The Musings of I.M. Kane

Dems Prevent Gore Humiliation

 

House Democrats prevented Algore from being humiliated by refusing to allow Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to testify alongside the former Clinton toady at a high-profile global warming hearing held Friday April 24 in Washington.

 

The neo-inquisitors on the committee were fearful of allowing Gore’s pseudo-science to undergo serious scrutiny for fear Monckton would expose the imbalanced pantheist for the fraud that he is.  

 

At the Republicans’ request, Newt Gingrich appeared in Monckton’s stead to deliver a few significant blows to the committee’s Grand Inquisitor Waxman before proceeding to identify Gore’s gross inaccuracies and flat-out falsities. 

 

R.G. Ingersoll wrote, “Science built the Academy, superstition the inquisition.”

 

For additional information, see the piece by Marc Marano on the Dems’ rescinded invitation to Monckton at http://www.climatedepot.com/a/429/Report-Democrats-Refuse-to-Allow-Skeptic-to-Testify-Alongside-Gore-At-Congressional-Hearing and the Newsbusters link at http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/04/03/global-warming-debate-morano-vs-climateprogresss-romm for a debate between Morano and Climate Progress’s Joe Romm on the myth of global warming. 

 

Also, see the two five-minute videos of Gingrich before the tribunal at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44fPSn7VxKs (Gingrich and Rep Waxman (D) on Global Warming) and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7VUg7nG3lw&feature=related (Gingrich Contests Gore’s Claims) and the two-minute Breitbart video at http://www.breitbart.tv/html/325633.html of Rep. John Dingell (D-Michigan) conceding that few people realize that cap-and-trade is a great big tax.

 

I.M. Kane

 

The FBI Spied on the Tea Parties

 

Put this one in your pipe and smoke it:  “The FBI Spied on the Tea Parties” http://frontpage.americandaughter.com/?p=2275, http://homelandsecurityus.com/?p=2659 and http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/10371.

 

Brother O has unleashed his dog and pony show in the country’s neighborhoods and ordinary grassroots Americans are the stars.  America’s fascist leader wants to know all those who disagree with the progressive vision, so when its time, the government will help them stay healthy and get their minds right.

 

Nancy Matthis at the American Daughters’ Media Center writes, “A covert operation to videotape participants at all of last week’s tea parties from clandestine fixed or mobile locations was conducted by our own Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). On March 23 the FBI issued a single-page confidential directive to each of its 56 field offices mandating data collection about the organizers for each local event, and confirmation of the times and places of for every one of the events. A second directive, issued on April 6, instructed the Special Agents in Charge (SACs) of each field office ‘to coordinate and conduct, either at the field office level and/or with the appropriate resident agency, covert video surveillance and data collection of the participants of the TEA parties. Surveillance was to be performed from ‘discreet fixed or mobile positions’ and was to be performed ‘independently and outside of the purview of local law enforcement.’”

 

Matthis then quotes the FBI agent who leaked the information to the Canada Free Press saying, “The Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Assessment that is receiving so much attention is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, and the true patriotic citizens of this country are on the Titanic. This is what bothers me. But is goes far beyond that assessment. There have been very significant changes made over the last few years that redirect the focus and assets of the intelligence community internally. These changes have greatly accelerated under this administration, and the threats have been redefined to include those who used to be patriots. It’s not only chilling but absolutely insulting to God-fearing Americans.”

 

This could explain the recent interest in legalizing drugs, i.e., to make room in America’s prisons for the purveyors of intolerance, hatred, and dissent.

 

I.M. Kane

 

Homosexual Activist Desecrates Bible

The 1:47 video at http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2009/04/19/gay-activist-desecrates-bible-where-is-the-media/ shows a homosexual activist desecrating a Bible.  Although homosexuality is traditionally deemed forbidden by Islamic law, and the Koran explicitly condemns it, what are the odds that this “courageous” fellow would do likewise to the pages of a Koran then dismissively toss it at a group of Muslim bystanders? Herein lies the distinction between Christianity and Islam.  He despises the one because he can and reveres the other because he must.  

