With Obama’s popularity plummeting, it appears that he is resorting to the typical liberal tactics used to cover up their failings; bash Bush.   Claiming he inherited all of the current problems, he and his left wing cronies are once again lashing out at the former president. Interestingly, when Bush was in office unemployment was less than 5%; today it is more than 10%.   Perhaps it is time for liberals to look in the mirror and realize that liberalism will always fail. It failed under Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Mao and Carter just as it will fail under Obama.

Rather than telling us what to eat, which doctor to see and what kind of car to drive perhaps now is the time to craft some real solutions.   So just what are the liberals doing to fix the current economic woes? They are sneaking through “card check” legislation that will outlaw the ballot box in union elections, requiring employees to raise their hand in public which will subject them to intimidation if they vote against organizing.   They are trying to ram through healthcare, despite the irrefutable fact that socialized medicine has failed the world over.   They are pushing the so called “Fairness Doctrine” which is designed to silence conservative viewpoints.    They are sneaking through a bill that will grant amnesty to 13 million gate crashing criminal aliens. What they aren’t doing is providing any meaningful solutions to fix our problems.   No wonder their poll numbers are in the toilet, the very place their insidious and un-American legislation belongs.

Today Rasmussen released a poll in which 49% say that America’s best days are behind her. Only 38% think we have better times ahead.  That is a sad commentary on our society, but there is a silver lining in that this means that even some kool aid drinking Obamabots have realized the errors of their way and are rethinking the messiah’s ability to walk on water. 

The reality is that as long as liberals remain in power we will suffer tremendously.   With the monetizing of our debt at the fastest rate in history it is only a matter of time until inflation rears its ugly head.    Once the prices rise precipitously, the interest rates will have to be raised to reign in the cost escalation. Liberals don’t get it because most of them couldn’t pass a basic Economics 101 class.   While kicking the Pelosi/Reid/Kennedy crowd to the curb would be a good start, I’m actually rethinking my hopes that it would happen in 2010, as our economic misery will peak about a year after that and the media would most certainly blame Republicans if they somehow managed to take back Congress.   I want 100% of the blame for our misery, which is going to get A LOT worse, to be on the shoulders of liberals for generations to come. I want the public to be sooooooooooo angry that in 2012 Obama suffers the most humiliating defeat in history to a true conservative; not some middle of the road, nanny state, country club elitist. 

In the meantime, it’s time for us to do our duty as true patriots and share the gospel of what made America great; God, guns, family, economic freedom and individual liberty. It’s time that the government become fearful of the people, as that is the only true path to liberty.   This is precisely why liberals hate hearing the truth, because they understand that throughout history the only way to institute their tyrannical ideals is by indoctrinating and controlling the masses.   In the end, freedom can prevail but only in the event that we finally find a cure for liberalism, a disease that has cost more lives throughout history than all others combined.

Christopher Van

www.goldenpansy.com

 

Wow, just two short weeks until the Messiah parts the skies with peace on earth and goodwill towards man. No more Hamas rocket attacks on innocent Isreali kids, no more gate crashing illegals killing innocent Americans, no more Islamic fascists turning airplanes into projectiles.   The peace and harmony will make me forever grateful to those who had the foresight to bow down to the chosen one. 

Of course we know that none of this will happen as the risk of violence continues to increase in direct correlation to our coddling of terrorists, who for those who attend government schools, are radical Muslims.   Yes, they look different and they dress different, just don’t let your local government academician or bureaucrat hear you saying that aloud. 

Along with this risk of violence abroad will be the increased risk at home, as our intelligence agencies are gutted in the dawn of the Obamanation.   Terrorists and illegals will be given free reign to do as they please to the American public and those who have been basking in the sun at Club Gitmo will now be entitled to their day in our kangaroo courts, where they will be released on their own recognizance to build bombs and slash throats to their hearts content.

If they are lucky, they can sidle up to the trough and maybe get their own terrorist bailout. I mean, we are only at one trillion dollars for this so called stimulus package. Why not give away a little more to our enemies to blow up bridges and roads that, according to liberals, are in great need of repair anyway. Surely we would save a lot on demolition costs and we wouldn’t even have to deal with union road crews who seemingly just stand around and do nothing.

One trillion dollars! Can you even fathom that amount? Did you know that it would take 31,500 years to count to a trillion one second at a time?   Did you know that one trillion dollars in pennies would weigh 310 million tons, which is about the combined weight of all the pregnant illegals between East LA and El Paso.   One trillion dollars in pennies would rise 98.6 million miles into the sky, more than the distance from the earth to the sun. One trillion dollars in pennies laid side by side would be more than 14,000 square miles which is larger than Delaware AND Hawaii, the purported birthplace of the messiah, combined. 

One trillion dollars will break the back of our nation and nobody seems to care, probably because the average government educated moron lacks the intellectual wherewithal to realize the damage that it will inflict. After all, it was these same morons that gave rise to Obama, as he spread his wings and soared amidst the columns of the ancient Greek temple.  

Keep in mind that this trillion dollars is on top of trillions of dollars in debt from the failed socialist security ponzi scheme. It is on top of medicare and Medicaid. It is on top of the inevitable trillions that will be tied up in the government takeover and ultimate destruction of our healthcare system.  

