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ECO WARRIER: LET GLOBAL WARMING DESTROY CONSERVATIVES

The Baltimore Chronicle and Sentinel published a commentary on December 22, 2007 by Dave Lindorff. The gist of this commentary was that global warming is set to flood southern conservative leaning states, cause draught in farm country (those conservative hicks), and wipe out San Diego and the "rich" retirement communities in the Southwest and therefore give the liberals control of all the remaining viable territory in the United States - all this to happen in just a few presidential cycles (or in the life of his two cats as the author states). I say fine, let me know when the last cat has died and until then "SHUTUP"!!! Then lets see if we hear you apologize for lying to the American people about global warming. Sixteen years ago the world was going to be destroyed in ten years if we didn't do something. Nobody budged, so they upped it to the next 100 years so that none of us would be around to tell them that they were wrong. These same scientists told us that coffee is bad for us, no coffee is good for us, hold on! it is bad for us again. Butter is bad, margerine is good- no wait transfats are bad for you. I don't know about you, but their declarations about what is good and bad for you are about as reliable as Hillary Clinton on the battle in Iraq. I mean, the weather man can't even realiably tell us what the weather will be like next weekend, but we're supposed to believe them when they say that global warming will destroy the earth in 30 years?? Why is it that no matter what the temperature is outside, if it isn't a perfect day, it is a sign of global warming? I trust these scientists about as much as I would trust Bill Clinton with my 19 year old daughter. Why is it that liberals always adopt ideas that allow the government to take more and more control of our lives? Now they are telling us what kind of light bulbs we can use in our own homes. I never thought I would see the day in America that we would allow that to happen. It is time for an electoral revolt. We have got to get these Marxist control freaks out of the government, out of the media, out of the scientific community and out of the business of making movies.

REAL CONSERVATIVES ARE COLORBLIND

When I was young, I didn't pay any attention to the color of someone's skin. My best friend was Mexican and another couple of friends were Vietnamese, and we would go to their grandmother's, where they lived and eat. To me, their skin color was nothing different then their eye color or their height. Today, people identify themselves by their skin color. I have a hard time understanding why that is. I don't think of myself as white, and don't tell me it is because I haven't ever experienced prejudice, I have. I once was taken into the basement where I worked and told that I deserved to get fired because a male co-worker flicked my rear end while I was looking for parts he needed. He (the co-worker) didn't get any discipline - I was chewed out until I was bawling out of frustration. I was only 16 and it still makes me angry, but I made a decision to never let anyone treat me that way again. I could have made myself a victim and went through the rest of my life feeling like I was being treated unfairly because I am a woman, but I believe we create our own reality. If we believe we are being discriminated against, we will see it everywhere. Not to say that it doesn't happen. I have had it happen more than once, but I use it as an opportunity to move on to something else and learn a lesson. My point is that conservatives don't care about your skin color, or people as a group but we care about each person as an individual with individual experiences and thoughts. We are the bigger tent, because the freedoms we fight for are for every American regardless of sex, race, religion etc. etc. We want to give up more power not take more power - the only thing we want to be powerful is the military - so we can take it to any enemy who dares to attack us. Other than that, we want the people to have the power.

GEN X'ERS AND GEN Y'ERS: YOU ARE BEING CALLED UP

For decades our country has seen the decline of decency and morality. Behaviors that used to be frowned upon are now so common place that nobody even thinks twice about those behaviors, even though they are breaking down the family structure and childhood security. Things like partial-birth abortion are defended with a cult-like fervor. How did our country come to the point where it is acceptable to stab our children in the back of the head when they are almost out of the birth canal? How did we get to the point where 40% of our children are born without the benefit of married parents who have committed to each other? How did we get to the point where women's liberation became the right to be sexually promiscuous, and to face no consequences for that behavior (or pay a quack to destroy the evidence). Why have women allowed themselves to become sexual objects rather than demanding respect? How did we get to the point where our children learn about homosexuality, birth control, and global warming in school, but they aren't taught anything about American history, and are falling farther and farther behind in reading, math and writing? Most of these are because our Christian foundation has been chased out of the public arena. Christians have allowed themselves to become complacent regarding voting (only 1/3 of evengelical Christians bother to vote). This has to change. Our generation is being called to take a stand. To rise up and fight for the return to our historical foundations. Did you know that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were based on the sermons of four preachers? Did you know that the originial definition of "separation of church and state" was to keep the government from interferring in religious expression NOT to keep religion out of government? Do you realize that if you keep religion out of politics in the way that we are told we have to, that only secularist and atheist ideas will prosper, while our biblical foundation will crumble? Our generations are being called to be the next group of Americans to restore freedom to our country. Will you accept this challenge? Will you make a difference or sit out on the chance to be a hero for your country? The choice is yours.

