Patriotism. Love of country. In God We Trust. Traditional values. Our American heritage. September 11, 2001. Are they all forgotten?
Not here on The Forgotten Street -- Main Street USA. In the face of trying economic times and the dangerous world in which we live, we want to reclaim the heart of America, to rekindle the common thread of patriotism that should bind all Americans on such major issues as national security, traditional values and energy independence. We will provide you with hard-hitting commentary that cuts through the half-truths, obfuscation and outright lies propagated by the elite media. The Forgotten Street is your source for the real story behind the headlines.
J.C's Corner
February 6, 2010
Ronald Reagan Knew and Loved America
Today marks what would have been Ronald Reagan’s 99th birthday. Ronald Wilson Reagan was a great American and a great man.
At the heart of his greatness was his deep understanding of what America was all about and what makes Americans a unique people in human history.
Much of his greatness was linked to his abiding love for his country, a nation that has done more than any country in history to promote freedom and progress throughout the world. President Reagan, the Great Liberator, helped free hundreds of millions from communism and reduced the world’s nuclear arsenals significantly. He did more than his part to show the world what America means to its wellbeing.
President Reagan’s deep affection for America and its people was reciprocated as well. He was a President whose likeability and humble nature made him beloved by millions.
Americans respected his good common sense, his strength and his faith in the Constitution as the guidepost for our freedoms. People also saw Mr. Reagan as a man of faith who was unapologetic about his belief in God and who viewed the United States as a nation blessed by our Creator for the benefit of all mankind.
Through my association with Young America’s Foundation, (www.yaf.org), a non-profit organization that saved the Reagan Ranch and does a phenomenal job in educating young Americans about President Reagan and conservative values, my wife and I have had the incredible experience of visiting President Reagan’s beloved Rancho del Cielo, his ranch just north of Santa Barbara, California.
It is here that you get the true measure of the man. The main house, a very humble 1,600 square foot adobe house with no central heat or air, speaks to the humility and simplicity of Ronald Reagan.
Even though he reached the heights of Hollywood and politics, Ronald Reagan was still the product of his humble Illinois upbringing, a man who embraced the Midwestern values that shaped his character.
The ranch is a place of amazing serenity and beauty. It was President Reagan’s refuge from the pressures of his office and his opportunity to reconnect with nature. A true environmentalist, he relished his days at the ranch when he could saddle up his favorite horse, El Alamein, and survey the natural beauty around him.
At the end of his eight years as our President, Ronald Reagan delivered his farewell address on January 11. 1989. Quite simply, it is was one of the greatest speeches ever made by an American President. You can find it at www.reaganlibrary.net. I defy you to read it without tears welling up in your eyes.
In his farewell address, President Reagan summed up all that is great about our beloved country and its people. That night I made a promise. I said that when President Reagan would go to his rest in the loving arms of God, I would be sure to be in Washington to watch his funeral cortege and pay my respects to him as he lay in state.
That is a promise I kept on June 9, 2004. It was one of the most powerful emotional moments of my life. You can read my account in one of our Featured Articles, June 5, 2004.
So as we pause to honor our beloved President, all that he represents and all that he did for America, let’s start thinking today about how we may honor him on the centennial of his birth. I can think of no better way than reaffirming his conservative values and working our hearts out to rededicate our great nation to a strong national defense, lower taxes, traditional values and a balanced budget.
God blessed America with the leadership of Ronald Wilson Reagan. It is up to us, the foot soldiers of the Reagan Revolution who live on The Forgotten Street, to go on the march once again to restore our wonderful nation.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
February 4, 2010
Gangster Motors In Action
The onslaught of bad news about Toyota recalls is just a little too convenient, isn’t it?
Funny how the United States Government, the primary owner of General Motors, the single largest competitor for Toyota, has suddenly come crashing down on the Japanese car manufacturer.
Leave it to Transportation Secretary Ray, “The Hood,” LaHood, a Chicago boy, to tell drivers to quit driving their Toyota. Gee, what an amazing coincidence.
The Hood had to quickly backtrack when it was so grossly apparent that the United States Government was trying to destroy Toyota’s business and gain an advantage for the sorry enterprise that it now owns.
Look for Honda and non-government-owned automotive entities to soon find themselves the subjects of federal safety investigations.
General Motors has transformed from Government Motors to Gangster Motors as it adopts the “Chicago way” of doing business.
In the interest of fair play and free trade, let me offer the management of Toyota some helpful advice in how to deal with the ham-handed ways of the United States government.
First of all, it has come to light that the problems Toyota is experiencing with its vehicles is confined to those manufactured in America, not in Japan.
So here’s how to handle the situation: first, permanently close all American manufacturing facilities. Then let the geniuses in the Obama administration figure out how to contend with the resulting unemployment of Americans.
I am not wishing harm on my fellow Americans, but their government by its very actions is horribly undermining their well-being. So maybe a drastic wake-up call is in order to bring Washington to its senses, assuming it has any.
Second, Toyota should severely slash prices and, in effect, dump its Japanese products on the American market. thereby undercutting the prices of the garbage made by Gangster Motors.
You see, when you conduct business in the “Chicago way,” you invite responses in kind. Maybe that is what is needed to shake the Obama-Axelrod-Emanuel axis of evil out of its heinous ways.
What we are witnessing makes a mockery of free enterprise. It exemplifies the kind of corporate cronyism witnessed in Nazi Germany and fascist Argentina which is what we are headed for in America under the Obama administration.
It’s time to speak up and start buying Toyotas when the time comes to buy a car.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American. God bless my January readers from the Russian Federation, New Zealand, the Netherlands, South Korea, Germany, China, Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Argentina, India, Poland, the Ukraine, Japan, Colombia, the Seychelles, Taiwan, Brazil, the Slovak Republic, Singapore, Luxembourg, Austria, and Israel.
February 3, 2010
Viva Las Vegas!
Once again, President Barack Hussein Obama has gone out of his way to disparage one of America’s greatest vacation locations, Las Vegas.
Just what is his problem with a place that is Disney World for adults? Does he hate Harry Reid that much that he wants to ensure Reid gets whipped in the 2010 election?
The elitist snob in the White House likes to insinuate that average Americans travel to Las Vegas to blow the mortgage payment on gambling and other diversions. All of which shows how out of touch he is with American reality.
Some of the best vacations I’ve ever had in my life have been in Las Vegas. You can get a luxurious hotel at a reasonable price, eat at a wide range of restaurants (some run by America’s finest chefs), enjoy some of the country’s best entertainment, swim in lavish pools, play golf on beautiful courses, take advantage of great shopping and, if you so choose, indulge in some gaming, all in beautiful weather.
I’m sorry, Mr. President, not every American can take vacations to Martha’s Vineyard and Hawaii in mansions that rent for many thousands of dollars per night, or fly there on a private jet paid for by taxpayers.
Question one: Has there ever been an American president who is a bigger snob or elitist who displays nothing but contempt for everyday Americans?
Question two: Why does it bother Mr. Obama so much about how everyday Americans decide to spend their discretionary income? Is it because he is a Communist who thinks the government should control all of our money and decide how it is spent?
Question three: At a time when the government is wracking up the biggest debt in history, causing the worst unemployment in decades, letting our national security go to hell, dividing our society along racial and income lines, undermining capitalism, destroying our educational system and working to ruin the greatest health care system in the world, shouldn’t Americans be able to find some enjoyment in life, even if it means traveling to Las Vegas? Barack Stalin Obama apparently says NO.
Let me make one thing perfectly clear: if I want, I will go to Las Vegas and have the time of my life, regardless of what the elitist, arrogant snob in the White House thinks.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, especially when you can have the opportunity to visit a great resort destination like Las Vegas.
February 2, 2010
Three Blind Mice
Today’s Senate hearing featuring the heads of the CIA and FBI and the Director of National Intelligence was a frightening display of how wholly unprepared the Obama Administration is to deal with the threat of Islamic terrorism.
Dennis Blair, the DNI, admitted that we should expect a serious attack in the next three to six months. Duh! What in the hell would we expect when we have a President and Attorney General who think that the answer is to treat the situation as a criminal problem. These weaklings have no comprehension that we are not only in a war, but in a fight for our ultimate survival.
Looking at how the “three blind mice” performed at the hearing can lead to only one conclusion: we’re all going to die at the hands of Muslim savages.
Even Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein seemed highly discomforted at the ineptitude, rank incompetence and cluelessness on display before her.
Given the raw politics that motivates the Obama crowd, I am amazed at their utter stupidity. Don’t they comprehend that if the United States suffers another terrorist attack on the scale of September 11 that the Obama presidency will evaporate? Any remote chance at economic recovery will go out the window. The likelihood of Democrats ever having control of the Presidency and Congress again will be absolutely zero.
Yet, the Lyin' King and Eric the Red are oblivious to the perilous course that they have charted for America. Not merely oblivious, but colossally stupid.
Meanwhile, as the economy continues to disintegrate, despite the utterly phony and ridiculous GDP number put out by these deceitful bastards, what is their primary focus in the past day or two? Getting rid of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in the military. Ask the 20 percent of Americans who are unemployed if they give a damn about gays in the military.
But Queen Nancy Pelosi will push ahead with trying to ram health care reform down our throats, even as national security factotums admit we are defenseless in the face of terrorism. Her royal highness, an airhead unlike any we have ever seen, doesn’t grasp the fact that health care coverage won’t mean a damn thing to me if my city is a smoldering ruin and the economy is in total disarray.
What planet do these people live on? TAWPE (The Absolute Worst President Ever) and the Queen can jet around at our expense and devour $100 per pound steaks while many Americans can’t find work and are losing their houses.
Then we have the truly sorry spectacle of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel talking to a group of liberal activists and calling them “effing retarded.” God bless Sarah Palin for calling him out and demanding that he be fired for his insensitivity to those Americans with mental disabilities.
He should be canned for not only his brain-dead remarks regarding mentally challenged individuals, but because he is a total thug and a goon who disgraces the American people with his service. The mere fact that a lowlife piece of garbage like him can hold such a high position in our government is nauseating.
What will it take for the folks in Washington to come to their senses? Some believe we may need some sort of revolution. We are seeing signs of one at the ballot box, as we’ve already seen in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts. So maybe there is some hope that folks on The Forgotten Street, Main Street USA, are stirring and ready to take action.
We can only pray that is so, because as we learned today, time is running very short.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
January 29, 2010
“I Am Not An Ideologue”
When President Barack Hussein Obama told House Republicans today, “I am not an ideologue,” he joined the pantheon of presidential liars including Richard Nixon, “I Am Not A Crook,” and Bill Clinton, “I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman.”
Are you freakin’ kidding me?
Mr. Obama is either a boldfaced liar, a bi-polar schizophrenic or the single biggest cynic who has ever held the of Office of President of the United States.
You can’t make this stuff up. My vote is for all of the above.
Coming off a State of the Union address that was so pedestrian and banal that it defies belief, Mr. Obama has ventured out of the Oval Office into his more familiar and comfortable campaign mode, all of which further convinces Americans that he is in no way up to the job.
In his State of the Union address, Mr. Obama, a.k.a., The Kingfish, went out of his way to break with tradition and criticize a recent decision by the United States Supreme Court.
In doing so, he displayed a rudeness and crudeness wholly unbecoming of his office. Thank God, Justice Samuel Alito had the courage to mouth the words, “Not True” to counter the blatant and outrageous lie told by the President about the decision regarding free speech and campaign financing.
Justice Alito is a truly great American, a distinguished scholar who adds some serious intellectual heft to the Court. I had the privilege of meeting him during my undergraduate days at Princeton, when as an underclassman in my senior year, he joined the same eating club (i.e. fraternity), Stevenson Hall, that I belonged to. I remember him as a shy, very nice, obviously brilliant young man.
If Barack Hussein Obama is a Constitutional scholar, I am an astronaut. He is a feckless, arrogant jackass who disgraces his office every day he holds it.
The Kingfish’s idea of bipartisanship is “sign on to my way or the highway.” He simply cannot be trusted, he is a man with no character or any remote sense of American tradition and values.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
January 27, 2010
Eric Holder: Who Is He Really Working For?
Attorney General Eric Holder. Who is he really working for? Certainly not the American people or our constitutional government.
He is a menace. Just consider how he swept the Black Panther voter intimidation in Philadelphia under the rug. Or how he has done all he can to gut the Bush program to combat Islamic terrorism.
By pushing to close the detainee prison at Guantanamo Bay and have the 9/11 defendants tried in a civilian court in New York City, instead of a military tribunal, Holder has revealed his true colors. They are not red, white and blue.
Even New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who originally embraced the idea of having a trial in New York, has come to see the folly and the danger inherent in such a goofy proposal.
Obviously, Mr. Bloomberg is not the sharpest knife in the drawer if it took him so long to figure out what the average citizen on The Forgotten Street realized in an instant. Putting on such a trial in New York City would paint an enormous bulls-eye for terrorists to strike there again. Duh.
We just learned today, courtesy of the New York Post, that Mr. Holder has made some truly astonishing appointments to his staff. A lawyer who defended Osama Bin Laden’s chauffeur and bodyguard has assumed a key post at the Department of Justice and a woman who was active in protesting the detentions at Gitmo is now working in the national security section of the Justice Department.
Are you kidding me? Is Eric Holder insane or simply a traitor? Or maybe a little of both? Whatever the answer, it is truly disturbing. Maybe he should be detained at Gitmo as an enemy.
Today, pundits are focused on President Obama’s State of the Union address. Several friends have asked if I am going to watch. My answer: I’d sooner have a lit cigarette put out in my eye.
Why would I subject myself to a litany of lies, half-truths and lame-ass attempts to blame all his troubles on George Bush?
Meanwhile came the news today that Queen Nancy Pelosi and her loony left minions are still trying to find a way to ram their communist version of health care reform down our throats. There is simply no way too underhanded or unconstitutional to stop them from their mission: to destroy the greatest health care system in the world.
Clearly the vote in the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race was not a wakeup call for these lunatics. The will of the people and the consent of the governed mean nothing to the leadership of the Democrat Party or the hoodlums who infest 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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January 24, 2010
After a Year, Mr. President, It’s Time to Grow Up!
President Barack Hussein Obama has made his mark by criticizing his predecessor George W. Bush at every opportunity he can. Besides displaying a total lack of graciousness to a man who afforded him every courtesy during the transition, Mr. Obama has shown he has no stomach for taking responsibility for the office he now holds.
Hindsight being 20/20, I’m sure we all can find certain policies of Mr. Bush that we don’t support. But history will find him a patriot and courageous man who did the best he could with the cards he was dealt, without the sense of pity and complaint that plagues the current occupant of the Oval Office.
All of Obama’s pathetic bitching makes me say only one thing: Grow Up and Deal With It! Obama has had a year to tackle the challenges he faced and he has been a complete bust. I’m sure I am joined by thousands, or perhaps millions of Americans, who are saying, I would be a better President than that sorry jackass.
If I had to single Mr. Bush out for any one complaint, it would be this: in the days after September 11. 2001, he went out of his way to proclaim Islam a “religion of peace.” Unfortunately, he has been proven wrong in spades.
In the latest dispatch from the “Religion of Peace,” we have the former premier of Malaysia making comments that would make Adolf Hitler blush.
Now, keep in mind that Malaysia is allegedly an advanced, prosperous country that is held up as an example of the “true” Islam, where more moderate adherents of the religion hold forth.
His excellency Mahathir Mohammad, a true piece of human garbage and the former elected leader of Malaysia, blames the continued American presence in Afghanistan and the failure to close the detainee prison at Guantanamo Bay on the “Jewish lobby.” This disgusting creep went on to say that Jews “has always been a problem in European countries. They had to be confined to ghettoes and periodically massacred.”
This global asshat went on to say “even after their massacre by the Nazis of Germany, they survived to continue to be a source of even greater problems for the world.”
So this vile excrement is what we get from a man who led what is supposed to be a moderate Muslim nation?
America, get a clue. There is no moderate Muslim nation, and Islam is a religion that is in no way compatible with Western civilization. That has been proven by world history for more than a millennium.
The jihad is coming to America. We saw it with Fort Hood and the Christmas Day panty-bomber flying into Detroit. Take it from me, the worst is yet to come, and very soon. And, the Obama administration is wholly unprepared to deal with it. May God help us.
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January 20, 2010
Obama, Year One: A Dismal, Dangerous Failure
Today marks the first anniversary of the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama, our Kenyan Muslim president, and the people of Massachusetts rendered the most compelling verdict last night.
The Forgotten Street of Massachusetts, good everyday Americans living in small towns and cities across the Bay State, held a Tea Party and threw Obama and the Democrat Establishment overboard.
State Senator Scott Brown’s five-point victory in his bid to become a United States Senator and assume the seat held for so many years by The Liberal Lion, Teddy Kennedy, was stunning in its repudiation of President Obama, the Democrat Party, and business-as-usual in Washington D.C.
In truth, Brown’s victory came in some measure because he reminded Massachusetts voters of their beloved John F. Kennedy, who was a true American patriot, staunch on national security, a fiscal conservative and a man of the people. Brown had the brilliant idea of using an ad with President Kennedy that morphed into his image endorsing the same type of tax cuts that President Kennedy secured in the early years of his presidency.
Unlike Ted Kennedy, who often seemed more a product of the Soviet Union, Brown more resembled President Kennedy, who understood and loved America.
Massachusetts voters have endured a bad rep over the years as blindly voting the liberal and Democrat party line, but remember the Bay State Reagan Democrats and independents who cast their ballots in 1980 and 1984 in favor of Ronald Wilson Reagan. Thank God there are still enough of them around, including World War II veterans, who embraced Scott Brown’s patriotism, his service as a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard, and his sense that the Obama Administration is wholly on the wrong course on national security.
In his victory speech last night, Senator-Elect Brown (I love writing that!) noted in the most telling comment of the night, “In dealing with terrorists, our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them, not lawyers to defend them.”
That line along should be embraced by Republicans and used to help carry them to victory in November.
On that basis alone, I can state with conviction that Scott Brown would be a better President of the United States right now than the Kingfish, Barack Hussein Obama, the Cotton Candy confection with no substance, a cynical, condescending, elitist snob who disgraces the office he holds.
In one year, the Lyin’ King has crippled the economy, driven unemployment to its highest levels in decades, nationalized major industries, weakened national security and exacerbated race relations. Who in the hell does he think he is, Hugo Chavez?
When he ventures out on the campaign trail to allegedly help Democrats, Obama displays his “brown touch.” Given the dismal results that Democrats have endured in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, it’s obvious that everything Obama touches turns to crap.
Mr. Brown actually won the election days ago during a debate with the hapless and pathetic Martha Coakley. Moderator David Gergen, an unctuous Beltway bloviator, asked how could he, Brown, vote against health care reform when assuming Ted Kennedy’s seat.
Showing an ability to think on his feet that the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue totally lacks, Brown said, “It’s not the Kennedy seat, it’s not the Democrat seat, it’s the people’s seat.”
In doing so, he made Gergen look like a total jackass and pompous fool while showing that he gets the whole idea of representative government. At that moment, he won the election and set his course to the United States Senate.
Scott Brown won because he is a real person, not a political phony. He is a family man, a soldier and someone who threw his hat into the ring because he could see that America is seriously off course. He lives in Wrentham, Massachusetts, a town of 10,000+ in eastern Massachusetts that is part of The Forgotten Street, those places across America where good people who love their country try to make their way, where their children serve in our military and where the workers who make our goods live, that is the goods not made in China or Mexico.
Wrentham is a place where the D.C., academic and Hollywood elite never set foot, a place whose people they disdain and scorn. Wrentham is what these snobs view as “flyover” country, but as last night showed, they ignore it at their peril.
The Forgotten Street is awakening. For Obama and his cronies, there will be serious hell to pay in November.
