The Media Only Shows One Side

This is a very personal post from Lucy. I have mentioned to my family that I write on this blog and they giggle like you would not believe. Why? Well, because years ago my family referred to me as a "BLEEDING HEART LIBERAL". Therefore, you must be wondering what has happened to me over the years? I will be honest, I'm not sure I am as Conservative as all the writers on this blog but I definitely lean more to the Conservative side than Liberal. I have never been for BIG GOVERNMENT, EVER. I HAVE NEVER BEEN FOR SOCIALISM AND I BELIEVE WE GET CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THAT WITH EACH DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION.

I have believed in some Government programs and have always wished for reform in those programs but I now believe in my heart that those days are probably gone, reform is now being replaced with GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER, SOCIALISM.

Now, I am personally faced with watching and dealing with out & out 'poor people' milking the GOVERNMENT just because they don't want to work. I am currently offering shelter to my 59 year old cousin who about 5 years ago decided he didn't want to work anymore. HE IS NOT HOOKED ON DRUGS , AN ALCOHOLIC, BI-POLAR AND ON AND ON. No, he had always worked but overtime he just got sick of it and decided he was to old. He didn't prepare for retirement so he became homeless. We have given him money three times. My brother has forked over money once. Another cousin took him in and his sister who lives off of the GOVERNMENT TOOK HIM IN AND TRIED TO GET HIM ALL SET UP ON GOVERNMENT SUPPORT BUT HE WOULD NOT FOLLOW THROUGH, IT TOOK TOO MUCH EFFORT.

This cousin is currently living at my home. He gets up, eats my food, watches television all day while my husband and I work and then when we come home he wants to chit chat with us all night. He is claiming this time he has hurt his back (not sure how since he was not working or in a car wreck, he thinks it might be a latent injury. What?) and needs to 'rest' and hopes to be on his feet in a couple of weeks. A week has gone by and he told us he still is not feeling too well. He has been resting for five weeks already.

Back to his sister. His sister and her daughter currently live off the Government and have for years. Her daughter has never worked a day in her life, she is 27 years old. She was in a car accident and claimed she has a 'bad back' and she has mental problems. Those are the reasons we have been given for her disability. Although, when they are with the family all we hear is how intelligent this young girl is and how she spends all her time on the computer and she knows everything. They live in GOVERNMENT HOUSING. THEY HAVE CABLE, INTERNET, LAPTOPS, CELLPHONES AND ON AND ON AND REMEMBER THEY DO NOT WORK.

WE PAY FOR IT!!!! I guess this is what makes me stop being a BLEEDING HEART LIBERAL. Three people that can work. They choose not to work. Two people working the system getting everything from the GOVERNMENT BUT WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE GOVERNMENT. THE HARD WORKING AMERICANS THAT PAY TAXES LET MY TWO COUSINS WATCH TELEVISION AND PLAY ON THEIR COMPUTERS ALL DAY. MY THIRD COUSIN IS WORKING ON GETTING ON THE SYSTEM TOO. HE CURRENTLY GETS FOOD STAMPS AND MEDICAL CARE. IN THE MEAN TIME HE IS MOOCHING OFF OF ME.

Oh, yes, I will hear, "You, can't let these stories ruin it for the people who need it." BULL!! It is these stories that need to be focused on by the media so we get REFORM!!! Those are the people who need to be forced off of the system and give then there will be money to help the ones who really need it.

Think about it, if those three capable people people were working and paying into the system, well, gee, the GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE A LITTLE MORE MONEY!

I will do another post on my cousins philosophy why they won't work for $8.00 or even $12.00 an hour. Bottom line, they are too good for such a low wage and they get more from the GOVERNMENT. HELLO, THEY GET MORE FROM US HARD WORKING AMERICANS.

SO, YOU BLEEDING HEART LIBERALS, DO YOU WANT TO TAKE IN MY 59 YEAR OLD COUSIN? BECAUSE, REALLY, I'M SICK OF GOING TO WORK AND WATCHING HIM LAY AROUND BUT SINCE ALL OF YOU THINK IT IS O.K., I WAS THINKING MAYBE ONE OF YOU WOULD LIKE TO TAKE HIM IN?