CORPORATE TAXES AND OTHER LIBERAL IDEAS

Liberals are always griping about "Big Business" or "Big Oil" and complaining about the money that the CEO makes or pitting the rich against the poor. One of the dirty little secrets is that their corporate taxes don't hurt the corporation or even the CEO. In fact, I am convinced that when they complain about "Big Business", what they are really doing is publicly blackmailing that corporation for campaign donations. Now that the Democrats are in charge of both houses of Congress, you don't hear nearly as many attacks against "Big Business". That is because the "Big Businesses" are now giving them money to influence their votes.

There is another aspect to consider when we talk about corporate taxes. American corporations are selling a product or service, and in this global economy, they are competing not just with other American companies, but with companies all over the world. To makes those products or deliver those services, they hire people. Now that corporation is already paying double taxes, they pay taxes on the money they make and the money they pay out to their shareholders(who are more middle class Americans with 401K's and IRA's). In addition, the corporations have to match the social security and medicare taxes for each employee (think about that for a minute - that is money that could have been part of your income, but the government takes it in such a way that millions of Americans don't even know it is paid).

Alright, so the government raises corporate taxes. Now this corporation is losing some of its income and is less able to compete with countries who have lower corporate taxes. Now they have to choose, do they eat the income loss and thus hurt their shareholders? Do they cut back on their workforce and thus recoup the loss that way? Do they put a freeze on income raises for their employees and risk losing them to other companies with the ability to pay more? Do they raise the prices of their goods and services and risk being less competitive? Look at those choices and see who gets hurt.

• Let the taxes lower their income - hurts middle class stockholders who own stock in their IRA's or 401K's.
• Lay people off - hurts the people who get fired, the middle class worker
• Freeze incomes - hurts the middle class worker who is not getting that raise and puts the company at risk for losing business which could eventually lead to another cut back in their work force and/or loss for their shareholders.
• Raise their prices - hurts the consumer, the poor and middle class get hit the worst, but this could make the corporation less competitive and thus cause the loss of jobs or income thereby hurting the stockholders and employees too.

Now lets consider the minimum wage. The liberals are always demanding we raise the minimum wage. Only about 2.5 percent of American workers made minimum wage in 2005. Of that percent, only 479,000 were paid the minimum wage of $5.15/hr, the remaining 1.4 million made less than the minimum wage, which means they also received tips (and like a lot of people, didn't report those tips as income). One half of those making minimum wage are 25 years old or younger. Now - lets look at what happens when the minimum wage is raised. First, most of the people making more than minimum wage (that is 98.5% of workers) will not get a raise. The companies with a lot of minimum wage workers (McDonalds, Burger King etc.) will have to pay out more money (and thus face the same decisions as they did with corporate taxes). They will often raise their prices and/or hire less people. Those of us who don't get a raise see prices rise for various products, even though we are not making any more money than before. How many people seriously think that they can support a family with a job at McDonalds anyway? Most of those jobs are held by high school students and retired people. The bottom line is, when the government gets involved with trying to regulate business, the people who really get hurt are the American workers. Government doesn't fix things, it breaks them. We are less competitive than we used to be. Currently the average American works over 100 days to pay all of their federal and state taxes. Nothing is going to change until the American people demand a change and you have to participate in voting if you want that to happen.

Jennifer Flowers May Vote For Hillary

This is an illustration of why Ann Coulter says women shouldn't vote. When you vote for a woman simply because she is woman, it doesn't show any intellectual reasoning. To also state that you like Joe Biden, because he is sexy?! Well, that certainly explains why she was attracted to Bill Clinton. The woman has no taste at all. This is the result of women's sexual liberation. We now have women who are vapid airheads with not a single thought in their head above their baser desires. This is an embarassment to women everywhere. I would like to think that women are smart enough to think about the issues and what is important to them before they vote for someone - and what gender that person is shouldn't matter, but I do hear a lot of intellectually deficient women saying they would vote for Hillary because she is a woman. Let's hope with that much stupidity, they pull the lever for the wrong person. Shouldn't there be some sort of IQ test to be able to vote, I mean this is a serious exercise in freedom, and these women give no more thought about it then does the candidate have a penis or not. At least give some intelligent answer as to why you support Hillary aside from the fact that her private parts are the same as yours.

Why I Support Fred Thompson

I am a bit dismayed if current polls are correct (and I am not sure they aren't more of a ploy by the mainstream media to trick conservatives into voting for the person they want us to vote for), but I cannot understand why Christians would support Mike Huckabee, simply because he was a pastor. His prior job title matters less than his prior job performance, and Mike Huckabee is not a conservative based on his record. Not only that, but he changes positions more than John Kerry. I don't have a lot of respect for a man who calls conservatives concerned about illegal immigration, racists and bigots, and then when it bites him in the butt, tries to say he only meant the KKK not everybody.