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January 18, 2010
Dr. King vs. Obama, a Gross Mismatch
The Old Tired Media had a big day today trying to compare President Barack Hussein Obama to Dr. Martin Luther King, the civil rights icon and great American whose birthday we celebrated today.
What a mismatch! How can you compare an effete, elitist ‘cotton candy” fabrication to a truly inspiring American who made it possible for the arrogant empty suit we call our President to occupy the Oval Office today?
Dr. Martin Luther King used the hallmarks of Christianity and non-violence to awaken America to the gross injustice of segregation and to enlighten Americans to embrace our differences and come together as a nation.
Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial is seared into my memory. Watching it as a young man opened my eyes to a new America that could be. He spoke of judging people by the “content of their character, not the color of their skin.” I still choke up when I watch it.
Unfortunately, liberal elites twisted his credo into a perversion in which character has no bearing, and quotas and vote-buying reign supreme.
The result is the diffident, arrogant jerk we call President Obama, a man whose sense of entitlement is wholly unearned. He never bore the burden of racism as he lived a life of privilege, attending the finest schools and being pushed along by elite supporters who have made him the front man for a radical agenda to destroy the America we love and cherish.
This is the very same America Dr. King tried to embrace. As a Christian, he believed in the innate goodness of people, who would come to recognize injustice when they saw it and take action to reverse it. He never gave up on America and what it could be, unlike Mr. Obama who disdains the America that is and wants to turn it into something so foreign to the majority of us that we want to wretch.
If you want to know the true story of Dr. King’s courageous struggle, see what the National Republican Black Association has to say about race in America today. And, you’ll learn that Dr. King was a lifelong Republican.
Why do I call Obama a “Cotton Candy” fabrication? He is a totally made up fraud. He has no background of ever having to work hard for a living or face serious discrimination. He has enjoyed a life of privilege that most black Americans would never recognize.
Fundamentally, Barack Hussein Obama is not a serious man. As we still have troops in harm’s way in Iraq and Afghanistan, as we deal with a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions in Haiti, and as the economy still remains in the dumper, he finds time to write an article on Haiti for Newsweek.
Of course, the article would be ghost-written by a staffer. But, why would the President give the impression that he would take valuable time to write such inane drivel for a hard left-wing, hell Communist, publication with all that he has on his plate?
Simply, he is not a serious man and he does not take his responsibilities seriously. He is a total cynic. He’s too busy taking joy rides on Air Force One and eating $100 a pound steaks while real Americans suffer from the worst economy, caused by him and not George Bush, since the Great Depression.
Barack Obama is not an heir to Martin Luther King. He is a Muslim perversion.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
January 15, 2010
TGIF: I Don’t Think I Can Take Much More
Thank God, it’s Friday. I couldn’t take much more of the Elite Traitor Media’s distortion of the news. I know I changed the name to Old Tired Media, but I have to acknowledge their Hate America First agenda.
In the hellish aftermath in Haiti, the ETM seems intent on trying to portray Barack Hussein Obama, the alleged President, as taking charge of the situation. But the same media that excoriated George Bush over Hurricane Katrina are giving the Kingfish a pass on Haiti, even as his response makes Mr. Bush’s look like warp speed. For sheer incompetence, Obama takes the cake.
As Haiti descends into the depths of Hell on Earth, special envoy Bill Clinton, a former President of the United States, turns his back on the suffering to go campaign for the emptiest of suits, Martha Coakley, in her bid to take the U. S. Senate seat once held by Teddy Kennedy.
Ms. Coakley is one of the more despicable human beings in America, having wrongfully convicted an astonishing number of people in Massachusetts and now insulted Catholic medical workers. She will rely on union goons and the Lyin’ King to try and steal an election for her on Tuesday.
Meanwhile Scott Brown continues to surge, showing Americans that honest, God-fearing patriots still can succeed in America. I urge you all to go to www.brownforussenate.com to see how you can help this good man become the next Senator from Massachusetts.
In other news of the day:
-- What Barack Obama proposes to do with taxing “Cadillac” health insurance plans is downright un-American, and frankly, Communism at its worst. What can you expect from a man who has lived a life of total privilege and never worked a hard day in his life?
-- Obama and his friends in the Politburo don’t comprehend that these so-called Cadillac plans were either negotiated in collective bargaining or provided to employees as part of their compensation. In other words, you receive less cash in wages and more reward in benefits. So what gives the government the right to interfere in the employer-employee relationship? Where in the hell are we, Russia?
-- The Bolsheviks who infest our government are made up of lawyers, academics and career public servants who have no concept of trying to generate cash flow, provide customer service and open new markets for products and services. In fact, they are professional leeches.
-- Remember the “party crashers” at the recent White House state dinner for the Indian prime minister? The Secret Service took the hit for letting them in, but it turns out that the wealthy duo actually may have already been acquainted with the Kingfish, but their invite was covered up because the gentleman in question, Tereq Salahi, is a shady character with ties to Hamas and other radical groups supporting the Palestinian cause. Hey, he’s just another Muslim home boy for the Prez!
-- Don’t you love those new taxes proposed for our largest banks? Can’t wait until they show up in my checking and ATM fees. I wonder how many more ways the Kingfish will come up with to smother the economic recovery infant in its crib.
-- Harry Reid has done his share to talk up “light-skinned” candidates with “no Negro dialect.” Does that mean he is endorsing Scott Brown in Massachusetts? How long can the Democrat Party endure the embarrassment of having this senile imbecile as the Senate Majority Leader?
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American! Get ready for a big win on Tuesday night in the home of the original Tea Party.
January 13, 2010
Hawkins For President??????
You know it’s a damn sorry day when you realize that you would be a better President of the United States than the sorry sack of crap that holds that office now.
Where do I begin?
Well, let’s deal with current events. The United States has been caught in the death grip of a cold snap unlike any we have seen in quite a while. While Americans die and the Midwest gets choked under many feet of snow, the President seems totally unconcerned and unsympathetic.
Were George Bush still President, the old Tired Media would be screaming for him to take some action. Old Tired Media is my polite phrase for Sorry Commie Bastards.
Now we are faced with the shocking and horrific images of the devastation in Haiti from a major earthquake. Barack Hussein Obama, a.k.a The Worst Absolutely Worst President Ever (TWAPE), appeared before the cameras to mouth a lot of platitudes that amounted to the equivalent of urinating up a rope.
Had President Hawkins been in the Oval Office, here is what I would have done: I would have ordered U.S. Navy hospital ships to proceed to Haiti to deliver medical care to the unfortunate victims. I would have called on the rest of the world to respond so the entire burden did not fall on the United States, as it always does in global crises.
And, Mrs. Hawkins and I would have gone to the Haitian Embassy in Washington to express our condolences for the victims and determine how we could best support relief efforts.
But the President of the United States was preoccupied today conspiring with the United States Congress on how best to destroy the greatest health care system in the world.
Meanwhile the Majority Leader of the United States Senate is dealing with the outfall from his incredibly racist remarks quoted in a book on the 2008 campaign. What Harry Reid displayed was his total contempt and disdain for the American people, whom he regards as a bunch of racist boobs.
That is the real scandal: like so many Democrats, he has an intense hatred of average Americans and he ascribes to them the basest of motives and beliefs. He thinks we are racists, and we know that he and his colleagues are idiots who greatly endanger our republic.
In my native Pittsburgh, Harry Reid is what we would call a “jagoff.”
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American as long as we can get Scott Brown elected to the United States Senate. You can help by going to: www.brownforussenate.com. Don’t let the thugs who attack reporters on behalf of an empty suit like Martha Coakley, who has an elitist sense of entitlement, win.
January 11, 2010
The Sellout of Israel Continues
As our first Muslim President pushes harder for a Middle East peace deal, it is totally clear which side he favors. His special envoy for the Middle East, former Senator George Mitchell, has floated the idea of cutting off loan guarantees to Israel if the country does not stop building new settlements.
So much for an American foreign policy not based on arrogance. The Lyin’ King has the AAA Obama Doctrine: appeasement, arrogance and alienation.
Where are the stipulations for the Palestinians to stop firing missiles into Israel? In the past week, more than 20 mortars and rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
But what is particularly galling is this: how in the name of God did the American government put an Arab-American in a position to dictate to the Israelis? George Mitchell is by no means an objective mediator. He’s a pro-Arab political hack who clearly wants to sell Israel down the river.
We have come a long way from a courageous President, Harry S. Truman, who stood up on behalf of Israel at its creation and began the critical alliance with a struggling democracy in the Middle East.
Without Truman, there would have been no Israel. He fought the elite foreign policy establishment to help create the new state. He believed God have given Israel to the Jews and that they deserved to return there.
Now, with Barack Hussein Obama, there may be no Israel, given his total appeasement of Iran and his clear bias in favor of the Palestinians.
Consider the last three Democrat Presidents: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. They represent the triumvirate of anti-Semites all too eager to sell out the Israelis in order to achieve a bogus peace deal and win an even more bogus Nobel Peace Prize.
Who says anti-Semitism isn’t alive and well in Europe, especially in Norway, given the awards to Carter and Obama?
The one statesman who has tried to advance the cause of peace in the Middle East is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who also has assumed the mantle of Leader of the Free World, given the fact that he is our one hope of preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it is a great day to be an American! I want to thank my foreign visitors in December from Australia, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, the Slovak Republic, Finland, Austria, The Seychelles, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Sweden, China, Estoonia, Italy, Portugal, Taiwan, Canada, Switzerland and Chile. God bless you all! Finally, I have added a new blog on the Links page off the Home Page. Check out Gilia Rethman’s Hump Day Report. She is a brilliant conservative who adds a true sparkle to the Web with her insight and wit.
January 8, 2010
Saluting the King, and All That is Right With America
Today marks what would have been the 75th birthday of Elvis Presley, the greatest entertainer in the history of the world and the epitome of the American dream.
Elvis was born into the most abject poverty one can imagine in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1935, and somehow, on sheer talent and determination, became the biggest star in recording and motion picture history.
There is no doubt that Elvis had the benefit of purely once-in-a-generation God-given talent, perhaps the greatest voice in the history of music and a personal charisma unmatched in my lifetime.
At a business dinner the other night, I had a colleague comment that he just didn’t “get what it is with Elvis Presley.”
If a fit of pique, I responded, “What are you, a Communist?” Simply put, Elvis is the ultimate example of the American dream, someone who could rise from the most humble of circumstances, and without any connections and relying on sheer talent and will, rose to become an American icon, beloved by hundreds of millions, perhaps, billions around the world.
I was fortunate to have the benefit of living in Memphis, Elvis’ hometown, for several years and hearing first hand from his contemporaries what a fine human being he was.
The liberal elites and progressives, i.e., the scum of the earth, continue look down their noses at Elvis and those who love him. They fail to understand that Elvis gave hope to millions around the world that they, too, could make it through hard work and faith in God.
Elvis was a very spiritual person, one who made his journey with God a lifelong pursuit. In fact, the only Grammy award Elvis even won for his music was for Gospel records. When you consider Elvis created what is today a multi-multi-billion industry through his music, and was never recognized for it by the Grammys, then you know that the Grammy Awards are a crock of manure.
I had the good fortune, albeit the grace of God, to get to know one of Elvis’ dear friends, Charlie Cleaves, when I lived in Memphis. Charlie bore testimony to the true Elvis, who was a loving and generous man who reflected the best that God gives each of us. Charlie has since gone to his rest, hopefully reuniting with Elvis, and reflecting on the generosity and love they both spread on earth.
As various occasions occur to commemorate Elvis, and all the joy and inspiration his music gave us, I think about my friendship with Charlie and how in many ways it changed my life. As a newcomer to the Memphis community, I felt accepted as Charlie opened his heart and made me feel welcome. He was one in a million, much like Elvis, and he made the world a better place by his presence.
Charlie Cleaves and Elvis Presley represented the very best of The Forgotten Street, all that is right with America at the grassroots level where people still cling to God, cherish freedom, work hard and revere the U.S. Constitution as the ultimate expression of human liberty. Outside of family, I never had a better friend that Charlie.
Thanks for reading! Always remember it is a great day to be an American. And, may God always richly bless and love Charlie Cleaves and Elvis Presley.
January 7, 2010
America 2010: The New Bizarro World
You all remember Superman’s Bizarro World, where up is down, white is black, right is left and dogs are cats? Well, folks, that is the United States in 2010 under Democrat rule.
Given the truly weird events that have ended 2009 and opened the new year, that is the only explanation the outburst of sheer craziness and incompetence that has America in its clutches.
How in the name of God can Nancy Pelosi call the health care reform debate the most “open process of any legislation?” The woman is either a brazen liar or clinically insane. The American people have been told by the Democrats, “We don’t give a good God-damn what you think because we are going to do whatever we want to increase our power, reward our union cronies, increase illegal immigration and totally subvert the U. S. Constitution and your rights.”
Today we watched our empty suit of a President suddenly try to talk tough about Al Qaeda and terrorism. Someone needs to tell him that he is about as macho as Elton John. The jihadists are laughing at him and thinking that he is what Arnold would call a “girly man.”
At the same time, our national security team, consisting of Janet Napolitano, John Brennan and Jim Jones, try to reassure us that they have the situation under control. Right. They represent an army of the clueless who have no concept of what we are up against.
Meanwhile, the economy continues to deteriorate at an alarming rate, even as more fools pour money into a stock market that is totally out of touch with reality. Hey, guys, unemployment continues to grow, regardless of the bogus numbers put out by the government. Businesses are not borrowing, not because of what is falsely termed a “credit crunch,” but because they simply don’t like the uncertainty caused by a Congress that seems hellbent on destroying capitalism.
The situation is so bad that Democrat incumbents can read the writing on the wall and are bailing out of the 2010 election. Even C-Span has been spanking President Obama for his egregious lying about having the health care debate televised.
So what are we to do? Keep organizing and finding superior conservatives to run in this year’s election. But even now, we have to start looking at another option in order to shake Americans out of their apathy and inertia.
I am beginning to believe that if the folks in Washington continue to insist on centralizing more power under their domain, we in the real America should begin a rational discussion on secession as a viable alternative to reestablish a true federal system and get out from under the control of an oppressive central regime.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American if we can rededicate ourselves to our founding principles.
January 3, 2010
Where Angels Fear To Tread
Happy New Year! I wish I could bring you all tidings of great joy, but we enter a new year with great trepidation, given the state of the economy, the looming jihadist threat here in America and a President whose grasp of reality is tenuous at best.
If you want a really bracing introduction to what we face in 2010, I highly recommend that you visit The American Thinker (www.americanthinker.com) and read two outstanding articles from today:
History Is Knocking For Obama by James Lewis and
The Jihad Decade Cometh by Pamela Geller.
Both these writers demonstrate the grip on reality that you could only wish for in the ruling elites in Washington D.C. and what I call the Elite Traitor Media. Those folks seem more focused solely on entrenching themselves even further in control of our lives and in destruction of our freedom.
Pamela Geller has been sounding the alarm for a long time about the burgeoning threat posed by radical Islam and the ridiculously weak response Western civilization has taken to face it. You must make her web site (www.atlasshrugs.com) part of your daily reading.
We enter a pivotal year in American history as we contend with an out-of-control Congress and federal government that are spending our great-grandchildren into oblivion and stripping us of our freedom. The fall election gives us an opportunity to oust as many of the incumbents as possible in order to send an unforgettable message: we want our Constitution respected and our representative republic restored.
We also must hope that Israel will take swift action to dispatch Iran’s nuclear capability since it is painfully obvious that the United States and other Western democracies do not have either the backbone or the credibility to shake the theocrats from their obsession to destroy Israel.
President Barack Hussein Obama gave the Iranians a December 31, 2009, deadline to respond to his pathetic and humiliating overtures to “engage.” The mullahs responded by giving him the finger and essentially telling him to go crap in his hat.
We have a President who does not want to exercise the strength of his office and our great nation to shape events in a positive, proactive manner. Instead, he has become the world’s 98-pound weakling, with tinpot despots like Hugo Chavez kicking sand in his face.
In the face of an attempted Christmas Day terrorist bombing, he has further revealed his impotence. There simply is not enough Viagra, Cialis and Levitra in the world to cure the case Obama has. He has become an absolute embarrassment.
By ordering bureaucratic reviews, the Lyin’ King ducks the overriding question: how did the Nigerian get on the plane in Amsterdam without a passport, with a one-way ticket paid in cash and no checked luggage.
Clearly, he had assistance from someone at Dutch security and/or the airline. Technology would not have stopped him in this instance. With jihadist sympathizers on the inside to help, body scanners and the like are useless.
Even the alleged news media have failed to grasp this basic concept. Because of that, I will no longer call them the Elite Traitor Media. Their new moniker in 2010 is the Old Tired Media.
I don’t like beginning the year on such a negative note, but I want to impress on all of you the seriousness of our situation and the critical nature of the 2010 election as our best chance to make a change that counts. Indeed, it might be our last best chance. So get to work now on supporting candidates who will stand up for freedom, individual liberty, limited government and fiscal reality.
We on The Forgotten Street in towns across America have our work cut out for us, but we are true Americans and fully up to the task. God bless you!
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
December 31, 2009
2009, Good Riddance!
Most folks on The Forgotten Street are probably happy to see 2009 fade away and will greet 2010 with a sense of hesitant optimism.
Let’s bid farewell to the year with just a few random thoughts on past and current events.
Barack Hussein Obama became President of the United States and is now the president about whom we know the absolute least. All the media focused on was his becoming the first black president.
We learned very little about his personal background and family life. The Elite Traitor Media displayed little to no curiosity about his reluctance to produce a birth certificate or school records, or tell how he managed to pay for higher education at elite universities.
So President Obama now comes across as a man with something to hide who clearly does not believe in traditional American values. He even went so far as to declare that the United States is “not a Christian nation.” Tell that to the overwhelming majority of people who are Christians.
Upon taking office, Obama quickly became the Lyin’ King as he backtracked on a host of campaign promises. He also signaled to the world that he was not serious about combating radical Islam or conducting a war on terror.
His decision to close the detainee prison at Guantanamo and his appointment of Janet Napolitano as the head of Homeland Security underscored his lack of seriousness in fighting terrorism and defending America and its borders.
Not content with assuming the highest office in the land, Obama decided to create a government within a government led by czars not subject to Senate confirmation. Among this cast of characters are the biggest collection of communists, con men, sheer kooks and perverts ever assembled.
This was the year the great global warming hoax unraveled as the majority of Americans woke up to the fact that the scientific data driving an international cabal to attempt to take over much of the American economy was fudged and wholly unreliable.
A recent study at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom concluded that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased during the past 150 years or even during the five most recent decades.
Al Gore, put that in your pipe and smoke it. You obviously have been smoking something funny for a long, long time.
As the world dithered over Iran’s aggressive bid to produce nuclear weapons, Iranians took to the streets to protest a bogus election and to try to attract worldwide support for their bid to change the totalitarian regime.
Mr. Obama chose to stay on the sidelines and not encourage the protesters, thus betraying a long-standing American policy of support for people seeking democracy and freedom. His timid approach encouraged the mullahs to viciously crack down on the budding democracy movement.
Even though the vast majority of Americans did not want it, the Democrat Congress labored through much of the year to create a health care reform plan that will end up destroying the finest health care system in the world and bankrupting countless state governments with foolish federal mandates.
Led by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, the Democrats showed their complete disdain for public opinion, going so far as to label average Americans who attended town halls to voice their concerns as “un-American” and to use the epithet “teabagger” to criticize citizens who organized “tea parties” to raise opposition to out-of-control federal spending.
2009 became the year that the United States no longer had a government that reflected the “will of the people” or the “consent of the governed.” What we have instead is a Chicago-style band of gangsters who take a brass knuckle approach to governance that more and more people are finding abhorrent.
So it is with great joy that we bid farewell to 2009 and look forward to 2010 as the year of the Great Awakening, when the folks on The Forgotten Street rise up and reassert their rights to representative government that adheres to the U.S. Constitution.
