What Ted Kennedy Wants He's trying to change election rules—again.

Once again the lion of the senate is attempting to pull a partisan fast one on the people of his state and the people of this country. Senator Teddy Kennedy, presently dying of brain cancer, wants to win just one more for the liberal gippers if he can. Having battled successfully five years ago to change the law in Massachusetts, so that he could thwart any potential ability of the then republican governor (Mitt Romney) to potentially appoint a republican senate replacement, (provided John Kerry had won), Teddy now wants to go back to the well one more time before he dies, in order to change it all back.

What a gallant action on the part of senator Kennedy. Just wanting to make things right again right? Wrong! Once again the liberals and their senior member of the senate are trying to pull a partisan fast one on the people of America. The great fear being that if Teddy dies before 2010? The liberal socialist democrats will lose their 60 seat veto proof majority in the senate, if they can't immediately replace him with a known and approved liberal democrat.

So once again it is time to cook and the rules and the law in order to serve the liberal perspective and their interests. I would say that I hope that the people of Massachusetts would be smarter than this and that they would raise immortal hell over it, (Kennedy and his health problems be damned.) but they won't. I know that a state that would elect and re-elect this socialist interloper for the last forty years to begin with, can't be populated with exceedingly smart people or anyone with sincere interests or concerns for the country as a whole.

I wish Ted Kennedy no ill will. I know his personal and political history and I am diametrically opposed to his politics and his life history and always have been. However, I do believe in divine intervention. And it appears that Teddy is on his last legs now. Having skipped the funeral of his sister last week, should have told most people that he himself is not long for this world. All I know is that if he dies before the law can be changed back, it serves him and it served the state that elected him for over forty years right. And even then there is no guarantee that the people of Massachusetts won't turn right around and find another flaming socialist to replace him with. As a matter of fact? They probably will. But in the interim? I still adhere and hold to the premise that government should be required to play by the rules (law) and they should have to live with the consequences. Let's hope so.

Felony Vandalism Charges Possible in Obama Joker Poster Case

How many remember Paul Newman in his Iconic role, in the movie Cool Hand Luke? A true classic and one of my all time favorites. And how many remember what Luke went to prison for? The movie situated in the post Korean war south, opens with a drunk Luke staggering about a sleepy little southern town. With a bottle of whiskey in one hand and a pipe wrench in the other. Luke is drunk and he is cutting the heads off parking meters.

That was his crime. And as the police arrive, we see Luke propped up against his last victim and a long line of headless parking meters behind him. Later in the film, we hear the iconic line by Strother Martin. "What we have here............is a failure to communicate!" Fast forward to the present and it appears to me that we have our very own Cool Hand Luke in the making. Have a look........

A Florida teenager could face felony vandalism charges for allegedly gluing posters depicting President Obama as the Joker onto public property, FOXNews.com has learned. Clermont, Fla., Police Capt. Eric Jensen said the state attorney will review evidence to determine whether to charge the unidentified teenager with gluing "dozens" of the posters last week to the city's light poles, public and private buildings, bridge overpasses, road signs and a mailbox. Jensen said damage to city property exceeded $800, and it cost roughly $200 to remove the adhesive that was used to affix the poster to the mailbox. "If he hadn't glued them, we wouldn't be having this discussion," Jensen told FOXNews.com. "[The adhesive] didn't come off the road signs."

See any similarities? I know that I do. Here is some kid who decides to make a political statement by posting these posters? And suddenly the local authorities are treating him like public enemy number one.

There is no doubt that he should probably be committed to some community service for his actions, but does this really warrant felony vandalism charges? I think not. And I think what we have here is a genuine failure to communicate on the part of the Clemont Florida police.

It strikes me that the authorities there, are more concerned with appealing to a national media outrage over the subject matter of this young man's protest, than they are interested it addressing the reality of what was done in a reasonable or fair manner.

And when I see the nation's main stream media reacting as they have over these posters? And when I see the local authorities preparing to skin some kid and tack his hide to the barn for having the audacity to post his beliefs? I tend to see the man with no eyes. Constantly lurking behind his mirrors and waiting patiently for the opportunity to snipe the life out of anyone that crosses or violates the machine.

Look closely at main stream media today and see if what you see staring back at you isn't ironically similar to some faceless mechanism with a high powered rifle on the ready. Poised to drop the hammer on anyone who isn't "shaking that bush boss!"

FBI trained NJ blogger to incite others

Many people may be familiar with the Turner Diaries as a result of the domestic terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City in 1995 and the resulting trial, conviction and execution of Timothy McVeigh for the crime. McVeigh was supposedly a fan of the anarchist novel and based his action of attack that day in Oklahoma city on the books plot.

