Hey Arlen Specter, how’s that 2010 campaign looking? After watching his disastrous town hall meeting I'm thinking that the Republican turned Democrat has seen the last of his cushy job in Washington D.C. come the 2010 elections. Good riddance. 

In Georgia, a swastika was painted on Congressman David Scott’s office sign.   Of course Scott, a black Democrat, is using typical liberal race baiting rhetoric to justify his position on healthcare which he believes caused the vandalism. Could it be that the perpetrator was sending a message that the Nazi period in Germany was one of the most despicable times in history rivaled only by the liberal control in Washington, D.C.? While I don’t condone the vandalism, it is very easy to understand the pent up frustration being caused by Pelosi and her un-American ilk. Yes, supporting Marxist ideologies does make you un-American. 

In Missouri a woman warned Democrat Claire McCaskill that if the administration doesn’t let people vent their frustrations there will be a revolution.   The Democrats response “I don’t understand the rudeness”. Well Mrs. McCaskill neither did King George.  

Desperate to calm the public, the messiah himself spoke yesterday at what was reported to be a townhall with open and honest dialogue from the participants.   Right, like this administration does anything that isn’t completely planned and orchestrated. Just how stupid do they think we are?

All the while, the White House has set up a special website for Americans to snitch on family, friends and neighbors who don’t support socialized medicine.   What next, SS patrols to search our homes and businesses? Maybe the government can work to silence free speech? Oh, I forgot that’s already in the works with the insidious un-Fairness Doctrine and union card check. O.K., then it’s on to guns. Oops, they are already working on that as well.  Heaven forbid we speak our mind or defend our freedom!

It’s high time that Americans woke up from their Obama induced stupor and got mad. I hope they get mad as hell just as sure as I hope Obama’s socialist agenda is a miserable failure because then I can say “I told you so” to every uninformed soul who cast their vote for the most unqualified candidate to ever run for the highest office in the land. 

I just hope it’s not too late, because in slimy Chicago politics the elitist class always gets the last word, even if it means using mob thugs to carry out their dirty deeds.   The question is whether Chicago politics can fully take root outside of Cook County? Can the liberals succeed in abolishing the first and second Amendment which is truly what they want and must have in order to achieve Stalinesque control of our nation?  

We need to come together as a people to vote every member of Congress, Democrat or Republican, who supports socialist ideals out of office.   Let’s just hope they don’t declare our right to vote unconstitutional before next November.   With this administration actually making the Clinton administration look downright honest and wholesome nothing would surprise me.

Christopher Van

www.goldenpansy.com

I do believe that many of the sheeple in our midst are waking up from their Obama kool aid induced stupor to the reality that their chosen one really doesn’t walk on water.   I wonder how long it will take the Obama administration to start banning the airing of footage from the recent town hall meetings where a clearly riled up public is attacking Democrats on what has become a daily basis.

It seems that many of those who voted for Obama are realizing the truth to the old adage “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.” For many of us, Obama was always viewed as being nothing more than the consummate politician who used the clout of the corrupt Chicago political machine to climb his way to power.   Many couldn’t see through his charade or simply were so disenchanted with George W. Bush, largely the result of media lies, that they would have voted for Osama Bin Laden if he were on the ballot. 

The reality is that Obama has done more to damage our nation in six months than most Presidents’ could do in an entire term, including Jimmy Carter! Our Nancy Pelosi/Harry Reid run Congress is wasting money like drunken sailors on everything from condoms for kindergartners to a clunker cash for Asian imports program.    Despite waging a war on Islamic fascism, the liberals now want to bring terrorists into our own back yards so we can sing kumbaya at Sunday barbecues.   However, you can forget the charcoal because that causes global warming, so cozy up to the picnic table for some tofu and sprouts. Oh, and that picnic table better not be from Wal-Mart; at least not until they force a public vote that mandates unionization. 

If you are not utterly sickened by what is transpiring in Washington, D.C., then you are part of the problem. Never in our history have we had elected leaders with so little regard for our nation and such blatant disrespect for our citizen’s. Our liberal leaders view  most (read majority) of our population as being stupid, which is precisely how they have gained their power in Washington.   As for the rest of us, liberals just plain hate us because we work for a living and see through their nonsensical nanny state agenda. 

