Have you seen anything like the current federal administration becoming just the opposite of what they stood for during the election?   “Yes we can” was the slogan used over and over again where even American children were acting out the militant drive to Change America.   America was getting a chance to exonerate the racial past by electing a colorful unknown charmer.   And now those elusive “Yes we can” changes are . . . well, really changing the way America works. . . so that now, it’s becoming “No you can’t” do that.

Consider the recent changes to the DC school system, which by the way, is directly under the control of Congress, since District of Columbia is not a State, but a territory under the control of Congress.   No governors to blame.  No state legislatures to cast as villains.

Now, it’s Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education who’s in charge.   He seems to have an admirable record of accomplishments in the field of education where at an earlier point of his career he advanced alternative education for inner city children through the Ariel Education Initiative.  Whereas after the stint as head of the Chicago schools, he’s become a statist changing his previous stance outlawing the DC alternative school program.

 Education Secretary Rejects D.C. Voucher Program As Parents Press Congress to Continue It

“To the thousands of low-income students who are trapped in dead-end DC schools, the ‘Yes we can’ president has defiantly said ‘No you can’t,’” the lawmakers said in introducing the legislation.

There’s more of the no you can’t changes that are happening in the educational front at the University of Minnesota.

University outlines ‘re-education’ for those who hold ‘wrong’ views

"If the Race, Culture, Class, and Gender Task Group achieves its stated goals, the result will be political and ideological screening of applicants, remedial re-education for those with the ‘wrong’ views and values, [and] withholding of degrees from those upon whom the university’s political re-education efforts proved ineffective."

Hugo Chavez is reorganizing Venezuela saying:

"Society cannot allow the private sector to do whatever it wants," "The state has to intervene.

“Chavez’s move follows in the tradition of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, which used schools to shape children’s minds to conform with their vision for society. Totalitarian regimes recognize that education is a powerful tool for controlling the state.”   Read more . . .

Hmmm?  

Sounds a bit familiar to our politically correct non-offensive diversity minded psycho-blabber enabling the powerful elite to gain more power over the education of all the children in the name of fairness and equity.   No child left behind means no children can get ahead, because it would hurt the self-esteem of the left behinds.

Over the past few decades our American society has been scraping around the bottom of a politically correct diverse filthy dumpster.  That dumpster is beginning to be exposed for just how ugly and damaging that stuff really is.   America is now turning around thanks to real honest to goodness biblically conservative columnists, media hosts and some tea parties.   Two main events led to this turn around.   First, was the staging of unknown Sarah Palin into national limelight as McCain’s only hope.  Who is this woman who speaks our language was soon followed by the easy racially motivated election of community organizer BH Obama.   These two events led to the complacent silent majority getting out of their comfortable homes and going to a tea party.   Enough is enough. 

Surprise, surprise, surprise, the faithfully silent majority is mobilized. 

Even Christian leaders are getting into the act of exposing and resisting the tyranny of liberal secular progressiveness as they are encouraging the flock to get active in politics, to write letters and attend political events to question the elected ones as simply as Joe the plumber.   Minds are changing as even politicos are spreading the idea of term limits for all politicians.  Average Americans are acting up exposing the devious ways of radical organizations like ACORN which are pushing the left to far out radicalism.  Entrenched scientific beliefs (global warming) are being exposed for their global dishonest agendas.   The deficit is spiraling out of control.  The silent majority has been awakened, but the movement needs direction to win this fight against an entrenched group of anti-American apologetic progressives. 

This is a fight for the America that was.

We are in a war against the secular progressive left, which desires to redefine America, to change America, to re-do the economic system, to restrain the free-enterprise system, to undo our basic freedom guarantees in the Bill of Rights along with our Judeo-Christian religious heritage.  

Every movement needs direction to keep it alive and focused.   Who will step up to the plate and lead the way following a principled strategy.

David Horowitz has the strategy.   The Art of Political War.

A movement without an effective strategy for defeating its opponents cannot succeed. Therefore it is important to reacquaint ourselves with the art of political war.

David understands the methods the democrats have used to win elections.

While Democrats are morally bankrupt and clueless about policy – about what makes things work — they still win elections because they understand a simple fact: American politics is driven by the romance of the underdog, the story of the little guy who goes up against the system and triumphs in the end. It is a story about opportunity and fairness. To win the hearts and minds of the American voter, you have to tap the emotions the romance of the underdog evokes. Whoever does so has a winning edge.

David writes that the failure of republicans is because of the way conservatives stage their campaigns.