We have a lot of work ahead of us, so roll up your sleeves and pray for God’s blessing.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
December 30, 2009
Get A Clue! It Was An Inside Job
While the Obama Administration, Washington politicos and the Elite Traitor Media get their panties in a wad over how the Nigerian bomber could get through security and almost down an airliner over Detroit, the answer is so painfully obvious it hurts.
Mr. Obama rants about “systemic failure,” all in yet another pathetic effort to pin blame on the Bush Administration. He’s one damn sorry excuse for a Commander-in-Chief. Fact is, he is the Whiner-in-Chief.
As the State Department and various intelligence organizations all point fingers at each other over the failure to thwart the Al Qaeda plot, the answer is clear: the Nigerian terrorist had help in getting onto the airliner. It was an inside job!
Having some familiarity with airline protocol on security, I can tell you that if airline personnel and Dutch security in Amsterdam were serious about their jobs, there is no way in hell that Adbulmutallab would have boarded Flight 253.
Consider these facts: No passport, red flag. One-way ticket, red flag. Paying cash for ticket, red flag. No checked luggage, red flag. This guy raised more red flags than the Soviet Army marching past the Kremlin on May Day. Yet he proceeded about his business unimpeded.
My wife worked at Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C. during much of the last decade. After the events of September 11, if any passenger presented himself in similar circumstances, the computer would print out a “selectee” boarding pass, which automatically identified the passenger for additional screening.
Which tells us what? He got around and through security because jihadist sympathizers among the airline and/or Dutch security employees were in on the deal and assisted him. Why is it that a 61-year old average citizen in Saint Augustine, Florida, has figured out what the rest of the world has missed?
Meanwhile Obama has demanded a review with a report on his desk tomorrow. What will he get? A whitewash that will not shed any light on the fact that the growing Islamisation of Europe is going to create a situation where Muslims who support jihad will be able to undermine airline security to their hearts’ content.
Obama wants a report that will throw mud on the Bush Administration. He has been President for almost a year and done nothing but blame all his troubles on George Bush, who could not have been more gracious or accommodating during the transition.
The Lyin’ King says he will not rest until we find all involved, and then goes out to play golf. He seems more perturbed that his vacation has been interrupted than the fact that Americans citizens and others almost were incinerated over Detroit.
It is clear, as he lollygags around Hawaii, that he sees himself more as an emperor than president. Emperor Obama Disgustus and his Empress, Michelle Antoinette, represent the worst of elitism, worse than any pair you can find in Anglo-Saxon history. The more he pouts on vacation because his job is too hard and he is tired, I have to say, “Hey Jackass, you wanted the job, you weren’t drafted for it!”
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
Christmas Day, 2009
The Everlasting Miracle of Christmas
Attending the Christmas Eve Vigil Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Augustine last evening, I was overwhelmed with joy and gratitude.
The Cathedral Basilica is home to the oldest Roman Catholic parish in our country, founded on September 8, 1565 by Spanish explorers. Celebrating the Mass was Father Andy Blaszkowski, our Polish priest, whose joy was infectious. His message really captured the spirit of Christmas.
A year ago, at the very same Mass, I was recovering from a hemorraghic stroke and traumatic brain injury caused by a ruptured aneurysm in my middle cerebral artery. At the time, I was undergoing extensive physical, speech and cognitive therapy, trying to regain my life. It was my first time in church since my stroke.
That night Father Andy gave me hope and inspiration as I contemplated the sacrifice and suffering that Jesus Christ endured for the benefit of all humanity. Surely I could draw strength from that inspiration to again serve my family, my Lord and my country.
Yesterday, as we sang “Away in a Manger,” the words hit home as I considered the humble circumstances of our Savior’s birth and the message that our Heavenly Father sent us with that birth.
For He so loved the world, that He sent His only son to save mankind.
Tears filled my eyes as I thought of the amazing love given me by my wife, daughter, her husband and son, my father-in-law, my brothers, extended family and friends that pulled me through my ordeal. I also benefited from the compassionate care of the finest medical professionals of the best health care system in the world. My various doctors all tell me that my recovery has been miraculous. I know it was possible only through the grace and love of my Heavenly Father.
On August 20, 2008, the day I was stricken, I encountered God first hand during a harrowing ambulance ride during a tropical storm to the University of Florida/Shands Hospital in Gainesville. As I endured a crippling pain in my right eye caused by the blood filling my cranium, I told God that I understood only He could help me at that moment. I told him that I knew He would decide what was right for me, and if I lived or died, whatever He decided I would humbly accept with love and gratitude.
As I prayed, an amazing feeling of peace and warmth came over me. That night I felt my Father’s love as He held me in His arms and kept me safe on my journey.
The miracle I’ve experienced is directly related to the miracle of Christmas, which is the ultimate expression of God’s love. So this Christmas holds a special place in my heart. In mid-month, we enjoyed a pre-Christmas visit by our daughter, her husband and our grandson. I thank God I was able to fully enjoy our time together and set the stage for the best Christmas ever. Now my wife and I are loving a visit from her Dad, as fine a human being as ever set foot on earth and a man truly touched by God’s love. It’s been a pleasure to share the joy of Christmas with him.
Human beings can reasonably disagree on religion and follow their separate spiritual paths. But there can be no denying that the Jewish baby born in Bethlehem more than two thousands years ago has done more to change the world than any human in history.
Christianity remains the most prevalent religion on earth and is still the fastest growing in many parts of the earth. During yesterday’s Mass, as I sang the various hymns, I pondered why Jesus has inspired the most beautiful sacred music in history. What is it about this humble Prince of Peace that has inspired the world’s greatest musicians to celebrate Him so richly, creating a legacy that we treasure today and our children and their children will cherish as well?
As part of my journey as a Christian, I am reading a recent book written by Pope Benedict XVI entitled Jesus of Nazareth, the first in a trilogy about Christ. The Holy Father is an incredibly learned man, a truly beautiful and gifted writer, and in truth, one of the greatest theologians in history. The book creates a richer portrait of Jesus the human being and his connection to his Jewish heritage.
Those of us on The Forgotten Street endure the disdain of the elites in politics, academia and the media, but our faith tells us to have the courage to defend our beliefs and to withstand the assault of secular progressives on America. Our Declaration of Independence says it best:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness – That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed …”
As we celebrate the miracle of Christmas, let the founders words ring in our ears as we hold in our hearts the belief that every human is a child of God, our Creator. We must defend Life and fight to ensure we have a government of the people and for the people, not for the liberal elites who want to enslave us.
The secular progressives and elites have been working for half a century to destroy the impact of Christmas and Christ on our society by taking God out of our schools and the public square. They even stoop so low as to portray the Holy Family as homeless vagrants.
In truth, Joseph and Mary left their home in Nazareth to travel to Bethlehem because Roman emperor Caesar Augustus decreed that all the world should be taxed and that everyone had to return to their home city to be taxed. He must have been a Democrat.
Joseph and Mary were not homeless. They were merely forced to leave home by a tyrannical central government that wanted to confiscate their wealth. Sound familiar?
In closing, let me share with you the prayer on the Christmas card given by my father-in-law to my wife and me. It is our Christmas wish for all of you:
The Lord bless and keep you; the Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you; and the Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American! Merry Christmas! Praise God from Whom all blessings flow.
December 24, 2009
Christmas Eve
Fire Up the Santa “Coal Train”
Having double-checked his list of who’s naughty and nice, poor St. Nick realized that he would be unable to carry all the coal for the naughty boys and girls in his sleigh. So he’s fired up a special auxiliary train to shadow his travels and help him deliver coal to those who earned it.
The Forgotten Street has secretly obtained a copy of the “Big People’s Coal List,” and here are a few of the more notable recipients:
President Barack Hussein Obama, a.k.a., The Lyin’ King – For having the unmitigated gall to take a Christmas vacation in Hawaii and stay in a $4,000 a night rental mansion at a time when unemployment approaches 18% (the real number, not the phony one dished out by the government). He hasn’t done squat to help create jobs except hold phony summits. I hope he gags on his poi. Since he doesn’t go to church, I doubt that he even comprehends the elitism, arrogance and insensitivity this trip exemplifies.
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi – For creating a new standard of bipartisanship that is worthy of the standard operating procedure of the Soviet Politburo. The terms “will of the people” and “consent of the governed” have no meaning to them. And their apparatchiks have fallen in lock step behind them. They have engineered the biggest assault on freedom in American history.
New York Senator Chuck Schumer – For flying the unfriendly skies every time he steps on a plane. His calling a flight attendant a crude name for merely doing her job to ensure safety underscores the arrogance and sense of entitlement that he epitomizes. If he ever participated in a living Nativity scene, he would play the jackass.
David Letterman – A sexual harasser who kept his job only because he helps generate millions of dollars in revenue for a company (CBS) that displayed its total disdain for women by not firing him or even subjecting him to some form of discipline. Just let any of you try to get away with what he did. He is total pig and about as funny as Leonid Brezhnev.
Tiger “Cheetah” Woods – Speaking of sexual pigs, his biggest problem looms on the horizon because a Canadian doctor is under investigation for providing prominent athletes with performance-enhancing drugs, and it seems likely Cheetah is on that list. For a game that relies on a high degree of integrity, Woods has become a total disgrace and huge liability.
The Associated Press – This once proud global news gathering organization has become a megaphone for the Obama Administration, so much so that the initials AP now stand for American Pravda.
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs – For his serious threat to dethrone Scott McClellan as the most inept presidential press secretary ever. Gibbs sets a new standard for arrogance and for being just plain unctuous.
Former President Jimmy Carter – The aging world-class liar and anti-Semite recently issued a lame apology to Jews for his past comments and pro-Palestinian positions. He’s not fooling anybody. Real Christians and Jews know what hatred is in Carter’s ugly heart.
Nobel Laureate Al Gore – For continuing to mouth patent nonsense, unfounded scientific claims and pure fear-mongering about climate change, all in the drive to further enrich him and his cynical pals in the global warming hoax and push communism through global governance.
Florida Congressman Alan Grayson – For showing that a Harvard education is not what it’s cracked up to be. His bizarre antics rival those of the moron Jim Moran of Virginia for sheer weirdness.
Minnesota Senator Al Franken – Who already is beginning to get on the nerves of his fellow Senators with his total crassness, liberal nuttiness and complete lack of decorum.
Unfortunately, I could go on. The list is seemingly endless, and the World Wide Web has only so much capacity. Here’s hoping Santa has a safe journey and that the Coal Train will chug right along with him.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American! Leave the milk and cookies for Santa. Say your prayers tonight and get a great night’s sleep. Tomorrow we celebrate the blessed birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
December 23, 2009
Bribe-a-palooza 2009 Rages On!
As the Senate continues its deliberations on the health care reform bill, Americans are being treated to the sorry spectacle of the worst Congress in American history engaging in the height of corruption and cynicism.
In short, the alleged “greatest deliberative body” in the world has become a cancer on our society. By my count, there are only six members of the Senate worthy of our respect: Tom Coburn, Bob Corker, Jim DeMint, James Inhofe, Jeff Sessions and John Thune. The rest are a huge collection of con men (and women), bunco artists, dirtbags, phonies and crooks.
I marvel that a quality individual like Marco Rubio would want to join such a group, but when we elect him, he can join with the six above-mentioned members to form the “Magnificent Seven” who might actually offer us hope for the future.
As Harry Reid strives to ram his abortion of a bill through the Senate, we are witnessing a full-scale assault on our democracy and freedom. The Democrat leadership has displayed its total disdain and scorn for the “will of the people” and the “consent of the governed.”
Furthermore, he and his communist colleagues have shown their total contempt for the U.S. Constitution by creating an unprecedented federal mandate to force people to buy a product they may or may not want.
In addition, he and his fellow travelers will force Americans to pay for abortions and also provide coverage to illegal aliens. In order to achieve his goal, Reid has embarked on a bribe-fest in which he is using our money to buy votes and grant favors to some states at the expense of others.
What he is doing is repulsive, repugnant, dishonest, reprehensible, contemptible and completely un-American.
Meanwhile, the alleged President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, sits on the sidelines cheering Reid on while displaying no leadership of his own.
He spent time yesterday trying to cajole small community banks into lending more money to small businesses. Someone needs to tell Mr. Obama that no small businessman or businesswoman in his or her right mind would commit to borrowing money while there is so much uncertainty over health care, cap and trade, and the other communist schemes he and his fellow travelers are trying to ram down our throats.
The Kingfish is either the dumbest SOB on earth (that certainly gets my vote) or just a completely cynical and arrogant jerk. I think we may have a tie after all.
One thing businesses need to thrive is some degree of certainty about the environment in which they operate. Since none of the geniuses in Washington have ever worked for a living, they cannot comprehend that simple fact. So don’t look for a lot of hiring or any facsimile of economic recovery in the near future. Business people know all about risk and reward.
They also don’t trust a federal government that has arbitrarily destroyed thousands of small businesses through ham-handed micro-managing of the economy.
The government takeover of General Motors and Chrysler led to the closure of 1,467 automobile dealerships through October 1, 2009, with another 200 likely to shut down by year-end.
As Main Street America, The Forgotten Street, loses auto dealerships, it is suffering an economic Holocaust as prominent local businesses, often many decades old, eliminate good jobs, cut off local suppliers and let down local charities.
Since the buffoons in Washington have spent most of their lives in the elitist world of academia, media and government, and most likely never visited The Forgotten Street, they have no idea as to the havoc they have wreaked on America and how devastating the after effects will be for generations.
We have a fighting chance to change this destructive scenario in November 2010 by adding to the unemployment numbers by giving pink slips to the incompetent criminals in Washington.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be a American!
December 16, 2009
A Government Run Amok
In its push to pass health care reform, no matter how convoluted or nuts it turns out to be, the Obama Administration is pulling out of the stops to make it happen, so it can make history, even if it turns out to be a total disaster.
The thugs, goons and gangsters who infest the Obama Administration are so hell-bent to pass anything, for the sake of “making history,” no matter how much it wrecks the greatest health care system in the world, that they are threatening United States Senators.
Ben Nelson of Nebraska has been told that if he doesn’t vote for health care reform, the government will close a key Air Force base in Nebraska. Someone needs to tell the hoodlums in the White House that Congress does not control the closure of military bases, that decision rests with an independent and allegedly bipartisan commission.
The fact that a White House official would issue such a threat to a United States Senator tells you how out of control and reckless this White House is. Of course, the PR whores at the White House deny the story, but it is completely in keeping with the thuggish ways in which this White House conducts its business.
The current Administration not only is trying to subvert and wreck our health care system, but also totally destroy our manufacturing base and our capitalist system with its communist approach on climate change, the greatest single hoax in human history.
For those of you wondering about the lack of posts this week, I have been enjoying a fabulous visit with my three-year-old grandson. I am sick at heart to think about the totally immoral debt, which this Congress will leave for him to deal with. I also am disgusted with the weakness in foreign policy and monetary discipline that ensures he will live in a world far less prosperous and secure than this one, which is hardly a great place to be.
Each American generation faces unique challenges, and we Baby Boomers have yet to step up to the plate and secure a nation for our heirs. Time is running out, and we need to act soon and forcefully to let the incompetents in Washington know that we are sick of their wasteful spending and corruption, that we demand a real emphasis on national security that is not led by a 98-pound weakling whose hatred of America is obvious and that we need a government that believes in and will support the American dollar.
2010 looms on our horizon and now is the time to find true patriots who will run for office and fight the corruption that infests both of our major political parties.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, as long as we fight for what is right.
December 10, 2009
Commies Descend on Copenhagen
The current conference on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark, is the biggest conclave of communists seen in quite a while. Hundreds of alleged scientists have shown up to scheme to create the greatest confiscation and redistribution of wealth in human history.
What we have here, folks, is a meeting of Watermelon scientists: green on the outside, red on the inside. The meeting has nothing to do with science or the environment. It’s all about perpetuating and bringing to full fruition the great hoax in human history: global warming.
The scientific arguments are so specious and phony that you would have to be a functional moron to believe them. Naturally, the global Elite Traitor Media and academia have done more than their part to promote this shameless scam.
These elites, who are so concerned about saving the earth, have shown up in Copenhagen in more than 140 private jets and called upon 1,200 limos to carry them around the Danish capital. All in all, it has been estimated that the commie confab will generate 41,000 tons of carbon dioxide.
How typical of commie elites to tell the rest of us how to behave while treating themselves to the life of Reilly. These bastards want to tell me what kind of light bulbs to use and how much water I can have to flush my toilet or shower. As far as I am concerned, they can all go to hell.
Meanwhile, back in America, the Environmental Protection Agency has engaged in the phoniest science of all by threatening to declare carbon dioxide a threat to human health and issuing onerous regulations to control its emissions.
If any of you still believe that there is even a slim chance of economic recovery, you should move back home with your mother because you don’t have enough common sense to function on your own.
The EPA is now trying to strong arm Congress into passing strict cap and trade legislation by threatening to accomplish the same goals by bureaucratic fiat.
Leading the EPA is lefty political hack Lisa Jackson, former chief of staff to corrupt New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine. She holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Princeton, which is yet another reason for me to tell folks that I am a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, not Princeton.
President Barack Hussein Obama is ensconced in Oslo, Norway, to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize and then he heads to Copenhagen to make a lame pitch for controlling carbon dioxide emissions. He will fit in perfectly with his phony, elite fellow travelers.
At one time, we might be able to laugh at these poseurs and preening jackasses. But the fact of the matter is that they are very dangerous and they present a real threat to our way of life and the very sovereignty of the United States of America.
Obama is ignoring his oath of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution. He is a menace and we must find a way to remove him from office.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American if we will stand up and fight for our freedom.
December 4, 2009
It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Is it just me, or has the whole world gone completely mad?
President Obama and his ultra-left sycophants are celebrating today that unemployment is only 10%. Tell that to the 30 million people who are unemployed. Excuse me, but that number is completely bogus and total B.S. It’s way worse than that.
Barack X, a.k.a. The Lyin’ King or the Kingfish, can hold all the horsecrap job summits he wants. But one fact is overpoweringly true: He is in the process of creating the perfect storm that will destroy the American economy and capitalism, perhaps forever. Health care reform, cap and trade and the repeal of the Bush tax cuts will bring about the destruction of the dollar and a real depression.
Exactly what the Bolsheviks want so they can declare martial law and seize total control. No human being in his or her right mind would ever consider hiring another employee with the economy in its current state.
God bless John McCain for calling out the AARP, the most corrupt and disgusting organization in America., even more so than SEIU and ACORN.
Meanwhile, we are watching a bad movie replay in Afghanistan. Obama has adopted a Vietnam strategy that guarantees a humiliating defeat for the United States and the re-emergence of Al Qaeda as a grave threat to Western civilization. As I stated yesterday, any goal of less than total victory over the Taliban and Al Qaeda using every weapon in our arsenal as quickly as possible is immoral.
Turning the prosecution of the war over to the Afghans is like turning the war over to the South Vietnamese in Vietnam. Don’t the elitist jackasses in Washington ever read a history book?
Meanwhile, the global warming scam continues to unravel, but the elite Traitor Media continue to avert their eyes and stick their fingers in their ears and go, “Na, Na, Na, Na.” Folks, journalism is dead. The elite media are total whores for the Obama administration and sworn to uphold their end of the bargain in destroying the America we all love.
How about Tiger Woods? What a whoremaster bastard! When are the corporate sponsors going to drop him like the garbage he is? Just like they did with David Letterman, the sexual harasser and abuser? Moral of the story? Only Republicans with sexual problems have to endure any punishment.
Let me say this: Tiger Woods is a dirtbag who is not fit to sniff Jack Nicklaus’ jockstrap. He is not the best golfer of all time. He is a spoiled jackass with no class or sense of decency. I detest him.
