Hollywood Victims – Poor rich man.

Poor little rich men in Hollywood are now victims of the evil Catholic Church. Last week actor Sam Eliot, who I have enjoyed watching in many films, whined that the Catholic Church shut down the making of sequels for the movie The Golden Compass. Eliot complained the church lambasted the company that produced the film New Line Cinema and scared them off. The truth is the movie was boycotted by one group, The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, boycotted the movie because the series of the books are anti-Catholic and anti-religious. When was the last time a religious group was responsible for shutting down a trio of movies?

The truth is that New Line Cinema is not going to make a sequel because the movie is not a very good movie and did not do well at the box office. Mr. Elliot should have checked other box offices smash movies like The Da Vinci Code, The Twilight sequel New Moon, Harry Potter and “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” – a movie based on C.S. Lewis’ religious allegory of God and redemption all were condemned by the Catholic Church for various and obvious reasons. But all of these movies had sequels made the most successful being Harry Potter to date has had seven sequels. What is the difference between all these movies and The Golden Compass? They were all good movies that people actually wanted to pay $8.00 a pop to see.

But Mr. Eliot is not the only one to claim victim hood for his failures, Michael Moore also claimed the famed victim hood trophy for his box office flop, Capitalism a love story. He claimed his film did not do as well as it could because Disney would not distribute his film. It never occurred to him that it would have still been a flop if Disney would have distributed his film. Who does he blame I wonder for all the books he wrote that very few people even want to read? Michael Moore is in the words of his book a rich hypocritical “Stupid White Man” and a sorry excuse for a human being.

Mr. Eliot, this is the first time I have heard you say something really dumb so I am going to give you a pass but Michael Moore I hardly even think of until stupid stuff like this comes up otherwise he is not even worth my time.

Fair winds and following seas,

Sailor Ray

The dangers of Socialism

America under a capitalist society has brought more wealth to more people than any economic system in history. And I am not talking about only the very rich. It has also created the largest middle class in the history of economics. It has closed the gap between the very rich and the very poor. You may say but there are still millions of poor people. Yes I agree there is. But if you look at the places around the globe that are the very poorest they are the countries that do not run on capitalism at least not in the sense of a free market. Most of the poorest countries have despots running them who spend more money on homes then on their own people. These are not capitalist economies. It is the capitalist economies that provide the wealth to send money and feed the very people that are in these poorest nations.

Socialism does not create more rich people; it only creates more poor people. It takes the money away from the rich and distributes it to the so called poor. But how much of that money reaches the poor? All of it? Not very likely. There will still be rich and there will still be poor. The difference is there will be lest rich and more poor people, the middle class will shrink and not because they are becoming rich but because they will be poor. It is the nature of Socialism. One reason we Americans can even consider socialism is because under capitalism we have created such wealth to be spread around. How long do you think that will last under a socialist system? Eventually the money from the rich is going to get less and less because there will be less of the rich to contribute. What will happen in the future are your grandkids or great grandchildren will live a life poorer then you because they will not have all the opportunities that we have under capitalism.

Up until about 1913, capitalism was allowed to prosper unrestricted. There was very little unemployment; there were massive innovations in manufacturing and farming that put more people to work than ever before. There was never a depression under this type of capitalism. There were some short recessions to be sure. But they were short and shallow because the government kept their hands out of it. Capitalism is a self correcting system. It requires no government intervention what so ever to prosper. If a manufacture or business fails, there is another one waiting to take its place in the market. The only intervention of government should be to protect from fraud and to enforce the rule of law. The Roosevelt “New Deal”, kept the country in a depression longer then was necessary and longer then it would have lasted had the government let capitalism run its course.

Innovation is not a government mandate; I know the current administration is trying to make it that way in the area of energy. Any innovations that are created will come from a capitalist looking to make money. And it will happen sooner, cheaper and better. When the market is ready, it will create the energies of the future. Right now, the administration is trying to force energy sources that are less efficient, more expensive and less plentiful. Eventually these energy sources will be more efficient, less expensive and plentiful, but it will take time. Forcing them before they are ready is just going to make matters worse. It will require more and more government regulations to force the issue. Gasoline is still cheaper to produce and buy, and more efficient then bio-fuels, there for the market demand on gasoline are higher. When bio-fuels are less expensive and more efficient then gasoline then the market will chose bio-fuels. When an all electric car can go as far on one charge as a gas car can get on one tank of gas then the market will be for electric cars. It should be noted here that because more and more corn is being diverted to bio-fuels due to government intervention and subsidies, starving people in the 3^rd world are getting less food. It also creates higher food prices for us as more and more crops are plowed under to raise corn for bio-fuels. Not just corn prices and food made from corn but beef, chicken and pork price rise as feed cost rise due to the shortage of feed corn. And at the time of this writing, corn bio-fuel is more expensive to produce and less efficient and cannot produce enough power without mixing with gasoline and produces a larger carbon footprint then gasoline. So why are we using it?