But what if we were to have a real Turner Diaries? Not just something of fiction, but something of a rather all too real reality. Enter one Hal Turner of New Jersey. He was recently arrested for inciting others to violence and encouraging others to attacking public officials.

The only problem is? His defense attorney says that he was only doing what the FBI taught him how to do on the internet as a "blogger." Stranger than fiction? Have a look for yourself.....

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A New Jersey blogger facing charges in two states for allegedly making threats against lawmakers and judges was trained by the FBI on how to be deliberately provocative, his attorney said Tuesday. Hal Turner worked for the FBI from 2002 to 2007 as an "agent provocateur" and was taught by the agency "what he could say that wouldn't be crossing the line," defense attorney Michael Orozco said. "His job was basically to publish information which would cause other parties to act in a manner which would lead to their arrest," Orozco said.

Of course now?

The FBI is denying any knowledge of his actions, although they seemingly admit to a familiarity with him. Prosecutors have acknowledged that Turner was an informant who spied on radical right-wing organizations, but the defense has said Turner was not working for the FBI when he allegedly made threats against Connecticut legislators and wrote that three federal judges in Illinois deserved to die.

Uncanny isn't it. Almost like a script for a Tom Cruise sequel to MISSION IMPOSSIBLE. "Your mission Mr. Phelps (should you decide to accept it.....)" And as always..."If caught or captured, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions."

Stranger than fiction? Id' say affirmative!

Dove tailing onto yesterday's blog concerning government intrusion into the lives of Americans concerning computers and the internet? I wonder what snopes will have to say about this exchange. That it didn't happen? That Gibbs answered the question? Nope and nope.

The bottom line, apparently Major Garrett and a number of reporters who cover the White House received unsolicited emails from the White House this week. Apparently to their private or personal business accounts.

The purpose of the emails? Again it appears that the basis of the emails was an attempt to bolster the presidents health care reform legislation and to attempt to cultivate more support from the MSM, as if he didn't already have the market cornered on that.

You decide. I know I have.

This would normally be too bizarre and far fetched to believe, but not under the current regime in Washington. Watch this and be warned.

Commander’s Ouster Is Tied to Shift in Afghan War

I wonder how many people remember that headline in the New York times dated May 11, 2009.

Or the opening paragraph of the article..

WASHINGTON — The top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David D. McKiernan, was forced out Monday in an abrupt shake-up intended to bring a more aggressive and innovative approach to a worsening seven-year war. Tomorrow makes exactly 90 days since General McKiernan was relieved of duty and disgraced by his commander in chief. So, how is the all star replacement General McCrystal doing with his special warfare fighting skills and his innovative approach fairing?

Well let's see....

Taliban Now Winning U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Warns of Rising Casualties

The Taliban have gained the upper hand in Afghanistan, the top American commander there said, forcing the U.S. to change its strategy in the eight-year-old conflict by increasing the number of troops in heavily populated areas like the volatile southern city of Kandahar, the insurgency's spiritual home. Gen. Stanley McChrystal warned that means U.S. casualties, already running at record levels, will remain high for months to come.

So what changed? I don't mean to be facetious, but toward the end of the Vietnam war? A frequently heard refrain of many Vietnam veterans was...."what happened? We were winning when I left." So what happened General McCrystal? Afghanistan began to heat up immediately after Barack Obama took office. (The Taliban recognizing the weakness of this president IMO) And when General McKiernan tried to explain the situation to the new president?

And when he asked for more ground troops to be sent? He was summarily relieved from duty and dismissed. Yet after 90 days of command in the Afghanistan theater, General McCrystal seems to have accomplished very little, if not in all fairness of analysis having lost ground. Not only have things not improved or even remained static in Afghanistan as a result of the command change, but they have gotten worse.

And now? The president's hand picked general to carrying the fight to the enemy in Afghanistan is calling for more troops, just as his predecessor did. But worse than that, he has broken with decades of war college philosophy, training and instruction to all career military officers. General McCrystal has publicly admitted to the enemy that he is losing the war and to compound that mistake, he has turned to the president and publicly asked for more combat troops. In essence and on all counts, General McCrystal's actions have completely negated the ruse used by the president to relieve General McKiernan of command in Afghanistan three months ago.

I don't blame General McCrystal, I am sure that he is a fine military officer and I am sure that he knows his job and what needs to be done in Afghanistan to win the war. Pity that the commander in chief doesn't. So how much shelf life does General McCrystal have left as the commander in Afghanistan? I wonder. Is it possible that he too will soon be replaced with someone else? Someone more capable of losing the war in a reasonable and timely fashion? I tend to think so.