Conservatives are busy defending the real America against the left’s attacks and the anti-American caricature they have constructed. Conservatives know that America is still a land of opportunity and freedom, and that nobody in America is really “oppressed.” (Otherwise, why would poor, black, Hispanic and Asian minorities be desperately seeking to come here? Why wouldn’t they be leaving instead?)

The principles.

1. Politics is war conducted by other means

2. Politics is a war of position

3. In political wars the aggressor usually prevails

4. Position is defined by fear and hope

5. The weapons of politics are symbols evoking fear and hope

6. Victory lies on the side of the people

Now, read the details here.

But, the conservative movement needs a principled conservative leader.   Who will it be?

Sen. Conrad Suggests That People Who Don’t Believe in Civilian Trials for Terrorists Should Leave America and ‘Go Somewhere Else’

“We have tried terrorists in our courts and done so very successfully in the past and that is our system. So if people don’t believe in our system, maybe they ought to go somewhere else. I believe in America.”

Sen. Dodd: ‘We’ll Have Far Better Prosecutions [of Terrorists] in Our Civilian Courts Than Our Military Courts’

Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) said that civilian courts would do a “far better” job of prosecuting terrorists than military courts, adding that the civilian venues would be more likely to bring top al Qaeda terrorists to justice. But Dodd did not directly answer whether 9/11 leader Osama bin Laden, if captured, should be read his Miranda rights.

Osama bin Laden Should Be Prosecuted in Civilian Court, Sen. Menendez Says

According to the Supreme Court in Miranda v Arizona, all civilian criminal defendants, now including terrorists, have the right to:
– Remain silent during interrogation
– Consult with an attorney during interrogation
– Have an attorney appointed at government expense
– Have an attorney present during interrogation
– Stop answering questions at any time during interrogation

Sen. Feinstein: Whether Osama bin Laden Should be Read Miranda Rights is a ‘Murky Area’

Senator Feinstein said: “As far as I’m concerned, the Mirandizing is a kind of murky area. We’re looking into it with some specificity and I’m going to take the word of the attorney general right now.”

Hoyer Says Conservatives Agree With Him and Holder That Terrorists Should Be Tried in Civilian Courts

Hoyer pointed to "three very conservative observers"–former Libertarian Party presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Bob Barr (R.-Ga.), American Conservative Union Chairman David Keene and Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist–who he said agreed with Holder’s decision.

In May, Obama Said He’d Use Military Commissions to Try Terrorists ‘Who Violate the Laws of War’ and to Protect Intelligence Sources and Trial Participants

Obama said: “We are indeed at war with al Qaeda and its affiliates.”

And now in November through Obama’s appointed Attorney General Eric Holder: "For over 200 years, our nation has relied on a faithful adherence to the rule of law to bring criminals to justice and provide accountability to victims," said Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. "Once again we will ask our legal system to rise to that challenge, and I am confident it will answer the call with fairness and justice."

Rep. Gohmert: ‘We Don’t Have Forensic Wagons To Gather Evidence on the Battlefield’ for Civil Court Trials of Terrorists

“[T]o require the same types of standards of a civilian court to be applied to a war setting where our guys, our men and women are in harms way, is to require our military to lose their lives to gather evidence like DNA, finger prints,”

American politicians who have lost their American way by creating a culture based on political correctness for the benefit of terrorists and their acts of war.  These terrorists who have now been classified as merely civil “criminals” who have American civil rights to a fair trail for “fairness and justice.”   Imagine how long this will take for the defense lawyers to select an impartial jury.   The media will love it.   The American people will be glued to their tubes learning more and more of the Islamic religion of peace. 

Not too many years ago these politicians would have been scared of the wrath of the media to utter such contemptuous sentiments.   

In my hometown, a local restaurant has been giving away free thanksgiving meals to anyone for the last 22 years.   Anyone can walk in there on thanksgiving day and get the works, provided for by the generosity of the owner and the staff, who also donate their labors and time on this day.   The owners way of saying Thank You to his customers for another year.   This story is repeated all over the land this week.  Individuals giving to neighbors and to strangers.

The greatness of America is evident on this day.   It’s evident in people helping people.   Americans are givers and always have been.   Acts of kindness will be happening all across the land this Thanksgiving, by individuals, by churches, by private businesses, all giving of their time, their resources, making personal sacrifices to benefit individual strangers and families they don’t know and who are in need.  

This is America. 

To me these acts of kindness illustrates America at work, the greatness of this country and it’s people, the fantastic Godly provisions of freedom to act on our own behalf, to own property, to have the right to govern that property, to speak freely, to move about freely, to freely assemble together with whoever we choose, when we choose and how. 

