Patriotism. Love of country. In God We Trust. Traditional values. Our American heritage. September 11, 2001. Are they all forgotten?
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J.C's Corner
February 4, 2012
The Looters Most Shameful Heist Yet
As those of us on The Forgotten Street, Main Street USA, continue to see the American Dream crumble before our eyes, the looters who inhabit the federal government and Wall Street are pulling their biggest heist ever.
The decimated housing market, plagued by foreclosures and middle Americans watching their equity and wealth evaporate, is the focus of a new effort to further loot the pockets of those of us who tried to play by the rules and found out that the game was rigged.
Word came this past week that private equity firms will pick up more than 200,000 foreclosed homes from the government at pennies on the dollar to market as rental property.
These are the same private equity firms that President Obama excoriates in his role as the new Kingfish, the successor to Huey Long as the class warfare demagogue. These are the same firms whose principals line up to pay $35,000 a plate in fundraising galas designed to keep the Kingfish in office.
It’s all one big Kabuki dance trying to fool the American public while large financial institutions continue to rob us blind.
Think about what is really happening: banks are foreclosing on homeowners instead of trying to find a reasonable middle ground that would allow people to keep and stay in their homes while the economy turns around.
It’s all part and parcel of an evil scheme to steal people’s homes, confiscate their equity and flip the housing into a more lucrative return on investment.
In the meantime, these homes will become rental property that will not add to any stability in neighborhoods and housing markets hurt by the housing bust.
The thieves who participate in this scam have no interest in preserving neighborhoods, only in making a quick buck. Who is going to manage these properties and ensure they are rented to qualified tenants and properly maintained?
This whole scheme may be one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated on the American public. This rental flim-flam is the brainchild of the Kingfish, who doesn’t give a damn about the middle class but only seeks its votes with rhetoric about class warfare.
The propaganda professionals in Washington will pass this off as working off the foreclosure backlog to invigorate the housing market. No doubt they will make Joseph Goebbels proud with their spin and outright lies.
Consider this: homeowners who paid some of their mortgages and built up some equity before falling into trouble and defaulting have seen that equity disappear. The Wall Street sharks obtaining these properties will assume that equity without any serious investment and then be able to flip the properties down the road when and if the housing market ever rebounds.
Folks, there is only one word for this sham: thievery. And your federal government is aiding and abetting in this monstrous crime in order to re-elect the Kingfish.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American if we work to have a true, patriotic American in the White House.
Ronald Reagan Centennial Quote of the Day: “The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.” October 5, 1981
January 28, 2012
Destroying the USA “Brand”
The rise of Barack Obama to the American presidency represents the culmination of a Prog-Lib-Commie dream: obliteration of America’s unique selling proposition: Freedom.
If you look at countries as a product, you can identify the unique qualities that make up their “brand.” In the case of the United States of America, our brand was built on the concept of individual freedom.
As a result, tens of millions of freedom-seeking people from around the globe migrated to our country, hungering for the inalienable rights endowed by our Creator. The genius of the Founding Fathers is indisputable in how our governing principles were created and put into practice as the most noble political experiment in human history.
For more than a century, intellectual elites have been trying to undo the Founding Fathers’ creation because it inhibits them from holding power over the masses and forcing their will on people of free and independent will.
First self-styled as “progressives,” then as “liberals,” these elites are the result of the Marxist ideology that enveloped Europe in the latter half of the 19th century. Hence, my name for them, Prog-Lib-Commies.
For more than a century, they have insinuated themselves into a host of American institutions, such as government, academia, churches and the media to advance the notion that a self-appointed group of elites knows what is best for us, that we should no longer enjoy our individual freedoms if they conflict with the Prog-Lib-Commie agenda.
With the rise of electronic media, and its advance from radio through television to the Internet, the Prog-Lib-Commies try to implement their philosophy as the new normal for Americans in the name of conventional wisdom.
Technology has given the Prog-Lib-Commies the tools they need to shape public opinion and subjugate Americans through the ubiquity of new “toys” such as cell phones that function as personal computers.
We are becoming, in fact, a “Zombie Nation” of people who shy away from face-to-face contact in favor of an electronic community of people who don’t know their neighbors.
I’m amazed when I go to work and enter an elevator. Most people are on their phones and avoiding any eye contact with fellow passengers. Decades ago, people would greet each other and make small talk. Instead, we’re becoming real strangers who think we know people through an electronic interface.
Communications tools make it possible for people in remote locations to meet through conference calls and monitor others through email and instant messaging, but because of it all, we become docile sheep too inhibited to bridge the divide that really exists.
Meanwhile, government chips away at our freedoms. It tells us what toilets and light bulbs we must buy, it will force us to buy products like health insurance that we may not want at a given stage of our lives, and it is moving rapidly to control what we eat and drink.
The America the world came to know and love decades ago through Hollywood movies displayed a compelling brand built around the concept of individual freedom. The cowboys who tamed the West, the soldiers who defeated Nazis in the name of freedom, and the men who went to the Moon have disappeared and been replaced by a wide range of characters that portray America as a nation of greedy bigots sliding into decline.