I believe that General McCrystal's days in command of American forces in Afghanistan are limited, as are his career in the Army. His boss doesn't like being made the fool by subordinates, so the general will be the next to be flung under the Obama bus.. Now, if Obama could just figure out a way to fire and replace Joe Biden.

Have a look at what you are buying.......

An outrage is what it is being called in liberal circles, ever since this poster was first spotted in Los Angeles and Atlanta late last week.

 

But what a difference a year makes. Last year when this joker face of President Bush was published in Vanity Fair? Not so much as a peep out of mainstream media or the GOP. And there were certainly no cries of fowl or insidious disrespect. (Of course, the GOP and president Bush had already endured seven years of that by the time this poster of him as the Dark Knight emerged).

I am tempted to recite the famous line of Heath Ledger as the Dark Knight and say...."why so serious?" Well....in truth, I have already used that line in a previous blog about this issue. But that was before the Bush joker poster emerged.

And do bloggers like myself actually have to go back and dig up the volume of slanders and hateful caricatures that were lofted against George Bush for eight years? Or would that be just another example of being unfair and unbalanced according to the liberal elite?

No different than the current self styled indignation that the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and their thrashing in the media daily with their weak allegations. This is nothing new. The democrats have engaged in far worse for the past eight years and before that and they know it. And now that republicans and conservative Americans are finally finding their own voices and exercising their own rights to free speech and their constitutionally protected rights to confront their elected officials vehemently?

Suddenly something is amiss and it is sending chills down the spines of every yellow dog and socialist progressive within ear shot. And these jingoist of liberal nationalism are joining in a cacophony of cries to silence those who would dare to question them or challenge their allegiances to America? Give me a break!

Speaker Pelosi has even gone as far as to claim that those coming to these recent town hall meetings and challenging the elitist left on Obama's health care proposals, are some how associated with Nazis and wearing swastikas and such. Of course she offers no proof or evidence of such, but then again liberals are practiced in the use of defamatory allegations and the image created by such. I wonder if Madame speaker has ever heard of "Godwin's Law?" I think not.

I am sorry Madame Speaker, but the Nazi angle simply doesn't wash. No more than the rising cries of racism and hate speech spewing from the left side of the isle in defense of the indefensible. You see Madame Secretary? The United States constitution specifically protects the freedom and right of the people to speak out against their government. It's found in the First Amendment, right after that part about the right to freedom of religion? It's the part that comes right after freedom of speech and freedom the press and then the right to peacefully assemble to redress grievances?

Had a look at it lately?

<span style="font-style:italic;">"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."</span>

And the only thing hateful about that freedom? Is that the present liberal socialist democrats in power, absolutely hate it when anyone is allowed to say anything contrary to their own liberal perspective. Therefore, they attempt to brand all opposition speech and they attempt to marginalize it into something that they believe can contain it.

As for the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights?

You better get use to them Madame Speaker, because the rights of the people are not going away and they will not be shouted down by the likes of moveon.org and other George Soros funded enterprises, specifically designed to thwart and circumvent the rights of Americans for socialist ill purposes.

Liberals have had their way for eight years now in the media and with their favored comedians sniping at every last bit of the Bush administration and now that it is time for conservative Americans to stand up for themselves? And now that the grass roots of America have risen up and are beginning to openly challenge these rogues and their socialist demagogue leadership? Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and their cabal of so called progressive egalitarian socialists in the US Congress, want to attempt to call fowl and plead for legal intervention to suppress the Constitutionally protected rights of the people.

And their illustrious leader, in keeping with the theme of socialist justice (president Obama) has gone as far as to set up a White House "snitch line" for people to inform on other Americans who may be engaged in the passing on so called "fishy information" concerning the president's legislative proposals and socialist plans for America.

Yes my dear friends, people should be asking why our socialist president and the socialist leadership of the House and Senate are engaged in such a serious abridgement of the constitutional rights of Americans.

Jefferson and Payne warned us of these times if we did not remain vigilant and protect our rights. And being vigilant sometimes means being branded a vigilante it would seem. Especially when you attempt to stand for your rights in the face of coercion and oppression and an omnipresent government that is seeking to stifle any and all debate on the subject.

What began as moans from the American people after they realized what they had allowed to become president of the United States, is now becoming shouts and cries all across this nation. Obama's policies and his attempts thus far to garner control of all major aspects of American life and the economy are now being recognized for the true danger that they represent. And the people are speaking up and speaking out all across America.

Why so serious Mr. President?

Why so serious Madame Speaker?

Why so serious Mr. Majority Leader?

