Archive for January, 2007

OBAMA’S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

1/27/09

Thank you all. Mrs. Speaker, Vice President Dean, members of Congress, members of the Supreme Court, and diplomatic corps, distinguished guests, and comrades:

I first wish to commend the Senate for helping me head off a constitutional crisis, with their quick confirmation of the five new Supreme Court Justices who sit with us here tonight. The FBI and Capitol Police continue to investigate the circumstances which surround the tragic automobile accident that took the lives of Justices Alito, Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas when the Toyota Prius, in which they were carpooling, was T-boned by the SUV, driven by Justice Kennedy, on
their way to my inauguration. Adding further to the tragedy was Justice Kennedy’s impalement on the SUV’s steering column when the vehicles’ airbag failed to deploy. Justice Kennedy was not wearing his seat belt, a clear violation of law. The departments of Justice and Transportation are also investigating the auto manufacturers.

As I promised in my campaign, we will always look for new and progressive ways forward and I believe that Bill and Hillary Clinton, serving as the first husband and wife team on the Court, demonstrates my commitment to that promise.

I’m sure that Justices Souter, Ginsberg, Stevens, and Breyer, join their new associates, John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, and Al Franken in wishing the Clintons well as Co-Chiefs.

My fellow comrades, I have been informed by the NSA, as authorized by FISA, and other intelligence gathering agencies of the government, that there is considerable telephone and internet traffic suggesting a possible conspiracy in the death of the Supremes. It is imperative that this cease now. The executive orders which I issued to the FCC, under the “Fairness Doctrine” to halt “Talk Radio’s” sedition could be extended to individuals if we don’t get refocused on our two global emergencies immediately.

I outlined in my inaugural address that my administration will focus on two issues and two issues only: global warming and full global employment. I am again grateful to Congress and to Speaker Pelosi for shutting off debate and passing the enabling legislation quickly so that we can begin tomorrow morning.

The “Full Employment” treaty with the United Nations, which the Senate ratified yesterday, coupled with congressional passage of the “Full Employment” bill will once and for all bring peace and prosperity to the entire globe. Key components of the treaty and legislation consist of: elimination of the minimum wage, establishment of a 40% flat incometax, without exemptions, for all non-government employees and the establishment of a non-partisan commission to set government employee’s pay rates. Replacing the private sector minimum wage is a maximum wage that will be initially set at $11.00 per hour. This rate will be locked in until we reach full global employment.

The “Global Warming Reduction” initiative, also a joint program of the US and the UN, will generate the jobs necessary to reach the goal of full universal employment. Administered by the GSA, Government Services Administration, the program will turn the entire global economy into a giant construction contractor. In keeping with its long standing policies of private sector involvement, the GSA is reviewing lists of “Affirmative Action” qualified construction management firms. One will be selected to be the “global program director.”

The first mission of the “global program director” is to implement the measures required to halt “man caused” global warming. All fossil energy consumption will be reduced by 50% by year end 2010. The second mission of the GPD is to contract for the construction of the necessary infrastructure to stop global warming. My GW Czar, Al Gore, will advise the GPD and their UN counterparts on the surface and sub-surface projects which will be required.

Czar Gore has informed me that along with the cuts in fossil fuel use and rapid construction of wind and solar projects, coupled with the behemoth projects to cap continental and sub-ocean volcanoes, “we can whip this global warming thing by 2020.”

Comrades, my predecessor, George W. Bush warned you that the war on terrorism would be long. Well, the war on global warming may be long too. But with brothers and sisters, of all faiths, busy shoveling rocks into volcanoes, isn’t it great to know that there’s no time for killing. I really feel good vibrations here.

I know that you’ll sleep better tonight knowing that we’re here looking out for you.

I would ask for your consideration on one matter. Due to the security concerns of the office that I hold, I need to be exempted from this fuel reduction thing. I need Air Force One and my bullet proof customized Navigator.

Peace Be Upon You

BHO

Transcribed By:

Mike Sharq

Tough Piece on Education

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Kenneth Wells, while president of Freedoms Foundation, presented the foundation’s National Leadership Award, at a ceremony in Valley Forge, to Kenneth W. McFarland.  His introduction of McFarland, at the presentation, was short and correct “I shall identify our Freedom Leadership Award winner with a simple, unqualified statement - he is the greatest public speaker in the United States.”
 

I was fortunate enough to hear Dr McFarland speak before he passed away in 1985.  He was the greatest.  His usual themes were: patriotism, belief in God or a higher power, individual responsibility as the price for liberty, and the importance of teaching traditional American values in education.  And he practiced what he preached during his tenure as the superintendent of Topeka, Kansas schools.
 