Oh, that's right, it seems that the Conservatives are more generous in their private giving and maybe that is why I'm the idiot and I opened my door to my cousin. Therefore, at this point I'm helping to keep one more person off of the welfare plan but probably for not too much longer, he will figure he can get MORE FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND NO ATTITUDE COLLECTING THE CHECK.

Personally, I do believe families should be responsible for each other and helping family when they are down and out. Nope, not the BLEEDING HEART LIBERAL. TURN TO THE GOVERNMENT, NOT YOUR FAMILY, DON'T BOTHER FAMILY. In the end we all pay out the wazooo. Therefore, to you BLEEDING HEART LIBERAL, WHEN YOU TURN YOUR FAMILY OUT AND TELL THEM TO SIGN UP, YOU ARE PAYING AND THE MORE THAT SIGN UP FOR WELFARE THE MORE YOU ARE GOING TO PAY. HELLO!!

GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE IMAGE I USED FOR HOMELESS. THIS IS THE IMAGE THE MEDIA USES ALL THE TIME. THIS IS USED TO EVOKE SYMPATHY. THAT PERSON DOES NEED LOVE AND CARE. THE PEOPLE MILKING U.S. CITIZENS DON'T LOOK LIKE THAT AND MOST WOULD NOT GET THAT WAY IF FORCED BETWEEN WORKING OR LIVING IN A BOX!!!

Freedom By State

The Democrats believe people are idiots. Like Jacky Chan talked about his own Chinese people, the Democrats believe people need to be controlled. They tend to see Republicans as under-educated, hicks and red-necks who are incapable of making choices on their own.

Here is the study confirming this.

The Mercatus Center at George Mason University ranks each state according to how much freedom people have. They have three categories: social freedoms, economic freedoms, and another one I forgot. Here are the graph:


As you can see, the regression line bows under the weight of the oppressive Democratic rule on the right side of the graph. (It's a little counter-intuitive to put the Democrats on the right side, but we'll cut GM University some slack).

This is related to my earlier post on the study about how Republicans are statistically happier than Democrats.

The Democrat states allow less freedom because the believe people are mindless idiots. Especially in rural areas. They also presuppose that everyone is very moral so they generally believe moral vices should not be prosecuted.

(There's also another study showing Republicans are more educated than Democrats. I find this funny because Democrats think professors should make all the policy, but the Republicans are more educated.)

Criminality and Racism On The Court

Sonia Sotomayor makes the claim that criminals are simply victims of being poor:

I had more problems during my first year in the office with the low-grade crimes — the shoplifting, the prostitution, the minor assault cases ... In large measure, in those cases you were dealing with socioeconomic crimes, crimes that could be the product of the environment and of poverty. [1]

And the claim that Latina women are wiser than white men:

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.
[1]

I'm pleasantly surprised that she has ruled against the baby killers, but her defense of criminality in itself -that criminals have no control over their choices- is sheer evil.

And her claim about Latin women being more qualified is not much better.

Republicans Are Happier

A recent study has shown the happiest people are old, Republican, and male.

Before you go saying, "Republicans are usually rich, greedy, and selfish. Of course they're happier. They have all that money..." Check out this excerpt from the study:

If you're thinking that Republicans are happy just because they perhaps make more money, that does not seem to be the case. The study that found Republicans to be happier than Democrats also showed that it held true even after adjusting for income.

Which goes to show that if you believe in taking responsibility for your choices, protecting the country from domestic and foreign enemies, and not murdering babies, you are probably going to be happier than people who think we need to attack the achievers and loot their possessions.

This is a large part of the project here at conservative earnest. The "earnest" part is about living a genuine life where people do not make the buffoon error of waiting for the government to inject meaning into their lives.

Ultimately I believe happiness comes from knowing Jesus and finding reconciliation with God. I believe conservative folks are more inclined to do this for real (with a few exceptions, like Tony Campolo perhaps). There's more false religion among the democrats: Jesse Jackson, Jeremiah Wright, the Episcopalian church, etc.

If the Republicans can find meaning and happiness even while they are out of power, people should abandon the Democrat party immediately because whatever they have to offer is not worth it if you lose your happiness over it.

Presitge Vs. Life

Picture from here.

Remember

As we are heading into this three day weekend, how many of us remember what it's for? It's intention is not to have a big picnic on the beach; although that's what many people seem to think.

It's not the "beginning of summer"; although that seems to be what it's come to mean.

It's not about just having a day off from work and getting paid for it; but I bet that's what the majority of people know.

