Hail Caeser! by DonkeyHotey (CC)

Here is what went down involving my friend. While he was bored one evening he started looking for pride groups on Facebook.com. He quickly noticed there were no groups for white pride, so he decided to start one. He named the group, “White Pride World Wide” and the first picture for the group he used had the same words. As he wrote the description of the group he made it very clear in the beginning that the group was not about racism but instead a place for proud whites to go. Within a few hours he changed to a new group picture to one that read, “Pride Not Hate.” Seems to me that he was attempting to make it known to everyone the group page was not a racist page. He talked on there about putting together a White Pride Day and even told a few people that if the event would happen he would ask everyone to wear white shirts. My friend formed the group on a Sunday night and on Tuesday morning is when the drama began. My friend attempted to log on to his Facebook account and he received a message saying his account had been disabled. Right away he knew why, all because he was proud. He set to work writing a nice and polite email to Facebook that explained his reasoning behind starting the page and also pointing out that there are many other pride groups on Facebook. In the meantime he had talked to a few friends including myself and explained what had happen and what steps he had taken so far. Then the slap to the face came, about 45 minutes after sending the email to Facebook, my friend received a text message from another friend telling him that his account on Facebook had been completely deleted. My friends existence came to a complete end in a blink of an eye, he no longer existed in the Facebook world. He received no warning, POOF! He was gone. My friend was mad of course over the whole issue but he had his laughs about it too. Some of his other friends later that day formed a bring George back to Facebook page. Well, no thanks to Facebook but George is back and he is trying to be good, for how long nobody knows.

This whole incident of course interested me. In the past I have written on the whole racism against white people. Depending who you ask you will get different answers as to does racism against white exist or is their discrimination against white people. While I for one believe there is discrimination and racism towards white people and this event involving my friend is just more proof. Like me, he too is a white male, he loves his country but doesn’t trust his government, he believes there are useless waste of life in every group of people no matter what their color is, he is proud of his German and Irish ancestry, and he is proud of being white. We always hear of famous Black Americans but when was the last time someone referred to George Washington, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, as famous White Americans? That’s right, you can’t. What did you learn in the public schools during white history month? Nothing, it does not exist, but every February we have black history month. So, with my friends issue still fresh in my mind I set out to do some research. I went onto our favorite social networking site, www.facebook.com and I began searching. My first search was for white pride, my search results 0. My next search was for black pride and the results returned over 50 groups. Search number 3 was for Latino Pride and no surprise it returned over 30 groups. Search number 4 yielded the largest number of returns over 100 and that was gay pride. Additional searches also showed smaller numbers of groups for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Pride. So Facebook is telling everyone that’s it is okay to have pride if you are anything but white. But wait wasn’t Facebook founded by a bunch of white guys? Well, thank you for asking that question. The answer is yes, it was founded by white guys. Today, Facebook stock is broken up to many different collectors. The largest stakeholder for Facebook is it employees, collecting 30%. I can’t tell you who makes up the employees of Facebook but I sure its safe to say a large mix of people from all backgrounds. Then comes Co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg who alone collects 24% of Facebook’s income. Co-founder Dustin Moskovitz collects 6%, Co-founder Eduardo Saverin collects 5%, Napster’s Sean Parker, Founding President of Facebook: collects 4%, Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment firm collects 10%, Goldman Sachs collects 0.8%, Goldman Sachs’ clients collects 3%, Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm collects 1.5%, Meritech Capital Partners collects 1.5%, Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder and Clarium Capital president collects 3%, Elevation Partners (that’s U2′s Bono among others) collects1.5%, and a few other investors collect a combined 9.7%. Since Mark Zuckerberg is the top man for Facebook and the top money maker, lets pick on him.

It is not know for sure whether Mark is Liberal or Conservative but we can look at some facts and you the reader can decide. I asked the question, is Mark Zuckerberg a Democrat or a Republican to the website www.answers.com and this is the answer I received. “The answer previous to mine that stated that Mark Zuckerberg is a republican is factually inaccurate, Mark Zuckerberg has stated himself that he is neither a Republican or Democrat, however he is from a Jewish family and is an atheist, both tend to lean to the left. He also graduated from Phillips-Exeter Academy, the finest high school in the country, and the same as two of Americans greatest Authors John Irving and Gore Vidal (both very liberal). He in addition attended Harvard (extremely liberal) and is seemingly anti-censorship, and very charitable. Through reasonable assumption I would guess he would be very liberal and unfaithful to either political party.” Well, that spells it out pretty good, I would have to agree, with that background I would say he leans to the left side of the fence. If it is true that he leans to the left side I think it would be safe to say this is the reasoning my friend got the boot from Facebook. My friend like me tends to lean more to the right. He calls a spade a spade and like me if he hurts someones feelings well it has been said that the truth hurts.

