agenda to a day that is reserved for the honor of those who died on that day, and all who have given their lives since. It would seem that even on this sacred day he cannot and will not stop his incessant drive toward his goals.

Reagan said that the United States was "The shining city upon the hill". and Obama tells Europe, the Middle East and the rest of the world that we are an arrogant people, derisive and cruel.

John Kennedy asked the country to ask themselves what they could do for their country, and Obama asks small children to think about what they can do for their president.

We are a nation of service oriented people, who regularly volunteer their services to others daily.
We are not a nation of Acorn people, bent on the destruction of the country's basic values, and geared toward driving this land into a Socialist state.

Let this day now and forever be dedicated to those who lost their lives to our enemies and those who serve in all walks of life daily and risk their lives for the rest of us.

BETWEEN BARACK AND A HARD PLACE
(Just found out that this is an O'Reilly ism didn't mean to copy!)

The Dems were desperate to find a candidate that would take them back to occupying the White House. They chose, or were presented with, Obama, because he had what they were looking for. He was young, well spoken, charismatic (at least some think so), and he is bi-racial, a characteristic that they could use if anyone dared disagree with him.

On top of these sterling qualities, he had connections, with Acorn, and more organizations from the Chicago days than you can count.

The fact that he was radical, that he had less than exemplary connections, and no experience, were secondary. I really believed that they either turned a blind eye to his previous associates, or convinced themselves, in the name of securing the Presidency, that these were all things from his past, and would miraculously go away.

I don't believe that anyone (and I'm giving everyone the benefit of the doubt), expected him to be as radically liberal and socialistic as he openly admitted to being during and after the election.

According to the recent polls, more folks disagree with the Obama administration than agree, but that doesn't stop the arrogance. Recently, Obama told the American people basically to "shut up and let him handle things." He feels no more concern or responsibility for the opinions of the American people than he did during the campaign, or going into the Presidency.
We have to wonder where this disdain and subsequent confidence comes from in a democracy where his grand plan has been exposed and the people are beginning to open their eyes and see what some of us knew from the start.
He has confidence that he has the elected Dems in his pocket, his czars have his back, Acorn and other liberal groups are his new army, and the combined experience of his Chicago training are his strength.
He has indeed fulfilled his promise of change. He is on a roll to change democracy to socialism, the presidency into a dictatorship, and the American people into servants and dependents of the state.

Now, our elected officials are holding town meetings, where they have to answer for their transgressions, explain why everything that has transpired in the last few months was done with haste and in the dark of night, why they don't read what they vote on, and why they don't listen to their constituents.

On the one hand, they are mandated to "stand by their man", and their decision to support him. On the other hand, they are faced with the fact that they are not popular with the people who put them in office.