Get A Job

In November, we will have the opportunity to change our government. Washington is broken. The White House is occupied by an articulate fool who is completely overwhelmed by the troubles of the country. The Senate, the 'deliberative body', is completely out of touch with the mood of the country, and the House is dominated by the left wing of the lunatic fringe of the Democrat Party.

When I step into the ballot box in November, I am going to help my Senator and my congressman regain their perspective. They have lived and worked in Washington for quite some time. They have gone to the parties, and dinners, and rubbed elbows with the lobbists, and taken their money to do their bidding. They have drafted laws, and bills to benefit all manner of folks and causes, and generally worked very hard to secure the blessings of the federal government for their benefactors. In short, they have done everything EXCEPT REPRESENT YOU AND ME.

I'm going to fire the bastards. I'm going to fire every one of the bastards. If they are in office now, fire them.

Message to them: Get a job. Get the hell out of my government.

A Federal Rash

Our country used to be a federation of sovereign states. The federal constitution was a limiting document that limited the power of the federal government. This unique feature guaranteed that the people of the states could to a large degree govern themselves as they saw fit. That in it self was a tremendous expression of the freedom that the federal constitution guaranteed all citizens. If we don't like the way one state governs, then we are free to move to another that better suits us. We are a free people, governing our selves and neither beholdend nor dependent on an onerous federal government.

All that changed as the power of the federal government became apparant. Today, instead of individual, sovereign states governing, within the limits laid down by the consititution, state's governments are mostly impotent and utterly dominated by the reach of the federal government. Federal judges find meaning in the constitution that could have never been contemplated, or worse, would have been completely abhorent to the drafters of the constitution. In these imaginary meanings, the federal bench has stripped away the ability of the people of the states to govern themselves and relegated us to subserviance to the exhaulted high court. The ultimate arbitor is a group of 9 old lawyers living a protected and priviledged life in suburban Washington, DC. It is from them that all federal 'wisdom' comes.

The quesion to consider is this. Are we better off in a country as large and diverse as ours, to have questions fundamental to our way of life decided by an isolated group of jurists whose intent and goal it is to homogenize the country, or are we better off to have these questions decided by expressions of the people of the states? Are we still a free people when our law is 'dictated' to us by a collection of aging lawyers whom we neither elected nor selected, and whom we can not fire?

It is my position that if the good people of New Jersey believe and pass a law to the effect that abortion is ok, that is their right. I also believe that if the Pennslyvania believe that abortion is wrong, it is their right to ban it. That's a state level decision. It's not a federal question, it's a recognition that the people of different states have different positions on difficult questions.

While the court has found 'rights' somehow written between the lines of the constitution, it somehow has missed this clear construct. Where do you stand on it? Are your rights and your states right's originating from the all knowing, all seeing federal court, or is your sovereignity vested you? Are you ruled, or do you consent to being governed?

If you are thinking that the federal courts should not be legislating, nor governing from the bench, congradulations. You and Sara Palin are on the same page. Tina Fey might be able to see Russia from her house, but Sara Palin understands the constitution.

And Now For Something Completely Different...

Years ago, when the sound of 'Dixie' echoed across Hemingway Stadium, the stands would explode into a sea of Confederate flags as the Ole Miss Rebels ran onto the field. Throughout the game, either in celebration or an attempt to rally the Rebels, the band would strike up 'Dixie', and the crowd would come alive, and 'Hotty Toddy' would echo across the field. The Rebels, the music and the flag were all part of what made Ole Miss special. For generations of fans across the country, 'Dixie', the Confederate Flag, and Col.Rebel all symbolized Ole Miss football.

But, times have changed. The Flag was the first to go. I have always found it ironic that those who saw the Flag as a symbol of Ole Miss football were branded as racists, while those who saw the Flag through a purely racial lense were not. Think about that.

Dixie was the second to go. The story was the same. Those for whom the song brought back memories of Archie and the Rebels thrashing Tennessee were again branded 'Racists', while those who harboured a hatred for the song were not.