 

Remember the selective outrage of the homosexual activists who were agog at Mormons, Catholics, and Protestants after the November election for having voted to approve Proposition 8 and ban same-sex marriage?  Homosexual zealots threatened violence and retribution. “Burn their f—ing churches to the ground”; “I’m going to give them something to be f—ing scared of. … I’m a radical who is now on a mission to make them all pay for what they’ve done”; I’m angry … and really am ready to take my frustration out on someone or something.”  They wanted vengeance against religious fundamentalists, but only those belonging to Christian-based sects.  Their zealous outrage seems to have petered out when it came to issuing direct threats of violence against Muslims or the vandalizing of mosques.   

 

Democracy don’t rule the world

You’d better get that in your head

This world is ruled by violence

But I guess that’s better left unsaid

 

I.M. Kane

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Where’s the Outrage for the Cybersecurity Act?

By Jerry A. Kane

Our government will control everything on the Internet, under the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, introduced by Senators John Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe. If enacted, this “big brother” law would allow government scrutiny over everything posted to the Internet, while granting the White House “unprecedented control over computer software and Internet services” and powers “to access private online data, regulate the cyber security industry and even shut down Internet traffic.”

Under the guise of safety, the bill would grant a White House appointed cybersecurity “czar” unprecedented authority to shut down private domestic networks or limit Internet traffic in a “critical” information network during a cybersecurity emergency. What distinguishes a critical information network or constitutes a cybersecurity emergency would be determined by the president. The act would also impart authority to the Commerce Department to track cybersecurity threats and override any existing laws, regulations, rules, or policies restricting access to security data from private networks.

The bill would not only make the president more powerful, but it would also allow the Secretary of Commerce access to all information on a network, which could make the network less safe and more vulnerable to intruders or terrorists. Yet the senators remain resolute to remedy their perceived crisis. Rockefeller insists on protecting “critical infrastructure at all costs” and Snowe demands swift action to avoid “a cyber-Katrina.” Their rhetoric of a looming crisis matches the fearmongering manufactured for the bailout and stimulus bills, given that the bills required drastic intervention and immediate action with little or no consideration for a downside or potential harm.

The proposed legislation “would empower the government to set and enforce security standards for private industry for the first time.” The president could use the authority granted in the proposed law to suspend the effective use of the Internet to circulate information or coordinate activities outside mainstream media outlets or government-approved channels. Such a law could lead to a network police force that would levy fines and shut down private Web sites that government officials determine inappropriate or offensive. The act could also open the door for more Internet censorship legislation, and follow the path taken by Australia and China.

In November, more than half of America’s electorate handed Barack Obama and the progressives carte blanche power to rule over the lives of all Americans, and now they are using that power by attempting to manage and control the flow of information through the only remaining medium capable of resuscitating personal freedom and individual liberty. The Americans who voted for the progressives have put the lives of all Americans in the steely grip of Leviathan, and no Chicago Tea Party, 9-12 Project, or surge in talk radio listeners will prevent the government from wielding its power.

Once again, a host Republican has engaged in parasitism to sacrifice her party for a perceived symbiotic relationship that in fact benefits only the Democrat Party. Snowe and her progressive colleagues in the Republican Party have transformed the party into a sacrificial organism to nourish and support extreme socialist objectives. And the corporate magpies on TV and talk radio seem to be too preoccupied with hawking books, espousing inane, meaningless platitudes, bathing in laudatory praises from fawning sycophants, and acting magnanimous in damning both political parties, to make their listeners aware of this transformation.

Ronald Reagan, Henry David Thoreau, and Thomas Paine understood that a government works best only when it governs least, and that big government inevitably increases servitude, restrains liberty, and destroys freedom. While the Republican Party languishes, the approaching tyranny is poised to lead humanity headlong into what will become a deeply bloodstained century. Yet, there is no outcry from the fourth estate, which was traditionally the guardian of liberty, in opposition to the introduction of the Cybersecurity Law.

Will the media raise its collective voice against this new Orwellian power play as it did when the progressives touted the new Fairness Doctrine and advocated enforced localism? Not likely, because progressives’ outrage reaches a resounding crescendo only when the buttering of their bread is involved.

Open Congress, a project of the Sunlight Foundation, has posted the full text of this bill here. On their website, you can comment on this legislation by line item. You can fight this impending police state control by writing, faxing, emailing, and calling your Senators. Tell them to oppose S.773, the Cybersecurity Act of 2009.