The kind of debt that gave rise to entire economic conundrum we are currently in will pale in comparison to the debt that the government is going to put on the backs of our children, their children and their children’s children. This is the kind of debt that no nation can possible survive.  

Thomas Paine once said that “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” To describe our government today as anything but intolerable would be an understatement of epic proportions.   We are witnessing, for the first time in our history, a government that is truly drunk with power and is using every means possible to silence the truth while passing a sentence of death on our nation.

Government schools are raping the minds of our youth while the media fills the airwaves with lies and distortions in lock step with their liberal allies in Washington who seek to undermine the foundation upon which our nation was founded.   Liberal special interests are working in unison with the courts towards the obsolescence of real marriage, American culture and private property. Liberals in congress have an agenda calling for the banning of free speech and limiting the right to bear arms to only criminals, illegal aliens and terrorists.  

The stage is set for some really bad things to happen to our nation unless people wake up from their nanny state entitlement stupor.   The party is over and it’s time for those of us with any intelligence to make a difference.  

Most certainly, for those of us over thirty, indifference would be the easy way out. Let our children deal with the inevitable pain where suffering and likely violence will arise out of the congressional negligence that is occurring today.   But, to quote Thomas Paine one more time, “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, so that my children may have peace.”

Our founding fathers lived by these words.   While they were forced to pick up guns, against the will of the ignorant and uninformed way back when, we are not there (yet). We have the ability to throw Congress out of office and it is something that must be done in 2010.   Sure, there will be damage done to the fiber of our nation in the interim by the careless, reckless and indifferent liberals who have turned our nation in a banana republic where Senate seats are for sale, judges are for hire and government contracts depend not on cost or benefit but rather who you know.   

If the GOP were smart, which they have proven not to be over the past eight years, they will seize this opportunity.   They will point out each and every aspect of the culture of corruption, hypocrisy and sedition that are the foundation of the modern day Democrats.  

 

Oh Boy, do I feel safe now. As Islamic fascists regroup to hatch a plan on what to blow up next, the Obamamessiah goes and picks Leon Panetta as head of the CIA. Seriously, he should have gone to Wal-Mart and picked a cashier who would likely have more experience in espionage than Panetta who served as Bill Clinton’s chief of staff and whose biggest decision in life was where to hide the blue dress after Bill made a mess of it.

Coming on the heels of two illegal Senators being installed by the corrupt Democrat machine, this could be an even bigger mess for the chosen one, who was supposed to part the skies and walk on water. 

Today marks the beginning of the Congressional session, as Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and the rest of their sedition brigade head to Washington to seize more of our money and usurp more of our rights. I guess the big question is whether or not they will be able to get an approval rating of more than single digits. 

The first item on the agenda is this so called stimulus package that will cost the taxpayers somewhere in the range of $1 trillion dollars.   Included in this stimulus package is a lot of pork, including snow making equipment for Minnesota. As if they needed more snow, but then again when the idiot portion of the electorate votes for Al Franken what do you expect.  My guess is there is even a bailout for the Somali pirates, who by way of a long and sordid family tree are probably distant cousins of B. Hussein Obama himself.

Did you hear that B. Hussein is going to take the oath of office and use his entire name. Yes, the name that Americans were banned from uttering is now going to be broadcast on prime time for his coronation as the latest winner of American Idiot.   I wonder how Ann Coulter feels about that. If you recall she was repudiated for emphasizing his middle name. Perhaps now the Obama voters will realize what damage they have inflicted upon our nation. Then again, most of them don’t even know that 9/11 occurred because it wasn’t reported on Inside Edition, their main source for current events.

Speaking of Ann Coulter, she has been banned from NBC. Yes, banned. Along with transfats, charcoal grilles and fireplaces, the liberal elitists now want to ban Coulter because of her new book, Guilty, which decries media bias. OK, so if the media isn’t biased why don’t they have Coulter on to discuss the media lies, distortions and treasonous agenda that they put forth.   It’s kind of like Obama’s continued refusal to make public his purported birth certificate that would put to rest whether or not he is really an American citizen.

All I can say is it is going to be a very interesting few years.   My suggestion; get as much money out of the country as you possibly can. Explore other places to live because the government has written a check that they can’t cash and when it comes time to pay the fiddler all hell is going to break loose in a way not seen in the history of our republic.   For that you can thank your local liberal. 

Christopher Van

www.christophervan.com

 

Without fail, the dawn of the new year brings about the inevitable bevy of new laws to hit the books across the fruited plain.   Effective January 1, 2009, it is now illegal to pee in New Hampshire and those who have the sudden, uncontrollable urge to do so will be faced with a $1000 dollar fine. Of course, the law goes on to say that the person urinating must know that they will be offending someone.   I guess this is a case where ignorance truly is bliss.

In California it is now illegal to text while driving. So let me get this straight, it’s perfectly fine to come across the border, live on the dole and get in state college tuition rates but it’s no longer acceptable to text my illegal alien cousin in Fresno while I drive my low rider through the barrios of East LA.

In Oregon, transfats are now banned.   Yes, another example of idiocy led by liberals who seek to control everything from bodily functions to waistlines. It’s a good thing that there aren’t any transfats in the pot that is legal there. 