The real history of America goes back to those days of our beginnings when a group Puritan Separatists landed the Mayflower on Cape Cod in 1620. 

Read the story of William Bradford and about their enlightenment which led them to such a harvest of food and a new form of government. 

At length, after much debate of things, the Governor (with the advice of the chiefest amongst them) gave way that they should set corn every man for his own particular, and in that regard trust to themselves; in all other thing to go on in the general way as before. And so assigned to every family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number, for that end, only for present use (but made no division for inheritance) and ranged all boys and youth under some family. This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been by any means the Governor or any other could use, and saved him a great deal of trouble, and gave far better content. The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn; which before would allege weakness and inability; whom to have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression.

The experience that was had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato’s and other ancients applauded by some of later times; and that the taking away of property and bringing in community into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God.

Individuals give.  

Right now in Washington there is a bunch of conceited arrogant idiots acting “as if they were wiser than God”  occupying Congress and the Executive Branch of the federal government, who are step by step undoing everything America has stood for since those beginning days.   Individual freedom, ownership, responsibility and accountability.

The federal government is stripping away from the people their incentives to work and going in the same direction as the original thought was in Cape Cod, that of all things belong to the community at large (communism).

Politicians take. 

The Copenhagen UN Climate Change conference is coming up soon which could subject the US to all sorts of profound globally induced regulations upon our very own economy.   All because some folks in high places have received and believed the reports from the UN that global warming was settled science.   But it’s not.   Over 31,000 scientists have said so.

Yet, even so, the US powers that be want to forge ahead with the stuff that the UN recommends subjecting the US to the current cap and trade tax bills pending in congress. 

Fortunately we’ve got one Senator with the wherewithal to combat the liberal statists.

Senator Inhofe (R-OK), Ranking Member on Environment and Public Works Committee says he intends to call for an investigation “On the IPCC and on the United Nations on the way that they cooked the science to make this thing look as if the science was settled, when all the time of course we knew it was not.”

Inhofe also plans to bring a “truth squad” to the Copenhagen conference.

Barbara Boxer took over as the chairman of the committee when the demos won the majority last year.  

Truth always wins out in the end.   The concept of “the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil” as it is written in the scriptures in 1st Timothy 6:10.   We work hard for our money.  We treasure the things that having money will allow us to do.   We love the freedom it brings to do, to get, and to go places that having money enables us to do.  We can’t live without it.  We have trouble living with it.  That’s the human condition.   But, where do we draw the line where money would come second, or third against our better judgment, against our commitments, our obligations, our responsibilities, our basic principles. 

Or do we even draw a line.  

Politicians have the same problem as we earthlings.  

Democrat Mary Landrieu has been one of the hold outs of the democrat party who committed to vote for the Reid Senate Health Care reform 2074 page package. 

So, what’s the rest of the party to do to get her vote?

Simple, send more favors to her State of Louisiana, all wrapped up in the regulations of health care, $100 million worth, special to her state only.  “On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.” 

The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.” 

I am told the section applies to exactly one state:  Louisiana,”

Now, they get her vote.   Principles be dammed.  

Send pink slips to Congress at the next election.   You guys are all fired. 

Gee, what a blow to those climatologists who foresaw temperatures rising at astronomical rates because of all the technologically manufactured human pollution, and cow released emissions rising into the atmosphere faster than the earth’s rotation can spin the stuff into space, or where ever the stuff goes to.

Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out

“Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.”

Lots and lots of explaining to do.   Ah, just change the name from “global warming” to “climate changes” and your agenda will be covered, regardless of what the Universe happens to do.   Oh, they’ve done that already.   Hmm?  So what’s the fuss all about?   Climate changes all the time.   Why?  Because . . . well . . . because the Universe is bigger and governed by powers greater than anything mankind could do to change it’s course.  We humans are just little peons amounting to a just microcosm of dust when put against this Universe.

They’re not coming to their senses, are they?   Are They now realizing it’s a great big United Nations scam and they can’t get the votes they need to pull off the biggest ever universal global power grab . . . ever.  

Back to the drawing board boys.   Earn your cub scout badge first.

Hmm.  Al Gore has quite the imagination.  His latest book: "Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis" was intentionally doctored to exaggerate the appearance of hurricanes in the northern hemisphere as well as reduce the amount of ice present in the Arctic.

Maybe even more ominously, Florida was so diminished it’s almost totally gone.  MRC NewsBusters.

Click on over and see the changes done to the real photo, the areas that were amateurishly photo shopped.   It’s of the same mentality prevalent in the hallowed halls of congress thinking that the rest of America (outside of the Washington electorate) is so downright stupid, they wouldn’t catch on. 

