Chipped Students - Is This The America You Want?

So  you want to know what an Orwellian society will look like?  Look no further than the Northside Independent School District outside of San Antonio, Texas.  This past week, the school board unanimously voted to implant radio frequency chips on student identification cards so all students in two of its schools can be "tracked".  If it is "successful", the school board intends to implement the system in all of its schools.

The story speaks for itself.  Here is the link.  Ostensibly, this is being done because school reimbursement is based on attendance.  And they can't handle attendance a normal way because of what?  For reasons determined by the school board,  it will generate more than enough money to cover the cost of the system which is around $600,000.00.   The story indicated that "some" privacy concerns were raised, but it was barely a ripple.

Here is what we are teaching our children.  It's okay to track through ID cards.  Can a chip to track us on our drivers licenses be too far away? Once this kind of tracking is accepted, that's it.  It will pop up everywhere.  There are always financial incentives to justify something that is about as un-American as can be.  You can even give safety justifications for young children.  If you fear kidnapping, why not implant a chip into all children behind their right ear. Oh nevermind...that's what we do to dogs.  This is scary stuff.  This is totalitarian stuff.  This is 1984 stuff.  Is this what technology has done to us?  Just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should.

 It's not enough that we are monitored, video taped, watched through street lights with cameras and speakers to tell you what you are doing wrong, photographed while driving, strip searched trying to board an airplane...we have to be tracked with a chip?

 I have never been a fan of the ACLU; but if this stuff keeps up...I'll become a card carrying member.  When the home of that little Cuban boy was raided like Nazis in the middle of the night by the immigration folks to steal that little boy from his family to send back to Communist Cuba, I joined the NRA.  This is our freedom.  This is our liberty.  This is America.  There is no place for draconian, Orwellian behavior by a bunch of do gooders who know what is best for you.

These anal retentive bureaucrats will destroy our country.  Enough is enough.  Stand up, America, for freedom. 

Law of the Seas Treaty

The Law of the Sea Treaty, which has been ratified by just about every other country in the world but the United States, is currently making its way through the Senate. Here is a rule of thumb…if everybody else wants it so badly, its got to be bad for the United States. This treaty is no exception to the rule. As in all things Obama, don’t listen to what he says, look at what he does. In typical Orwellian style, he is calling black-white, up-down, and day-night.

Open shipping lanes has been international law for hundreds of years. Right now, it is the United States that polices those shipping lanes. Under this treaty, the United States would cede its enforcement rights to the United Nations. Really? Under the treaty, the best interests of the United States would be reduced to one vote in a committee in which Iran and Venezuela might be sitting. Why would we do this? To add insult to injury, the cost of the enforcement would remain squarely with the United States.

In addition, there would be a 1 – 8% royalty fee on any oil drilled by the United States outside of the current 200 mile territorial limit to be paid to the United Nations.

In addition, the treaty would cede the right to regulate oceanic environment concerns to an international tribunal in Germany. This includes atmospheric conditions…you get the picture. It is a back door global warming treaty which would actually give this commission authority over out power plants. And the decisions of the commission will be non-appealable in United States courts.

This is what the Obama administration wants. This is what progressive globalists think about you and our country. This makes Jimmy Carter’s giving away the Panama Canal look like a walk in the park. This, my friends, is dangerous.

This is just one of many of these treaties floating around Washington right now, pushed by Obama and his cronies. Do you agree with this?

Folks, once it’s done, it can’t be taken back. Do you agree with this?

America the Dark

Happy Days Are Here Again/Get Happy

Barbara and Judy and the Cast of Glee

Have you noticed lately that everything in our life seems to be dark?  My wife noticed it the other night watching previews for movies and television shows as well as commercials for all sorts of things.  It used to be we were optimistic, and it was reflected in our ads and movies.  Now everything is dark and foreboding.  Gone are the sitcoms that used to make us feel good and show us how life should be.  They have been replaced by faux reality shows showcasing the worst of human nature and life shouldn't be. 

Even the movies are downers.  Dark and black computer generated sets of a post industrial world, or a revisionist grim view of Grimm Fairy Tales.  Have you seen the ad for the new version of Snow White?  Have you seen the new movie about Red Riding Hood?  Have you seen the television show called Once Upon a Time?  And lets not even go to the Vampire books, movies and television programs culminating with the release this week of Tim Burton’s and Johnny Depp’s version of Dark Shadows. What ever happened to Thumper saying "if you can't say anything nice, don't say nothing at all." 