When natural gas and coal powered electricity becomes more expensive without artificially raising the price thru taxes and regulations then wind and solar power the market will choose wind and solar power. But the environmentalists that are pushing the movement through the government do not want to wait for the natural occurrence to happen through the capitalist system. Unfortunately our elected officials in the administration and the congress are not capitalist and are more than happy to see capitalism fail so that they can push their agenda on our country through programs like Cap and tax. Tax and regulate current forms of energy to the point they are so expensive the system is force to use the new forms of energy even before they are ready. We are in no danger of running out of oil or natural gas. New areas of oil and natural gas have been found to last at least for another 50 years or more. But running out of these fuels is not the question. They tried that in the 1970’s declaring that our oil was running out and it did not discourage usage of it. New oil reserves were found after that and oil production has actually increased since the 70’s.

What about the morality of socialism. Socialism is just one form of statism. Marxism, Socialism, Communism, and totalitarianism are all forms of statism. All these forms of economic and government are nothing more than various extremes of collectivism. Capitalism works just fine without the government and as a matter of fact, works better without government intervention. Collectivism on the other hand cannot exist without the big hand of government. It is the statist that makes collectivism possible. The statist does not see human beings it just sees the group. And everything the statist does is for the better of the group regardless of the state of the individual. To a statist the individual does not exist. Your life, your property, your work and your very existence is only to serve the collective. You have no other purpose. You belong to the state and as such the state can decide not only how to use you but how to dispose of you.

It doesn’t matter how many poor people there are as long as everyone is poor. There will never be a system where everyone is rich. That is an exclusive club that only the statist can belong to. In our current system, no matter how poor you are right now, you have the opportunities, if you are willing to do the work and what is required, to rise above where you are. In a collective, everyone is the same; no one will rise or fall, just stay the same and maintain the status quo. There will always be classes, rich, poor, and middle no matter what system you use. There will be less middle and more poor in the statist government and using class warfare for political games is dishonest at best and pure evil at worst turning brother against brother in the name of politics. But the Marxist uses it well, and has successfully divided the country.

A business professor of mine ones told a good description of the difference between Capitalism and socialism. In a capitalist society, if you own a cow you can sell the milk and trade to your neighbor for eggs, milk for his family and eggs for yours. You can also sell enough milk to buy a bull and mate with your cow producing more cows and bulls. Pretty soon you can supply not just your neighbor but all your neighbors with milk and beef and cheese. And your neighbor making money from his chickens can buy more chickens and feed more people and make more money. In a socialist system, you have a cow and make money selling the milk and beef and buying more cows to feed more people. The state steps in and says you have too many cows and give one or two to your neighbor so you never have the opportunity to feed as many people as you could and neither does your neighbor because the state said he had too many chickens and took them too.

Everyone knows the story of the industrious ant and the lazy grasshopper. This is the socialist version. The industrious ant spent all summer working hard to build his home and collect and store food for the coming winter. The lazy grasshopper lay around in the sun watching the ant going and back and forth and laughed at him not enjoying the warm summer air and thought “What a sucker working so hard on such a lovely day”. This happened all summer as the ant worked hard to build his house and store his food.

When winter came the grasshopper found himself freezing under the skimpy shelter of a few leaves and saw the light in the house the ant built. He looked in the window and saw the ant warm and cozy eating the food he spent all summer storing. He said to the ant how about sharing some of your food and warmth of your house to which the ant replied you had your chance all summer but you decided to play in the fields instead. He gave him a little food and sent him on his way. The next day the grasshopper contacted the government and told them his story. The government came and took the ant’s house and all his food and gave it to the grasshopper who would not share with the ant but the government said that was ok because he was the victim not the ant. The following winter the grasshopper was freezing because the house the ant built was falling down and the grasshopper didn’t work on it over the summer and his food supply was gone but he could not take from the ant again because the ant froze to death the past winter when the government kicked him out and would not help him because he was not a victim.

Fair wind and following seas,

Sailor Ray

Political Correctness 101

What is political correctness? Political correctness is changing a word or phrase to something that to the weak mind changes the meaning, In other words, to hide the truth. Calling an illegal alien an undocumented worker hides the truth that the undocumented worker is breaking the law by entering the country without permission. By calling someone an undocumented worker, they are no longer illegal, they are not breaking the law, and they must have the same rights as American citizens. I wonder how many of those “American citizens” voted in this last presidential election. Calling a terrorist bombing a manmade disaster changes the meaning, again to the weak minded, that it was caused by man rather than a politically correct protected group of men. By changing the meanings the statist can change the debate. The debate is no longer weather illegal aliens should be deported back to their home countries but whether they should be afforded the same rights as American citizens.

At this point in time Democrats push political correctness the hardest, to be more specific, liberal democrats? But why do they do this? One school of thought is in the area of illegal aliens they have a new voting bloc. Of course legally they cannot vote, but these days, that doesn’t really matter. Who is going to check? Anyone who questions it is labeled a racist. Most people do not want to be called a racist so they let it go. It also creates more victims.

I have often wondered why some people push victim hood so much? If victim hood is so bad, why create more victims? Why create programs that create more victims or at the very least do not stop it. Programs like welfare that promote single mother hood. If single mother hood is because the husband died, of the woman was beat often and divorce was the best way out or something of that nature then the mother has no choice. By having programs that encourage single mother hood like welfare that is almost permanent rather than any programs to help the woman make it on her own promotes single mother hood among women that become mothers at an early age due to promiscuous sex and become mothers before they are able to provide on their own for their children. Children of single parent families are more likely to be on welfare when they grow up. The morality in this case is not produce for yourself but let society take care of you.