I want to make it clear, I am not supporting any type of racism. I too am a proud white male and I voice my opinion on any subject brought to my attention. Like many Americans we are proud of where we came from. I am proud that members of my family have served in every war since and including the Revolutionary War. When the southern states decided they no longer wanted to be controlled by a government of the North because they believed in states rights, my family proudly fought for the South. My family didn’t own slaves, they were farmers that worked their own land. They fought for the South not to preserve slavery but to preserve their own rights and their own property. One of the core Freedoms of being an American is our Freedom of Speech. However, this freedom has been limited and at times silenced by many politicians. Freedom of Speech only exist if you are in favor of liberal beliefs, when you speak against them they try to silence you. By making a White Pride group he was not being disrespectful to any other people, he was not threatening or bullying other people. He was simply showing his pride. Meanwhile, there are black pride groups on Facebook that use the clenched black fist that is recognized as black power symbol and is also associated with the Black Panthers. How can these groups exist? Facebook claims it does not take political sides. I disagree, how can you say you don’t take political sides when you allow symbols of black power and the racist corrupt organization symbol of the Black Panthers to continuously be used? If you are going to claim to be equal then be equal to everyone. If one single group can not have a pride group then nobody should be allowed to have a pride group. Pride and prejudice are two different things. Unless you are a white person then there is no difference. Whites face racism just as much as any other group in America today. Who is to blame for this? White people are passed over for jobs because of the governments Affirmative Action that promotes quotes or percentages of minorities in areas. I don’t care the skin color of the person doing should matter to the job as long as that person is the highest qualified and hardest working person for that position. Thanks to Affirmative Action your qualifications for a job take a backseat to your skin color. While in other writings I have stated how I feel the Church is the most corrupt organized crime family in the world, the United States Government is one of the largest and most racist groups in the world. It is the government that continues to force the race card on people. It is because of laws such as Affirmative Action that cause racism. When others stand up and speak of pride it is allowed and good but when a white person speaks up he is called a racist. The only white people that can publicly have open pride are those that are gay. Gay pride is okay because you are now considered a minority group. I have no problems with the gays either, what you do in your bedroom is none of my business. It all comes back to pride. Maybe we as white people are not suppose to be proud. We are not suppose to be proud that our country’s founding fathers were white men, that a white man was the first to walk on the moon, and that white men created the first airplane? Are we not suppose to be proud of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first white female doctor in the United States, Sally Ride the first female in space, should we not be proud of Betsy Ross the woman that created the first American Flag? Of course not, none of these people are important to American History why should we as white Americans be proud of what these great white people did to help form this country.

As long as there are groups out there to help protect the none white Americans, as long as the government continues to force white discrimination laws such as Affirmative Action, as long as the media and social networking sites continue to allow others to show their pride and call whites racist by trying to show their pride then racism will never end. So many people preach that we must end racism in America, well you can’t end something that the media and the government are forcing on to its viewers and citizens. Racism doesn’t end with me or you, it doesn’t end with laws such as Affirmative Action. Racism will end when the media and the government stop promoting it. Until then, we as white American must continue to hold our heads high and not let anyone put us down for being who we are, proud white Americans. We must support one another in our pride because we are all that we have. Support my friend as he makes his return to Facebook. By supporting my friend George you are telling him we as white Americans support him and we will send a message to Facebook letting them know that their liberal beliefs and actions will not hold us down. Pride is not racism, pride is being happy with who you are and where you came from.

Who Owns Facebook?

Mark Zuckerberg a Democrat or a Republican?

Mark Zuckerberg Bio

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With the 10 year anniversary of that dark day in American history less then two months much media attention is turning towards current events involving 9/11. The media is talking about how some citizens have filed a lawsuit over the 9/11 WTC Memorial. Members of American Atheist have filed suit against the states of New Jersey and New York as well as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor Chris Christie. The lawsuit is over an I-beam cross that was once a part of the World Trade Center. The cross was discovered on September 13, 2001 as crews and first responders worked to locate survivors, recover bodies of those lost, and the clean up of Ground Zero. The cross quickly became a symbol of hope and comfort for Ground Zero, the workers, and many American people. The cross remained at Ground Zero until October 5, 2006. It was then removed from the World Trade Center site so that construction of the WTC Memorial and the new Freedom Tower could be built. It was said that the cross will be returned to its home at Ground Zero upon the completion of the Memorial Site. Now while I do believe in America’s religious freedom once again the Christians who are the majority are under attack. While many look at the steel beam cross as a glimmer of hope and a sign of comfort that was found jutting out of the rubble and dust of where the twin towers once stood. The cross was a part of those towers, while yes the buildings themselves were made of many crossed steel beams this one stood proud in the the middle of all the destruction. In that pile of twisted metal, rubble, and dust crews discovered this almost perfect cross standing tall. American’s looked at this part of the building, this piece of metal as a sign of hope and comfort. The cross was not placed the by humans, it was a part of what happen there days before it was found. Yes more than just Christians died at the World Trade Center and yes not all religions are being represented at the National 9/11 Memorial Museum but this cross represented more than Christianity. Michael Burke lost his brother that day, F.D.N.Y. Captain William F. Burke. Micheal’s words explain the cross perfect, “It’s a historic icon of the great American response of hope and cooperation. A true brotherhood. It belongs in the museum.” Michael is right, not once did he mention God, church, or anything about religion. He only mentioned America’s response of hope and cooperation. President of the National 9/11 Memorial Joe Daniels said, “The mission of the National September 11 Memorial Museum is to tell the history of 9/11 through historic artifacts like the World Trade Center Cross.” Mr. Daniels went on to say, “In the historical exhibition, the Cross is part of our commitment to bring back the authentic physical reminders that tell the story of 9/11 in a way nothing else can.” Once again no mention of the words God or church. There is no denying the cross came from the World Trade Center, there is no denying that the cross is one of the most recognized pieces from Ground Zero, there is no denying that the cross represented hope and comfort for those working at Ground Zero. The cross is exactly what it has become, a historical artifact that everyone can recognize as a piece of the twin towers. I know some people may argue the point of how can we allow a cross, a symbol of Christianity to be in the museum but yet not allow a mosque to be placed at or near ground zero. It’s simple, the cross was originally at ground zero, it was a part of the towers that once stood there, the cross will be returning to its home.

