30 August 2009
Please watch the video. It is an eye opener.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIKPKjl0-pg&feature=player_embedded
This poor excuse for a Law Enforcement Officer is a window in the soul of the efforts to turn our country into a dictatorship.
I know some of you will accuse me of hyperbolizing an isolated incident, but I still believe that when oppressive behavior makes its way at the level of interaction between a LEO and a citizen, it is a dangerous zone we find ourselves in.
Couple of personal observations about the video. First, the threat from the cop to charge the demonstrator with trespassing and his comment that he could charge him with anything he wanted. Really? So what the officer is saying is that if the demonstrator does not comply with the officer, the officer can charge him with whatever he wants?
Second, the officer tells the demonstrator that he must obey because he said so. I did not even use that logic with my own kids!
Third, and most disgusting of all, is the officer’s assertion about America and its freedom: “it ain’t no more!” Wow, so according to officer whatever, America is a country where people can dissent and express their discontent no more?
Does anyone see a problem with this?
Oh yea, one more thing. Just suppose the cop was white, the demonstrator was black and the poster had a picture of Bush made to look like Hitler (common situation in Berkeley for the past eight years). How fast would you suppose it would take the ACLU to have the officer career over, the police department apologizing and the demonstrator suing and retiring a rich man?
Well, my friends, if you think this is hyperbolizing, all I can say is that I hope you are right. But if you are wrong, you will wake up one morning and find that the country you live in is not the country you believed in any longer.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
Sunday, August 30, 2009
In The Majority
30 August 2009
For once that is true and it feels good!
According to a report from Rasmussen indicates that 57% of people that were polled via telephone want the whole Congress to be replaced in 2010.
The percentage of registered Democrats who approve of the job Congress is doing has actually gone up since last fall from 25% to 43%, which is not a surprise after the power grab Liberals achieved in the November 2008 elections, but the important part of the report is that the majority of those registered voters without any Party affiliation are inclined to fire the whole bunch and start new with new blood. And I am one of them!
I have written about it before, and I am still in the same frame of mind. Although a registered Republican, I am so fed up with all those who are today sitting in their comfortable, plush offices in Washington as the American people witness their jobs disappear and their freedoms being continuously infringed upon. These are people who claim to be operating in the interest of the general American public, but are in fact giving the screw to their constituencies on a regular basis.
They tell the voters that they are doing a good job, a lot of “I did this” and “I supported that” according to crowd they are pandering to, when in reality they have done absolutely nothing to improve the lives of the America people, as a matter of fact, they have damaged our country gravely.
And while they are praising their own imaginary accomplishments, Americans are still loosing their jobs (and by the way, when the government tells you that ONLY 500,000 jobs were lost last month, which means that Obama’s economy is doing great, you should be insulted!) and businesses are closing.
I am fed up with the self-serving attitude of politicians from both Parties. The Democrats on one hand trying to turn this country into a new Soviet Union. And the Republicans cowering in the corner more interested in remaining employed and maintaining their lavish life styles, with no back bone whatsoever. Oh sure the Republicans are now raising their heads, but don’t be fooled! The only reason why they are finally speaking out is because they are smelling the blood in the water after they realized that the American people have had enough of being played for fools. Nothing scares a politician more than an informed voter!
So, my dear American Conservatives, I am happy for once to be in the majority, and if you agree with me, you should also feel good about it.
Fire them all!
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
For once that is true and it feels good!
According to a report from Rasmussen indicates that 57% of people that were polled via telephone want the whole Congress to be replaced in 2010.
The percentage of registered Democrats who approve of the job Congress is doing has actually gone up since last fall from 25% to 43%, which is not a surprise after the power grab Liberals achieved in the November 2008 elections, but the important part of the report is that the majority of those registered voters without any Party affiliation are inclined to fire the whole bunch and start new with new blood. And I am one of them!
I have written about it before, and I am still in the same frame of mind. Although a registered Republican, I am so fed up with all those who are today sitting in their comfortable, plush offices in Washington as the American people witness their jobs disappear and their freedoms being continuously infringed upon. These are people who claim to be operating in the interest of the general American public, but are in fact giving the screw to their constituencies on a regular basis.
They tell the voters that they are doing a good job, a lot of “I did this” and “I supported that” according to crowd they are pandering to, when in reality they have done absolutely nothing to improve the lives of the America people, as a matter of fact, they have damaged our country gravely.
And while they are praising their own imaginary accomplishments, Americans are still loosing their jobs (and by the way, when the government tells you that ONLY 500,000 jobs were lost last month, which means that Obama’s economy is doing great, you should be insulted!) and businesses are closing.
I am fed up with the self-serving attitude of politicians from both Parties. The Democrats on one hand trying to turn this country into a new Soviet Union. And the Republicans cowering in the corner more interested in remaining employed and maintaining their lavish life styles, with no back bone whatsoever. Oh sure the Republicans are now raising their heads, but don’t be fooled! The only reason why they are finally speaking out is because they are smelling the blood in the water after they realized that the American people have had enough of being played for fools. Nothing scares a politician more than an informed voter!
So, my dear American Conservatives, I am happy for once to be in the majority, and if you agree with me, you should also feel good about it.
Fire them all!
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
Saturday, August 29, 2009
The Proof Is In The Pudding
29 August 2009
As a Southern California resident and an American Conservative, I sometimes receive derisive comments from some of my friends across the country. This is one of those times.
As the news circulated of Rep. Diane Watson town hall meeting in her district of Los Angeles, her words resonated to the rest of the country as the true meaning “the proof is in the pudding”. For anyone out there who is asking the question “why is California in such a financial dump?” considering that not too long ago its economy was the 7th largest in the world, I present Diane Watson as one of the reasons. Sure, she is just one person, but she, in just few words, was able to express the mind set that has taken over the state.
It would take a lot of time and gut wrenching research to detail all the contributing factors and especially the culpable people that have dragged down this state, so before I give you my thoughts about Rep. Watson, I just will list some of the names that will clarify what I mean (the names are just enough): Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Henry Waxman, the entire State legislature and the RINO Governator!
Back to Mrs. Watson. In the above mentioned town hall meeting, she presented her view on the opposition that the American people have expressed regarding Obama and the House bill on Health Care reform. I did not watch the video as I have been able to contain and control my acid reflux problems and did not want to regress in that effort, and I heard the sound version on the radio and thought that was enough ‘torture’ (now that’s an audio the CIA should use!), but I was able to find the transcripts on Michelle Malkin web site. For me, this is a much healthier way to analyze the insanity afflicting our Nation these days.
To begin with, a little background on Rep. Watson. She is an eight term Democrat of the Los Angeles district 35, and thankfully nowhere near where I reside. Her district is, as to be expected, composed of minorities, meaning blacks. This is a ‘leader’ that continues to be elected by the same constituency that she has been screwing royally for years. She has been described by no other than the LA Times, which we all agree is not exactly a right wing extremist publication, as one of the most corrupted politician in Washington. And that is saying a lot, considering that she has competition the likes of Maxine Waters and Henry Waxman in adjacent districts.
This excellent piece of work of a human being has been for years exploiting racial tensions for the sole purpose of being elected, and when necessary, created and manufactured racial tension as needed. And the town hall meeting last week was one of those times.
Her statement was aimed at creating in her listeners the view that those who oppose the Obamacare are motivated by racial animosity against the Supreme Leader. Speaking of Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative opposition:
"They are spreading fear and they are trying to see that the first president that looks likes me fails.”
The truth is that American Conservatives do not much care about Obama failing. Personally, I could not care less what he does. What I am set on working on is that his policies fail, because I love my country the way it is, and I am not in favor of living in a Communist society.
Rep. Watson proceeded to state that she just got back from a trip “all over the Far East”, which immediately brought to my attention how much lighter my wallet felt. But the main point of that statement was that what she was reporting on her findings in the Far East:
“I just want you to know: People look at the United States as a country that has changed its way and has elected someone from Kenya and Kansas, I’ll put it like that.”
Which is kind of interesting, as Obama was not born in Kansas. That appears to leave Kenya as the birthplace Diane Watson believes Obama comes from. Unless she is stating that ALL blacks in America were born in Kenya…What!!!
But the best part was her hailing of Fidel Castro and the Socialized Medicine he established in Cuba. She was all tingling-up-her-leg (sorry for the nasty visual!) about the Cuban dictator “gift” to his people, a “gift” he himself closely avoided when he needed medical care and took off for Spain to get it!
“And lemme tell ya, before you say “Oh, it’s a commu–”, you need to go down there and see what Fidel Castro put in place. And I want you to know, now, you can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met”
Here is an elected member of the United States Congress praising a dictator that has the blood of thousands of political opponents on his hands, a man that has been an enemy of our Nation for fifty years, a man willing to aid the Soviet Union in placing short range nuclear missiles just 90 miles away from our shores, as one of the brightest leaders she has ever met. I guess, considering the company she keeps and the ignorant masses that keep on re-electing her, it sort of makes sense.
But my favorite part was her mentioning of Che Guevara, the well known thug that personally executed countless political opponents during the Cuban revolution. This is what she said:
“And you know, the Cuban revolution that kicked out the wealthy, Che Guevara did that, and then, after they took over, they went out among the population to find someone who could lead this new nation, and they found…well, just leave it there (laughs), an attorney by the name of Fidel Castro”
By this statement I can derive the philosophical mind set of this piece of work.
Her hero Che kicked out the wealthy, just like she is hoping that her Obama will accomplish very soon. The small detail she left out was that more than kicking the wealthy out, good old Che removed them from the planet all together. Is this what Rep. Watson is advocating? The “removal” of all wealthy people from the US? Hum, interesting. Does she really believe that the methodology used by Castro and his thugs was a good thing? Is she telling the black population she pander to that a bullet in the back of the head is a reasonable solution to silence political dissent? Really?
But I have to hand it to Diane Watson and all the other politicians who use her approach. Their methodology is flawless, as long as the majority of the American people live with the guilt of history. The relentless work of people like Watson and Waters and Jackson and Sharpton and Obama have created an atmosphere of guilt that, combined with the scourge of political correctness has finally brought our country to the brink of a new racial instability that may have catastrophic consequences. Politicians like Watson have succeeded in convincing the ignorant masses that they are their champions, masking the reality that they are the new slave owners.
Diane Watson tells her constituency that they are being discriminated against by the evil white America and that she is the champion they have to elect to right the wrong. Once in office, she makes sure that she and her whole family is well taken care of by the corrupted Washington system, even at the expenses of the people she represents. Keeping them ignorant, by stifling any possibility of economic and social integration and development, she can then use her own failure to get re-elected by perpetuating the accusations of racism.
For the people of her district is a vicious circle that only benefits her and they do not realize that they keep on perpetuating their underachievement by re-electing her.
When people like Watson and Waters and Boxer open their mouths, the rest of the country looks at California and shakes its head, and justifiably so. It is only by educating the masses and by voting these ignorant, corrupted, disgusting political prostitutes out of office that the country we love is going to survive. If not, I am sure Rep. Watson will support the American “Che” for the removal of the wealthy.
So, my friends, Watson is the pudding where we can find the proof of the demise that our state and our country faces if We The People don't do anything.
God help us.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
As a Southern California resident and an American Conservative, I sometimes receive derisive comments from some of my friends across the country. This is one of those times.
As the news circulated of Rep. Diane Watson town hall meeting in her district of Los Angeles, her words resonated to the rest of the country as the true meaning “the proof is in the pudding”. For anyone out there who is asking the question “why is California in such a financial dump?” considering that not too long ago its economy was the 7th largest in the world, I present Diane Watson as one of the reasons. Sure, she is just one person, but she, in just few words, was able to express the mind set that has taken over the state.
It would take a lot of time and gut wrenching research to detail all the contributing factors and especially the culpable people that have dragged down this state, so before I give you my thoughts about Rep. Watson, I just will list some of the names that will clarify what I mean (the names are just enough): Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Henry Waxman, the entire State legislature and the RINO Governator!
Back to Mrs. Watson. In the above mentioned town hall meeting, she presented her view on the opposition that the American people have expressed regarding Obama and the House bill on Health Care reform. I did not watch the video as I have been able to contain and control my acid reflux problems and did not want to regress in that effort, and I heard the sound version on the radio and thought that was enough ‘torture’ (now that’s an audio the CIA should use!), but I was able to find the transcripts on Michelle Malkin web site. For me, this is a much healthier way to analyze the insanity afflicting our Nation these days.
To begin with, a little background on Rep. Watson. She is an eight term Democrat of the Los Angeles district 35, and thankfully nowhere near where I reside. Her district is, as to be expected, composed of minorities, meaning blacks. This is a ‘leader’ that continues to be elected by the same constituency that she has been screwing royally for years. She has been described by no other than the LA Times, which we all agree is not exactly a right wing extremist publication, as one of the most corrupted politician in Washington. And that is saying a lot, considering that she has competition the likes of Maxine Waters and Henry Waxman in adjacent districts.
This excellent piece of work of a human being has been for years exploiting racial tensions for the sole purpose of being elected, and when necessary, created and manufactured racial tension as needed. And the town hall meeting last week was one of those times.
Her statement was aimed at creating in her listeners the view that those who oppose the Obamacare are motivated by racial animosity against the Supreme Leader. Speaking of Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative opposition:
"They are spreading fear and they are trying to see that the first president that looks likes me fails.”
The truth is that American Conservatives do not much care about Obama failing. Personally, I could not care less what he does. What I am set on working on is that his policies fail, because I love my country the way it is, and I am not in favor of living in a Communist society.
Rep. Watson proceeded to state that she just got back from a trip “all over the Far East”, which immediately brought to my attention how much lighter my wallet felt. But the main point of that statement was that what she was reporting on her findings in the Far East:
“I just want you to know: People look at the United States as a country that has changed its way and has elected someone from Kenya and Kansas, I’ll put it like that.”
Which is kind of interesting, as Obama was not born in Kansas. That appears to leave Kenya as the birthplace Diane Watson believes Obama comes from. Unless she is stating that ALL blacks in America were born in Kenya…What!!!
But the best part was her hailing of Fidel Castro and the Socialized Medicine he established in Cuba. She was all tingling-up-her-leg (sorry for the nasty visual!) about the Cuban dictator “gift” to his people, a “gift” he himself closely avoided when he needed medical care and took off for Spain to get it!
“And lemme tell ya, before you say “Oh, it’s a commu–”, you need to go down there and see what Fidel Castro put in place. And I want you to know, now, you can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met”
Here is an elected member of the United States Congress praising a dictator that has the blood of thousands of political opponents on his hands, a man that has been an enemy of our Nation for fifty years, a man willing to aid the Soviet Union in placing short range nuclear missiles just 90 miles away from our shores, as one of the brightest leaders she has ever met. I guess, considering the company she keeps and the ignorant masses that keep on re-electing her, it sort of makes sense.