In Illinois it is now illegal for contractors with more than $50,000 in state contracts to contribute to the office holder who oversees the deal. At least they excluded Senate seats from this punitive measure that is part and parcel to how business in the most corrupt state in the land is conducted. 

What this amounts to is more evidence that we have far too many unaccountable bureaucrats deciding how we can and can’t live our lives, caring nothing of the masses in their never ending quest for complete government control.

There is nothing wrong with new laws, if they are sensible. Laws that would deport illegal aliens and make illegal border crossings a felony punishable by death would make sense. Rather than banning transfats, wouldn’t it make more sense to sentence anyone driving slow in the fast lane to a month in jail? 

There are a number of things that our legislators could be doing, but are choosing not to.   We need laws to separate schools and state, ban teachers unions and preserve the right to free speech.  

How about some real sensible electioneering laws, like requiring that voters pass a test before they can cast their ballot.   It need not be overly difficult, but perhaps knowing the name of your Senators and Congressional Rep would be a start. Heck even having to know the sum of 1+1 would get rid of half the Obama constituency. 

So why is it when we have a need for real laws that would have a meaningful impact do we find legislators passing what can be described as complete idiocy? Banning transfats, seriously. What next, banning SUV’s, fireplaces and charcoal grilles? 

Take a look around at what liberals have in their crosshairs and this isn’t as far fetched as one may believe.   Liberals are already seeking to ban free speech with something called the Fairness Doctrine.   They are continuing their never ending assault to ban your right to defend your family from criminals, the only people they deem worthy of the right to bear arms.   Perhaps the most sensible law that we could ever pass would be a permanent ban on liberalism, a disease that afflicts nearly one half of our population who are either too dumb or too uninformed to know that there is a cure called common sense.  

Christopher Van

www.christophervan.com

 

Ed Rendell, the Democrat governor of Pennsylvania, is under fire for comments he made about fellow Democrat governor, Janet Napolitano of Arizona.   While standing next to a hot microphone, he said that Napolitano is perfect for the job as head of Homeland Security because she has “no life”.   Not to digress, but if you click here you will see why she has no life! But as far as being perfect for the job, anything short of putting her mug on a billboard somewhere south of Laredo is destined to be a disaster.

The appointment of Napolitano as the head of Homeland Security is something like putting the fox in charge of the hen house, Bill Clinton in charge of the interns or PanchoVilla in charge of border security.   As governor of Arizona, Napolitano vetoed legislation that would have made English the official language of the state. She vetoed a bill that would have banned in-state tuition and day care for illegal aliens. She also vetoed a bill that would have otherwise permitted local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws. 

If I were an illegal alien seeking to come to America, I’d pack my six kids in my low rider and head to Phoenix using the I-17 express lane reserved for illegal aliens.   If there were a version of Illegal Alien Monopoly, Go wouldn’t be Go, it would be Welcome to Napolitano’s Arizona, collect your $200 dollar welfare check, some free healthcare and a couple of wet burritos. 

Don’t get me wrong, the people of Arizona generally don’t support illegal immigration and for the most part do a pretty good job when it comes to elections.   Case in point, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who unlike Napolitano, routinely rounds up illegal aliens, dresses them in pink boxers, feeds them bologna sandwiches and puts them on chain gangs where they belong.   In fact, Arpaio is exactly what we need to head up Homeland Security, because he would actually be change that we could count on.

While there are supporters who claim that Napolitano has been an opponent of illegal immigration, her legislative record speaks otherwise.  Like the messiah, she is all talk.   Just this year, she diverted $1.6 million dollars in funds from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office, clearly creating a hardship for law enforcement in the state’s largest county. In addition to being an illegal abuse of power, her executive order was clearly an affront of Arpaio’s successful “posses” which utilize civilian’s to round up gate crashing criminals.  

There certainly is a silver lining with Napolitano being appointed to Homeland Security and that is getting her veto pen out of the way in Arizona.   Under the state Constitution the Republican Secretary of State, Jan Brewer, will take over the governorship which could finally result in illegal immigrants being banned from government schools, hospitals and the workplace where they would now be required to speak English. In simplest terms, the message to illegals would be Welcome to Arizona, Now Go Home!   The question is will they now be welcomed in the other forty nine states?

Christopher Van

www.christophervan.com

 

Russian professor Igor Panarin has suggested that the United States is on the verge of collapse.   He initially made this prediction 10 years ago, and this week granted an interview to IZVESTIA this past Monday where he reiterated his dire outlook.

I believe that there is a lot of credence to what Panarin is saying for several reasons. First, our dollar is not backed by anything. Until the 1970’s, our dollar was backed by gold.   However, going off the gold standard left us with dollars that were realistically backed by nothing but hot air and our reputation as the world financial leader. 

Second, our debt as recently as the 1980’s was non-existent.   When Panarin made his first prediction of the demise of America in 1998, our debt was $2 trillion.   Today our debt is $11 trillion.   I would ask you, is this a house of cards ready to fall? 

Third, we are seeing some of our largest, oldest and most respected banks either bankrupt, on the verge of bankruptcy or in government receivership.   This crisis, while initially the fault of the federal government, is spreading like a plague throughout the private sector.   The question is whether or not there is a cure. American’s put their stock in the rhetoric of an Obama administration, so the reality is there is no cure.    

