Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Dogs and 30 Years Ago ?

Source: fromthelft.wordpress.com
Much has been made recently about Mitt Romney driving his family on a vacation with the dog on top of the car in a pet carrier. Animal rights folks can claim what he did 30 years ago was animal abuse and political enemies can somehow make the claim that it's how a "President" Romney would treat the old, the poor and everyone else. I think the bigger more interesting question might be what was his opponent President Barack Obama doing 30 years ago? And does it matter?

Source: Time.com


The President himself on many occasions has admitted to various activities about 30 years ago ranging from pot and cocaine use in high school and college years. Also in 1980 it is reported that he had strong Marxist beliefs and believed that America was broken and needed to be transformed with wealth redistribution. In April of 1983 as a senior at Columbia University he attended the "Socialist Scholars Conference" that led to his community organizing path and may have been the kick start of his political career. This article by Stanley Kurtz on NationalReview.com has many details of the Presidents radical, socialist and Marxist activities in his college years, 30 years ago.

This election season is going to be both ridiculous and historic. We would all be better off to ignore the ridiculous and petty and concentrate on judging based on the candidates history, associations and actions. If we do that it seems to me that the choice is obvious. In the 2008 election then candidate Obama was not vetted and researched with an adequate level of scrutiny. I am sure his supporters believe that he is a centrist President, governing from the middle and would bring all Americans together but he has not done that. If you consider his history beginning well over 30 years ago, combined with the makeup of his administration and it's clear that he has not changed. I contend he is farther to the left than anyone to hold the office of President. On second thought, perhaps it's a toss up with Woodrow Wilson? President Obama sold hope and change, but history and truth will show that who is guiding and molding the hope, and who is leading the change is critical to America's future.

I would not put our dog Nellie in a car carrier on top of the car to go on vacation. I am sure that she would rather be up on top of the car and going with us on vacation than going to spend time in a boring cement cage boarding at the vets office. 30 years ago as kids we were riding in the front seat without a seat belt and occasionally even in the back of a pickup truck! On a less ridiculous and serious note, do we need a leader that would support, believe in or pursue studies and activities promoting socialist and Marxist ideas? Ideas that could be used 30 years later to "fundamentally transform the United States of America".

On a purely unrelated side note, I know that my wife was PROUD of her country 30 years ago.





Saturday, April 14, 2012

Civility and Respect.... please.

I have had many Facebook chat interactions with my extremely liberal Uncle. He is an intelligent well educated professor and published author. We just disagree on politics. Could not be farther apart, but it has always been a civil discussion. Until recently. In one comment string, he crossed the line accusing me of being a racist Nazi and said I should run the crematoriums and being a White Supremacist supporter.

Does family mean anything? Is the bitter divide SO intense in this country that we cannot even show a little respect to your blood family? Or to ANYONE at that time. There is NO excuse for accusatory language and insults towards anybody.

It's time to change alright, but the changes in place in America cannot have good results. I am sorry Gene if anything I have ever said lead to you feeling this way. Those of you that know me, know that these accusations are unfair and unfounded. But it is what it is... you are my Uncle Gene, I respected you. But that respect is quickly fading.

Pray for America, and pray for family.

How Is This Man Still In Office ?


*  First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

*  First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

*  First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.

*  First President to violate the War Powers Act.

*  First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

*  First President to defy a Federal Judge's court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.

*  First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

*  First President to spend a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs.

*  First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

*  First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.

*  First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S, including those with criminal convictions.

*  First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

*  First President to terminate America 's ability to put a man in space--defunded NASA.

*  First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

*  First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

*  First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.

*  First President to tell a major manufacturing company (Boeing) in which State they are allowed to locate a factory.

*  First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

*  First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

*  First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

*  First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.

*  First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 90 to date & counting.

*  First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.

*  First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

*  First President to not know how to properly pronounce Navy 'corpsman'.

*  First President to go on multiple global 'apology tours'-including bowing to foreign rulers.

*  First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by the taxpayer.

*  First President to say that America was not a Christian nation.

*  First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) just for his wife.

*  First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

*  First President to cancel National Prayer Day and then later host a National Muslim Prayer Day at the Whitehouse.

Thanks to a conservative friend who sent me these facts...