 

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The Fault of Underlings

By Jerry A. Kane

 

We can now add the son of the late William F. Buckley (WFB), Christopher Buckley, to the growing list of Me-too Republicans who have denounced John McCain and disparaged Sarah Palin. Buckley, political satirist and novelist, opted to forgo the back page of National Review and make his mark through cyberspace, releasing his column “Sorry Dad, I’m Voting for Obama” on the Daily Beast (how delightfully apropos). 

 

It was only back in February that the conservative bon vivant was “taking Rush Limbaugh and the others in the Right Wing Sanhedrin to task for going after McCain for being insufficiently conservative.” In a “highly favorable Op-Ed” in The New York Times, Buckley writes, “the sum of Mr. McCain seems (to me, anyway) far greater than the parts…. And who among ‘us’ … would not sleep soundly knowing that the war hero was on the job calculating how to dispatch more Islamic fanatics to their rendezvous with 72 virgins.” Alas! “But that was—sigh—then.” Frailty, thy name is Buckley! 

 

Buckley’s Jeffords-moment of clarity, from “God, this guy should be president someday” to “graffiti on a marble bust” tragedy, came during his “genuinely saddening” realization that the McCain campaign had changed the noble McCain:  he became “inauthentic,” “irascible, and snarly”; his promises became “unrealistic”; his attack ads became “mean-spirited and pointless”; and his “positions changed” and “lacked coherence.” Conversely, the glib, urbane son of a stalwart conservative praised Obama as the “rara avis [rare person] … politician who writes his own books.” Buckley readily admits that Obama is a “lefty” (possible baseball jargon) but his prescience exceeds labels, given that he can see Obama’s potential as a “great leader,” the one who is “what the historical moment seems to be calling for.”

 

Despite that “Obama’s record is far more left than McCain’s is far right,” and that Obama has been “the most partisan in the Senate, McCain one of the most bipartisan,” or that an Obama presidency would mean open borders, “higher taxes, larger government, more entitlements, more of a UN-centered foreign policy, dialogue with an Iran, less coal, oil, and nuclear energy production at home,” and more living Constitution activists on the Supreme Court, the self-proclaimed “conservative/libertarian/whatever” offers little more than “airy-fairy” rhetoric to justify his “leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon.” 

 

Buckley’s defense is mere pretext. His the-noble-McCain-has-changed argument lacks substance and is anything but persuasive. Yet his reason for “pulling the Democratic lever in November” is “bleeding obvious”; namely, that Sarah Palin is an embarrassment, and a dangerous one at that.”  Methinks a balmy zephyr has left behind a “foul whiff of aristocratic disdain.”

 

Herein lies the bloody truth behind the snide and sneering comments from the silver spoon-fed member of the life-of-the-mind crowd. To this Abbey School sophisticate, Palin is just another ordinary, stupid, upstart commoner, lacking the charm and social refinements of a “first-class” “Harvard man.” Palin belongs to the class of “discontented … rabble” as expressed by Henry F. Potter, the cantankerous, snobby old businessman character from It’s a Wonderful Life. Yet, Buckley would do well to remember that the rabble he’s talking about does most of the working and paying and living and dying in this country. WFB knew that about Reagan conservatives and understood that they were human beings, not “kooks.” As far as I’m concerned, “pup” was a man of high ideals who died a much richer and wiser man than his son will ever be.

 

Buckley said he tried to soften the blow of his Obama endorsement by not publishing it in the National Review, but location wasn’t the problem for the irate readers who e-mailed the magazine with threats of cancellations; therefore, Buckley offered his resignation, and it was readily accepted.  Now that all is said and done, Buckley seems a bit thunderstruck with both the outrage and its subsequent consequences. After all, didn’t WFB endorse a few Democrats in the past, and was he not “quite tolerant of the surprising point of view” not wanting NR writers to be “in intellectual lockstep”? In what has to be a Dixie-Chick moment, the baffled Buckley said, “It’s an odd situation, when the founder’s son has suddenly become the turd in the punch bowl.”

 

Buckley refuses to accept that along with the wealth, social contacts, and membership into the privileged class, he has also inherited the personal responsibility that goes along with sporting the last name, Buckley. At such a crucial moment in our nation, when the mainstream media (MSM) churn out blatant propaganda for the Democratic Party in general and for Obama in particular, and the Republican Party tries desperately to keep the Democrats from gaining super majorities in Congress and absolute power over the Republic, all that seems to matter to the self-absorbed Buckley is that he has been slighted, and the world should know it. 