Al Gore, call your office. Your Oscar and Nobel Peace Prize were garnered under false pretenses. So you may have to give them back, but considering that you have no sense of shame or a shred of integrity, that is not likely to happen.
I could keep writing for hours, given all the crap that is going on, but I only have so much stamina.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American. And may God bless my overseas readers in: the Russian Federation, Luxembourg, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Canada, Poland, Austria, Belgium, the Seychelles, Portugal, Brazil, Italy, Hungary, India, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Israel, Japan and Romania. Thank you all for making November the best month for readership in the past three months and the fourth highest in 2009.
Let me send a Happy Birthday wish to brother Bill, one of the last of the true great journalists in America and a genuine hero who served his nation nobly in Vietnam. There is no human on earth that I admire more.
December 3, 2009
Barack X’s Vietnam Flashback
President Obama’s much ballyhooed speech at West Point to announce his new Afghanistan policy, after more than 90 days of weakness and pathetic dithering, reveals his total ignorance of history.
Relying on the advice of the Bolsheviks around him, he has reverted to our original Vietnam strategy: Vietnamization of the war. He wants to get the Afghan army and police up to speed so he can cut and run in July 2011.
What he has adopted is dangerous, downright stupid and outright immoral.
I have a very simple rule that should govern all decisions about military engagement: if you are going to put courageous young American men and woman in harm’s way, then your strategy should be to achieve total victory in as expeditious a manner as possible using the entire arsenal at your disposal. To do any less is absolutely immoral and evil.
As a commander-in-chief, how can you look any soldier, sailor, Marine or airman in the eye and commit them to a strategy that does not give them the maximum opportunity to achieve their mission?
By announcing a timeline for withdrawal, Barack X, our black Muslim president, is telling the Taliban and Al Qaeda to cool their heels and give us a chance to split before they get too active.
No wonder Afghan President Hamid Karzai already is making some noise about cutting a deal with the Taliban. Why wouldn’t he? Obama has already demonstrated that the United States cannot be relied on to fulfill its obligations. Not just the USA, but also NATO and the United Nations. So much for international organizations and those who would aspire to a world consensus. What a crock of crap!
We’ve already seen how totally useless the so-called international community has been with regards to the threat of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons.
Not to mention the entire global warming hoax designed to steal from prosperous Western nations to allegedly help the Third World. Yeah, right, like they would ever see a dime of it.
What will it take for Americans to wake up and see the complete bankruptcy of the international community? It’s time to focus on our national interests and national interests alone.
Aiding and abetting Barack X in his morally bankrupt policies are the stooges in the Elite Traitor Media like the moron blowhard Chris Matthews, who has the unmitigated call to refer to West Point cadets as the “enemy camp.” And shame on Obama for using them as props.
Someone needs to tell our jackass President that when he needs to make a pronouncement of national significance, he needs to sit as his desk in the Oval Office and pretend that he really is in charge.
God help us – we need Him more than ever before.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American! Maybe one day we’ll have an American president again.
November 28, 2009
The Great Global Warming Hoax Unmasked
The revelations from the emails and documents at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) in Great Britain of manipulated and hidden scientific data prove what I and other skeptics have known for at least two decades: the theory of anthropogenic global warming is the greatest hoax in human history.
The disclosures make it perfectly clear that much of the so-called scientific data depicting global warming in computer models has been fudged and manipulated to support the outlandish claims of global warming alarmists.
As much as the gargantuan blowhard Al Gore declares the science is settled, I admit I do agree with him on that point. Anyone who passed fifth grade science knows that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant or a gas that poses any threat whatsoever to mankind. Next to oxygen, it is the most critical building block for human existence because it is vital to plant life. The more carbon dioxide, the less water plants need to thrive.
Reduced carbon dioxide means lower crop yields and vegetation to help feed humanity. As Howard C. Hayden, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Connecticut noted in an October 27 letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, “A warmer world is a better world. Look at weather-related death rates in winter and in summer, and the case is overwhelming that warmer is better. The higher the carbon dioxide levels, the more vibrant is the biosphere, as numerous experiments in greenhouses have shown…Carbon dioxide is not pollution by any reasonable definition.”
Professor Hayden wrote to the EPA to protest a proposed endangerment ruling for greenhouse gases. He summarized his thoughts as follows: “To put it fairly but bluntly, the global-warming alarmists have relied on a pathetic version of science in which computer models take precedence over data, and numerical averages of computer outputs are believed to be able to predict the future climate. It would be a travesty if the EPA were to countenance such nonsense.”
The bottom line is that the global warming hoax has been pushed by radical environmentalists whose hatred of capitalism drives them to destroy the Western industrial base. Truth be told, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the demise of communism in Eastern Europe forced a number of communists to find a haven in the “Green” movement where they continue to push their radical agenda.
Joining in this folly are crooked corporations that want to manipulate the public and government policy to enrich themselves at the expense of other companies and the general public. The prime example is Enron, which played a key role in pushing the original global warming treaty at Kyoto and the cap and trade scheme through which it hoped to make a financial killing.
There is ample scientific data to document that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is close to negligible, and that human activity does not even produce the majority of that concentration, with water vapor from the oceans being the primary culprit.
What has pushed the hoax along is a compliant Elite Traitor Media which is infested by leftist sympathizers with a “blame America first” mentality. Interestingly, one of the biggest purveyors of global warming nonsense is NBC, which is owned by General Electric, a company that stands to make more money off the growing “green” mentality.
Whom do you think is responsible for the looming ban on the incandescent light bulb? That alone is enough for me to have an absolute ban on any GE appliance or product in my home.
The warming trend experienced in the latter part of the 20th century can be attributed to the outstanding progress the United States and other nations made in controlling sulfur dioxide and heavy particulate emissions. Those pollutants have the effect of diminishing the impact of the sun, thus cooling the earth. Once the air began to get cleaner, the earth began to warm.
The global warming kooks want to eradicate coal-fired power plants, which produce significant amounts of carbon dioxide. Ironically, more coal-fired power generation would have the effect of cooling the earth.
So much for Al Gore’s settled science. The alleged experts at the United Nations and elsewhere push their bogus theory to keep getting government grants and to undermine freedom, not to help our planet. They have demonstrated their appalling lack of integrity and their disdain for true scientific research not tainted by leftist agendas.
The alarmists try to bully other scientists in submission, and call those of us who believe in real science, “deniers,” as if refusing to believe in their nonsense is on a par with denying the reality of the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust.
They’ve made progress in brainwashing much of the world into accepting their “religion,” but I will fight them until the bitter end. Frankly, believing in global warming is a reflection on a person’s basic intelligence, or lack thereof.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
November 26, 2009
Thanksgiving Day
We Are A Judeo-Christian Nation, So Let’s Affirm It!
For Barack Hussein Obama, a.k.a. The Lyin’ King, to unilaterally declare that The United States of America is not a Christian nation is to deny the very roots of our heritage and the founding principles of our country.
On this Thanksgiving Day, I can think of no better way to observe it than for those of us on The Forgotten Street to give thanks to Almighty God for our many blessings and for the strength He gives us to weather the current challenges we face from secular progressives like The Lyin’ King.
Naturally each of us deeply cherishes the love of family and friends, and no one more so than me. My life is blessed with a wife of 38 years whom I treasure. I am grateful for the courage that she called on to help us weather my serious illness in 2008. We also have a loving and talented daughter who has given us more blessings than we deserve, not the least of which is an amazing three-and-a-half year old grandson who has become my best buddy.
I am also favored with two fabulous brothers and their families along with the best father-in-law a man could hope for and my wife’s extended family and friends from all over America.
So, I consider myself blessed by God, as He has blessed our nation since its birth. No one ever expressed better appreciation of that than the Father of Our Country, George Washington, our first and greatest President, who issued the very first Thanksgiving proclamation that cemented the occasion in our culture. Consider his inspiring words:
“Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor: and whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
“And also that we may then united in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed …”
It doesn’t get any clearer or wiser than that. Our founding documents reflect our Founders deep belief in God, and President Washington’s first Thanksgiving proclamation underscores the fact that our nation’s roots are Judeo-Christian. To downplay that is sheer ignorance or pure malice. Obviously, one of God’s many blessings was the leadership of George Washington.
So, friends, let’s all stand up for God and country against the atheists and Communists (my apologies for being redundant), as well as the jihadists who have been working for decades to destroy our culture and our Judeo-Christian values. Let us cling to our God and our guns, knowing that we bear a sacred duty to our heirs to preserve the freedom Almighty God granted us in 1776.
May God ever bless America! He will if we don’t forsake Him.
Thanks for reading! I give great thanks for my loyal audience and your encouragement. Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American if we continue to embrace God with humble hearts, our devotion and our eternal thanks. Happy Thanksgiving!
November 22, 2009
The Health Nazis Are Goose-Stepping Already
As the Bolshevik Congress works overtime to cram Obamacare down the American people’s throats, there are plenty of signs of what we can expect from this first major step toward full-blown Communism.
By gaining absolute control of the health care system, the Federal government will tell us what health insurance we may purchase and what medical services it will cover. Failure to have insurance will mean heavy fines and/or prison time.
In effect, the government will take total control of our bodies and tell us when and where we may access health care. In doing so, Congress is reinstating the practice of slavery, except this time, we all will be slaves.
For those of you familiar with Seinfeld’s “Soup Nazi,” you can now imagine the Health Nazi, who already is beginning to work his evil:
“Forty-year old woman? Out of line! No mammogram for you!”
Seventy-year old man? Prostate cancer? Sucks to be you. Out of line!”
For all the liberal whining about Sarah Palin and her revealing comment on “death panels,” let’s set the record straight: she was 1,000% right. That is exactly what the Health Nazis have in mind: Rationed care that will result in the premature deaths of potentially millions of elder Americans as they are denied access to care.
What does it matter that these hard-working people paid into the system for decades in good faith, expecting compassionate care in their alleged “golden” years?
I can see it now: one of us facing a potentially terminal situation. The Health Nazi will say, “Would you like us to call an imam for you?” After all, The Kingfish has declared that we are not a Christian nation.
Meanwhile, the infanticide of abortion will be underwritten by those of us who find it abhorrent. People who use it as a means of birth control are the epitome of evil in our times.
What we find ourselves in now is not a democratic republic, but a rising gangster state along the lines of Venezuela, Russia or China. Obviously the “will of the people” has become a quaint notion that the Washington elites have discarded. Given the visceral hatred everyday Americans have for all that Obamacare represents, it’s become increasingly clear that the Democrat majority is going to do whatever it likes, whether we want it or not.
Apparently public opinion polls are something to ignore, along with voter phone calls, letters, email and marches on Washington. Trying to contact your Congressman or Congresswoman to share your views is about as effective as trying to urinate up a rope.
Watching all of this in a somewhat detached manner from the sidelines is the President of the United States, back from another humiliating foreign trip. His deep bow to the Emperor of Japan was yet another slap in the face to World War II veterans. I pray to God that Obama never runs into The Burger King. That humiliation would be too much to bear.
Meanwhile, the Commander-in-Chief continues to dither on Afghanistan and has the unmitigated gall to tell the troops in Korea under his command that “they make a great photo op.” Just like the dead returning soldiers at Dover Air Force Base. For Obama, it was just another photo op.
What is painfully clear is that Barack Hussein Obama is really not the President of the United States of America. He just plays one on television.
He shows no leadership ability and it’s clear that he is not in charge or calling the shots. He dances to the tune of the likes of Andy Stern and the SEIU, international gangster George Soros, ACORN, and the Chicago thugs who infest his administration and write his daily script for him. In terms of legislation, he bows to the will of Queen Nancy Pelosi and her court eunuch, Harry Reid.
Obama is simply a stooge. He can join Moe, Larry and Curly as a member of the Stooges. So let’s give him a new name: Curly-O.
Thanks for reading! It’s a great day to be an American if we can reclaim our country’s heart and restore its soul.
November 15, 2009
Where Will the Next Ground Zero Be in New York?
The Obama Administration’s decision to try the plotters of the September 11 terrorist attacks in Federal court in New York City is the single worst decision ever made in the history of Federal governance and American jurisprudence.
By doing so, Attorney General Eric Holder has set in motion a true disaster in the making. In the aftermath of the attack by the jihadist Dr. Hasan at Fort Hood on American soldiers, to bring such a high profile trial to the states, where maintaining security against similar jihadist attacks will be all but impossible, is the height of madness. Get ready for the parade of suicide bombers to begin.
As part of the rationale for this abominable decision, liberal commentators spewed nonsense about how by giving the captured terrorists the same rights as everyday Americans we will showcase how wonderful the American system of justice really is.
What Obama is showcasing is how pathetically weak he is and how stupid he is to think that appeasement will work in the face of a terrorist movement that has sworn to use whatever means it can to destroy us.
Not helping the situation is the fact that Mr. Dithers continues to punt on making a decision on General McCrystal’s request for additional troops to secure the mission in Afghanistan. Presidential advisors have leaked that Mr. Dithers doesn’t like any of the options recommended by the military.
Why doesn’t he just own up to the fact that he has no desire to defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda? He simply is looking for an exit strategy that will allow him to cut and run. Our leftist regime worries more about being stuck in another Vietnam than in preventing the next September 11 staged from a terrorist safe haven.
The Administration laughably uses the excuse of corruption in the Afghan government and election as cause for delaying a decision. Yeah, right, as if we are in a position to lecture any country about government corruption.
Compounding the problem is that the United States Army is led by an absolutely incompetent moron. In the aftermath of the Fort Hood terrorist attack, Army Chief of Staff General George Casey was quoted saying, “What happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here.”
Congratulations, General Casey. You win the award for the most despicable, revolting and stupidest statement ever uttered by a senior military leader.
So, you think that preserving diversity in the Army, even if it means keeping outspoken jihadists as officers, means more than the lives of soldiers under your command? How do you think the families of the dead and wounded feel when they hear leftist nonsense like that?
You, sir, are a disgrace to the uniform you wear and you should be stripped of your command immediately.
Fort Hood was just the beginning. Now we have New York City once again in the crosshairs of radical Islam because the Obama Administration wants to use this trial as an opportunity to further bash George W. Bush and the CIA
Go ahead, President Obama, keep encouraging the terrorists through your weakness and left-wing looniness. You will soon find out you are paving the road to hell with your good intentions. That’s one hell of a stimulus.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American as long as we stand up strongly for the America we love and cherish.
November 13, 2009
The New Axis of Evil
President George W. Bush shook the world with his pronouncement about the Axis of Evil: Iraq, Iran and North Korea. At least he did something to negate one-third of it.
Today we are dealing with a new Axis of Evil, but it is domestic instead of global.
Consider these forces that are determined to undermine and destroy the very fabric of American society. I have taken the liberty to give them new names that better fit their identities:
AARP – American Association of Reprehensible Predators. The AARP pretends to stand up for seniors, but sells them down the river on health care reform so it can sell more insurance and gain favor with the Obama regime.
ACLU – American Communists Litigating Uselessly. The ACLU has made its singular mission to destroy organized religion and remove God from the public arena.
ACORN – American Communists Organized to Ruin Our Nation. Where do I begin? Massive voter fraud, ripping off taxpayers to help unqualified buyers purchase homes on which the mortgages will default, coaching people on ways to circumvent the IRS. When will we have an Attorney General who will prosecute them under RICO?
CAIR – Council on Arab-Islamic Radicalism. This group allegedly stands up for Islam but is a front group for terrorists like Hamas and Hezbollah and is working behind the scenes to bring sharia (Islamic law) to America. Check out a recent book, Muslim Mafia, to find out how heinous CAIR really is.
MoveOn.org – A George Soros brainchild that stands for everything Communist and un-American.
Planned Parenthood – Programmed Infanticide is the nation’s number one abortion provider. A creation of barking mad racist Margaret Sanger, who wanted to limit the number of people she considered undesirable, such as blacks and the mentally retarded, this group is an abomination against God and there is no reason of earth why it should receive taxpayer dollars. Sanger is a patron saint to secular progressives like Hillary Clinton.
SEIU – Socialist Entity that’s Insidious and UnAmerican. This union has proven to be a bunch of thugs who take delight in voter intimidation, are fighting to eliminate the secret ballot, and thrive on beating disabled black conservatives senseless. Its leader, Andy Stern, is one of the more despicable human beings on the planet.
Behind many of these groups, all of which bow to the altar of Barack Hussein Obama, the Anointed One, is The Wizard of Evil himself, George Soros.
As the money man behind much of this treachery, Soros tries to stay in the background and hide his past as an unapologetic Nazi collaborator, an international currency speculator, someone who advocates drug legalization and a secular progressive who in his heart is basically a Communist bent on the redistribution of wealth, as long as it’s not his wealth being redistributed. There is no more despicable human being on the planet. He beats Andy Stern by many lengths.
There you have it, folks, the real Axis of Evil. Not to overlook the international edition, which includes:
• Cuba
• Venezuela
• Nicaragua
• Iran
• North Korea
• The United Nations
That’s a column for another day. But we have our hands full here at home dealing with the Commies and hate-America-first crowd that infests our government, the media, academia, cultural institutions, and yes, even business.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American as long as we stay focused on the real enemies here at home. Up next, a look at the most insane and incompetent decision in the history of American jurisprudence and Federal governance.
November 10, 2009
American Jihadism: It’s Worse Than You Can Imagine
Today I had a chance encounter with a colonel in the United States Army. He was in civilian clothes, and I teased him about being incognito.
He replied that since the events at Fort Hood, the Army is now in a heightened state of alert and under orders to wear civilian clothes when out in public. In other words, don’t be an obvious target for all of the Islamic terrorists that are loose in our country.
Remember the Army recruiters murdered in Arkansas by a recent convert to Islam?
Folks, it’s worse than you can ever imagine. Political correctness has brought us to this state, where our military men and women cannot go out in public, proudly wearing their uniforms, for fear than some Muslim terrorist might attack them. Right here in the United States of America.
So how is our government responding in public? The Kingfish tells us not to jump to conclusions while he can jump ugly on the Cambridge police without knowing all the facts. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Army Chief of Staff General George Casey are more concerned about a backlash against Muslims than protecting our soldiers.
If it were up to me, I would impeach all three of them for ignoring their constitutional duties. As commander-in-chief, Barack Hussein Obama has shown he feels a higher duty to his Muslim brethren.
To anyone with an IQ higher than a peach pit, Major Nidal Malik Hasan clearly is a Muslim terrorist, someone who was radicalized by the same imam who counseled three of the 9-11 hijackers.
It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee, America: the Jihad is here in America. And, it won’t be too long before the suicide bombers begin to show up where innocent Americans gather.
There were plenty of people in the Army who saw the signs of Dr. Hasan’s radicalism, but they bowed to the altar of diversity and political correctness instead of taking action that could have forestalled the massacre of our brave men and women at Fort Hood. I think some court martials are in order, but with leaders like General Casey, that’s highly unlikely.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, if we can summon the will to ensure our security.
November 8, 2009
Congress to Americans: Go To Hell!
As the Mad Queen of Hearts Nancy Pelosi rammed her gargantuan health care bill through the House of Representatives last night, one message was extremely clear: our alleged representatives do not care in the slightest what we think or what we want.
Virtually every reputable public opinion poll shows that at least four out of five Americans are satisfied with their health care and do not want the system radically changed. For months, concerned citizens have made their case at town hall meetings, regional rallies and a mammoth march on Washington, as well as bombarded the Capitol with phone calls, emails and letters.
Last night, the elitist, out-of-touch Democrat majority in Congress said: we don’t care what you peasants think, we know what is best for you, even if you don’t like it. Folks, that is pure and simple Communism at its worst.
Opponents of the bill are soothing their anger by saying it will never pass the Senate. Don’t be so sure or complacent. This bill is a grabbag of goodies for the Dems favored interest groups. They rammed it through so average citizens would have no time to learn what is actually in it.
