Conservative Thread: U.S. Steele - Back In Business

[breezy1077]

Maybe I'm just being negative today, but I don't see any fight left in anyone. Talk... yes. Action...not so much.

You may be right Zip, but then I'm feeling pretty negative today too. I'd love to take part in a march on Washington the likes of which have never been seen before, but I wouldn't have a clue as to how to go about organizing one.

I think Rush and Hannity could go a long way with doing that though.

Personally, I'd like to see protests of all kinds. For starters, I encourage the top 5% to take a year's vacation.

 

[loco4dis]

I always thought that if we lost our rights of property ownership it would happen slowly. Consider me shocked to see it happening so quickly. What is even more facsinating to me is that the people of the United States are sitting back and accepting it without putting up much of a fight. Outside of a few rants from TV economist windbags, rambling rhetoric from the hollow shell that's left of the GOP in Congress, and some internet musings there has been hardly a whimper. Truly sad.

I don't know if you read this when I posted it the other day, but it is an amazing analysis about how we'll give up our freedoms, incrementally, and all the while we'll think we're controlling the whole thing.

Here's a sample:

Most of us imagine the transformation of a free society to a tyrannical state in Hollywood terms, as a melodramatic act of violence like a military coup or an armed insurrection. Tocqueville knows better. He foresees a slow death of freedom. The power of the centralized government will gradually expand, meddling in every area of our lives until, like a lobster in a slowly heated pot, we are cooked without ever realizing what has happened. The ultimate horror of Tocqueville’s vision is that we will welcome it, and even convince ourselves that we control it.

There is no single dramatic event in Tocqueville’s scenario, no storming of the Bastille, no assault on the Winter Palace, no March on Rome, no Kristallnacht. We are to be immobilized, Gulliver-like, by myriad rules and regulations, annoying little restrictions that become more and more binding until they eventually paralyze us.

We will not be bludgeoned into submission; we will be seduced. He foresees the collapse of American democracy as the end result of two parallel developments that ultimately render us meekly subservient to an enlarged bureaucratic power: the corruption of our character, and the emergence of a vast welfare state that manages all the details of our lives.

To me, this essay, and the words of Tocqueville, are just terrifying in their accuracy about this place at this time. Terrifying.

http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2009/02/14/were-all-fascists-now-ii-american-tyranny/

 

[JPN4265]

John Kerry is worried about wasteful spending.........

"I'm sick and tired of picking up the newspaper and reading about another idiotic abuse of taxpayer money, while our country is on the brink," Sen. John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in a statement released to Reuters.

 

[wonderlanne]

When will our government stop spending money we don't have?!?

when china decides they don't want to cooperate with us anymore and call in the loans.

 

[Dolce27]

when china decides they don't want to cooperate with us anymore and call in the loans.

And that is pretty darn scary.

I heard that a solider is appealing to the courts to require Obama to turn over proof of his citizenship. Obama currently has a high priced attorney in LA sealing all of these records permanently; birth certificate, all school’s transcripts, everything.

I honestly don’t believe that Obama is eligible to be President. This subterfuge from him has gone on too long. His actions prove him to be that of a guilty man, not those of an innocent man. Innocent men hand over the proof; guilty men hide.

 

[Humphrey Bear]

John Kerry is worried about wasteful spending.........

"I'm sick and tired of picking up the newspaper and reading about another idiotic abuse of taxpayer money, while our country is on the brink," Sen. John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in a statement released to Reuters.

Um....John Kerry said this?

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

I don't know if you read this when I posted it the other day, but it is an amazing analysis about how we'll give up our freedoms, incrementally, and all the while we'll think we're controlling the whole thing.

Here's a sample:



To me, this essay, and the words of Tocqueville, are just terrifying in their accuracy about this place at this time. Terrifying.

http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2009/02/14/were-all-fascists-now-ii-american-tyranny/

I had not seen that. Interesting read.

John Kerry is worried about wasteful spending.........

"I'm sick and tired of picking up the newspaper and reading about another idiotic abuse of taxpayer money, while our country is on the brink," Sen. John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in a statement released to Reuters.

What a twit.

when china decides they don't want to cooperate with us anymore and call in the loans.

 

[wdwcoltsfan]

And that is pretty darn scary.

I heard that a solider is appealing to the courts to require Obama to turn over proof of his citizenship. Obama currently has a high priced attorney in LA sealing all of these records permanently; birth certificate, all school’s transcripts, everything.

I honestly don’t believe that Obama is eligible to be President. This subterfuge from him has gone on too long. His actions prove him to be that of a guilty man, not those of an innocent man. Innocent men hand over the proof; guilty men hide.

I hadn't heard this, but if Obama has a high priced attorney(or any attorney for that matter) trying to seal all of his records, why isn't that making bigger news? Why on earth would someone go to the trouble of doing that? Seriously, all questions would be put to rest if he would just release them. Done.Over.Kaput.


Rachel

 

[TLSnell1981]

As long as we haven't become so complacent that we've lost the will to fight back - then all is not lost.

What's edifying to me is all the talk of Tea Party protests - we need to stand up for what's right and fight to keep our country from becoming Socialommunist!

Otherwise, we might as well change the National bird to an Ostrich.

Sheesh...let me at 'em. I'm not scared. Lose is not in my vocabulary.

Tea Party? I'm in!!

Ostrich? I've been saying the dems carry a bucket of sand around. Tinfoil Hat? A least I'm not swallowing it: hook, line and sinker.

