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Friday, May 17, 2013
Mendacity USA - Hardly the Greatest Show on Earth
May 17, 2013
There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity… said Big Daddy in the Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Mendacity is the back entry password to the sideshow of the week in the USA. Pants in flames, clowns in DC are up to their usual funny-business but they are playing to an increasingly humorless crowd. The White House is running the show like a big top circus where the spotlight favors the quickest draw in the shoot-from-the-hip blame game. What you get when you put the stink of mendacity and arbitrary blame together is a sucker punch to the people called Men-blam-city! Emphasis on blam!
Well, shoot me from a canon folks if you still believe in honest leadership and open government. The sliver of light emanating from underneath closed doors in DC is the last glimmer of transparency we will see for the end run of the Obama dawg-n-donkey show. We get it compliments of email messages and blabber-mouths. One would think by now bureaucratic snake oil salesmen would have learned the value of delete keys and paper shredders, not to mention government-issue duct tape. Not to worry though, the masters of deception have refined document dissemination into an altered art form.
Politicians lie. Nobody is surprised or even annoyed by that. Sadly, most Americans expect dishonesty from the government.
Take the Benghazi tragedy: even hard-nosed pundits are finding it hard to keep up with who told what lie and when. No doubt about it - lies were the order of the day. Particularly despicable in this instance are lies coupled with blame making the American people culpable for the tragedy. Say what! Let us recall assorted heads of state blaming the Benghazi tragedy on an obscure anti-Islam video. That is how it played in the first hours. Americans engaged in the viewing of mind-numbing social media angered Islamic militants (apparently engaged in the same activity); to the degree that said militants felt compelled to log off and stage an attack on the US Consulate. Main stream media completely missed the absurdity of the spin. Instead, talking heads were quick to relate almost verbatim the typical White House rationale: if the video was the cause then video-watchers were to blame. Perhaps the message was too subliminal for the press.
The current administration is adept at subliminal messaging, making Americans unwitting accomplices in a plethora of vagaries. Think not? Please point out non-Americans in the following Obama blamed-and-maligned collection: Bush, Beck, Limbaugh, Fox News, the shameless rich, republicans, conservatives, Tea Party Patriots, Christians, right-to-lifers, law-abiding gun owners, Veterans, YouTubers, Facebookers, Tweeters, the CIA!!!, and most recently, creepy civil servants occupying the bowels of the IRS.
I did not do it. It is not my fault. I had no idea. That is what passes for accountability at the White House. Instead of anger and disgust most Americans treat bureaucratic mendacity with a liberal (pun intended) dose of indifference.
Consider the mendacious whopper of the hour. Recently, Axelrod the Inarticulate said [paraphrasing] – the president is not guilty of anything, it is impossible for the president to know everything about the vast amount of stuff for which a president is directly responsible. What?
Red flag warning! First, do we need to hear that the man allegedly at the helm of the country is clueless about stuff as important as terrorist threats or ignorant of blatant government entity (IRS/DOJ) abuses of power? Second, do we really buy the Sergeant Schultz-like I know nothing routine?
Here is an inconvenient truth: The president is a notorious control freak. The strategy is always to control the message, uniquely evidenced by the ubiquitous presence of a teleprompter. Please note: POTUS requires TOTUS just to speak to elementary school children. Control freaks make it their business to know everybody’s business. It is simply the nature of the beast. Clueless? I think not.
Unchecked mendacity is the stench wafting across the land. Big Daddy said, You can smell it. It smells like death. For any leader to call the investigation into the violent deaths of Americans a political sideshow is to reveal blatant contempt for the lives of all Americans. Benghazi is a defining moment of humiliation for this administration although they are still in denial about it. What should be the Greatest Show on Earth is a tawdry three ring circus playing out on the world-wide stage. I can hear the global audience clamoring send in more clowns! The shameful truth of the matter is; America has clowns aplenty waiting for a chance to shine in the big ring.
Hillary, the ever caustic and hyper-insensitive hypocrite wonders; what difference does it make?