But my favorite part was her mentioning of Che Guevara, the well known thug that personally executed countless political opponents during the Cuban revolution. This is what she said:
“And you know, the Cuban revolution that kicked out the wealthy, Che Guevara did that, and then, after they took over, they went out among the population to find someone who could lead this new nation, and they found…well, just leave it there (laughs), an attorney by the name of Fidel Castro”
By this statement I can derive the philosophical mind set of this piece of work.
Her hero Che kicked out the wealthy, just like she is hoping that her Obama will accomplish very soon. The small detail she left out was that more than kicking the wealthy out, good old Che removed them from the planet all together. Is this what Rep. Watson is advocating? The “removal” of all wealthy people from the US? Hum, interesting. Does she really believe that the methodology used by Castro and his thugs was a good thing? Is she telling the black population she pander to that a bullet in the back of the head is a reasonable solution to silence political dissent? Really?
But I have to hand it to Diane Watson and all the other politicians who use her approach. Their methodology is flawless, as long as the majority of the American people live with the guilt of history. The relentless work of people like Watson and Waters and Jackson and Sharpton and Obama have created an atmosphere of guilt that, combined with the scourge of political correctness has finally brought our country to the brink of a new racial instability that may have catastrophic consequences. Politicians like Watson have succeeded in convincing the ignorant masses that they are their champions, masking the reality that they are the new slave owners.
Diane Watson tells her constituency that they are being discriminated against by the evil white America and that she is the champion they have to elect to right the wrong. Once in office, she makes sure that she and her whole family is well taken care of by the corrupted Washington system, even at the expenses of the people she represents. Keeping them ignorant, by stifling any possibility of economic and social integration and development, she can then use her own failure to get re-elected by perpetuating the accusations of racism.
For the people of her district is a vicious circle that only benefits her and they do not realize that they keep on perpetuating their underachievement by re-electing her.
When people like Watson and Waters and Boxer open their mouths, the rest of the country looks at California and shakes its head, and justifiably so. It is only by educating the masses and by voting these ignorant, corrupted, disgusting political prostitutes out of office that the country we love is going to survive. If not, I am sure Rep. Watson will support the American “Che” for the removal of the wealthy.
So, my friends, Watson is the pudding where we can find the proof of the demise that our state and our country faces if We The People don't do anything.
God help us.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Remain Vigilant, America
As the whole bunch of political characters in Washington are stepping over each other in expressing their profound sorrow for the passing of Ted Kennedy, slipping and sliding over each other saliva, those in charge, the omnipotent liberals, are formulating the blitz to benefit from the death of the third longest serving senator (47 years in the Senate. Isn't it ironic that uncle Teddy was the one to kill Mary Jo and the American people were the ones that got a life sentence!), but I digress.
The ugly witch of the West, well at least one of them as she has great company, Nancy "Satan" Pelosi wasted no time, just few hours, in declaring that the monstrosity of Obamacare was now even more important as it "had" to be passed in memory of Teddy, a tribute to Teddy's legacy.
Well, America, remain vigilant, as the always compassionate Democrats will now go on the offensive (and they REALLY know how to be OFFENSIVE) to tell you that if you still oppose their effort to socialize medical care you are not only a racist, but are now one that insults the dead.
As well documented, those in America political arena who are bent on converting our beloved country into a amorphous conglomerate of Marxism and Fascism will stop at nothing to achieve their goals, as shown by the flurr of czars Obama has been placing all around himself to expouse his policies without any Constitutional or Congressional overwatch.
Interested in finding out about a similar historical parallel? One of history's most infamous czars, scarily similar powers, was a gentleman called Himmler. Read about him, as he was not elected, carried out his leader's policies and answered only to his leader. His legacy is the extermination of 6.5 million Jews.
As our prospects for maintaining our freedoms in America becomes bleaker, we must remain vigilant and keep an eye on the ever increasing intrusion of the government into our lives. The Liberals Marxists will use every trick in the book just as they did with the American Heroes of the Military who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country. We as American Conservatives must insure that those in Congress and in the White House and all the czars and cronies are aware that the People are watching and we are not going to just sit back and let them destroy what used to be once the greatest country in human history. The People can still restore that notion and we must!
The popular cry in 2010 should be to every congressperson and senator up for re-election, regardless of Party affiliation:
YOU ARE FIRED!
And these are my thoughts!
Semperpapa
The ugly witch of the West, well at least one of them as she has great company, Nancy "Satan" Pelosi wasted no time, just few hours, in declaring that the monstrosity of Obamacare was now even more important as it "had" to be passed in memory of Teddy, a tribute to Teddy's legacy.
Well, America, remain vigilant, as the always compassionate Democrats will now go on the offensive (and they REALLY know how to be OFFENSIVE) to tell you that if you still oppose their effort to socialize medical care you are not only a racist, but are now one that insults the dead.
As well documented, those in America political arena who are bent on converting our beloved country into a amorphous conglomerate of Marxism and Fascism will stop at nothing to achieve their goals, as shown by the flurr of czars Obama has been placing all around himself to expouse his policies without any Constitutional or Congressional overwatch.
Interested in finding out about a similar historical parallel? One of history's most infamous czars, scarily similar powers, was a gentleman called Himmler. Read about him, as he was not elected, carried out his leader's policies and answered only to his leader. His legacy is the extermination of 6.5 million Jews.
As our prospects for maintaining our freedoms in America becomes bleaker, we must remain vigilant and keep an eye on the ever increasing intrusion of the government into our lives. The Liberals Marxists will use every trick in the book just as they did with the American Heroes of the Military who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country. We as American Conservatives must insure that those in Congress and in the White House and all the czars and cronies are aware that the People are watching and we are not going to just sit back and let them destroy what used to be once the greatest country in human history. The People can still restore that notion and we must!
The popular cry in 2010 should be to every congressperson and senator up for re-election, regardless of Party affiliation:
YOU ARE FIRED!
And these are my thoughts!
Semperpapa
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Cynical Me
24 August 2009
Once in a while my unshakable faith in the American people is placed under siege. Most of the time it is the result of external phenomena and other times it is some sort of mental process that takes place in my own mind, usually sparked by personal observations. Well, this is one of those times.
In an apparent attack of cynicism, I have been battling the demon of resentment in my own soul, and I can trace it back to some personal observations and an e-mail I received just few days ago.
Not too long ago, during one of our evening walks with my wife and our dog Jack, I remember pointing out to my wife some of the very few houses in our neighborhood that had the American flag on display. I have the flag flying outside my home at all times, right next to the United States Marine Corps flag, which we fly in honor of our son, and both flags are displayed according to flag etiquette and illuminated at night. On one of those evening walks, I pointed out to my wife that the three houses with the flag permanently displayed did not follow the flag protocol as they were in the dark, but I also pointed out that I would rather see the flag flying, even if dark, than not.
On those national holidays when all Americans should fly Old Glory, the count around the neighborhood maybe goes up by two.
Just couple of evenings ago I sadly noticed that on one of the three houses that flew the flag, the Stars and Stripes had been replaced by a “welcome” banner, one of those silly, better yet stupid banners with no real significance.
Well, couple of days ago I received one of those chain e-mails. More than a chain e-mail, it was one of those electronic epistles calling people to action. The point of the letter was to exhort Americans to fly the flag on 9-11-09 for the anniversary of the worst attack against our country.
I have received a similar letter every year and every year I have dutifully forwarded to all I knew, and every year I could almost noticed the numbers of flags flown diminishing.
So I guess I became the problem, because as I was getting ready to do the forwarding, the indignation I felt for the mere necessity of having to circulate such an e-mail took hold of me and stopped me. I then proceeded to erase the e-mail.
I just felt a deep sense of rancor against that portion of the population that has absolutely no inclination toward feelings of patriotism. Weather on Independence Day or Veterans Day, Patriot’s Day or Memorial Day, there is no feeling toward showing a little that we are proud of being Americans. No indication of the fortune we have been blessed with by being Americans. No slight indication of the gratitude we should feel for those Americans that have endured the sacrifice of wearing the uniform of the Military for the purpose of insuring that the freedom of displaying the flag or not is kept sacred and safe.
So I did not forward the e-mail this year, because I got this overwhelming feeling of disappointment toward the American people. The pride of flying the Stars and Stripes should not have to be asked for, but it should be an automatic action.
Another e-mail I received couple of years ago was reminding people to wear red on Fridays as a sign of support for our Military involved in the War on Terror across the globe. At may place of employment, one of my co-workers even sent a reminder weekly company-wide to observe this small way to show our support. Guess what? Of the nearly 100 employees in the company, only she, another woman and I were the ones wearing red on Friday. After few of these missed opportunities, my co-worker stopped the e-mails and started wearing whatever she wanted, and so did I.
It just got to us that no one else was even thinking about doing something to show support for our troops. So, you can say, we were defeated.
On my vehicles I have stickers that express my pride of being an American and of having a son serving in the US Marines. I have the Blue Star, the American flag and the Marine Corps emblem. And yet, even being on the road a lot, I get few smiles (usually from drivers of cars with the USMC emblem on), more frowns and dirt looks (usually from drivers with Obama stickers on their cars) and a hell of a lot of nothing.
I have a baseball cap with “Marine Dad” on the front, and I wear it a lot, I have t-shirts identifying me as a Marine Dad, my wife has a lapel pin stating “Marine Mom” and yet most people just ignore the messages. I have gotten more people commenting on my “Led Zeppelin” and my Mammoth Lake t-shirts about being fans of the band or have visited the place, than on any of the several Marine Corps t-shirts I like to wear.
It was under these circumstances and thought process that I find myself looking at things with profound cynicism, which is really a new territory for me, as I am by nature a positive thinking person. I am sure that the impending deployment of my Marine son to Afghanistan has a lot to do with my attitude. I feel that I am sharing my son’s safety with a mass of people who could not care less, with people so busy with their personal issues, people so intrigued by the latest celebrity gossip that cannot find the time to acknowledge that there are thousands of our sons and daughters out there in the world, sacrificing at times their own lives to insure the freedom for the American people to be apathetic. And the Military families, with the countless hours of restless sleep or no sleep at all, heart wrenching concerns, hanging on to the hope for that e-mail or phone call just saying “I am ok!”
And I become increasingly cynical about those with access to a soap box, from where they spew their poisonous venom against the Military and their mission, only to score cheap political points. And cynical about those who are using misplaced political power to weaken our country and our National principles in the name of insuring themselves the support of that section of the population dedicated to be leeches to an increasingly overbearing Government.
The emotional conditions I find myself in, as I said, are not familiar to me, so at least I am peeking into my own psyche a little bit more deeply. I know I will return to my usual path sooner rather than later, but I hope that in the meantime I will not negatively impact those around me with my negative energy, as one more thing I learnt these days is that many people out there are what can be called “fair weather friends”.
Let us more than anything keep those serving in the Military so far from home in our thoughts and prayers. That is the least we can do for them.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
Once in a while my unshakable faith in the American people is placed under siege. Most of the time it is the result of external phenomena and other times it is some sort of mental process that takes place in my own mind, usually sparked by personal observations. Well, this is one of those times.
In an apparent attack of cynicism, I have been battling the demon of resentment in my own soul, and I can trace it back to some personal observations and an e-mail I received just few days ago.
Not too long ago, during one of our evening walks with my wife and our dog Jack, I remember pointing out to my wife some of the very few houses in our neighborhood that had the American flag on display. I have the flag flying outside my home at all times, right next to the United States Marine Corps flag, which we fly in honor of our son, and both flags are displayed according to flag etiquette and illuminated at night. On one of those evening walks, I pointed out to my wife that the three houses with the flag permanently displayed did not follow the flag protocol as they were in the dark, but I also pointed out that I would rather see the flag flying, even if dark, than not.
On those national holidays when all Americans should fly Old Glory, the count around the neighborhood maybe goes up by two.
Just couple of evenings ago I sadly noticed that on one of the three houses that flew the flag, the Stars and Stripes had been replaced by a “welcome” banner, one of those silly, better yet stupid banners with no real significance.
Well, couple of days ago I received one of those chain e-mails. More than a chain e-mail, it was one of those electronic epistles calling people to action. The point of the letter was to exhort Americans to fly the flag on 9-11-09 for the anniversary of the worst attack against our country.
I have received a similar letter every year and every year I have dutifully forwarded to all I knew, and every year I could almost noticed the numbers of flags flown diminishing.
So I guess I became the problem, because as I was getting ready to do the forwarding, the indignation I felt for the mere necessity of having to circulate such an e-mail took hold of me and stopped me. I then proceeded to erase the e-mail.
I just felt a deep sense of rancor against that portion of the population that has absolutely no inclination toward feelings of patriotism. Weather on Independence Day or Veterans Day, Patriot’s Day or Memorial Day, there is no feeling toward showing a little that we are proud of being Americans. No indication of the fortune we have been blessed with by being Americans. No slight indication of the gratitude we should feel for those Americans that have endured the sacrifice of wearing the uniform of the Military for the purpose of insuring that the freedom of displaying the flag or not is kept sacred and safe.
So I did not forward the e-mail this year, because I got this overwhelming feeling of disappointment toward the American people. The pride of flying the Stars and Stripes should not have to be asked for, but it should be an automatic action.
Another e-mail I received couple of years ago was reminding people to wear red on Fridays as a sign of support for our Military involved in the War on Terror across the globe. At may place of employment, one of my co-workers even sent a reminder weekly company-wide to observe this small way to show our support. Guess what? Of the nearly 100 employees in the company, only she, another woman and I were the ones wearing red on Friday. After few of these missed opportunities, my co-worker stopped the e-mails and started wearing whatever she wanted, and so did I.
It just got to us that no one else was even thinking about doing something to show support for our troops. So, you can say, we were defeated.
On my vehicles I have stickers that express my pride of being an American and of having a son serving in the US Marines. I have the Blue Star, the American flag and the Marine Corps emblem. And yet, even being on the road a lot, I get few smiles (usually from drivers of cars with the USMC emblem on), more frowns and dirt looks (usually from drivers with Obama stickers on their cars) and a hell of a lot of nothing.
I have a baseball cap with “Marine Dad” on the front, and I wear it a lot, I have t-shirts identifying me as a Marine Dad, my wife has a lapel pin stating “Marine Mom” and yet most people just ignore the messages. I have gotten more people commenting on my “Led Zeppelin” and my Mammoth Lake t-shirts about being fans of the band or have visited the place, than on any of the several Marine Corps t-shirts I like to wear.
It was under these circumstances and thought process that I find myself looking at things with profound cynicism, which is really a new territory for me, as I am by nature a positive thinking person. I am sure that the impending deployment of my Marine son to Afghanistan has a lot to do with my attitude. I feel that I am sharing my son’s safety with a mass of people who could not care less, with people so busy with their personal issues, people so intrigued by the latest celebrity gossip that cannot find the time to acknowledge that there are thousands of our sons and daughters out there in the world, sacrificing at times their own lives to insure the freedom for the American people to be apathetic. And the Military families, with the countless hours of restless sleep or no sleep at all, heart wrenching concerns, hanging on to the hope for that e-mail or phone call just saying “I am ok!”