 

Buckley’s pretentious manner and feckless thinking calls to mind the late Louis Nye, whose best-remembered character, Sonny Drysdale, is the spoiled, sissified, ne’er-do-well son of the Drysdales from the 1960s sicom the Beverly Hillbillies. Sonny D. is a smug, arrogant, overbearing, blue-blooded mama’s boy, who treats those whom he considers his intellectual and social inferiors with haughty disdain, and never tires of basking in the rays of his imagined self-importance.

 

Unfortunately, Buckley is not the lone elitist political talking-head, pundit, or commentator who belittles Sarah Palin in the minds of voters in saying that she’s out of her league, unfit to assume the presidency, and a huge mistake.  The Beltway smart-set, who literally cannot separate good from evil, right from wrong, or better from worse, include George Will, Charles Krauthammer, David Brooks, David Gergen, Ed Rollins, David Frum, Peggy Noonan, and Kathleen Parker. During an interview David Brooks compared Palin’s anti-intellectualism to President Bush’s and said that the Governor “represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party.” Brooks went on to describe John McCain and Barack Obama as “the two best candidates we’ve had in a long time.” 

 

On the one hand, this group of elitist snobs knows that Palin is the campaign’s tough, sassy, anti-elite, maverick who stands outside the Beltway establishment poised to attack the New York–Washington media elite, the liberal elite, and the Anglo-American elite who don’t believe in getting their hands dirty with work; yet, these prominent Republican “conservatives” continue to use such reproachful rhetoric in attacking their own party’s ticket while it is engaged in a political battle for the presidency, the Congress, and its very existence. 

 

On the other hand, they persist in their agreement with the head of the Democratic Party’s ticket, heaping praise upon the man who, when trying to explain Pennsylvania’s blue-collar working class culture to San Francisco’s upper class culture, said, “each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” 

 

Again, the answer is as bloody obvious as the “leadership class” they constitute.  They are the members of an Eastern establishment elite class who think that everyone outside their circle of desirable social contacts is stupid and should defer to their judgment because they are the entitled, privileged class whose breeding and wealth have determined they deserve to run things.

 

Buckley’s judgment for supporting Obama may be problematic, but it’s consistent with his self-perception. Parker, Brooks, Will and the rest of the New York/DC Beltway elite have far more cultural connections to Barack Obama than they do to Sarah Palin or blue-collar America whom they ridicule for being intellectually and socially inferior.

 

Should the Republicans lose in November, the fault will not lie so much with McCain/Palin or even with the Republican elite, as it will with “ourselves, that we are underlings.” 

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Where’s the Outrage for the Cybersecurity Act?

By Jerry A. Kane

Our government will control everything on the Internet, under the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, introduced by Senators John Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe. If enacted, this “big brother” law would allow government scrutiny over everything posted to the Internet, while granting the White House “unprecedented control over computer software and Internet services” and powers “to access private online data, regulate the cyber security industry and even shut down Internet traffic.”

Under the guise of safety, the bill would grant a White House appointed cybersecurity “czar” unprecedented authority to shut down private domestic networks or limit Internet traffic in a “critical” information network during a cybersecurity emergency. What distinguishes a critical information network or constitutes a cybersecurity emergency would be determined by the president. The act would also impart authority to the Commerce Department to track cybersecurity threats and override any existing laws, regulations, rules, or policies restricting access to security data from private networks.

The bill would not only make the president more powerful, but it would also allow the Secretary of Commerce access to all information on a network, which could make the network less safe and more vulnerable to intruders or terrorists. Yet the senators remain resolute to remedy their perceived crisis. Rockefeller insists on protecting “critical infrastructure at all costs” and Snowe demands swift action to avoid “a cyber-Katrina.” Their rhetoric of a looming crisis matches the fearmongering manufactured for the bailout and stimulus bills, given that the bills required drastic intervention and immediate action with little or no consideration for a downside or potential harm.

The proposed legislation “would empower the government to set and enforce security standards for private industry for the first time.” The president could use the authority granted in the proposed law to suspend the effective use of the Internet to circulate information or coordinate activities outside mainstream media outlets or government-approved channels. Such a law could lead to a network police force that would levy fines and shut down private Web sites that government officials determine inappropriate or offensive. The act could also open the door for more Internet censorship legislation, and follow the path taken by Australia and China.