Mr. Obama is the transitional figure to help “transform” the American brand, from one of individual freedom, to one of numbing Soviet-like conformity built on the nebulous and deceitful concepts of “fairness” and “social justice,” whatever the hell either of those really mean.
Wake up, would-be Zombie Nation, you have everything to lose, especially your freedom.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American if we fight to preserve and enhance our brand as “the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
Ronald Reagan Centennial Quote of the Day: “Rebuilding prosperity … is the true meaning of fairness and compassion.” October 4, 1982
January 26, 2012
The GOP Disdain for Ronald Reagan is Sickening
In the centennial of the birth of Ronald Reagan, our greatest President since George Washington, the Republican hierarchy continues to display its shameful disdain for the party’s greatest leader.
With his stunning electoral success in the 1980’s, and the truly epochal accomplishments of his eight-year presidency, Ronald Wilson Reagan provided the absolute template for decades of Republican success.
Unfortunately, the party elected to spurn his wisdom, beginning with his successor, George H.W. Bush, who quickly returned to his Eastern establishment roots. The Bushes, Doles and Romneys of the world hunger for the blessing of the Washington and media elites to the detriment of America.
Today we are subjected to the tawdry spectacle of the leading GOP contenders in the 2012 election resorting to WWE tactics, acting like the worst wrestlers on television.
Enough of the Smackdown, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich! You both are proving neither of you is fit to be President, and it’s sacrilege for either to try to claim the Reagan mantle. Both have eviscerated Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment to “not speak ill of fellow Republcians.”
Ronald Reagan was smart enough to realize that it served no useful purpose to do the other party’s work in tearing down a candidate. Better you should articulate your vision and present an agenda that can rally a nation. President Reagan did exactly that and brought our country back from the edge of an abyss.
Ronald Reagan showed he was the most natural of politicians who truly understood the American psyche and how the country thirsted for leadership in the era of the inept Jimmy Carter.
At this juncture in the presidential race, only Rick Santorum has shown the maturity, integrity and dignity needed to be a party standard bearer. Senator Santorum is the true conservative in the race, and the one candidate who can truly lay claim to the Reagan mantle.
His appeal to blue collar Americans and his vision to restore traditional American values to a society thirsting for morality in an era of debauchery make him the standout at his point.
As the Super PACS continue to flood the airwaves with destructive advertising, it becomes clear that the only beneficiary is Barack Obama.
What may be the likely outcome of the bloodletting in Florida between Romney and Gingrich is a longer slog that may in time lead to a brokered convention in Tampa, and the emergence of a new candidate to try to bring a fractured GOP back together. Keep an eye on what Jeb Bush may do over the next few months.
Governor Bush had a sterling record from his tenure in Florida, he could win over the Eastern establishment and his conservative credentials are significant. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
The issue will be, “is America ready for a third President Bush?” Given the totally dismal record of the Lyin’ King, it is not out of the realm of possibility.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American when we follow the inspiration and leadership of Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan Centennial Quote of the Day: “I always believed that a lot of troubles in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.” April 11, 1984
January 21, 2012
Obama: Peace At Any Price
Ronald Reagan was able to frame his foreign policy philosophy in a single, memorable phrase that resonated with the American people:
Peace Through Strength
President Barack Obama has yet to do anything like that, so let me help him by summing up his foreign policy:
Peace At Any Price
News that the Obama Administration is engaged in peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan and trying to open a back channel for talks with the Iranian leadership underscores the utter weakness and treachery of his view of national security.
The Lyin’ King’s foreign policy is built on a foundation of capitulation to evil, pandering to Islamist radicals and a total rejection of America’s role as a world leader. As the world becomes more dangerous with hostile dictatorial regimes arming themselves with nuclear weapons or aligning with those who might share them, Obama has sounded the call to retreat.
Entering into peace talks with the Taliban is an abomination. Would Franklin Roosevelt have negotiated with the Nazis after gaining the upper hand in World War II? Making a deal with the Taliban will negate the noble sacrifice made by American and NATO soldiers and lead to the end of the budding democracy in Afghanistan. These talks simply show that the appeasers who infest the U.S. State Department (and have for decades) now call the shots on foreign policy.
Meanwhile, looming defense cuts will further weaken our great military. Our Navy, the finest in world history, now has fewer ships on active duty than any time since World War I. The Air Force now operates 39 fighter squadrons while it had more than twice that number two decades ago.
The disaster at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 shows the utter folly of letting military resources dwindle to dangerous levels.
To burnish his foreign policy credentials in the presidential election, Mr. Obama no doubt will tout the killing of Bin Laden and the overthrow of Gadhafi.
I’m already tired of his chest puffing over the Bin Laden episode, which has all the earmarks of a hoax. Since the announcement was made, how many times has the official recounting of the raid in Pakistan changed? The White House and Defense Department can’t get their story straight, and much of it sounds implausible.
What was the rush to dispose of the alleged Bin Laden body at sea all about? Why have no photos been released to assure the world that Bin Laden is in fact out of the picture, if he already wasn’t over a decade ago in the Tora Bora bombing?