And I become increasingly cynical about those with access to a soap box, from where they spew their poisonous venom against the Military and their mission, only to score cheap political points. And cynical about those who are using misplaced political power to weaken our country and our National principles in the name of insuring themselves the support of that section of the population dedicated to be leeches to an increasingly overbearing Government.
The emotional conditions I find myself in, as I said, are not familiar to me, so at least I am peeking into my own psyche a little bit more deeply. I know I will return to my usual path sooner rather than later, but I hope that in the meantime I will not negatively impact those around me with my negative energy, as one more thing I learnt these days is that many people out there are what can be called “fair weather friends”.
Let us more than anything keep those serving in the Military so far from home in our thoughts and prayers. That is the least we can do for them.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Offshore Drilling, Finally...
25 August 2009
(I wanted to post this last week, but did not get the chance, so here it is. Bet you did not hear any of this on MSM!)
Yes indeed, Obama has release $2 billion in loans for the offshore drilling of a newly discovered large oil site.
But all of you environmentalist wackjobs not need to get your “skivvies in a twist” and “start running around with your hair on fire”, in the eternal words of Capt. Dale Die, because this is happening off the coast of Brazil.
Yes, my friends, Obama has given $2 billions in facilitated loans to Brazil to do what he will not allow to do in America: become energy independent.
Can some Liberal, Obama-lover tell me why is my money being lent to Brazil to make them energy independent and I am faced with a Cap and Trade disaster that is going to at least double my energy expenses?
For all of you out there who voted for this corrupted Chicago thug, our beloved TiC (Thug-in-Chief) are you feeling warm and fuzzy just about now? He is protecting the environment in the US, right? So I guess the environment in Brazil is not really important, correct?
Oh, but this is not even the best part of the story. It just happened that the loan is going to a company called Petrobras, and it is also a “coincidence” that just few days prior to the deal being finalized, Obama buddy and supporter George Soros become a major beneficiary of the dividends of, you guessed, Petrobras.
So to recap, my dear Obama-lovers:
Obama is lending OUR money to Petrobras to drill off-shore for oil, while our energy cost goes up and while Cap and Trade legislature, which is going to at least double those costs and cause the loss of millions of jobs, is looming at the horizon.
And Obama is loaning OUR money to a company whose dividends (read “evil profits”) will be going to Obama and ACORN bank roller Soros.
Gee, I wonder how much Obama's cut will be.
And some of you stated that Republicans were corrupted. Your Liberals are doing it right in front of your face! They are ordering you to bend over and you are obliging them. And you better like it or you are a racist!
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
(I wanted to post this last week, but did not get the chance, so here it is. Bet you did not hear any of this on MSM!)
Yes indeed, Obama has release $2 billion in loans for the offshore drilling of a newly discovered large oil site.
But all of you environmentalist wackjobs not need to get your “skivvies in a twist” and “start running around with your hair on fire”, in the eternal words of Capt. Dale Die, because this is happening off the coast of Brazil.
Yes, my friends, Obama has given $2 billions in facilitated loans to Brazil to do what he will not allow to do in America: become energy independent.
Can some Liberal, Obama-lover tell me why is my money being lent to Brazil to make them energy independent and I am faced with a Cap and Trade disaster that is going to at least double my energy expenses?
For all of you out there who voted for this corrupted Chicago thug, our beloved TiC (Thug-in-Chief) are you feeling warm and fuzzy just about now? He is protecting the environment in the US, right? So I guess the environment in Brazil is not really important, correct?
Oh, but this is not even the best part of the story. It just happened that the loan is going to a company called Petrobras, and it is also a “coincidence” that just few days prior to the deal being finalized, Obama buddy and supporter George Soros become a major beneficiary of the dividends of, you guessed, Petrobras.
So to recap, my dear Obama-lovers:
Obama is lending OUR money to Petrobras to drill off-shore for oil, while our energy cost goes up and while Cap and Trade legislature, which is going to at least double those costs and cause the loss of millions of jobs, is looming at the horizon.
And Obama is loaning OUR money to a company whose dividends (read “evil profits”) will be going to Obama and ACORN bank roller Soros.
Gee, I wonder how much Obama's cut will be.
And some of you stated that Republicans were corrupted. Your Liberals are doing it right in front of your face! They are ordering you to bend over and you are obliging them. And you better like it or you are a racist!
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
White House WTF #1567
25 August 2009
As expected, at least by me, Attorney General Eric Holder has designated a special prosecutor to investigate the actions taken by some CIA investigators following the 9-11-01 attacks. These investigators allegedly conducted some interrogations, called Enhanced Interrogations, that the peaceniks have called “tortures”.
Against what Obama had stated earlier, AG Holder decided to actually initiate what can only be called a political witch hunt. And if anyone believes that Holder did not get the blessing from the White House on this, then stop reading this because it will fly right above your head.
The uprising Obama has faced from the American people over his socialistic take over of health care in the country, has caused the approval rating for the Cult Leader to drop and therefore it was time to create a new focus point for the ignorant masses, especially those of the Left fringe, still foaming at the mouth for Bush’s blood.
So what are the accusations making their rounds these days? Well, the barbaric actions that were committed by those who found themselves on the front lines of defending the Nation consisted of staging mock executions and of threatening the captured terrorists with violence against their families.
Allegedly, and by the way these accusation were refuted by CIA operatives, the interrogations included telling the terrorist that one of his buddy was going to be killed if he did not give information. Khalid Sheik Mohammed was allegedly threatened with the execution of his children and with the rape of his mother in his presence.
Moreover, these terrible Americans flashed electric drills and waved guns in a menacing way, again all allegedly.
Of course, even if these events took place, no physical harm had come to these terrorists.
Ok, so lets assume that these actions took place. My answer is: So What!?
Can anyone say that the application of threats is actually consider a torture? And especially when it is known that the information gathered with such techniques prevented more terrorist acts and was instrumental in the apprehension of countless al-Qaeda operatives?
Are you kidding me? Are really there alleged human beings who believe that the barbarians who behead people heads off on video will be deterred from doing so because America prosecutes somebody for waving an electric drill? Are you for real?
Just following the attacks of 9-11, everyone in the world, let alone the US, was absolutely sure that another attack was going to take place against American interests. Nobody had any doubt that if was only a matter of time for new attacks to occur. And yet, eight years later and with a new President, our country has escaped any further tragedy on our soil. This has not been a fortuity, but the result of the tireless work that our intelligence services did, even though they had to regroup after being emasculated by previous administrations, that our Military did and the determination of President Bush.
So what is the current Administration doing today via the corrupted Attorney General office?
Well it appears to me that there are several reasons behind these actions.
In the first place, it is a way for Obama and cronies wants to distract the American people. Obama is licking his wounds these days as he has been bloodied by the common American, regardless if he calls them right wing extremists or mobs or whatever else. This is a deliberate attempt to shift the focus of America away from the Obamacare debacle, which he and Pelosi and Reid will try to sneak in later in the year.
Secondly, Obama is not getting much traction with the numbskulls university students that supported him so overwhelmingly in November. He had hoped that this portion of followers would go to bat for him on health care, but these brainwashed idiots are just not too interested in facing off with American seniors and middle aged people, who are most affected by the debate. So the way to reinvigorate these pot smoking mongrels is to go back and attack Bush. Attacking Bush never fails. Next best thing would be Sarah Palin.
Thirdly, it is just the next move in reducing the ability of the Intelligence community to do their job. It is only logical that those who are still on the front line of the covert war against the enemies of the country will be reluctant to apply techniques of interrogation that have been successful in the past if the future they are staring at shows them being prosecuted for doing their jobs.
I still remain of the opinion that Obama is utilizing his cover of wanting to be fair and balanced with our enemies to weaken the defenses of our country. It is hard for me to believe that a US President would want the country to be attacked, but the doctrine that Obama is championing may require the sacrifice of some meaningless citizens. Just as Rahm Emanuel stated “you don’t want a crisis to go to waste”. A new terror attack against our Nation, especially in these dire economic times, would give Obama the perfect opportunity to suspend the Constitution and self-appoint dictator. And, believe me, I deeply hope I am over blowing the issue!
We still have a champion of American values in Dick Cheney and he is sounding the alarm about the actions of AG Holder, the actions of Obama and the dismantling of American intelligence procedures. But is anyone listening? The American people, those who stomped Obama on the health care disaster, are listening.
Remember Obama: We The People!
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
As expected, at least by me, Attorney General Eric Holder has designated a special prosecutor to investigate the actions taken by some CIA investigators following the 9-11-01 attacks. These investigators allegedly conducted some interrogations, called Enhanced Interrogations, that the peaceniks have called “tortures”.
Against what Obama had stated earlier, AG Holder decided to actually initiate what can only be called a political witch hunt. And if anyone believes that Holder did not get the blessing from the White House on this, then stop reading this because it will fly right above your head.
The uprising Obama has faced from the American people over his socialistic take over of health care in the country, has caused the approval rating for the Cult Leader to drop and therefore it was time to create a new focus point for the ignorant masses, especially those of the Left fringe, still foaming at the mouth for Bush’s blood.
So what are the accusations making their rounds these days? Well, the barbaric actions that were committed by those who found themselves on the front lines of defending the Nation consisted of staging mock executions and of threatening the captured terrorists with violence against their families.
Allegedly, and by the way these accusation were refuted by CIA operatives, the interrogations included telling the terrorist that one of his buddy was going to be killed if he did not give information. Khalid Sheik Mohammed was allegedly threatened with the execution of his children and with the rape of his mother in his presence.
Moreover, these terrible Americans flashed electric drills and waved guns in a menacing way, again all allegedly.
Of course, even if these events took place, no physical harm had come to these terrorists.
Ok, so lets assume that these actions took place. My answer is: So What!?
Can anyone say that the application of threats is actually consider a torture? And especially when it is known that the information gathered with such techniques prevented more terrorist acts and was instrumental in the apprehension of countless al-Qaeda operatives?
Are you kidding me? Are really there alleged human beings who believe that the barbarians who behead people heads off on video will be deterred from doing so because America prosecutes somebody for waving an electric drill? Are you for real?
Just following the attacks of 9-11, everyone in the world, let alone the US, was absolutely sure that another attack was going to take place against American interests. Nobody had any doubt that if was only a matter of time for new attacks to occur. And yet, eight years later and with a new President, our country has escaped any further tragedy on our soil. This has not been a fortuity, but the result of the tireless work that our intelligence services did, even though they had to regroup after being emasculated by previous administrations, that our Military did and the determination of President Bush.
So what is the current Administration doing today via the corrupted Attorney General office?
Well it appears to me that there are several reasons behind these actions.
In the first place, it is a way for Obama and cronies wants to distract the American people. Obama is licking his wounds these days as he has been bloodied by the common American, regardless if he calls them right wing extremists or mobs or whatever else. This is a deliberate attempt to shift the focus of America away from the Obamacare debacle, which he and Pelosi and Reid will try to sneak in later in the year.
Secondly, Obama is not getting much traction with the numbskulls university students that supported him so overwhelmingly in November. He had hoped that this portion of followers would go to bat for him on health care, but these brainwashed idiots are just not too interested in facing off with American seniors and middle aged people, who are most affected by the debate. So the way to reinvigorate these pot smoking mongrels is to go back and attack Bush. Attacking Bush never fails. Next best thing would be Sarah Palin.
Thirdly, it is just the next move in reducing the ability of the Intelligence community to do their job. It is only logical that those who are still on the front line of the covert war against the enemies of the country will be reluctant to apply techniques of interrogation that have been successful in the past if the future they are staring at shows them being prosecuted for doing their jobs.
I still remain of the opinion that Obama is utilizing his cover of wanting to be fair and balanced with our enemies to weaken the defenses of our country. It is hard for me to believe that a US President would want the country to be attacked, but the doctrine that Obama is championing may require the sacrifice of some meaningless citizens. Just as Rahm Emanuel stated “you don’t want a crisis to go to waste”. A new terror attack against our Nation, especially in these dire economic times, would give Obama the perfect opportunity to suspend the Constitution and self-appoint dictator. And, believe me, I deeply hope I am over blowing the issue!
We still have a champion of American values in Dick Cheney and he is sounding the alarm about the actions of AG Holder, the actions of Obama and the dismantling of American intelligence procedures. But is anyone listening? The American people, those who stomped Obama on the health care disaster, are listening.
Remember Obama: We The People!
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Enough Is Enough
22 Aug 2009
Do you remember Cindy Sheehan? She was the mother who after losing her son in Iraq became the face of the anti-war, anti-Bush movement in America. She was used and abused by the MSM who manipulated here as much as it was convenient to attack the President and the war policies in Iraq and Afghanistan, sponsored, paid and paraded by the media across every television set in America.
There was no news media report, from the National to the local level that would not at least dedicate a snippet to the grieving mom Cindy, with anchor people stepping all over each other to have the woman speak in front of their cameras.
Now, I know several Gold Star mothers and fathers. I have seen their pain on their faces and have been in awe of their strengths and characters, completely amazed by the composure they demonstrated in the unspeakable, indescribable pain they have been sentenced to suffer for the rest of their lives. As far as Sheehan, as much as I felt sorrow for her loss, I also found out that she really was not what one would describe as “mother of the year” as the MSM had toiled so hard to depict. So, as much as I could sympathize with her motherly pain, I could not reconcile her actions with honoring her son’s service and sacrifice.
One compliment I must offer Sheehan is about consistency, at least so far. The reason is that news report tell that she is planning on staging an anti-war protest at Martha’s Vineyard when Obama will be there vacationing. She is reportedly in disagreement with the President regarding the war in Afghanistan, the increase in troop level, and still about our presence in Iraq.
Well, it appears that the anti-Bush darling of the MSM has lost some of her appeal. In an interview with a Chicago radio station, ABC anchorman Charles Gibson was asked about the protest Sheehan is planning against Obama, and the ABC strongman practically told her that he had had enough of her protest. This is part of what Gibson said of Sheehan:
It's such a sad story. Martha Raddatz [of ABC News] wrote a terrific book about one battle that took place in Iraq, and it was the battle in which Cindy's son was killed. And you look at somebody like that and you think here's somebody who's just trying to find some meaning in her son's death. And you have to be sympathetic to her. Anybody who has given a son to this country has made an enormous sacrifice, and you have to be sympathetic. But enough already.
"But Enough Already"
The difference between the embrace Cindy received just few years back, including Gibson interview and following her to the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas, and the rejection of today is astounding. Is it time that has made Cindy unpopular for the Media? Certainly not! The major difference is the man in the White House.