Short answer: The difference, as far as We the People are concerned is the amount of trust we can place in the leadership of this country. TRUST is the difference. Blood on their hands is the wake-up call America! Mendacity is a disease, highly contagious and extremely destructive. It calls for immediate quarantine. The Mendacity Epidemic of DC 2013 should be contained and eradicated by whatever means necessary as soon as possible.
In the meantime, heed the words of Tennessee Williams, a sad commentary on the status quo:
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
Source:
The Hill, Axelrod quote: “Part of being president is there’s so much underneath you because the government is so vast,” he added. “You go through these [controversies] all because of this stuff that is impossible to know if you’re the president or working in the White House, and yet you’re responsible for it and it’s a difficult situation.”
Washington Examiner, Why did Hillary tie video to Benghazi
Fox News Insider, Benghazi Sideshow
There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity… said Big Daddy in the Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.Mendacity is the back entry password to the sideshow of the week in the USA. Pants in flames, clowns in DC are up to their usual funny-business but they are playing to an increasingly humorless crowd. The White House is running the show like a big top circus where the spotlight favors the quickest draw in the shoot-from-the-hip blame game. What you get when you put the stink of mendacity and arbitrary blame together is a sucker punch to the people called Men-blam-city! Emphasis on blam!
Well, shoot me from a canon folks if you still believe in honest leadership and open government. The sliver of light emanating from underneath closed doors in DC is the last glimmer of transparency we will see for the end run of the Obama dawg-n-donkey show. We get it compliments of email messages and blabber-mouths. One would think by now bureaucratic snake oil salesmen would have learned the value of delete keys and paper shredders, not to mention government-issue duct tape. Not to worry though, the masters of deception have refined document dissemination into an altered art form. Politicians lie. Nobody is surprised or even annoyed by that. Sadly, most Americans expect dishonesty from the government.
Take the Benghazi tragedy: even hard-nosed pundits are finding it hard to keep up with who told what lie and when. No doubt about it - lies were the order of the day. Particularly despicable in this instance are lies coupled with blame making the American people culpable for the tragedy. Say what! Let us recall assorted heads of state blaming the Benghazi tragedy on an obscure anti-Islam video. That is how it played in the first hours. Americans engaged in the viewing of mind-numbing social media angered Islamic militants (apparently engaged in the same activity); to the degree that said militants felt compelled to log off and stage an attack on the US Consulate. Main stream media completely missed the absurdity of the spin. Instead, talking heads were quick to relate almost verbatim the typical White House rationale: if the video was the cause then video-watchers were to blame. Perhaps the message was too subliminal for the press.
The current administration is adept at subliminal messaging, making Americans unwitting accomplices in a plethora of vagaries. Think not? Please point out non-Americans in the following Obama blamed-and-maligned collection: Bush, Beck, Limbaugh, Fox News, the shameless rich, republicans, conservatives, Tea Party Patriots, Christians, right-to-lifers, law-abiding gun owners, Veterans, YouTubers, Facebookers, Tweeters, the CIA!!!, and most recently, creepy civil servants occupying the bowels of the IRS.
I did not do it. It is not my fault. I had no idea. That is what passes for accountability at the White House. Instead of anger and disgust most Americans treat bureaucratic mendacity with a liberal (pun intended) dose of indifference.
Consider the mendacious whopper of the hour. Recently, Axelrod the Inarticulate said [paraphrasing] – the president is not guilty of anything, it is impossible for the president to know everything about the vast amount of stuff for which a president is directly responsible. What?
Red flag warning! First, do we need to hear that the man allegedly at the helm of the country is clueless about stuff as important as terrorist threats or ignorant of blatant government entity (IRS/DOJ) abuses of power? Second, do we really buy the Sergeant Schultz-like I know nothing routine?Here is an inconvenient truth: The president is a notorious control freak. The strategy is always to control the message, uniquely evidenced by the ubiquitous presence of a teleprompter. Please note: POTUS requires TOTUS just to speak to elementary school children. Control freaks make it their business to know everybody’s business. It is simply the nature of the beast. Clueless? I think not.