Panarin goes on to suggest that America will break up into multiple parts, or nations.  Historically, the average life expectancy of any free society is about two hundred years. We are well beyond that, and arguably are no longer the free society that we once were.  

The political divide in our nation has become increasingly polarized with northeast and west coast paradigms that are extremely different than the southern and western regions of our nation.    There are currently more than two dozen secessionist movements underway, and it is likely that one or more of these will ultimately succeed. 

For the past fifty years we have watched our largest cities deteriorate, as jobs moved overseas and increasing taxes, high crime and lousy schools forced the achievers to the suburbs.   The result has been inner city chaos with many cities either in or headed for bankruptcy.  

If the Big Three go under, what will that do to an already decimated Michigan economy? If the banks go under, where will that leave New York or San Francisco? Panarin suggests that the demise of these cities will result in 6 distinct nations forming in what was once the United States. The west coast, the northeast, the western states, Texas, the south and the middle part of the nation.  

I don’t necessarily disagree that this will eventually happen, although the alignment of these new nations may be somewhat different.   In all likelihood, a west coast alliance is a good bet given the shared propensity for socialist idealism in California, Washington and Oregon. There will be a southwest alliance as the result of the reconquista, or retaking of the land that illegal aliens seek to procure, called Aztlan. The reformation of the south, with boundaries similar to the Confederate States of America would bring together states with similar religious values and customs.   The northeast has long held a worldview much different than the rest of America, and like the west would foster a new government based upon socialism.   The Midwest and northern tier of states with their ties to Canada, as well as farming and manufacturing would likely evolve.  As for Hawaii and Alaska, they may each achieve the independence that many residents already seek.

Will this happen in our life? I would put the odds at better than 50/50 that we will see a change in the boundaries of what we consider the United States in the next fifty years.   The polarization amongst the electorate is indicative of a cultural civil war already being waged.   The election of Barack Obama has resulted in purchases of guns reaching record levels; meaning that our cultural civil war could become much more if the direction of our nation is not altered. 

Arguably, now more than ever, is the time to step up to support real American values of hard work, self reliance and rugged individualism.   The people with these values will be the ones who capitalize and benefit from whatever is going to happen.   Having an escape strategy is not a bad idea, although any destabilization of our domestic economy will have negative ripples throughout the world.  

The life cycle of any free society involves eight phases.   The society begins by breaking the shackles of bondage and moving to spiritual faith. It then moves from faith to great courage.   Then comes liberty, followed by abundance.   The abundances leads to complacency which turns to apathy. This apathy results in dependence and inevitably back to bondage. As you consider the predictions of Panarin, give some thought to where we are as a society. My best guess is that we are somewhere between apathy and dependence.   Considering the election of Obama, I would lean towards the latter. 

As the government takes over businesses, threatens to silence free speech, ban guns and seize our 401k plans, it would appear that bondage is within reach.   Consider the words and predictions of Panarin, brush up on your 18^th and 19^th century U.S history and then come to the realization that history repeats itself. It always has and it always will. 

Christopher Van

www.christophervan.com

 

Just how far will liberals go to steal this years election? We have been hearing 24/7 reports on ACORN registering everyone from 7 year olds to Mickey Mouse to the Dallas Cowboys. This race pimping organization has gone so far as to register one fellow in Cleveland 73 times! 

Keep in mind that while ACORN is the biggest bunch of electoral thieves out pounding the pavement, there are other groups hell bent on making sure that the Chosen One is sent to the White House.  

Let’s start with Theresa Collins and her group Inmates to Support Barack Obama.   She has gone so far as to request that the Michigan Department of Corrections allow her register inmates set for release before Election Day.

I think we can all guess which candidate criminals will overwhelmingly support and it’s not John McCain. Obama is apparently quite popular in prisons, as evidenced by Dale Leo Bishop’s final words, “To those who oppose the death penalty and want to see it end, our best bet is to vote for Barack Obama because his supporters have been working behind the scenes to end this practice." Fortunately for society this murderer was executed by lethal injection and will never have a chance to inflict anymore pain on our society.

But Obamamania isn’t limited to cheating, as his kook aid drinking supporters are now resorting to terrorist like tactics to intimidate voters.   Years ago liberals limited their activities to ripping up yard signs. This year, one man in New York took a campaign sign from a McCain worker, broke it in half and then beat him over the head. 

While the public continues to hear the left wing media speak of such acts by McCain supporters they have yet to bring forth the name of one real person.   Perhaps if they would do their job, they would see who is really using Stalin like tactics to steal this election.   Yes, it would be the same group who are against free speech unless you happen to think and act like them. 

Case in point, Ashleigh Jones, a 7^th grader in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, was accused of being a racist because she wore a McCain/Palin t-shirt to school.   Let me guess, the government school has a zero tolerance policy against conservative viewpoints.  

So why is it that the radical left continues to have unfettered access to lie, cheat and steal and the moment conservatives try to make people play by the rules they are labeled as racists? Could it be that the real racists are those seeking to derail the outcome in November in order to put their messiah in office?   Consider that voter rage, such as we are witnessing with liberals, has not been seen since the rising of the Third Reich. Is that what we want here? Do we want a political party that seeks to silence the masses while redistributing our wealth? We are at a clear crossroads, with one candidate having the vision of economic and national security, the other of Marxist tyranny.   Use your vote wisely. 