Yes, I can be a cynic at times, but the entire story just doesn’t jell as to how the raid truly unfolded, what the timeline was in terms of Bin Laden’s death in the raid, or if he tried to defend himself or surrender?
Of more concern than this minor matter is what the United States is prepared to do in terms of standing up for Israel and preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
And, what will America do in the face of the rapid military buildup underway in Red China and the Chinese effort to establish hegemony in the Pacific Ocean off its borders as well as around Japan and the Philippines?
There are major national security issues to be debated in the 2012 election. Now is the time to start the repudiation of Obama’s “Peace At Any Price” foreign policy. Why the GOP contenders haven’t already is strange.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American when we all stand up to ensure our military has the strength it needs to lead to more real and lasting peace.
Ronald Reagan Centennial Quote of the Day: “The dustbin of history is littered with the remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget … in the final analysis … that it is our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger.”
January 18, 2012
Obama: Compliant Stooge for Rich Old White Men
The decision by the U.S. State Department today to deny approval for the Keystone XL oil pipeline speaks to the weakness and perfidy of President Barack Obama.
First of all, he was not man enough to take responsibility for the decision. He pawned it off on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who had the audacity to say the pipeline was not in the national interest.
The Elite Traitor Media, court stenographers for Emperor Obama, tried to pass the decision off as a case of bowing to his environmental base.
Meanwhile, he gave the middle finger to the labor unions, who will lose out on thousands of good paying jobs. He also did his part to create more empty storefronts on The Forgotten Street, Main Street USA.
All the pundits have missed the real story behind the decision: Canada now says it will redirect a pipeline to deliver oil to West Coast ports for shipping to China. What goes unspoken is how some of that oil may still arrive in the United States.
Without the pipeline, the only way to transport meaningful quantities of the oil is by rail. And, who owns the main railroad that will profit from these shipments? Warren Buffett, whose company controls the Burlington Northern railroad, and whose contributions likely funded the environmental opposition in Nebraska.
The Keystone WL pipeline decision is simply a payoff to Warren Buffett, who continues to benefit economically from a range of Obama administration decisions while he goes to bat to advocate the higher taxes that the President seeks. Funny how he invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs right before the government announced its bailout of the Wall Street crooks.
Where is the environmental concern over shipping by rail? Given the remarkable safety record of the Alaskan pipeline over the past three decades, it’s obvious that rail shipments pose a greater threat to the environment than the pipeline.
But Barack Obama has been nothing but a compliant stooge for rich old white men like Buffett and George Soros. Soros, the disgusting Nazi collaborator, is a major investor in the Brazilian oil company Petrobas, and Mr. Obama has pledged to the Brazilians that the U.S. will be a big customer for its oil.
So it would appear that President Obama and Secretary Clinton believe it is in the national interest to purchase oil from Brazil, and not from Canada, while killing a project that would generate tens of thousands of jobs for desperate Americans and pump billions into the economy.
I think Congressman Joseph Wilson put it best: YOU LIE!
How much longer will the unions continue to be played for fools by the Democrats? By putting all their eggs in the Prog-Lib-Commie basket, the unions are getting sold out by a President who knows they have nowhere else to go.
Meanwhile, the American economic ship continues to flounder, heading for rocky shoals just like the Costa Concordia while Mr. Obama plays Stepin Fetchit for Warren Buffett and George Soros.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, and maybe one day, we will have a President who treats Canada like a real ally.
Ronald Reagan Centennial Quote of the Day: “I have come to realize that a great many so-called liberals aren’t liberal -- they will defend to the death your right to agree with them.”
January 14, 2012
Progressives Value Intentions But Scorn Achievement
President Obama stands as the ultimate Prog-Lib-Commie, who spews meaningless platitudes built on the twin rhetorical pillars of the movement: “fairness” and “social justice,” two heaping piles of steer manure.
In advocating policies designed to promote fairness and social justice, the Prog-Lib-Commies pin their agenda to highly subjective but nebulous concepts that can mean all things to all people. What matters is that they sound good and make the advocate look noble.
Fairness is truly in the eye of the beholder. What you might think is fair another person might find unreasonable. And social justice is simply a euphemism for redistributing wealth by taking rights and property from the achievers to reward others.
Truth be told, the real intentions of the Prog-Lib-Commies has been to self-appoint a ruling class that will confiscate all wealth and redistribute it while telling all of us how we are supposed to live.
We can look around at the wreckage caused by their intense focus on intentions rather than achievement. Consider the Triple “E” axis of government evil: the Departments of Education, Energy and the EPA.
Since the federal government got involved in public education, usurping the rights of local school districts to manage their own affairs, the public education system has become in large measure a basket case. Growing federal involvement in higher education has exacerbated the problem as our colleges and universities now turn out many graduates who are virtually unemployable.
The creation of the Department of Energy resulted in America becoming more dependent on hostile foreign sources of fossil fuels while hamstringing domestic energy production and improvement in the reliability and performance of the electrical grid.