Unchecked mendacity is the stench wafting across the land. Big Daddy said, You can smell it. It smells like death. For any leader to call the investigation into the violent deaths of Americans a political sideshow is to reveal blatant contempt for the lives of all Americans. Benghazi is a defining moment of humiliation for this administration although they are still in denial about it. What should be the Greatest Show on Earth is a tawdry three ring circus playing out on the world-wide stage. I can hear the global audience clamoring send in more clowns! The shameful truth of the matter is; America has clowns aplenty waiting for a chance to shine in the big ring.
Hillary, the ever caustic and hyper-insensitive hypocrite wonders; what difference does it make?
Short answer: The difference, as far as We the People are concerned is the amount of trust we can place in the leadership of this country. TRUST is the difference. Blood on their hands is the wake-up call America! Mendacity is a disease, highly contagious and extremely destructive. It calls for immediate quarantine. The Mendacity Epidemic of DC 2013 should be contained and eradicated by whatever means necessary as soon as possible.
In the meantime, heed the words of Tennessee Williams, a sad commentary on the status quo:
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
Respectfully yours in unfailing allegiance to the USA,
Dissident Daughter
Because: Silence is the most insidious form of consent
Dissident Daughter
Because: Silence is the most insidious form of consent
Source:
The Hill, Axelrod quote: “Part of being president is there’s so much underneath you because the government is so vast,” he added. “You go through these [controversies] all because of this stuff that is impossible to know if you’re the president or working in the White House, and yet you’re responsible for it and it’s a difficult situation.”
Washington Examiner, Why did Hillary tie video to Benghazi
Fox News Insider, Benghazi Sideshow
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Danger and Deliverance Advance Together
May 14, 2013
It is distressing to see an enemy advancing into a country, but it is the only place in which we can beat them, and in which we have always beaten them, whenever they made the attempt. The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together, and it is only the last push, in which one or the other takes the lead. ~ Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (September 12, 1777)
It is distressing to see an enemy advancing into a country, but it is the only place in which we can beat them, and in which we have always beaten them, whenever they made the attempt. The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together, and it is only the last push, in which one or the other takes the lead. ~ Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (September 12, 1777)
Friday, May 10, 2013
Vickie's Corner 05/10/2013 - Wrong Side of Wrong
May 10, 2013
Charley Presents Friday’s Edition Of ‘Vickie’s Corner’ – The Wrong Side of Wrong
By Charley Barnes May 10, 2013 5:08 PM
Last week I was reading a story on a military veteran who believe it or not was willing to give up her spot at Arlington National Cemetery for the alleged Boston Bomber who died in shootout with police last month. I was personally appalled and so are millions of others.
The Wrong Side of Wrong
We have a serious problem in this country with people coming down on the wrong side of wrong. What the hell is their damage, I wonder? We have people (alleged Americans) who think the Tsarnaev brothers are just a couple of misunderstood juvenile delinquents creating mischief on the streets of Boston.
Willful blindness remains the order of the day is a line from an article I read somewhere shortly after the terrorist attack. It speaks of a glaring societal dysfunction that allows us to somehow relate to haters and killers and even terrorists as damaged people deserving of our sympathy. It’s outrageous!
Where is the sympathy for innocent American lives lost and forever ruined? The Tsarnaev brothers are not boys. They are not damaged goods. They are not a product of American society’s ills. They are evil incarnate and as far as I am concerned anyone who shows them one iota of sympathy is just as evil, as is the case with the lunatic USAF (I choke on the V-word) Veteran Julie Frein who said she was willing to give up her burial plot at Arlington Nation Cemetery for the dead Tsarnaev brother so his family can get some closure. You might as well offer a presidential send-off to Adam Lanza or Jared Loughner.
My opinion? The dead Tsarnaev brother should not be allowed to foul the soil of any cemetery in the United States of America. If the family cannot see to his remains then he should be food for the fishes. That’s the proper display of closure for Americans and far more than he deserves. American families are struggling to deal with the carnage wrought by the Tsarnaev brothers. I figure the Tsarnaev family should have to figure out closure for themselves. We owe them nothing.