Also, has Huckabee missed the last 7 years? President Bush has already tried the "can't we all just get along" thing, and he has had liberals try to impeach him, compare him to Hitler, and make a movie showing him being assassinated, not to mention the claim that he somehow snuck explosives in buildings without the 50,000 people who worked there noticing, so he could murder them all to go to war with Iraq over oil. You cannot make these people like you no matter how hard you try, they are out of their minds. You can't win them over, you just need to defeat them.

Now on to Fred, the thing I like most about Fred is that he developed core values and has stuck with them throughout his public career. I may not have always agreed with his position (such as McCain-Feingold) but Fred will always stick to what he believes. Romney, Guiliani and Huckabee have shown that they change their minds based on the way the wind blows. Fred doesn't cave to pressure from so-called conservatives who think we can be "friends" with liberals. We need someone who can stand up to the constant pressure from the left - including the media. Fred is the only one who has shown the strength and the guts to do that. There are so many other reasons that I support Fred, he is thoughtful, has released detailed position papers instead of giving generic answers like "I want to help the poor reach their potential" - the typical political rhetoric that politicians give with absolutely no substance.

I trust that Fred will not change his mind about his positions once he is elected, the other four top tier candidates have already shown a proclivity to do just that and I would be leery about giving them another term when they may suddenly decide that they don't need to be conservative anymore because they are not up for reelection.

Environ-mentals

I recently read an article about women who were getting themselves sterilized to help save the environment. Apparently children have a huge carbon footprint and it is selfish to have children when the world is dying. One of these women even went so far as to have an abortion to prevent the life within her from damaging the environment. Apparently the fact that the human race would cease to exist without children doesn't faze them. The way this story was written and the way these women talked about their decisions, they believed they were saving the planet. In my view though, they are cowards. How easy it is to exterminate somebody else's life for your cause, but I notice that neither one of these women was willing to become a martyr for their cause and commit suicide.

Now don't get me wrong, sterilization is the best idea I have seen out of these environmental wacko's. In fact, I think we should start a website for them to help them all accomplish this task by spreading the word. The less they reproduce, the better for the rest of us.
It always amazes me how environmentalists (and by environmentalists, I mean the socialists who think the environment trumps human life in every instance) make excuses for their own carbon footprints - for instance the woman who had an abortion excuses her international travel once a year because she didn't have a child. In other words, she can pollute a little more because she doesn't have a child with a big carbon footprint (contrast this with someone who really thinks the environment is in danger and refuses to add to the carbon footprint more than is necessary for survival).

And then there is Al Gore. His house uses 20 times the amount of energy that the average American household uses. He flies around the country in a private jet (way more than the average American flies) and then lectures the rest of us about our carbon footprints. Oh, but don't forget that he buys carbon credits - what a scam that is: a corporation doesn't reach their cap on pollution, so they sell what is left of their pollution limit to someone else, so they can pollute instead. So instead of being happy that they didn't pollute their limit, they make money by making sure they hit that cap. Oh, but don't forget, Al Gore owns one of these carbon credit programs too. So he flies around polluting and buys permission to pollute from himself, and then touts to people that they should do the same - so he can become richer. And Al Gore says (like a good little communist) that you cannot disagree with him - he is right and everyone who disagrees is wrong. Now global warming is occurring but I don't think warming by 1.5 degrees in the last 100 years is a catasrophe waiting to happen and just 16 years ago I heard the earth would cease to exist in 10 years if we didn't do something. Guess that was wrong too.

Watch Fred Thompson's Interview with Charlie Rose

Fred talks in depth about Iran, Iraq, federalism, education, the economy, immigration, and other topics.

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The Constitution - A Contract with Americans

Contract with Americans: the Constitution

The Constitution of the United States is a contract with the American people. The founders created a document, publicly promising certain rights to every American, and limiting the powers of the government, and they promised these things to convince the different states to ratify the Constitution and later to please the anti-federalists who opposed the Constitution. Today’s judges now tell us that this contract is a living, breathing document that changes with time. If I create a contract indicating that I will fix your car for $300, I cannot suddenly change the contract to read that I will fix your car for $800 and will charge you for storage fees. This would be a violation and legally, you would not be liable to me for anything but the $300. Thus, those justices who claim to be strict constructionists are telling you that they will not change the contract without an amendment, while the other justices are more than happy to add to, delete from and otherwise pervert the original intent of the document, so long as the result of their machinations results in a favorable result to them and their political allies. Creating rights that never existed in the Constitution is one way that judges have created judicial tyranny by fiat. We need to start supporting only those judges who believe that the Constitution must only be interpreted based on its original meaning. Any other interpretation negates the whole purpose of the Constitution and endangers the very rights that the Constitution guarantees.

