Call me old fashioned, but the last thing I want to see is the President-elect walking around shirtless. I would really like to know that the next leader of the free world has some self-respect. The latest Obama stunt is sickening. I have a hard time taking this man seriously when it seems like all he's really won is a popularity contest, much like being elected Student Council President. The repeated airings of him walking around shirtless in Hawaii is worse than seeing Bill Clinton playing the saxophone. Does America really need another playboy President? No! We need a leader, and Barack Obama doesn't give the impression that he is up to the task. I'm looking forward to seeing how he will handle the first terrorist attack on American soil during his watch. Until then, keep watching CNN and reading Us Weekly for updates on the latest B. Obama antics and hijinks...what a guy!
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
No More Bailouts
For once, the Senate made the right decision. I am very glad they did not approve yet another bailout. Now, if only our President wouldn't be such a limp noodle and break under liberal pressure to dip into the coffers of cash already set aside to bailout Wall Street, the lousy crooks! Regenerate the set you once had, President Bush, and stand your ground on this issue! The bailout trend had to stop and the Senate finally made the call they should have made a long time ago. It is high time for corporations and individuals to take responsibility for their actions and poor decisions and get themselves out of trouble. Get rid of the UAW, it has only run the auto industry into the ground, file the Chapter 11 bankruptcy, restructure, and CUT CUT CUT the needless expenditures and over-the-top upper management salaries and perks. I know I don't have extra cash sitting around just waiting to be thrown away. This decision won't get us out of debt as a nation and there will be the typical panic reaction, but we will all be better off in the long run. That's what these politicians and CEO's need to focus on and stop thinking only about the here and now. Band-aid fixes only put off the inevitable. Everyone is going to have to suck it up and work hard to get this nation back on its feet. Meanwhile, all private citizens should write to Congress and demand our personal bailouts. For a mere $100,000 per taxpayer, Congress would be getting a heck of a bargain.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Oh, please!
Barack Obama's election was truly historic; I freely admit this fact. Yes, he is the first Black president-elect. Yes, our country has hit a historical milestone. But, just as I feared since the announcement of O's candidacy, we are seeing the beginning of a long, difficult, and racially focused administration. First, there was the chilling campaign song performed by children, reminiscent of propaganda tactics used by the Nazi Party--scary. Next, there is the promotion of having a national "Obama Day"--preposterous! Now, you can order a limited edition minted Barack Obama gold dollar coin and half dollar coin--ridiculous. Has this gone too far? Where will it end? Will we next see a National Hope and Change Day? I say let's celebrate a real national hero, Ronald Reagan. You want to talk about hope and change? Reagan ushered in the end of the Cold War. What has O done during his tenure as a politician? Has he authored a single piece of legislation? Has he played a role in promoting healthy relations with other nations? What has he accomplished besides just spewing nauseating rhetoric about the nebulous "hope and change"? The next four years will be interesting, if not worse. I want to see some action to back up what I consider empty political promises. Prove me wrong, Obama! So far, and this is before he's even been inaugurated, I've been correct about what I see as his true character and his true motives. God Bless America, or maybe God Save America!
Thursday, November 20, 2008
The Principles
PRINCIPLES OF THE NEW BULL MOOSE MOVEMENT
The New Bull Moose Movement stands for very simple, fundamental American principles. We are Conservative and patriotic. We support public government officials who demonstrate a high degree of integrity, have a commitment to instilling and promoting a sense of personal responsibility in the American people, advocate smaller government, and demonstrate the desire and courage to defend our country against our enemies. The United States desperately needs to return to our foundations, the fundamentals Theodore Roosevelt believed in. Liberalism run amok threatens everything America stands for and it is time to say, “We want our country back!”
The United States Constitution
Our Supreme Law of the Land is not a social experiment. The Bill of Rights written in 1789 established indisputable rights we as Americans are entitled to. The founding fathers did not create the Constitution to be a “living document” whereby core principles, such as the right to free speech and the right to keep and bear arms, could be altered to change the original meaning of their precepts or accommodate contemporary liberal ideas. The Constitution is to be observed, revered, and protected from all enemies no matter where or who those enemies may be.