You young American adults who choose not to purchase health care insurance through your employer are about to become felons, subject to heavy fines and even imprisonment for not toeing the Party line.
Remember Barack Obama’s campaign promise that if you like your health insurance, you can keep it? That was a bald-faced lie. Under the approved legislation, you will be required to enroll in a “qualified plan.” The Secretary of Health and Human Services will determine what constitutes a “qualified plan,” what benefits it will provide and how much it will cost you.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that individuals with annual pre-tax income of $44,000 will pay 17% of income for the insurance. A family earning $102,100 pre-tax will pay 20% of pre-tax income.
Odds are high that the plan you are forced to purchase will bear no resemblance to what you currently have. To make sure you are properly enrolled in what the Politburo dictates, you will have to provide proof of enrollment to the Internal Revenue Service when you file your personal income taxes.
Where the hell are we, Russia?
Older Americans, those on Medicare, will get the worst screwing. Medicare funding will be cut by $500 billion and those of you on a fee-for-service insurance plan will be forced into the new version of an HMO. So you can say goodbye to many of the doctors you currently have because the government will provide payment only to those doctors who go along with this dreadful scheme.
About 20% of seniors are enrolled in the Medicare Advantage plan that provides supplemental benefits. This program may be the single most effective and popular government program ever, so of course the Mad Queen of Hearts and her apparatchiks want to do away with it.
So guess who is best positioned to fill that insurance gap with a supplemental plan? The AARP, one of the more heinous and corrupt organizations ever created in America. Of course the AARP supported the bill, much to the dismay of many seniors, because it will get further enriched under the new system.
These are merely the highlights of what your so-called elected representatives have done to you. I would urge you to call, write or email your Senator about your concerns over the health care bill. But I am becoming thoroughly convinced that they simply don’t give a damn and could care less what you and I think. Why do you think I call us The Forgotten Street?
November 7, 2009 will go down as a day of infamy when our democratic republic, or what some may call a representative democracy, got completely overthrown by a thugocracy. For the first time in history, Congress has voted to force citizens to buy goods and services under the threat of penalty of law.
What these people have done is un-American, immoral, downright evil, un-constitutional and potentially treasonous. For the first ever, the United States Congress has created a mandate to force Americans to spend a large portion of their income on a product they neither asked for or wanted in the first place, a product that traditionally has been regulated by the states.
So what recourse do we have? I would like to see several of the states’ attorneys general band together to sue to have this bill declared unconstitutional.
Because the solons in Washington are too high and mighty to pay any attention to the folks who elect them, we should turn our attention to the states and put pressure on our elected representatives at the state level to begin a serious examination of secession. Maybe that will get their attention in D.C., nothing else has. There clearly is no advantage to staying in a union that is not based on the consent of the governed, as our Founding Fathers intended.
With the approach of Veterans Day on November 11, the actions of this Congress leave a particularly bitter taste in my mouth when I consider the sacrifice so many have made to keep our country free, and now we have a Congress that wants to totally control us.
Today I saw a television program that was most memorable I have seen in at least a year or two. The Fox NFL Pre-Game Show was broadcast live from Baghram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. Curt, Terry, Howie, Michael and Jimmy showed the courageous men and women who are fighting for our freedom and our Constitution.
It was beyond moving, and even troubling, when I consider the disgraceful conduct of Mr. Dithers, our fraud of a President, who cannot take time to support the request of his generals to reinforce our brave troops. Of course, it was broadcast on Fox, not on the Elite Traitor broadcast networks.
This past weekend, Mr. Obama took time to lobby Congress for the health care bill and insult all of us who opposed it by using the crude “teabag” reference. The Kingfish is yet another left-wing elitist who cannot hide his contempt and disdain for everyday Americans who love their country, who believe in God and who think America is a special place.
He then went off to lollygag at Camp David instead of making a visit to Fort Hood to reassure the troops there that he will do what he can to prevent further terrorist attacks at home. To their everlasting credit, George and Laura Bush went to the hospital at Fort Hood to visit the victims of the jihadist shooting without any fanfare or publicity. But then, they are truly compassionate people who love their country and George W. Bush is the epitome of a commander-in-chief.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American as long as we fight for what is right. I had planned to write about a new and growing Axis of Evil today, but the events of last night merited immediate comment. So stay tuned.
November 7, 2009
Obama’s Appalling Leadership Deficit
Recent events and an occasion coming at the start of next week underscore the fact that Barack Hussein Obama has pathetic leadership qualities and is woefully unfit for the office of President of the United States of America.
The terrorist attack at Fort Hood last Thursday afternoon brought out the worst in Mr. Obama. Yes, it was a terrorist attack by a home-grown radical that serves as the canary in the coal mine on homeland security.
Nadal Malik Hasan is just one of many American Muslims who are turning against their country because of radical imams preaching in local mosques and spewing their hateful filth on global radical Islamic Web sites. Think of other recent events: the FBI shootout with a Black Muslim imam in Detroit just mere days ago and the killing of Army recruiters in Arkansas by a recent convert to radical Islam.
The President tells us not to jump to conclusions or see Fort Hood as other than as a random event. Time will tell. What he really is hoping is that the Elite Traitor Media won’t tell Americans that Dr. Hasan participated in meetings of the Presidential Transition Task Force of the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University, which served in an advisory capacity to the incoming President in 2009 and 2009.
But what is really disturbing was Obama’s handling of the official reaction to the shooting. Instead of facing cameras immediately to express his dismay and condolences for the victims, he tagged his remarks onto an event with Native Americans at the Department of the Interior.
Before he could bring up the incident at Fort Hood, he gave a bizarre, rambling comment on Indian affairs that included a “shout-out” to an alleged Congressional Medal of Honor winner who it turns out had not received the nation’s highest honor. Someone needs to tell the President that giving “shout-outs” after troops under his command have been murdered is appalling, insensitive and disgusting, more worthy of a lame DJ or game show host than the President of the United States.
On the policy front, it is clear that he has abdicated all responsibility for driving public policy to Queen Nancy Pelosi, whose determination to ram the public takeover of health care down our throats, as well as destroy the economy with cap and trade legislation, shows he isn’t even a player in the debate.
His campaign promise that people will be able to keep their health insurance if they like it has been shown to be a hollow lie by the actions of the Mad Queen of Hearts who runs the Politburo.
On Monday, November 9, Obama will demonstrate his appalling lack of appreciation for American values, our national heritage and our traditional alliances by not traveling to Berlin to help mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the greatest moments in the history of human freedom.
What was the sorry excuse offered by The Kingfish in snubbing the invitation by German Chancellor Angela Merkel? He is “too busy.” Too busy dismantling the America we know and love, and too busy carrying out his AAA foreign policy – alienate, appease and abrogate, all of which exposes his most prominent personal trait – arrogance.
Perhaps he is too busy playing commander-in-chief in his administration’s war on Fox News. He certainly has no interest in prosecuting the war on terror, as evidenced by his disgraceful dithering on reaching a decision on General McCrystal’s request for more troops in Afghanistan. Yet another glaring example of Obama’s growing leadership deficit.
As Iranians’ still take to the streets of Tehran to protest against a murderous government, The Kingfish stays silent, not wanting to provoke the mullahs he so obviously fears.
But the war on Fox News presses on. We now have word that Democratic strategists are being told to boycott appearances on Fox News or else. So it’s clear that Iran and the United States have something in common: Iran is being governed by a radical Islamic theocracy while we are subject to the rule of a Chicago thugocracy.
Keep the faith and keep speaking out for freedom from the socialists in Washington. Better days are ahead.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American as long as we fight to preserve our Constitution! Next up in J.C.’s Corner: the new Axis of Evil.
November 1, 2009
The Loony Left’s Growing Degeneracy
As the Obama administration continues its war on conservatives, talk radio and Fox News, its comrades and worker bees in our increasingly coarsened culture keep on trucking.
From the open sewer known as HBO comes word that on the no-so-amusing show “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” series star Larry David urinated on a picture of Jesus and then used the show to mock people of faith. It’s certainly easy for he and his colleagues to pick on Christianity. Indeed, the American left has been waging an all-out war on our religion for almost a century.
Serious communists know that the way to advance their cause is to destroy religion and its practitioners. Naturally, today’s Elite Traitor Media expressed no concern about the desecration carried out by Mr. David.
Can you imagine the uproar if David had urinated on a picture of Mohammed? Of course, no such protest would ever happen in Hollywood today. Islam is the religion of peace and Christianity in its eyes is the fount of all evil. So lefty elites look the other way at actions that insult and offend the overwhelming majority of Americans. After all, CBS did nothing about sexual harasser and lefty pig David Letterman.
So the Obama White House averts its eyes from the further degradation of our society because it is too preoccupied building its enemies list. Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett talks of the administration speaking “truth to power.” For those of you unfamiliar with such commie lingo as “truth to power,” it basically means this: “we elites are right so you peasants just shut up and do what you’re told by the Dear Leader.” Mao Tse-Tung spoke truth to power in China as he was murdering tens of millions of his own people.
With the political world focused on Tuesday’s upcoming election, it is clear that the Obama camp desperately wants to keep New Jersey in a state of further decline under the inept leadership of Jon Corzine, as evidenced by the many visits by the Kingfish to campaign for the great tax and spender Corzine.
God forbid that Obama would stay in Washington and try to bring some resolution to a strategy for Afghanistan. It is totally obvious that he has pushed the decision back in order to avoid any fallout from either side of the political spectrum before this week’s election. Why worry about the fate of our troops when you have bigger fish to fry in Trenton? With the Kingfish, it’s all politics all the time. Why bother governing when you can just run a perpetual campaign?
In other evidence of the leftist treachery in our society:
-- I thought we got a Halloween treat with the news that Dede Scozzafava had bailed out of the Congressional election in the 23rd District in New York. It turns out she really was up to a nasty trick. Apparently she is telling her folks behind the scenes to vote for Democrat Bill Owens instead of Conservative Doug Hoffman.
-- You see, Newt Gingrich, what you get when you align yourself with liberal Republicans? Does the name Arlen Specter strike a familiar note?
-- As the publication of Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue, nears, I’ve learned that biographical hit man Joe McGinniss has a deal with Broadway Books to do a smear job on Governor Palin due out in 2011. What a coincidence – right before the 2012 election!
-- McGinniss is best known for his slam on Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign for the White House and his vicious attack on Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald with a book that claimed Dr. MacDonald killed his family at Fort Bragg while under the influence of some drugs.
-- I won’t go into the MacDonald case here, but trust me when I tell you that McGinniss’s book was built on a pack of lies and that Jeff MacDonald was the victim of an Army cover-up, judicial and prosecutorial malfeasance, and a media more intent on making money off the case than getting to the truth. Jeff has spent most of his adult life in prison, wrongfully convicted by a system of justice that failed in his case.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
October 31, 2009
Halloween 2009: More Tricks Than Treats
Among the goblins showing up this eve is the news that the wind turbines for one of the largest wind energy farms planned for Texas are being made in China. So much for all those green energy jobs in the U.S. promised by the Kingfish. Yet another ridiculous lie.
Meanwhile, for all you panicked folks waiting on the arrival of the H1N1 flu vaccine, get in line: the Muslim terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay are set to get them before you. Government health care at its best. To hell with taxpaying Americans when you can cater to Islamic jihadists who already live in a country club, much less a jail.
The whole swine flu panic is a hoax designed to increase the power of the Federal government to control our lives and our bodies as well as enrich those who support the current administration. Warren Buffett’s company owns almost 4 million shares of stock in one of the manufacturers of the vaccine. No wonder the old crook supported Obama.
While Mr. Dithers struggles to reach any meaningful conclusion on General McCrystal’s request for more troops in Afghanistan, he raises the specter of a real Halloween trick: Afghan President Hamid Karzai could well decide that America is not a reliable partner and then strike his own deal with the Taliban to share power and kick the Americans out of his country.
Senator John Kerry showed his uncanny knack for treachery in his speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in which he trashed the McCrystal proposal for more troops and showed he is ready to cut and run as he did with Vietnam. Once a traitor, always a traitor.
Next door in Pakistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went well out of her way to insult her Pakistani hosts by implying they have not done enough to find Osama Bin Laden, fight Al Qaeda or oust the Taliban. Maybe if our government had not stabbed General Pervez Musharraf in the back and helped push him from power Pakistan might have made a little more progress on that front.
And Barack Obama thinks George Bush was arrogant? My God, he and Ms. Clinton personify arrogance to the Nth degree. Just ask our offended former allies in Israel, France, Great Britain and Germany.
A real treat was seeing Dede Scozzafava drop out of the election for the Congressional seat for the 23rd District in New York. It now looks like Doug Hoffman, the conservative, will be able to prevail. His biggest boost came from an early endorsement by Sarah Palin, which in contrast made Newt Gingrich’s endorsement of the abortion supporter Scozzafava look amazingly crass.
Speaking of crass, the Obama administration’s support for ousted Honduran President Manuel Zalaya and the Elite Traitor Media’s reporting of his constitutional ouster by the Honduran military as a coup took the cake. Now the dirtbag is coming back with the help of American pressure on the Honduran government. More Obama arrogance in action. But he has to look out for his comrade and fellow traveler.
As the Obama Administration touts its alleged success with the economy, it neglects to mention that Social Security recipients will not receive a cost of living adjustment for the first time in more than 30 years, that the foreclosure rate on houses is 23% higher than this time a year ago, that 3.3 million jobs have been lost this year and that one in every 136 homes is in foreclosure. This Halloween certainly brings more tricks than treats.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American! And many thanks to our October visitors from the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Germany, Canada, China, France, Nepal, the Netherlands, Japan, India, the Seychelles, Latvia, South Africa, Belgium, Estonia, South Korea, Moldova, Poland, Turkey and Uruguay. God bless you all!
October 30, 2009
Congress: The Ultimate Death Panel For America
As Nancy Pelosi’s 1,900+page health care monstrosity has landed, one thing is perfectly clear: the Democrats’ health care proposal represents the ultimate death panel for freedom in America. Joseph Stalin would be so proud of what they have produced.
What is readily apparent is that Democrats absolutely hate senior citizens. The Pelosi bill is a frontal assault on seniors and a direct attempt to deny baby boomers the Medicare benefits they have earned and paid for. This bill will cut Medicare spending by $500 billion, which means all of us will be denied necessary care that would enrich our golden years.
The Dems want to put a tax on medical devices such a heart pacemakers and stents, artificial hips and knees, prosthetic limbs and the like. All of these ease the burdens on seniors and help keep them in their homes instead of having to go to nursing homes. What frickin’ sense does that make? For all the talk about cutting costs, it seems the Democrats will rely on the suffering of seniors to cut costs.
Of course, outfits like the AARP, which allegedly represent seniors, are silent on all this because it hopes to get permission to sell insurance while private insurers are put out of business. There is no more disgusting or dishonest organization on the face of the earth than the AARP, with the exception of the United Nations.
What the Democrats are proposing is un-American, un-constitutional, immoral and downright evil. It represents communism at its worst, where the playing field is leveled to where no one anywhere can get health care that reasonably approximates what they have now.
Which means that Barack Obama’s promise that we would be able to keep our present insurance and health care is a damnable lie. How in the name of God can he look in the mirror in the morning and not see a total fraud? He is beneath contempt.
Among the goodies in Queen Nancy’s bill are the following: taxes on business and individuals who do not purchase government-sanctioned health plans. The federal government will determine the benefits that will be provided, not insurers who try to compete with one another. Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius will determine what constitutes an “essential benefits package.” Gee, just like Moscow.
Flexible spending accounts will be severely limited and individual health insurance will essentially be eliminated. Americans will no longer be able to choose their own health insurance, despite what Obama says. He is a damn contemptible liar.
Meanwhile, I have to laugh at the latest economic news, which shows that the recession is by no means over, despite what the Elite Traitor Media and the Obama lackeys tell us. Let me be the first to give you a clue to our future: if Congress enacts the Pelosi healthcare reform and cap-and-trade, and allows the Bush tax cuts to expire in 2010, we will enter a depression that will make the 1930’s look like the good old days. What is brewing is a perfect storm for an economic holocaust that will destroy America and our capitalist system.
Which makes you wonder? Is that their real intention? Think about it, and think about who ultimately benefits from all this. A lot to ponder, but something that all of us need to face.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, as long as we fight these commie bastards tooth and nail.
October 25, 2009
Mr. Dithers Fiddles, Afghanistan Burns
Whatever you might think of former President George W. Bush, you have to give him credit for possessing the one quality that you truly desire in a President: the ability to take a stand and make a decision.
As Barack Hussein Obama dithers about what to do in Afghanistan, it is abundantly clear that his inability to come to some resolution of what to do is costing the lives of American men and women in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
I hear horror stories from friends who have sons or daughters deployed overseas about the shortage of vital equipment and munitions, and the lack of reinforcements to refresh and replenish our troops in harm’s way.
The first and foremost duty of a President of the United States is to serve as a Commander-in-Chief who will defend our country against enemies foreign and domestic. Mr. Dithers is clearly AWOL on that score. Obama has no stomach for facing the fact that there are those in the world who wish to do us grievous harm.
He and the Bolsheviks advising him on foreign policy do not want to take the counsel of the generals in the field who are pressing the need for more troops and supplies. Instead, they have raised the absolutely ridiculous argument that any decision on more troops should wait until the Afghans resolve issues that surfaced in the last election and until a runoff election is held later in the year.
They are merely fiddling while Afghanistan burns and the world drifts closer to terrorist attacks that will totally destabilize the Western world and the global economy.
Here is the bottom line: do the Taliban and Al Qaeda pose a threat to the struggling government in Afghanistan, our ally in Pakistan and the world in general? If so, why wait until Afghanistan has a stable government free of corruption? Why hold Afghanistan to a standard to which we do not hold ourselves?
The latest evidence of the treachery going on at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and on Capitol Hill is the fact that U. S. Senators have diverted $2.6 billion in defense spending, which would pay for fuel, food, ammunition and training for our soldiers, to fund earmarks here at home.
Among the boondoggles funded by stealing what our military desperately needs is a $20 million project for an educational institute named after the late Senator Edward Kennedy. Better to honor a man best known for letting a young woman drown out of concern for his career than aid our troops in need.
Such reckless disregard for American soldiers on a war front, coupled with the dithering in the Obama Administration, is beyond a disgrace, as noted by Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn. What we really are talking about is treason.
There are those who say Afghanistan may become Obama’s Vietnam. I can just hear the protesters chanting, “Hey, hey, Oh-Ba-May, how many troops did you kill today?” Right, like the radical left would ever protest against a fellow traveler in a time of war.
Given the drift on Afghanistan policy in Washington, it may fall to conservatives to protest that the war is being lost by indecisiveness, political calculation and a lack of nerve to back our troops to the hilt to allow them to succeed in their mission. Shades of Vietnam all over again.
In the 1960’s we had Walter Cronkite lie and mischaracterize what was really happening to push his leftist agenda. Now we have network anchors following the Bolshevik line about waiting for Afghanistan to resolve its governmental issues.
Time is of the essence, but like Nero, the Kingfish and Michelle Antoinette are holding lavish White House parties with $100 a pound beef dinners and spending millions on date nights while our troops are hanging on for dear life.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American as long as we support our troops, give them the resources to win or bring them home before they are mowed down like sitting ducks!
October 23, 2009
Barack Obama is a National Disgrace
The mere fact that Barack Hussein Obama is the President of the United States is a permanent stain on our national heritage.
He has abdicated responsibility across the board for national defense and the economy, as well as created a combative, divisive presidency that makes Richard Nixon look like Mr. Rogers.
The icing on the cake comes with the news that Mr. Obama has declined the opportunity to travel to Berlin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. November 9th should be a celebration of freedom worldwide and even a national holiday.
