Our Government led by Obama has woefully missed the entire point in fighting the battle on terrrosim by narrowly defining the enemey as "Alkieda' when in truth there are likely dozens of "extremist Islamists" that are operating independantly from Alkieda, that have the same agenda and that is to destroy "infidels" and all of western civilization. Therefore the focus needs to be directed to ALL EXTREMIST ISLAMISTS and destroy all the leaders that recruit and train people to kill what they beleive to be their enemies. What is also important is that we, Obama almost always refer to the threat made to Americans and the United States, when indeed the threat goes beyond our shores and beyond Americans and is therefore world wide. We know that Spain, India, England, Bali, The Netherlands and many other countries and citizens of the world have been slaightered by these fanatics.
Obama needs to mature leaving the naivty of "political correctness" behind and call this what it is "WORLD WAR THREE DECLARED AGAINST EXTREMIST ISLAMISTS". I believe that it would be important for Obama to officiialy RE-DECLARE THIS WAR and refocuse on the larger more inclusive definition of those that are trying to force their will on the world.
It would be helpful if the moderate Islamist leaders would stand up and publicly denounce the EXTREMISTS and work aggressively to rid the religion of those that have so severly damaged the Islamic Religion. Until the moderates begin to be heard the Islamic Religion will continue to suffer the awfull reputation that is being driven by the extremists. The silence of the moderates would suggets that they agree with the extremists.
Most of us already know that we are dealing with EXTREMIST ISLAMISTS that have no problem with stoning a women after she has been raped, destroying schools that are attended by women, destroying hospitals, indiscrimately and brutely killing people of all ages, nationalities and religions (even other Islamists). They simply do not give a dam. Most of us also know that they are of a mind set that is completely devoid of any possibility of honest negotiation. So the answer is to destroy the extremist leaders and begin to educate those that remain in line with the millions of moderate Islamists and rid this religeon of the hateful extremisim. They will never, I say never stop wanting to kill us so called infidels. Terrorism will continue until they are detroyed.
I say take all security out of all air ports and travel destinations and let the terroism fly and then we will see this evil for what it is and then our governments may get serious enough to actually do what it is required to do to rid the world of this plague. Right now we are dancing around the issue like a bunch of kids in a maypole dance with no end in site. We have to take a new direction now.
These are my thoughts for today.
RALOREE
Friday, January 8, 2010
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?
What are you thinking?
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Are there any Americans left in congress?
This is an open letter to our elected representatives in Washington, both in the Senate and in the House of Represenatives.
I am a 74 year old retiree and have observed you through the years and hope and believe that there are some honorable persons that have been elected to congress by the people of America. I also hope and believe that you are a strong supporter of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights as your sworn oath of office dictates.
The problem that I have, along with most of my friends and acquaintances,(both young and old) is that the Obama White House has an obvious but hidden agenda that is catapulting America into a Socialist, even Marxist state, and this is contrary to his sworn duty as President. This observation is not taken frivolously and is borne out by listening to Obama's own words presently and over the years and also by noting that many of his appointed czars have open Marxist goals. These are Goals that will quickly destroy this great Country, these are Goals that have placed our sacred Constitution under attack.
So many American men and women have sacrificed their time and lives and continue to do so today, to preserve our Constitutional freedoms, and now we are faced with a President that has opted to ignore these sacrifices and is actively pursuing a plan that ignores the Constitution and will destroy America and give our sovereignty away in the name of globalization.
I believe that it is you our elected congressman and congresswomen that need to challenge the President and redirect him to our Constitution which he seems to have forever found to be a deeply flawed document.
The point is that, I am surprised that you our elected representatives can sit by and continue to be mute, as you watch and listen and then allow this great country to be assailed without action or comment. Why?!
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Are there any Americans left in congress?
This is an open letter to our elected representatives in Washington, both in the Senate and in the House of Represenatives.
I am a 74 year old retiree and have observed you through the years and hope and believe that there are some honorable persons that have been elected to congress by the people of America. I also hope and believe that you are a strong supporter of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights as your sworn oath of office dictates.
The problem that I have, along with most of my friends and acquaintances,(both young and old) is that the Obama White House has an obvious but hidden agenda that is catapulting America into a Socialist, even Marxist state, and this is contrary to his sworn duty as President. This observation is not taken frivolously and is borne out by listening to Obama's own words presently and over the years and also by noting that many of his appointed czars have open Marxist goals. These are Goals that will quickly destroy this great Country, these are Goals that have placed our sacred Constitution under attack.