If the President would have been McCain, you can bet your bottom dollar that Gibson would have been in tow to Martha’s Vineyard or wherever else Sheehan and McCain would have been. But the President is Obama and there is no way in hell that Gibson or the rest of the Media will allow the little woman to add anything to the tough stretch Obama has been going through in the last few weeks.
The Media manipulated this woman and her pain to advance their anti-Bush agenda and after the candidate they invested whatever little credibility they still had, won the elections, there is no way that they are going to allow her to tarnish the Messiah in any way.
I can predict, and be very safe saying so, that there will be absolutely no coverage in the MSM of Cindy Sheehan in Martha’s Vineyard. There will be no interview with Charlie Gibson or Katie Koric, no melodramatic reporting from any of the CNN anchorettes. Nothing.
And surely, there will be no George Soros to bankroll the protest.
Well, Cindy, you are on your own now. You have outlived your usefulness to the vultures of the airwaves and are not only not needed any longer, but you are actually now attacking the Anointed One and you better not or they will destroy you. We conservatives have respect for your status as a Gold Star mom, while the Left could not care less about it, so the mild treatment you received from those of us that disagree with you is nothing compared to the character assassination methodology Liberals will put you through if you dare attack their king Obama.
I am really sorry for this, because no political agenda should take prevalence over the sacrifice the American Military has made since 9-11-01, but this is not the 1940s and, with the notable exception of a percentage of the population, ours is NOT the Greatest Generation, as personal interest and greed and political agenda have trampled the true principles of our country.
In any case, Cindy, enough is enough. Just go away now. MSM does not need you anymore.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
Do you remember Cindy Sheehan? She was the mother who after losing her son in Iraq became the face of the anti-war, anti-Bush movement in America. She was used and abused by the MSM who manipulated here as much as it was convenient to attack the President and the war policies in Iraq and Afghanistan, sponsored, paid and paraded by the media across every television set in America.
There was no news media report, from the National to the local level that would not at least dedicate a snippet to the grieving mom Cindy, with anchor people stepping all over each other to have the woman speak in front of their cameras.
Now, I know several Gold Star mothers and fathers. I have seen their pain on their faces and have been in awe of their strengths and characters, completely amazed by the composure they demonstrated in the unspeakable, indescribable pain they have been sentenced to suffer for the rest of their lives. As far as Sheehan, as much as I felt sorrow for her loss, I also found out that she really was not what one would describe as “mother of the year” as the MSM had toiled so hard to depict. So, as much as I could sympathize with her motherly pain, I could not reconcile her actions with honoring her son’s service and sacrifice.
One compliment I must offer Sheehan is about consistency, at least so far. The reason is that news report tell that she is planning on staging an anti-war protest at Martha’s Vineyard when Obama will be there vacationing. She is reportedly in disagreement with the President regarding the war in Afghanistan, the increase in troop level, and still about our presence in Iraq.
Well, it appears that the anti-Bush darling of the MSM has lost some of her appeal. In an interview with a Chicago radio station, ABC anchorman Charles Gibson was asked about the protest Sheehan is planning against Obama, and the ABC strongman practically told her that he had had enough of her protest. This is part of what Gibson said of Sheehan:
It's such a sad story. Martha Raddatz [of ABC News] wrote a terrific book about one battle that took place in Iraq, and it was the battle in which Cindy's son was killed. And you look at somebody like that and you think here's somebody who's just trying to find some meaning in her son's death. And you have to be sympathetic to her. Anybody who has given a son to this country has made an enormous sacrifice, and you have to be sympathetic. But enough already.
"But Enough Already"
The difference between the embrace Cindy received just few years back, including Gibson interview and following her to the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas, and the rejection of today is astounding. Is it time that has made Cindy unpopular for the Media? Certainly not! The major difference is the man in the White House.
If the President would have been McCain, you can bet your bottom dollar that Gibson would have been in tow to Martha’s Vineyard or wherever else Sheehan and McCain would have been. But the President is Obama and there is no way in hell that Gibson or the rest of the Media will allow the little woman to add anything to the tough stretch Obama has been going through in the last few weeks.
The Media manipulated this woman and her pain to advance their anti-Bush agenda and after the candidate they invested whatever little credibility they still had, won the elections, there is no way that they are going to allow her to tarnish the Messiah in any way.
I can predict, and be very safe saying so, that there will be absolutely no coverage in the MSM of Cindy Sheehan in Martha’s Vineyard. There will be no interview with Charlie Gibson or Katie Koric, no melodramatic reporting from any of the CNN anchorettes. Nothing.
And surely, there will be no George Soros to bankroll the protest.
Well, Cindy, you are on your own now. You have outlived your usefulness to the vultures of the airwaves and are not only not needed any longer, but you are actually now attacking the Anointed One and you better not or they will destroy you. We conservatives have respect for your status as a Gold Star mom, while the Left could not care less about it, so the mild treatment you received from those of us that disagree with you is nothing compared to the character assassination methodology Liberals will put you through if you dare attack their king Obama.
I am really sorry for this, because no political agenda should take prevalence over the sacrifice the American Military has made since 9-11-01, but this is not the 1940s and, with the notable exception of a percentage of the population, ours is NOT the Greatest Generation, as personal interest and greed and political agenda have trampled the true principles of our country.
In any case, Cindy, enough is enough. Just go away now. MSM does not need you anymore.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
In Your Face!
21 August 2009
Just as predicted, thousands of Libyans welcomed the hero of PanAm Flight 103 home, even after the “stern” admonition from the White House.
Obama called the release a “mistake” warning Gedhafi not to welcome Megrahi home like a hero. And just as expected, our enemies flipped the finger at American dead and had their celebrations, because after all what is Obama going to do about it.
Maybe he will not bow to Gedhafi next meeting? Maybe not apologize?
I wish I could have been Commander-in-Chief for a day with a Super Carrier off the coast of Libya, as that plane would have never made it across the Mediterranean Sea. Then Obama could have apologized for it!
Gedhafi surely is feeling the love that the West has granted him after he decided, few years back, to "abandon and repudiate" terrorism. That was a decision he made at the time when President Bush was leading the War on Terror that today is been considered over by Obama and his cronies.
No more fear on the part of the Libyan thug for the anti-terrorist policies of America, as Obama has made it amply clear that America is not in the War on Terror any longer, so it is time for the Muslim terrorist to go back to their positions.
Just as predicted, thousands of Libyans welcomed the hero of PanAm Flight 103 home, even after the “stern” admonition from the White House.
Obama called the release a “mistake” warning Gedhafi not to welcome Megrahi home like a hero. And just as expected, our enemies flipped the finger at American dead and had their celebrations, because after all what is Obama going to do about it.
Maybe he will not bow to Gedhafi next meeting? Maybe not apologize?
I wish I could have been Commander-in-Chief for a day with a Super Carrier off the coast of Libya, as that plane would have never made it across the Mediterranean Sea. Then Obama could have apologized for it!
Gedhafi surely is feeling the love that the West has granted him after he decided, few years back, to "abandon and repudiate" terrorism. That was a decision he made at the time when President Bush was leading the War on Terror that today is been considered over by Obama and his cronies.
No more fear on the part of the Libyan thug for the anti-terrorist policies of America, as Obama has made it amply clear that America is not in the War on Terror any longer, so it is time for the Muslim terrorist to go back to their positions.
By the time Obama is going to be fired, our National security will have been so undermined that it will be very costly, in blood and treasure, to make us safe again, as 9-11-01 has shown us.
Isn't it ironic that Obama has had harsher words for those Americans that reject his Socialist ideals than for those involved in the freeing of a terrorist murderer?
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
Friday, August 21, 2009
Culture Of Death
20 August 2009
Expression that is mostly used in reference to Islamic fundamentalists, culture of death is gaining strength when referring to Obama and the Socialists in power in America today.
As it is well known, and practically ignored by many religious leaders, being Catholics or Jewish or whatever else, Obama and the Liberals never saw an abortion they did not like, and they are not too conspicuous in championing a health care bill that practically will encourage the idea of suicide masked as “end of life counseling”, a truly inspirational and impressive rhetoric on the part of our so-called leaders. Obama has also surrounded himself with people that are believers in population control.
Well, as the Liberals, who don’t have a clue about what is in Waxman’s bill, and the White House, via that pinnacle of knowledge and arrogance that is spokesman Gibbs, denied that Obamacare is advocating the so-called “death boards”, one only has to look toward the Veterans Agency to see the true goal and modus operandi of the people in power today.
In a Wall Street Journal editorial, Jim Towey, president of Saint Vincent College, who also was director of the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives (2002-2006) and founder of the nonprofit Aging with Dignity, calls Americans’ attention to a VA booklet called “Your Life, Your Choices”.
The 52 page booklet was first created in 1996 during the Clinton administration. It was to be used as a guide for veterans to establish living wills, but it was also a publication suggestive of the advantages of physician-assisted suicide. The author of the booklet is one Dr. Robert Pearlman who was the president of the VA National Center for Ethics in Health Care and a supporter of health care rationing.
During the Bush administration, “Your Life, Your Choices” was banned by the White House, only to be revived by Obama just a month ago.
Ok then, let me see if I get this straight. The Obama regime is re-instating a publication for those Veterans who are in need of care from the VA that gives them a clear view of the advantages for them and for their families of ending their lives. So basically, a member of the Military that has served his or her country in Iraq or Afghanistan, and who has had the misfortune to come back home missing some limbs, paralyzed, blind or suffering from PTSD, but the fortune to be still alive, is going to be encouraged by representatives of the same country that they sacrificed to defend to lessen the personal and family burden by ending their lives.
It is for me extremely ironic that the medical advances made in the field of trauma treatment for those wounded on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, advances that have resulted in exhilarating rates of survivability on the part of our sons and daughters, is being rendered pointless by a political class that is bent on subjugating the American people to a government controlled heath care. It literally infuriates me when I think about the dedication and sacrifice that Combat Medics and Corpsmen exhibit on the battlefield, only to realize that those whose lives they saved will be encouraged by their government to kill themselves so that some money can be saved and Obama will be able to use that money to pay for the abortion of some welfare blood sucker or some illegal immigrant.
So, as it appears, there is an apparent indication that the Obama administration is determined to ask those Veterans that may be in need of VA medical assistance, to give their life for the country welfare entitlement system.
I cannot deny the brilliancy of Obama on this subject, as not only he would be able to shift the funds necessary for the care of Veterans to the leaches of our society, but he would be get rid of those elements of our society that he most despise and fear: Veterans.
This booklet the VA has, which was banned by the Bush Administration only to be re-instated by Obama’s cronies, like the much hailed Gen. Shinseki, is a disgrace for a country like the US, where life preservation, especially for its Veterans, should be the top priority. But the disgraceful and appalling behavior of these immoral and evil people in Washington is just another demonstration of the culture of death that they champion. The lives of regular Americans and especially the Veterans, is of no value for them, except those who support them politically and only to that extent.
2010 cannot come fast enough. Time to cleanse the Halls of Congress and emasculate this dictatorial President, turning him into a lame duck as quickly as possible, so that the Nation can be returned to its rightful owners: the American People.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
Expression that is mostly used in reference to Islamic fundamentalists, culture of death is gaining strength when referring to Obama and the Socialists in power in America today.
As it is well known, and practically ignored by many religious leaders, being Catholics or Jewish or whatever else, Obama and the Liberals never saw an abortion they did not like, and they are not too conspicuous in championing a health care bill that practically will encourage the idea of suicide masked as “end of life counseling”, a truly inspirational and impressive rhetoric on the part of our so-called leaders. Obama has also surrounded himself with people that are believers in population control.
Well, as the Liberals, who don’t have a clue about what is in Waxman’s bill, and the White House, via that pinnacle of knowledge and arrogance that is spokesman Gibbs, denied that Obamacare is advocating the so-called “death boards”, one only has to look toward the Veterans Agency to see the true goal and modus operandi of the people in power today.
In a Wall Street Journal editorial, Jim Towey, president of Saint Vincent College, who also was director of the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives (2002-2006) and founder of the nonprofit Aging with Dignity, calls Americans’ attention to a VA booklet called “Your Life, Your Choices”.
The 52 page booklet was first created in 1996 during the Clinton administration. It was to be used as a guide for veterans to establish living wills, but it was also a publication suggestive of the advantages of physician-assisted suicide. The author of the booklet is one Dr. Robert Pearlman who was the president of the VA National Center for Ethics in Health Care and a supporter of health care rationing.
During the Bush administration, “Your Life, Your Choices” was banned by the White House, only to be revived by Obama just a month ago.
Ok then, let me see if I get this straight. The Obama regime is re-instating a publication for those Veterans who are in need of care from the VA that gives them a clear view of the advantages for them and for their families of ending their lives. So basically, a member of the Military that has served his or her country in Iraq or Afghanistan, and who has had the misfortune to come back home missing some limbs, paralyzed, blind or suffering from PTSD, but the fortune to be still alive, is going to be encouraged by representatives of the same country that they sacrificed to defend to lessen the personal and family burden by ending their lives.
It is for me extremely ironic that the medical advances made in the field of trauma treatment for those wounded on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, advances that have resulted in exhilarating rates of survivability on the part of our sons and daughters, is being rendered pointless by a political class that is bent on subjugating the American people to a government controlled heath care. It literally infuriates me when I think about the dedication and sacrifice that Combat Medics and Corpsmen exhibit on the battlefield, only to realize that those whose lives they saved will be encouraged by their government to kill themselves so that some money can be saved and Obama will be able to use that money to pay for the abortion of some welfare blood sucker or some illegal immigrant.
So, as it appears, there is an apparent indication that the Obama administration is determined to ask those Veterans that may be in need of VA medical assistance, to give their life for the country welfare entitlement system.
I cannot deny the brilliancy of Obama on this subject, as not only he would be able to shift the funds necessary for the care of Veterans to the leaches of our society, but he would be get rid of those elements of our society that he most despise and fear: Veterans.
This booklet the VA has, which was banned by the Bush Administration only to be re-instated by Obama’s cronies, like the much hailed Gen. Shinseki, is a disgrace for a country like the US, where life preservation, especially for its Veterans, should be the top priority. But the disgraceful and appalling behavior of these immoral and evil people in Washington is just another demonstration of the culture of death that they champion. The lives of regular Americans and especially the Veterans, is of no value for them, except those who support them politically and only to that extent.
2010 cannot come fast enough. Time to cleanse the Halls of Congress and emasculate this dictatorial President, turning him into a lame duck as quickly as possible, so that the Nation can be returned to its rightful owners: the American People.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Misplaced Compassion
20 August 2009
The date was December 21 1988, just four days before Christmas. Over 250 people boarded the plane, most of them students on their way to spend the Christmas Holiday with their families. The mood was festive and even more so for the families that were expecting the passengers of Pan Am flight 103.
But those families would never embrace their loved ones again. Those on the plane, 259 souls, and 11 more innocent people in the Scottish village of Lockerbie were wiped out by the actions of a Libyan sponsored terrorist act.