The traitorous and ignorant (vets cannot simply transfer a plot in a national cemetery) Julie Frein should forfeit her right to Veterans last rites for even spouting something so anti-American. I am outraged that she even considers planting the likes of Tsarnaev in a cemetery that houses this country’s heroes is appropriate. Not only that, Frein should be made to watch the graphic film of the bombings even the massacre-mongering news networks would not air. Frein has more nerve than brain cells – how could she worry about the eternal rest of an animal who maimed and killed for no other reason than to serve resident evil? If it were up to me Frein would be escorting the putrid remains of a terrorist home and looking for a new country of residence.
Sympathy for the devil is an alarmingly degenerate exercise in political correctness. Those who perpetrate evil are not diseased or ill or confused. Rather, those who look at evil as some sort of curable affliction are the conflicted ones. Why are people in denial over the concept that some things really can be explained by simply drawing a no frills distinction between good and evil?
*****
FYI: Arlington National Cemetery released this statement - We want to make it clear that this suspect is not eligible to be buried at Arlington -- a veteran can't transfer their eligibility to another person. Frein’s service does not make her eligible for burial in a National cemetery other than sharing a plot with her husband who is a Navy retiree.
Read the regulations for burial at ANC here: Persons Eligible For Burial In Arlington National Cemetery
UPDATE 05/10/2013 Boston.com - Tsarnaev buried in Virginia
Here's the video if you haven't heard enough.
Source: K99/Charley Barnes Presents Vickie's Corner - The Wrong Side of Wrong
Charley Barnes is a friend and fellow rabble-rousing patriot. He is a DJ at K99 Colorado's Best Country Station. He personally contributes and organizes several charity and fund-raising events in northern Colorado including the Sleigh Riders Motorcycle Toy Run. We met in 2011 when he and a couple of buddies rode their motorcycles across Kansas to Topeka (the home of the WestboroBaptist Blasphemer Church Cult) and gave the WBC a dose of their own medicine. That's how Journey 4 Justice began. J4J teams from across the nation travel to Topeka KS (most of them on motorcycles) and deliver a counter protest to the WBC's hateful message. The difference is: they do it with class. No nasty signs or subversive messages are needed - they simply show up and wave the flags of country, state and armed services. A few weeks ago Charley offered me an opportunity to sound off occasionally on current events in a spot called Vickie's Corner in his little neck of the woods at K99. Is that kool or what?
Charley Presents Friday’s Edition Of ‘Vickie’s Corner’ – The Wrong Side of Wrong
By Charley Barnes May 10, 2013 5:08 PM
Last week I was reading a story on a military veteran who believe it or not was willing to give up her spot at Arlington National Cemetery for the alleged Boston Bomber who died in shootout with police last month. I was personally appalled and so are millions of others.
The Wrong Side of Wrong
We have a serious problem in this country with people coming down on the wrong side of wrong. What the hell is their damage, I wonder? We have people (alleged Americans) who think the Tsarnaev brothers are just a couple of misunderstood juvenile delinquents creating mischief on the streets of Boston.
Willful blindness remains the order of the day is a line from an article I read somewhere shortly after the terrorist attack. It speaks of a glaring societal dysfunction that allows us to somehow relate to haters and killers and even terrorists as damaged people deserving of our sympathy. It’s outrageous!
Where is the sympathy for innocent American lives lost and forever ruined? The Tsarnaev brothers are not boys. They are not damaged goods. They are not a product of American society’s ills. They are evil incarnate and as far as I am concerned anyone who shows them one iota of sympathy is just as evil, as is the case with the lunatic USAF (I choke on the V-word) Veteran Julie Frein who said she was willing to give up her burial plot at Arlington Nation Cemetery for the dead Tsarnaev brother so his family can get some closure. You might as well offer a presidential send-off to Adam Lanza or Jared Loughner.
The traitorous and ignorant (vets cannot simply transfer a plot in a national cemetery) Julie Frein should forfeit her right to Veterans last rites for even spouting something so anti-American. I am outraged that she even considers planting the likes of Tsarnaev in a cemetery that houses this country’s heroes is appropriate. Not only that, Frein should be made to watch the graphic film of the bombings even the massacre-mongering news networks would not air. Frein has more nerve than brain cells – how could she worry about the eternal rest of an animal who maimed and killed for no other reason than to serve resident evil? If it were up to me Frein would be escorting the putrid remains of a terrorist home and looking for a new country of residence.