Then, we have the EPA, which gives off the appearance that it’s really working for foreign powers as a fifth column to destroy us from the inside by stifling economic growth and development. Led by Administrator Lisa Jackson, the EPA represents an agency run amok, populated with “watermelons” (green on the outside, red on the inside).
All of this havoc has been wreaked in the name of noble intentions, while the actual achievements testify to the construction of an Autobahn to Prog-Lib-Commie Hell.
In this election year, be prepared for an unending stream of sermons from Reverend Obama, consecrated by Bishop Wright, regarding fairness and social justice. These empty words should warn you to grab hold of your wallet and prepare to be punished for your productivity and achievement.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American because we have it in our power to bring meaningful change in November.
Ronald Reagan Centennial Quote of the Day:
“For three decades we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan … Well, now if government planning and welfare had the answer -- and they’ve had almost thirty years of it -- shouldn’t we expect the government to read the score to us once in a while? Shouldn’t they be telling us about the decline each year in the number of people needing help?”
October 27, 1964
January 8, 2012
Romney’s Ahead, But It’s By No Means Over
As we near the eve of the New Hampshire GOP primary, let’s take a quick look at the Republican presidential field and see what we might expect in the next few weeks. We’ll examine each candidate and then lay out a possible scenario:
Mitt Romney: The prohibitive favorite, with the race clearly his to lose. Give him credit for a smooth, machine-like campaign, but let’s not overlook a few pitfalls. Despite their protestations, Democrats secretly want Romney as the nominee. Who better for the King of Class Warfare to run against than a wealthy white man who made his fortune on Wall Street?
Romney’s tenure as Massachusetts Governor demonstrated his executive ability and political skills, but it did nothing to burnish his credentials with the conservative GOP base.
I’ve teased that Mitt is “John McCain with better hair,” clearly the choice of the GOP Eastern establishment and the DC GOP crowd. If he gets the nod, I’d look for much of the base to come home in order to beat the Lyin’ King. But Mitt’s ruthless breaking of the Reagan 11th Commandment (to not speak ill of other Republicans) will not be forgotten.
Newt Gingrich: Once the former Speaker emerged as the Romney alternative, the long knives in both the GOP and Democrat party came out. You can’t be a player in national politics as long as Newt has without making some formidable enemies. His long tenure in DC also tarnished his conservative credentials to some extent, making it tougher for him to get in front of the pack.
Ron Paul: The Texas Congressman has earned an intense and loyal following among those who share his libertarian views and appreciate his fiscal conservatism. But unfortunately for his presidential prospects, his isolationist foreign policy outlook is way out of the GOP mainstream and more at home with the Occupy Wall Street crowd. I will give Paul his due on fiscal policy. He has rightly put the spotlight on the destructive Fed policies that have waged war on elderly Americans. Ron Paul is like your lovable, cranky Uncle Ernie, but not what you want in a President.
Rick Perry: I’m sure many of you are as baffled as I am at the ineptitude shown by the Perry campaign in handling the marathon of debates as well as just getting a smooth organization running in place. There is much to like about the Texas Governor, who is a true patriot, a proven, effective executive and a real conservative. His ability to raise money will keep him in the race through South Carolina and possibly Florida, but if Romney wins either, it will all be over for Rick Perry.
Jon Huntsman: What is this spoiled rich kid doing in the race besides serving as the Eddie Haskell who annoys the hell out of everyone? His condescending remarks about Iowa (“they grow corn in Iowa and raise Presidents in New Hampshire”) were beyond insulting. They revealed an elitist streak that shows this man has no chance of getting the nomination once folks from The Forgotten Street, Main Street USA, start voting. Huntsman may be the most unappealing and unctuous presidential contender since John Kerry.
Rick Santorum: I saved the best for last. Former Senator Santorum has broken from the pack to pose the most credible and serious challenge to Mitt Romney. His win in Iowa (a honest vote count will show he did win) gave the nation a much closer look at a true conservative who has embraced the inclusiveness of the Ronald Reagan message and worked tirelessly to resurrect the Reagan coalition. His speech on caucus night in Iowa was magnificent. He did not rely on a teleprompter. He spoke from the heart with passion and conviction. In doing so, Rick showed he gets what this election is all about -- it’s for the heart and soul of America, to regain our moral bearings and become a united country around ideals and principles that should be shared by liberals and conservatives alike.
So where do we find the race today? As noted earlier, it’s Romney’s to lose, but a strong Santorum showing on Tuesday may shift the dynamics a bit in South Carolina and Florida. For Mitt to close the deal early and have the time needed to unite GOP voters behind his candidacy, he must win in New Hampshire and one of the two critical Southern states. Get ready America, it’s “Game On!”
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
My thanks and best wishes to our foreign visitors in December from the following: Sweden, the Russian Federation, the Ukraine, Canada, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Germany, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, Greece, New Zealand, Turkey, France, Red China, Italy, Thailand, the Seychelles, Brazil, Finland, Poland, Moldova, South Korea and Mexico. God bless you all!
Ronald Reagan Centennial Quote of the Day:
“I’m convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority. Very simply, they want to be left along in peace and safety to take care of the family by earning an honest dollar and putting away some savings. This may not sound too exciting, but there is something magnificent about it.”