The question is whether the constituents’ that put liberals in power will wake up before the next election? Fortunately the Democrat base has low voter efficacy and in most years won’t bother to pull themselves away from Jerry Springer long enough to cast a ballot.  That all changed with Obama, who used the thugs in ACORN to rig elections in cities from coast to coast, rendering voter turnout impotent. 

Now with ACORN set to run the census, we can pretty much be assured that the validity of our elections will lie somewhere between Iran and Venezuela.   But we have to remember that those of us with common sense still control vast expanses of the economy and it is up to us to fix what Obama and his cronies have created.   It will not be easy, but it can be done. It is critical that we get out en masse to not only vote, but to educate our ill informed friends who still fail to see through the façade of their messiah.  

Tyranny always fails and it will fail here, but remember it is up to us to ensure that we regain our economic freedom and individual liberties that many have surrendered to the federal government.

Christopher Van

www.goldenpansy.com

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

Liberals in Congress are apparently working to pass new taxes to combat obesity. Go figure, the same group that created the entitlement class with food stamps, welfare checks and free satellite TV to watch reruns of Jerry Springer now wants to tax the very constitutents who put them in office.   Are they afraid that the folks from whom they routinely purchase votes will get so fat and lazy that they won’t be able to make it to the voting booth? Maybe they should give them free scooters from the Scooter Store!

According to recent reports, the CDC is working closely with Congressional liberals to push through a three cent tax on soda. Seriously, do they really thing three cents is going to have any impact on obesity in America. My guess is that this move is part of a bigger ploy to further take over greater aspects of our lives. 

Liberals created the insidously un-American concept of political correctness to control what we say. They are pushing laws to ban our right to defend our homes and families from criminals.   The Fairness Doctrine is being pushed as a way to silence dissent on talk radio.   They now own our banks and our auto makers. They soon will tell us what doctor we can see; when, where and how often.   Now they want to tell us what we can eat. Imagine another four years of Obama’s hope and change:

Pizza Guy: Thank you for calling Papa John’s, can I have your phone number?

You: 555-1212

Pizza Guy: What can I get for you tonight?

You: I’ll have two large pizzas, one with the works and the other with pepperoni.

Pizza Guy: Sorry, according to the CDC records you have high cholesterol. How about a salad.

You: No, I really want a pizza. 

Pizza Guy: No can do, the government says you are too fat. I am only authorized to sell you a salad.

You: Fine, I’ll just call Domino’s.

Pizza Guy: You can’t do that. It’s now in the system that you attempted to order fatty foods and if you try again you could be arrested by the food police.

What truly is amazing are the sheeple who can’t see through this charade, where Stalin and Marx have been reincarnated in the form of the Obamamessiah who seemingly walks on water to the dumb and ignorant in our midst. At any other time in history the actions we are seeing in Washington would have resulted in an all out revolt by the people. Then again, what we are witnessing is the result of 200 years of government using education as a tool to indoctrinate the masses. 

Christopher Van

www.goldenpansy.com

With 2008 officially marking the death of investigative journalism in America, we are now forced to get our news from overseas.   According the Pravda, a paper once more in the tank for Marxism than the New York Times, the world is on the brink of entering another Ice Age.   Hold the phone; ice age. What the heck are you talking about? Don’t you mean global warming, the greatest science fiction hoax since Orwell penned 1984. Oh wait, 1984 is coming to fruition as our government seizes our property and usurps our rights.

As it turns out, there is no such thing as global warming. There never has been and never will be. Sure the earth goes in cycles, as does every other planet in our galaxy and probably in the universe for that matter.   We see temperatures go up, we see them go down. We see increased hurricane activity and different levels of arctic ice.   What we don’t see is any correlation between man and planet other than what the liberals and their Spielbergesque writers in the mainstream media can conjure up. 

We all know that liberals hate facts because the truth so often gets in the way of their wild imagination.   We know that throughout history the world has seen periods of time when ice covered masses such as Greenland were arable farmland.   We have seen other times when the sub tropics were covered in ice as wooly mammoths had their way with the liberal elite. 