Christopher Van

www.christophervan.com

The following is an article from the Wall Street Journal, an organization with just a wee bit more credibility than the Treason Times or the Clinton News Network. It's long, but worth the read.

Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists.

The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s. Among other feats, Mr. Ayers and his cohorts bombed the Pentagon, and he has never expressed regret for his actions. Barack Obama's first run for the Illinois State Senate was launched at a 1995 gathering at Mr. Ayers's home.

The Obama campaign has struggled to downplay that association. Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood," and "not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis." Yet documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC. Those archives are housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago and I've recently spent days looking through them.

The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was created ostensibly to improve Chicago's public schools. The funding came from a national education initiative by Ambassador Walter Annenberg. In early 1995, Mr. Obama was appointed the first chairman of the board, which handled fiscal matters. Mr. Ayers co-chaired the foundation's other key body, the "Collaborative," which shaped education policy.

The CAC's basic functioning has long been known, because its annual reports, evaluations and some board minutes were public. But the Daley archive contains additional board minutes, the Collaborative minutes, and documentation on the groups that CAC funded and rejected. The Daley archives show that Mr. Obama and Mr. Ayers worked as a team to advance the CAC agenda.

One unsettled question is how Mr. Obama, a former community organizer fresh out of law school, could vault to the top of a new foundation? In response to my questions, the Obama campaign issued a statement saying that Mr. Ayers had nothing to do with Obama's "recruitment" to the board. The statement says Deborah Leff and Patricia Albjerg Graham (presidents of other foundations) recruited him. Yet the archives show that, along with Ms. Leff and Ms. Graham, Mr. Ayers was one of a working group of five who assembled the initial board in 1994. Mr. Ayers founded CAC and was its guiding spirit. No one would have been appointed the CAC chairman without his approval.

The CAC's agenda flowed from Mr. Ayers's educational philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism. In the mid-1960s, Mr. Ayers taught at a radical alternative school, and served as a community organizer in Cleveland's ghetto.

In works like "City Kids, City Teachers" and "Teaching the Personal and the Political," Mr. Ayers wrote that teachers should be community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression. His preferred alternative? "I'm a radical, Leftist, small 'c' communist," Mr. Ayers said in an interview in Ron Chepesiuk's, "Sixties Radicals," at about the same time Mr. Ayers was forming CAC.

CAC translated Mr. Ayers's radicalism into practice. Instead of funding schools directly, it required schools to affiliate with "external partners," which actually got the money. Proposals from groups focused on math/science achievement were turned down. Instead CAC disbursed money through various far-left community organizers, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or Acorn).

Mr. Obama once conducted "leadership training" seminars with Acorn, and Acorn members also served as volunteers in Mr. Obama's early campaigns. External partners like the South Shore African Village Collaborative and the Dual Language Exchange focused more on political consciousness, Afrocentricity and bilingualism than traditional education. CAC's in-house evaluators comprehensively studied the effects of its grants on the test scores of Chicago public-school students. They found no evidence of educational improvement.

CAC also funded programs designed to promote "leadership" among parents. Ostensibly this was to enable parents to advocate on behalf of their children's education. In practice, it meant funding Mr. Obama's alma mater, the Developing Communities Project, to recruit parents to its overall political agenda. CAC records show that board member Arnold Weber was concerned that parents "organized" by community groups might be viewed by school principals "as a political threat." Mr. Obama arranged meetings with the Collaborative to smooth out Mr. Weber's objections.

The Daley documents show that Mr. Ayers sat as an ex-officio member of the board Mr. Obama chaired through CAC's first year. He also served on the board's governance committee with Mr. Obama, and worked with him to craft CAC bylaws. Mr. Ayers made presentations to board meetings chaired by Mr. Obama. Mr. Ayers spoke for the Collaborative before the board. Likewise, Mr. Obama periodically spoke for the board at meetings of the Collaborative.
The Obama campaign notes that Mr. Ayers attended only six board meetings, and stresses that the Collaborative lost its "operational role" at CAC after the first year. Yet the Collaborative was demoted to a strictly advisory role largely because of ethical concerns, since the projects of Collaborative members were receiving grants. CAC's own evaluators noted that project accountability was hampered by the board's reluctance to break away from grant decisions made in 1995. So even after Mr. Ayers's formal sway declined, the board largely adhered to the grant program he had put in place.

Mr. Ayers's defenders claim that he has redeemed himself with public-spirited education work. That claim is hard to swallow if you understand that he views his education work as an effort to stoke resistance to an oppressive American system. He likes to stress that he learned of his first teaching job while in jail for a draft-board sit-in. For Mr. Ayers, teaching and his 1960s radicalism are two sides of the same coin.

Mr. Ayers is the founder of the "small schools" movement (heavily funded by CAC), in which individual schools built around specific political themes push students to "confront issues of inequity, war, and violence." He believes teacher education programs should serve as "sites of resistance" to an oppressive system. (His teacher-training programs were also CAC funded.) The point, says Mr. Ayers in his "Teaching Toward Freedom," is to "teach against oppression," against America's history of evil and racism, thereby forcing social transformation.
The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming "guilt by association." Yet the issue here isn't guilt by association; it's guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago.