While the Atheist are causing a stir they are not the only ones. The United States Government has turned its backs on the first responders, the survivors, and the families of these people from the 9/11 attacks. When H.R. 847 went in front of Congress for a vote, many Republicans were reluctant to vote for the bill due to financial reasons. This was when cancer was dropped from the list of recognized health conditions for first responders that worked Ground Zero. They claim there is “insufficient evidence” linking cancer to ground zero workers. Insufficient evidence, like many others I find this intriguing. Around 100 ground zero recovery workers have died of cancer and another 600 have been diagnosed with the disease. However, there isn’t enough evidence. I don’t understand how nearly 700 cases of cancer and the common link between all 700 cases is Ground Zero isn’t enough evidence. The Zadroga 9/11 Health Law covers many illness developed by workers at the World Trade Center site, the illnesses range from many respiratory disorders, to mental health diagnoses, to back pain and carpal tunnel syndrome. That’s right, carpal tunnel is covered but cancer isn’t! Why, well the politicians themselves said it, Republicans were reluctant to vote for the bill due to financial reasons. That is because cancer is an expensive disease to treat. At the end of the day the facts are that those that survived the 9/11 attacks, especially those that worked 100′s of hours at the WTC site looking for survivors, looking for bodies to provide closure for family’s, and those that worked to clean the area where the twin towers once stood have become pawns in the dirty game of politics. I searched for the average cost of cancer treatment and in that search I only found cost for certain types of cancer, not cancer as a whole. The numbers I found would all estimate the average cost to treat cancer ranges between $20,000 – $40,000. Granted that is a lot of money especially if you multiple it by the almost 700 people diagnosed with cancer as a result of the 9/11 attacks. If you take the number in the middle,$30,000 and multiple it by 700 your answer is $21 million. Yes I know that is a lot of money and I know that America is in a financial crisis, but those people that sacrificed their lives and their health to do their job, to help their fellow American in a time of need deserve to be respected and treated for the medical problems they developed as the result of their patriotism. They don’t deserve to be sweep under a rug like the dust of Ground Zero. Maybe some of the politicians that refuse to give the workers of 9/11 the benefits they need should give up driving their luxury vehicles and pet projects to see that those that sacrificed themselves are taken care of. You know as well as I do that this won’t happen, the politicians care for themselves not the American public they were elected to serve.

The fact is that 9/11/01 was one of the darkest days in American history. While it was dark the light of freedom and hope from the American people quickly shined through. For the weeks and months following the September 11, 2001 attacks we Americans we untied as one. We didn’t care about each others religion. Many people that never met before and may not have ever met stood side by side with signs supporting the FDNY as they traveled to Ground Zero to continue their work long after the buildings fell. These are the same strangers that handed bottles of water to the fireman and thanked them for what they are doing. These are the same people that many maybe for the first time in their lives hung American flags from their homes. The firefighters and police officers that worked hundreds of hours at ground zero after the building came down didn’t do it because it was their job. They did it because their brothers were there. The brotherhood of firefighters and police officers is much like the brotherhood of the U.S. Military. You are your brothers keeper and no man is left behind. While many people enjoyed the movie Backdraft there are many lines from the movie that describe the feeling firefighters have and the line I am thinking of now is, “You go, we go.” In other words, no man is left behind and we go together. Whether they are going to safety or going to the after life, they will do it together, as brothers. The 9/11 memorials that are being built don’t represent religion, they are to remind us of the events of that terrible day, they are to remind us of those lost in the attacks and the bravery that was shown. The memorials are to remind us of how we as a nation stood united as one, how the light of freedom shined bright through the clouds of dust for all the world to see. The cross made of metal that gave many Americans a sign of hope and provided comfort was a part of those buildings, that cross became a part of history that comforted many Americans. I understand the Atheist just see it as a piece of metal and it is just a piece of metal but that piece of metal provided hope and comfort to the families of 9/11 as well as the workers. That piece of metal was a piece of the twin towers and deserves to be in the National 9/11 Memorial. Whether you look at it as a piece of metal or a cross there are a few common things we are all reminded of when we look at it. It reminds us that it was once part of two beautiful buildings that were once apart of the New York City skyline, it reminds us that there are people in this world that want to harm America, and we see a piece of metal that represents the final resting place for those that lost their lives at the World Trade Center that day. Let the piece of metal in the shape of a cross be placed in the memorial for everyone to see and let each person recognize it for what they want to recognize it as. The politicians are doing fine on their own ruining what September 11, 2001 stands for by turning their backs on those that were there and those that are in need of help from being there. Don’t lower yourselves to their level over a piece of metal that can be looked at in different ways. Don’t disgrace those that lost their lives that day, those that lost their lives as a result of working Ground Zero, don’t disrespect those that are suffering both physically and mentally over the events of 9/11. Let us be united in remembering that day and those people.