I can promise you, it's not just about some poster ladies and gentlemen. These people are so serious because they know that they have a limited time to set and pass their agenda before the sleeping giant that is America wakes and comes after them with a vengeance.

And IMO? That time is long over due.

White House Struggles to Gauge Afghan Success

Along with his other problems, the president is struggling to quantify what is now his war in Afghanistan. For seven years Americans have listened to the democrats wail about keeping our eye on the ball and the fact that president Bush supposedly didn't keep his eye on the ball. According to the democrats, Bush was fighting a war in Iraq, when the real war that needed fighting was in Afghanistan.

We were told by the liberals that the battle in the war on terror wasn't in Iraq at all, but was rather in Afghanistan. And now that we have a democrat president and a liberal administration prosecuting the war in Afghanistan?  What do we see. We see an ever widening quagmire IMO and no signs of the stated abilities that were trumpeted by this president before his election.

Americans need to remember, that the liberal socialist democrats wanted to throw in the towel and quit in Iraq for five years. And when they weren't demonizing president Bush and our military over Iraq, they were equating Iraq to Vietnam and attempting to bring their forced perspectives into reality in the court of public opinion. Thankfully, president Bush and his military commanders prevailed in Iraq. America finally won the war in Iraq before president Bush left office. But the battle in Afghanistan was left to the incoming administration.

Not that it was a lost cause by any stretch of imagination. As recent as a year ago things were at least stativ in Afghanistan. But a lot can change in a year and a lot has changed. Last year, there was very little commentary about the war in Afghanistan from our soon to be president. When he did speak of Afghanistan, he spoke of the (his) resolution being the potential invasion of Pakistan (if need be).

Now that he is president and he has had six months to establish his policies and the direction of the military as it concerns both Iraq and Afghanistan? What seems to be the reality is that Barack Obama is trying to nail jello to a wall. Not because it needs to be done, but because he believes that it needs to be done.

More specifically, the president replaced the commanding general overseeing the war in Afghanistan a couple of months ago. Apparently he wanted someone more aligned with his own thinking on the war and what was necessary to prosecute the war.  

President Obama replaced General David McKiernan with General Stanley McChrystal. Of course the published reports at the time were that the president only wanted someone with a fresh perspective and a new way of approaching the war in Afghanistan.

Well he got his wish. General Stanley McChrystal, was the former special forces and special operations commander for the US Army and joint services command. The one general supposedly best situated for evaluating and implementing reduced size forces in a theater of war operations. Forces supposedly capable of doing far more with less is this general's credential and expertise.

Special warfare tactics have proven themselves in limited engagements, but not in theater wide wars. And there in lies the problem IMO.

I must admit to a great amount of trepidation when I witnessed General Mckeirnan being relieved of duty and the supposed all star of special operations being appointed to command the war. I now believe that my fears were justified, based upon the numbers being reported daily from Afghanistan. It is bad enough that the casualty rates have increased dramatically since president Obama and his new general have changed the direction of the war, but it is also noteworthy (IMO) that General McCrystal is now calling for a doubling of ground troops in Afghanistan.

Three points should immediately scream out at the average American watching this unfold. First, that the general chosen to get the job done with his special warfare skills, seems to be bogged down and unable to accomplish the task, And worse, his performance to date is noticeably worse that the man that he relieved.

Second, that General McCrystal is calling for a dramatic increase (doubling) of ground troops in Afghanistan. Wasn't this one of the reason that president Obama used to justify his changing gears and moving in a different direction with a different general three months ago? McKiernon wanted more troops and he was flatly denied and replaced. Weren't we all led to believe that General McCrystal was the long awaited answer and that all that was required was a change of tactics and application by a professional?

Thirdly....does anyone remember the criticism leveled at president Bush and Sec. Defense Rumsfeld when they applied the exact same tactics under the recommmendation of General Tommy Franks in Iraq? Yes, there were plenty of people both inside and outside of the military that said from the beginning, that we were not committing enough resources to Ieaq. Sadly, it took five years and several thousand lives to convince the president to do what was necessary to win the war.

Does our current president intend to do the same? Are Americans going to be forced to endure another four or five years of war in Afghanistan, while more Americans lose their lives waiting for this president to admit that he has made a mistake.

Our allies seem to have known or suspected what is afoot and they have collectively stated that they do not intend to buy into further casualties for their own people, via what they see as nothing new from this president. The British having just had the worst month in the war since it's beginning. And they are already talking about withdrawing their forces int he face of increased Taliban.

The liberal democrats and this president have decried for over five years the wars int he middle east and equated them to Vietnam. I now fear that they are about to get their wish. Although it will be several more years and several more thousand American lives lost. Before America once again declares peace with honor and slips away once again from a history that no one will care to remember.