July 6, 1976
January 2, 2012
Racing Toward the Abyss
Some economic pundits are spinning a rosier economic picture for 2012. Don’t buy what they’re selling. There are forces in motion that point to the undeniable fact that we’ll be lucky to mimic the pathetic performance of 2011.
Whatever the new year brings, we can count on one thing: The Lyin’ King will continue to try to blame everything on George W. Bush. I highly doubt that the bogus unemployment number, which is half what it really is, will budge much from the 8+ percent it is now. It’s worth recalling, unemployment was reported at 7.8 percent when Obama Disgustus became Emperor in 2009.
The spending spree that Obama and the Congress embarked on with his failed stimulus has put our country so far in debt that there is absolutely no way out without radically cutting spending to a level unseen since the Reagan Administration.
Our national debt will have increased by 67 percent under the Obama regime to $16.4 trillion, once he gets the latest extension of the debt ceiling from Congress. I can’t wait to see how The Kingfish demagogues this move.
The economic solution proposed by Obama and the Democrats is to further raise taxes “on the rich” while continuing to spend money at a mind-blowing pace on worthless boondoggles like high-rail in places where there are no riders or on alternative energy sources that are economically unfeasible.
To put things in perspective, consider this: the combined wealth of the Forbes 400 richest Americans is $1.5 trillion. If the government confiscated every penny of it, it would hardly cover the President’s pending request for a $1.2 trillion increase in the debt ceiling.
As we have seen in every place it’s ever been tried in history, wealth redistribution only will result in making everyone poor except the ruling elite who will continue to loot the public Treasury for themselves and their cronies.
Why are we so gloomy about the economic prospects for 2012? Consider these forces that are converging in a “perfect storm” we will be seriously challenged to survive:
- The housing market remains in a dismal slump, with the net worth of the middle class virtually eradicated by homes not worth their pending loans and foreclosures still booming;
- Europe remains a basket case, and the Obama Administration is likely to be suckered into providing some sort of bailout;
- A showdown with Iran could result in disruption to the world oil market and skyrocketing gasoline and heating oil prices;
- The enviro-commies in the EPA are trying to put in place regulations that will shut down coal-fired electricity plants, leading to higher prices for consumers and less reliability in the electrical grid;
- Opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline will deny tens of thousands of Americans needed jobs as well as a secure source of oil from Canada, making America more vulnerable to an oil shutoff;
- The looming Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) that kicks in in 2014 will require foreign financial institutions to reveal information on accounts held by Americans; failure to comply results in a 30 percent withholding tax on foreign investment in America, which means those dollars will begin seeking another home now;
- Red China’s bogus growth economy is in many ways a Potemkin village, ready to implode as a mammoth housing bubble gets ready to burst in a country where all economic data is suspect.
Other than that, Happy New Year! As we near the end of Obama’s hopefully last term, our hearts go out to black Americans who have suffered disproportionately under his presidency, with unemployment rates among young black males near catastrophic levels.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American because we have it within our grasp to bring about real change that can benefit everyone.
Ronald Reagan Centennial Quote of the Day: “The weakness in this country for too many years has been our insistence on … carving an ever-increasing number of slices from a shrinking economic pie. Our policies have concentrated on rationing scarcity rather than creating plenty. As a result, our economy has stagnated. But those days are ending.”
November 29, 1982
December 30, 2011
Talking 99 Percent, Living One Percent & Other Nonsense
At year’s end, it’s time to think about The Forgotten Street’s yearly awards. First, let’s honor the Hypocrites of the Year: Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, by a landslide.
The President and former Speaker distinguished themselves by embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement, further advancing the Democrats’ divisive class warfare.
The Lyin’ King and Aunt Bethany are great at talking the 99 percent game, but they live like the one-percenters they disparage at every opportunity, except when they want to hold $35,000-a-plate fundraisers with Wall Street fat cats.
As the nation reaches year’s end with unacceptably high unemployment (well into double-digits and not the lie put out by the Department of Labor), the President and Ms. Pelosi vacation in ultra-rich luxury in Hawaii, incurring millions of dollars in costs at the expense of taxpayers.
Our Dirtbag of the Year award goes to the amazingly unfunny Bill Maher, the atheist, bigoted filth merchant of HBO. His remarks about Tim Tebow were beyond crude and blasphemous. Those of you on The Forgotten Street, Main Street USA, who subscribe to HBO help subsidize this garbage. Call your cable provider now to cancel your HBO subscription.
The Sheer Stupidity Award goes to the environmental scam artists who managed to con Congress into pushing the mandate to phase out the incandescent light bulb in favor of compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) in the name of saving energy. Now Americans are being forced to introduce a product into their homes that contains a very toxic poison (mercury), emits ultra violet rays (that cause skin cancer) and poses a real fire hazard. I absolutely refuse to buy one of the damn things.
The CFL uses electricity to heat an element in the lamp’s base to energize the mercury vapor in coils, which in turn emit light. When the CFL no longer can produce light, the electronics in its base still try to function, which then can lead to overheating, smoke and fire.