In November, more than half of America’s electorate handed Barack Obama and the progressives carte blanche power to rule over the lives of all Americans, and now they are using that power by attempting to manage and control the flow of information through the only remaining medium capable of resuscitating personal freedom and individual liberty. The Americans who voted for the progressives have put the lives of all Americans in the steely grip of Leviathan, and no Chicago Tea Party, 9-12 Project, or surge in talk radio listeners will prevent the government from wielding its power.

Once again, a host Republican has engaged in parasitism to sacrifice her party for a perceived symbiotic relationship that in fact benefits only the Democrat Party. Snowe and her progressive colleagues in the Republican Party have transformed the party into a sacrificial organism to nourish and support extreme socialist objectives. And the corporate magpies on TV and talk radio seem to be too preoccupied with hawking books, espousing inane, meaningless platitudes, bathing in laudatory praises from fawning sycophants, and acting magnanimous in damning both political parties, to make their listeners aware of this transformation.

Ronald Reagan, Henry David Thoreau, and Thomas Paine understood that a government works best only when it governs least, and that big government inevitably increases servitude, restrains liberty, and destroys freedom. While the Republican Party languishes, the approaching tyranny is poised to lead humanity headlong into what will become a deeply bloodstained century. Yet, there is no outcry from the fourth estate, which was traditionally the guardian of liberty, in opposition to the introduction of the Cybersecurity Law.

Will the media raise its collective voice against this new Orwellian power play as it did when the progressives touted the new Fairness Doctrine and advocated enforced localism? Not likely, because progressives’ outrage reaches a resounding crescendo only when the buttering of their bread is involved.

Open Congress, a project of the Sunlight Foundation, has posted the full text of this bill here. On their website, you can comment on this legislation by line item. You can fight this impending police state control by writing, faxing, emailing, and calling your Senators. Tell them to oppose S.773, the Cybersecurity Act of 2009.

 

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Once-Spun Yarns and Twice-Told Tales

Where’s the Outrage for the Cybersecurity Act?

Jerry A. Kane

 

Bend your ears boys and girls for another of Baron von Münch-Kane’s once-spun yarns and twice-told tales.  

 

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen when the cyber winds howled forebodingly at the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 introduced by Senators John Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe.  The senators’ Big Brother law would allow government scrutiny over everything posted to the Internet, while granting the White House “unprecedented control over computer software and Internet services” and powers “to access private online data, regulate the cyber security industry and even shut down Internet traffic.”

 

Under the guise of safety, the bill would grant a White House appointed cybersecurity “czar” unprecedented authority to shut down private domestic networks or limit Internet traffic in a “critical” information network during a cybersecurity emergency. What distinguishes a critical information network or constitutes a cybersecurity emergency would be determined by the president.  The act would also impart authority to the Commerce Department to track cybersecurity threats and override any existing laws, regulations, rules, or policies restricting access to security data from private networks.

 

The bill would not only make the president more powerful, but it would also allow the Secretary of Commerce access to all information on a network, which could make the network less safe and more vulnerable to intruders or terrorists.  Yet the senators remain resolute to remedy their perceived crisis. Rockefeller insists on protecting critical infrastructure at all costs” and Snowe demands swift action to avoid “a cyber-Katrina.”  Their rhetoric of a looming crisis matches the rhetoric manufactured for the bailout and stimulus bills, given that the bills required drastic intervention and immediate action with little or no consideration for a downside or potential harm.

 

The proposed Big Brother law “would empower the government to set and enforce security standards for private industry for the first time.” The president could use the authority granted in the proposed law to suspend the effective use of the Internet to circulate information or coordinate activities outside mainstream media outlets or government-approved channels.  Such a law could lead to a network police force that would levy fines and shut down private Web sites that government officials determine inappropriate or offensive. The act could also open the door for more Internet censorship legislation, and follow the path taken by Australia and China.

 

In November, more than half of America’s electorate handed Barack Obama and the progressives carte blanche power to rule over the lives of all Americans, and now they are using that power by attempting to manage and control the flow of information through the only remaining medium capable of resuscitating personal freedom and individual liberty.  The Americans who voted for the progressives have put the lives of all Americans in the steely grip of Leviathan, and no Chicago Tea Party, 9-12 Project, or surge in talk radio listeners will prevent the government from wielding its power.