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Now the question is, what is America doing to secure its border with Mexico? Nothing! The United States government has not done a single thing except fight the states that are trying to protect their citizens from the illegals entering America. When Arizona took a major step in the right direction by passing Arizona SB 1070 it received high marks from those concerned about the border however, the bill also created a lot of screaming from the liberal groups in America calling it racist and unconstitutional. Well, I am sorry to inform you that it is not racist and if you are not an American citizen, a legal immigrant, or here with the proper paperwork then you should not by protected by the Constitution. The State of Arizona is ranked sixth nationwide for the number of illegal immigrants. The State of Arizona sees the problems caused by illegal immigration and are trying to take measures to correct the problem and make the residents of Arizona and our nation safe from drug cartels, terrorist, and help relieve a stressed system. These liberal groups don’t care about your safety (unless your one of them), they don’t care about the strain on the economy, the education system, the welfare system or the dangers that may enter our country through unsecured borders. Instead of our government leaders congratulating Arizona on enacting tougher immigration laws and taking lessons from them, our liberal leaders are suing them. That’s right America, our government is siding with the drug cartels and terrorist in fighting Arizona’s immigration law. Is it not the job of the United States Government to protect its citizens and the land that makes up America? If the government sides with the drug cartels and terrorist is the government then going against its duty to protect America and her people? Is this not a reason to impeach our leader? I fully support the idea of each individual state creating and enforcing their own strict illegal immigrant laws. Even the great State of Alabama has passed its own illegal immigrant laws recently. When the Alabama Congress and Governor signed off on House Bill 56 making it the law of the land, many were quick to call it the toughest law in the nation against illegal immigrants. Of course, mush of it was modeled from Arizona’s law that caused many liberals to scream foul. So, how long before the government officials in our nation’s capitol that are sworn to protect and defend the United States file a lawsuit against Alabama?

In order to protect America and her people the federal government has to open their eyes and see that as long as our border is not secure America is not safe. It wasn’t until September 11, 2001 that the United States and many of her citizens even thought of a terrorist attack where the hijacked planes would be used as the weapons themselves. Since that sad day, we must think outside the box much like the terrorist that want to cause harm to America’s people. When the federal government fails to do its job then it is left to the citizens and the state governments to fill the gap left by the federal government. Its sad to say that now a days the federal government is leaving many gaps, much like those along the Mexican border. Even though the federal government is trying to put a stop to Arizona defending herself, Arizona is not giving up the fight. In fact, they are taking the fight to the United States. What do you do when you have a federal government that won’t protect the citizens of Arizona and due to a poor economy the state can’t free up funding to build a defense against illegal immigration? You go to the people. You don’t tax them but you ask them for donations. Even better, you ask for donations from anyone willing to donate to protect America’s border. The State of Arizona has set up a website that allows those of us that want to secure our borders to make America a safer place can help. Arizona recently started the website Buildtheborderfence.com. Its the official border fence donation service for the State of Arizona. Now that is thinking outside the box, I’m curious to see if Uncle Sam tries to interfere or stop Arizona from collecting private donations. The website has been online for approximately 1 week know and has already collected over $104,000 from 2,356 donors.

Here is a thought, The President of the United States when sworn into office states that he will to the best of his ability to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. Is it not the job of the President of the United States to see that America is defended and protected from outside threats? Is it not the Presidents job to act on threats to our great nation? Yes it is. The threats are known to our country due to the open border with Mexico these threats are well known. As I stated above, the Mexican drug cartels take advantage of the unsecured border to do business of smuggling drugs, these drugs are harming America’s people. The number of illegals in America are harming America’s economy and straining many of the systems within our country. By allowing an open and unsecured border also allows foreign terrorist a simple way to slip into the United States without being noticed. We seen the end result of what the 19 hijackers involved in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Imagine the damage and the number of innocent lives that could be lost if 19 more hijackers slipped in over the Mexican border and carried out 19 simultaneous attacks across our nation. We all know this is a true possibility and I know that you the reader understands that this is a true possibility and a real threat. Even agencies within the American government are saying there is a problem but the President isn’t listening. So, why does the President of the United States continue to block attempts to secure the borders or just outright ignore the problem? I can not honestly answer this. I can’t imagine why. Oh wait, yes I can. Our President is a liberal and by standing up and say that we have to secure our borders and deport all illegals would go against everything the liberals stand for. That would mean, no campaign funding for him and no votes. He is too worried about keeping his job and forcing his change upon America, his change that has to this point failed. You want some facts? Here are some facts and numbers straight from Arizona:
According to a February 2011 report by Congress’ chief watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, just 44 percent of the nearly 2,000 mile-long border is under operational control, and just 15 percent is totally controlled.
The border fence constructed in Yuma, Arizona successfully thwarted 93 percent of all illegal crossings in that area. This proves that fences do in fact work!
There have been over 35,000 deaths and murders along the U.S. Mexican border since 2006.
According to an investigation by the House Committee on Homeland Security, intelligence officials have determined members of the terrorist group Hezbollah have already infiltrated the U.S. by crossing at the southern border. Border Patrol agents recovered military-style patches on clothing near the border—one patch contained the word “martyr” in Arabic and another depicted a plane appearing to fly into sky scrapers.
In 2009, according to Homeland Security documents, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officials detained 45,279 illegal aliens classified as OTM (Other Than Mexican), many of whom were from Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Pakistan.
Additionally, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified before the House Appropriations Committee stating that these OTMs “are individuals from countries with known Al Qaeda connections who are changing their Islamic surnames to Hispanic-sounding names and obtaining false Hispanic identities, learning to speak Spanish and pretending to be Hispanic.”
Estimates show that the United States spent over $100 billion on services for illegal aliens in 2010.