Try as they might, the Enviro-Commies haven’t come up with a product safer or better than what Thomas Edison invented. Shame on the Bush Administration for letting this monstrosity become law in 2007.
Next time I’m at Rocky’s Hardware, I’m stocking up on regular 100-watt light bulbs while they’re still around.
There’s plenty more to consider as the year winds down. On the drawing board is a look ahead at what we might expect for the economy in 2012 (hint, it ain’t getting any better) as well as how the 2012 election is shaping up.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American as long as we resist government product mandates (they already ruined our toilets and shower heads). Sorry for the lack of comment in the past couple of weeks. Even The Forgotten Street needs to take a break.
Ronald Reagan Centennial Quote of the Day:
“Government has an inborn tendency to grow. And, left to itself, it will grow beyond the control of the people. Only constant complaint by the people will inhibit its growth.”
December 8, 2011
Obama’s No Socialist. He’s a Peronist.
Critics of President Barack Obama have gone too far in trying to paint him as a socialist. Truth be told, he is no socialist, but he is a Peronist, which is much more dangerous for the United States of America.
Obama is clearly fascistic in his political orientation. For far too long, the Prog-Lib-Commies have tried to associate fascism with far right politics, as in “right-wing Nazis.”
But the facts are otherwise. The Nazis in Germany were not “right-wing.” They were National Socialists. So fascism is aligned with statism and the concentration of power in a strong central government.
Barack Obama most closely resembles Juan Peron in Argentina. Although he came from a military background, Peron was a populist who tried to pit the masses against the establishment. He aligned himself with the labor unions, he nationalized major industries and he espoused anti-clericalism. Is that striking a familiar chord?
Much like Hugo Chavez in today’s Venezuela, whom Obama has publicly embraced as “mi amigo,” Juan Peron nationalized the broadcasting system, centralized unions under his control and persecuted opposing politicians and journalists.
In contrast, Obama has co-opted the Elite Traitor Media into serving as his court stenographers, relied on unions to intimidate opponents and demonized those who oppose him.
Mr. Obama has expressed his admiration for authoritarian regimes like Red China, and clearly he chafes under the traditional freedoms of the American republic.
Peronism was built on a cult of personality, which the Lyin’ King has tried to emulate. His embrace of the Occupy Wall Street movement shows his desire to try a populist approach to sway public opinion and win re-election.
In that sense, Barack Obama is trying to become the Kingfish, another Huey Long who inflames the masses with populist rhetoric, even at the expense of dangerously undermining the republic and abandoning the principle that the President of the United States is the representative of all the people, even those who did not vote for him.
Obama’s desire for a state-directed, regulated economy represents the height of fascism and Peronism. He wants state enterprise to control what was once private enterprise. His recent speech in Kansas displayed his complete disdain and contempt for the private enterprise system that made the United States the leading nation in the world.
As we get closer to the primary and caucus season, when GOP votes begin to have true meaning, we must consider which candidate can provide the most compelling alternative to the would-be Peron in the White House.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American and to repudiate the nascent fascism that Obama and the Democrats represent!
Ronald Reagan Centennial Quote of the Day:
"I am convinced that today the majority of Americans wants what those first Americans wanted. A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority. Very simply they want to be left alone in peace and safety to take care of the family by earning an honest dollar and putting away some savings." July 6, 1976
November 22, 2011
JFK’s Death Still Haunts Us
48 years ago today, John F. Kennedy was brutally murdered in Dallas, Texas. The death of our President will be an event that haunts us forever.
I still remember being in history class after lunch when the news came over the loudspeaker that President Kennedy had been shot in Texas. Our teacher, also the basketball coach, was visibly shaken. Then came the horrifying news delivered by our principal that President Kennedy had died.
The class, including our teacher who was much respected and beloved, dissolved into tears. For our generation, it was a day we would never experience again until September 11, 2001.
John F. Kennedy was a great American. An authentic war hero, a superior patriot, a staunch anti-communist and an economic realist who recognized that strong tax cuts would revive a stagnant economy.
All of which are the reasons why he was so viciously murdered.
In the aftermath of his death, we experienced the dignity and majesty of his funeral, so well designed by his widow Jackie, but have since been subjected to the ongoing assassination of his character by the Prog-Lib-Commies right here in America, pond scum like Seymour Hersh, who have worked to denigrate his memory and destroy his legacy.
As a further insult, we were subjected to the sheer steer manure produced by the Warren Commission to cover up the enormity of the crime against America that John Kennedy’s death represents.
Some day the truth will be known, and when it is, American history will change forever, and the media establishment will be forever exposed for the frauds they’ve been for almost a half a century.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, because the truth is stronger than the lies propagated by the Prog-Lib-Commies, whose evil hand in our President’s death will be finally revealed.
September 11, 2011
Not a Tragedy, A Savage Atrocity
Looking back 10 years on the events of September 11, 2001, I cannot accept calling the terrorist attacks on our nation a “tragedy’ or “tragic events.” They were savage atrocities committed by sub-humans consumed by evil.