The truth of the matter is that the only uplifting commercials are the ones currently being run by Dow Chemical.  Is Dow Chemical the only true source of optimism in America today? What have done to ourselves?

When the millennium occurred we were filled with optimism.  The Soviet Empire was gone.  The promise of the digital age was in full force.  Homeownership was on the rise.  Prosperity in America abounded, and we looked forward to a future with a peace dividend balancing the budget. 

Now where is the hope?  Instead we have despair.  The space program, once the shining beacon of United States prowess and technological achievement is no more.  We have to bum rides with the Russians to get to the space shuttle.  There is a burgeoning private space industry underway, but will it be too little too late?  Putting a man on the moon was America’s achievement.  We did it as a people and have reaped technological and economic benefits way beyond those what those working on those Mercury rockets could imagine.

Now we have people abandoning United States citizenship. 1800 American citizens, some of our most financially successful, have become citizens of Singapore.  The Canadian Dollar dipped below parity with the American dollar last week.  We have lost our triple A credit rating.  We are fighting over economic scraps rather than creating an ever expanding economic pie.  We have strangled ourselves with guilt and recriminations.  We are pointing an accusatory finger at the rich like the peasants in St. Petersburg, Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution. 

America needs to find its way back to the light.  It needs to begin making movies of hope, television shows of challenge, stories of success.  It’s time put away the dark images of dungeons, dragons, and post apocalyptic worlds that are dominating the airways.  It is time to replace faux celebrity with real achievement. 

I don’t like America the dark.  We need to change this. 

I'm an Indian Too!!!

JUDY GARLAND: I'M AN INDIAN TOO

So Scott Brown,  the Republican male center fold star, ran for Senate to fill "Ted Kennedy's" Massachusetts seat in 2010, and won. Preppy and somewhat independent minded, Brown set the political world on its ear as his brand of moderate Republicanism blew into Washington from the bluest of blue states on the wind of anti Obamacare sentiment. The Democrats and the media were incensed. After all, that was "Ted Kennedy's seat." To hell with the people. What to do? What to do?

After a careful search for the proper politically correct, racially correct, and demographically correct Hispanic that wasn't white, the Dems settled on uber liberal Harvard Law professor and Democratic Party activist Elizabeth Warren. Hurrah. Ms. Warren will save the day. Perfect in every way. Well...maybe not Hispanic. But things were going along swimmingly in the land of the limousine liberals. Maybe she wasn't Hispanic. Maybe she wasn't black. And...she was the proper type of liberal woman of the NOW variety; not the Sarah Palin type of conservative woman who must be genetically defective. She was a blonde haired blue eyed wonder.

Well, not exactly. Apparently she is an Indian...wait a minute...I mean native American. It turns out that for a period of over ten years she marked her race as "Native American," a humdinger of a politically correct minority, including on her application form for her job at Hahhhvahhhd. Harvard, in turn, has since listed her as a minority employee...something near and dear to liberals' hearts and an absolute liberal essential.

There is one small problem...she is not a native American.  LOOK AT HER. Well, she might be. Family lore says if they go back far enough they can find a great great great great great grandmother that MAY have been Native American...or not. And even if she was, it would only make Ms. Warren 1/32nd Native American. I haven't checked the liberal definition of what makes a Native American. Maybe in the wonderful world of liberal love of "diversity" and "protected classes" she may qualify whether she actually is or isn't.  Is like some sort of racial purity test?  Seriously?

But the consensus in the press, even the liberal Boston press, she is NOT a minority. And it puts these folks in a quandary as to why Ms. Warren lied. The most obvious reason is she thought it would help her get the job at Hahhhvahhhd. She denies it, claiming that she really didn't lie. She was only calling on her family story line. But mostly she did it because she thought it would be "fun" and that she would meet interesting people. Oh, it must be alright then.  I guess it's okay to elect someone who can't tell the truth about her ethnic background.

The mainstream media is keeping quiet about this tawdry mess with a smarmy laugh that the whole matter is irrelevant. After all, it IS "Ted Kennedy's" seat and belongs to them. Of course there is at least some symmetry in that argument. She says she's an Indian too.  And Ted Kennedy...driving off that bridge and killing that girl...he's a liar too. 