According to a growing group of scientists the world is set to enter another Ice Age.   Didn’t Newsweek call this in 1979? That was before their pipedream of global warming; sort of like Obama being accepting of public funds before he was against it.   Ah yes, the wonderful world of liberalism where hypocrisy is a badge of honor.

Long term data indicates that the tilt of the earth, the shape of the orbit and the Precession of the Equinoxes have come into an alignment that gives rise to valid, not Al Gore like, concerns that earth is poised to plunge into an interglacial era, or ice age. 

The astronomical theory of ice age formation was first brought forth by mathematician Joseph Adhemar in 1842 and was adopted by Czech mathematician Milutin Milankovich to present his findings in the 20’s and 30’s. These facts, which run counter to liberal fiction, were published in  1976 by renowned scientist John Imbrie.

During this same period, junk science was brought forth by Carl Sagan to suggest that greenhouse gasses trapped in the earth’s atmosphere would not only prevent another ice age, but would lead to global warming.   Of course we know that there were some years with above average temperatures that have occurred since the 1970’s, but we also know that every year of the 21^st century has been colder than 1998, the baseline for the great global warming hoax. In fact, the snowpack in the northern hemisphere is the deepest since 1966 and the temperatures the coldest since 2001.

Of course the main flaw in the global warming theory is that it ignores temperature data from the previous million years while selectively utilizing data from a couple years in the 90’s that prove to be convenient.   In addition, the global warming lie conveniently forgets to interpret solar activity, which has a direct and proven correlation to temperature on Earth, as well as all of the other planets that, while lacking SUV’s, did have a similar spike in temperature a decade ago but are now plunging into an ice age. 

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

Perhaps a story that is bigger than the Big 3 lining up at the trough is the State of California, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. The Democrat controlled assembly and Governor Schwarzenegger are pushing for tax increases which are currently being blocked by a small, but vocal Republican minority.   California is days away from having their credit rating cut and is resorting to paying bills in warrants instead of cash.  

I’m not sure why nobody in Sacramento gets this, but why not just cut out the insidious funding of education, healthcare and welfare for illegals? If California would immediately cut off all of the aforementioned wasteful benefits there would be no budget issue. If they would make their land so inhospitable to criminal aliens they would most certainly see their deficit turn into a surplus as achieving residents and businesses may actually return to the Golden State instead of packing their bags and moving to Nevada. 

Why is it so hard for elected officials, across the fruited plain, to see the simple solutions that could fix our economy in time for Christmas? Could it be that the economic illiteracy of liberals and their blind quest for power are standing in the way of saving America? I certainly don’t have a PhD in economics, I am not a Wharton grad and certainly can’t part the waters like the Messiah, but if I can figure it out why can’t they?    

If we were to do the following ten things, the economy would recover instantaneously:

1)      Repeal the Federal Personal and Corporate Income Tax and all withholding.

2)      Replace these taxes with the Fair Tax.

3)      Demand that Congress leave their leer jets at home and opt out of their retirement and medical plans and use the same plans they are created for the rest of us.  

4)      Demand that Iraq repay us a debt of gratitude with $100 billion dollars worth of oil and oil futures.   If the Somali pirates can do it, so can our pirates inside the beltway. 

5)      Eliminate all earmarks forever more.   No more buying votes with ridiculous pet projects.   Anyone violating this will immediately be impeached from office. 

6)      Privatize social security and let people invest their own money. Even with today’s terrible performance on Wall Street we would see better results than the pathetic returns provided by our unaccountable federal bureaucrats. 

7)      Demand that the Big 3 file Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reorganize as non union shops. 

8)      Implement tort reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits and have loser pay laws requiring the lawyer to pay judgments on behalf of client’s who bring such actions. 

9)      Bar anyone from casting ballots federal, state or local elections if they don’t have an IQ of at least 80, have a photo ID and pay taxes. 

10) Stop all funding for the education, healthcare and welfare of illegal aliens.

Like I said, it’s simple.   I get it, you get it and so does every American with an ounce of common sense. But for some reasons the American hating left doesn’t get it. Instead they would rather lecture us on what is and is not best for us. If they don’t know what is best for our nation then they certainly don’t know what is best for us. 