Proponents of victim hood don’t like people like me. They call us right wing extremist or tea baggers or fascist because we chose to take care of ourselves. We provide our own shelter, we provide our own food, and we provide our own living or get jobs on our own and refuse to live off of others. We believe that if we are put in a situation that we have to accept food stamps or welfare we are failures. Not saying that others are failures for doing so. But because we believe in finding our own way thought life without a lot of help from others or society in general we have failed. We believe that every person is responsible for themselves. That people living on welfare and food stamps and other social programs for long periods of time are burdens on society. They are afraid of us because we refuse to be victims. We take away their power because if they have nothing to offer us then we feel no obligation to vote for them. Because their message is so weak they must create a voting bloc that feels they have an obligation to keep them in power or lose their entitlements.

Some people think political correctness started in the 1990’s under President Clinton. No he just put it on steroids. Some people believe it started in the 1960’s, but the truth is it just reemerged then. Political correctness did not even start in this country. It was started in a small school in Germany just outside of Frankfurt called the Frankfurt school for social research named after Frankfurt University. It was not really a school; it was a think tank of followers of Carl Marx that created the school to figure out why some of his predictions were wrong. Marx predicted that in the next Great War the workers of the world would revolt and a new area of communism would begin. World War I came along and not only did the workers not revolt, they put on the uniform of their respective countries by the millions and went to fight each other.

The Marxist at the Frankfurt school wanted to know what went wrong and dedicated their life to figuring it out and set out to change the world. What they came up with was basically that people in Western Europe at that time were too happy with what they had and they did not understand the utopia of Marxism. They understood that what they had to do was destroy western culture. The only way to create Marxism in the west was not to bring Marxism up to the great western culture because they couldn’t; they had to bring western culture down below Marxism so it would seem to be the better choice. Once they established to bring down western culture they had to come up with a way to do it and they created Critical theory. Critical theory is not the same as Critical thinking. The theory of critical theory is just that, to criticize everything about western culture. They were very careful to say what they were against but not what they were for. Critical theory also has the tenant that logic is separate from context. In other words, arguments for Marxism are logical and arguments against Marxism are not. Facts are irrelevant when the argument is against. Does this sound familiar? Global warming is true due to the facts regardless of any facts that are presented against it.

Not to say all global warming alarmist are Marxist. But it is curious how the left has one argument after the other using this tenant. In the 1930’s they fled Germany because the socialist government led by Adolf Hitler was an even bigger threat to the Marxist. Hitler’s socialist government hated Marxist and most of the people in the Frankfurt school were Jewish. They found a home at Cornell University with the help of The University’s president who himself was a Marxist. Once in America, they shifted their focus from attacking German and Western Europe society to attacking the society and culture of its new place of refuge. Besides applying Critical theory to America they added some new elements. One was the new studies in prejudice. Theodor Adornao a member of the society wrote a book, The Authoritarian Personality. In it he argued that the American people possessed many fascist traits and that anyone who supported traditional American culture were mentally unbalanced. One of the reasons the left likes to call anyone not like them fascist.

By the 1950 it was clear to the Marxist that the working classes were not going to bring about the Cultural Revolution because people understood that Marxism would not work in the American culture and the working class liked capitalism because it brought more money to more people than any system before. Since the working class was not going to play the role that traditional Marxism had expected of it, they had to find new minds to corrupt. They found the perfect group in the American university students of the 1960’s. The Frankfurt school created the victim groups that comprise the politically correct coalition that included blacks and women and was the start of the feminist movement. They also broke down the tradition of sex and sexuality as well as the family in America as being repressive and the traditional roles of women as home makers were products of evil western and American culture, the family interferes with affairs of the state so that must be broken down also.

Herbert Marcuse wrote the book, Eros and civilization that condemned all restrictions on sexual behavior. Sexual repression was one theory that would help bring about political correctness. Marcuse gave the students the intellectual justification of free sex. In the 1960’s the theme on college campuses was free love. People will come up with all kinds of justifications to be able to do what they want to do especially at that age of a college student and Marcuse gave them the reason weather they were right or wrong.

Marcuse is also the source for one of political correctness characteristics, its total intolerance for any view point other than its own. This goes back to the beginning of critical theory that logic is separate from context. He argues that our free American society is a deception that it is actually repressive. He argued for liberating tolerance. What he meant by that was tolerance of ideas coming from the left and intolerance of ideas coming from the right. I have yet to figure out how this is any way better then tolerance of all ideas. In the 70’s 80’s and 90’s if you had a strong sense of who was politically correct, you could have the moral authority to be tolerant of those who were and intolerant of those who were not. Talk about repression, it gives the moral authority of the politically correct to deny speech to those that disagrees with them in a country that was founded on free speech without limitations. One of the greatest wins for political correctness and Marxism was the Supreme Court ruling that hate speech was not protected speech under the constitution. Of course it would be the left that determined what hate speech is. The ideology of political correctness is the enforcement wing of the Marxist society. Radical multiculturalism is another way to bring down American culture by separating us into groups. Divide and concur. It is much easier to bring down a divvied culture then one that is bonded together by tradition.