The bomb planted on the aircraft exploded just few minutes after the plane took off from London, as it was flying over the sleepy Scottish village, ripping the plane apart and causing it to plunge straight into unsuspecting habitants of Lockerbie.
The only person indicted for the horrible act of terrorism and convicted, is one Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was finally convicted in2001 and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the Scottish prison of Greenock. Even the Libyan dictator Gadhafi admitted the responsibility of the Libyan government and offered some compensation for the victims, the moment that he realized President George W. Bush was not taking terrorism as lightly as his predecessors had.
Today, Megrahi, after just spending eight years in prison, is on his way home to Libya on one of Gedhafi’s personal airplanes, having received a compassion release from prison by the Scottish authorities. The basis of the compassion release is that the terrorist is affected by terminal prostate cancer and only has few months to live. Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill made the decision that based on the fact the man is dying, it was the compassionate thing to do to let him die in his homeland.
These are the facts, and now my thoughts.
It is extremely hard for me to even begin to feel any compassion for someone who has so much blood of innocent people on his hands. Here we have a sub-human piece of excrement who purposely placed an explosive device on a civilian aircraft, for the sole purpose of killing innocent civilians. Here we have a terrorist who was bent on inflicting pain and suffering on people, specifically American people, who had had absolutely nothing to do with any gripe he could have had against the US.
My thoughts go to the final moments of those doomed passengers on flight 103, those who survived the initial explosion and aircraft break up only to experience the terrorizing final seconds of their existence. My thoughts also go to those on the ground who were just living their lives only to be crashed and burned by the plunging of the aircraft on their homes. And finally my thoughts go to those who received the horrible news that their loved ones will never reach their destination.
And with these thoughts going through my mind, my willingness to afford any kind of compassion toward Mr. Megrahi diminishes exponentially.
This situation is one of the reasons why I am a strong supporter of capital punishment, because it is my deep belief that someone like this kind example of human trash, responsible for the pain and suffering of so many innocent people, should have been sent to Allah a long time ago.
But the reality is that so many people across the world have reached a mental condition where holding someone to their responsibilities is no longer considered an important human behavior, having been replaced by the need for sensibility, by the need to feel good about oneself, and screw those directly affected by the actions of pure evil people.
I am sure that Kenny MacAskill had no family member on the plane or living in the homes of Lockerbie devastated by the attack. Had his son or daughter, his wife or mother had been among those who perished, maybe the man would have found it harder to feel the compassion for the scum bag.
So what could be motivating the man to grant Megrahi the gift of supposedly die in peace at his home? It is hard to give an answer, and I am not into psychological analysis, but I can surely express that I feel the political correctness and the touchy feely approach is going to be the end of free men across the globe, as those in the business of terrorizing free people, those in the business of subjugating others, those in the business to force their social and religious convictions on everybody, those who make it their life goal to have gripes against the rest of the world, will never cease to conduct their murderous acts. Showing compassion and understanding will only embolden these characters and weaken the ideals of freedom and self-determination that the West should be championing.
And how is public opinion going to react if upon the terrorist arrival in Libya, if and when images of jubilant Libyans welcoming him as a hero are going to show up on the News?
Are all those compassionate peaceniks going to be moved by the images?
Betrayal of the families of those who perished in 1988 has been justified by the decision that it was more important to feel good about oneself. The right to justice of these families was sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.
I surely hope that all those who are now getting a warm feeling about this terrorist being allowed to end his miserable life at home will never have to endure the pain of a loss similar as the one this man condemned so many innocent people to suffer. I can only hope that his last few days on this Earth will be as painful.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
The date was December 21 1988, just four days before Christmas. Over 250 people boarded the plane, most of them students on their way to spend the Christmas Holiday with their families. The mood was festive and even more so for the families that were expecting the passengers of Pan Am flight 103.
But those families would never embrace their loved ones again. Those on the plane, 259 souls, and 11 more innocent people in the Scottish village of Lockerbie were wiped out by the actions of a Libyan sponsored terrorist act.
The bomb planted on the aircraft exploded just few minutes after the plane took off from London, as it was flying over the sleepy Scottish village, ripping the plane apart and causing it to plunge straight into unsuspecting habitants of Lockerbie.
The only person indicted for the horrible act of terrorism and convicted, is one Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was finally convicted in2001 and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the Scottish prison of Greenock. Even the Libyan dictator Gadhafi admitted the responsibility of the Libyan government and offered some compensation for the victims, the moment that he realized President George W. Bush was not taking terrorism as lightly as his predecessors had.
Today, Megrahi, after just spending eight years in prison, is on his way home to Libya on one of Gedhafi’s personal airplanes, having received a compassion release from prison by the Scottish authorities. The basis of the compassion release is that the terrorist is affected by terminal prostate cancer and only has few months to live. Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill made the decision that based on the fact the man is dying, it was the compassionate thing to do to let him die in his homeland.
These are the facts, and now my thoughts.
It is extremely hard for me to even begin to feel any compassion for someone who has so much blood of innocent people on his hands. Here we have a sub-human piece of excrement who purposely placed an explosive device on a civilian aircraft, for the sole purpose of killing innocent civilians. Here we have a terrorist who was bent on inflicting pain and suffering on people, specifically American people, who had had absolutely nothing to do with any gripe he could have had against the US.
My thoughts go to the final moments of those doomed passengers on flight 103, those who survived the initial explosion and aircraft break up only to experience the terrorizing final seconds of their existence. My thoughts also go to those on the ground who were just living their lives only to be crashed and burned by the plunging of the aircraft on their homes. And finally my thoughts go to those who received the horrible news that their loved ones will never reach their destination.
And with these thoughts going through my mind, my willingness to afford any kind of compassion toward Mr. Megrahi diminishes exponentially.
This situation is one of the reasons why I am a strong supporter of capital punishment, because it is my deep belief that someone like this kind example of human trash, responsible for the pain and suffering of so many innocent people, should have been sent to Allah a long time ago.
But the reality is that so many people across the world have reached a mental condition where holding someone to their responsibilities is no longer considered an important human behavior, having been replaced by the need for sensibility, by the need to feel good about oneself, and screw those directly affected by the actions of pure evil people.
I am sure that Kenny MacAskill had no family member on the plane or living in the homes of Lockerbie devastated by the attack. Had his son or daughter, his wife or mother had been among those who perished, maybe the man would have found it harder to feel the compassion for the scum bag.
So what could be motivating the man to grant Megrahi the gift of supposedly die in peace at his home? It is hard to give an answer, and I am not into psychological analysis, but I can surely express that I feel the political correctness and the touchy feely approach is going to be the end of free men across the globe, as those in the business of terrorizing free people, those in the business of subjugating others, those in the business to force their social and religious convictions on everybody, those who make it their life goal to have gripes against the rest of the world, will never cease to conduct their murderous acts. Showing compassion and understanding will only embolden these characters and weaken the ideals of freedom and self-determination that the West should be championing.
And how is public opinion going to react if upon the terrorist arrival in Libya, if and when images of jubilant Libyans welcoming him as a hero are going to show up on the News?
Are all those compassionate peaceniks going to be moved by the images?
Betrayal of the families of those who perished in 1988 has been justified by the decision that it was more important to feel good about oneself. The right to justice of these families was sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.
I surely hope that all those who are now getting a warm feeling about this terrorist being allowed to end his miserable life at home will never have to endure the pain of a loss similar as the one this man condemned so many innocent people to suffer. I can only hope that his last few days on this Earth will be as painful.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
Monday, August 17, 2009
Fire Barbara Boxer
17 August 2009
Finally some good news for California and Californians: it appears that Barbara Boxer is going to have a real contender in the run for the US Senate in November 2010.
The person that seems to gave a good chance to finally rid the state of this scourge of a Liberal is Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard.
According to an article from the Mercury News, Boxer may not be a shoe in for re-election next year. This incompetent and petulant woman, Boxer, may become the victim of her irresponsible and reckless support of Obama Socialist agenda, attitude that may give the people of California the necessary motivation, combined with the disastrous economic conditions in the state, to finally search elsewhere for someone to represent the state in the Senate.
Carly Fiorina brings to the race not only a vast executive experience, but she also brings a personal wealth that she can use in the campaign, not being hindered by the incompetence of the California Republican Party, who has not being capable to field any real opponent to the sisters-of-hell Boxer and Feinstein for years.
So this is a race that we Californians need to work for so to achieve the mind blowing satisfaction of firing Boxer and send her back to the dungeon she came from.
There are several other races that we should word hard at following and hopefully influence. The whole House of Representatives is up for re-election in 2010, and that includes Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman (30th district) and Maxine Waters (35th district).
Pelosi is an obvious hope for firing, and it appears that some of her San Francisco constituency is not too happy with her, which gives hope to the belief that there still are few people in that city that have not completely fried their own brains.
The battle in Waxman and Waters districts is indeed a very tough one. Waxman, a champion of corruption, appears to have control over the people of his district.
Maxine Waters also appears to have achieved a lock on her predominantly black constituency, not because of her service to the community, but thanks to her continue use of the race card. She has successfully accomplished the indirect slave trade at the expenses of her “own people”.
The next elections are 14 months away, plenty of time for Californians to mobilize and work so that all congressional incumbents are unceremoniously fired in November 2010. Let’s clean the House and the Senate first, which will practically render Obama impotent and then get rid of him in 2012.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
Finally some good news for California and Californians: it appears that Barbara Boxer is going to have a real contender in the run for the US Senate in November 2010.
The person that seems to gave a good chance to finally rid the state of this scourge of a Liberal is Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard.
According to an article from the Mercury News, Boxer may not be a shoe in for re-election next year. This incompetent and petulant woman, Boxer, may become the victim of her irresponsible and reckless support of Obama Socialist agenda, attitude that may give the people of California the necessary motivation, combined with the disastrous economic conditions in the state, to finally search elsewhere for someone to represent the state in the Senate.
Carly Fiorina brings to the race not only a vast executive experience, but she also brings a personal wealth that she can use in the campaign, not being hindered by the incompetence of the California Republican Party, who has not being capable to field any real opponent to the sisters-of-hell Boxer and Feinstein for years.
So this is a race that we Californians need to work for so to achieve the mind blowing satisfaction of firing Boxer and send her back to the dungeon she came from.
There are several other races that we should word hard at following and hopefully influence. The whole House of Representatives is up for re-election in 2010, and that includes Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman (30th district) and Maxine Waters (35th district).
Pelosi is an obvious hope for firing, and it appears that some of her San Francisco constituency is not too happy with her, which gives hope to the belief that there still are few people in that city that have not completely fried their own brains.
The battle in Waxman and Waters districts is indeed a very tough one. Waxman, a champion of corruption, appears to have control over the people of his district.
Maxine Waters also appears to have achieved a lock on her predominantly black constituency, not because of her service to the community, but thanks to her continue use of the race card. She has successfully accomplished the indirect slave trade at the expenses of her “own people”.
The next elections are 14 months away, plenty of time for Californians to mobilize and work so that all congressional incumbents are unceremoniously fired in November 2010. Let’s clean the House and the Senate first, which will practically render Obama impotent and then get rid of him in 2012.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Silent No More!
16 August 2009
It is absolutely appalling the open level of hypocrisy that the Liberals in America have reached. It is so completely out in the open that I find myself, at times, speechless. Does not happen often but it does occasionally.
In the last few weeks, such hypocrisy has reached the pinnacle of disgust and bad taste. The Liberals in Congress who have been pelted by common Americans in the famous town halls over various subjects, especially heath care reform, are resulting to vindictive tactics to basically shut the people down and prevent them from expressing their dissent.
“Dissent is patriotic” was the battle cry of the Left during the Bush administration. Hillary Clinton was literally screaming it at her campaign rallies. The same assertion was invoked by all who would get access to a public forum, that as Americans they had the freedom and duty to protest the actions of what they called the Bush regime. And yet today the same people who were so eloquent regarding the “American people right to dissent” are incensed by the American people exercising that very right. Dissenting with the current regime is racist.
Pelosi supported and encouraged deranged and psychotic Code Pink lowlifes in her district of San Francisco as they marched through the streets with signs depicting Bush with Hitler-style moustache and covered with swastikas. Today, queen Pelosi is accusing the American people to show up at her town hall with swastika signs. Curiously enough, there were no pictures of any of these offenders taken at the meetings, which is suspicious to me considering the extent to which the media goes to insure their shameless support for Obama and his cronies. Moreover, what some American people are becoming aware of is the parallelism between what Obama and co. is doing with the historical knowledge of Nazi Germany.
The accusations on the part of Liberals against the vociferous protestations of common Americans at their town hall meeting have been of disruption and rudeness. In 2006 Pelosi, at one of her rallies, was interrupted by anti-war protesters and she actually stated that she welcomed the disruption, as it was a right for Americans to disagree. And yet, she now calls those who are finally voicing their rejection of the Obama and Congress socialist take over as rude and obnoxious un-Americans.
So for all intents and purposes, according to queen Pelosi, the RIGHT of Americans to protest is conditioned by the party association: protest against Republicans is patriotic. Protest against Democrats is un-American disruption.
Liberals have leveled accusations against those Americans who have taken the time to participate in protests against an ever increasingly intrusive government, of being organized and funded by special interests. The Left has downplayed the Tea Parties and the millions of people who took time out of their lives to publicly express their rejection of Socialist governmental tactics, calling these public exercises of First Amendment right as being sponsored and fueled by special interests and the Republican Party. This really makes me chuckle, as I have attended couple of these protests and have not received any kind of encouragement from any lobbying entity and I don’t even consider myself a Republican any longer.
At one specific rally on July 4th, a car went through the intersection we were gathered at in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, and a black man yelled out the window “You f……. racists!” which made me take notice, again, that what the Left has accomplished is to poison the minds of some American people that it is about Obama being black. The all “inclusive” president has drawn the battle lines on the race issue in order to insure his own political power grab. And the ignorant, fickle masses of blacks don’t realize that it is just by doing such thing that Obama is condemning them to a new kind of slavery. Governmental organized slavery.
But the level of hypocrisy that the Left has reached is somewhat amusing, as the images of the town halls protests appear on the news. As the so-called Health Care Reform bill is being analyzed by the American people (HR 3200) there is an increasingly strong realization that many of the provisions enumerated in the bill are just not what the American people want.
In pure Soviet Socialist approach, the Left has been denigrating the protesters with the intention of destroying their ability to express their discontent by virtue of down grading them. Pelosi and Co. called them un-American; they have been called an unruly mob; Harry Reid labeled them “evil mongers”. And yet, what appears to the viewer is a conglomeration of senior afraid for their lives and prosperity, young people afraid for their young families, middle class folks who are very concerned about a deficit spending that is condemning their grand-children to a huge debt even if they are not even born yet. There are Veterans and housewives and doctors and professionals at these meetings, voicing their concerns. There are unemployed workers, who see an enormous spending going on in Washington directed at the Government intrusion into our lives, but nothing being done about providing jobs for Americans. These are people who would rather work than being “taken care of” by the politicians in Congress and White House.