By snubbing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s invitation, he has shown the same gross arrogance and disdain already displayed toward British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicholas Sarkozy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
As a man who made so much out of rebuilding the stature of the United States in the world community, Mr. Obama has shown his middle finger to four critical allies in the first nine months of his presidency.
In short, Obama’s behavior is disgusting and disgraceful, wholly unworthy of the office he holds. In his brief tenure, he has fashioned a AAA foreign policy of alienation, appeasement and abrogation.
By declining the invitation to visit Berlin and join in a celebration of freedom, the Kingfish has shown that he has no sense of pride in the role America played in the fall of communism in Europe. I guess that is because he is too hell-bent on turning the United States into a crypto-communist country.
It also shows his obeisance to his master, Vladimir Putin.
In other news of the day:
-- The White House continues its Chicago-style, vicious attacks on those who do not toe the party line. Fox News, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, health insurers and energy companies all are in the crosshairs of these goons.
-- Well, my money is on Fox News to prevail, because it has the majority of the American people on its side and Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes are one hell of lot smarter than all of the thugs at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue combined.
-- Mr. Obama made statements today that our economic recovery depends upon getting cap and trade legislation passed and developing green sources of energy to replace our current reliance on fossil fuels. In doing so, he showed what an ignoramus he is and how much he is in the thrall of the Enviro-Commies who are dead-set on destroying capitalism and instituting communism.
-- China and India have already told the climate change crowd to go crap in their hats. So all Mr. Obama can hope to accomplish with his cap and trade madness and a global climate change agreement is to destroy the sovereignty of the United States and decimate our economy. Folks, to me that sounds like potentially impeachable offenses from a man who took an oath to uphold our Constitution.
-- I call him the Kingfish for two reasons: one, he sounds like the original Kingfish, Huey Long of Louisiana, who also was a populist demagogue and would-be dictator. Two, he is an amiable blowhard like George Stevens, the Kingfish on the Amos and Andy Show. Except lately, Mr. Obama is losing his amiability and showing a thin-skinned prickly side that is wholly unattractive.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
October 17, 2009
Public Option = Modern Slavery
As the great health care debate rages on, most pundits on all sides are missing the heart of the argument. While they blather on about bending the cost curve and covering the uninsured, here is what is really going on: Liberal Democrats insist on the “public option,” which is merely their stalking horse for a single payer, government-run system.
Truth be told, under Obamacare seniors will see their benefits cut drastically and their care severely rationed. Which leads me to ask, “Why do President Obama and the Democrat leaders in Congress hate older Americans so much? Is it because they require resources that the leftist elite would prefer to use on other voters in order to buy their votes and consolidate a widening grab for totalitarian power?”
Folks, the public option is merely their ruse to establish a modern form of slavery. If the federal government eventually controls all health care decisions, it effectively takes control of our bodies. The ruling elites, in their wisdom, will tell us what care we can access, or even it we may access it at all.
President Obama says he doesn’t want “to pull the plug on Grandma.” Hell, he doesn’t even want her to get plugged in.
Barack Obama, Robert Reich, Ezekiel Emmanuel and other intellectual elites make no secret of the fact that their ideal health care system will do all it can to hasten the demise of those citizens they deem as unproductive, such as the very elderly, people with severe disabilities and those with mental challenges. What they are talking about is un-American, immoral and downright evil.
So, the public option that will take control of our bodies will deprive us of our most basic freedoms – life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. What the Obama Administration and Democrat Congress are proposing is pure and simple slavery, much like we have seen in communist regimes worldwide.
How ironic. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves here in America, and now the first black American president wants to put us on the path to a modern-day enslavement. It’s absolutely appalling and unreal.
So what can we do about this looming catastrophe? We must urge all medical professionals, such as doctors, nurses, medical students, physicians assistants, therapists and health administrators to stand up and be heard in defense of the greatest health care system in the world. If the Dems have their way, the system will be transformed into a shambles in which none of the above will want to work.
We also must put the health care power grab in context. The leftist elite are not merely trying to control us by getting total dominion over our bodies. They want to control our minds as well. Just look at all the talk about trying to silence Fox News, talk radio and even people like me who express their views via the Internet.
Even worse, consider how our educational system is being transformed into a total indoctrination scheme. The video of the elementary students in New Jersey singing the praises of Barack Hussein Obama in the finest “Dead Leader” tradition of North Korea or China was nauseating and chilling.
They are not only coming for our bodies – they want to control what we think and what our children and grandchildren learn. They already partially do it through “political correctness” and calling those who disagree with them “racists.” White House Communications Director Anita Dunn’s hero Chairman Mao would be so proud of their effort to stifle dissent.
I urge all of you on The Forgotten Street to wake up and get involved in your local tea parties and any other activities that will secure our rights before they are taken away by globalists and communists who talk of a “living Constitution.”
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American as long as we keep faith with our Founding Fathers and defend the U. S. Constitution from the leftist assault on freedom.
October 16, 2009
Yet Another Commie Smear
The attack on Rush Limbaugh’s attempt to become a minority owner in the National Football League is yet another example of how the far left uses slander and intimidation to get their way.
Thomas Lifson of The American Thinker (www.americanthinker.com) rightfully speculates that the whole thing was a setup from the word “go.” The conservative talk show host was sought out by the prospective ownership group to take part, and shortly afterward became the object of a Commie smear campaign we haven’t seen since the days of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
It now turns out that George Soros, the international gangster currency speculator and Godfather to Communist causes everywhere, is somehow involved in the bid for the St. Louis Rams.
Those in opposition to El Rushbo’s bid to become part of the NFL went to the extent of making up quotes that made Rush look racist. The Elite Traitor Media, led by the fellow travelers at CNN, wasted no time in repeating the lies without any attempt to validate them.
So the prospective ownership group finally booted Limbaugh after noted race hustlers and racists Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson joined the fray using the smear and lies to further tarnish Limbaugh.
Folks, we’ve seen this grade B movie before. It’s the same playbook the Communists used to defame their archenemy Joseph McCarthy, who tried to awaken America to the Communist subversion that after World War II had infiltrated our government, the media, Hollywood and academia.
The Communists knew that by gaining control of our foreign policy, the media and our schools they could take America down the road to socialism and eventually a Communist dictatorship. McCarthy saw what they were up to and heroically tried to stop them. They ultimately prevailed to the extent that now our schoolchildren are taught that Joseph McCarthy was a bad man.
What the textbooks neglect to tell our children is that the Commies were not content to smear and silence him. In reality, they murdered him.
The true story will emerge eventually how one of the greatest patriots in American history was murdered in cold blood and how the media was complicit in spreading a false story to cover it all up. I hope that the truth will one day find the light of day and the scales will fall from America’s eyes. It will be my life’s work to make that day happen.
Consider how far we have fallen when we have Communists openly a part of the White House staff. Yesterday Glenn Beck of Fox News revealed how White House Communications Director Anita Dunn openly reveres Chinese dictator Mao Tse Tung as a great political philosopher. The man was one of the greatest butchers of all time, killing at least 60 million of his fellow citizens. I hope he is enjoying his time in Hell.
How in the name of God did a kook like Ms. Dunn get hired to work in the White House?
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
October 10, 2009
The Nobel Appease Prize
Awakening to the news that President Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize brought one of those rare moments when you burst into uncontrollable laughter.
The London Daily Telegraph had perhaps the most perceptive reaction in a headline that included “WTF!” Truth be told, winning the Nobel Peace Prize is not that big a deal when you consider some of the previous recipients.
Among the past winners are a motley collection of Commie butchers (Le Duc Tho), Islamic terrorists (Yasser Arafat), anti-Semites (Jimmy Carter, Yasser Arafat, Mohamed ElBaradei), pompous frauds (Desmond Tutu, Al Gore) and elitist crooks (Kofi Annan, Al Gore). Mr. Obama will fit in quite nicely with that crew.
We’ve come a long way from winners like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The prize now represents the political meddling of the selection committee of leftist Norwegian Euroweenies. Obviously the committee hopes that by awarding the prize to President Obama, the President will be less likely to commit more troops to Afghanistan and he will stick to his course of appeasement with Iran, North Korea, Russia, Venezuela and Cuba.
Worst of all, the committee does not want him to stand with Israel and provide our close ally the support it needs to survive the Iranians’ threat to create a new Holocaust.
Consider recent leaders who were deemed unworthy of the Nobel Prize:
-- President Ronald Reagan, who helped bring about the fall of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and who worked with the Soviets to actually reduce the amount of nuclear weapons in the world.
-- Pope John Paul II, who brought hope to hundreds of millions in Eastern Europe that they would one day live in freedom and who spread Christ’s message of peace worldwide.
-- President George W. Bush, whose bold initiatives to combat malaria and AIDS in Africa saved the lives of tens of millions. The bottom line is that George Bush did more for Africans that any Western leader in history and is personally responsible for doing more to improve the lives of black people than any human being in history.
Somehow these three great men were viewed as unworthy by the Norwegians. Just the sheer mention of George Bush’s name is enough to make them pull their dresses over their heads and run screaming from the room.
By becoming the third sitting American President to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Mr. Obama joins Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, two left-wing progressives who put the United States on the road to the Big Government Hell in which we now live and which Barack Hussein Obama is trying to make even bigger.
So, congratulations to President Obama. By receiving what should truly be titled the Nobel Appease Prize, he sets a fine example for our youth. The lesson taught by the Norwegians is that results don’t matter, only stated good intentions are needed to succeed. That sums up liberalism at its core.
Mr. Obama had been in office less than two weeks before the deadline for nominations for the prize, so it’s clear that the committee merely wanted to make a left-wing political statement because Obama’s record is bereft of any accomplishments. No wonder I laughed so loudly. The whole thing is a farce.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, as long as we fight for what is right.
October 7, 2009
Hey, Jim Jones! We Aren’t Drinking Your Koolaid
National Security Adviser Jim Jones has taken it upon himself to trash the commanding general in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McCrystal, for asking for more troops to prosecute the war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Mr. Jones, a former general himself, has the claim to fame of being a raving anti-Semite who clearly favors the Muslim side of this geopolitical dynamic. He is not fit to lick General McCrystal’s boots.
While President Obama does his best impression of Mr. Dithers, unable to reach a conclusion on the right strategy for Afghanistan, despite conclusions of generals who have been on the ground, the situation is going to hell in a handbasket. Hey, Hey Oh-Bam-Ay, how many troops did you kill today?
Let’s flash back to the Vietnam era, which many of us remember as a debacle because the politicians lost their courage and sold our brave soldiers down the river. Afghanistan is shaping up as Obama’s Vietnam. He clearly lacks the stomach to win, just as Johnson, Nixon and Ford before him.
I have a very simple rule to follow when American troops are sent into harm’s way. When you commit American men and women to risk their lives, then you only have one recourse: You must pursue one goal, total and complete victory, using all of the military tools in your arsenal. To do any less is the height of cowardice, appeasement and evil.
Moreover, to do any less is immoral. We have no right to ask our brave men and women to sacrifice their lives if we will not back them to the hilt with whatever support they need to succeed.
So Obama sits in the Oval Office, in the very limited time he sets foot there, dithering about what to do while brave soldiers die because he lacks the fortitude to do the right thing.
So where are the anti-war protesters now? Are they willing to give Obama a pass because he is a left-winger like them? So much for their conviction and sincerity. Whatever comes to pass in Afghanistan rests squarely on Obama’s shoulders. He can’t pass this buck to George Bush.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, as long as we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past.
October 2, 2009
Impeach Obama, Fire Letterman
Today brought news that should result in the ouster of two liberal icons that have proven their moral bankruptcy and ultimate failure as people we should pay any attention to.
Barack Hussein Obama could spend millions of dollars on his incompetent bid to win the Olympics Games for Chicago but barely has enough time to devote to determining a reasonable strategy for Afghanistan. Today he held a half-assed, half-hour meeting with Genera Stanley McCrystal, which I’m sure left the general with the idea that “this guy is totally clueless.”
It’s becoming very clear that Mr. Obama is not enthralled with the general’s request for more troops to seal the deal in Afghanistan. Which means that both General McCrystal and General Petraeus should seriously consider resigning if Obama does not accept their request.
Why should they get saddled with a defeat in Afghanistan because the President of the United States is a Muslim pansy?
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the Kingfish has no stomach for taking the fight to the Taliban or prosecuting a war on terror. The time has come to seriously discuss impeaching a Commander-in-Chief who clearly is not up to the task and has not stomach for carrying his constitutional duties while he jets around the globe courting world opinion while the American economy is going to hell and spends his time running down America with sorry apologies.
Any of the so-called economic experts who think America is in some phase of recovery are smoking bad grass or are completely out of their minds. We continue in a downward spiral in which unemployment, manufacturing and consumer spending are tanking.
Meanwhile, we continue the disgusting descent into total moral bankruptcy. Why hasn’t CBS fired David Letterman? His confession of sexual misconduct with his employees is more than enough evidence that he should not be permitted to continue on the air. He chose to make light of a situation of sexual harassment that would cost any executive in private business his or her job.
The man is a pig, a totally disgraceful and reprehensible human being who should not be permitted a public platform on television. And, he would pretend to pass judgment on Sarah Palin? He is not fit to lick her shoes, but he probably would get a perverse kick out of that.
America, what is happening to us? It’s time for The Forgotten Street to not only get vocal but get belligerent and let the so-called elites who try to run our lives know that we think they are immoral, un-American and downright evil.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American as long as we fight for what is right, moral and acceptable in the eyes of our Lord.
October 1, 2009
America Unhinged
Just as it seems like our country is literally coming apart at the seams, let’s do a quick overview of the madness around us.
We have a President who has spent less time on his duties as Commander-in-Chief than he has spent on news talk shows and visiting with David Letterman.
He has seriously damaged America’s national security by unilaterally surrendering in the war on terror and abrogating our international commitments on missile defense and free trade. His foreign policy is the Obama AAA Doctrine: alienate, appease and abrogate.
His abandonment of missile defense in Eastern Europe only emboldened Iran to proceed with its latest missile tests that showed how impotent his policy is. When you look up the word “pansy “ in the dictionary, instead of seeing a flower, you now see Obama’s portrait.
The economy is getting worse, not better, no matter what the brain-dead Elite Traitor Media tell us or how ill-informed Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke might be. Where in hell did George Bush find this guy? I know he is a Princeton professor and that makes it even more galling that he is so incompetent.
The latest economic statistics this week clearly show that the economy is still contracting, hence we are still in a recession despite what Mr. Bernanke might so stupidly claim or how the Elite Traitor Media try to spin it otherwise to prop up an incompetent President.
Our alleged President, who only plays one on television and has spent less time working in the Oval Office than I have, has put together an Administration marked by the biggest collection of Communists, perverts and crooks in American history.
Obama’s two biggest domestic priorities, health care reform and climate change legislation, represent an unparalleled attempt at wealth confiscation and redistribution that have absolutely nothing to do with improving health care or protecting the environment.
Meanwhile he can fly off to Copenhagen to make a pitch to bring the Olympic Games to Chicago, which is merely a payoff to his political cronies who are fully prepared to displace poor Chicagoans in order to make a fortune off the property they currently occupy. All the Olympics will bring to Chicago is more poverty for those who are already disadvantaged and more wealth for the sorry thieves who run the city and abuse its citizens.
Not that I feel strongly about all this. But there comes a time for real patriots to speak up and fight for the America we all love and cherish.
You can tell how bad it has become when you see a raving moron like Congressman Alan Grayson from Orlando get up on the floor of the House and say Republicans want people to die instead of getting health care. The fact that a piece of human garbage like this can represent American citizens in the Congress is an abomination.
Then you see the Hollywood alleged elite rally in support of the criminal pervert Roman Polanski, a fugitive felon who is one of the more contemptible human beings on the planet. As they whine about his pending extradition, I can only think that a bullet between his eyes would not be sufficient punishment for his disgusting rape of a 13-year old. Any of us who patronize the garbage movies produced by Hollywood or buy their DVDs only encourage their perversion and undermining of American culture.
Those of us on The Forgotten Street are waking up and fighting back, as evidenced by the more than one million people who showed up in Washington D.C. on September 12. Let’s keep up the heat on both Democrats and Republicans who have led us to the disastrous state we find ourselves in.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
September 27, 2009
America’s Clueless Elites
You can’t help but be both amused and horrified by the reaction of America’s political, media and alleged intellectual elites to the September 12 march on Washington by patriotic Americans fed up with big government.
Authorities tried to limit the event as much as possible through restrictive permits. They woefully underestimated the size of the crowd that showed up from all across America. More than one million people of all races, ages, political stripes and geographic locations, who are fed up with the size of government and its intrusion into their lives, rallied together to make their voices heard. We haven’t seen this many citizens descend upon the capital for such an event in decades.
The elites reacted the way they did because the “Tea Party” folks aren’t playing their game any longer. We are fed up with people in positions of authority telling us that we do not have enough sense or ability to manage our lives, and that only they know what is best.
The health care reform bills rattling around the Capitol are laced with provisions that will deny care to older Americans, provide care for illegal immigrants, pay for abortions and eviscerate the private insurance industry, as well as enact the largest tax increase in American history.
But that is just one example of the many ways that government keeps intruding on Americans. I wonder how many of you have seen the American Community Survey sent out the U. S. Census Bureau. It is sent to the “resident” of a specific address. If you receive one, you are required to fill it out or face a financial penalty or even prison time. Where are we, the U.S.S.R.?
Given the implied threats in the survey materials, it is obvious that the government elites think the average recipient will readily comply. Perhaps we really are in the U.S.S.A. – the United Sheeple States of America. They clearly think we are sheep who will blindly follow them. The events in our nation’s capital two weeks ago demonstrate how grossly mistaken they are.
The Census Bureau claims the survey is needed to help Congress decide which parts of the country need federal aid and support. Like I believe that Queen Nancy Pelosi and her 534 fellow thieves are interested in anything besides the continued looting of the U.S. Treasury on behalf of themselves and their friends.
The Survey is positively obnoxious, asking extremely personal questions that the government should have no right to ask. It probes about your housing situation, the status of your plumbing, the number of vehicles you own, what fuels you use, the amount of your mortgage payment, what you pay in real estate taxes and property insurance, your utility costs, your educational status, your occupation and work duties, any disabilities you may have and your marital situation. It requests details on your income that only the Internal Revenue Service has the authority to ask,
The Census Bureau claims that all the information is confidential and will not be disclosed. But how difficult would it be for a government bureaucrat to review the answers provided, look up the address of the respondent and then easily determine which individual provided the answers. I thought the Census Bureau could only ask for the number of people residing at a given residence.
My answer to all of these queries is simple: It’s none of your damn business! I won’t give you anything more than name, rank and serial number. Michelle Bachmann, the outstanding Congresswoman from Minnesota (www.bachmann.house.gov) feels the same way and has received scores of complaints from her constituents about the intrusiveness of the survey.
The real tipoff here is the use of the word “community.” In a Frequently Asked Questions brochure sent with the Survey, the Census Bureau states, “By responding to the American Community Survey questionnaire, you are helping your community to establish goals, identify problems and solution, and measure the performance of programs.”
Right. When has the Federal government ever measured the performance of one of its programs?
The American Community Survey is an intrusive Communistic sham, what one might expect coming from a government headed by the Community-Organizer-in-Chief and a Bureau that until just a few weeks ago was prepared to use ACORN (American Communists Organized to Ruin Our Nation) to help conduct the 2010 Census.
Is it any wonder people are fed up and marching on Washington?
When it comes to “community,” I choose to rely on my family, friends, neighbors, fellow churchgoers and others for solutions to common problems, not the czars, elitist jackasses and fellow travelers in Washington D.C.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American as long as we can get our government under control.
September 26, 2009
Pfizer Factories on Overtime Alert
To deal with the overwhelming impotence that has surfaced in the United Nations and the Western World regarding Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons, Pfizer has placed all of its worldwide factories on overtime alert in order to produce enough Viagra to counteract the epidemic of impotence.