Labeling 9/11 a tragedy diminishes the sheer evil and ruthless premeditation that went into these crimes of war. Unfortunately there are people who believe that somehow America brought this mindless murder on itself, racist demagogues like Rev. Jeremiah Wright who crowed about “America’s chickens coming home to roost.”
We have far too many of the Prog-Lib-Comm crowd who blame America first and want to see the United States taken down a notch or two. But we sure as hell shouldn’t behave like victims and apologize for wanting to defend ourselves from the savages in the world around us.
We also have a politically correct knucklehead like New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg who has desecrated the 10-year observance at Ground Zero by excluding clergy and the city’s firefighters. Does he believe that Americans want to shun God and ignore the 343 brave first responders who gave their lives in the service of their fellow citizens? He is a disgrace and thoroughly despicable human being.
For me this day brings a flood of memories, some all too painful and searing. Living in Alexandria, Virginia at the time, I was alerted to the unfolding events by a phone call at my office in Maryland from my wife, who had been called by our daughter.
While on the phone that morning, she heard a loud explosion. It was American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon. We subsequently learned that one of her coworkers and a very dear friend of ours was on that flight. She called me to tell me the sad news. I immediately broke down and finally left to come home and be with her.
No one tells the story of the impact of September 11 better than my wife did on the fifth anniversary in this special article on The Forgotten Street, Proud To Be American. Read it and absorb all that she says. No one ever said it better.
What ordinarily was a 45-minute ride turned into a four-hour journey as the greater Washington area was thrown into chaos, not knowing if more aircraft were on their way to carry out another deadly mission.
My usual route on the George Washington Parkway, which would take me past the CIA and the Pentagon, was blocked at the entrance by a U.S. Army armored personnel vehicle, flanked by soldiers with machine guns.
I meandered my way through local roads in northern Virginia until I finally got on a road that took me within view of the still burning Pentagon. Overwhelmed, knowing our dear friend M.J. along with other passengers and crew had met a horrible demise there, I somehow steered my way through wracking sobs to get home.
When I parked in front of our townhouse in Old Town and stepped out of the car, the burning smell from the Pentagon assaulted me. That night, as we held each other in bed, not knowing what coming days would bring, we heard the sound of fighter jets patrolling the skies overhead. The Combat Air Patrol (CAP) would last for several weeks, bringing us a reassuring sound overhead, yet one that reminded us of the horror that happened on September 11.
Now ten years later we still deal with the fallout from September 11, as brave men and women in uniform risk their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq trying to root out and defeat crazed Islamists who want to subjugate those who don’t share their twisted beliefs.
We also face committed terrorists within our borders seeking to carry out murderous acts to undermine our society. Through superior intelligence and eternal vigilance we hope to defeat them. But only through constant prayer, firm belief in American ideals and unshaken faith in God can we succeed.
Finally, no remembrance of September 11 would be complete without a note of deep gratitude and thanks for the courageous leadership of President George W. Bush in bringing our nation together in a time of overpowering grief and setting our government on a course that would keep us secure since. He was the rock and inspiration we needed.
He still fills that needed role. His speech in Shanksville at the dedication of the Flight 93 Memorial was magnificent, one of the greatest speeches ever given by an American President.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American and today is a day to again pray for the souls of the innocent who lost their lives ten years ago and those who have since given their lives to prevent such a day from happening again.
Let’s remember this wisdom from President John F. Kennedy: “There can be only one possible defense policy for the United States. It can be expressed in one word -- the word is first. I do not mean first when, I don’t mean first if, I mean first, period.”
Well said by a great American whom the Prog-Lib-Comms continue to assassinate.
“There is Purpose and Worth to Each and Every Life”
Seven years ago today came the sad but not unexpected news that Ronald Wilson Reagan’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease had ended. With his passing came the comforting realization that one of history’s giants had gone to his well-earned reward in the loving arms of Almighty God.
As more time passes since President Reagan left the land he so dearly loved, his legacy continues to grow as one of our country’s greatest Presidents and a political leader whose vision could restore our troubled land once again.
Ronald Reagan was, and today remains, my political hero. His greatness is exceeded by only one other American, George Washington, the Father of our Country. Ronald Reagan came out of America’s heartland, what I call The Forgotten Street, Main Street USA.
He truly lived the American dream, rising from humble roots to become a beloved Hollywood star, a courageous union leader who fought Communism, a leading figure in television and finally the political leader who restored conservative values and led the world to triumph in the Cold War, first as Governor of California and then as our 40th President.
In doing so, he breathed new life into the Republican Party and brought a generation of conservative leaders and voters into American politics.
At the time of his death, my wife and I were living in the Washington D.C. area. We fulfilled a promise we’d made to pay tribute to Ronald Reagan at the time of his death. You can read my remembrance of that time in a special article, June 5, 2004. It still brings tears to my eyes as I recall one of the most remarkable days in my life.
