I found it laughable that our own president does not know the meaning of the word TAX.  Cornered by his own leftist friend George Stephanapoulus (Thank you George!  You are still considered to be a journalist in my book!) on whether the charge for health-care would be considered as a "tax".  Obama, if you remember, PROMISED the American people that if you make less than 250K, you will not see your taxes go up 1 dime.   Obama felt that Geoge was "stretching" a bit by pulling out a dictionary to make sure they were using the same definition.  Well now, we must first define the word tax.  Apparently Obama must use a different dictionary than the rest of America.  Maybe he uses the "Lawyers Dictionary" which must have a more liberal wording on the wording of tax. 

Tax : (verb) -

a word describing money taken from certain parties or individuals for the use of other individuals who shall be determined by the people in political power.   Said money shall only be considered to be a tax if said money is for a specific task or purpose that benefits another minority group and does not go into the general budget of said government and cannot be refunded by any means such as a 1040, 1040A, 1040EZ or ever given back to the person from whom the money was taken (stolen) by a rebate.  Also said money shall not be labeled a tax if the political party leader (head honcho) feels that such a label would be considered back-peddling on past campaign promises.   Also said money shall not be considered a tax if said money has been determined to be for the betterment of society as a whole and may save money over the long haul (10,20, 50 years) as projected by the CBO or other liberal think-tank budget groups that may give a better (lower debt ceiling) number.

     Please Mr President, you think we are THAT stupid?  We know when we are being lied to and we know when we are being taxed and when we are not being taxed.  Maybe you need to read the TAXPAYERS definition of the word TAX

Tax : (verb)

A word describing the action by a government to take hard earned money from hard working people for the purposes of:

1. Wasting money on an infinite number of programs that pander to a variety of special interest groups lobbied heavily by friends of the administration and other political allies\
2. Giving money to other lazy, slothful people who have no desire to improve their lives and pull their own weight but would rather remain as a burden to the rest of society.

Said money is ALWAYS a tax if said money is taken from ones own business or paycheck out of fear that NOT paying said money to said government will result in death, prison, fines or all of the above.  See also Taxx (as this fits the more common definition of a 4 letter word)

Tax:  (verb) - alternative definition

The process of removing money from MY wallet/paycheck so that I have less to spend and/or save for my childrens education or for my retirement.  Usually accompanied with other 4 letter words as well.  Usage:  "THE F---ING GOVERNMENT  F---ING TAXED ME AGAIN!"

   This may be Obama's "read-my-lips" moment for his administration for we are only 8 months into his term and I believe more such "sur-charges" as he would like to have them called that will be called into question again and again.

NOTE:

I think we all now know what the President needs most for Christmas (if he celebrates it).   A DICTIONARY.  We should all mail him the biggest dictionaries available with the page with the definition of TAX tabbed so he can locate it easily for future reference

      Well Congress is getting the message now and they are starting to shut off all funding for ACORN now!  That is good news, but in my opinion that is NOT ENOUGH!  To stop there will only allow ACORN to reform as another group (can you say PECAN?)  and then get their funding all over again.  Of course some people will get fired and maybe even go to jail, but it won't even touch the upper management of ACORN and will only implicate the lower level "expendable" foot soldiers.

     We need to force Congress to have a complete and independent investigation into ACORN from top to bottom.  We need to hold our politicians feet to the fire until they relent and do what they are required to do as our leaders.  Anything less than that is only a slap on the wrist.  (Honestly, you are going to waste millions of taxpayer dollars on investigating steroid abuse in Major League Baseball but you are going to look the other way on a group that has disenfranchised thousands of voters and has acted as bullies to extort money from groups).

   This past weekend I finally was able to watch the movie "300" ( I was alone in the house and finally had control of the remote).  I had heard about this movie and I love to watch movies based on historical people and events.  While this movie was stretched some for Hollywood appeal, the story is based on a true story and worth studying. 

   In the movie "300" you have a group of 300 men (these in my opinion are REAL men) who forego what their corrupt government has told them (they were mislead by politicians who were on the take by the Persians)  to go and make a stand on a narrow passageway to stop King Xerxes of Persia from marching on their city of Sparta.  300 against 100,000.   Not good odds by any means but for them the odds were good enough.  Trained to fight as a unit and to protect each other they formed a impenetrable wall against all that the Persians could through at them.   They relished the thought of dying for their city and for each other for to them "honor" was more important than "life". 