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

The economic conundrum should come as no surprise to any American. Rather, it should be viewed as the inevitable result of confiscatory taxation and bureaucratic regulation that has strangled the capitalist intent of our forefathers.   Way back when, a few folks gathered to throw some tea into Boston Harbor to protest government excess that was far less egregious than we are witnessing today.  

While unaccountable government officials decided “what is best” for you and I, we are commanded to sit idly by as Wall Street and the Big Three get cash that is seemingly spent on executive outings and corporate jets.   Wouldn’t it be nice if someone inside the beltway actually recognized that the solution to the problem isn’t a solution from the top down, but rather from the bottom up?   Perhaps that person may exist in the form of Texas Representative Louis Gohmert who is proposing a two month tax holiday for all Americans. 

Mark my words, this will get no publicity from the Treason Times, AP Obama or the Clinton News Net, but it’s getting some attention from yours truly. According to American Solutions, an organization founded by former Speaker New Gingrich, Americans pay $101.6 billion per month in personal income tax and $65.5 billion per month in FICA tax. Under Gohmert’s proposed plan these taxes would not be paid during January and February, 2009.   This is money that would stay in the hands of the people who earned it in the first place and no better than any government bureaucrat how to spend it.   For less than half the cost of the current bailout proposal, this would likely have exponentially more impact on the economy. 

Will this happen? Don’t count on it because liberals in congress will do their best to muzzle any word of this plan, just as they plan to muzzle your right to free speech in the coming session. Remember, liberals are all about power and control and if they were to let Americans see how much money is actually being seized out of their paychecks it could lead to an all out taxpayer revolt. Then again, maybe that’s not such a bad thing. 

Perhaps this should be taken one step further.   How about we repeal the insidious 16^th Amendment that permitted the government to steal money from our paychecks in the first place.   Just as Americans are being forced to do without as the result of government irresponsibility, maybe it’s time for them to do without.   Just how many ridiculous social programs, bridges to nowhere or butterfly farms on the moon could we do without? Just how many union jobs could we axe in federal, state and local governments that contribute absolutely nothing to our society?  

My suggestion is that you immediately write your Congressional Representative and tell them to support the Gohmert plan.   Tell them to nix the idea of a silly stimulus and their $50 million dollar mailings to advise us that a check is in the mail.   We need something that actually matters, like the right to keep what is rightfully ours to begin with. 

Wow, I’ve to say that this is a new first! Co-winners of this weeks Golden Pansy Award. I guess this shouldn’t be a surprise as the coming of the holidays always seems to bring the pansies out of the closet. First up are the Claremont, California, government schools which have banned an annual celebration in which grade schoolers dress up as pilgrims and Indians.  

This blatant affront to free speech was apparently driven by one elitist parent, Michelle Raheja, who called this four decade old school tradition “demeaning”. Raheja just so happens to be an English professor (imagine my surprise) at a government college where she has unfettered access to spew this kind if hatred and vitriol against free speech around on the taxpayer dime.  

Superintendent David Cash caved in to this nonsense when he should have simply told this bimbo to take a hike and told the kids to come in full garb. To any readers whose children attend schools in this district please do us all a favor and have your children show up in full pilgrim and Indian garb to make a point to parents that don’t respect freedom of speech that their opinion is a minority one that just does not matter. 

Next up is Florida Gulf Coast University who gets the Golden Pansy Award for their outright ban on all holiday decorations on campus. While I would like to give them credit for not limiting their ban to Judeo-Christian displays, which is typically the case in academia, the reality is that this ban is designed to appease Muslims. 

University President Wilson Bradshaw wrote in a memo to faculty that “Public institutions, including FGCU, often struggle with how to best observe the season on ways that honor and respect all traditions. This is a challenging issue each year at FGCU, and 2008 is no exception.”

Actually this is not a challenging issue at all. It is actually as simple as saying, Merry Christmas, as that is what the vast majority of Americans celebrate.   Certainly, the university can welcome other displays for other holiday celebrations, but to undermine the fabric of our American culture is not only an absurd miscarriage of justice in the name of political corrections but this assault on free speech and expression is tantamount to sedition!