If the original leaders of the Frankfurt school could come back today and see the culture on American universities and in the American political arena they would be very happy that their ideas of a Western Marxism is taking shape in America, although I think they would be disappointed that it is taking so long. I like to think that people like me who fight the idea of Marxism and political correctness every day are making a difference and fighting back the tide of poison of Marxism and political correctness. If I can piss off at least one Marxist or liberal every day then my job is done for the day. We can win this war if we do not give up and make no mistake this is a war. It is a war for the very survival of the American way of life and the American culture. It has taken over 90 years for Western Marxism to get this far. I think the Marxist underestimate the strength and pride of Americans and that works in our favor. We need to continue the fight so the next 90 years and beyond will be one that the American culture has survived and our grandkids and great grandkid and great-great grandkids still have all the rights and liberties that we do and that freedom as we have know it will survive.

They have not won yet. People like me who two years ago didn’t even know they existed in this country are waking up. The Tea Parties are proof of that. The people that attended these rallies were not paid activist, or politically motivated individuals. Not one of them were homeless people gathered off the street and paid $20.00 to hold a political sign or 20 something collage students with misguided ideologies. No, these were working class average American. Most of them between the ages of 35 and 65, most of them had never been to a political rally or been involved in politics other then feeling a duty to vote. These people are the kind of people that spend their lives raising families, going to their son’s baseball games or daughter’s soccer games, people that work 40 hours or more a week and pay their taxes so they can take care of their families. These people spent their own money to attend the Washington D.C. Tea party from as far away as San Diego, Seattle, Orlando and Texas because they are angry. Angry that we have people in power that think nothing of spending away our money like it was theirs. People in power that think they are smarter than the rest of us and will force us to do things we do not want to do, people that think their ideas and beliefs are more important than our constitutional rights. We are angry because the people in power represent special interest groups and not the majority of the people. We are the people that think socialism is a bad word. And the idea of socialism is a flailed ideology that has failed time and time again all over the world.

People that think Marxism, socialism, or any other totalitarian and repressive form of government is better than the system we have built in America based on individual liberties are morally repulsive and intellectually challenged. They turn around the ideas of selfishness and sacrifice to fit their own needs. To want your neighbor to be able to take care of himself and not be a burden on society is not selfish. The neighbor that is willing to let his needs be met by others and or the state is the selfish one. To want to work and make as much money as you can to take care of your family and contribute to society without assistance of others or the government is not selfish. It is being a man. Government taking as much of your money to give to special interest groups and pork laden bills is selfish. No one believes that congress was working the weekend to work on the healthcare bill because they were selfless public servants. They were working the weekend out of fear and frustration and taking so long to pass this bill. Afraid the power they will get from this will slip from them once again. These are the people that think throwing good money after bad on failed social programs is a good thing. Albert Einstein said it best when he said “Crazy is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the same results” or something along those lines. Liberals will never admit when one of their programs fail. They just think they have not spent enough money on it. Look at education, the government has increased spending by over 90% since 1971 and kids coming out of high school today are no smarter or better educated then they were before 1971. As a matter of fact, there are more dropouts and test scores are not any better than in 1971.

They talk about sacrifice as if it were a good thing when they don’t even know the meaning of the word. If a mother buys food for her child rather than the hat she wanted it is not a sacrifice if the child was more important than the hat. It is a sacrifice if the hat was more important than the child but she bought food for the child out of duty rather than love. If she buys the hat rather than the food it was the child that sacrificed not her. If a man buys a big screen T.V. rather than food for his family it is a sacrifice. It was the family that sacrificed for him. If a solider gives up his life for freedom it is not a sacrifice because he would rather die as a free man than live as a slave to the state. If he gives up his life for a cause he does not believe in then it is a sacrifice. If you give money to a friend or relative that means something to you that is not a sacrifice. If you give it to a worthless stranger, that is a sacrifice. You are not only sacrificing your money, you are sacrificing his self-esteem and his ability to provide for himself. If you give someone a penny for a dollar, that is not a sacrifice. If you give someone a dollar for a penny, that is a sacrifice. If you vote for someone who you think will be good for the county and they are a liberal, then you have sacrificed your vote. Those who would tell us we need more sacrifice are the very people that will not have to sacrifice. Those who would rather give up some or all liberties for security and welfare are selfish and it is a sacrifice. They also do not deserve the liberties they have. It will be the American people and American freedom that will shoulder the brunt of the sacrifice.

Fair winds and following seas,

Sailor Ray

Democrat or Democrat light, this is what some people in the media want for Republicans

I have been noticing a disturbing trend in the left-stream media lately. And it started with the past November election in New York. The liberal republican candidate was ousted by the conservative candidate and then she threw her support behind the democrat. The republican Dede Scozzafava was more Democrat and more liberal then the Democratic candidate Bill Owens. The media is now making a lot of noise about how the Republican are destroying their chances of regaining power in Washington because we are purging the moderates from the party. The storm really hit when the RNC issued a demand that potential Republican candidates take a litmus test before getting any money or support from the RNC.

I have a couple of problems with this. First, do the left-steam media really think we are that stupid? Do they really think we believe they have the best interest of the Republican Party in mind? We know they would be happy if the republican never gained power again. Are we really supposed to take the word of the very people that want the conservative movement to go away? I got news for you, not only are we not going away, we are gaining more and more power every day. The conservative movement is the base of the Republican Party. Without us, the republicans would be just another third party. More of us identify ourselves as conservative first and republicans second. As for me, if I have the choice of a liberal Republican or a Conservative, I will vote for the conservative. If I have a choice between a conservative Democrat like John F. Kennedy and a liberal Republican, I will vote for the Democrat. It is not the Democrat Party I am against, just the liberal wing of it.