Dr. McFarland’s family and educational background was very similar to my favorite uncle’s;  including three degrees, in education, followed by the privilege of using Doctor before one’s name.  The dissimilarities between Dr. McFarland and my Dr. Uncle, at their deaths, was, however, stark.  At his death, one year after retiring from a major university, my uncle professed to be an atheist, a socialist, and a believer in a socialist one world system.
How could two men, similarly born, raised and educated end at opposite philosophical poles?  I think the answer is peer pressure from a now entrenched “education union” that has adopted a Stalinist / Fascist methodology to intellectual pursuit.  Kill it or shout it down.
 

I loved my uncle, but he was truly best described by Dr. McFarland as “a fellow who obviously had been educated beyond his intellect.”  Education is now in the hands of those of my uncle’s ilk.  God help us!
 

Mike Sharq

The Fairness Doctrine – The Commie Muzzle

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Is Fidel Castro in ‘grave’ condition? Is he dead? Is he in a coma? Would you trust Granma to tell you the truth? Granma is the widely read official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party.
Cuban media is controlled by the Cuban government through anti-government propaganda laws. The national newspapers of Cuba are not directly published by the government. They are published by various Cuban political organizations, notably the Cuban Communist Party, which is the only legal party in Cuba.
The 1st Amendment of the US Constitution states: “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech or of the press…”  It would seem that law in Cuba and law in the United States are very much at odds.
 

Hold on; maybe not. The ill named “fairness doctrine”, a regulation issued by the Federal Radio Commission and played with by its successor, the Federal Communications Commission, since 1969, attempts to control speech over the licensed airwaves through its bureaucracy and the Federal Courts. This regulation begs the constitutional question of whether radio, television and the internet are part of “The Press.” This writer’s opinion is that, if sent to the Supreme Court today, justices Roberts, Thomas, Scalia, and Alito, would say yea and Justices Souter, Breyer, Stevens, and Ginsburg would say nay and Justice Kennedy’s “swing vote” would decide whether you can listen to Boortz, Limbaugh and Hannity within sixty days of an election.  The current makeup of the court makes it easy to understand why lefty democrats don’t want and fight, lie, cheat, and steals to keep strict constructionist jurist off the Supreme Court.
 

As reported by FMQB’s Website:
Over the weekend, the National Conference for Media Reform was held in Memphis, TN, with a number of notable speakers on hand for the event. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) made a surprise appearance at the convention to announce that he would be heading up a new House subcommittee which will focus on issues surrounding the Federal Communications Commission.
The Presidential candidate said that the committee would be holding “hearings to push media reform right at the center of Washington.” The Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the House Government Reform Committee was to be officially announced this week in Washington, D.C., but Kucinich opted to make the news public early.
In addition to media ownership, the committee is expected to focus its attention on issues such as net neutrality and major telecommunications mergers. Also in consideration is the “Fairness Doctrine,” which required broadcasters to present controversial topics in a fair and honest manner. It was enforced until it was eliminated in 1987. (By a Ronald Reagan Veto)
Kucinich said in his speech that “We know the media has become the servant of a very narrow corporate agenda” and added “we are now in a position to move a progressive (ed. comment read socialist / communist) agenda to where it is visible.”
Now making things visible is not the usual democrat methodology. Take exempting American Samoa from the minimum wage bill just passed in the House of Representatives.
 

But hey Dopey Denny, bring that fairness doctrine garbage back out there in the daylight and see if the hue and cry from conservatives and the new alternative media doesn’t trump your intentions.  The Right will cover your lapdog main-stream mouthpieces with more lawsuits, for fairness, than the ACLU has lawyers.

It Takes a Village (Idiot)

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

….to surrender any more freedom and liberty.
 

Hillary’s touchy, feely, tug at the heart re-released pap is crap.  Not that the basic message is bad.  Individual liberty to operate your village and raise your children, in your county, in your state, with your values is how it’s supposed to work.  it’s just that Hillary Rodham, if elected, would structure the village to make sure that the medical care in the village would be subordinate to the big village in Washington and then eventually through the big global United Nations village.  Co-pay for a wart removal - $250,000.00 (after a two year waiting period).
 

Do not be fooled by this bald faced lying twit.  She has a liberal-socialist agenda deep in her heart and I wouldn’t trust her to carry out my trash; let alone be my president.