Sympathy for the devil is an alarmingly degenerate exercise in political correctness. Those who perpetrate evil are not diseased or ill or confused. Rather, those who look at evil as some sort of curable affliction are the conflicted ones. Why are people in denial over the concept that some things really can be explained by simply drawing a no frills distinction between good and evil?
*****
FYI: Arlington National Cemetery released this statement - We want to make it clear that this suspect is not eligible to be buried at Arlington -- a veteran can't transfer their eligibility to another person. Frein’s service does not make her eligible for burial in a National cemetery other than sharing a plot with her husband who is a Navy retiree.
Read the regulations for burial at ANC here: Persons Eligible For Burial In Arlington National Cemetery
UPDATE 05/10/2013 Boston.com - Tsarnaev buried in Virginia
Here's the video if you haven't heard enough.
Source: K99/Charley Barnes Presents Vickie's Corner - The Wrong Side of Wrong
Charley Barnes is a friend and fellow rabble-rousing patriot. He is a DJ at K99 Colorado's Best Country Station. He personally contributes and organizes several charity and fund-raising events in northern Colorado including the Sleigh Riders Motorcycle Toy Run. We met in 2011 when he and a couple of buddies rode their motorcycles across Kansas to Topeka (the home of the Westboro
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Youth should REJECT the voice of Deceit
May 9, 2013
Aristotle said - Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.
Never is youth more hopeful than when it stands at the open door of the future and envisions all it can be with no clue to what it will be. Never is youth more vulnerable than at the beginning of the grand adventure - life. Only reckless youth fails to heed warning signs: Never trust a person who tells you to reject the ethics and values of your upbringing, unless you have already called into question these things yourself. Never trust a person who tears another down to build himself up. Never trust a person who tells you how to think or believe. Never trust a person who tells you to ignore the warning signs on the road ahead.
Hitler said:
He alone,
who owns the youth,
gains the future.
All of these warnings apply in particular to government and anyone representative of government. Beware of men who would own your mind to serve an undisclosed agenda. Hope is not an agenda. Change is simply the result of reality in action. Forward is an unrealized destination. Question anyone who claims to think as you do - until they prove it. Blind faith requires sacrifice and compromise. An ego stroked is prey to ulterior motive.
Think for yourself. Do for yourself. Resign from herd mentality and prove to yourself that you are a force in the universe and not a slave to popular opinion or political mumbo jumbo. It is both the folly and the promise of youth to believe there should be a change in the world... the trick is to trod a new path and be the instrument of change without losing direction. Deceit is the art of misdirection.
Consider carefully the reference to tyranny (both stated and unstated) in the following quotes:
George Washington: Government is not reason, nor eloquence. It is force. And like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearsome master.
Thomas Jefferson: When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Barack Obama: Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems... They’ll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.
Beware of Deceptive Detours... As you step out the door on the road to the future - do not be too quick to shed or reject the past. Do not be too quick to narrow your own view and follow another's path. A call for arbitrary rejection has nothing to do with embracing the possibilities of the future. Watching your step is not the same thing as checking your step. Bullshit only clings to your boot if you actually step in it. Will you heed warning signs or carry on under the precept that peril on the road ahead is simply a figment of your imagination?
In the immortal words of Tolkien's Bilbo Baggins - It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
Source for Obama quote: Real Clear Politics - Reject these voices
Aristotle said - Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.
Never is youth more hopeful than when it stands at the open door of the future and envisions all it can be with no clue to what it will be. Never is youth more vulnerable than at the beginning of the grand adventure - life. Only reckless youth fails to heed warning signs: Never trust a person who tells you to reject the ethics and values of your upbringing, unless you have already called into question these things yourself. Never trust a person who tears another down to build himself up. Never trust a person who tells you how to think or believe. Never trust a person who tells you to ignore the warning signs on the road ahead.
He alone,
who owns the youth,
gains the future.
All of these warnings apply in particular to government and anyone representative of government. Beware of men who would own your mind to serve an undisclosed agenda. Hope is not an agenda. Change is simply the result of reality in action. Forward is an unrealized destination. Question anyone who claims to think as you do - until they prove it. Blind faith requires sacrifice and compromise. An ego stroked is prey to ulterior motive.