Well even with BHO and his rambling on about Change, consumers think the future is bleak with their confidence at an all time low this month.

He never said what kind of "change". Be fair.

Personally, I'd like to see protests of all kinds. For starters, I encourage the top 5% to take a year's vacation.

Take a vacation? That evil 5% must worker even harder now!

I honestly don’t believe that Obama is eligible to be President. This subterfuge from him has gone on too long. His actions prove him to be that of a guilty man, not those of an innocent man. Innocent men hand over the proof; guilty men hide.

I question it too. I think he's probably ineligible "on a technicality." I think he was adopted and had dual citizenship. If this is/was so...he never completed the proper papers and is a "naturalized" citizen. This is my theory.

If it were all neat and legal? He would have produced the vault copy. Anyone else would have.

 

[breezy1077]

Yes, but if the top 5% takes a vacation for a year - the dems won't have any money to spend.


Question being asked - Nationalized banks or Near-depression?

I'll take full depression for 200 Alex!

WTH?

I've got a novel idea.....LET THE MARKET SELF-CORRECT AND KEEP YOUR LIBERAL MONEY GRUBBIN' PAWS OUT OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Geesh!

Hmmmm, that was a tough one

 

[breezy1077]

I hadn't heard this, but if Obama has a high priced attorney(or any attorney for that matter) trying to seal all of his records, why isn't that making bigger news? Why on earth would someone go to the trouble of doing that? Seriously, all questions would be put to rest if he would just release them. Done.Over.Kaput.


Rachel

That's been my argument all along - nothing to hide? - Just release the dang thing then. Actually, I wasn't that convinced there was anything to it until he dodged the whole thing rather than produce something as simple as Proof of Naturalization.

 

[#1hockeymom]

Happy Paczki day!


That is all. I think I need a nap before I cook dinner, then head out for hockey.

 

[loco4dis]

You guys will get a laugh out of this. CNN has a new poll out that says "A national poll indicates most Americans think President Obama will give a good speech Tuesday night in his address to a joint session of Congress…."

They've done a poll on how people think the president will do when he speaks!

Is that just completely nuts, or what? This is what they're polling? These media fools are just in our face with their SPIN before the speech ever takes place. Basically, they've decreed it a good speech — before the speech! They aren't even trying to pretend he's not their boyfriend anymore. The media is just pretty much, "Yup, I love him. I know he's not a very good guy, and he'll probably break my heart in the end, but by God I love him — and you'll love him, too, so long as I can keep you from finding out what he's really like. So that's pretty much my job now. Must protect boyfriend at all costs."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/24/obama.poll/index.html

 

[blestmom]

You guys will get a laugh out of this. CNN has a new poll out that says "A national poll indicates most Americans think President Obama will give a good speech Tuesday night in his address to a joint session of Congress…."

They've done a poll on how people think the president will do when he speaks!

Is that just completely nuts, or what? This is what they're polling? These media fools are just in our face with their SPIN before the speech ever takes place. Basically, they've decreed it a good speech — before the speech!

That is just ridiculous....

 

[Tink & Goofy]

I question it too. I think he's probably ineligible "on a technicality." I think he was adopted and had dual citizenship. If this is/was so...he never completed the proper papers and is a "naturalized" citizen. This is my theory.

If it were all neat and legal? He would have produced the vault copy. Anyone else would have.

I agree. McCain had to and did. So why wasn't bo required to?

 

[TLSnell1981]

Heads up...the Thought police are loose. The radicals have their panties in twist...again. They cut and pasted my "theory" on a possible reason Obama's not eligible. They are having a grand old time.

They hijacked the thread and now it's been declared "The Obamalovefest for Osteriches."

 

[Amy&Dan]

And that is pretty darn scary.

I heard that a solider is appealing to the courts to require Obama to turn over proof of his citizenship. Obama currently has a high priced attorney in LA sealing all of these records permanently; birth certificate, all school’s transcripts, everything.

I honestly don’t believe that Obama is eligible to be President. This subterfuge from him has gone on too long. His actions prove him to be that of a guilty man, not those of an innocent man. Innocent men hand over the proof; guilty men hide.

You know when this issue first came up, I sort of didn't think there was much to it. I mean he'd have to be eligible or he couldn't have gotten so far was my theory. But I really think differently now. This thing just won't go away because he won't pony up and produce the proof. And yet its still considered some right wing, fringe mentality to suggest it.

John Kerry is such a moron. Alhtough I'd rather he be president right now than who we have. Talk about sad.

 

[rie'smom]

Heads up...the Thought police are loose. The radicals have their panties in twist...again. They cut and pasted my "theory" on a possible reason Obama's not eligible. They are having a grand old time.

They hijacked the thread and now it's been declared "The Obamalovefest for Osteriches."

Maroons- I wouldn't worry about what they think. After all they elected floppy.

 

[Amy&Dan]

Heads up...the Thought police are loose. The radicals have their panties in twist...again. They cut and pasted my "theory" on a possible reason Obama's not eligible. They are having a grand old time.

They hijacked the thread and now it's been declared "The Obamalovefest for Osteriches."

Wow what an honor to be cut and pasted. Too bad they can't come up with their own ideas!

 

[DancingBear]

Heads up...the Thought police are loose. The radicals have their panties in twist...again. They cut and pasted my "theory" on a possible reason Obama's not eligible.

Why do you put "theory" in quotes? You called it your theory right here. Defend it.

Any of the regular con posters here want to stand up and say this whole birth certificate thing is ridiculous?