As the holiday season approaches, we should expect more and more of these egregious examples of political correctness run amok, which is precisely why we must make these Marxist oriented assaults on free speech a crime.   It is high time that anyone committing a felony of political correctness be charged with high crimes and misdemeanors and sent to prison for no less than 10 years. 

As a society, we must lash out against anyone who seeks to undermine our individual freedoms and liberties, in particular if they are guilty of political correctness.   We must punish those who seek to take away our right to celebrate and we must encourage our children, whose minds are being raped in government academia, to rise up against these transgressions by liberal elitists.  

For now, let it suffice to say that the Claremont government indoctrination center and FGCU is the latest recipients of the Golden Pansy Award for their contributing to the emasculation of a future generation.   They should be embarrassed, ashamed and utterly disgusted with their anti-American, anti-freedom, scroogesque behavior that can no longer be tolerated in a society that prides itself on freedom of speech and expression. 

To learn more about the tyranny of political correctness, visit www.goldenpansy.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

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A tragedy happened late last night when the United States of America passed away.   The nation that stood as a beacon of light on a hill of hope is no longer. The light has been extinguished and the hill transformed into a smoldering mound of hopelessness and despair as the votes of the sheep have turned the land of opportunity, once regarded for self reliance and rugged individualism into a nanny state where hard work and success are now regarded as criminal.    

Think of how low our nation has stooped in this election.   Can you imagine our parent’s or their parent’s generation electing a president so woefully inexperienced and radical? By his own admission, Barack Obama’s mentors have included Franklin Davis Marshall, an avowed communist, William Ayers, an unrepentant terrorist, Jeremiah Wright, a racist and anti-Semitic preacher, Rashid Khalidi, an Islamic fascist and Tony Rezko, a convicted mobster. 

For the first time in my adult life I am not proud of my country, rather I am disgusted at the complete and utter idiocy of the millions of government educated fools who cast their vote for someone who lacks both the character and the credibility to serve in our nations highest office.  Make no mistake, I am always proud of true American values and those who embody the real America.  However, it is hard to have pride in the economically illiterate masses who have no clue of the true meaning of being an American or the imminent danger to our nation posed by their uninformed vote.  For the first time in history we have a president who has no executive experience, no leadership experience and virtually no legislative accomplishments; but at least his angry and bitter wife can finally be proud of her country, which isn’t our country.   We have a president whose career has consisted of being a community organizer, working with radical special interest groups such as ACORN, a group notorious for voter fraud that in all likelihood played a role in stealing yesterday’s election.

Barack Obama doesn’t like to be cast as a socialist, but that is precisely what he is.   In his own words, he believes in spreading the wealth around.   In the words of Karl Marx, his philosophy is from each according to his abilities, to each according to their means.    His beliefs have been called many things throughout history.   Hitler called them change, Mao called them change, Stalin called them change, Castro called them change, Chavez called them change and now Barack Hussein Obama has called them change. 

What exactly is this change? For the past two years we never heard any details of what his change will entail.   I realize that details are a minor inconvenience, but so is the preservation of our individual liberties and economic freedom.   We know that his change involves confiscation of our wealth and property for the sole purposes of redistribution and expansion of government.   We also know that the young, the dumb and the uninformed gave him a pass to do just that in hopes that he would pay off their mortgages and keep their gas tanks filled. 

Now it is time that we hold him accountable for all of his promises.   In fact, I am sending a monthly invoice for Washington with the expectation that I get a blank check in the mail as a monthly stipend, for it is not fair that I have to work and provide for my family.   I expect the government to pay my mortgage, pay off my car, pay my credit card bills, put food on the table, pay for my cable, cell phone and Blockbuster rentals.   I also expect a monthly stipend to blow as I please on liquor and cigarettes. Not providing this to each and every American makes Obama a liar, as this was what he has promised to do.  

Will he live up to his promises? The answer is absolutely not, as his campaign was as much of a fraud and a sham as he.   Rather he will punish those who can and reward those who can’t. The silver lining is that Obama is transparent, his agenda entirely predictably and the results a proven failure. The next two years will be an economic disaster, but we can sacrifice 770 days if the light at the end of the tunnel is the inevitable extinction of the domestic liberal whose agenda is certain to result in an implosion of epidemic proportions. 