So many American men and women have sacrificed their time and lives and continue to do so today, to preserve our Constitutional freedoms, and now we are faced with a President that has opted to ignore these sacrifices and is actively pursuing a plan that ignores the Constitution and will destroy America and give our sovereignty away in the name of globalization.
I believe that it is you our elected congressman and congresswomen that need to challenge the President and redirect him to our Constitution which he seems to have forever found to be a deeply flawed document.
The point is that, I am surprised that you our elected representatives can sit by and continue to be mute, as you watch and listen and then allow this great country to be assailed without action or comment. Why?!
Monday, September 21, 2009
Strangers to Dissent, Liberals Try to Stifle It
A Commentary By Michael Barone
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It is an interesting phenomenon that the response of the left half of our political spectrum to criticism and argument is often to try to shut it down. Thus President Obama in his Sept. 9 speech to a joint session of Congress told us to stop "bickering," as if principled objections to major changes in public policy were just childish obstinacy, and chastised his critics for telling "lies," employing "scare tactics" and playing "games." Unlike his predecessor, he sought to use the prestige of his office to shut criticism down.
Now, no one likes criticism very much, and most politicians would prefer to have their colleagues and constituents meekly and gratefully agree with them on pretty much everything. And yes, Rep. Joe Wilson did seem to have broken the rules and standards of decorum of the House (though not of the British House of Commons) when he shouted, "You lie!" in the middle of Obama's speech.
But none of this justifies the charges, passed off as cool-headed analysis, that Obama's critics are motivated by racism. There are plenty of non-racist reasons to oppose (or to support) the Democrats' health care proposals.
I would submit that the president's call for an end to "bickering" and the charges of racism by some of his supporters are the natural reflex of people who are not used to hearing people disagree with them and who are determined to shut them up.
This comes naturally to liberals educated in our great colleges and universities, so many of which have speech codes whose primary aim is to prevent the expression of certain conservative ideas and which are commonly deployed for that purpose. (For examples, see the Website of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which defends students of all political stripes.) Once the haven of free inquiry and expression, academia has become a swamp of stifling political correctness.
Similarly, the "mainstream media" -- the old-line broadcast networks, The New York Times, etc. -- present a politically correct picture of the world. The result is that liberals can live in a cocoon, an America in which seldom is heard a discouraging word. Conservatives, in contrast, find themselves constantly pummeled with liberal criticism, on campus, in news media, and in Hollywood TV and movies. They don't like it, but they've gotten used to it. Liberals aren't used to it and increasingly try to stamp it out.
"Mainstream media" try to help. In the past few weeks, we have seen textbook examples of how MSM have ignored news stories that reflected badly on the administration for which it has such warm feelings. It ignored the videos in which the White House "green jobs czar" proclaimed himself a "communist" and the "truther" petition he signed charging that George W. Bush may have allowed the Sept. 11 attacks.
It ignored the videos released on Andrew Breitbart's biggovernment.com showing ACORN employees offering to help a supposed pimp and prostitute evade taxes and employ 13- to 15-year-old prostitutes. It downplayed last spring's Tea Parties -- locally organized demonstrations against big government that attracted about a million people nationwide -- and downplayed the Tea Party throng at the Capitol and on the Mall Sept. 12.
Actually, "mainstream media" are doing their friends in the Obama administration and the Democratic Party no favors, at least in the long run. Obama comes from one-party Chicago, and the House Democrats' nine top leadership members and committee chairmen come from districts that voted on average 73 percent for Obama last fall. They need help in understanding the larger country they are seeking to govern, where nearly half voted the other way. Instead, they get the impression they can dismiss critics as racist or "Nazis" or as indulging in (as Sen. Harry Reid said) "evil-mongering."
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has warned us that there's a danger that intense rhetoric can provoke violence, and no decent person wants to see harm come to our president or other leaders. But it's interesting that the two most violent incidents at this summer's town hall meetings came when a union thug beat up a 65-year-old black conservative in Missouri and when a liberal protester bit off part of a man's finger in California.
These incidents don't justify a conclusion that all liberals are violent. But they are more evidence that American liberals, unused to hearing dissent, have an impulse to shut it down.
COPYRIGHT 2009 THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
A Commentary By Michael Barone
Monday, September 21, 2009 Email to a Friend ShareThisAdvertisement
It is an interesting phenomenon that the response of the left half of our political spectrum to criticism and argument is often to try to shut it down. Thus President Obama in his Sept. 9 speech to a joint session of Congress told us to stop "bickering," as if principled objections to major changes in public policy were just childish obstinacy, and chastised his critics for telling "lies," employing "scare tactics" and playing "games." Unlike his predecessor, he sought to use the prestige of his office to shut criticism down.