The facts listed above were taken directly from the State of Arizona’s website www.buildtheborderfence.com. You want facts, how about you put that in your pipe and smoke it. If those facts don’t open yours eyes to the problem we have then you just don’t want to open your eyes.

What would happen to an employee or even a CEO of a business if they ignored problems like this? They would be fired! Knowing these problem exsist and ignoring them is that not a deriliction of duty? Is that not failure to defend America, her people, and the Constitution of the United States? Of course it is. When the President of the United States ordered the Juctice Department to file a lawsuit against the State of Arizona, President Obama did this to protect the illegal immigrants, the drug cartels, and the human smugglers that take advantage of the unsecure border. The President is protecting our enemies! That is obvious by looking at the facts listed above. By protecting and supporting our enemies and not looking out for the best interest of our country and by failing to protect our nation is this not treason? Article 3, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States reads as follows; “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.” Let me now clearify this for you. The United States of America has declared a War on Terrorism. The United States has declared a War on Drugs. By ignoring the unsecured border is giving aid to our enemies. By allowing them to live in the United States is providing them with compfort. As far as having two witnesses testimony of the same overt Act, well there are millions of people that are witness to President Obama’s act of treason. There is no greater shame than knowing the President of the United States is supporting the same enemies he has taken an oath to protect us from.

With that said I will end with this. How is it possible that not a single member of the United States House of Representatives has not filed an Article of Impeachment against President Obama? Someone needs to open their eyes and file the Articles of Impeachment on President Obama based of the information I have provided. The facts are there. Even if you look at his history of who his friends are, the evidence is there to support his anti-American beliefs. In college he developed a strong friendship with Bill Ayres, Geore Soros is one of his majors supporters and a major campaign funder, President Obama wants to rewrite the Constitution of the United States into what he believes it should be, and he is ignoring threats from those we as a nation have declared war on. President Obama must be charged with treason, impeached, and punished to the fullest extent of the law then deported to whichever country his birth certificate wasn’t forged in.

God Bless America

Alabama HB 56

Arizona SB 1070

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States rankings with number of illegal immigrants

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First, lets talk about the abortion issue. If many Republicans had their choice all abortions would be illegal no matter what the reason for it. While I personally would never want my wife to have an abortion unless it was needed to save her life or if she was raped. Now, if she was raped I can positively say that when I would find the SOB that did it and I would be the judge, jury and executioner. He would be found guilty, sentenced to death, and the execution would happen within minutes of the sentencing. I can promise that it will be a very slow and painful death with no chance of a stay in execution. I’m sure the liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and other whack jobs will be all over me for that but hey oh well. Anyways, abortion is an issue that the states need to decide. While I would never want my wife to have one, it is nobody’s business if we do. Just like if you and your spouse and or significant other decide to have an abortion what business is it of mine? It’s not and I would expect you to tell me to butt the hell out of your business much like I would tell you if you got into mine. The federal government allows each state to decide many of their own gun laws, but the gun in a man’s pants along with the target in a woman’s pants have to be protected by condoms called the federal government. I can honestly say that is one prophylactic I wouldn’t trust. How about we change, “Uncle Sam Wants You” to “Uncle Sam Wants In Your Pants.” Its kind of catchy or it could be mistaken for a bad porn movie. How about the federal government worry about their jobs while the State officials worry about their. Then again, the federally elected officials will also be the ones collecting their pay checks when they deny social security checks to America’s senior citizens, another way the federal government is bending the American people over. The federal government needs to realize there are state governments for a reason. In fact, in my opinion the state elected officials are more in tune with the wants and needs of their constituents then any elected official to the federal government. Before we wrap up the abortion issue I need to get one more thing of my chest. To all of those that have two or more Pro-Life bumper stickers on your car. We get your point! One bumper sticker tells us your opinion on the matter, you don’t need more than one. Also, you may call it murder but have you ever even seen a murder? If not I will gladly invite you to any inner city and I will drop you off there. Be warned, when I tell you to get out I am not stopping at the stop sign. I will slow down to a safe departure speed for you to exit the truck. Once your out you are own you own and I’m not looking back. Next time I see you will be on the 6:00 PM news.

On to my second complaint about Republicans in the bedroom. Let’s talk about the whole gay marriage thing or as some states are calling it civil unions. First, in my opinion there is no such thing as a gay marriage. To me a marriage is a union between a man and a woman. That’s it, no changing a word to make it politically correct after 100′s of years. This reminds me of an old saying my uncle use to use when is was growing up, “The funny thing about that little white speck on the top of chicken shit. That little white speck is chicken shit too”. Yes I know, that same line was in the movie Pure Country but I remember as a little kid hearing my uncle say it and not understanding until I got older. If you want to call them civil unions that’s fine and for this article I will call them just that. While I am personally against civil unions its not my choice. It should not be the choice of the federal government either, it should be the decision of each individual state. Once again, the decision should be made by the elected state officials based on what the citizens of that state want. If the citizens of Pennsylvania don’t want civil unions then our elected officials should vote against it. If the residents of California want to have civil unions, well then their elected officials need to act in a manner that speaks for the people, not their personal opinion. This is just another case of Uncle Sam trying to butt into each states business. Kind of like the big brother syndrome. If big brother doesn’t like it then you better not do it but if big brother wants it well you better hop to it before he gets mad. This all comes at a time when many Republicans are looking to defend the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Remember, this was even sign into law by a Democrat President. Yes, President Wild Willy Billy Clinton signed this law. Just an added note for humor, President Clinton signed this law about a year and a half before the media broke the story of Wild Bill, Monica, and the stained blue dress.