No Memorial Day is a very special day. One that is no longer respected for what it truly is intended to do: commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service.

Let's not forget these great men and women.

Let's not forget that there are people in our history (and even today) who laid down their lives so that we could have the freedoms we have. People who lay down their lives so that we can live our life day to day without the fear of attack from enemies or terrorist.

Please, let's not forget them. Don't let your young children let this holiday pass as just a day off from school. Take them to memorial parks; take them to decorated graveyards and show them how great these people were.

At the very least, don't let this day go by without a prayer of thanks for these great men and women. And don't let a day go by without giving back to those who serve in our military.

My greatest pleasure is going to the store, seeing a man dressed in uniform, and paying for that pack of gum he is buying. It's the LEAST I can do when he is keeping me safe at night.

Remember all those in the past, present, and future who strive to keep this country great!

Tuck Tail and Run Away

picture courtesy of The National Guard

Today is special election day in California. Don't you think that this would be a big reason for a governor to stay in the state? Don't you think that any meetings and other engagements a governor would have outside the state (even if it was with the President) should be rescheduled for another day?

Not according to our governor. Nope, he knows that his ridiculous bills to RAISE OUR TAXES again is going to fail miserably. So what does he do? He tucks tail and runs away! He left last night to go to Washington DC to meet with the President to discuss global warming! Apparently that is more important that an election in this state.

How important? Oh, it meant he had to drop everything! He couldn't go to the poles and vote; oh no! He had to get an EMERGENCY absentee ballot yesterday so that he could vote and then leave...on his private jet (how's that for caring about global warming).

WHEN all these bills fail today (which all the polls show they aren't just losing, they are losing in a landslide) there is going to have to be another emergency session of state congress to talk about the budget again...oh wait, our governor is talking about global warming; that can't happen. This is his pattern: get everyone all involved in something IMPORTANT like taxes, budget reform, etc...; when things get tough, distract everyone with global warming; talk about how we need to do this and this to reform California government; oops, things aren't going my way, quick let's talk about global warming; it keeps repeating.

I'll leave you with this: Last week in a press conference, a reporter was pressing him on the issues of these raised taxes we will be voting on today. The question was (loosely quoted) "How do we know that you won't try and raise our taxes again after this?" The great governator's response? "Because I...(long pause) I promise you" (said with very little confidence). See, he's made so many promises that he has broken that even he knows that he can't be trusted when he says he promises something.

Let Me Check My Notes ...

When Nancy Pelosi gets confronted about the CIA release detailing how much she knew about the interrogation techniques she panics and tries to read her statement.

Shouldn't she have known the answer to her question? She is extremely disingenuous in this clip. She's hedging that San Francisco will vote her into office no matter how much she lies.

When I listened to the clip on the Rush Limbaugh program I was shocked. His comment on it was that people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have to rehearse their stories and refine their strategy to succeed. Nancy Pelosi, on the other hand, is trying to lie without making much effort and it shows.

Real Clear Politics shows some recent polling on Nancy Pelosi. CNN recently showed her approval at 39% with 48% disapproving of the way she is handling her job. Rasmussen reports 43% of Americans believe the CIA might have lied to Nancy Pelosi, but only 41% find that likely. [1].

Like a kids who can't keep a secret

Did you hear? Biden decided that this "transparency in government" went into letting everyone know about the SECRET bunker they have for Vice Presidents when we are under attack...you know, like 9/11!

Does this mean that we now have to spend MORE tax payer money on rebuilding a new bunker? Oh wait, we'll be stimulating the economy! That's right, he did us all a favor!

I'm waiting for these people to take this job seriously. He really needs to start acting like a Vice President and not a little kid in a candy shop. I hope they do build a new bunker...for future Vice Presidents. It's very obvious they can't trust this one with that secret. I hope it takes them 4 years to build it...then he'll never get the chance to use it.

Of course, as an American, I hope there is never a need for any Vice President to use it; but it's apparent that they can't tell him anything! Seriously, my preschoolers can keep secrets better than this guy.

Strength of Character

I'm a little late to comment on the course of events here (being that they are pretty much done and now in the past); but I can't let this pass without saying one thing: I am PROUD to have our Miss California be Carrie Prejean.

Why? Sure, part of it is because I do align myself with her viewpoint expressed in the Miss America pageant. The big part of it, however, is that she has enough strength to stand up the next day and NOT back away from her statement.

