with wax wings….

You can’t say it much better than that.

But THIS is funny…and, sadly, somewhat representative of reality.

HT: The blogfather

Protests Protests Protests!

Seems Mr Chavez isn’t all that well liked as the press would have had us believe a few months ago….

I expect serious dissatisfaction to break out here in the US about Feb. of 2010. And it will be expressed at the ballot box and perhaps in other ways.

Seems that socialist policies don’t make everyone happier and better off…

Would that Mr Obama, Ms Pelosi, and all of the other socialist Democrats realize this sooner rather than later.

Before we begin circling the rim like Britain and Venezuela. Before it’s too late for us… as, I fear, it is for them.

“We are socialist already”

Yep, I have heard it 4 times now from liberals.

Once from my brother, a state away, who is not so much a liberal as a follower….His wife was an academic who had to get a job in the private sector to pay her bills, but an unrepentant liberal nonetheless.

Once from a union man. A Teamster. Salt of the earth kinda guy, but a Teamster…..He regurgitates all of the liberal cant that is repeated at union hall meetings.

Once from an academic at VU….this is the sort of thing that one might expect from an academic at a state run university, but from a Lutheran university???

And once today, Saturday….I had business downtown, and, just for fun, stopped to laugh and point at the 6 (rather pathetic looking, I might add) folks waving signs (no longer pre-printed, but actual handmade signs so that we might think that they weren’t astroturf or anything…) promoting government option health care. After watching them for a few minutes, I engaged the brightest looking one in conversation, asking him how he could stand behind such a socialist agenda as government run health care….His first response was “well, we are halfway socialist anyway….Medicare, roads, military, and police and fire and interstate highways are “socialist” endeavors, paid for by all for the “common good”…. so why not health care?”

I did try to discuss the ideas with him, but it became apparent that he was not willing to discuss things, but rather was just going to repeat his memorized lines, so I politely thanked him for his time and wandered off. He returned to the group, no doubt thinking and crowing that he had chased away another conservative…Let him think so. It doesn’t hurt me to have him feel good about his failure.

But the point of all of this is that this appears to be the new meme…..”We are halfway socialist already, so what is one more socialist program or agenda item?”

Just wondering if others have come across this meme, and have you any good way to crush the assumptions that are so erroneous? Roads are paid for (at least in my state) by fuel taxes, as are the highways. Police and fire I can sort of understand, and couldn’t argue with and the same with military, (except they are all part of the “common defense” mentioned in the Constitution.)

But is this going to be their next theme that they shall use to convince a few more people that socialized medicine is a good idea? Just another step down the road to pure socialism? Am I supposed to think that that is a good thing?

Please let me know.

This lady got her say….Wonder if anyone listened? (HT TB2K)

More of this is needed, until they get the message.

Until and unless, of course, we as citizens decide to buy some rope, and find a few handy trees for those who don’t….

Or we water the tree of liberty. Any of the three works for me.

Lets hope that they listen so we don’t have to take other measures.

http://servicewire.org/node/6620

Mr Obama will address the schoolchildren and exhort them to “do more, do something for your country…..” and “Obama will address students “about the importance of persisting and succeeding in school” at 1 p.m. Eastern at the WhiteHouse.gov website. The announcement said the federal Department of “is encouraging educators, students and parents to use this opportunity to help students get focused and begin the school year strong.” The government also is publicizing a list of suggestions for students and teachers to do in preparation for the speech, including studying Barack Obama’s writings and presidency. Obama had announced the speech during a child reporter’s visiting the White House.

Not everyone is happy about it though…..”You can call it what you will but Obama Youth or Hitler Youth … This is much too slippery a slope, this day and age with the role of government becoming more invasive the last thing I want is for ‘them’ to get a tooth into my kids,”

More HERE

He might just want to try and make a difference in kids education by persuading them to do well in school……But then again, his record so far makes one wonder…what will he say? The NEA has already indoctrinated so many children already, so what will he say to make a real difference?

“Obama Youth Corps” anyone?

One wonders….

and somehow….we never learn.

Same mistakes, over and over and over.

“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.” ~ Cicero – 55 BC

Sound familiar?

Thought so.

Via TB2K I bring you THIS:

FOXNews.comWednesday, September 02, 2009

Van Jones, the Obama administration’s “green jobs” adviser, told a group of listeners earlier in the year that the reason Republicans are stonewalling the president is because they’re “assholes.”

Jones’ remarks were recorded in a video from February that was posted to YouTube.

He made the remark during an energy lecture in Berkeley, Calif., after a woman in the audience asked him why President Obama and congressional Democrats were having trouble moving legislation — even though Republicans, with a smaller majority, didn’t have as much trouble earlier in the Bush administration. “Well, the answer to that is, they’re assholes,” Jones said, to uproarious laughter. “That’s a technical, political science term.”

Apparently, it was ok to block the Bush administraation’s legislation, but not the Obama administration’s.

These people act like children. Poorly raised children at that.

The scary part is that they are nominally in charge now.

“Hope and Change” and all that.

Oh, and BTW, on our way back from the Indy Gun Show, we stopped at a Whole Foods to buy something just to support the chain.