   

Inevitably all things become racist, at least in the eyes of race baiting politicians and pundits.   Such is the case with James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat who is now claiming that global warming disproportionately impacts black people.   Perhaps the only things dumber than this statement are the people who actually elected him to office.

As anyone with an ounce of intelligence knows, man made global warming is a hoax being perpetrated by those with an anti-capitalist agenda.   The mere reason that liberals refuse to enter into a dialogue about climate change is because the facts stand in the way of their fiction.  

The truth is that the temperature of the earth has changed for billions of years.   In fact, the hottest year on record in the last century was 1934 which paled in comparison to 1300 when Vikings were able to cultivate land in Greenland.   What liberals don’t want you to know is that the warmest period ever noted was in 1100 B.C. during the Hebrew exodus from Egypt.   Perhaps if the Hebrews had been driving those evil SUV’s they would find reason to acknowledge this little known fact, but they weren’t so they don’t.   

The current temperature of the earth is 58 degrees, which is one degree above average.   Interestingly there has been a corresponding one degree increase in temperature on Mars, Neptune and several of the moons surrounding Saturn.   Perhaps B. Hussein Obama could explain to the millions of morons who view him as their Savior how this could be possible.   Then again, why let the inconvenient facts get in the way of his reading science fictions speeches from the teleprompter. 

There is one common denominator that has governed climate since the beginning of time. It has nothing to do with SUV’s, plastic bags or light bulbs but rather solar activity.   Imagine that, the sun wreaking havoc on our climate. But if it’s the sun, that would mean that there is nothing that our nanny state liberals can do, as sun spots are beyond their control.   Maybe it’s time for them to sit down and do something that matters, like drilling for oil, defeating Islamic fascism or sealing up our border.  

But alas, that wouldn’t be like a liberal to do something to benefit our country, so instead they come up with the biggest hoax in history and rely on the fact that the majority of Americans are stupid enough to fall for it.   Guess what, they were right and they are banking on this complete and utter ignorance of reality to keep them in power this November.

As mounting evidence begins to unravel their science fiction charade, they are now playing the victimization card.   They will do what they do best; create a subculture of people who are the victims of capitalism and success.   Throughout history they have used their full house of race cards, gender cards and class warfare cards to vilify real Americans, so why should today be any different.  

 

Don’t you find the polls to be just fascinating as the media fawns over the Chosen One with claims of 6 to 9 point leads?   Interestingly, when polls include registered voters, the lead is so small that it isn’t even within the margin of error. Add to that those evil pollsters who include only those likely to vote and McCain suddenly has a lead. 

It strikes me that there is an overt conspiracy between pollsters employed by the mainstream media to dupe Americans into thinking that an O?ama victory is imminent. Isn’t this par for the course from the same folks who called Florida for Al Gore an entire hour before the polls closed so as to suppress the votes in extremely conservative panhandle counties, which just so happen to be an hour behind the rest of the state.  

The left wing media has made their mind up as to who will win this year’s election. They could care less that Obama lacks any credentials whatsoever to be president.   They could care less that he will give a blank check to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to destroy our nation. They never mention that the current Democrat Congress has an approval rating of just 9%; making them far more unpopular than the President that they claim is the most unpopular in history.  

Has the mainstream media ever mentioned any position that Obama has ever taken on any issue? Have they told Americans that he voted AGAINST making English the official language but voted FOR giving social security benefits to criminal aliens? Did they ever mention that Obama’s entire tenure in the Senate is 171 days which for the most part has been spent campaigning for a job that he is imminently unqualified for? How many people know that Obama’s work experience prior to the Senate included being a community organizer, whatever the heck that is, and a Civil Rights attorney which is basically a racist with a law degree.  

So why won’t the media share these tidbits with the general public? Perhaps they understand that Obama has fooled a great many young, dumb and generally uninformed Americans into thinking he is something that he is not. How many Obama supporters can name one piece of legislation that he has sponsored? How many know where he stands on issues of national security or economic policy?  

While Obama has stated that he will support socialized medicine, has he ever said how he will pay for this trillion dollar proposition? How can anyone in their right mind support letting the government be the stewards of our well-being after watching them bankrupt social security and Medicare while systematically destroying our public education system? 

After only two years under Democrat control, we have seen the price of food and energy skyrocket as the result of a foolish energy policy coupled with the largest tax increase in history.   We have seen millions lose their jobs as the result of a mandatory wage increase that forced small businesses to cut back employees.  

Common Sense Today

                “Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.”

                The above paragraph initiates Common Sense written by Thomas Paine in 1776 and I ask you have times changed?  Most certainly we have no king or queen, but certainly our own American version of royal families seeking their lot in positions where they are above us all.   I have added a link to the entire text of both Common Sense (1776) and The Crisis (1776-1783), the latter being a series of pamphlets written by Paine and read by a larger percentage of Americans than will watch this years Super Bowl.   We can all give thanks to The Crisis which is often credited for giving our troops the drive to continue their often uphill battle against the British which gave us the very freedom that we enjoy today.   Most certainly both of these works are overlooked in our government schools because they stand for exactly what modern day liberalism is against; freedom, liberty and individualism.