Killing Osama

Barack Obama led with his strong suit this past week, not only taking credit for the death of Osama bin Laden, but also claiming Mitt Romney would not have pursued Obama into Pakistan. He cited a speech in 2008 in which Romney said that we should not concentrate all of our resources into finding one man. Obama and his cohorts conveniently forgot the rest of the speech in which Romney called for a comprehensive anti-terrorist plan on all fronts…not just the bin Laden front. It is a bold move on the part of Obama…playing the bin Laden card so early in the game. He is also claiming degradation of Al Qaeda by his aggressive use of drones to kill other leaders of that terrible organization.

But to me, it appears like an act of desperation. He certainly has the right to crow about his accomplishments. There was the Bin Laden thing…and there was…there was…uh…didn’t he? No, that was something else. Then there was the…no, he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia. Oh ya…he saved General Motors…but then there was that car dealership thing and he screwed the bondholders….you know…the pension funds holding GM bonds.

The fact of the matter is that the killing of Osama Bin Laden makes Obama a one trick pony. Even then, the assumptions are wrong. The starting point is given the information he had, most of it rooted in George Bush, any president would have done the same thing. It would have been an impeachable offense if he hadn’t. The wonder is that it was so clear even Obama had to go through with it. It wasn’t courageous, it was expected. Would Romney have done it? Of course he would. It was Obama’s ability to do it that was in question.

Obama’s foreign policy is in shambles. We are the laughing stock of the world. Nuclear proliferation is on the upswing. Missiles are being built by Iran and North Korea that can reach Europe and the United States. Al Qaeda may not have a central figure to rally around, but the franchise has spread all over the radical Islamic world and another leader will rise most assuredly. Israel is a sitting duck as Obama pays lip service to Israel’s defense, but like he whispered to the Russian, tell Putin to wait until after the election and I can do what I want. Really? And all branches of our intelligence services are demoralized as Obama and Eric Holder try to prosecute agents for doing what they were told in the previous administratioon.  Shame on Obama and Holder.

I am not the most savvy politico running around, but it appears to me that you don’t take your best ammunition and waste it seven months before the election. It shouldn’t be a warning shot off the bow. It should be the main event. And Obama’s comments today that he just assumes people mean what they say makes him a target for every lie he has told since before the 2008 election, including his desire for higher electric and gasoline prices. Wait a minute…he did what he said what he was going to do.  I guess it was the truth.

Today’s Gallup Poll shows Romney up by a point at a time when the President should be ahead by at least 10. The public isn’t stupid. They know a cheap shot when they see it, and the "Romney wouldn’t go after Bin Laden" harrang makes Obama look petty and small and definitely won't play in Peoria. 

If he keeps it up, people may turn him off altogether. If only I could do that with Anderson Cooper and Wolfe Blitzer.

More Nuts than Us

In a recent New York Times op-ed piece entitled One for the Country  Thomas Friedman complained about the current state of affairs in the United States. He complained about broken escalators in his DC parking garage, the poor state of American roads, the not fast “fast” train between New York and Washington and dropped cell phone calls. He complained about lousy internet service. But after all of that, he shouted Obama’s praises, and then suggested that a better choice for President might be Michael Bloomberg of New York. Really?

Not really!!! Mr. Friedman then went on to say that as an independent candidate Bloomberg could possibly stimulate the debate and put the Republican and Democratic candidates on their best behavior. Apparently Mr. Friedman has higher opinion of Mr. Bloomberg and a lesser opinion about the United States than me. So it's time for the BS test.

Michael Bloomberg for President? Puh-leez!!! This guy is a dictator with a Napoleon complex on top of a food and cigarette fetish. I want government out of my life, not some idiot who wants to measure how many grains of salt I can put on my steak if I he “allows” me to eat steak.

As for Mr. Friedman’s problems with America, it is still the greatest country in the world. Let’s see…Europe has put together a system that has institutionalized unemployment approaching 50% for those under 35. It has one currency but no “unified” monetary or fiscal policy thus making Germans who work long and hard by genetics pay for Greeks, Spanish, and Italians who don’t…also by genetics. And the Irish are still paying for the Irish miracle…and so will the rest of Europe and us.

