gp_archives / 2009 / May

Fighting America’s cancer

America is dying. If she’s not dying, she’s damn sick, that’s for sure. We have a cancer growing among us, and this malignancy is rotting away the most basic fabric of our republic. Everything I’ve seen over the past 42 years has demonstrated the fact that a large portion our people (who, ironically, call themselves “progressive”) are becoming increasingly hostile toward America’s heritage and everything that makes us who we are. The fact that Barack Obama was elected is, to me, another example of just how ignorant many Americans have become. To vote for someone who espouses socialist economic philosophies and anti-American doctrines just defies my ability to understand. To support a candidate who takes positions which would be...

Memorial Day 2009

Posted 25 May 2009 in military, patriotism, victory, war

Today, we give thanks to our soldiers who gave their life in defense of liberty. Today, we take time to pay respect to the brave men & women who showed their devotion to America by standing against evil and sacrificing their all in order that the rest of us may enjoy freedom.

Obama admits "we’re out of money"

Captain Wow strikes again. Way to inspire confidence, Mr. President! Obama now says we’re “out of money.” I wonder what could have been the cause of that? Couldn’t have anything to do with the Democrats’ $3.27 trillion dollar Generational Theft Act, could it? And surely, it can’t be because of $9 trillion in bailouts, stimulus, and other wasteful government spending, could it? Hey, here’s an idea. Since the Democrats have already exhibited such fiscal responsibility, let’s go ahead and give the federal government control of our health care system. They’ve done such a bangup job with the economy over the past few years, why not go ahead and let them bring their efficiency and common sense to the American...

Obama’s Notre Dame Convocation Equivocation

(I’m testing Blogger’s post-via-email function, as the company for which I’ve been freelancing blocks pretty much the entire Internet. We’ll see if this works…) I was dismayed by President Obama’s speech at Notre Dame this weekend for a variety of reasons. A Catholic institution inviting a staunch pro-abortion politician to give their commencement (and giving him an honorary degree) is not too different from inviting the Klan’s Grand Wizard to be a presenter at the NAACP’s Image Awards: there’s just too great a divide in basic morality to tolerate. And that gets to the heart of my beef: Obama’s disingenuous challenge for “fair-minded words” with regards to faith and abortion. By using PC-charged buzzwords, The One is doing what...

Barack Obama’s Declaration of Dependence

Posted 13 May 2009 in Barack Obama, humor, socialism

My blog buddy, Pamela Meister, really hit one out of the park with a Obamanian rewrite of our Founding Fathers: When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one Messiah to dissolve the historic bonds that have connected his subjects with the fundamental beliefs of a bunch of dead white guys, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of Marx entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that I should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. I hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men, womyn, transgendered and questioning individuals deserve equal division of goods, that they...

Barack Obama, in theory and practice

Posted 12 May 2009 in Barack Obama, socialism, unions

For a long time, I’ve been alarmed by the big-government collectivist ideology of Barack Obama. Many times I’ve described him and his policies as socialist. But now that he’s POTUS, I’ve come to see that my choice of terminology was not completely accurate. Just for clarification, here’s a definition of socialism: so⋅cial⋅ism   –noun the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles. See? That’s pretty damn close to what Obama had proposed during his campaign: redistribution of wealth, disincentives to business & personal achievement, and widespread expansion of the federal government. But now that the Democrats hold majorities in both houses of Congress and are poised to...

A few thoughts on Franklin’s "wolves & lamb" quote

Posted 02 May 2009 in conservatism, wise quotes

You may have heard this famous quote which is attributed to Benjamin Franklin “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” Here are a few variations on that theme: Democracy: Three wolves and a sheep voting on dinner. Republic: The flock gets to vote for which wolves vote on dinner. Constitutional Republic: Voting on dinner is expressly forbidden, and the sheep are armed. Federal Government: The media deceives the sheep into voting for a Democracy. Freedom: Two very hungry wolves looking for dinner and finding a very well-informed and well-armed sheep. For the record, I can find no references that show Franklin was the original...

Relax. Swine Flu is NOT the next Ebola.

Posted 01 May 2009 in healthcare, science

Does the recent panic over Swine Flu sound familiar to anyone else? It should. In 1976, there was a big scare over the same illness. And it’s just as ridiculous now as it was back then. Because Swine Flu is no more dangerous than the “regular” flu. As the World Health Organization raised its infectious disease alert level Wednesday and health officials confirmed the first death linked to swine flu inside U.S. borders, scientists studying the virus are coming to the consensus that this hybrid strain of influenza — at least in its current form — isn’t shaping up to be as fatal as the strains that caused some previous pandemics. In fact, the current outbreak of the H1N1...