Col. Rebel is now under assault. The last of the traditional symbols of the Ole Miss Rebels sports program is about to be banished, and those who defend him will be called 'insensitive', 'racist', and worse. Those who assault him will claim that until he is gone, Ole Miss will be at a disadvantage recruiting black athletes because of Col. Rebel, that other schools will use this 'against' us, and we will get 'negative' press coverage.

First and foremost, if you factor everything through racial impacts, you are the racist, not me. Secondly, getting rid of Dixie, and the Flag did not stop other schools from calling Ole Miss "racist" and neither will getting rid of Col. Rebel.
So long as Ole Miss allows itself to be flogged with this crap, it will be flogged with it. The solution to this problem is clear to me.

Ole Miss should return to the high academic standards that it has historically had, and should embark on a program to graduate all of it's athletes. When the football factories at Alabama, Arkansas, etc. paint Ole Miss as 'racists', Ol Miss needs to point out to 'Momma' that Ole Miss graduates more of it's athletes than anyone else, and that the football factories just use them and casts them aside when they are hurt. We need to graduate more athletes into real degrees than anyone else. Everyone wants to play in the NFL, but 'Momma' needs to know the truth is that most don't. She needs to know that whether or not her son is NFL material, he will get that degree that will give him the opportunities in life and the future that she wants him to have. After all, shouldn't this be about getting these kids an education?

Back to the real world, in the grand scheme of things, this is all mouse nutts. The past controversies weren't about the Flag, or Dixie, and this isn't about 'Col. Rebel'. It's about control. If the race baiters can call you 'racist' and control your actions and limit your choices by boycotts, and intimidation, then what have you become?

There are many possibilites, but one thing is clear. You're no Rebel.

Fundamental Change

In the afterglow of the Massachusetts election and while the democratic machine searches desperately for a way to make the election not look like an absolute repudiation of the Obama Agenda by liberal Massachusetts, we should pause and give thought to what we witnessed over the last seven months. Swept into office with a historic vote, the Obama Administration set upon the American economic system like a giant swarm of ravenous locusts. Provisioned with enormous sums of money by way of the 'stimulas' packages, the Administration quickly converted 'stimulus' money into 'bribe' money and began buying Senators and Representatives on a scale never before seen. State after state witnessed it's elected representatives being openly bought by an administration making good on it's promise to fundamentally change America.

While it is true that our government never before has owned a car manufacturer, and it is true that for the first time,the government now owns 90% of the mortgage industry, and it can not be denied that the government controls the banking industry, these are not the fundamental changes that I find so abhorrent. These things can easily be undone.

The fundamental change made to America by this administration is in the level of corruption that the American people will accept. As a free people, we know that free men sometimes go bad. Our system of justice seeks to identify these people, and bring them to a court of law for judgement. However, under this administration, bribery has become an accepted means of persuading Congress to enact the Presidential Agenda. Far from the give and take that is a normal part of the American legislative process, this Administration has seized upon the stimulus money as it's own slush fund and used it in the open purchase of votes, and no one is enraged. Not ABC. Not NBC. Not CBS. Not FOX. Not The New York Times. No one.

As an American voter, I am. I don't expect my congressional representation to be saints, but I do expect them to be fundamentally honest people. We vote these people into office, and they are in their congressional seats by virtue of us, the people, charging them with representing our interests in the Federal Government. When it becomes acceptable to accept bribes in exchange for votes, a fundamental change has occurred in the American political process.

It's been a long time coming. Obama didn't do this alone, but he did take it to the next level. The utter corruption of the Federal Government, predicted long ago by Jefferson, is complete. The question now, is this: Will we accept this corruption?, or, next November, will we fundamentally change America?

Wisdom From The Backseat of a 1968 Bonneville

On the morning of May 27, 1973 two weather systems collided over Jonesboro, Arkansas and produced three tornados. The tornados ripped through the sleeping town, and converged near the High School. During the height of the storm, lightening lit the night in a strobe effect as roofs lifted off of scores of homes and buildings, and baseball sized hail pounded divits cars and shredded the roofs of convertables. In a 30 minute period, nearly ten thousand residents of a sleeply Arkansas town became homeless.