China is still rooted in central planning building malls with no stores and entire cities with no people, and doesn’t have the political mechanism to move the folks from the countryside which is still rampant with poverty to those empty malls and cities. Its economy is based on exports rather than internal growth…thus we and the rest of the world are dumped on as they continue to amass currency rapidly becoming worthless as the world’s printing presses print paper money 24/7.

Russia is corrupt to the core. And the Indians are all moving here as we still continue to welcome immigrants to our wonderful nation contrary to Mr. Friedman’s claim that we are anti-immigrant. Meanwhile, the Scandinavians are still trying to figure out what to do with a guy who killed over 70 people and seem stunned that there is evil in the world.

Spending on public works in this country has ALWAYS been a problem, but we did manage to tear down perfectly good buildings to build new schools all over the place, and allow government employees to go on some really nice trips to Vegas. And they are rebuilding the bridges everywhere. Just drive down I 680. If they only would repave Bella Vista and Shirley Road so I don’t break an axle, I would be a happy man.

No, Mr. Friedman, notwithstanding Obama, I think I will stay here because no matter how inept or nuts we are here, I have concluded it's worse everywhere else.  I know "more nuts than us" when I see it.

Obama, Romney, and the Angel Moroni

Mitt Romney is now the putative nominee for President of the Republican Party. It was a bitter primary leaving hard feelings among Republicans. Santorum has yet to endorse Romney even though he dropped out of the race. Notwithstanding, Romney is holding a slim two point lead among likely voters in the latest Fox News poll, with over 10% of the electorate still undecided. According to Dick Morris, the undecided vote will go to the challenger, and that means a solid victory for Romney in November.

However, and this is a big however, Romney has an Achilles heel. He is a Mormon, and thus far it has not been raised as an issue. But Obama and crew is a slimy bunch; and they play dirty. These are hard core folks with no conscience or morality. Their trumped up, non-existent “war on women” just blew up in their face as Hilary Rosen exposed their hypocrisy. George Stephanopoulos should be ashamed of himself acquiescing to Democrat operatives in asking about contraception in that infamous debate.

So what’s left? I pondered the dirtiest thing they could come up with, and my conclusion is religion. Republicans compare Romney to John Kennedy’s Catholicism. They are two different things. The press had concerns that Kennedy would cow tow to the Pope, but Catholicism is a main stream Christian religion with basic shared beliefs with mainstream Protestantism. Mormonism is different. Although it believes in Christ, the underpinnings of the religion are anything but mainstream, and I am concerned that it will give fodder to so called “non-affiliated” Obama operatives such as late night comedians, bloggers, and some of the whack jobs on MSNBC.  The mainstream media will willingly chime in.  These folks have no shame when it comes to Obama.

I did some reading on Mormonism. It is surrounded by allegations of racism. It has attempted to do after death baptisms of holocaust survivors. That obviously will not play well with the Jews notwithstanding Obama’s pathetic support for Israel. It believed in polygamy. It denies access to the interior of its temple to non Mormons. It has interesting rituals.

Then there is the theology. It does not believe in the Trinity as understood by mainline Catholics and Protestants, or original sin. It believes the Garden of Eden was in Missouri and that the New Jerusalem will be established in North America from which Christ will rule his kingdom on earth. Mormons are heavy duty evangelists. They don’t drink alcohol, tea or coffee. They don’t believe in hell, but rather in several levels of heaven. And that is just the beginning.

While I am not put off personally by a person’s religious beliefs, I have my own “ify” theology, there is no doubt in my mind that Mormonism is a great big target, and one that people with evil intent can exploit to suppress the Republican vote in the fall, namely among the Evangelicals. Obama is shrewd and the dirtiest politician I ever seen in my life. He can look into the camera and lie better than any president in my lifetime, and that includes Richard Nixon. This is just too big of a target for a person like Obama and his campaign to ignore. I can just see the skits on Saturday Night Live.

Even PBS will get into the act. They ran a multi-part history of Mormonism a year or so ago. Look for it to be run again this October. I can see vividly the black Mormon woman, previously banned from the church, looking into the camera giving her take on the religion: Some white guy finding golden tablets in a corn field in New York talking to some angel named Moroni. “Really?” she said.

Whether we like it or not, whether it is right or not, Mitt Romney and the Angel Moroni will rear its ugly head in this “year of the nasty’s” presidential election. Republicans and Mitt Romney need to be prepared. This is a down and dirty year.