FRANCO-AMERICAN

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Folks, this is not about Spaghetti-Os; it’s not about the USA’s relationship with the dictator of Spain from 1936 to 1975; and it’s not about some mortgage company, Gardner Franco American, in Maine, that I didn’t even know existed until I started writing this. In my 62 years, I have traveled to 39 countries and have lived and worked overseas for 12 of the last 26 years. Since my return from Iraq in 2004 and relocating to Florida, I have spoken to a lot groups and clubs. Without fail, I am always asked: (1) “what was it really like in Iraq and the Middle East?” (2) “What’s your favorite place that you’ve visited?” and (3) “what’s the place you liked least?” 

There is not space here to give you the answer to number one. The answer to number two is Greece, the birthplace of Western Civilization. And the answer to number three is “if I have to pick one place as my least favorite, it would be France. It’s not that I really didn’t like France, I just can’t stand the French.”  This article is about the people and culture of France and the people and culture of America.  America owed a debt to France for their support of our Revolutionary War of Independence. “Political Correctness” ends here. And we repaid the debt to them by fighting three wars in their behalf and liberating their country twice. The debt is fully paid with interest. So I feel free to tell it like it is about the French at will. 

The French, as a nation, are arrogant, lazy, liberal, immoral, cowardly, self-absorbed, prissy, hairy, and, oh did I mention, smelly little commie people. I wouldn’t drink a bottle of their Bordeaux or Perrier if I were dying of thirst. That’s called principle.  Fellow Americans, we’re on the slippery slope of becoming French. If you can’t take a little heat, and I mean conservatives, liberals, and libertarians alike, then you should probably quit reading right now. 

The French became the way they are because they had a revolution and were then educated to believe in and pledge allegiance to any system that would give them some of the privileges enjoyed by the aristocracy prior 1799. All the while Western European immigrants, coming to America, were self educating themselves about what was in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and taking those few privileges and building a great nation around them.  “Fast forward” 200 years from 1799. If you understand “fast forward” then you must know about VCR and DVD players. Is use of those “toys” a privilege of the American aristocracy? Our government must think so. It takes money from taxpayers and gives it to non-taxpaying citizens and non-citizens alike to buy these toys. This is not a myth. I’ve seen it with my own two myopic eyes. We are in a subtle revolution in America for the soul of the country and too many are sitting it out. IGM, I got mine, is the mantra of the sitters. Well, I care about my kid and grandkids. I want them and their progeny to have the opportunity to make America even better. But this takes some effort. 

GOOD BAD PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

At your core, are you a good person or a bad person?  Western Philosophers, beginning with Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, have asked and answered this question through twenty four centuries.  And the answer is?  It matters not what others answer.  It is an individual’s question.  You look at yourself in a mirror, straight in the eyes, and ask; am I good or am I bad?  You then make your decision based on the power of your individual intellect.
 

In America, the folkways and mores of the culture started with the philosophical premise that you are good while not ignoring the possibility that you could do bad things.  The founding document of the American Republic, the Declaration of Independence, enumerated a long list of bad things that the King of England was visiting upon his subjects.  This document was followed by a very short set of rules and covenants, the Constitution, which is the basis for the laws of the land.  The laws, as codified, were strongly influenced by Judeo Christian beliefs but also contained secular provisions based on philosophies outside theocratic thought.  The key recurring refrain throughout the founding documents is individual freedom and liberty.  This is why, in the Republic of the United States of America, you are free to look in the mirror and make up your own mind as to your goodness.
 

Contrast this philosophy with those that are prevalent almost everywhere else.  You will submit to Communism, Islam, Socialism, or Fascism as your ticket to drawing your next breath and your measure of individual freedom and liberty will be smaller than two figs.
 

So I hope that the young woman, who spit in the face of two soldiers, who had just completed a tour defending her individual freedoms sees a reflection in her mirror soon.  God knows, honey, you look like the Devil.

Reparations

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

When will lawyers, academicians, democrat politicians, and the mainstream media quit perpetuating division among Americans?  African-American, German-American, Hispanic-American and on and on and on; why are we not just AMERICANS?
 

Consider two human beings arriving in a young United States of America in 1811.  The first, a Negro man kidnapped in what is now Nigeria Africa and sold to a plantation owner in Alabama; the second a Caucasian man conscripted in Prussia, what is now Germany Europe and delivered to a militia in Indiana.
 

Now consider, 10 generations later, a descendent of the first man is Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State of the USA and a descendent of the second man is John Bryant, tire salesman for Firestone.  Do John and his lineage owe Reparations to Condoleezza and hers?  Only in the mind of liberal educators and sleazy lawyers!