Yes, these are the insurance companies’ plants into these meetings, and according to the Left, a despicable show of evil companies flexing their muscles. So Socialist Congress responds to this by sending bus loads of union thugs to “counter-protest”. If one looks at the videos of these rallies and meeting, one can see that those voicing their dissent are all common Americans, dressed like common Americans (regardless what Barbara Boxer says), while the counter-protesters are all wearing the union shirts. So my question is: who is organizing what?
And finally, the most disturbing hypocrisy of all! The White House has set up a web link for Americans to snitch on Americans. Officially, the link is designed for supporters of the Obamacare disaster to report any “erroneous” information regarding it. But in reality what the link does is gives the ability to Obama supporters and ill-informed Americans to snitch on fellow Americans. It is a way for the White House to create a database of e-mail addresses of people who disagree with Obama. So the question comes to mind: why is the White House collecting these data? What are they planning on using it for? Already it has been revealed that some folks across the country have received unsolicited e-mails from none other than David Axelrod, raising the suspicion that the first goal of the data collection is being used as a harassment tool. The step from this to full blown intimidation is short. And if the approval numbers of Obama keep on slipping, that step will become even shorter.
Back to the hypocrisy, I still remember the ruckus made by the Left and organizations like the ACLU about the wiretapping of suspicious phone lines authorized by the Patriot Act just after the attacks of September 11. Accusations and falsehoods started flying against the Bush administration that Bush was listening to grandma’s phone calls and stupid statements like it. The Liberal nutcases went ballistic on the notion that the government was intruding in our lives, our privacy, conveniently ignoring the fact that the wiretapping was only done on international phone lines that could be connected to potential terrorist entities. What would have the ACLU said if Bush would have advertised a web link for people to report suspicious terrorist activities? Would have they just be silent as they are today about Obama snitch link? I leave it to you to ponder and reach an answer.
Ultimately, it is up to the American people to decide the direction our country is headed for.
Many, unfortunately, are still inebriated by the historical significance of the election of a black President, indicating that racism in America is still alive and well. These people are willing to ignore the damage this man is doing to our country because he is black. That’s racism in my book. And many of them are more interested in getting as much for free instead of working for it.
Fortunately, there is many more that are not pleased with the direction the country is on. Their ranks are filled with people of every race and religion, gender and political affiliation. These are people who feel it is more important to safeguard the principles of Liberty in our country above any political leaning and Party allegiance. And, as one woman stated to Sen. Specter during a meeting, the Socialist Liberal Left has awaken a sleeping giant: the silent majority of America, who is not going to be silent no more.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
It is absolutely appalling the open level of hypocrisy that the Liberals in America have reached. It is so completely out in the open that I find myself, at times, speechless. Does not happen often but it does occasionally.
In the last few weeks, such hypocrisy has reached the pinnacle of disgust and bad taste. The Liberals in Congress who have been pelted by common Americans in the famous town halls over various subjects, especially heath care reform, are resulting to vindictive tactics to basically shut the people down and prevent them from expressing their dissent.
“Dissent is patriotic” was the battle cry of the Left during the Bush administration. Hillary Clinton was literally screaming it at her campaign rallies. The same assertion was invoked by all who would get access to a public forum, that as Americans they had the freedom and duty to protest the actions of what they called the Bush regime. And yet today the same people who were so eloquent regarding the “American people right to dissent” are incensed by the American people exercising that very right. Dissenting with the current regime is racist.
Pelosi supported and encouraged deranged and psychotic Code Pink lowlifes in her district of San Francisco as they marched through the streets with signs depicting Bush with Hitler-style moustache and covered with swastikas. Today, queen Pelosi is accusing the American people to show up at her town hall with swastika signs. Curiously enough, there were no pictures of any of these offenders taken at the meetings, which is suspicious to me considering the extent to which the media goes to insure their shameless support for Obama and his cronies. Moreover, what some American people are becoming aware of is the parallelism between what Obama and co. is doing with the historical knowledge of Nazi Germany.
The accusations on the part of Liberals against the vociferous protestations of common Americans at their town hall meeting have been of disruption and rudeness. In 2006 Pelosi, at one of her rallies, was interrupted by anti-war protesters and she actually stated that she welcomed the disruption, as it was a right for Americans to disagree. And yet, she now calls those who are finally voicing their rejection of the Obama and Congress socialist take over as rude and obnoxious un-Americans.
So for all intents and purposes, according to queen Pelosi, the RIGHT of Americans to protest is conditioned by the party association: protest against Republicans is patriotic. Protest against Democrats is un-American disruption.
Liberals have leveled accusations against those Americans who have taken the time to participate in protests against an ever increasingly intrusive government, of being organized and funded by special interests. The Left has downplayed the Tea Parties and the millions of people who took time out of their lives to publicly express their rejection of Socialist governmental tactics, calling these public exercises of First Amendment right as being sponsored and fueled by special interests and the Republican Party. This really makes me chuckle, as I have attended couple of these protests and have not received any kind of encouragement from any lobbying entity and I don’t even consider myself a Republican any longer.
At one specific rally on July 4th, a car went through the intersection we were gathered at in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, and a black man yelled out the window “You f……. racists!” which made me take notice, again, that what the Left has accomplished is to poison the minds of some American people that it is about Obama being black. The all “inclusive” president has drawn the battle lines on the race issue in order to insure his own political power grab. And the ignorant, fickle masses of blacks don’t realize that it is just by doing such thing that Obama is condemning them to a new kind of slavery. Governmental organized slavery.
But the level of hypocrisy that the Left has reached is somewhat amusing, as the images of the town halls protests appear on the news. As the so-called Health Care Reform bill is being analyzed by the American people (HR 3200) there is an increasingly strong realization that many of the provisions enumerated in the bill are just not what the American people want.
In pure Soviet Socialist approach, the Left has been denigrating the protesters with the intention of destroying their ability to express their discontent by virtue of down grading them. Pelosi and Co. called them un-American; they have been called an unruly mob; Harry Reid labeled them “evil mongers”. And yet, what appears to the viewer is a conglomeration of senior afraid for their lives and prosperity, young people afraid for their young families, middle class folks who are very concerned about a deficit spending that is condemning their grand-children to a huge debt even if they are not even born yet. There are Veterans and housewives and doctors and professionals at these meetings, voicing their concerns. There are unemployed workers, who see an enormous spending going on in Washington directed at the Government intrusion into our lives, but nothing being done about providing jobs for Americans. These are people who would rather work than being “taken care of” by the politicians in Congress and White House.
Yes, these are the insurance companies’ plants into these meetings, and according to the Left, a despicable show of evil companies flexing their muscles. So Socialist Congress responds to this by sending bus loads of union thugs to “counter-protest”. If one looks at the videos of these rallies and meeting, one can see that those voicing their dissent are all common Americans, dressed like common Americans (regardless what Barbara Boxer says), while the counter-protesters are all wearing the union shirts. So my question is: who is organizing what?
And finally, the most disturbing hypocrisy of all! The White House has set up a web link for Americans to snitch on Americans. Officially, the link is designed for supporters of the Obamacare disaster to report any “erroneous” information regarding it. But in reality what the link does is gives the ability to Obama supporters and ill-informed Americans to snitch on fellow Americans. It is a way for the White House to create a database of e-mail addresses of people who disagree with Obama. So the question comes to mind: why is the White House collecting these data? What are they planning on using it for? Already it has been revealed that some folks across the country have received unsolicited e-mails from none other than David Axelrod, raising the suspicion that the first goal of the data collection is being used as a harassment tool. The step from this to full blown intimidation is short. And if the approval numbers of Obama keep on slipping, that step will become even shorter.
Back to the hypocrisy, I still remember the ruckus made by the Left and organizations like the ACLU about the wiretapping of suspicious phone lines authorized by the Patriot Act just after the attacks of September 11. Accusations and falsehoods started flying against the Bush administration that Bush was listening to grandma’s phone calls and stupid statements like it. The Liberal nutcases went ballistic on the notion that the government was intruding in our lives, our privacy, conveniently ignoring the fact that the wiretapping was only done on international phone lines that could be connected to potential terrorist entities. What would have the ACLU said if Bush would have advertised a web link for people to report suspicious terrorist activities? Would have they just be silent as they are today about Obama snitch link? I leave it to you to ponder and reach an answer.
Ultimately, it is up to the American people to decide the direction our country is headed for.
Many, unfortunately, are still inebriated by the historical significance of the election of a black President, indicating that racism in America is still alive and well. These people are willing to ignore the damage this man is doing to our country because he is black. That’s racism in my book. And many of them are more interested in getting as much for free instead of working for it.
Fortunately, there is many more that are not pleased with the direction the country is on. Their ranks are filled with people of every race and religion, gender and political affiliation. These are people who feel it is more important to safeguard the principles of Liberty in our country above any political leaning and Party allegiance. And, as one woman stated to Sen. Specter during a meeting, the Socialist Liberal Left has awaken a sleeping giant: the silent majority of America, who is not going to be silent no more.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Turning My Stomach
13 August 2009
For the last eight years, one of my main gripes with the MSM was their handling of the information they presented to the American people regarding our efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and the whole War on Terror. I can remember the Leftist knuckle draggers from CNN and NBC, the treasonous articles from the NY Times and the LA Times and Washington Post. I still remember the outrage demonstrated by certain press organizations that are more leaning toward conservative ideology. They would make the Left disregard for the American troops known to all, demonstrating how the Left was so deranged against Bush that one could actually see their salivation as they used the sacrifice our Military was doing as a mean to attack the President.
I can still remember the just indignation expressed by radio talk show hosts and countless other sources that demonstrated their justifiable disgust at the blatant use of the men and women in uniform to push forward their Bush derangement agenda, and I remember just as vividly the rage that pervaded me every time I witnessed such behavior, further solidifying my distrust and rejection of the MSM.
But today the same feeling of disgust, the same feeling of revolt is grabbing the pit of my stomach. There is a certain suspicion growing inside me that I find extremely disturbing. It is my opinion that since Obama has become President and his concentration has shifted toward the war in Afghanistan, I feel that some of those conservative news outlets that were so vehemently protesting the Left use of our Military and their sacrifices for their propaganda push are today basically switching roles.
Here is the fact. Last week the Wall Street Journal, which I used to consider a note worthy, trust worthy publication, published an article by Yochi Dreazen and Peter Spiegel covering an interview conducted with theater Commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal. The title of the article was the shocker: Taliban Now Winning.
In the article, the authors profusely paraphrased the General in his opinions regarding the current events going on in Afghanistan. McChrystal’s words were doctored and spun by the writers to bring the attention of the readership to the negative side of what is happening in that far away conflict. Even the Pentagon came out strongly disputing the WSJ article assertion of the General’s statements, declaring that never the officer made a statement that implied his opinion being that our efforts in Afghanistan are unsuccessful and the conditions indicative of a victorious enemy.
Since the offensive of July in the Helmand Province started, some other media outlets, like FoxNews, has been including with every insignificant piece of news from Afghanistan, about the mounting casualty rate our forces are incurring.
So what I see is the more conservative news organizations engaging in the same unproductive rhetoric that the Left engaged in for seven years. As mentioned by some conservative pundits, Afghanistan “is now Obama’s war” and they will be using this approach as an attack tool against the President.
Few people are more critical of Obama than me, as I truly consider the man as a Socialist bent on destroying our country’s values and traditions, but the Military should be off limits when it comes to political agendas between political factions.
And now my thoughts.
In the first place, using the US Military for any political reason is an ugly and immoral action. Our Military is engaged in a war where our sons and daughters are paying in blood for their service to the country. Our men and women in uniform are not serving the Left or the Right, Democrats or Republicans, but they are serving their country, America!
It is really personally enraging that now the opposite side of the political spectrum appears to utilize the same outrageous tactics used by CNN, NBC, CBS and all the others.
It is really a sad day in this country when news organizations that were so vocal in rebutting the tactics of anti-American Leftist MSM are today engaging in the same immoral actions to further their own anti-Obama political agenda.
Did they ever stop and think what an article’s title like the WSJ one would do for those actually deployed in that forsaken country? What reaction would the Soldier or Marine sitting in God-awful conditions on some base in Afghanistan would have when he or she would see a headline like “is the Taliban winning”? What effect would have on the morale of that Soldier or Marine who maybe just saw a friend get hurt or maybe die?
Did anybody at WSJ ever stop for a minute and consider these men and women morale in battle?
And did anyone at the WSJ for a moment thought about the families? Here there are thousands of family members of these Military personnel, anxiously trying to live as normal a life as possible as their every second of their existence is overwhelmed by a continuous concern for their sons, daughters, mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives?
Did anyone on the WSJ editorial board even considered the anguish that such “journalism” could cause on those families? As the WSJ is aimed at a more conservative readership, it appears to me that the editorial staff took the opportunity to “hook” the average reader with a disturbing article title, regardless of the content of the article itself. And most of all regardless of the impact that such title could have on the people who are really and personally touched by the war in Afghanistan.
I have written at length about my displeasure about the total disconnect between the Military, and their families, and the rest of the country. I have expressed my rejection of those who love to display their “war is not the answer” nonsense. And I have expressed my loathing for the MSM and politicians who for seven years have used the Military as a pawn in their war against George W. Bush. But today I have to add conservative outlets who are doing the same in their war against Obama.
One thing that is so clear is that there are very few people in America today that take the time to stop and think about the damage their actions may cause on others. Military families are most often victims of the trend of personal importance that our country has embraced. Whatever makes ME feel good, whatever advances MY agenda, whatever pushes MY point of view is regarded today as a right to be expressed, regardless of what impact such actions could cause others.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
For the last eight years, one of my main gripes with the MSM was their handling of the information they presented to the American people regarding our efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and the whole War on Terror. I can remember the Leftist knuckle draggers from CNN and NBC, the treasonous articles from the NY Times and the LA Times and Washington Post. I still remember the outrage demonstrated by certain press organizations that are more leaning toward conservative ideology. They would make the Left disregard for the American troops known to all, demonstrating how the Left was so deranged against Bush that one could actually see their salivation as they used the sacrifice our Military was doing as a mean to attack the President.
I can still remember the just indignation expressed by radio talk show hosts and countless other sources that demonstrated their justifiable disgust at the blatant use of the men and women in uniform to push forward their Bush derangement agenda, and I remember just as vividly the rage that pervaded me every time I witnessed such behavior, further solidifying my distrust and rejection of the MSM.
But today the same feeling of disgust, the same feeling of revolt is grabbing the pit of my stomach. There is a certain suspicion growing inside me that I find extremely disturbing. It is my opinion that since Obama has become President and his concentration has shifted toward the war in Afghanistan, I feel that some of those conservative news outlets that were so vehemently protesting the Left use of our Military and their sacrifices for their propaganda push are today basically switching roles.