So, this is an example of how our congress works, of how the democrat controlled congress works, to put in more precisely.  Hmmm.

And to think that these yokels think they’re smart enough to reform our medical insurance industry?   5th graders could do better.

No doubt you’ve heard of some of the outrageous methods the government has used to send the money out to create jobs, and to save jobs from being eliminated all together.  Yet, no one can determine if a job would have been eliminated if the stimulus money had not arrived at that particular time.  The reports are coming in, and it does not look good for Biden, the democrats, nor for Obama, the chief stimulator.  Biden was the chief job saver, sending gobs of tax money that did not exist to Arizona districts that did not exist and coming up with the figure of creating 30 jobs at a cost of $761,420, or $25,380 each.   Not much of a job is it?   But, perhaps that 25 grand was for just just one month of work, or two weeks.  Who knows?  Not congress.   Not the district where the money went to.  Where is that money?  What was done with it?  Someone tell these guys to download a copy of QuickBooks.

This from the Washington Post.   Gee, even the reporters at the liberal news are getting, uh. . . say I say. . . fed up with their tax dollars disappearing.

“Another day, another flurry of outrage over the jobs numbers claimed by the government for the administration’s $787 billion economic stimulus program.”

. . .

“From the start, the Obama administration framed the stimulus act as a job-creating initiative, saying that it would create or save 3.5 million jobs over the next two years.”

Where’s the beef?   Where is that money?  Who is keeping those records that were supposed to be accounted for . . . to the penny?

Hey Joe, the VP, where is it?   Hey man, do you want to get re-elected?   Do you want to stay around?   Just give the American people the facts, man, just the facts, the down and dirty facts, all of it.   Is that so difficult?   Come on, just get a copy of QuickBooks and enter the data, print out the reports and that’s it.  Now you know where the money went to and how much.  Now, just get on the phone and call those people for their report . . . or else . . . send them an IRS agent.

Yeowee!   What is going on in this crazy modern world of ours?   According to the fast food industry, the America adult cannot be trusted with a little independence.

According to representatives from the nation’s six largest fast food chains, Americans use more than $18 million worth of ketchup per year, with nearly $7 million of the tomato-based condiment ending up smeared on the backs of chairs, on nearby tables, or in the hair of small children, and in some cases simply spilt in large, repulsive puddles on the floor.  More of the report.

And so the fast food industry, consisting of those mega operations like McDonalds and Burger King, are removing the self-serve ketchup dispensers and instituting a 2 package ketchup rule with each Burger meal.  And if a patron wants more than that they must fill out the Ketchup Request Form, which must be verified by the manager, an ID presented and a reason why additional ketchup is required.

And then we wonder why our federal government treats the average Joe American like little tots who need to be ruled because there are so many adults acting like little tots, little 2 year olds who kick up a hissy fit it they don’t get their way. . . immediately.   Whatever it takes be the first in line to gather up the bargains on Black Friday, and get out of my way when the doors open.

Time out corners don’t work.

Liberal policies don’t work.

Freedom is not working.

Independence is not working.

Dependency is not working.

Personal accountability is not working.

Responsibility is not working.

Spanking is out of the question.

Don’t offend me now, or else.

Churches are not working.  You get the same rush to get the front row seats.  You get the same actions in the parking lots.  You get the same rudeness by the kids running down the hallways to get to the game center.   You put up with their screaming tots at the restaurant after church.

So, what’s a politician to do?   Create more laws.  Make themselves the Nanny.  Reform health Care.  Reform the schools.  Reform the banking industry.  Reform the auto industry.   Reform the insurance industry.   Reform the food labeling industry.   Reform the agriculture industry.  Reform the energy industry.  Reform the alternative energy industry.  Reform the light bulb industry.  Reform the immigration rules.   Reform the defense operations.  Reform the Libraries.  Reform the marriage laws.  Reward the non offensiveness indoctrination industry.  Reward the Diversity industry.  Pass out checks when people want a new car, a new home, or install new energy star plus appliances replacing the old clunkers.  Reform the Constitution.   Dag gone it, colleges have specified specific locations on campuses that are free-speech zones.   All other areas of campus is restricted to approved speech no weapons areas.  A boy scout gets suspended from school for bringing his camping utensil to school to eat his lunch because administrators have no tolerance for that kind of stuff.  Straight talking conservatives get dis-invited to speak at commencement celebrations as the opposing side would shout them down and disrupt the speech and spoil the ceremonies.

On and on it goes, and where the country will go from this spinning age is up for grabs, but it currently looks like the black Friday crowd has been running things.