Christopher Van

The average life expectancy of a free society is approximately 200 years.   Our nation has celebrated freedom for 232 years, although it can be argued this virtue, once an embodiment of our nation, is on life support today.   As the young, the dumb and the uninformed head out to cast their vote for their messiah, I ask you to decide where we are in the cycle of freedom.

Let’s go back to the Stamp Act of 1765 and the Townsend Act of 1767, both moves by the British government to increase taxation on the colonists.   Some colonists, but not most, were angered.   In fact, the anger boiled over in 1773 in an act known as the Boston Tea Party.    Arguably, this was the first move by the colonists, or our forefathers, to restore freedom to their land.  

Clearly we are in a similar set of circumstances today, with an increasingly intrusive government that will have no choice but to increase taxes.   In fact, I will bet my paycheck that we have a 100% chance of seeing a tax increase put forth by the Democrat controlled congress in the next twelve months that will impact everyone who works.   The only chance of a veto is John McCain who sadly, due to the vote of the nanny state portion of the electorate, will be nowhere near the White House.  

Let’s look back at history, for it is the past that foretells the future. In 1773 our nation entered the first phase of a free society as they broke from bondage and moved to spiritual faith, devising a scheme to create one nation under God.   In 1776 the founders moved from spiritual faith to great courage as they picked up arms against the British.    They moved from courage to liberty over the next decade culminating on September 17, 1787, with the signing of the Constitution.  

As our nation embraced liberty, the masses recognized the courage of the few who had risked their freedom, fortunes and lives to bring prosperity to all, which took us to the next phase of our society; abundance.   Over the past two hundred years we became a nation of great abundance which unfortunately led to complacency.   Simply put, we got fat and happy and took our eye off the ball which allowed the government to go unchecked, as a result of the next phase which is apathy. 

Unfortunately, this apathy has led many in our nation into a state of dependence.   The dependence began in the Great Depression, with more and more handouts.   But it is plausible that this dependence goes back even further, to the creation of government schools, which have been used to brainwash and indoctrinate our youth into an acceptance of government control.    This dependence has grown greater as government used Great Society programs to destroy the black family.   They now seek to control our health and well being.   There is no doubt that we are in a full fledged state of dependence which is the next to last phase of any free society.

The final phase is bondage, where the government takes from those who can and gives to those who can’t.   Some call it spreading the wealth around, Karl Marx called it from each according to their abilities to each according to their means.   Throughout history it has been called Marxism, socialism, communism, fascism and today in the United States it is called liberalism.   There is no difference, bondage is bondage and we are now faced with the very situation from which we emerged in the 1770’s.

Back then folks like Adams, Jefferson, Washington, Revere, Franklin and Paine were considered out of the mainstream.   They were viewed by liberals in much the same way as Boortz, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck and millions of fellow conservatives are viewed by liberals today.   Liberals have always hated freedom and demonized those who sought to protect it.   Freedom takes away the power of liberals to control our lives which is the scenario we are once again faced with. Remember, the only greater threat to our freedom than Islamic fascism is domestic liberalism.  

The popularity of someone as unqualified and radical as B. Hussein Obama should call into question the intellect and fundamental acceptance of freedom of each and every person who casts a vote his way.   Put aside his associations with unrepentant terrorists, convicted mobsters, racist preachers and anti-Semitic fascists and look at his views. He loathes our Constitution, the framework of our society, and will appoint judges to undermine this document.   He is the embodiment of everything hard working Americans are against, yet he may very well be our president. 

As we go to the polls today, it is time to understand that voting should be an IQ 80 thing. Look around you and ask yourself how many of those casting ballots know the name of their Congressman, a Supreme Court judge or even our first president. In every state in America one must pass a test to drive, yet anyone can cast their vote which is far more dangerous to our freedom.    Perhaps it is time that we realize that voting, like driving, is a privilege. There is no Constitutional guarantee of the right to vote (Bush v. Gore, 2000) and it is time that we put an end to that myth before we are faced with having a choice of having to live on our knees or die on our feet.  

Christopher Van

www.christophervan.com

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