Now, no one likes criticism very much, and most politicians would prefer to have their colleagues and constituents meekly and gratefully agree with them on pretty much everything. And yes, Rep. Joe Wilson did seem to have broken the rules and standards of decorum of the House (though not of the British House of Commons) when he shouted, "You lie!" in the middle of Obama's speech.
But none of this justifies the charges, passed off as cool-headed analysis, that Obama's critics are motivated by racism. There are plenty of non-racist reasons to oppose (or to support) the Democrats' health care proposals.
I would submit that the president's call for an end to "bickering" and the charges of racism by some of his supporters are the natural reflex of people who are not used to hearing people disagree with them and who are determined to shut them up.
This comes naturally to liberals educated in our great colleges and universities, so many of which have speech codes whose primary aim is to prevent the expression of certain conservative ideas and which are commonly deployed for that purpose. (For examples, see the Website of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which defends students of all political stripes.) Once the haven of free inquiry and expression, academia has become a swamp of stifling political correctness.
Similarly, the "mainstream media" -- the old-line broadcast networks, The New York Times, etc. -- present a politically correct picture of the world. The result is that liberals can live in a cocoon, an America in which seldom is heard a discouraging word. Conservatives, in contrast, find themselves constantly pummeled with liberal criticism, on campus, in news media, and in Hollywood TV and movies. They don't like it, but they've gotten used to it. Liberals aren't used to it and increasingly try to stamp it out.
"Mainstream media" try to help. In the past few weeks, we have seen textbook examples of how MSM have ignored news stories that reflected badly on the administration for which it has such warm feelings. It ignored the videos in which the White House "green jobs czar" proclaimed himself a "communist" and the "truther" petition he signed charging that George W. Bush may have allowed the Sept. 11 attacks.
It ignored the videos released on Andrew Breitbart's biggovernment.com showing ACORN employees offering to help a supposed pimp and prostitute evade taxes and employ 13- to 15-year-old prostitutes. It downplayed last spring's Tea Parties -- locally organized demonstrations against big government that attracted about a million people nationwide -- and downplayed the Tea Party throng at the Capitol and on the Mall Sept. 12.
Actually, "mainstream media" are doing their friends in the Obama administration and the Democratic Party no favors, at least in the long run. Obama comes from one-party Chicago, and the House Democrats' nine top leadership members and committee chairmen come from districts that voted on average 73 percent for Obama last fall. They need help in understanding the larger country they are seeking to govern, where nearly half voted the other way. Instead, they get the impression they can dismiss critics as racist or "Nazis" or as indulging in (as Sen. Harry Reid said) "evil-mongering."
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has warned us that there's a danger that intense rhetoric can provoke violence, and no decent person wants to see harm come to our president or other leaders. But it's interesting that the two most violent incidents at this summer's town hall meetings came when a union thug beat up a 65-year-old black conservative in Missouri and when a liberal protester bit off part of a man's finger in California.
These incidents don't justify a conclusion that all liberals are violent. But they are more evidence that American liberals, unused to hearing dissent, have an impulse to shut it down.
COPYRIGHT 2009 THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Thursday, June 11, 2009
The end of the America we knew and loved
I find the silence of most of the media utterly amazing when it comes to recognizing the unconstitutional government take over and interference with private enterprise. The case in point that most clearly exposes this evil is the unilateral closing (by the Federal Government) of thousands of Chrysler and GM dealerships across the country. Many of these dealerships were family run small businesses that had been operating for generations and many were profitable.
Just think for a moment that "you" own a business and the business has been a successful family business for generations and suddenly the Federal Government unilaterally decides that you are no longer viable so we are closing you down. This is an arrogant, unprecidented intrusion and attack on the private sector beyond believe. This is what happened on a given day in June 2009. This is undisguised Marxism.
This Obama policy is not only on the attack in the Auto Industry but also the Banking, Insurance and soon the Health Care industries. You are seeing the biggest government power grab in the history of the country.
Hopefully folks that truly love America will become involved and at a minimum they will notify their repesentatives that enougn is enough.
I have great hopes that these policies will be turned on their heads when they are challenged in court and then followed by ejecting these buffoons from elected office.
Just think for a moment that "you" own a business and the business has been a successful family business for generations and suddenly the Federal Government unilaterally decides that you are no longer viable so we are closing you down. This is an arrogant, unprecidented intrusion and attack on the private sector beyond believe. This is what happened on a given day in June 2009. This is undisguised Marxism.
This Obama policy is not only on the attack in the Auto Industry but also the Banking, Insurance and soon the Health Care industries. You are seeing the biggest government power grab in the history of the country.