 

Once again, a host Republican has engaged in parasitism to sacrifice her party for a symbiotic relationship that benefits only the Democrat Party and its progressive Leviathan.  Snowe and her progressive colleagues in the Republican Party have transformed the party into a sacrificial organism to nourish and support Leviathan?  And the corporate magpies on TV and talk radio seem to be too preoccupied with hawking books, espousing inane, meaningless platitudes, bathing in laudatory praises from fawning sycophants, and acting magnanimous in damning both political parties, to make their listeners aware of this transformation.

 

Ronald Reagan, Henry David Thoreau, and Thomas Paine understood that a government works best only when it governs least, and that big government inevitably increases servitude, restrains liberty, and destroys freedom. While the Republican Party languishes, the approaching tyranny is poised to lead humanity headlong into what will become a deeply bloodstained century.  Yet, the outcry from the magpies in opposition to the introduction of the Cybersecurity Law is rather subdued. 

 

Will the corporate chorus of media magpies raise its voice against this new Big Brother law as it did when the progressives touted the new Fairness Doctrine and advocated enforced localism?  It’s likely boys and girls that the magpies’ outrage reaches a resounding crescendo only when the buttering of their bread is involved. 

 

 

 

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Republican Factions Must Unite to Stop the Coming Tyranny

By Jerry A. Kane

 

The representatives of the Second Continental Congress were divided over many issues and spent an inordinate amount of time feuding, but they knew their colonies must unite to prevent the establishment of absolute tyranny over them.  They had the common sense to heed Benjamin Franklin’s warning, “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” The  “unite, or die,” slogan, adapted from Franklin’s 1754 join, or die, political cartoon, became the rallying cry for independence for those patriots concerned about their colonies’ security and future.  Franklin’s cartoon of a snake cut into pieces, with each piece representing a colony, illustrated his warning that the colonies would die if they remained divided. 

 

Today, the Republican Party lingers in disunity, while leftists single-mindedly rejoice for the birth of Leviathan (the totalitarian nanny state) to come round at last.  Like their colonial counterparts, Republican representatives must also unify and declare their independence from the left’s nanny state and the establishment of its absolute tyranny over them.  As their colonial counterparts broke away from the treasonous Tories loyal to the tyrannous monarchy, Republicans must break clean from the progressives in their ranks loyal to the encroaching Leviathan, for the history of progressivism is replete with injuries and usurpations to facilitate the absolute tyranny of this slouching, pitiless beast over freedom loving, liberty minded individuals. 

 

The treasonous element within the party has allowed the progressives to render Republican lawmakers powerless to stop the largest expansion of government authority and control over the private sector and the lives of individuals in the history of this country.  Some Republican pundits and politicians became so troubled by Leviathan’s image out of the Spiritus Mundi (spirit of the world) that they have hoisted the white flag and pronounced fiscal conservatives and the  “free market … dead in America.”  To wit, the current state of the party is “The best lack all conviction, while [t]he worst are full of passionate intensity.”   

 

The self-same American spirit that once beckoned the representatives of the Second Continental Congress to declare their independence from the tyranny of the world’s most powerful empire, now summons Republican lawmakers to pledge their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to stop the progressives from establishing a Leviathan nanny state.  That very spirit, which once stirred the imaginations of colonists to embark upon man’s greatest experiment for self-government and individual freedom, again moves across this nation calling on the party’s Fiscal Conservative, Social Conservative, Paleoconservative, National Security Conservative, Federalist, Libertarian, Theoconservative, and Moderate factions to set aside feuds and disagreements on their interests long enough to unify and drive out the treasonous progressive element and take up the fight for freedom and independence against their common enemy, the progressives’ nanny state beast.

 

No other established political party or newly formed third party movement can drive Leviathan from America’s shores.  The Democrat Party has been taken over by the progressives, and their cadre of super-rich donors has been building local, state, and national organizations to ensure the long-term success of progressive politics in the 21^st century.  For 20 years, progressive activists  have established think tanks, leadership schools, and candidate training centers and channeled hundreds of millions of dollars through organizations such as, the Democracy Alliance, Media Matters, Democracia USA, and Netroots to “to elect Democrats up and down the ballot in every state.”   