I think many people will agree that these issues are state issues. Each state should have the right to make laws for the people by the people right? It is obvious that big brother doesn’t like it’s little brothers are making their own decisions. For those of you that have an interest in American history, let us think back to our history classes. In 1860 when President Lincoln was elected many southerners believed that the government was growing to strong. The southern states and its citizens felt that the federal government had no right to tell them how they lived. The people of the south believed that if they remained part of the United States the North would control them. Therefore many states in the south decided to leave the United States. Big Brother didn’t like this and when they were told to leave Confederate land and refused an eviction noticed was served. Thus leading to the Union aka the North aka the Inited States to wage war on the newly formed Confederate States of America. While this is still a debate today as to whether states can or can not secede, we will leave that for another article. It all comes back to states rights. It doesn’t matter what the issue in debate is, the federal government continues to over step its boundaries by not allowing the states to govern themselves. The United States is made up of individual states, therefore the states must be able to govern themselves in a manner that represents the wishes of the people. The federal government needs to worry about the issues facing the nation as a whole. With this said, I feel the only proper way to end this article is with these two words, “Deo Vindice”!

How is he going to blackmail Congress to get his way? It’s a simple game he is going to try and play. Remember when we were young and dumb? There was a game many of us played while the rules were simple and the same game could be played different ways but the theory behind it was the same. That game is called chicken. I have seen the game played many ways and again I repeat we was young and dumb and I no longer recommend anyone plays this game, especially like we did. We would challenge something or someone, whether it was another person, a car, or the really really dumb idea a train. You would run at each other or stand in the path of the moving vehicle and whoever moved out of the way first was the loser. See simple, but dumb. President Obama is currently playing this game with the Republicans and the American people are in the way. Know you maybe asking how is our President doing this. He is using the scare tactic. Republicans won’t give him what he wants so he tries to make them look like the evil people that the Democrats make them out to be. President Obama says to the senior citizens of our country, look the Republicans won’t agree with me, they are bad and evil, if you don’t get your social security checks its because of them. Now these are not his exact words but I see what he is thinking. Why is he trying to scare the senior citizens of our country, why is he throwing the American people that is is sworn to protect under the train? Simple, the largest age group for voters is those ages 45 years old and up. Voters that are age 55 and up make up the largest part of this group. These are the people that are currently collecting their social security or will be collecting it in the near future. If he can scare them enough when it comes time to vote, how do you think they will vote? Of course, they are not going to vote for the evil Republicans, it is because of them that they might not get their social security checks. Meanwhile, the Republicans are forced to play the game that President Obama has forced them into. It’s a difficult game the Republicans are forced to play, they can either give into Dictator Obama’s ways and drive America into the dirt faster or take the chance and possibly face an angry nation on election day. My hope and I am sure the Republicans have the same hope is that the American people are not as dumb as the President thinks we are. Then again, there are way too many uninformed voters out there that base their voting on what they heard on the 6:00 news.

Now since money seems to be the issue here lets take a look at the money. With no money to pay the social security checks that are to go out in August, President Obama has made sure that the United Nations, Egypt, Pakistan, and other countries around the world get their share of the United States money or in the case of Egypt, we will just forget the money they owe and we will give them more. So the United States borrows money from China only to give it to other countries. Only for the United States to have to pay China back for the money we gave away. Makes sense huh? Each year the United States gives billions of dollars to other countries for such things as peacekeeping, development assistance, AIDS, broadcasting, military training, fight the drug war, and my favorite; to leave other countries alone. Don’t think this is all of them, there are many many more. Please see the link below for a more detailed list. I don’t understand why the United States is putting other countries first when we can barely take care of our own. Well, I understand that we are to busy kissing ass to worry about our own. Meanwhile back on the farm, the uninformed voters are having the crap scared out of them by a dictator that have made our country worse then it was before. The uniformed voters have put this man in office, our nation’s future is in the hands of a man that is clueless to what is best for the American people. He doesn’t care that Americans are hurting, he doesn’t care that behind our backs other countries are laughing at us while we are handing them money hand over fist. I honestly believe that Barrack Hussein Obama is trying to kill America. He has not done one thing to benefit this country since taking office.