Here is the fact. Last week the Wall Street Journal, which I used to consider a note worthy, trust worthy publication, published an article by Yochi Dreazen and Peter Spiegel covering an interview conducted with theater Commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal. The title of the article was the shocker: Taliban Now Winning.
In the article, the authors profusely paraphrased the General in his opinions regarding the current events going on in Afghanistan. McChrystal’s words were doctored and spun by the writers to bring the attention of the readership to the negative side of what is happening in that far away conflict. Even the Pentagon came out strongly disputing the WSJ article assertion of the General’s statements, declaring that never the officer made a statement that implied his opinion being that our efforts in Afghanistan are unsuccessful and the conditions indicative of a victorious enemy.
Since the offensive of July in the Helmand Province started, some other media outlets, like FoxNews, has been including with every insignificant piece of news from Afghanistan, about the mounting casualty rate our forces are incurring.
So what I see is the more conservative news organizations engaging in the same unproductive rhetoric that the Left engaged in for seven years. As mentioned by some conservative pundits, Afghanistan “is now Obama’s war” and they will be using this approach as an attack tool against the President.
Few people are more critical of Obama than me, as I truly consider the man as a Socialist bent on destroying our country’s values and traditions, but the Military should be off limits when it comes to political agendas between political factions.
And now my thoughts.
In the first place, using the US Military for any political reason is an ugly and immoral action. Our Military is engaged in a war where our sons and daughters are paying in blood for their service to the country. Our men and women in uniform are not serving the Left or the Right, Democrats or Republicans, but they are serving their country, America!
It is really personally enraging that now the opposite side of the political spectrum appears to utilize the same outrageous tactics used by CNN, NBC, CBS and all the others.
It is really a sad day in this country when news organizations that were so vocal in rebutting the tactics of anti-American Leftist MSM are today engaging in the same immoral actions to further their own anti-Obama political agenda.
Did they ever stop and think what an article’s title like the WSJ one would do for those actually deployed in that forsaken country? What reaction would the Soldier or Marine sitting in God-awful conditions on some base in Afghanistan would have when he or she would see a headline like “is the Taliban winning”? What effect would have on the morale of that Soldier or Marine who maybe just saw a friend get hurt or maybe die?
Did anybody at WSJ ever stop for a minute and consider these men and women morale in battle?
And did anyone at the WSJ for a moment thought about the families? Here there are thousands of family members of these Military personnel, anxiously trying to live as normal a life as possible as their every second of their existence is overwhelmed by a continuous concern for their sons, daughters, mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives?
Did anyone on the WSJ editorial board even considered the anguish that such “journalism” could cause on those families? As the WSJ is aimed at a more conservative readership, it appears to me that the editorial staff took the opportunity to “hook” the average reader with a disturbing article title, regardless of the content of the article itself. And most of all regardless of the impact that such title could have on the people who are really and personally touched by the war in Afghanistan.
I have written at length about my displeasure about the total disconnect between the Military, and their families, and the rest of the country. I have expressed my rejection of those who love to display their “war is not the answer” nonsense. And I have expressed my loathing for the MSM and politicians who for seven years have used the Military as a pawn in their war against George W. Bush. But today I have to add conservative outlets who are doing the same in their war against Obama.
One thing that is so clear is that there are very few people in America today that take the time to stop and think about the damage their actions may cause on others. Military families are most often victims of the trend of personal importance that our country has embraced. Whatever makes ME feel good, whatever advances MY agenda, whatever pushes MY point of view is regarded today as a right to be expressed, regardless of what impact such actions could cause others.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
Monday, August 10, 2009
Hypocrites! Again and Again and Again...
Wow, how life changes within the space of few months!
Do you remember when Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton and all the Liberal loosers used to scream that dissent was a patriotic duty? Do you remember when they justified and supported the poor excuses for unsuccessful abortions from Code Pink as they protested President Bush foreign policy, regardless of the damage they inflicted on the American Military? Do you remember when accusing our soldiers in Iraq of cold blooded murder and genocide and Nazi-like behavior was part of that patriotic disagreement with a Nazi-like regime?
Well, things have changed and the glorious leadership in Washington has now changed its mind. Dissent in no longer patriotic, but it is un-American. And now the Nazi-like folks are those who don't agree with the Socialists in power.
Nancy "botox face" Pelosi and the other socialists are accusing American people of being un-American because they disagree with Obama. And, among other name calling, those of us who refuse to turn our existence to the Government, are racists. As the Sharpton and Jacksons of America teach us, when you don't have a leg to stand on in your argument, just cry racism. It works every time.
I just want to say that aI personally know many REAL Americans who are opposed to this monstrosity of a Health Care bill. And, regardless what you say, dear queen nancy, not your accusations nor those of your Obama will be able to shut us down.
And these are my thoughts
Frank Semperpapa
Do you remember when Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton and all the Liberal loosers used to scream that dissent was a patriotic duty? Do you remember when they justified and supported the poor excuses for unsuccessful abortions from Code Pink as they protested President Bush foreign policy, regardless of the damage they inflicted on the American Military? Do you remember when accusing our soldiers in Iraq of cold blooded murder and genocide and Nazi-like behavior was part of that patriotic disagreement with a Nazi-like regime?
Well, things have changed and the glorious leadership in Washington has now changed its mind. Dissent in no longer patriotic, but it is un-American. And now the Nazi-like folks are those who don't agree with the Socialists in power.
Nancy "botox face" Pelosi and the other socialists are accusing American people of being un-American because they disagree with Obama. And, among other name calling, those of us who refuse to turn our existence to the Government, are racists. As the Sharpton and Jacksons of America teach us, when you don't have a leg to stand on in your argument, just cry racism. It works every time.
I just want to say that aI personally know many REAL Americans who are opposed to this monstrosity of a Health Care bill. And, regardless what you say, dear queen nancy, not your accusations nor those of your Obama will be able to shut us down.
And these are my thoughts
Frank Semperpapa
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Obamacare
9 August 2009
It appears that the “mob” that has been pestering politicians across the country regarding the Health Care reform Obama wants to rush through Congress is more knowledgeable of those politicians who are supposed to vote on this impending national disaster.
Here is an interview with Betsy McCaughey who is the former Lt. Gov. of New York and is devoting her life right now to telling the truth about Obama and his health-care bill. It is an audio interview that you MUST hear and spread around.
http://tinyurl.com/mcmq6h
These are some of the items included in the bill, items that the lurid politicians wanted to rush through the vote in Congress, before anyone could actually have the time to read:
Page 22 of the HC Bill MANDATES the Government will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self insure!!
Page 30 Sec 123 of HC bill - THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get.
Page 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill - YOUR HEALTHCARE IS RATIONED!!!
Page 42 of HC Bill - The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC Benefits 4 you. you have no choice!
Page 50 Section 152 Health Care will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise.
Page 58 Government will have real-time access to individuals’ finances & a National ID Healthcard will be issued.
Page 59 lines 21-24: Government will have direct access to your bank accounts for electronic fund transfer.
Page 95 lines 8-18: Government will use groups like ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government HC plan.
Page 167 lines 18-23: any individual who doesn’t have acceptable HC according to Government will be taxed 2.5% of income.
Page 170 lines 1-3: any non-resident alien is exempt from individual taxes (taxpayers pick up cost).
Page 195: officers and employees of HC Administration (government employees) will have access to ALL Americans finances and personal records.
Page 354 Sec.1177: Government will restrict enrollment of Special Needs people.
Page 425 lines 4-12: Government mandates Advance Care Planning Consultation. Think Citizens end of life.
Page 425 lines 17-19: Government will instruct & consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney. Mandatory.
Page 425 lines 22-25 & Page 426 lines 1-3: Government provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding to death.
Page 427 lines 15-24: Government mandates program for orders for end of life, Government has a say in how life ends.
Page 429 lines 10-12: advanced care consultation may include an order for end of life plan.
Page 430 lines 11-15: Government will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life.
(Thanks to Stan in Florida for the above information!)
So really, what it comes down to is the Government is planning to take control of life and death for all Americans. The Health Care bill will pay for abortions and for end of life, and in between, deciding who is eligible to be born, to live, to die in the form of providing health care.
If you have a chronic illness that is expensive to care for, the Government will decide if you are worth the expense and the chance at living. But if the Health Care czar and commission deem the expense of care too high for the return they get from you, then, in Obama’s infinite goodness, they will assist you in ending your life. And if you have a child who is in need of special care, you will have to surrender his/her future to a Government that will help you with his/her end of life care.
In Oregon this is already sort of happening, as expensive cancer treatment is disallowed for some patients in favor of support for assisted suicide.
Well, my dear friends, this is the current debate going on in the Nation. This is the reason cause American citizens are standing up and voicing their opposition to this disaster in the making.
And the attacks perpetrated by this president and his cohorts in Congress are a demonstration of what happens when a low life thug is given power.
Stand up America, before the booth of an oppressing government is firmly planted on your neck!
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
It appears that the “mob” that has been pestering politicians across the country regarding the Health Care reform Obama wants to rush through Congress is more knowledgeable of those politicians who are supposed to vote on this impending national disaster.
Here is an interview with Betsy McCaughey who is the former Lt. Gov. of New York and is devoting her life right now to telling the truth about Obama and his health-care bill. It is an audio interview that you MUST hear and spread around.
http://tinyurl.com/mcmq6h
These are some of the items included in the bill, items that the lurid politicians wanted to rush through the vote in Congress, before anyone could actually have the time to read:
Page 22 of the HC Bill MANDATES the Government will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self insure!!
Page 30 Sec 123 of HC bill - THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get.
Page 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill - YOUR HEALTHCARE IS RATIONED!!!
Page 42 of HC Bill - The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC Benefits 4 you. you have no choice!
Page 50 Section 152 Health Care will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise.
Page 58 Government will have real-time access to individuals’ finances & a National ID Healthcard will be issued.
Page 59 lines 21-24: Government will have direct access to your bank accounts for electronic fund transfer.
Page 95 lines 8-18: Government will use groups like ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government HC plan.
Page 167 lines 18-23: any individual who doesn’t have acceptable HC according to Government will be taxed 2.5% of income.
Page 170 lines 1-3: any non-resident alien is exempt from individual taxes (taxpayers pick up cost).
Page 195: officers and employees of HC Administration (government employees) will have access to ALL Americans finances and personal records.
Page 354 Sec.1177: Government will restrict enrollment of Special Needs people.
Page 425 lines 4-12: Government mandates Advance Care Planning Consultation. Think Citizens end of life.
Page 425 lines 17-19: Government will instruct & consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney. Mandatory.
Page 425 lines 22-25 & Page 426 lines 1-3: Government provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding to death.
Page 427 lines 15-24: Government mandates program for orders for end of life, Government has a say in how life ends.
Page 429 lines 10-12: advanced care consultation may include an order for end of life plan.
Page 430 lines 11-15: Government will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life.
(Thanks to Stan in Florida for the above information!)
So really, what it comes down to is the Government is planning to take control of life and death for all Americans. The Health Care bill will pay for abortions and for end of life, and in between, deciding who is eligible to be born, to live, to die in the form of providing health care.
If you have a chronic illness that is expensive to care for, the Government will decide if you are worth the expense and the chance at living. But if the Health Care czar and commission deem the expense of care too high for the return they get from you, then, in Obama’s infinite goodness, they will assist you in ending your life. And if you have a child who is in need of special care, you will have to surrender his/her future to a Government that will help you with his/her end of life care.
In Oregon this is already sort of happening, as expensive cancer treatment is disallowed for some patients in favor of support for assisted suicide.
Well, my dear friends, this is the current debate going on in the Nation. This is the reason cause American citizens are standing up and voicing their opposition to this disaster in the making.
And the attacks perpetrated by this president and his cohorts in Congress are a demonstration of what happens when a low life thug is given power.
Stand up America, before the booth of an oppressing government is firmly planted on your neck!
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
Friday, August 7, 2009
Oh The Good Old Days...
Do you remember when the the American people were treated to beatings and intimidation from union thugs? Well of course not, it happened before most of our times.
But, in a revamping of the good old days, compliments of the Thug-in-Chief Obama (TiC), we can and will be able to re-live those glorious days again.
Obama has unleashed the inspired throngs of ACORN and SEIU to make sure that they are going to crash the protestations common American people are bringing to bear on the elitist members of the worst Congress in the history of our bloodied country.
Just last night in St. Luis, a black conservative who was protesting the impending, outragious Obamacare outside a townhall by selling little "Don't Tread On Me" flags was attacked by a SEIU union thug and beaten. The Obama team member even used racial slurs during the attack (???).
So here we are starting to slip right into the same place where third world countries are, places like Venezuela and Nicaragua and the like.
The only difference is that the American people, at least those who still deserve such name, are not going to just sit back and let it happen.
Andy Stern, president of SEIU, stated that the union will use the "power of persuasion" but that if that doesn't work the union is prepared to use the "persuasion of power".
Well, Mr. Stern, I hope for your sake and the sake of your scum bags, that you will never cross my path. It not turn out as well as in St. Luis.
Just My Thoughts
Frank Semperpapa
But, in a revamping of the good old days, compliments of the Thug-in-Chief Obama (TiC), we can and will be able to re-live those glorious days again.
Obama has unleashed the inspired throngs of ACORN and SEIU to make sure that they are going to crash the protestations common American people are bringing to bear on the elitist members of the worst Congress in the history of our bloodied country.
Just last night in St. Luis, a black conservative who was protesting the impending, outragious Obamacare outside a townhall by selling little "Don't Tread On Me" flags was attacked by a SEIU union thug and beaten. The Obama team member even used racial slurs during the attack (???).
So here we are starting to slip right into the same place where third world countries are, places like Venezuela and Nicaragua and the like.
The only difference is that the American people, at least those who still deserve such name, are not going to just sit back and let it happen.
Andy Stern, president of SEIU, stated that the union will use the "power of persuasion" but that if that doesn't work the union is prepared to use the "persuasion of power".
Well, Mr. Stern, I hope for your sake and the sake of your scum bags, that you will never cross my path. It not turn out as well as in St. Luis.
Just My Thoughts
Frank Semperpapa
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Another Donkey From California
Another poor excuse for a politician and a real source of shame and embarrassment: Nancy "I see swastikas" Pelosi.
There is a video circulating of the Speaker of the House, also third in line for the Presidency, addressing questions regarding those American citizens who are voicing their dissatisfaction with the policies of Obama and Congress.
The implication from the other Witch of the West (there are som any aroud this state) is that the people that are not rolling over and play dead, those of us who are not being silenced by the socialist elite are a mob similar to the Nazis.
What it apperas to me is that Nancy is cracking up under the pressure of the job. After all how dare the American people contradict her majesty. Or the botox sipped deep into her tiny brain.