 

The Framers of the Constitution provided separation of powers, checks and balances, and the Electoral College to deter the formation of parties and did not foresee the domination of a two-party system in their government. Nevertheless, America’s political landscape for the last 140 years has been dominated by the Republican and Democrat parties, which indicates that the chances for the Libertarian, Constitution, and Reform parties, or any other party or movement to break the current stranglehold the Democrat Party has on the three branches of government is slim to none. 

 

The progressives’ election strategy embodies the Stalinist notion that “The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” Only a grassroots Reagan coalition takeover of the Republican Party can stop the progressives’ 2010 strategy to shape the future of U.S. elections and undermine the electoral process through the Secretary of State Project and their plan to manipulate the decennial census redistricting process by expanding and redrawing the Electoral College map.

 

Acts of futility such as the Tea Bag Revolution and the 9-12 Project will beget a Sisyphus Effect, i.e., discouragement and a feeling of helplessness at the inability to change things.  Talk radio celebrities and pundit personalities pushing such folly have opened greater fissures in the Republican Party and are keeping its members at odds with one another, unable to fight the rising Leviathan.  The sheer brilliance of their travesty is truly diabolical.

 

Under the guise of non-partisanship and fair-mindedness, Bill O’Reilly, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, and others regularly denounce both parties as blameworthy and equally at fault.  These self-righteous, self-important corporate media clowns kick the Republican Party under the same bus with the Democrat Party and glibly pronounce a pox on both houses.  Their sin ignores both the progressive take-over of the Democrat Party and the stalwart Republicans who hold to their principles and fight the spineless leadership and treasonous progressives in their own party.  

 

Many in the purportedly right-leaning media have painted the Republican Party with the same broad brush as the Democrat Party, and their diabolical stroke has left the Republican Party in shambles but has strengthened and emboldened the Democrat Party.  Such broad-brushing of politicians has helped to loose the progressive hordes on America.  Only a Reagan-like epiphany — to wake up one day and realize that they have been going out and helping to elect the people who have been causing the things they have been criticizing — will shake these media clowns from their current self-assured, self-righteous state.

 

“The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,” and the window of opportunity to halt America’s slide to serfdom will slam shut after the 2010 election.  Republicans can either wait for an epiphany among corporate media’s bloviating heads and pundits, or believe as Reagan did and act on Thomas Paine’s words, “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”

 

 

 

 

 

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Republican Factions Must Unite to Stop the Coming Tyranny

By Jerry A. Kane

 

The representatives of the Second Continental Congress were divided over many issues and spent an inordinate amount of time feuding, but they knew their colonies must unite to prevent the establishment of absolute tyranny over them.  They had the common sense to heed Benjamin Franklin’s warning, “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” The  “unite, or die,” slogan, adapted from Franklin’s 1754 join, or die, political cartoon, became the rallying cry for independence for those patriots concerned about their colonies’ security and future.  Franklin’s cartoon of a snake cut into pieces, with each piece representing a colony, illustrated his warning that the colonies would die if they remained divided. 

 

Today, the Republican Party lingers in disunity, while leftists single-mindedly rejoice for the birth of Leviathan (the totalitarian nanny state) to come round at last.  Like their colonial counterparts, Republican representatives must also unify and declare their independence from the left’s nanny state and the establishment of its absolute tyranny over them.  As their colonial counterparts broke away from the treasonous Tories loyal to the tyrannous monarchy, Republicans must break clean from the progressives in their ranks loyal to the encroaching Leviathan, for the history of progressivism is replete with injuries and usurpations to facilitate the absolute tyranny of this slouching, pitiless beast over freedom loving, liberty minded individuals. 

 

The treasonous element within the party has allowed the progressives to render Republican lawmakers powerless to stop the largest expansion of government authority and control over the private sector and the lives of individuals in the history of this country.  Some Republican pundits and politicians became so troubled by Leviathan’s image out of the Spiritus Mundi (spirit of the world) that they have hoisted the white flag and pronounced fiscal conservatives and the  “free market … dead in America.”  To wit, the current state of the party is “The best lack all conviction, while [t]he worst are full of passionate intensity.”   