The Republicans are not giving into what our leader wants because they and their constituents feel this is not the best thing for America. What did I say? Yes, someone in Washington D.C. is doing their job. While Obama scares people into believing that they may not get their social security checks I can honestly say that I am sure he will get his pay check. Is that fair? Of course not but why should he care about the people. Now while we know the Republicans are watching out for America there are some people that believe that a budget agreement can’t be reached for other reasons. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) believes that the reason there can not be an agreement on the budget is because President Obama is black. Yes that’s right, our country is crashing down because he is black. Now here is the surprising part, Rep. Jackson Lee is black. I know, no great surprise there. She also asked why the President is being treated so disrespectful? Why, well that’s a simple answer, cause he is a moron, that is why. Barrack Hussein Obama is and has been nothing more than a wolf in sheep clothing. President Obama preached change in his run for office and that one word fooled enough people into voting for him. We got our change; the deficit has changed for the worse, unemployment has gotten worse, respect for America has gotten worse, and the the attitude of many Americans has gotten worse. Is this the change those of you that voted for him wanted? I hope not. However, this doesn’t surprise me if you take a look at some of Obama’s friends and supporters. For instance, George Soros; found guilty by a French Court for insider trading, gives millions of dollars to keep people on the welfare system instead of trying to help get them off the system, spends millions of dollars to legalize drugs, and spends millions of dollars on gun control. Well, looking at this in my opinion he wants to keep Americans in a position to rely on the government for their survival. Then there is my favorite; Bill Ayers, a predominate member of the Weatherman Underground Organization. While the Obama Administration will admit no connection between the two, there is proof elsewhere. Who is the Weather Underground you ask? During the 1960′s & 1970′s they were a radical left wing organization that bombed a Chicago Police Station, the Pentagon, and the Capitol. Trying to bring down our nation. Meanwhile, 40 years later, President Obama is using words to terrorize the American people where his good friend Bill Ayers used bombs. Which one is more dangerous? I believe the terrorism by words is. While the bombs may bring down buildings one at a time a man speaking the right words can bring down a nation at one time. President Obama’s words of rhetoric are scaring our nation’s people. The words are scaring the people that worked their whole lives to build America into what she was before President Obama and his friends began to their work to destroy her and what she stands for.

All I can tell you my fellow Americans, don’t believe in the words of a man that wants to destroy America, a man that supports America’s enemies, and a man that sees himself as the one that can save America by rewriting the Constitution of this country into his own idea of what America or even the world should be like. A man the believes it is more important to take care of other countries before he takes care of the one that he was sworn to protect. My fellow American’s don’t vote based of what this man says, vote based off of what you know. The enemy of Obama and those like him are the informed voters not the uninformed. Don’t just listen to what one side of the isle has to say listen to both and then and only then make your decision.

Vaugns U.S. Forgeign Aid

George Soros

The Ayres/Obama Connection

Weatherman Underground Organization

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas)

No matter how much Ertelt might want to wish it so, there is no way to interpret what Kagan wrote – assuming one takes it in context as opposed to selectively quoting as Ertelt did – as a statement purely against the “pro-life” movement. Yes, she did the same thing I just did, placing a part of her statement in quotes, implying nothing more than I have – hypocrisy. You can’t have it both ways. Either you are truly pro-life, or you’re sort of pro-life and open to attack for being a hypocrite. Kagan was pointing out the hypocrisy of being against abortion, but for bombs – remembering this was still during the Cold War, and we were competing with the Soviets to maintain nuclear superiority. Times change, situations differ slightly, but the end result is the same. You can’t be for saving the unborn, and capital punishment and gun rights. Sorry, but that reeks of hypocrisy. And that’s not even getting into the hypocrisy of the failure to consider the real consequences of forcing women to have babies they don’t want. But that typically falls on deaf ears anyway, since quality of life is a foreign concept to most from the “pro-life” camp. And please don’t insult yourselves by suggesting that everyone only have sex when they actually want to pro-create. It is too tempting to bring up Monty Python’s “Every Sperm is Sacred” skit then.

Kagan hasn’t just drawn fire from the religious right. She’s also annoyed the military. But one needs to tread lightly when approaching this situation (pun partially intended.) First of all, not everyone in the military – including high-ranking officers – are for the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Secondly, Kagan’s decision to ban military recruiters from Harvard’s law school was driven by campus politics – something she freely admitted at the time, and still does (as far as I know.) In other words, her actions undoubtedly had more to do with serving her “constituency”, the students and staff of her institution, than any personal ideology. True, she came out publicly stating that the policy was counter to the precepts of freedom in general, and the argument could be made that she should have avoided saying that outright. But, we’re sitting on the precipice of seeing the demise of that policy anyway, with the support of, that’s right, the military. That said, we could just as easily turn back the clock to the Civil War, and say that she came out against slavery years earlier. Slavery was permitted by law, remember? Doesn’t make it right.

And that brings us to the RNC’s fears of legislating from the bench. This was born of Kagan’s assertion that the Constitution as originally drafted was defective. Now, the RNC can’t count on it’s own members on the Hill to carry on this argument, and for good reason. Beyond slavery, there was also the absence of a woman’s right to vote in the original document. The beauty of the Constitution is in the fact that it was originally drafted to be fluid. The men that drafted it weren’t so arrogant to think that their words would be law ad infinitum, and they left us with the ability to change it. As for arguments against legislating from the bench, historically, that has typically happened when the legislative branch has failed in one way or another to move with the times. It is an unforeseen result of the fluidity of the structure of the Constitution – if nothing else, it is a testament of its genius, not a statement against the Courts.

Finally, the most troublesome of the objections I have seen so far, Kagan helped to defend Saudis against 9/11 lawsuits. While this can easily be considered morally reprehensible, it is the direct result of long-standing agreements and treaties between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. I sincerely doubt she relished that particular duty.