The second problem I have is why does the left-stream media keep on calling Scozzafava a moderate republican? She was more liberal then the Democrat. Liberal Republicans are RINOS not moderates and we do not want them in our party. Why can’t they understand that? Why would we want people in our own party to fight the very things we stand for and are for the things we are against? It is counterproductive to have a RINO in the Republican Party. A RINO to a Republican is the same thing as a Blue Dog to the Democrats. The only ones that benefit from RINO’s are the Democrats. But I think that is the goal all along.

So to the left-stream media, I say to you. Keep your so called helpful suggestions on how the Republican Party should be run to yourselves we don’t need your help. Republican will decide on the fate of our party, not liberals. We will take your suggestions no more seriously than you would ours.

Palin and the Left-stream Media

Isn’t it amazing how one strong woman who opposes 99% of their views can make left-leaning Alpha-males scream like little girls and left leaning Alpha-females trumpeting like bull elephants? Women like NBC’s Nora O’Donnell who went to a Palin book sighing with crib notes to attack Palin fans. Men like Mitch Stewart director of Organizing for America whining about how Palin is dangerous to America for attacking Obama’s health care swindle.

Neither of them spoke or have spoken or intend to speak on the dangers of giving international terrorist a major platform for more terrorism and recruitment. No the danger is she is very popular even more now than she was when she was running for Vice President and that she opposes everything they stand for. The danger is her free right to free speech. Although they would fight tooth and nail to maintain their rights to speak they feel Palin should be shut down because she opposes them. It is different because they are the enlightened ones. The hypocrisy of the left never ceases to amaze me and has no bounds.

For eight years, we had to listen to these same people and people like them, whine and complain like little children about President Bush. But oppose Obama and any of his programs and they want to shut you down. Do you think the war on Fox was about the news? No, it was about the news that the left does not want you to know. If there is news and you don’t see it on CBS, ABC or MSNBC, you can bet you will see it on Fox. If any of the afore mentioned “news agencies” were really objective and non-bias, they would have better ratings then Fox. The American people are not the twits they take us for. We understand they only want us to here the positive stories about Obama and his programs while downplaying or not reporting at all anything that would show the administration in a negative light. The D.C. Tea Party last summer was a good example there was either a couple of hundred, or a few thousand or as much as ten thousand reported by the left-stream media if they reported it at al rather than the reality of at least 100,000 people. I saw it on C-Span which is not a right leaning organization, and the crowd stretched from the capital building all along the National Mall. If this was a left-wing protest in support of the health care bill, the reported numbers would have been in the millions with the same amount of people.

One reason they hate Sara Palin is because she is not politically correct. She says what she feels and political correctness be dammed. Political correctness is one of the reasons I decided to retire from the Navy rather than continue my career for two more years but it was not the only reason. When I retired was the end of the Bill Clinton administration when political correctness had taken a strong hold on America. I never thought the irresponsibility of political correctness would take hold in the military but it did. After all, it is the politicians that hold the military’s purse strings.

Political correctness is just as responsible for the 15 brave men and women that died at Fort Hood as the shooter himself. I say 15 because one of the victims was an unborn child and that life counts just as much as the others. There were warnings, but because Muslims are protected by political correctness more so then most other groups, nothing was done about him. The result of political correctness is 15 dead.

Sara Palin haters are almost all of the left and a few on the right. But there is no arguing she connects with many, many people. She has more in common with the average American than any news pundit who live in their ivory towers knowing they are safe as long as the worship at the temple of Obama. Sara Palin in this sense is a heretic, who not only does not worship Obama but opposes everything he stands for. To them that makes her just as dangerous as any terrorist. Anyone who makes liberals hates her by being herself alright with me. If she upsets just one liberal, she is doing her job. You go girl.

Fair winds and following seas,

Sailor Ray

 

 

 

Liberal are now giving advice to Republicans

Now liberals are giving advice about who Republicans should listen to. Sam Donaldson of ABC news, that great bastion of conservatism, recently gave advice to Republicans not to listen to Sarah Palin or Glen Beck. According to him, that is why the Republicans lost the election in NY 23 congressional district, never once mentioning that the Republican candidate was more liberal then the Democrat and never once mentioning that if the Republicans would have had a primary as they normally do, Scozzafava would have never even made it to the ballot. The republicans lost the election because they backed the wrong horse Sam. Even if Palin and Beck would have never said a word about it, the results would have been the same. They lost that election in spite of Palin and Beck, not because of them. I have to wonder why they even considered backing her. She represented more Democrat views then Republican.