Personal Responsibility
Throughout life there are times when almost everyone needs help from his or her neighbor or even the government, but the utter reliance on such help without the intent to help oneself is unreasonable. Hard work and self-reliance is what created this country. The government is not the panacea for all of life’s challenges. We must shrink the government to encourage a sense of pride and hard work to accomplish goals, not expand the government so that it is the rescuer of all who have chosen to live beyond their means. There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to know personal goals have been realized through one’s own hard work, dedication, and perseverance in the face of significant adversity. Adversity should not be feared but rather it should be viewed as an affirmation of one’s resolve to succeed. We are not afraid to work hard and make necessary sacrifices to achieve a high quality of life, and we know the definition of “quality of life” is not universal. Everyone is not entitled to the same material possessions, the same level of income, the same type of housing, the same level of education, the same types of jobs; everyone is entitled to pursue whatever quality of life they choose and achieve whatever they are able to achieve through creating their own circumstances and continuing to pursue their dreams even after set-backs and failures. In our great nation we are blessed with the freedom to make choices, but with every choice there are consequences and we have a responsibility to accept those consequences whether they are positive or negative.
National Security
Illegal immigration is exactly that – illegal – even though the only penalty under current federal statutes is deportation. There is no room in America for those who choose to break the law and penetrate our borders without there being serious consequences. Federal law needs to be re-examined and revised to include fines and incarceration for those who ignore the sovereignty of the United States and enter the country illegally. The desire to make a better life or escape dire circumstances in one’s native country does not excuse fraudulent or otherwise illegal entry into the United States. Children born in this country to parents who are here illegally should not be given automatic citizenship. That is fruit of the poisonous tree. Furthermore, individuals known to be terrorists should be banished from American soil forever. Constitutional rights are reserved for American citizens and those who are in the country legally. We should never attempt to enter into negotiations with those who are sworn by religious doctrine to destroy America. The Rosenbergs were put to death for aiding and abetting the enemy; but terrorists, who are often well-known by the federal government, are hatching schemes to wage war right here within our own borders and they are tolerated, even defended. They live in our society with conspicuous audacity. Enemies of the State should not be allowed to live among honest, law-abiding American citizens. Our national borders must be protected from the enemies who seek only to exploit and destroy our country. This anything goes age of tolerance for any and everything anti-American has gone too far and it is time to say, “Enough!”
The principles of the New Bull Moose Movement are simple and based on traditional values. The New Bull Moose Movement seeks to restore the guiding philosophies of this nation’s founding fathers. We want a change of the old guard in the Republican Party by installing patriotic Americans who will unapologetically and steadfastly stand for true American Conservatism. We want our country back!
The New Bull Moose Movement stands for very simple, fundamental American principles. We are Conservative and patriotic. We support public government officials who demonstrate a high degree of integrity, have a commitment to instilling and promoting a sense of personal responsibility in the American people, advocate smaller government, and demonstrate the desire and courage to defend our country against our enemies. The United States desperately needs to return to our foundations, the fundamentals Theodore Roosevelt believed in. Liberalism run amok threatens everything America stands for and it is time to say, “We want our country back!”
The United States Constitution
Our Supreme Law of the Land is not a social experiment. The Bill of Rights written in 1789 established indisputable rights we as Americans are entitled to. The founding fathers did not create the Constitution to be a “living document” whereby core principles, such as the right to free speech and the right to keep and bear arms, could be altered to change the original meaning of their precepts or accommodate contemporary liberal ideas. The Constitution is to be observed, revered, and protected from all enemies no matter where or who those enemies may be.
Personal Responsibility
Throughout life there are times when almost everyone needs help from his or her neighbor or even the government, but the utter reliance on such help without the intent to help oneself is unreasonable. Hard work and self-reliance is what created this country. The government is not the panacea for all of life’s challenges. We must shrink the government to encourage a sense of pride and hard work to accomplish goals, not expand the government so that it is the rescuer of all who have chosen to live beyond their means. There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to know personal goals have been realized through one’s own hard work, dedication, and perseverance in the face of significant adversity. Adversity should not be feared but rather it should be viewed as an affirmation of one’s resolve to succeed. We are not afraid to work hard and make necessary sacrifices to achieve a high quality of life, and we know the definition of “quality of life” is not universal. Everyone is not entitled to the same material possessions, the same level of income, the same type of housing, the same level of education, the same types of jobs; everyone is entitled to pursue whatever quality of life they choose and achieve whatever they are able to achieve through creating their own circumstances and continuing to pursue their dreams even after set-backs and failures. In our great nation we are blessed with the freedom to make choices, but with every choice there are consequences and we have a responsibility to accept those consequences whether they are positive or negative.