They say that you can't have your cake and eat it too. Which in the case of the president's birthday cake? Might raise the question of who would want to.

Cakes are supposed to be appealing. Aren't they? This thing certainly isn't appealing IMO. It almost looks like some gaudy table piece.

Americans want answers and Obama and his team of cabinet secretaries and Czars simply don't have any answers. When Americans in town hall meetings over the past week have called out the Obama administration on health care and the economy and jobs, there have been no answers from these puppets of socialism. Only dodges and a visible resentment by those like Health and human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and turn coat senator Arlen Specter, when they are called upon to explain and defend this president's socialist policies and proposals.

Why so serious America?

After all, all he has done is lie through his teeth from day one.

Patients forced to live in agony after NHS refuses to pay for painkilling injections

This is but another example of the reality when it comes to socialized medicine in practice. This report and similar actions and decisions by the NHS in the UK, are more than evidence of the best reasons why every American should be resisting this socialist lunacy while we can.

The Government's drug rationing watchdog says "therapeutic" injections of steroids, such as cortisone, which are used to reduce inflammation, should no longer be offered to patients suffering from persistent lower back pain when the cause is not known.
Instead the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is ordering doctors to offer patients remedies like acupuncture and osteopathy.

Read the report and pay particular attention to the qualifiers being established by these British NHS boards for who will no longer qualify for treatment and why. Then ask yourself, how much longer before they establish euthanasia as a state sponsored solution to ease the rising cost of medical treatment under their socialized system of fairness in the UK.

To each according to his need? Has obviously been left out of the mission statement and goal of socialized medicine in the UK. And this is what America is preparing itself to accept?

California public union OKs strike authorization

What do you do when you are a union simpleton?  What do you do when you are someone who has been raised under the umbrella of socialism as practiced in the private sector by unions?

Obviously you grab your banners and your picket signs and you head for the strike line anytime you don't get what you want. Because that is what good union people do when they don't get their way. Right? They grab a sign and they strike! Is there any other way than the union way? Has there ever been any other way for these lemmings and the union leadership snipes that they have elected to represent them?

I don't think so.

Only a moron completely oblivious to what is going on in the world and in this country and in the state of California, could fail to realize and recognize the cause and effect relationship of what is currently wreaking havoc on this country. It is an all out recession if not ultimate depression, yet these union myrmidons only see their own special interests when it comes to survival. (democracy at it's worst IMO "Mob rule" personified by union.)

But that matters not to these loyal unionist and their scrappy dog stirrers who enter the fray solely to kick up the indentured masses into a writing mass of strikers. If the example of "the end justifies the means" ever found a more appropriate analogy and caricature than the American labor union? Then I have never seen it.

As California struggles to stay afloat and attempts to swim to safe shore, all the while carrying the socialist entitlement mass draped around it's neck like a mill stone, there are those who still fail to see the reality or what their eyes and ears are clearly revealing to them.

What part of "California is bankrupt" do these labor unions not get? Do they honestly believe that they are more entitled to the public teat, than the writhing masses that they have exploited as their own means and justification for existence for decades?

For those aware and paying attention over the course of the past forty years, this crisis was foreseeable and knowable of result from the beginning. Those who could do basic arithmetic knew that the socialist state of America, created by the New Deal of the 1930's would have to come to a complete crash one day.

It was only sustainable for so long and at some point the creative financing and creative taxation and the cooking of the books would fail to keep the mechanism from crashing and the true misery from being revealed. And that day has now arrived. Is it any surprise that it should begin incrementally or in the most populist and socialist state in America?

Of course the entire country won't collapse as one. The underpinnings and the state by state collapse must first occur, before the domino effect kicks in and the entire nation is reduced to rubble. But California is the triggering point, make no mistake about that.

So as America declines and is finally bled white by the realities that we have visited upon ourselves, take heart in the knowledge that America's unions will be right in the middle of it all. Pulling their weight and doing all in their power to expedite the end.

They were there last year when the American auto makers were propped up with your money, only to fail and face bankruptcy latter this year. And the public employees unions will be there in California in the coming weeks as it fails and the cries for federal bail out reaches a peak of piteous cry.

But in the end nothing will save the dying bear of California IMO. And all that these state employee unions are doing is hastening the demise of the entire state. At a time when they could be contracting and preserving some of their jobs and futures? They are doing what unions always do. They are turning and attacking and they will be far more content to ride the ship to the bottom, than they would be to bail or man the life boats.

"from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

It's really very simple once you think about it and understand what has happened and why.