In the parking lot of the High School, a friend of mine had parked his car, and was 'listening to music' with his girlfriend. The three funnel clouds converged over Jonesboro High, and my friend's 1968 Bonneville convertable. My friend, laying on top of his girlfriend in the spacious backseat of the car when the winds ripped the cloth top off of the convertable. He was beaten badly by the hail the huge hailstones, rendered nearly deaf by the thunder clap when lightening struck the hood of the Bonneville, and buried under debris from the levelled High School buildings. The whole terrifying experience had a profound effect on Mark, and he emerged a changed man.

Today, Mark is a priest.

Yesterday, a storm swept through Massachusetts. In the Senate seat where once sat Ted Kennedy, patron saint of the limousine liberal, now will set the 41st vote against Health Care, and a staunch opponent of the President's agenda.

The President's political future is in the midst of it's own near death experience. After being pummelled in the latest New Jersey election, battered in the latest Virginia election, and now blown away in of all places, Massachusetts, the leadership of the Democrat Party must crawl from it's own backseat, and look around at the wreckage.

My friend Mark survived his near death experience, saw the light, repented his sins and changed his life.

What will the Democrat Party do?

Change I Can Believe In

America has always been different from the rest of the world.

We are a sovereign people. We believe strongly in individual rights and responsibility. It is written in our founding documents, and flowing in our veins, and it is what has attracted millions of people for 200 years. Those who came to our great country fled oppression and domination of corrupt governments and societies. They chose self-reliance over dependence. They voted with their feet.

Today, our elected representatives and our elected president are working overtime to transform this nation of independent, self-reliant citizens into subjects beholding to a European style Welfare state. The social cesspools that the crumbling cities have become have produced of some of the most repressive and repugnant politicians this country has ever known.

As we start into this election cycle, look hard at your congressmen. Understand that these bastards have sold us all out. Even congressmen from the heartlands...Nebraska, Arkansas, Louisiana have all dipped their thieving hands into the porkbarrel that our federal budget has become and accepted 30 pieces of silver for your freedoms. Because Barak Obama was able to bribe them with our money, they think that they can bribe us with it too. When they come back to their districts and states, and talk about all the 'good' things they have brought home, remember they are not bringing anything home. With every 'problem' they 'solve', they are taking a little more of your freedom and your wealth to Washington.

So as we enter the election cycle, encourage people who are not absolute idiots to run for national office. We need people who know if you want to solve the terrorist problem, you have to shoot them. If you want to deal with violent crime, you have to go after the criminals. I want to vote for someone who understands that if you need gasoline, you need to drill for oil and build refineries.

In Novemeber, let's send a whole new congress to Washington to take America back for the average working American.

Now, that would be change I could believe in.

Through the Looking Glass

While the US is conducting two wars against muslim terrorists, a man with known terrorist associations and carrying military grade plastic explosives in his underwear and a chemical detonator boards a plane in Nigeria, and our Secretary of Homland Security tells us that this man was not part of an organized cell. So, where do we think he got the PETN? Home Depot?

The top Anti-Terrorist guy in the Obama administration goes on national TV, and when asked how we can expect to extract intelligence from this guy now that we have granted him Constitutional rights and he has lawyered up says that once the terrorist hears what they are prepared to offer, 'he'll start talking'. We're going to 'plea bargin' with this guy?

Hunker down, and stock up on ammo. This war is coming to a shopping center near you. The message to Al Queda out of this incident is that we as a society, are not capable of defending our citizens. Our leadership are naive fools, and do not recognize that we are in a war. We will treat the terrorists as criminals, and eventually free them.

In eighteen months, when we take the pressure off of them in Afghanistan, they will be free to train, equip and dispatch their minions. Flush with money from Arab oil and Afghani poppies, they will mount operations from all corners of the globe to bring death and destruction to the United States, and our president will persist in his view that we are not at war. Our government will not come to grips with the fact that this is the first global guerilla war against a decentralized self-directing ideology until the radical, rookie ideologue in the White House is thrown out replaced with an experienced realist. Thank God for elections.

So hunker down, buy some ammo and prepare to protect your family. However, be aware that if you break our gun control laws, you will not be plea bargained with. You will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law because, while muslim terrorists may not represent a threat to our government, an awakened, informed and pissed off electorate does.