National Security
Illegal immigration is exactly that – illegal – even though the only penalty under current federal statutes is deportation. There is no room in America for those who choose to break the law and penetrate our borders without there being serious consequences. Federal law needs to be re-examined and revised to include fines and incarceration for those who ignore the sovereignty of the United States and enter the country illegally. The desire to make a better life or escape dire circumstances in one’s native country does not excuse fraudulent or otherwise illegal entry into the United States. Children born in this country to parents who are here illegally should not be given automatic citizenship. That is fruit of the poisonous tree. Furthermore, individuals known to be terrorists should be banished from American soil forever. Constitutional rights are reserved for American citizens and those who are in the country legally. We should never attempt to enter into negotiations with those who are sworn by religious doctrine to destroy America. The Rosenbergs were put to death for aiding and abetting the enemy; but terrorists, who are often well-known by the federal government, are hatching schemes to wage war right here within our own borders and they are tolerated, even defended. They live in our society with conspicuous audacity. Enemies of the State should not be allowed to live among honest, law-abiding American citizens. Our national borders must be protected from the enemies who seek only to exploit and destroy our country. This anything goes age of tolerance for any and everything anti-American has gone too far and it is time to say, “Enough!”
The principles of the New Bull Moose Movement are simple and based on traditional values. The New Bull Moose Movement seeks to restore the guiding philosophies of this nation’s founding fathers. We want a change of the old guard in the Republican Party by installing patriotic Americans who will unapologetically and steadfastly stand for true American Conservatism. We want our country back!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Step One: Fix the Broken Press
TR said:
Our first duty is to war against dishonesty...war against it in public life, and...war against it in business life. Corruption in every form is the arch enemy of this Republic, the arch enemy of free institutions and of government by the people, an even more dangerous enemy than the open
lawlessness of violence, because it works in a hidden and furtive fashion.
For me, the most shocking display of dishonesty and corruption in this election cycle has been in the media. Many, many examples exist of the print and television media acting, not as neutral observers, but as surrogates of the Obama campaign or even as Obama's Praetorian Guard. Two items are particularly damning:
- The LA Times' refusal to release the videotape, the audio portion of the tape, or a transcript of President-elect Obama's appearance at a dinner for Rashid Khalidi, who reportedly worked for the PLO press agency WAFA from 1976-82 - a time when the PLO was considered by the US (and other nations) to be a terrorist organization. Khalidi has long been an outspoken critic of Israel, and has made many statements in support of so-called "resistance to the Israeli occupation". If there's truly "nothing to see" on the tape, why won't the LA Times let the American people see it?
- The willful decision on the part of most major media outlets to completely ignore an Obama interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, in which he states his intention to bankrupt the coal industry through taxes on greenhouse gas emissions. In the interview, Obama acknowledges the fact that, due to his plan, "...electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket". While the Chronicle posted the audio file on their website, the story they ran on the interview made no mention whatsoever of Obama's plans for the coal industry. When the damning quotes surfaced (less than a week before the election), the New York Times, the Washington Post and MSNBC all studiously avoided any mention of "Obama" and "coal" in the same sentence, much less Obama's own words on the subject. This was no small feat, given that these (so-called) news outlets did report on Sarah Palin's campaign stops over the weekend, in which she brought Obama's comments to light.
Two questions will tantalize and torment for years to come: How might the election results have differed if the media had done their duty and fully disclosed/reported the above newsworthy items, and how much more went unreported that we don't know about?
At this time, however, those questions are moot. The question at hand is: How can the media be compelled to abide by the rules of journalistic ethics, integrity and objectivity, without infringing upon their First Amendment rights? I am a firm believer in the Freedom of the Press, but with that freedom comes responsibility, and the media, by and large, have abused their power and shirked their responsibilities in their ideological crusade to put a liberal Democrat in the White House.
I do not profess to have the answer, but I know that now is the time for a serious dialogue to begin. All Americans must recognize the danger inherent in a "free" press which is, in fact, a slave to a singular ideology, and we must act now. We must demand the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth from television and print media. We must demand the media simply report the news, rather than telling us what to think. We must do these things, and now, for every sunrise witnesses the further construction, through the media, of alternate realities - one for liberals and one for conservatives. We cannot be One Nation, Under God with two versions of the truth, two versions of reality. The time has come for the press to act responsibly and help unite America.
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