                Yet, for all that Thomas Paine wrote, one must wonder why these continue to be times that try men’s souls.    If we were to look around us today, we would see that most certainly history repeats itself with an enemy that may no longer be British, but poses no less of a danger than the big government and oppression of King George.   When Paine speaks of calamities in nations with no government he may as well be talking about illegal aliens having unfettered access to our soil and our tax dollars. 

                It seems that lately many people have been asking me who can save our nation and give us the direction that we truly need to rebound to the position of the greatest nation on earth.   My answer is often that we are already the greatest nation on earth, but we have those with an agenda who seek to destroy this.   The challenge to those who cherish our way of life is to find the very leader that can inspire us in a Reaganesque sort of way.   While President’s such as Ronald Reagan only come but once in a lifetime, there are most certainly diamonds in the rough who can inspire us with that type of leadership, vision and promise.   

                The main problem that I see with the Republican Party today is that the leadership believes that they need to move to the left to keep the electorate in their corner.   This could not be further from the truth, and if they don’t wake up fast they are going to suffer irreversible defeats in 2008.    Simply put, the agenda of the Republican Party is not what conservatives want, and contrary to popular myth most Americans are conservative when the true definition of limited government and individual liberties are explained to them.  

                Conservatism isn’t about abortion or taxes or guns or political affiliation, rather it is about freedom and doing what is right.   When this happens, all other issues of importance fall into place.   Conservatives seek to preserve our Constitution by strict interpretation while liberals believe that this document is subject to interpretation based upon the times.   Where conservative beliefs would mandate a right to free speech, liberals believe that freedom of speech only extends to the point where one not be offended, hence the agenda of political correctness.

                What our nation is sorely lacking today is a truly conservative candidate who transcends party lines with a vision that exposes modern day liberalism.   When Reagan did this he garnered forty percent of the male, Democratic vote.   When you explain to any man, who has not been emasculated by our liberal society, that their rights may disappear if they continue to support the agenda of the modern day Democratic Party ideals, they will most often cast a vote that will place the individual over the collectivist agenda of this party and their anti-individualism.   

                There is not a Republican candidate present at this time who has the ability to be the visionary that America needs.  Considering there are 300 million legal residents in this nation, which is a sad commentary on the state of our union.     Sure, there are viable candidates such as McCain, Guiliani or Romney who could do a respectable job and are certainly better than anything Democrats have to offer, but none have the Reaganesque vision which we currently need which will serve to bridge the gaps by reuniting our nation as one under God by empowering people to achieve the American Dream through hard work by ending a reliance on government handouts that so many seek nowadays.   

                Perhaps it is time for the GOP leadership to look outside the beltway to find the right person who can stand up with the vision of what America and Americans need and has the oratorical capability of selling conservative fact over the science fiction of liberalism. 

                My vote is going to the one person who can stand up with a platform that is as simple as this:

1) English will be the official language of the United States of America.

2) The border is closed unless you have a marketable job skill and come here legally.

3) If you are in our nation illegally, you have thirty days to leave or we will find you and put you on a chaingang for the next 20 years in order to beautify our nation.   If you are an employer of illegals you have thirty days to get them out of here or face the same punishment plus the loss of your business.

4) The Federal Income Tax will be repealed and a balance budget will be required for my signature.   Congress will have to get rid of enough pork and wasteful entitlement programs to make this happen without sacrificing national defense.   Believe me, this can be done. 

5) All Americans will have the right to opt out of government social security by agreeing to set up their own private retirement accounts.

6) Tuition tax vouchers will be granted to all parents which will end the government school monopoly as all schools will get to compete for these tax dollars.  

7) Energy dependence will be achieved through increased domestic drilling and refinery construction.  The goal is to be independent of any oil from hostile sources, including Venezuela and Iran within four years.

8) Any act of Islamic fascism will result in immediate death as we don’t have time to play games.

9) To vote you must be a non criminal U.S. citizen who understands basic civics demonstrated through your ability to name your House Representative, Two U.S. Senators and the majority of Supreme Court justices before a ballot, printed only in English, is handed to you.

10) All students will be required to achieve proficiency in basic economics and western culture classes prior to graduation at which time they will be bound by a government ban on political correctness including, but not limited to race baiting, victimization, entitlementalism or promoting collectivism.

         My guess, and I am usually right, is that millions upon millions would follow suit and vote for this type of candidate who will say and do what most of us think and then thankfully an abomination such as Hillary wouldn’t stand a snowballs chance in hell of even being competitive. 

 

Christopher Van

www.goldenpansy.com

As we wake up today, we begin the short workweek that will end with the mainstream media's charade about celebrating this politically incorrect day.   From ABC  and NBC to CBS, CNN and the  NY Times, we will see the typical "Bush lied, people died" rhetoric put in the closet, if just for one day.   I find it quite interesting that on the other 364 days of the year, the media makes hay out of just about anything they can find to smear the administration.   Yes, it's about Bush as the media didn't so much as utter a word when Bill Clinton sent troops to Kosovo or wasted our tax dollars bombing aspirin factories in Sudan.   