Think for yourself. Do for yourself. Resign from herd mentality and prove to yourself that you are a force in the universe and not a slave to popular opinion or political mumbo jumbo. It is both the folly and the promise of youth to believe there should be a change in the world... the trick is to trod a new path and be the instrument of change without losing direction. Deceit is the art of misdirection.
Consider carefully the reference to tyranny (both stated and unstated) in the following quotes:
George Washington: Government is not reason, nor eloquence. It is force. And like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearsome master.
Thomas Jefferson: When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Barack Obama: Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems... They’ll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.
Beware of Deceptive Detours... As you step out the door on the road to the future - do not be too quick to shed or reject the past. Do not be too quick to narrow your own view and follow another's path. A call for arbitrary rejection has nothing to do with embracing the possibilities of the future. Watching your step is not the same thing as checking your step. Bullshit only clings to your boot if you actually step in it. Will you heed warning signs or carry on under the precept that peril on the road ahead is simply a figment of your imagination?
In the immortal words of Tolkien's Bilbo Baggins - It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
Source for Obama quote: Real Clear Politics - Reject these voices
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Celebrating The Fifth of May in the USA
May 5, 2013
Colorado USA
Out of the busy-body blue I hear a question…
Actually, it is more like out of the mouth of ignorance…
Busy Body: You’re a Texan – do you celebrate Cinco de Mayo? (pronounced: Cinco like sicko, de like be, Mayo like the salad dressing – oh me)
Now if this near stranger knew me better, they would know this is the last question anyone who knows me well would ask me. Anyone who knows me well enough to call me by my first name would already know the answer.
So, reining in the cranky side of my nature, I answered…
Lil' Ol' American Me: I am a Texan, not a Mexican. You do realize that Cinco de Mayo is not a Texan or American holiday?
Busy Body: Oh. I thought it was an Independence Day for them in Texas.
Lil' Ol' American Me: No, it is not an Independence Day for them. Why would we celebrate a Mexican Independence Day in the USA or Texas?
Silence…
Lil' Ol' American Me: Sigh! It marks a battle Mexico won over the French in the 1860s that has evolved into a Mexican heritage celebration.
Busy Body: I see...
Lil' Ol' American Me: Thinking to myself - I seriously doubt it.
History lesson over - I left it at that.
I celebrate the 5th of May in the USA much like I do any other day I am fortunate enough to wake up in this country and appreciate what it means to be American and free. OK, well maybe I celebrate it by wearing a blatantly American t-shirt and if we find ourselves out on the Harley by flying the American flag in tandem.
I don’t have a problem with ethnic celebrations but I do find it offensive:
Anything less than that amount of respect and consideration, then you are not an American – you are a poser. And that’s the long and short of the matter.
Party on, I say! But! If you want respect for your ethnicity, then I need respect for my ethnicity. Your right to dance in the street under another country’s banner is granted only by the law of this land and the tolerance of its citizenry.
Celebrating ethnicity is not free license to disrespect the law of the land or the vast majority of other ethnicities who are also citizens. My Grandmother, born in the great state of Arkansas lived to be 101 years old. She was of Irish and Scottish descent, but if you asked her about her ethnic background – she would (after she skewed you with a look that indicated what an utterly stupid question you asked) answer: AMERICAN. That answer, works for me. I am of American ethnicity.
It does not matter what the nod and wink politicians say while they pander for your vote – because their Americanism can be called into question on a daily if not hourly basis. Most politicians and heads of state do not understand that being a citizen of the United States of America has nothing to do with government or politics. Americanism is a state of being, a particularly hard-ass mentality that courageous men and women have bled for in the past and defend today. You either get that or you don't.
If you would be an American then BE ALL AMERICAN and learn to respect what that really means.
There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else. Theodore Roosevelt
Colorado USA
Out of the busy-body blue I hear a question…
Actually, it is more like out of the mouth of ignorance…
Busy Body: You’re a Texan – do you celebrate Cinco de Mayo? (pronounced: Cinco like sicko, de like be, Mayo like the salad dressing – oh me)
Now if this near stranger knew me better, they would know this is the last question anyone who knows me well would ask me. Anyone who knows me well enough to call me by my first name would already know the answer.