America's Real Quagmire

NOTE: This is an essay I wrote in 2004.

AMERICA’S REAL QUAGMIRE

America is in a quagmire– but it is not in Iraq, it is right here at home. The American Heritage Dictionary defines quagmire as a difficult or precarious situation. We are in the fight of our lives, our very survival depends on our success – but the liberals have learned a lesson from Vietnam and are determined to continue repeating it.

On November 8, 2001, Jacob Heilbrunn wrote in the Times Union that “[t]he United States is not headed into a quagmire; it's already in one. The United States is not losing the first round against the Taliban; it has already lost it”. This was in response to our campaign in Afghanistan which began on October 7, 2001, just one month earlier.

Quagmire is the word liberals use to compare any war campaign to Vietnam, in hopes of convincing the American public that we are in a war that we can’t win. The Vietnam War was a battle in the Cold War. It was a campaign that the liberals failed to see the significance of. Communist expansionism was a serious threat to the United States.
The communists had already taken over China, Czechoslovakia, East Berlin, Hungary, Cuba, Albania, Bulgaria, Poland, and Romania by the time we fought the Vietnam War and they had tried to place nuclear weapons in Cuba.

Our shame in Vietnam isn’t that we fought the war, but that we entered into a war without the will to win it at any cost. Conceding in that war gave the world the impetus to ridicule American power, and it demoralized the country. Vietnam changed everything. Experts began predicting that the Soviet’s would win the Cold War and there was nothing America could do about it.

After World War II ended, Allied troops continued to be attacked by rebel soldiers for three years. But liberals are trying to convince us that we are losing in Iraq because we are still being attacked a year after the conflict began. Liberal apologists see any conflict we enter as a flexing of American muscle in a show of arrogance. They complain that President Bush wasn’t preemptive before 9/11 using the intelligence available at the time, yet decry the fact that he acted on the best intelligence available to preempt Iraq from selling or using weapons of mass destruction.
So where is our quagmire? Our quagmire exists right here in the homeland. It is between those who would lay the blame of all the world’s ills at the feet of America and thus on her people, and those who believe this country, with all of her faults, is still the greatest country on the face of the earth. It is between those who are willing to sit back and do nothing in order to make the world like us and those who believe that doing nothing is dangerous and self-defeating. The course we determine now will affect future generations of Americans. Do we have the will to win or will we give the world another reason to laugh at us?
In the July 2, 1776 General Orders to the Continental Army, George Washington wrote:
“The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore to resolve to conquer or die. Our own Country's Honor, all call upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions--The Eyes of all our Countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings, and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the Tyranny meditated against them. Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and shew the whole world, that a Freeman contending for Liberty…is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth”

Merry Christmas

As a Christian, I love this time of year, not because of the Christmas trees, and the presents, but because it reminds me that God loved me so much, that he sacrificed his son Jesus for me, even knowing how imperfect I would be. It bothers me greatly that Christmas is being attacked by secular progressives and atheists who want to eliminate any signs of God or Christianity from public view. No longer do our kids have "Christmas" break - it is Holiday Break. No longer do they have Easter Break, it is Spring Break. Businesses sell Holiday Trees and wish you Happy Holidays - don't want to offend anyone. Here is my take, over 80% of Americans claim to be Christians. So offending 80% of Americans to not offend less than 20% doesn't make a lot of sense. When I wish you Merry Christmas, I am not demanding that you be a Christian or that you believe in Jesus Christ, I am sincerely wishing you joy of the season. If you are a Jew and you wish me Happy Hanukkah, I will be flattered that you wish me joy of the season too. Those of you who don't believe in God pursue your right to not believe with a fervor nearly like religion. In fact, I believe atheism is a religion. You like to sit high up on that pedestal you have built for yourself and look down on those of us who believe in a supreme being. You assume that you are in a state of higher enlightenment then those of us imbeciles who still believe in archaic texts such as the Bible and the Torah, that you must force us to quit practicing our religion in public. Let me remind you that it was religious men who wrote that "we are endowed by our Creator" and that their belief in God is the foundation for our rights in the Bill of Rights. That most of our moral laws - don't steal, don't murder... are based on the Biblical principles called the ten commandments. Biblical principles have never injured a populace, despite your claims that most wars were started in the name of religion. Most wars, and most tyrannical governments are formed by a man or men who believe that they more enlightened then the masses. That they must control dissent and force their beliefs on everyone else. Christians want the right to practice their religion, to talk about their religion, to see businesses and government recognize the importance of their religion, not only to them but to the history of the United States. They do not seek to destroy people who do not believe the same as they do. Whether you like it or not, our country was founded on Judeo-Christian beliefs. It is part of our history and part of our national identity and national heritage. Go ahead and wish me "Happy Holidays" but don't be surprised when I answer back, "Merry Christmas".