President Obama’s appearance with Nicholas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown to announce the existence of a second Iranian nuclear facility was ridiculous bordering on farce.
This from a man who wants to permanently cripple the Central Intelligence Agency? Are you kidding me? Obama needs to stay away from any beaches because anyone who sees him there will kick sand in his sorry face.
Thank God for the Israelis, who are well aware of Iran’s duplicity and are perfectly willing to take action to stop the Islamofascists from getting nuclear weapons. People, take note: Benjamin Netanyahu represents our only hope to save Western civiliization as we know it.
Is this is the biggest news to come out of the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh? I have to ask why did the world leaders have to come and wreak havoc on my beautiful hometown? The anarchists are running wild in the streets, but never fear, Obama has his brownshirt legions cracking down on them just like any third world dictator.
The whole thing is a sorry spectacle unworthy of the greatest democracy on earth.
In other news of the day:
-- The communist indoctrination attempted in the Burlington, New Jersey, elementary school, where little children were coerced into chanting Young Pioneer or Hitler Youth tributes to Barack Hussein Obama ought to send a chill down the spine of any true American.
-- The school principal would be perfectly at home in Moscow, Havana or Caracas. She should be fired immediately and it she isn’t, parents should pull their kids from the school and start homeschooling them now before their kids’ brains are turned into communist mush.
-- I never thought I would live long enough to see such treachery in the United States of America.
-- When Congressional Democrats talk about Medicare cuts as savings, you know all they are really doing is masking how they are going to screw elderly Americans who have paid into the system all their lives. What they are proposing with health care reform is un-American, immoral and downright evil.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American as long as we fight the Communists in Washington, the elite traitor media, academia and Hollywood who are working overtime to destroy the America we love and cherish.
September 24, 2009
The Israeli Leader of the Free World
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cemented his position as THE Leader of the Free World with his courageous speech to the United Nations, in which he castigated the pathetic and worthless world body for its weakness in letting Iranian leader I’m-A-Nutjob speak before it.
Mr. Netanyahu tried to shame the shameless by reminding them of the horrors of the Holocaust, which galvanized the world into recognizing the state of Israel. But I guess 6 million dead Jews do not resonate with the elites of today’s world.
Netanyahu gave the speech that ideally you would want a President of the United States to give. But unhappily, the day before, Barack Hussein Obama cemented his position as an anti-Semitic 98-pound weakling just waiting for assorted thugs to kick sand in his face.
While Michelle Obama is finally proud of her country, I am mortified that we have such a moral defective in the White House. Among American leaders, Jimmy Carter has to be thrilled to have Obama wrest away the title as The Worst President Ever.
Obama gave the speech that Rodney King of Los Angeles would have given had he ever ascended to the White House. Meanwhile, we have Zbigniew Brzezinski arguing for Obama to have the United States Air Force shoot down Israeli jets headed to bomb nuclear installations in Iran. What would you expect from a former Carter confidante?
How much evidence does the American public need before it finally and irrevocably concludes that Democrats can in no way be trusted with national security? Obama hanging the Czechs and Poles out to dry on strategic missile defense is beyond disgraceful and bordering on sheer treason.
The follies we’ve witnessed at the United Nations this week are clear evidence that we need to resign from the U.N. and tell its sorry butt to get the hell out of New York and go elsewhere. The whole thing has become a sick joke.
Today was Hugo Chavez’s turn to make a complete ass out of himself. He made the perfunctory insults about George Bush. For once, I would like to see Barack Obama respect the office of the President of the United States enough to stand up and defend his gracious predecessor from such scurrilous attacks, which are not just slams at President Bush, but insults to the United States of America. As if Barack Hussein Obama really cares about that.
Obama is not going to challenge the man he calls “mi amigo,” a man whose lead he is following in attacking the constitutional government of Honduras in favor of a would-be Communist dictator.
Folks, we are in a heap of trouble.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, as long as we fight for what is right.
September 21, 2009
Reagan Conservatism Thrives
At a time when the brain-dead Republican establishment works to distance itself from Reagan conservatism, a new generation of younger Republicans is embracing the wisdom of one of our greatest Presidents and standing proudly for limited government, fiscal responsibility, a strong national defense and a return to constitutional government.
On this past Friday evening, I had both the privilege and the pleasure to meet Marco Rubio, the 38-year old former Speaker of the Florida House, who is challenging Governor Charlie Crist for the Republican nomination to win a U. S. Senate seat in the 2010 election, the seat given up by Mel Martinez.
The GOP establishment whines about its ability to connect with Hispanic voters, but could not stab Marco Rubio in the back fast enough when Crist announced his candicacy. The Governor was immediately endorsed by the Republican Senatorial Committee. So much for letting the voters in Florida decide on their candidate. All the Republican talk about wanting support from the Hispanic community is a bunch of phony lip service.
Marco Rubio is a staunch Reagan conservative, the son of Cuban immigrants, who recognizes that the United States of America is a unique beacon of freedom in human history. His reverence for the Constitution, his profound commitment to family values and his recognition that every person is endowed with unalienable rights by our Creator, as stated in our Declaration of Independence, marks him as a leader who can band with other patriots to save our nation from the disastrous path it’s on.
I found Marco to be a humble man with a true commitment to public service out of his heartfelt love of country. He is self-deprecating, with a great sense of humor, yet a true passion to help put our nation on the right path again in order to prevent the next generation and generations to follow from losing the American dream.
I cannot state strongly enough how much The Forgotten Street endorses Marco Rubio’s candidacy and urges fellow conservatives and all who love our nation and its rich heritage to support him in his bid for the U. S. Senate. You can learn more about Marco Rubio at his web site, www.marcorubio.com.
You will find that he supports the flat tax and fair tax, new energy exploration, a much-needed audit of the Federal Reserve Bank, traditional marriage, the right to life, gun rights, parental choice in education and the 10th Amendment which limits the Federal government and preserves certain rights to the states.
On current issues, he opposed the Federal stimulus package and will fight against amnesty for illegal immigrants, a single payer health care system, cap and trade energy policy, judicial activism and wasteful spending.
He is definitely the type of leader we need at this time. He is a strong family man, with a lovely wife and four wonderful children. In contrast, his opponent Gov. Crist has been quoted saying that he, Crist, is an “Arlen Specter Republican.” Yeah, like we want to revisit that horror movie again!
So I urge you all to take time to get to know more about Marco Rubio. Those outside of Florida, please find a way to support him and donate to his campaign. Those of you in Florida, sign up to work for him and be sure to vote for him in 2010.
Marco recognizes that Charlie Crist will raise more money and will unleash a barrage of negative advertising. But he strongly believes he can, and will win based upon the strength of his message and his ability to connect with the conservative base to get out the vote.
The Friday night event was not a fancy fundraising dinner for fat cats. It was a meet and greet reception hosted by my doctor and her husband, also a physician, in their lovely home. It provided an intimate setting in which Marco could visit with all the guests, many of whom are prominent professionals in St. Augustine representing a wide age range. What made it remarkable was that the hosts are not people who have ever been very active in politics but are very enthused about Marco Rubio. Charlie Crist is in for one heck of a shock.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, as long as we fight for what is right and support strong conservatives like Marco Rubio.
September 17, 2009
The Obama AAA Doctrine
With all the attention focused on health care, it’s an opportune time to see how President Barack Obama is faring with foreign policy.
Thus far, he grades out an “F.” His only accomplishment in foreign policy is to create the Obama AAA Doctrine.
Unlike the Bush Doctrine on pre-emption, the Kingfish has created the AAA Doctrine based on his efforts to Alienate, Appease and Abrogate. He has been such a disaster that he makes Jimmy Carter look good, which is a Herculean feat.
Let’s examine the basic legs of the AAA Doctrine:
Alienate: President Obama has gone out of his way to alienate traditionally strong American allies. His snubs of Great Britain are almost too lengthy to catalog. His stance toward Israel borders on anti-Semitic. Hell, if we didn’t know better we would assume he is a Muslim.
Even worse, his pathetic weakness on missile defense, and his deference to the gangsters who run Russia, has turned our staunch allies in Eastern Europe against America.
Appease: But the alienation of allies is hardly the worst of it. His sickening attempts to appease our worst enemies such as Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba betrays any semblance of the bipartisan foreign policy that used to exist in the United States when the Democrats had not turned totally leftist.
Any President who calls Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, “mi amigo” is not a man who can be trusted with foreign policy. Just look at the disgraceful and utterly treasonous position the United States has taken regarding the consitutional change of government in Honduras, which stopped a Chavez communist wannabe from staging a coup.
As Iran hurtles toward making a nuclear weapon that could destroy Israel, Obama has directed his ire toward Israel for building settlements. As I have said in the past, any Jew who voted for Obama is a traitor to his or her religion and race.
Abrogate: Now let’s consider the total disdain the Kingfish has exhibited toward negotiated treaties. He chooses to effectively abrogate NAFTA, deals with the Chinese and the Colombians in order to curry favor with the unions whose thugs help prop up his sinking administration and to woo his “amigo” Chavez. By picking a fight with the Chinese on tires, he risks an all-out trade war. In fact, when it comes to foreign policy in Latin America, Obama is subservient to his “Three Amigos,” – Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega and Fidel Castro.
Which leads me to comment on the senile comments of Jimmy Carter, who claims any opposition to Barack Obama is based on race. His despicable smear of everyday Americans who have a right to dissent regarding the President’s policies violates any semblance of legitimate political discourse.
I don’t oppose Barack Obama’s policies because of his race. I oppose them because I find so many of them frankly communistic. And, I call him the Kingfish not because of his race, but because he is an amiable blowhard like George Stevens on Amos and Andy who was always trying to sell some fishy scam. So President Carter, cool your jets. You are making an utter fool of yourself.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American when you stand up with the millions who visited our nation’s capital recently.
September 13, 2009
Obamacare: The Great Health Care Hoax
President Barack Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress on health care reform did nothing to enlighten the debate other than give him an excuse to set the world’s record for the greatest number of platitudes strung together. How can a man talk so long and say nothing?
But it came as no surprise to me because the entire health care reform push by the Democrats has absolutely nothing to do with controlling costs, expanding access to care or improving the quality of care.
Obamacare is an elaborate hoax, a giant Kabuki dance designed to hide what is really going on here: a subversive attempt to enact the largest tax increase in American history, a subterfuge to put in place a single payer system and the biggest single assault on individual freedom and liberty ever perpetrated in our nation’s history.
Naturally, the Elite Traitor Media (ETM) are averting their eyes. Their attention is focused on the outburst by Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina, who yelled “You lie!” when the President tried to deny that illegal aliens will be covered under his health care system.
Representative Wilson was simply saying what millions of Americans were screaming at their televisions at the same time.
Amid all the brouhaha that has occurred in town hall meetings across America, the pundits have opined that whatever gets decided will come out of the Senate instead of the House of Representatives, where Democrats are fighting tooth and nail on several versions.
God help us, because the bill advanced by Senator Max Baucus reveals the true depth of the Democrats’ treachery. Much of the Baucus bill is devoted to discussing how revenue will be raised to pay for health care reform.
It is obvious that under his scheme, businesses will be devastated, individuals will face severe punishment should they not purchase health insurance and unemployment will skyrocket.
God bless Rush Limbaugh for bringing this effort to light. You can learn more about it at www.rushlimbaugh.com. Consider how these few provisions, just the tip of the iceberg, will affect America:
-- Cutting the itemized deduction for medical expenses;
-- Imposing a $3,800 fine on individuals who do not have health insurance;
--Extending the Medicare payroll tax to state and local government employees;
-- Requiring businesses to withhold taxes from payments to individual contractors;
-- Mandating e-filing of tax returns by certain businesses;
-- Imposing penalties for failure to comply with electronic filing requirements;
-- Modifying or limiting health savings accounts;
-- Making it more difficult to deduct state taxes on federal income tax returns;
-- Eliminating oil and gas preferences;
-- Levying a tax on certain offshore oil and gas production;
-- Repealing the credit for production from marginal wells;
-- Reinstating the 39.6 percent tax rate for those earning more than $250,000.
All of this is crammed into the Baucus bill with the hope that no one will take the time to look at what is in it. That is why some folks have decided that the Obama Administration is not the new “Camelot.” It is “Cramalot” because all its major legislation resembles 20 pounds of crap shoved into a 10-pound bag.
I could go on, but you get the picture. By using health care reform as a pretext to attack the domestic energy industry, Senator Baucus will put into place factors that will increase our dependence on foreign oil and ultimately jack up the price of gasoline and oil-related products, including petrochemicals used in manufacturing. Just who is this guy working for? Obviously, not the American people. I’m sure oil oligarchs in Moscow and Saudi Arabia like what they see in the Baucus bill.
These tax changes will lead to more unemployment and more people uninsured, which is what the Democrats deliberately are designing so they can hoodwink people into supporting a single payer system.
By requiring tighter withholding standards for independent contractors, the Dems will place a huge administrative burden on both business and individuals. For instance, when you pay an attorney a fee, you just give the lawyer the payment and then the lawyer has to declare the income and handle the related tax issue. Now, you would become an involuntary arm of the IRS.
Folks, the Democrats are not interested in health care reform as much as they are in totally controlling almost 20 percent of the nation’s economy through a single payer system. Under their scheme, it will come about incrementally as they set up a public option to start the drive to eliminate private health insurance and dig even deeper into our pockets and place more restrictions on our liberty.
They already have shown their contempt for older Americans through their stated intent to cut Medicare spending by up to $500 billion and through their already-established medical effectiveness research bureaucracies that will ration and deny care to millions of people who have paid into the system all their working lives. What Obama and the Democrats propose is immoral, disgusting and simply evil.
In other news of the day:
-- Tens of thousands of everyday Americans traveled from across our country to Washington D.C. to take part in the biggest “Tea Party” yet, this time on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol. The crowd was absolutely huge, but I am sure the ETM will downplay it, that is, if they even bother to report on it at all.
-- What is so heartening about the Tea Party phenomenon is that people who have never been engaged in politics have decided to come out in force. The Forgotten Street is speaking up and being heard, even if most of Washington is not yet listening.
-- How about those crazy kiddos at ACORN (American Communists Organized to Ruin our Nation)! It’s no wonder we had the mortgage crisis when you realize that groups like ACORN were helping people get loans who were wholly unqualified.
-- If Senator Baucus is so intent on raising revenues, then why doesn’t he try to eliminate all federal payments to subversive organizations like ACORN, Planned Parenthood and the United Nations? These groups, and others like them, should not be supported with taxpayer dollars.
-- Will someone please tell the Kingfish that he won the 2008 election and there is no need for him to waste our money traveling around in his perpetual campaign? His personal carbon footprint is larger than many small nations. Giving speeches is not the primary duty of the President of the United States. Maybe he should actually roll up his sleeves and go to work in his office each day like so many other Americans.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
September 11, 2009
Separating Real Americans From the Rest of Them
Today marks the 8th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. For far too many Americans it will be just another day, in large part because the Elite Traitor Media will downplay the significance of the day.
September 11, 2001, was the day that America realized its vulnerability in a world gone mad. For me, it has special significance in that I was living just a few miles from the Pentagon in northern Virginia. As I got home that day, after an arduous four-hour drive from work in Maryland, I got out of my car and could smell the smoke from the still burning Pentagon.
I entered my house with the knowledge that a dear friend and co-worker of my wife’s from American Airlines, M. J. Booth, perished in the crash of Flight 77 into the Pentagon.
For the real story of that day, please read the featured article for The Forgotten Street my beloved wife Dottie wrote, Proud to Be American. It should be recommended reading by everyone on every September 11.
The horrifying scenes from New York City of the World Trade Center disintegrating and terrified workers leaping from the windows will never leave my mind. Nor should they ever escape the American consciousness.
Thank God we had an American President, George W. Bush, who grasped the geopolitical importance of what had happened and responded appropriately. Now we have a 98-pound weakling who wants to talk with the very savages in Iran who helped underwrite the terrorism that radical Islam has inflicted on the world.
Barack Obama’s presence at the Pentagon today is a blasphemy, a desecration of the sacred ground of those that died there that day. Unlike those of us in northern Virginia, he did not have to drive to work the next day and see the smoke still pouring from the smoldering wreckage at the Pentagon.
Instead, he has become the Great Appeaser, making disgraceful apologies and currying favor with a Muslim world that has permitted its radicals to hijack its religion.
Then, there are the 9-11 Truthers, lunatics like Van Jones and Charlie Sheen, who accuse the government of being behind the attacks. They are beyond despicable and thoroughly un-American. Not to mention completely anti-Semitic.
When Obama campaigned, he bragged to look at the people around him. I see people like Jones and Sheen, and I want to barf. Will he throw them under the bus like he did his white grandmother and Rev. Jeremiah Wright? We’ll see.
Mr. Obama, we will never forget or forgive. The animals who committed this savagery are not human, they are evil, and an America that believes in its founding principles should pursue them to the ends of the earth. There is nothing to talk about with people who are incapable of rational discussion. George Bush fully understood that, and we can thank him for staying safe the past eight years.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American. I will have more to say on the great health care hoax in the next few days.
September 9, 2009
Where Are the Grownups in Washington?
Barack Obama plays the President of the United States on television, but in reality he is simply the Community-Organizer-in-Chief.
Consider what current issues face him: American soldiers dying in Afghanistan and Iraq with no clear policy to direct them; unemployment of more than 16%, not the 9.7% bullcrap number provided by the Labor Department; an American dollar sinking in value; major industries nationalized by the Federal government; totalitarian psychopaths striving to create nuclear weapons in North Korea and Iran; small businesses being choked to death by a lack of credit from financial institutions that have gotten fat off government bailouts; a government infiltrated by the largest number of tax cheats, crooks and Communists in history.
So how did the President of the United States spend his time yesterday? He lectured school children to wash their hands, do their homework, behave in school, eat their peas, blah, blah, blah.
Barack Obama is not a serious man. He is lazy, undisciplined, bereft of any executive ability, economically ignorant and contemptuous of everyday Americans. He hasn’t done a day of hard work in his life. If I didn’t know better I would say he is French. Since taking office in January, he has taken more than a month of vacation.
His idea of governing is to continue the perpetual campaign, traveling around giving speeches filled with meaningless platitudes and liberal gobbledygook.
He is about to given a meaningless speech on health care reform. Expect 20 pounds of crap shoved into a 10 pound bag. We'll have more analysis tomorrow. The whole thing is a head fake. If you examine the house bill, you will realize it does nothing for health care. It is simply the largest tax increase in American history and the biggest assault ever on individual freedom and liberty. The people who put this bill together are raving Communists.
Folks, we are in one hell of a mess. If you want to get an idea of just how bad it really is, run, don’t walk, to your nearest bookstore and get a copy of Michelle Malkin’s latest blockbuster: Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies.
You will be stunned and staggered by the incredible detail through which the talented Ms. Malkin dissects an Administration that is so thoroughly interwoven with big business and big labor that the average resident of The Forgotten Street stands no chance of protecting his and her wealth from confiscation and redistribution.
What Michelle details is a conspiracy of wealthy elites who want to control everything that goes on in America to their benefit, at the expense of the people that they pretend to care about.
Saturday, September 12, is the day for Americans to show up in droves in Washington D.C. to let the political elite know that we are on to their treachery and that their future in our hands will not be pretty.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
September 6, 2009
Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish
The execrable Van Jones is history in terms of serving the Obama Administration. He leaves whining all the way about a “smear” campaign.
No, Mr. Jones, it was the truth that set you free from the Green Jobs czar position. People found out what you were all about, through your own words, and they were appalled.
Like most Democrats who get caught in an untenable situation, he had to whine about people picking on him. I am surprised he did not play the race card, but there is still plenty of time for him to do so.
My advice to Van Jones: be a damn man. Own up to your own responsibility for your downfall. Look in the mirror.