So, reining in the cranky side of my nature, I answered…
Lil' Ol' American Me: I am a Texan, not a Mexican. You do realize that Cinco de Mayo is not a Texan or American holiday?
Busy Body: Oh. I thought it was an Independence Day for them in Texas.
Lil' Ol' American Me: No, it is not an Independence Day for them. Why would we celebrate a Mexican Independence Day in the USA or Texas?
Silence…
Lil' Ol' American Me: Sigh! It marks a battle Mexico won over the French in the 1860s that has evolved into a Mexican heritage celebration.
Busy Body: I see...
Lil' Ol' American Me: Thinking to myself - I seriously doubt it.
History lesson over - I left it at that.
I celebrate the 5th of May in the USA much like I do any other day I am fortunate enough to wake up in this country and appreciate what it means to be American and free. OK, well maybe I celebrate it by wearing a blatantly American t-shirt and if we find ourselves out on the Harley by flying the American flag in tandem.I don’t have a problem with ethnic celebrations but I do find it offensive:
- if the flag of another country is not flown in tandem and in the proper position below the flag of the United States…
- if the national anthem of another country is not sung after the Star Spangled Banner…
- if the pledge of allegiance is not said to Ol’ Glory and only Ol’ Glory…
- if you do not respect the country whose ground you stand upon…
- if you do not respect the rest of the population’s right not to give a hoot what you are celebrating…
Anything less than that amount of respect and consideration, then you are not an American – you are a poser. And that’s the long and short of the matter.
Party on, I say! But! If you want respect for your ethnicity, then I need respect for my ethnicity. Your right to dance in the street under another country’s banner is granted only by the law of this land and the tolerance of its citizenry.
Celebrating ethnicity is not free license to disrespect the law of the land or the vast majority of other ethnicities who are also citizens. My Grandmother, born in the great state of Arkansas lived to be 101 years old. She was of Irish and Scottish descent, but if you asked her about her ethnic background – she would (after she skewed you with a look that indicated what an utterly stupid question you asked) answer: AMERICAN. That answer, works for me. I am of American ethnicity.
It does not matter what the nod and wink politicians say while they pander for your vote – because their Americanism can be called into question on a daily if not hourly basis. Most politicians and heads of state do not understand that being a citizen of the United States of America has nothing to do with government or politics. Americanism is a state of being, a particularly hard-ass mentality that courageous men and women have bled for in the past and defend today. You either get that or you don't.
If you would be an American then BE ALL AMERICAN and learn to respect what that really means.
There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else. Theodore Roosevelt
Respectfully yours in unfailing allegiance to the USA,
Dissident Daughter
Because: Silence is the most insidious form of consent
Dissident Daughter
Because: Silence is the most insidious form of consent
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Why I Am No Longer A Republican Or A Democrat
May 4, 2013
This about sums it up...
The big-box monopoly parties have morphed into two sides of the same coin, two heads on the same bird of prey. Today our choice boils down to the Conservative Republican tax and spend, infringe personal liberty, and outsource or sovereignty policies or the Liberal Democrat tax and spend, infringe personal liberty, and outsource or sovereignty policies. But of course, since we don’t want to throw away our vote we must vote for one of the big boys. Conservative? Liberal? Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum?
Click the link below to read the rest of the article... it speaks well to why so many people seem confused or disengaged with the political process - I am close to being apolitical myself.
Source: Freedom Outpost Why I Am No Longer A Republican Or A Democrat
This about sums it up...
The big-box monopoly parties have morphed into two sides of the same coin, two heads on the same bird of prey. Today our choice boils down to the Conservative Republican tax and spend, infringe personal liberty, and outsource or sovereignty policies or the Liberal Democrat tax and spend, infringe personal liberty, and outsource or sovereignty policies. But of course, since we don’t want to throw away our vote we must vote for one of the big boys. Conservative? Liberal? Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum?
Click the link below to read the rest of the article... it speaks well to why so many people seem confused or disengaged with the political process - I am close to being apolitical myself.
Source: Freedom Outpost Why I Am No Longer A Republican Or A Democrat
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