If I could ask Mr. Donaldson a question I would ask him, why in the world should any non-Democrat take advice from him? Does he really think that Republicans, conservatives, liberals and moderates are so stupid that we would think he was giving us constructive advice? Liberals want Republicans to lose. Maybe he does think he is giving republicans good advice. Maybe he is that stupid. I have to ask why ABC would hire him if he was but considering their ratings, maybe that isn’t much of a stretch. Taking political advice from a liberal is like asking a used car dealer his honest answer to the best car for you. They are going to give you the answer that is best for them, not you all the while trying to convince you it is in your best interest and not theirs.  Here is a little piece of advice for liberals, don’t let Obama campaign for anyone. Look at what happened in New Jersey. Do us a favor Mr. Donaldson, stick to denouncing conservatism and Republicans. You are better at it and at least we know you are being honest. We can take your criticisms’ much better than your advice, a conservative’s skin is much thicker then liberals and we are use to it. Getting Republican political advice from a liberal is frankly, a little creepy.

Hail and farewell to brave soldiers and their civilian counterparts

I was going to write a blog that imagines what the world today if the military was liberal. But considering the tragedy at Fort Hood on Friday I decided to leave it alone for now. This post is a tribute the brave men and women that died at the hands of a crack pot. There is no difference between him and the man that shot up a building the next day in Florida. I am not going to mention the names of either of them because they do not deserve the attention that the left-stream media is giving both of them.

My heart goes out to the families of the victims of the travesty. I salute the brave officer that stopped that clown even though she was wounded. You did great, get well soon. To my fellow brothers and sisters in arms, you showed the world what it means to be an American fighting man or woman. Unlike most of your counterparts in the civilian world, you did not run. You stopped to help the wounded and some of you did it under fire. It is people like you in the military that make me really proud to be an American. You showed the world what you are made of.

To the families and victims in the Florida travesty, my heart goes out to you as well. You are in my prayers.

It is pretty much accepted even among but a few of the loony left that the man that shot up the building in Florida was a nut job that blamed other people for his problems and decided to kill them. But why are they making excuses for the Fort Hood shooter? Here is a hint, he was Muslim and Muslims are a protected group, protected by the left. The other guy was a crazy white guy; if he had a religious preference it probably was Christian a non-protected group. And we all know how the left feels about Christians. Now I don’t know if he did what he did because he was Muslim. There is some speculation that he did. But that is all it is, speculation. If he did it because he was a Muslim fanatic or not, he was still a nut case either way there is no excuse for it. Some in the left-stream media are blaming post traumatic stress for it. He never went to war! Yes he had to listen to the stories from the solders that returning from the war. But getting the stories second hand is not the same as experiencing it. If that was an excuse why are there not more army physiatrist shooting up people? Do you think he was the only one? I have heard reports that there are up to one million military members who claim to be Muslim. They are not shooting up the bases. This nutcase is not the victim. The people he shot are the victims.

It has been reported that he did not want to go to war to kill other Muslims. So what, in WWII German-Americans killed Germans and Italian-Americans killed Italians. No one put a gun to his head and made him join the Army and take the army’s money to put him through medical school. He did it all on his own. We have been at war with Muslim-extremist since the first gulf war. Are they trying to tell us in the 18 years since he thought he could go his entire carrier without once being asked to go to war in the Mid East? Sorry, I just don’t buy it. I understand he was trying to get out, which has not been confirmed yet that I have heard. The press does not realize when the military pays to put someone through school; they expect a commitment for a specific number of years. If they were not letting him out, it would have been because of that commitment. Because he was a doctor, he would not have been fighting. He would have been behind the lines not expected to be in combat unless the area he was in was attacked which would have been unlikely. So this whole not wanting to kill other Muslims is crap.

The left-stream media should be ashamed of themselves for trying to make excuses for this man, in doing so they diminish the real victims by his hand. The media is also diminishing the strength of our armed forces. These are not victims they can politicize. These are the strongest of our young people that deal with death and destruction for a living. And they do it to protect you. The people in the military are much stronger emotionally then those in the left-stream media are willing to give them credit for. They act like these are regular civilians; they are not, they are better, they were trained for things like this. As one solider put it, I feel betrayed by one of our own, we are suppose to be family. What makes this different is that the soldiers that died were not killed on some distant battle field but here on our own soil. I am not making light of the emotions that these brave people might feel right now. Nor do I make light of the emotional stress of soldiers returning from war that had actually experienced what the nut job only heard about. But the media is looking to blame anyone and everything on this except the man that committed this unforgivable act. I imagine they are looking for ways to make the Florida shooter the victim also. Blame Bush, he has been your scapegoat for the last 9 years.

I beg all of you; please do not use this incident as a reason to commit acts of violence against other Americans that happen to be Muslim. American Muslims are not the enemy.

Fair winds and following seas,

Sailor Ray

 

 

 

 

 

Freedom is a responsibility

As an Americans we have a responsibility. Of course there are many responsibilities that we have as Americans, but none as important as passing on freedom to the next generation, as the previous generations has done for us. Every good parent wants their kids to have a life that was better than the life they had. Not only in matters of finances, but in quality of life. The less freedoms we have the worse our quality of life. Some people may want to have someone else make the decisions in their lives. But these are people that are very short sighted. People that cannot see or don’t care about the problems that come along with having someone else make your decisions for you.