So many people will give their opinion and then quickly retract it because it created waves. Not Miss Prejean. Nope! She stood up there, gave her opinion (which is what Mr. Hilton asked of her) and the next day said she was not sorry about her answer. That's the way she feels about it and she wouldn't change a thing!

More people need to be like her. More people need to stand by their statements. I am sick of politicians, celebrities, and many others "apologizing" for saying what they truly believe. I'm even okay if what they truly believe or feel is the complete opposite of my opinion. Just stand by your statement! I'll respect you for that.

Stop worrying about what other people think. It's a sign of weakness. Miss California showed nothing but strength in this entire debacle. I'm proud of her! I am proud that she represents my state...gotta be proud of something around here; this seems to be all we have to hold onto for now; at least until next Tuesday's vote!

Democrats Attack The CIA

The CIA recently issued a report showing the high-profile Democrats who accused the Bush administration knew exactly what interrogation techniques were being used.

The problem is not only that they did not object, but that they said they never heard about it.

The Democrats are now saying the CIA is a partisan organization. The headline of Manu Raju's article on the Politico is: "Democrats: CIA is out to get us".

Here's an excerpt:

“I think there is so much embarrassment in some quarters [of the CIA] that people are going to try to shift some of the responsibility to others — that’s what I think,” said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who sat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and was briefed on interrogation techniques five times between 2006 and 2007.

He was informed of the interrogation techniques five times between two years! The Democrats picked this fight, it blew up in their faces, and now they are seething through their teeth to save face.

Laughing to Death

Barack Obama at the White House correspondent's dinner. Speaking to the press he said:

Most of you covered me.
All of you voted for me.
Apologies to the Fox table.[1]

The Justice Department was considered "rigged" when more than 50% of the people there were Republicans, but when 90% of the press donates to the Democrat candidate it's attributed (by Politico) to the greatness of the president.

Also worth noting is Wanda Sykes standup routine:

I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight. ... Rush Limbaugh, I hope the country fails, I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a good waterboarding, that's what he needs.

And it has been reported that Obama thought that last bit was pretty funny. Gibbs tried to soften it during a press conference today. [1]

The democrats are the party of smiling, sarcastic, viciousness.

Unemployment Surge

I've been hearing a lot about unemployment, but it takes a chart to show just how bad it's been:



Despite all the policy differences between Clinton and George W. Bush, their lowest unemployment numbers were fairly similar: 3.8% under Clinton and 4.3% under Bush (unemployment had a bump right after September 11th, 2001).

Barack Obama, the candidate of Change, has certainly affected the employment numbers.



One explanation is that George W. Bush made a lot of mistakes that stayed economically hidden until the very last moment, right before the elections. Another explanation is that businesses saw Obama ahead in the polls and feared his socialist tax policies would affect their customer bases and increase their taxes and laid off their employees in anticipation.

The latter explanation makes more sense to me: Obama has been seizing failing companies like a European leader and the stable unemployment numbers begin to look like Europe's unemployment numbers:



The black line is Europe, and the blue line is the United States. (source)

Barack Obama wants to "change the foundation" of the US economy to make it more like the European Union. In other words, he wants a lot of people to be out of work.

You can look at the low Dow Jones index and say, "Well that just affects a lot of business people..." But the unemployment numbers show who is actually failing to find a job. That number has rocketed after the election.

Chrysler Seized By Obama

In case you've missed it, president Obama has used taxpayer money to buy shares in a failing US automaker (and given much of the controlling interest to the autoworkers' union. He has also attacked the investors into selling their priority shares for 1/3 of their value after declaring them to be common shares.

In his attacks he called the investors "hedge fund managers" and told them they needed to sacrifice for their country ... even though Obama hasn't sacrificed anything over the deal except for other people's tax dollars.

This is going to make people very unlikely to invest in the US economy. I will certainly avoid investing in any US automakers.

I've seen a couple articles on RCP criticizing Obama on the issue, but it has stayed out of the mainstream media spotlight. Here is an excerpt from a Bloomberg article:

The Obama administration brokered a deal that gave labor unions a 55 percent equity stake in Chrysler, putting their interests ahead of the secured interests of bondholders.

The bondholder response to the deal was positively creepy.