Hopefully folks that truly love America will become involved and at a minimum they will notify their repesentatives that enougn is enough.
I have great hopes that these policies will be turned on their heads when they are challenged in court and then followed by ejecting these buffoons from elected office.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
PLEASE STOP PAYINGFOR OUR DEBT
To whom it May concern:
This is a plea made in earnest to the Republic of China, Japan, Russia, Germany, France and all other countrys of the world that have for years purchased the debt of the United States of America.
The tax payers of America, plead with you to STOP BUYING our debt! We can no longer afford to borrow money and to be sure those who continue to invest in our debt will be fortunate to be repaid.
The trillions of dollars that our government is spending (and printing) will inevitably bankrupt America and without question we will experience hyper inflation which will further exacerbate the posssiblity of repayment.
It is time for all to say NO and it is time for our government to recognize that the continued growth in government spending will only make matters worse.
From the Tax Paying Citizens of America:
Please forward this to everyone that you can.
This is a plea made in earnest to the Republic of China, Japan, Russia, Germany, France and all other countrys of the world that have for years purchased the debt of the United States of America.
The tax payers of America, plead with you to STOP BUYING our debt! We can no longer afford to borrow money and to be sure those who continue to invest in our debt will be fortunate to be repaid.
The trillions of dollars that our government is spending (and printing) will inevitably bankrupt America and without question we will experience hyper inflation which will further exacerbate the posssiblity of repayment.
It is time for all to say NO and it is time for our government to recognize that the continued growth in government spending will only make matters worse.
From the Tax Paying Citizens of America:
Please forward this to everyone that you can.
Monday, April 27, 2009
OBAMA'S TOY RAILROAD
OBAMAS TOY RAILROAD
Well my concern today goes to the OBAMA. PELOSI and RIED push for a light rail connection between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Why not begin with a quick look at AMTRAK. AMTRAK was the Federalization of the Railroads on May 1, 1971 and during the past 38 years has never turned a profit and has depended on government subsidies every single year starting in 1971 with a measly 40 Million dollars in cash and another 100 Million dollars in loans to get the farce rolling. Today the federal budget calls for AMTRAK subsidies of 2.8 Billion dollars per year through 2013 or a total of $13 Billion dollars. This is still chicken feed compared to what OBAMA. PELOSI, and RIED are proposing for California and Nevada. The initial expenditure is off the charts and on top of that the Feds will be creating a requirement for a huge perpetual subsidy which will make the 2.8 billion that we are now spending on AMTRAK look like pin money.
Oh by the way this also sets up another government owned and subsidized enterprise directly competing with presently profitable free market air line companies that already service the Los Angeles to Los Vegas route.
The Los Angeles to Las Vegas route is only the tip of the iceberg, Obama has plans for light rail that includes cities across America. The proposed down payment is 8 Billion with another Billion per year over the next 5 years and of course has any government run project ever, ever, ever, come under budget? Obama has professed that government investments in our yields great dividends. What, pray tell, are these dividends?
There was no upside to the original nationalization of the railroads and there is no upside to this!
Well my concern today goes to the OBAMA. PELOSI and RIED push for a light rail connection between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Why not begin with a quick look at AMTRAK. AMTRAK was the Federalization of the Railroads on May 1, 1971 and during the past 38 years has never turned a profit and has depended on government subsidies every single year starting in 1971 with a measly 40 Million dollars in cash and another 100 Million dollars in loans to get the farce rolling. Today the federal budget calls for AMTRAK subsidies of 2.8 Billion dollars per year through 2013 or a total of $13 Billion dollars. This is still chicken feed compared to what OBAMA. PELOSI, and RIED are proposing for California and Nevada. The initial expenditure is off the charts and on top of that the Feds will be creating a requirement for a huge perpetual subsidy which will make the 2.8 billion that we are now spending on AMTRAK look like pin money.
Oh by the way this also sets up another government owned and subsidized enterprise directly competing with presently profitable free market air line companies that already service the Los Angeles to Los Vegas route.
The Los Angeles to Las Vegas route is only the tip of the iceberg, Obama has plans for light rail that includes cities across America. The proposed down payment is 8 Billion with another Billion per year over the next 5 years and of course has any government run project ever, ever, ever, come under budget? Obama has professed that government investments in our yields great dividends. What, pray tell, are these dividends?
There was no upside to the original nationalization of the railroads and there is no upside to this!
Tea Party Editorial
This is a commentary that is right on the mark as to what the Tea Parties are all about. This is an indication of how deep the feelings run throuhgout Americaand it exposes the lies put forth so called main stream media and the Washington politicos.
Go here:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_622224.html
Go here:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_622224.html
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