I really don’t think that President Obama or the politicians in congress have the intention to take away any freedoms just for the sake of power. But I think they believe that some things are more important than personal freedom. What is best for the group is not always best for the individual. If security means a loss of freedom then so be it. If healthcare means a loss of freedom then so be it. If it means shutting down opposition so they can get their agendas passed then so be it. If it means bypassing the constitution or bill of right to get things done then so be it. If it means getting reelected then so be it. As president Obama said in a pre-election speech, the constitution is a failed document because there are some things he believes that are in violation of the constitution. After all, he spent his life around people that think, Marxism and socialism are good things. I think if he thought suspending the constitution to get his agenda through would work he would do it. And there would be people in congress that would back him up. Not many, even Loony left Democrats would see the danger, but there would be some. There would be many in the media and the internet that would agree with him. As the Great One Mark Levin says in his book, Liberty and Tyranny, “The constitution is the bedrock on which a living, evolving nation was built. It is, and must be, a timeless yet durable foundation that individuals can count on in a changing world. It is not perfect but the Framers made it more perfectible through the amendment process.”

Was the war on Fox news an attempt to shut down the opposition? It sure seems like it. Fox is the only news agency that is in opposition to most if not all of his policies. I have to wonder if any of the Pro-Obama agencies even considered that maybe it could be them one day if they opposed the president or his policies. I have to believe they do. These people are not idiots. They are educated people who have a president they feel represents their views. But what if he made policies that contradicted their views? Would they still be the brave little soldiers and tow the party line as they are now? Have they figured out yet that this is not just an attack on an organization that opposes the president but attack on freedom of the press and ultimately freedom of speech?

In the minds of Marxist, socialist, communist, statists or whatever you want to call them, the end justifies the means even if some freedoms have to be lost. Freedom must be over rated in their minds. If a large organization like Fox news is not free to say what they think what chance does a regular Joe like me or you have? Considering that the administrations war on Fox has backfired in their faces and Fox has even better ratings than before, I wonder if there are any news agencies wishing the administration would start a war with them. MSNBC could use the ratings the most. They must be fuming that their mortal enemies at Fox have more people watching. Keep up the good work Fox.

I worry that some day in the future, I will have my grandkids on my knee and telling them how amazing America use to be. That there was a time that you could speak out against anyone including the government and not worry about reprisals. I would tell them that you could actually choose for yourself what you wanted to do with your life, where you wanted to go and what you wanted to buy. That we once has an economic system that had endless possibilities and created opportunities for the poorest of the poor to rise above their conditions and become more then they are and it all depended on the abilities, skills and desire of the individual. Not on the whims of the government. That there were no shortages of anything except what the government interventions caused. That the government use to be of the people, for the people, and by the people and the government worked for the people rather than the other way around. That you could work and enjoy the fruits of your own labors and spend more of your paycheck than the government took. That you could give to the less fortunate of your own free will and feel good about yourself and you decided how much and when rather than the government taking it from you and giving it to someone else. And that personal property was a staple of American life and not just an abstract thought.

Will this all come to pass? I don’t know what the future holds, no one does. But if history is any indication we are on a dangerous path and it just might. I worry for the very freedoms of future generations. And I have a duty and responsibility as an American to fight to the last breath any person, policy, organization or even government what wants to create a world when my grandchildren or great-grandchildren may not be able to enjoy the any of the freedoms that I have enjoyed my entire life up to now. And that means all the freedoms, not a limited amount. I will not accept one freedom removed or even reduced. Those that are willing to give up any freedom for financial or personal security do not deserve the freedoms they have.

Fair winds and following seas,

Sailor Ray

The Liberal Media just doesn’t get it again

The left in the media just doesn’t get it. Leave it to Democrats to get the wrong message. They have been for years. They are calling Dede Scozzafava who was running as a republican in the New York 23 district a moderate republican and that we the conservatives are purging the Republican party of moderates. Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is Scozzafava was a liberal who should have been running as a Democrat. The fact is, the Republican Party is made up of mostly moderates and conservatives. But yet she backed a Democrat after she dropped out of the race. Why is that? Since there are more moderates and conservatives in the Republican Party shouldn’t she have backed the conservative if she really believed in the Republican message? Conservatives are purging the liberals out of the Republican Party because we do not want to be represented by a liberal. If we wanted that we would vote Democrat. Democrats are the liberal party. Scozzafava is a liberal not a moderate that is why she had no chance of winning as a Republican. Any self identified liberal was going to vote for either her or the Democrat anyway. In any race if you have a liberal Republican and a conservative, the conservative will win every time. Only liberals will vote for the Republican, moderates may because the candidate is a Republican. The only time it is going to hurt, is when a conservative runs against a conservative Republican. It seems the National Republican Party is getting away from indorsing conservative Republicans unless they are the only running against a Democrat. Scozzafava is a RINO. She voted 90% of the time with Democrats.

In the liberal mindset, up is down, black is white and the world is saved now what Obama is in the White House. They have even gone so far as to call Ronald Regan, the father of modern conservatism a liberal. MSNBC’s (Of course) O’Donnell said on a recent program “If Governor Reagan was out there now, Pawlenty couldn’t support Governor Reagan because Governor Reagan was a tax increaser. This is a different era. This is the Palin era. You can’t support a liberal like Ronald Reagan now.” A liberal like Ronald Reagan really? Is he so stupid he doesn’t remember the tax cuts that Regan put into place as president? Conservatives identify with Ronald Regan not liberals. These people are idiots. They are calling liberal Republicans as moderates. Senator Specter was a liberal that is why he went to the Democratic Party. If he was a moderate or conservative he would have stayed a Republican. He was a true RINO. He was only a Republican because he would have never been elected as a democrat. And he is not on the list of Blue Dog Democrats.