 

The self-same American spirit that once beckoned the representatives of the Second Continental Congress to declare their independence from the tyranny of the world’s most powerful empire, now summons Republican lawmakers to pledge their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to stop the progressives from establishing a Leviathan nanny state.  That very spirit, which once stirred the imaginations of colonists to embark upon man’s greatest experiment for self-government and individual freedom, again moves across this nation calling on the party’s Fiscal Conservative, Social Conservative, Paleoconservative, National Security Conservative, Federalist, Libertarian, Theoconservative, and Moderate factions to set aside feuds and disagreements on their interests long enough to unify and drive out the treasonous progressive element and take up the fight for freedom and independence against their common enemy, the progressives’ nanny state beast.

 

No other established political party or newly formed third party movement can drive Leviathan from America’s shores.  The Democrat Party has been taken over by the progressives, and their cadre of super-rich donors has been building local, state, and national organizations to ensure the long-term success of progressive politics in the 21^st century.  For 20 years, progressive activists  have established think tanks, leadership schools, and candidate training centers and channeled hundreds of millions of dollars through organizations such as, the Democracy Alliance, Media Matters, Democracia USA, and Netroots to “to elect Democrats up and down the ballot in every state.”   

 

The Framers of the Constitution provided separation of powers, checks and balances, and the Electoral College to deter the formation of parties and did not foresee the domination of a two-party system in their government. Nevertheless, America’s political landscape for the last 140 years has been dominated by the Republican and Democrat parties, which indicates that the chances for the Libertarian, Constitution, and Reform parties, or any other party or movement to break the current stranglehold the Democrat Party has on the three branches of government is slim to none. 

 

The progressives’ election strategy embodies the Stalinist notion that “The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” Only a grassroots Reagan coalition takeover of the Republican Party can stop the progressives’ 2010 strategy to shape the future of U.S. elections and undermine the electoral process through the Secretary of State Project and their plan to manipulate the decennial census redistricting process by expanding and redrawing the Electoral College map.

 

Acts of futility such as the Tea Bag Revolution and the 9-12 Project will beget a Sisyphus Effect, i.e., discouragement and a feeling of helplessness at the inability to change things.  Talk radio celebrities and pundit personalities pushing such folly have opened greater fissures in the Republican Party and are keeping its members at odds with one another, unable to fight the rising Leviathan.  The sheer brilliance of their travesty is truly diabolical.

 

Under the guise of non-partisanship and fair-mindedness, Bill O’Reilly, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, and others regularly denounce both parties as blameworthy and equally at fault.  These self-righteous, self-important corporate media clowns kick the Republican Party under the same bus with the Democrat Party and glibly pronounce a pox on both houses.  Their sin ignores both the progressive take-over of the Democrat Party and the stalwart Republicans who hold to their principles and fight the spineless leadership and treasonous progressives in their own party.  

 

Many in the purportedly right-leaning media have painted the Republican Party with the same broad brush as the Democrat Party, and their diabolical stroke has left the Republican Party in shambles but has strengthened and emboldened the Democrat Party.  Such broad-brushing of politicians has helped to loose the progressive hordes on America.  Only a Reagan-like epiphany — to wake up one day and realize that they have been going out and helping to elect the people who have been causing the things they have been criticizing — will shake these media clowns from their current self-assured, self-righteous state.

 

“The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,” and the window of opportunity to halt America’s slide to serfdom will slam shut after the 2010 election.  Republicans can either wait for an epiphany among corporate media’s bloviating heads and pundits, or believe as Reagan did and act on Thomas Paine’s words, “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”

 

 

 

 

 

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The Diary of I.M. Kane

Often we need to be reminded that our actions have consequences.  Although the following form letter from a CEO is fictional, it would undoubtedly be a fitting irony if it weren’t:

 

Letter from the CEO

 

As the CEO of this organization, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama is our President and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way. To compensate for these increases, our projections indicate our prices would have to increase by about 10 percent.

 

But since the dismal state of the economy prevents us from increasing our prices right now, we have no choice but to lay off six of our employees instead. Selecting the employees to layoff has really been bothering me since I believe we are family here, and I didn’t know how to choose who would have to go.

 

So, this is what I did. I walked through our parking lot and found six ‘Obama’ bumper stickers on our employees’ cars and have decided these folks will be the ones we let go. I can’t think of a more equitable way to resolve this problem. They voted for change, and I gave it to them.

 

I hope to see the rest of you at the annual company picnic.

 

 

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