Those of us who cherished Ronald Reagan and all he stood for can help build his legacy and ensure that new generations of Americans learn of his vision for our country. You can do that by supporting Young America’s Foundation (www.yaf.org), the non-profit organization that saved the Reagan Ranch, Rancho del Cielo, located in the Santa Ynez mountains near Santa Barbara. The Foundation sponsors educational conferences for high school and college students. It brings speakers to college campuses to help students learn about conservative values in what is often a hostile environment for those ideas.
My wife Dottie and I have been fortunate in our life to support Young America’s Foundation and enjoy visits to Rancho del Cielo. We’ve been more fortunate to share 40 years of marriage, which we celebrate today. Through triumph and near-tragedies, we’ve endured because of our shared values and love for each other, and our desire to do what is right. Clearly on June 5, 1971, I did the smartest thing I’ve ever done in my life. Here is a shot of Dottie and me at the Freedom Wall at the Reagan Ranch.
We urge you to also visit and support The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library (www.reaganfoundation.org) in Simi Valley, California, where a museum houses an incredible display of memorabilia from President Reagan’s life, including the Air Force One airplane he flew in as President. The Library is also where President Reagan is buried, with these inspirational words on his final resting place: “I know in my heart that man is good, what is right will always eventually triumph and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.”
Today we honor the purpose and worth in Ronald Reagan’s life and thank Almighty God for sharing The Gipper with us.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, and a greater day to carry on the Reagan Revolution. As we head into a presidential election in 2012, I urge the Republican Party to launch a new Reagan Revolution with leadership that can use the Reagan model to rebuild and restore our United States.
We also thank our foreign visitors in May from the following countries: the Russian Federation, Sweden, Italy, Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Ukraine, Japan, South Africa, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Brazil, Spain, China, Hungary, the Seychelles, Switzerland, France and the Czech Republic.
Ronald Reagan Centennial Quote of the Day (talking about his beloved “Shining City Upon a Hill” in his Farewell Address to the nation on January 11, 1989):
“We’ve done our part. And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and women of the Reagan Revolution, the men and women across America who for eight years did the work that brought America back. My friends: We did it. We weren’t just marking time. We made a difference. We made the City stronger, we made the City freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all.”
November 1, 2010
The Forgotten Street’s Humble Beginning
Four years ago today, this humble scribe decided the time had come to stand up and speak up for America. That determination led to the creation of The Forgotten Street.
Since then, we’ve seen Americans from all walks of life, from all parts of this great land, do the same. The Tea Party movement that is sweeping the country and ready to unleash a tidal wave of disapproval against Washington tomorrow at the ballot box was always out there on Main Street, USA, just waiting to rise up and be heard.
To commemorate the launch of The Forgotten Street, I think it most fitting to reflect on our initial credo, as first published on November 1, 2006:
How America’s Political, Media and Academic Elites Are Selling Out Main Street. For far too many Americans, it seems we have lost control over our lives to a swollen federal government and self-appointed elites who want to impose on us their beliefs and their morals.
From out-of-control federal spending to attacks on traditional marriage, from runaway lawsuit abuse to persecution of people of faith, we see daily events that shake our confidence in the American system.
Behind it all is the political, media and academic elites’ total disdain and contempt for what I call The Forgotten Street - Main Street USA.
These elites show more concern for the opinions of K Street, the Arab Street and the Champs-Elysees. They view us as boorish and stupid, unsophisticated, because we love our country, its religious heritage and its ideals. Like other elites in the past and present, they seek to control and manipulate people for their own gain and power while restricting individual freedom.
These are people who distrust our military and are quick to blame America for our troubles in the world. People who insist on securing their financial futures by robbing us of ours. People who believe God has no place in public discourse. People who glorify drug use, promiscuous sex and abuse of women in their media and music.
The Hollywood that created movie classics that celebrated our country, our freedom and our optimism has been replaced by cynics who present a warped view of America that tears us down in the eyes of the world and promotes bizarre conspiracy theories.
These elites control so many of our institutions -- our mainstream media, much of our government and judicial system, our schools and universities, our churches, big business and the entertainment industry.
So what can we on The Forgotten Street do to reclaim the heart of America and restore pride in our country and its rich traditions? To begin with, we have to stand up and speak up. We have to be heard. We have to be prepared to endure public scorn as we fight to uphold our values and our beliefs.
The moral equivalency promoted by the elites is just plain wrong. America is the greatest force for good in the world, the most noble and generous nation in human history. It’s time we all embrace that idea as our foundation moving forward. And, it’s time we tell the elites that we are fed up with their inability to understand that simple premise.
These words and the beliefs behind them ring as true today as they did four years ago. What they foreshadowed was the creeping socialism that has reached an apex under President Obama, who epitomizes the elites first discussed here. But within the sense of frustration of that first edition of The Forgotten Street was the underlying optimism about the inherent goodness of the American people and their ability to rise to meet the challenges that threaten our republic.
We see such a time right now. We pray tomorrow’s election results will hopefully turn America in a better direction to help restore our way of life on The Forgotten Street -- Main Street USA.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American! God bless my loyal readers both past and present. I cherish those who have shared this journey with me and I appreciate the interest of those in more than 30 countries around the globe.
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