What has been lost in this story is perhaps the biggest scandal of all: Van Jones has a law degree from Yale University. What in the world does it say about the worth of such a degree and the caliber of such an institution? Any degree earned from Yale in this day and age has to be regarded as valueless. So much for an elite, Ivy League education. What a farce!
Thank God for Glenn Beck, who has the courage, unlike the rest of the so-called news media, to bring attention to the kooks with whom Obama has surrounded himself.
What really needs to be examined is the role of Valerie Jarrett as a senior advisor. She embraced Mr. Jones and I would bet she shares his views totally.
In other news from the Bizarro World in which we live:
-- Schools across the nation are avoiding the upcoming speech from President Obama like the plague. Given the lesson plan sent out by the Department of Education, it had all the trappings of a “Dear Leader” communique from North Korea or Venezuela.
-- We also have an address by the One Term Wonder to Congress on health care coming up this week, which will be another exercise in obfuscation. This far into the debate, we have not idea in hell what the Kingfish has in mind for our health care system, and I doubt if he will clarify much this week.
-- When you see the people advising him, such as “Dr. Death” Ezekiel Emmanuel, who wants to put a valuation on each human’s life before deciding on the proper treatment, you have to shudder. Mr. Emmanuel would have been very much at home with the eugenics freaks in Nazi Germany. Thank God that Sarah Palin sounded the alarm on the “death panels” that surely were on our horizon.
-- Let’s face it: we are witnessing a serious deficit of leadership from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Just look at the drift that defines our policies in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Great Appeaser has no stomach for serving as Commander-in-Chief. You can see it in the half-assed salute he gives to the military as he descends from Marine One or Air Force One. He can’t even look the soldier in the eye like a real man would. It’s a disgrace.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American! It’s time for The Forgotten Street to rise up and speak up to take our country back from the elites who want to “transform” it into a cheap imitation of the Soviet Union.
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September 4, 2009
Commies to the Left of Us, Commies to the Right of Us …
With the Elite Traitor Media (ETM) in a complete hibernation, it’s up to Glenn Beck of Fox News to raise the truly pertinent questions: how did so many Communists, elitists and outright kooks wind up as trusted advisers to the President of the United States?
Glenn has focused for the past few days on Van Jones, Green Energy Czar, who is more radical than any of the Communists exposed by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. By the way, McCarthy was 100 percent right and research has proven him right, including the FBI Venona intercepts of the Soviet embassy.
Van Jones is a self-avowed Communist, a cop-hater, an enviro-Nazi, a racist and a thoroughly despicable human being. Yet he is a close adviser to the President of the United States?
Why? As much as I admire the work of Glenn Beck in raising legitimate questions that completely go over the heads of the ETM, who are so totally in the tank for the Kingfish that they cannot be trusted or taken seriously, he did miss one critical question:
Van Jones is a graduate of the Yale University’s Law School. So what does it say about a Yale law degree that a person like Jones could possess one? I frankly more greatly value my Scott toilet paper than a Yale law degree.
Putting is simply: Van Jones is a raving loon. His ideas on environmentalism, capitalism and American society in general are so off the charts that it’s laughable. But there is nothing funny of having a close adviser of the President believe that a former President, George Bush, was complicit in the September 11 terrorist attacks or that they were staged.
Pundits believe that Obama will fire Jones or find some way to repudiate him. I highly doubt it, because I believe that the Kingfish shares much of Jones’ crazed beliefs, as do other members of the administration, including close adviser Valerie Jarrett, who is an equally dangerous figure.
So where are the ETM in all this? They will be working day and night to try to cover Obama’s backside while dismissing Glenn Beck and the rest of us as right-wing kooks and racists.
That’s the whole scam of Obama’s election. Part of the reason so many Democrats backed him was to inoculate the party from any criticism so they could attack opponents as racists.
I give the American people more credit than they do, as we have seen in the visceral reaction against the health care reform that is a smokescreen to kill off older Americans so the Obama government can save money to finance its radical, hell, Communist schemes.
Obama won’t fire Van Jones because when he looks in the mirror, he sees Van Jones. So expect him and his lackeys to play the race card.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American and stand up for what is right. Don’t let the sorry bastards intimidate you with their Saul Alinsky Communist tactics.
September 1, 2009
What Is Happening To America?
We're admonished to not speak ill of the dead, but now that he is embedded in the earth, I have to offer a few observations on the demise of Ted Kennedy, the so-called Lion of the Senate.
Senator Kennedy received more than a fair share of praise upon his departure, but let’s set the record straight. He was a divisive man who poisoned American politics forever, he was a traitor and he was a murderer.
For all the rubbish about his ability to reach across the aisle, consider this: his speech in opposition to the Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork was easily one of the more despicable and dishonest acts ever committed by an American elected official. Robert Bork was a distinguished American jurist and legal scholar whose reputation was criminally besmirched by Kennedy.
The unintended consequence of Kennedy’s rash act was to forever poison the Supreme Court nomination process and turn it into a partisan political battle, regardless of the nominee and the party doing the nominating. Great job, Teddy, that’s one hell of a legacy.
But to make matters even worse, Ted Kennedy was a non-partisan traitor who went out of his way to undermine two American presidents, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, through back-door dealings with the Soviet Union. His staunchly anti-Communist brothers, Jack and Bobby, had to be thoroughly appalled.
Kennedy made his treasonous overtures to oppose Carter’s actions on Afghanistan and Reagan’s policy in general in order to further his own ambitions.
Finally, we cannot overlook his cowardly and disgusting behavior in the Chappaquiddick incident that resulted in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. There is no need to rehash the details here, but certainly his behavior was criminal, as was the authorities’ decision to let it slide.
Now the Democrats in Congress, led by the unctuous Harry Reid, want to capitalize on the Senator’s demise to push health care reform. So ObamaCare will become KennedyCare. Should it pass, we will find ourselves in the same situation as Ms. Kopechne: gasping for breath.
His burial at Arlington National Cemetery is an act of desecration.
In other news of the day:
-- If you missed the Glenn Beck Show on Fox News at 5 p.m. Eastern today, you missed the best piece of investigative journalism that has appeared on television in the past 20 years.
-- The indefatigable Mr. Beck revealed the outrageous Communist ravings of Green Jobs Czar Van Jones, who is supposed to advise President Obama on how to create a new energy system and related jobs. This man is a raving loon, a total commie freak and the fact that he can be employed by the President of the United States is an outrage and a national scandal.
-- But Mr. Jones is not a mere czar. He is a commissar, aself-avowed Communist driven by the lunatic black liberation theology that is totally racist and frankly, crazed.
-- Beck also revealed how the National Endowment For the Arts has been turned into a propaganda arm for the Obama Administration, using taxpayer dollars to produce artistic propaganda to support a Communist agenda. Looks like it’s time to eliminate the Endowment and save taxpayers money that is going down a commie rathole.
-- Beck is persevering in the face of an attempt by the communist front group, ColorofChange, to discourage advertisers from supporting his show. A number of them have bailed out, including Wal-Mart, CVS and Proctor & Gamble. Guess whose businesses I won’t patronize anymore. Other companies like Geico and Progressive Insurance, operated by radical lefties, are on the list as well.
-- It’s not boycotting Beck, but General Electric is also on my do-not patronize list for its crass historical involvements with the Soviets, Nazis and now the Chinese. Plus, I will never buy their damn poisonous, mercury filled, alleged energy-saving light bulbs, even with the government mandate.
Friends on The Forgotten Street, be very fearful. We have a President and Administration that fundamentally want to radically change our way of life without our consent. They were elected under false pretenses, they have outrageously lied to us and they can never be trusted.
Make Glenn Beck a must-watch at 5 p.m. Eastern every day to really know what is happening to our beloved country. I pray for his safety because the folks he is opposing are ruthless and amoral.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, as long as we keep fighting for what is right.
August 29, 2009
Health Care Cost Containment? What A Crock!
The Kingfish and the Politburo are pushing their health care reform as a bid to contain rising costs. What a crock! When have Democrats ever given a fig about rising governmental costs? They’ve just quadrupled the annual deficit!
So Obama is looking to cut Medicare by up to $500 billion, institute death panels to deny care to seniors and try to eliminate medical tests as wasteful.
What he really is trying to achieve is put all medicine under a single payer government system, a la his beloved Cuba. And, he intends to balance the costs on the backs of seniors who have paid taxes and into Medicare for most of their lives.
I think about my 89-year old father-in-law who served his country heroically in World War II, who worked multiple jobs to care for his family and who paid his taxes willingly, unlike many members of the Obama Administration and Congress.
So now the Kingfish, who only plays a doctor on television in his pathetic news conferences, would propose to deny care to my father-in-law because of his age?
What he is proposing is immoral, un-American, insulting and downright Communistic.
I, and millions of Americans, have been paying taxes and into Medicare for almost 50 years. Damn-it, I expect to get something as a return on the government’s confiscation of my hard-earned income.
If Obama and Democrats really are concerned about rising governmental costs, they would quit the bailouts and stimulus spending which are bankrupting our grandchildren. Moreover, they could cut back or eliminate government spending on education, which is the biggest rathole since welfare.
Has there ever been any government investment that has paid less return on the dollar? We have an educational system that produces an inferior product at an outrageous cost. And, because the Federal government underwrites much of higher education, institutions of higher learning have no incentive to manage costs or provide a product that meets the needs of its consumers.
Friends, what we are witnessing is the takeover of our Federal government by hoodlums and Communists. Sorry to be so blunt, but the truth sometimes hurts.
Just look at the latest news today: legislation has been introduced to allow Obama to shut down the Internet for private interests and individuals in the name of national security. When did he ever give a damn about our national security?
What he is proposing is unconstitutional, un-American and totally Communistic. It’s time to wake up and face what we really are dealing with in Washington D.C.
My last statement, which is constitutionally protected free speech, gives you an idea of why Obama is trying to seize control of the Internet. This is the one outlet where citizens can express themselves and encourage others to stand up for what is right.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American so long as we fight to save our country from the ultimate subversion that is happening now.
August 25, 2009
Al Qaeda, Come On Down!
If there was any doubt remaining that the Great Appeaser’s administration is not remotely serious about national security, just look at yesterday’s events regarding CIA interrogations of terrorist suspects.
The Obama team has taken the job away from the CIA and placed it in the hands of a new unit under the thumb of the White House, which means they won’t ask for more than name, rank and serial number, not that the terrorists have either rank or a serial number.
Meanwhile, the Black Panther Attorney General Eric Holder is going full bore on his witchhunt to nail a scalp from the Bush Administration for his trophy case through a special prosecutor.
The net effect of this madness is to further inhibit our capability to uncover possible terrorist plots against America. The unblemished record that George Bush and team crafted in keeping America safe after September 11, 2001, is ready to go down the chute.
Let me go on a record with a prediction: because Al Qaeda can plainly see that weakness is the watchword for Obama on national security, we can fully expect that sometime in the not-too-distant future, the United States will suffer a major terrorist event. I sincerely hope I am wrong but my instinct tells me that weakness only invites aggression.
After all, what can you say about a President who cannot bring himself to face the cameras and condemn Scotland’s release of the terrorist responsible for the bombing of the Pan Am flight over Lockerbie or the truly disgusting spectacle of the sorry bastard getting a hero’s welcome in Tripoli, Libya? Instead, he relied on a mushmouth press statement.
Now comes news from the American Spectator (www.spectator.org) that the radicals in the White House have decided to turn September 11 into a National Day of Service that will be an orgy of commie community organizing instead of remembering those who died so tragically in 2001. Lord knows the Kingfish does not want to offend the Muslim world, even as elements in it plot our demise with no fear of being detected or stopped.
This all adds up to a revolting display of treason that undermines the great work done by the Bush Administration to keep America safe and to take the fight to the enemy. Yes, we have an enemy who wants to destroy us but you would never know it from the pathetic stance adopted by the Great Appeaser.
To make matters worse, he seems determined to lose the war in Iraq by pulling our troops back and out far too soon, thus negating the monumental victory George Bush won. In Afghanistan, he has no strategy at all, let alone a strategy for victory. Again, Obama seems content to roll along with events and let the chips fall where they may.
August 24, 2009, was a day of infamy in the United States. It’s the day that the CIA was gutted and rendered ineffectual, all in the name of appeasing Muslims that hate us.
Let’s start today the hard work of finding real Americans and patriots who will work to take back control of our country from an elite class of hard leftists whose hatred of America becomes more apparent every day.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American as long as we never give up our dreams and spirit.
August 20, 2009
As I Lay Dying …
One year ago today, at this time I was in an ambulance racing through the torrential rain of Tropical Storm Fay from my home in St. Augustine, Florida, to the University of Florida/Shands Hospital in Gainesville. I had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and a stroke due to a ruptured aneurysm.
Fortunately, St. Johns County Rescue responded to our 911 call within five minutes and took me to Flagler Hospital, where doctors in the emergency room immediately determined the seriousness of my situation and sent me to Gainesville. Because of the storm, they were unable to life-flight me.
Despite the gravity of my situation, as my brain was filling up with blood I was cognizant of what I was up against and that I was, in fact, dying.
Today I am able to write this because of the unbelievable skill, compassion and downright love of the medical professionals who tended to me throughout my ordeal and the phenomenal support of my extraordinary wife, daughter, family and friends. Because of the bond of a 38-year marriage to a loving wife determined to get me the care I desperately needed, I am here today.
Dr. Stephen Lewis, a superb neurosurgeon at UF& Shands, was able to assess my situation and proceed with life-saving surgery, despite the conflicting data received from multiple tests. All of which proves that medicine is more art than science, and that doctors like Stephen Lewis rely on experience and instinct to get to the root of a problem. Some bullcrap medical effectiveness board in Washington, which Sarah Palin rightfully termed a “death panel,” would have condemned me to death.
Thank God for Sarah Palin, who is the only political leader on the American scene today to put the health care debate in its proper perspective and show real leadership of a presidential nature.
When President Obama disparages surgeons by accusing them of putting money before patient care, I could scream. I have gotten to know Dr. Lewis very well and I can assert that he does what he does out of his dedication to patient care. Besides, there is no way in the world he could ever be compensated enough for the good he does for his patients. In my mind, he is grossly underpaid for his work.
That is why I am so disturbed by what President Obama and the Democrats in Congress are trying to do to the greatest health care system ever devised. What they are proposing has nothing to do with improving care, extending coverage or containing costs. It is all about hijacking 20% of the American economy and putting it under government control.
Frankly, what they are up to is un-American, immoral and thoroughly evil.
Under their scheme, a review board in Washington D.C., made up of Godless bureaucrats, would have looked at my situation and said, “He is 60 years old and he has a 30% or less chance of survival, so we should just let nature take its course and save the costs.”
These bandits already are talking about cutting $350 to $500 billion from Medicare, which means they will send thousands, maybe millions, of seniors to unnecessary deaths because they are no longer “productive.”
In other words, if you can’t work and pay taxes, or be a freeloading deadbeat and vote Democrat, then you don’t deserve to live. Folks, we are talking about Communism at its worst. And the prime examples are Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and Henry Waxman, not to mention the Kenyan Muslim in the White House.
If the gangsters in Washington are able to cram their Communist idea of health care down our throats, then they might as well get the boxcars lined up to take our vulnerable seniors away. It is eugenics, which is the sick science so loved by progressives, at its worst. And it’s all being hyped by Boxcar Willie in the White House.
Our Founding Fathers would be appalled and ashamed. So it’s up to those of us on The Forgotten Street to do what is right, fight back and save our Republic.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
August 18, 2009
Call 911! Obama’s Credibility Is On Life Support
So what’s the deal with the public option for health care? Is it in or out? Based on the conflicting statements from the Obama Administration, who knows?
The overall confusion and incompetence of the gang at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue reminds me of what Manager Casey Stengel said when he got his first look at the 1962 expansion New York Mets: “Can’t anybody here play this game?”
So, Kingfish, what is it? A public option, a co-op or all a mirage?
This guy is so far out of his depth it’s pathetic.
As I have said in the past, all the talk about health care reform is so much baloney because it does not even mention or try to deal with two of the major drivers of health care costs: illegal immigrants and frivolous lawsuits.
Without those two issues as part of the debate, the whole discussion is worthless. It’s the equivalent of trying to urinate up a rope.
While the health care debate rages on, other problems are brewing that might totally demolish what is left of the President’s tarnished credibility. The upcoming Afghan election, and the Taliban effort to disrupt it will once again raise the issue of whether or not Obama has the slightest clue about how to prosecute the war or any strategy whatsover.
At the same time, he seems determined to lose the war in Iraq that George Bush won. By pushing a pullback of American troops so dramatically, he has encouraged the terrorists to raise the level of violence in Iraq and undermine the authority of the Iraqi government.
Next door in Iran, the mullahs are full-speed ahead to manufacture a nuclear bomb that will have Tel-Aviv designated as the landing zone.
So what is the Lyin’ King doing to slow down that disaster? He is rebuking Israel at every turn and giving Medals of Freedom to raving anti-Semites.
Halfway around the world, Kim Il Jong of North Korea has a free rein in jerking Obama around and making him look the total fool.
Here at home, Sarah Palin has turned Facebook into a major advantage in thwarting the Obama Administration’s attempts to ration health care and recreate the Soviet Union here in America.
It’s no wonder public opinion is turning against Obama as Americans recognize they’ve bought a pig in a poke. Sorry, no offense intended against our Kenyan Muslim President.
In other news of the day:
The rock-solid evidence continues to mount that global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated against mankind. In a paper published by the Science and Public Policy Institute, Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT’s peer reviewed work states “we now know that the effect of CO2 on temperature is small, we know why it is small, and we know that it is having very little effect on the climate.”
Today brought the sad news of the passing of Robert Novak, one of the greatest journalists in American history. Rest in peace my Catholic brother. You were an American original and the best of patriots. May God comfort you in His loving arms.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
August 9, 2009
Sarah Frames The Moral Argument On Health Care
Leave to Sarah Palin to be the only, yes only, American political leader to properly frame the moral argument around what the Obama Administration wants to do to the greatest health care system in the world.
Displaying her usual keen insight, Sarah explained that what the Democrats have in mind in terms of rationing health care is downright “evil.” She understands better than most that the so-called Progressives will create a system that will prey on the most vulnerable among us: the unborn, children with mental disabilities and the elderly.
That is because the moral underpinnings of Obamacare are pegged to a select group of elites deciding what is best for the rest of us instead of letting medical professionals do the job they were trained to do.
The alleged Progressives are in fact Communists. Let’s quit beating around the bush and get to the heart of the matter. They hate democracy, as evidenced in how they have unleashed their goons from SEIU and ACORN to physically assault everyday Americans who want to voice their concerns over health care. Their agenda is based on the worst sort of elitism that shows contempt and disdain for traditional American values.
Those are the values that Sarah Palin cherishes and fights for, the same values that motivated our Founding Fathers to create the greatest society in human history.
That is why so many Americans have rallied to Sarah’s side. They are sickened at how the Elite Traitor Media (ETM) have abused Mrs. Palin and mocked her conservative and Christian beliefs. They understand that the Progressives will stop at nothing to destroy Sarah Palin because they know she has the charisma and the intestinal fortitude to create a new conservative movement.
And that is why my greatest fear is for Sarah Palin’s personal safety. I believe the Chicago gangsters that infest the White House and their allies in the Democrat party and their thug stooges in unions and non-governmental organizations are capable of any level of treachery if it means holding on to their power.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American as long as you stand up for what is right and speak up to save our country from the very real danger it faces. May God bless and keep Sarah Palin safe.
We have some outstanding new links added to our Links location found on the Home Page. Check out the inspiring insights at the American Principles Project founded by Princeton professor and constitutional expert Robert George at www.americanprinciplesproject.org, Americans For Prosperity at www.americansforprosperity.org and the keen economic analysis of Donald Marron, a leading economist in the Bush Administration at www.dmarron.com. Enjoy!
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