I am torn between :

Damn, he sure talks purty….(“gee, Mr. Taggart, you use your mouth better than a twenty dollar whore”)

And:

Liar! Liar!… pant’s on fire!

Smooth delivery of a very carefully parsed speech, that leaves out a lot of details, and skips over a lot of things that are legitimate concerns. Skipping over the issues that are concerns, he highlights the good, while glossing over the details that are unpalatable to most Americans who care. He did downgrade the number of uninsured from, IIRC, 47 million to 30 million. Must have decided to not count those illegals he now has promised he won’t cover…for today.

“Trust me” still remains the best thing he can come up with…”I can fix this for all of you” and “it won’t cost anyone anything. I promise”…..”I don’t want to get rid of insurance companies, but I will undercut them with government backed plans”.

No matter how you slice it, it is socialism. If he and his cohorts really wanted to fix things, they could. But they won’t. They want socialized health care. Insurance reform isn’t enough. Tax reform for health insurance purchased without your employer isn’t even on the table. It’s all about control. All the rest is empty promises, twisted truths, and outright lies. If you don’t see that, then you are blinded by His light. And a fool.

If his plan is worth anything, he will present a plan and let the public review it for 90 days….rather than try to shove it down our throats. Betcha he doesn’t.

Hats off to the man who cried “liar!” during his speech. Hope the Secret Service and Capitol Police don’t stick the nightstick too far up hurt him too badly. That took balls.

More here

Fines for those who do not purchase or otherwise obtain health insurance….

That’s the new proposition.

Despite promises to the contrary, we all knew that it would come. The only good thing is that they let it out sooner, rather than later.

More here

If this is a surprise to you, then you really haven’t been paying enough attention….

SRSLY

Via RobertaX comes another reason why Britain, Europe, (and, at the rate that we are traveling in their direction) the US will soon stope circling the rim, and take the plunge as a culture.

Go here to learn about the latest reason to leave Britain, especially if you have kids.

Instead of solving the problem, the Brits just hide from it. And they fail to address the real issues behind their problem.

Thus leading to a lessening of their culture and country.

To think “that the sun never set on the British empire”, and now they have only this as a legacy.

Sad.

The oaths begin the same way….

Enlisted men’s oath
“I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;…. “

Officer’s oath
“I, _____ , having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic…..”

Both of these oaths state that the taker of the oath “will defend and support the constitution. So what does a military man do when the people giving orders (the lawfully elected and sworn government) may well be the domestic enemies of the state? When the president (and congress) has trampled on the constitution (and I am not just talking about the current president, lest there be any question about that)? When the government from which they take their orders is the entity destroying and violating the constitution which they swore to defend.

I ask because I am not sure how the members of the military can follow orders of the president, or not depose the Senate or the House members…They (the government officials) have become the enemies against which the military has sworn to defend…

Make no mistake, I am glad that they don’t. But, they do have justification…..

What would you do if you were a general? The right thing? or follow the leaders who have violated the very thing you swore to defend?

from sipseystreetirregulars

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman’s club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. — H.L. Mencken

“We will not disarm.

Your move.”

and:

It’s not about health care, taxes, guns, or any other single issue.

It’s about freedom from further government oppression, and a rollback of previous tyranny.

They insist on pushing forward.

We will not fall back.

War — actual shooting war between freedom-loving Americans and those who would expand the life-by-theft modus operandi of both Looter and Moocher — is therefore inevitable.

Come to Washington on September 10-13 and join us in defying those who would presume to be our masters.

Not my words, but I wish that they were. But the sentiment is one with which I can agree.

More.. (the rest of the article) here. Worth the read.

If, of course, you are serious about freedom.

Are there enough of us? Enough who care? Enough willing to do something?

Or are we all armchair quarterbacks…?

I spent the day at the range today. Practicing for “the day” should it occur. Polishing skills passed on to me by my father and his father. Honing the one skill I might offer my country and its citizens in their time of need. Passing those skills onto another as well. I may not be good for much, but I can shoot. Not as well as some, but better than most.

Men are not deer, nor are they paper. They may however, be targets.

I hope that day never comes…..If it does, are you ready?

Or will you hide in your home and let others do the dirty while you cower?

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.