Now, not that I don't believe you Nancy, but I find very unlike that with all the publicity that these townhalls have been getting form both sides of the fence, that there are no pictures of these "swastikas". Surely any of your media concubines would have taken the picture of these crazed Nazi-like mobs and splatter them all over the airvawes, if nothing else to prop up your sorry asses. So, by deduction and knowledge of your record of truthfulness, I conclude that you are just an ugly, plastic face liar.
You keep on using the term astroturfing, the latest verbal fad of the Liberals, but it was invented by your poors excuse for human beings supporters during your Obama's campaign.
it is to the people of America's advantage that you and your other prostitutes in Congress keep your head in a rectal cranium insertion position, because as you will be sitting high and mighty in your self-made ivory tower, you will not be able to see your downfall coming.
Enjoy, queen Pelosi, while it lasts. The American people will pay you back for your "services" next elections.
And These Are My Thoughts
Frank Semperpapa
There is a video circulating of the Speaker of the House, also third in line for the Presidency, addressing questions regarding those American citizens who are voicing their dissatisfaction with the policies of Obama and Congress.
The implication from the other Witch of the West (there are som any aroud this state) is that the people that are not rolling over and play dead, those of us who are not being silenced by the socialist elite are a mob similar to the Nazis.
What it apperas to me is that Nancy is cracking up under the pressure of the job. After all how dare the American people contradict her majesty. Or the botox sipped deep into her tiny brain.
Now, not that I don't believe you Nancy, but I find very unlike that with all the publicity that these townhalls have been getting form both sides of the fence, that there are no pictures of these "swastikas". Surely any of your media concubines would have taken the picture of these crazed Nazi-like mobs and splatter them all over the airvawes, if nothing else to prop up your sorry asses. So, by deduction and knowledge of your record of truthfulness, I conclude that you are just an ugly, plastic face liar.
You keep on using the term astroturfing, the latest verbal fad of the Liberals, but it was invented by your poors excuse for human beings supporters during your Obama's campaign.
it is to the people of America's advantage that you and your other prostitutes in Congress keep your head in a rectal cranium insertion position, because as you will be sitting high and mighty in your self-made ivory tower, you will not be able to see your downfall coming.
Enjoy, queen Pelosi, while it lasts. The American people will pay you back for your "services" next elections.
And These Are My Thoughts
Frank Semperpapa
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Call Me Senator Hypocrite
Please, everyone, watch this video. It’s only one minute long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV84OBtGpSQ&feature=player_embedded
For all of you Californian that have voted this numbskull into the United States Senate over and over, I would like to ask you: what the hell were you thinking?
This boob is but the latest Liberal prostitute (my apologies to prostitutes all over) to do the bidding of this moronic Socialist lying jackass currently occupying the White House.
It is really interesting to watch how the Liberals, who spent the last eight years openly protesting Bush regardless of the damage they did to our Military involved in two wars, are getting all bent out of shape by American people protesting their disastrous policies.
The “community organizer” in the past exhorted people to get in the faces of those they disagree with them, exhorted ACORN activists to disrupt the national discourse in order to advance the Socialist ideology of his majesty Obama, including voter fraud and the New Black Panthers to test the waters of voters’ intimidation as a prelude to the next electoral cycle.
But now, faced by common American people who are obviously fed up with the Nation’s suicidal policies that this Socialist donkey has shoved down our throats and willing to finally voice their opinions, Obama is going on his counter offensive by utilizing all his administration cronies and Media concubines in order to discredit the importance and significance of the protests.
It is obvious that the socialist leadership of today’s America is bent on silencing the American people. To these people, the First Amendment only applies to them when they are prone to place the American people into harm’s way, especially the Military, which they loath more than anything. But when the common American citizen starts asking uncomfortable questions, suddenly grass roots movements and congregation of citizens becomes mob action.
Calling the kettle black, Mr. President?
Going back to the wicked witch of the west, it is a real embarrassment for California, the state that gave America President Reagan, that Barbara Boxer is a representative in the US Senate.
She, an almighty Liberal, has the gonads to label American citizens, who are exercising their sacrosanct right to free speech, according to the way they are dressed. If this is not a hypocritical example of profiling, I don’t know what is.
I would like to ask the battleaxe if she can decipher from the clothing wore by the people who are trashing every Liberal idiot across America, how she would react if I would look at all black teenagers walking around showing me their underwear, with their hats at a predetermined angle and $400.00 snickers as gang bangers. She would be the first to accuse me of profiling. But she can stereotype with impunity.
Now I understand that the type of riffraff she is used to is the garbage that has in the past eight years made themselves a nuance for our Military, people like Code Pink. I also understand that considering the disgusting San Francisco crowd that supports her, clean cut, showered and articulate Americans must be something alien for her.
As I said above, she is an embarrassment for all of California, together with Feinstein and Waxman and Harman and so many other that have contributed to the destruction of the most successful state of the union. California used to be the envy of people across the world, as testified by the influx of immigrants from across the United States and abroad, but people like these Liberal bloodsuckers have succeeded in turning this once great state into a sewer with their illegal immigration posture, with their entitlements for the worst members of the population spectrum. They have succeeded in bankrupting us financially and morally.
My only hope remains that the conscientious and intelligent people left in this state will make their dissatisfaction known at the polls in 2010. It would really be the best thing that could happen to our state if, come the elections, all the incumbent would be thrown out, including all those in the state legislature.
But considering the percentage of losers in the state, my hopes are hanging on a thin line.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV84OBtGpSQ&feature=player_embedded
For all of you Californian that have voted this numbskull into the United States Senate over and over, I would like to ask you: what the hell were you thinking?
This boob is but the latest Liberal prostitute (my apologies to prostitutes all over) to do the bidding of this moronic Socialist lying jackass currently occupying the White House.
It is really interesting to watch how the Liberals, who spent the last eight years openly protesting Bush regardless of the damage they did to our Military involved in two wars, are getting all bent out of shape by American people protesting their disastrous policies.
The “community organizer” in the past exhorted people to get in the faces of those they disagree with them, exhorted ACORN activists to disrupt the national discourse in order to advance the Socialist ideology of his majesty Obama, including voter fraud and the New Black Panthers to test the waters of voters’ intimidation as a prelude to the next electoral cycle.
But now, faced by common American people who are obviously fed up with the Nation’s suicidal policies that this Socialist donkey has shoved down our throats and willing to finally voice their opinions, Obama is going on his counter offensive by utilizing all his administration cronies and Media concubines in order to discredit the importance and significance of the protests.
It is obvious that the socialist leadership of today’s America is bent on silencing the American people. To these people, the First Amendment only applies to them when they are prone to place the American people into harm’s way, especially the Military, which they loath more than anything. But when the common American citizen starts asking uncomfortable questions, suddenly grass roots movements and congregation of citizens becomes mob action.
Calling the kettle black, Mr. President?
Going back to the wicked witch of the west, it is a real embarrassment for California, the state that gave America President Reagan, that Barbara Boxer is a representative in the US Senate.
She, an almighty Liberal, has the gonads to label American citizens, who are exercising their sacrosanct right to free speech, according to the way they are dressed. If this is not a hypocritical example of profiling, I don’t know what is.
I would like to ask the battleaxe if she can decipher from the clothing wore by the people who are trashing every Liberal idiot across America, how she would react if I would look at all black teenagers walking around showing me their underwear, with their hats at a predetermined angle and $400.00 snickers as gang bangers. She would be the first to accuse me of profiling. But she can stereotype with impunity.
Now I understand that the type of riffraff she is used to is the garbage that has in the past eight years made themselves a nuance for our Military, people like Code Pink. I also understand that considering the disgusting San Francisco crowd that supports her, clean cut, showered and articulate Americans must be something alien for her.
As I said above, she is an embarrassment for all of California, together with Feinstein and Waxman and Harman and so many other that have contributed to the destruction of the most successful state of the union. California used to be the envy of people across the world, as testified by the influx of immigrants from across the United States and abroad, but people like these Liberal bloodsuckers have succeeded in turning this once great state into a sewer with their illegal immigration posture, with their entitlements for the worst members of the population spectrum. They have succeeded in bankrupting us financially and morally.
My only hope remains that the conscientious and intelligent people left in this state will make their dissatisfaction known at the polls in 2010. It would really be the best thing that could happen to our state if, come the elections, all the incumbent would be thrown out, including all those in the state legislature.
But considering the percentage of losers in the state, my hopes are hanging on a thin line.
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
Follow Up On Heartless
Just wanted to add a follow up to my last blog.
Slick Billy has brought back the two journalists that the North Korean two-bit dictator was holdin and by good old Bill's actions, the two-bit asshole has just become a four-bit asshole.
I definitely wanted for the two US citizens to be freed from their captivity, but I cannot support the sacrifice of an entire Nation for the sake of two citizens.
What happened here is a blow to any credibility that our country has regarding dealing with someone like Kim Jon Il. It will be interesting to find out what anti-American concessions Obama has made this time, on top of the PR gift this moron of a President has given to the dictator.
Just waiting now for Billy to head for Teheran to kiss the robe of the Ayatolla so he can be the hero again by freeing the three Berkeley jackasses.
Stay tuned!
And these are my thoughts!
Frank Semperpapa
Slick Billy has brought back the two journalists that the North Korean two-bit dictator was holdin and by good old Bill's actions, the two-bit asshole has just become a four-bit asshole.
I definitely wanted for the two US citizens to be freed from their captivity, but I cannot support the sacrifice of an entire Nation for the sake of two citizens.
What happened here is a blow to any credibility that our country has regarding dealing with someone like Kim Jon Il. It will be interesting to find out what anti-American concessions Obama has made this time, on top of the PR gift this moron of a President has given to the dictator.
Just waiting now for Billy to head for Teheran to kiss the robe of the Ayatolla so he can be the hero again by freeing the three Berkeley jackasses.
Stay tuned!
And these are my thoughts!
Frank Semperpapa
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Feeling Heartless
So the Iranians have three of our bravest and brightest in their custody. Three hikers were taken prisoner by Iranian authorities when they, allegedly by mistake, crossed the border from Iraq into Iran.
The three University of Berkeley graduates, two men and a woman, whereabouts are unknown at this time and the State Department is actively trying to employ the Swiss help in gaining information about them.
Shane Bauer, 27, graduated in peace and conflict studies, minor in Arabic and attended undergraduate studies in journalism.
Sarah Emily Shourd, 30, graduated with a degree in English and aspiring journalist.
Joshua Felix Fattal, 27, graduated with a degree in environmental policies.
By reading a little about their bios, one can clearly understand that these three are the types that would have the “war is not the answer” bumper sticker on their Prius. The same types that most likely had some big bash when Obama was elected in the hope that the Imperial America was finally meeting its redeemer. The same types that would be first in line protesting the Marine Corps Recruiting Office right next to the Code Pink wackos.
By looking at their study majors, with the exception of Sarah, the other two are the typical example of the ruination our higher education is in. Peace and conflict is a major of studies? Environmental policies?
But, as usual, I digress. The disaster our education system is in deserves a whole book!
It is also safe to assume that the three hikers are the type of people who look down at those who decide to join the Military, as they fit the profile of the nutcases who believe that the enemies of this country are just there waiting for our government to sit down and talk, but it is our imperialistic approach that prevents it from happening.
So now, in my opinion, they are where they belong. They are getting a close, insightful look at one of the enemies of the United States, a real close look at their correctional system. Surely they must be experiencing the “better” side of a detention system, as I am sure they are highly critical of Gitmo and the inhuman treatment of the poor terrorists there.
Personally, I could care less about their faith. Sorry if I am feeling heartless about it, but these types of people are so brainwashed by the progressive educational system that they believe to have the obligation of go abroad and “experience” those places that are occupied by people that hate America. What it comes down to is that they made the choice of being where they were (BTW, what were they doing in Iraq, a country so ravaged by American Imperialism?) and they should be prepared to face the consequences. The extent of the involvement in this event on the part of the State Dept. should be to make the diplomatic efforts necessary to insure their fair treatment. Good luck with that!
And I sure want to hope that no consideration is given to the possibility of placing even one single American Military life in jeopardy for these people, as the three of them and the whole Berkley student faculty is not worth the life of one American soldier.
I felt the same about the two journalists being held in North Korea, who have been sentenced to 12 years hard labor. Bill Clinton is there right now negotiating their release. Good for him, but I wonder what concessions the Obama regime has made to the Communist country.
Maybe Bill Clinton can head for Iran next and take Jimmy Carter with him. If America is lucky, the Teheran regime will keep them!
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
The three University of Berkeley graduates, two men and a woman, whereabouts are unknown at this time and the State Department is actively trying to employ the Swiss help in gaining information about them.
Shane Bauer, 27, graduated in peace and conflict studies, minor in Arabic and attended undergraduate studies in journalism.
Sarah Emily Shourd, 30, graduated with a degree in English and aspiring journalist.
Joshua Felix Fattal, 27, graduated with a degree in environmental policies.
By reading a little about their bios, one can clearly understand that these three are the types that would have the “war is not the answer” bumper sticker on their Prius. The same types that most likely had some big bash when Obama was elected in the hope that the Imperial America was finally meeting its redeemer. The same types that would be first in line protesting the Marine Corps Recruiting Office right next to the Code Pink wackos.
By looking at their study majors, with the exception of Sarah, the other two are the typical example of the ruination our higher education is in. Peace and conflict is a major of studies? Environmental policies?
But, as usual, I digress. The disaster our education system is in deserves a whole book!
It is also safe to assume that the three hikers are the type of people who look down at those who decide to join the Military, as they fit the profile of the nutcases who believe that the enemies of this country are just there waiting for our government to sit down and talk, but it is our imperialistic approach that prevents it from happening.
So now, in my opinion, they are where they belong. They are getting a close, insightful look at one of the enemies of the United States, a real close look at their correctional system. Surely they must be experiencing the “better” side of a detention system, as I am sure they are highly critical of Gitmo and the inhuman treatment of the poor terrorists there.
Personally, I could care less about their faith. Sorry if I am feeling heartless about it, but these types of people are so brainwashed by the progressive educational system that they believe to have the obligation of go abroad and “experience” those places that are occupied by people that hate America. What it comes down to is that they made the choice of being where they were (BTW, what were they doing in Iraq, a country so ravaged by American Imperialism?) and they should be prepared to face the consequences. The extent of the involvement in this event on the part of the State Dept. should be to make the diplomatic efforts necessary to insure their fair treatment. Good luck with that!
And I sure want to hope that no consideration is given to the possibility of placing even one single American Military life in jeopardy for these people, as the three of them and the whole Berkley student faculty is not worth the life of one American soldier.
I felt the same about the two journalists being held in North Korea, who have been sentenced to 12 years hard labor. Bill Clinton is there right now negotiating their release. Good for him, but I wonder what concessions the Obama regime has made to the Communist country.
Maybe Bill Clinton can head for Iran next and take Jimmy Carter with him. If America is lucky, the Teheran regime will keep them!
And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”
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