It is important to remember that while everyone will be waving a flag this coming Friday, there are many who don't truly understand what the flag stands for.    Sure, it stands for freedom and liberty.   It also stands as a symbol of our manifest destiny which has made us  the single greatest republic in the history of the world.  It is under this flag that the people have governed for 232 years and counting.   It is under this flag that we are free to walk the streets, speak our minds, conduct interstate travel and commerce, attend church and have no fear of government retribution (unless you happen to be in Waco or an 8 year old kid from Cuba on Bill Clinton's watch). 

This is a day when we do simple things, like sit by our pools where food is abundant.   We will blow of fireworks, which John Adams predicted in 1776 would be our symbolic gesture of gratitude towards the efforts of our freedom loving forefather's. 

But, as a collective group, we cannot forget that July 5th is right around the corner and it will be back to the same, mundane, anti-American message being generated from the Bush hating media.   They will call our troops rapists and murderers, they will accuse the government of illegal eavsdropping, the conspiracy theorists will get back to how the GOP brought down the twin towers.   They will push their agenda of amnesty, higher taxes, more regulations and less freedom for all Americans.

Let's leave with a few thoughts.    We are at war with people who hate our way of life.  We  love our troops who are fighting for freedom around the world.   We wish them well and we, the people, know that they have created two new free republics in which women can vote, children are being fed and the rape and torture chambers of Saddam and the Taliban have been closed for good.  They have found people tied to 9-11 and killed them.  They have uncovered over 500 munitions of WMD's (not that you'd ever hear this from Katie Couric) which were just a portion of the caches used to kill hundreds of thousands during brutal socialist dictatorships.   The flag reigns proudly over our nation and our people and our uniquely American culture and for this we must give thanks.

Perhaps songwriter Lee Greenwood says it better than anyone, "I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free, and I won't forget the men who died and gave that right to me and I'd gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today;  cause there ain't no doubt I love this land, God Bless the USA."

Christopher Van

 

The House of Representatives is in shambles according to poll after poll.   We are no longer a nation governed of the people, by the people and for the people but by moveon.org who wholly owns the Democrat Party.   America wanted a change, so they put Pelosi and her ilk in power and this is what we got, the largest tax increase in history and $4.00 per gallon gas.  Now we have B. Hussein Obama claiming that he'll give us even more of self destructive changes brought forth by the Democrat controlled Congress.   

The inherent problem with the electorate at this point in time is the burning hatred of George W. Bush fueled by media lies and Democrat distortions which are happening lockstep in an orchestrated attempt to undermine anything positive in our nation.   When was the last time that we heard that unemployment and mortgage rates were at record lows?  At any point during the last eight years have we ever heard of a time when the economy was booming or that we were winning the supposedly unwinnable war in Iraq?   When was the last terrorist attack in the United States.  There are many positive things happening in our nation, but liberals realize that the only way to win is through class warfare and demagoguery, which is why average Americans such as you and I have a moral and an ethical obligation to set the record straight. 

I am the first to say that many aspects of our elected leadership are dysfunctional.   What do you expect when you put a large group of leaders, often elected by the uninformed, into positions of power?   Remember, the majority of Americans can't name the Vice President and nearly 90% can't name their Congressional Representative.  Sure they can name the latest winner of American Idiot, but in the grand scheme of things most people are too dumb to vote.

The bottom line is that most Americas, whether they are informed or not, want the same things; national security, an end to illegal immigration, better schools, lower taxes and fewer government regulations.   The reality is that the party who can seize on this message and PROMISE a vote on the following ten issues within 120 days of this years elections will win in a landslide, and you can take that to the bank.   

1-       Make English the official language of the United States.  No more multi-lingual ballots, lunch menus or driver license tests.   Our ancestors did it in English, so can the people coming here today. 

2-       Pass the FairTax and get rid of the horrible, cumbersome and unfair existing tax code. 

3-       Pass laws denying citizenship to children born in the United States to illegal aliens and outlawing all forms of educational, healthcare and welfare benefits for any illegal aliens.

4-       Pass laws increasing penalties on employers who hire or landlords who rent to illegal aliens.

5-       Pass a law requiring all people coming to America to possess marketable job skills.

6-       Replace our existing structure of funding educational institutions with a structure that allows educational tax dollars to follow students, rather than schools.  The only way to fix our government educational mess is to increase competition and take away the Teacher’s Union monopoly that undermines our children today.

7-       Make Social Security optional.   It’s a broken system that can only be fixed when people are free to move their money to individual retirement accounts and investments. 

8-       Cut the size and scope of government by 50%.   Hire private sector accounting firms to do a top to bottom audit of all programs and employees and terminate either that is determined to be ineffective.   The bottom line is that American businesses and individuals are doing more with less, so can the government.   Take those savings and pay down our foreign debt.

9-       Begin oil exploration in ANWR, off the California and Florida coasts and in Rocky Mountain shale areas.   Give tax exemptions for private sector development of alternative energy.  

10-   Pass a bill permanently outlawing the Fairness Doctrine including language that makes the commission of any act of political correctness a criminal act.  

Look, this isn’t rocket science, but it is the future of our nation that is in peril due to the insidious socialist agenda being pushed by liberals.   It's time that someone wake up the uninformed electorate with facts, which are merely an inconvenient truth for liberals.   It's time for demand a Contract to Save America from the kook fringe and put us back on the right track.  I have a hard time believing that in a nation of 300 million, where at least some of us have common sense, there's not one person who can take this message all the way to Washington.

Christopher Van