As a conservative, I’m not in love with Kagan as a candidate for SCOTUS. Then again, I wouldn’t be overly pleased with any candidate Obama would offer. But, I can say that the majority of the objections beyond her lack of judicial experience are hyperbole. Her lack of judicial experience is the direct result of the GOP, since she failed to garner the votes necessary for confirmation during the Clinton administration. Apparently even then she was considered a possibility for filling a vacancy on the highest court, so maybe the hope was then that if she wasn’t on a bench somewhere, she wouldn’t be considered later. If that was the case, we’ll find out soon enough if the tactic worked.

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Now, I understand that it’s neat to see the bizarre laws we have all over this country (and I’ll get into the ones in the ‘burgh in a moment), but I still think that the fact we have our own language sets our city apart from the rest on the sanity scale. Pittsburghese – the slang that is found throughout the Pittsburgh Metro area, and is actually documented in a book – is definitely something that can be considered at least a little crazy. The history behind many of the terms that I try very hard not to use is at the very least, creative.

To be fair, at least the folks at the Daily Beast gave a pictorial nod to our obsession with all things black and gold, particularly where the Steelers are concerned. It’s not a celebration in the ‘burgh without a Steeler Santa – except for on St. Patrick’s Day, when we have Santa wearing the green!

As for picking the law against sleeping on refrigerators, I guess that’s alright, but our law against bringing a donkey or a mule on a trolley car is much more bizarre. It brings new meaning to Trolley from Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, that’s for sure! Personally, I also would have preferred someone poking fun at the Commonwealth laws on the sale of alcohol. Maybe one day our legislators will figure out it’s time to move into the 20th century where that’s concerned – hopefully before the 22nd century, that is!

All I can say is “Yoi!” Am I glad that we can officially say the City of Brotherly Love is crazier than the ‘burgh! They beat us by 12 places, coming in 6th! Take that, Governor Rendell!!

To be fair, I admit to going over the top in naming this post, because it isn’t absolutely true – thankfully. However, it is difficult to find hard political journalism out there these days that has a firm grasp on reality. I suspect that the observations I mentioned above focused on the tea party movement primarily because that is the issue du jour – there is quite a bit of material out there on it. But if you’re going to start talking about the unreality of political journalism in America today, perhaps you should point out the elephant in the room – racism.

To be sure, the tea party movement has left us with many opportunities to explore the issue of racism. Why it hasn’t been done in earnest falls under what I’ve come to call a journalistic taboo. At best, it would open the proverbial can of worms President Carter broke the seal on when he suggested that America wasn’t ready for Obama in the White House. In a practical sense, it would make it more difficult for the administration to get anything done, since it could effectively justify civil rights organizations calling out the President to be their anointed leader in their cause. But all of that is assuming that journalists would approach it in the context of Obama the man, as opposed to focusing on the nature of racism in America in general.

And there, I’ve said it. There is racism in America. It is an ugly truth, and reality of the situation is that the perpetrators of it are being given a pass on it by journalists. That is a generalization, and bluntly, this is focused on the rule as opposed to the exceptions. When I say this, I mean that out of the countless times that the mainstream press has covered racist sentiments being paraded about by tea partiers, it has been little more than an aside – it has been rare when these individuals have been brought to task for these actions, called racist, or had to face rebuttals from civil rights leaders because the journalists bothered to make the calls to get those statements.

Ironically enough, I ended up thinking on this purely because I was accused of appearing like a Dixiecratic jingoist on Twitter. To summarize the context, since it involved quite a few posts from multiple users, @Shoq (a progressive politics Twitter icon for those of you that don’t know) was encouraging posts on GOP campaign slogans. Several racist posts appeared in the Twitterstream, and I reposted one to a local political journalist because he had pointed out that Jay-Z had been engaged in some racist activities of his own, against whites. The entire situation was an exercise in bad political humor, but was obviously taken rather seriously by at least one person.

At first, I started thinking twice about my “image” on Twitter, but my thoughts quickly shifted to the lack of reality in political journalism. While many of the posts that suggested new campaign slogans for the GOP were in bad taste, they were real. There was no tap-dancing around the issue of racism. They were what I have no doubt many journalists wish they could say when faced with the blatant hatred they see daily from many in the political scene. Some of the denial of reality in journalism today is probably from journalists, and some of it may be the result of editorial policies that cater to advertisers. Regardless of the source, the bottom line is that we’ve moved to the point where “news”, particularly where politics is concerned, is not about being neutral and reporting what is real. If the people want reality, they need to look beyond the headlines – even to places like Twitter and the blogosphere. But that’s not news either.

Robert Wright explores these ideas, and many others in his expansive work, The Evolution of God. Readers are provided with a multi-disciplinary text that reaps from anthropological, historical, and theological sources to create an all-encompassing study of the human race’s predisposition toward religion and deities.

The Evolution of God places religion in general – with a great deal of focus on the Abrahamic faiths – in context with their times. This may not be well received by individuals that follow a fundamentalist path in their faith. Pulling religious texts out of context is an unfortunate commonality in many faiths, so reading anything that places scriptures in their historical context may be difficult for some to handle.

Wright offers the opportunity to place faith and religions in general in a logical context based on recorded history. He also presents an interesting theory on the relationship between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. There was a time when all three coexisted, and probably interacted fairly well.

Robert Wright has offered an extremely valuable resource to anyone who has real desire to find out about the historical and anthropological roots of religious faith. The Evolution of God should be on the suggested reading list of every high school in America, and should be required reading in every college and university. It provides the context for religion that is rarely offered in any place of worship – something that is sorely needed, particularly today.