The Republican Party didn’t get the message either. Conservatives are the base of the Republican Party. If they don’t want the conservatives then the conservative party is going to get bigger and bigger and the Republicans will find themselves as the third party. In 2006 after the Democrats won power in congress they declared the conservative movement dead. We are sending a message of just how wrong they were.

Fair winds and following seas,

Sailor Ray

Obamacare Takeover

My last post was about how Obama lied when he said this bill is to encourage competition in the healthcare field when in reality it is about a massive government take over. Well I have been doing some reading of the health care bill. I have not read it all yet. It is hard to go thru. I was never trained in government double talk or lawyers speak and this bill is full of it. I will eventually read all of it if they do not change it again. I have picked out a few things I noticed that I was worried about on my last blog, specifically the part about the Obamacrare forcing out private industry health insurance companies. In it I talked about how eventually it would force insurance companies out of business by lowering the price of health care to the point that no company could compete. And I must apologize to anyone that read my blog that I was wrong. Yes I admit I was wrong.

I really thought that they would use the free market system against the insurance companies and force them out of business. But I did not give Pelosi and company enough credit. I thought they were trying to back door the free market. They are breaking it down! Page 94 Section 202C of the bill prohibits the sale of policies by private insurance companies in 2013, effectively forcing everyone to eventually purchase only government insurance. In other words, we lose or freedom of choice. Because our benevolent government knows what is best for all of us. It is going to happen much faster than I thought. Using the free market system to create a government monopoly would take several years. This is only four years away. This will not create competition; this will in effect eliminate competition by government mandate, another Obama lie.

Another troubling part of the bill is Page 110 Section 22E  requires federal funds to fund abortions through the government plan. I could have sworn he said we would not be funding abortions with taxpayer money. Oh no, Obama lied. That has never happened.

Being a parent and grandparent this one really bothers me. Page 1183 section 1904 requires $750 million of federal funds for a new entitlement program that offers Knowledge of realistic expectations of age appropriate child behavior and skills for parents to interact with their kids. I did not see the details of this new “program”, but is it just me or does this one scare you. I have been around long enough to recognize political double talk. What this sounds like is a program to tell parents how to raise their kids. Being in a bill it does not sound like they are going to make suggestions on how to raise your kids or helpful hints to raise your kids but to tell you how to raise your kids. In that section it does not mention any penalties if there are any, but that does not mean there will not be penalties. Considering most of the people that wrote this bill are screaming socialist liberal nut jobs, does that mean that their ideas of child raising is the way we will be told to raise our children. What happens I wonder, if we disagree and decide to raise our kids in the American founding fathers conservative way? Will I go to jail or suffer a big fine that I can’t possibly pay? Some things are worth fighting for. Raising my kids in a way I see fit is one of those things.

Since this health care debate started, Republicans and conservatives have been saying health care reform can be accomplished without government takeover of one third of our economy and massive tax hikes. It can be accomplished by allowing health care companies to compete across state lines, the competition would bring down some of the cost. Another way would be to fix the failing Medicare system. One of the biggest drains on the industry and the one of the biggest causes of rising prices is Medicare and Medicaid. The government is slow at paying doctors and hospitals and in some cases do not pay them at all. This in turn is passed on to the consumer. Rather than fixing the ailing Medicare system they are taking $500 billion from it to pay for this monstrosity.

Another way to reform health care would be by passing tort reform. A great deal of the cost of healthcare is because doctors have to have expensive insurance to protect themselves from frivolous law suits. Doctors are forced to order test that are not be needed just to cover all the bases due to a fear they may get have to go to court for missing something or fear a lawyer would use the lack of a test as justification for a suit. Page 1432 Section 2531 provides incentives to states to enact new medical liability laws but only if such laws do not limit attorney fees or impose caps on damages. This one section tells me what the conservative talk show hosts have been saying about congress and the President being in the pockets of trial lawyers, especially the part about not limiting attorney fees.

I don’t believe the Democrats when they say this will be deficit neutral or would not mean higher taxes. If they are going to lower the premiums and cover tens of millions of people who can’t pay, how are they possibly going to pay for it without a tax hike? Taking $500 billion from Medicare just made the Medicare system worse than ever before. Now prices are really going to skyrocket. Either they will have to raise taxes or add to our massive growing deficit. When was the last time a government program actually cost what congress originally said it would. They told us the income tax would never be over 10%. Is it at 10% now? In the 1960’s they told us Medicare would cost no more than 20 billion a year, what does it cost now? The fiscal 2009 budget for Medicare is $415 Billion according the Department of Health and Human Services.

My hope against hope is that if this bill is passed, in 2013 when the takeover starts, there will be a new president and new people in congress. Any law congress creates they can amend or remove. I don’t expect it to change if the same people are in power. It will just get worse. But we have a chance to kick the bums out. In a few short hours I will be going to the polls for a local election. I plan on voting for conservatives first but if there is no conservative then a republican provided he/she is not a liberal republican like in New York State. If that is the case then I will write in my own candidate as long as they are not democrat. We can send Washington and the National Republican party a message because they watch the local elections closely, especially in the current political climate with the midterm elections only a year away.

Fair winds and following seas,

Sailor Ray