Politicians were probably offering them a worse deal than they could expect to get in bankruptcy court. Bondholders that have been participating in the government bailout program for banks -- and thus are especially susceptible to political pressure -- agreed to accept the deal. But many of the independent investors balked.

...

Stories circulated that the Treasury Department exerted extreme pressure behind the scenes when investors refused to take the deal. Public pressure was exerted as well.

President Barack Obama went to the podium to criticize the recalcitrant investors, and Democratic Representative John Dingell of Michigan pressed the threats even harder: “The rogue hedge funds that refused to agree to a fair offer to exchange debt for cash from the U.S. Treasury -- firms I label as the ‘vultures’ -- will now be dealt with accordingly in court,” Dingell said.

I recommend reading the whole article. There's a good comparison to the mafia making an offer "they can't refuse".

It also mentions that the Big Three automakers in the US spend 1.7x as much on car production as Japan! This is an expense imposed from runaway labor unions that get passed onto the customer. No, thanks Chrysler, Ford, GM. I'll stick to my Honda Civic.

The Beast?

No one is currently saying Barack Obama is the Beast, as depicted in the book of Revelation. No one in the GOP is making that claim, and certainly none of the Democrats are either.

But how conceivable is it?

One artist in New York has already completed a giant acrylic depicting Obama as a glorified Jesus. How many people would be ready to receive Barack Obama as the supreme antichrist if he indeed went down that path?

And it is a question of 'how many' and not a question of 'how deeply'. The beast will rise on the hysteria of 'The Public' and its approval (a double-minded approval, just like the journalists who are always ready to tear down their heroes). Unlike the real Messiah, he will not have the genuine support of an elderly grandma or a young child -nor will he seek out such people as his constituents.

Barack Obama has claimed to be a Christian, it is true, a different kind of Christian. During the Democratic primaries of 2008 he claimed to be a sinner "in the Christian sense", suggesting that he has never really been evil (like the rest of those poor, penitents) but evil in a purely doctrinal, abstract way.

Although he chose a minister to be his mentor -and to title of one of his books after one of his sermons- his minister seems to be more concerned with political affairs and race relations than presenting human beings with the Good News of finding reconciliation with God through Jesus Christ.

Barack Obama has made extremely vigorous efforts to gain the support of those who claim to be religious, even courting the evangelicals in his association with Rick Warren (and to some extent with Tony Dungy). During the primaries he attacked the Democrats (!) for blowing off religious voters. And he hasn't tried to end President Bush's faith-based initiatives (which about 80% of Americans have approved of).

On the other hand, as president, Barack Obama has made moves against the churches of America and their efforts toward the poor by de-incentivizing charitable donations.

He also issued an executive order allowing tax dollars to go toward oversea abortions (a move which has justified my vote against him all by itself as far as I'm concerned). He has also promised to give extensive, extensive abortion rights as soon the bill arrives on his desk.

I find it worth noting that his constituents are waiting for a messianic leader who will unify the world behind a global currency, a global government, a global culture, and a global "society". The moon will be in its 'seventh house' and Jupiter will align with Mars, etc. These are the things his advocates try to find in his foreign trips, and the president has given them many assurances.

Speaking of Obama's constituents, 86% of Jews voted for Obama. This assures me (to some extent) that Obama has better standing with Israel than other politicians like Jimmy Carter who takes the side of Hamas everytime (a terrorist organization), Jesse Jackson, and Pat Buchanan. His chief of staff is also very Jewish.

On the other hand there is something about Obama that reminds me of everything the Jews in Jesus' day wanted to see in a Messiah: good looks, pseudo-empathy, and a broad swath of popularity. These are things that Christ never really had, so it is easy to juxtapose Obama with Christ in their relation to the Jews. Also Obama has opposed Israel's best leader in the last fifty years: Netandyahu.

In summary I would say that if Barack Obama is the Beast, it is not immediately obvious at this point. On the other hand, that's exactly how I would profile the Beast early in his career. Remember that few people recognized early in the ministry of Jesus that he was the Messiah, and during the early part of his ministry Jesus made many attempts at concealing his role in the universe because he wanted to show a much truer, subtle part of himself.

Heroes And Icons

I drew these in Inkscape. Feel free to copy and use where ever.

I might do a better one of Reagan and Sarah Palin sometime as I am planning to use these images as much smaller than displayed here in a video game.