   We need to find inspiration in this movie as we fight against enemies that are well funded (George Soros, SEIU, Stimulus money, ACORN) and well armed (NBC,ABC,CBS,CNBC,MSNBC,CNN, NY Times, etc..).   We need to draw a line in the sand and say "This far you shall come and no further".   We need to stand shoulder to shoulder and with each other no matter what your political background.  Republican, Democrat, Indepedent, Libertarian, it doesn't matter.   All who love this country and stand for the Constitution and its principles that it founded are welcome.   We may disagree on other minor issues such as Abortion, Gay Rights, or the role of the US military in the world.  But we can agree

1. That our government is using us and that corruption has so infected our government that we cannot trust them to "do the right thing" anymore.  We agree that our leaders answer to lobbyists and speical-interest-groups that stuff 100 dollar bills down their pants on a regular basis rather than to us. 
   
2. That taking away anyones "freedom speech" is taking away all of our freedoms of speech.  If you limit speech by "diversity rules" or by vague and ill-defined "hate speech laws" you eventually put an end to our freedom to speak our minds and hearts.
   
3. That government should not being playing favorites with corporations and big business.  That no business is "too big to fail".
4. That the rule of law should always prevail (ie the Constitution).  That government to their to enforce contracts and not there to bypass them when they are inconvenient (what they did in the Chrysler bankruptcy was criminal and hurt thousands of retired pension holders who where "secured bond holder")  

    Washington DC may (and already has) thumbed their noses at us and told us that we are "not significant" and "not in the mainstream" to hopefully destroy our will, but we cannot turn back.  We must not let them discourage us.  We must press on.  We may need to make sacrifices like:

• Spend less on Christmas gifts (or tell your family members to make contributions in your name) this year in lew of giving money to help the 912 program, a Tea Party or a Politician you think will strive to fight this corruption (especially if they have NEVER held a political office in their life).  I don't recommend giving money to the GOP as I feel they will not spend it wisely and are only part of the problem.
  
• Use some of your vacation time to attend a protest or help with a campaign.
• Boycott WalMart, GE, GM or other companies that are sidnig with Big Government and writing them to tell them you are
• Giving up some cable channels such as HBO that promotes Bill Maher (we should be requesting our cable stations to supply us with a conservative channel listing that would take out MS-NBC,CNBC,CNN,HBO so we can know that our hard earned money is not going to fund stations we do not agress with
• Writing to your representatives and going to town hall meetings to express yourselves
• Talk straight, honestly and nicely with your neighbors about what is going on.  Get them involved!
• Run for office yourself!   Maybe you can be the first "YouTube-only candidate"
  

Post-Script
  My son loves this movie and will see it at any chance he gets and the same can be said for many of his friends.  They see what being a real man is in this movie and they desire that for themselves as well.  They know that schools have tried to "feminize" them and downplay their male roles in our country and  have taught that sacrifice for country is "stupid thing do".  They know that to fight for honor is never "stupid".

   Well as Yogi Berra once said, "It's De-ja-vu all over again!".    Here we are 233 years later and we are again at war with the powers in high places who have little regard for law or for our concerns.   When they need our votes we are "concerned and involved citizens" but after they are elected and we don't like their proposals we are "ASTROTURF!"  

   And not much has changed from 1776 either.  King George looked at people from across the ocean as indentured servants who he could tax at will, put in prison at will and terrorize at will.  He (and Parliament) put never ending taxes on the people that they thought were justified in order to pay for their "protection" from other countries.   The tea tax were also used to make non-British tea more expensive and force the colonists to buy only British tea.  People who got out of line were ordered to appear in court in Britain and could find themselves held over their waiting for their trial for months and even years with no resolution while their businesses back home went under.  King George also destroyed printing presses of newspapers that were "hostile to the crown" and he also paid other newspapers who were "loyal".  King George took away peoples rights to their properties and forced them to house (and feed) soldiers sent their for their "protection" but were really "foot soldiers" put there to put down any uprising at a moments notice.

    Today, we have an "FCC diversity czar" who is bent on limiting free speech (he sees it as over rated) using "diversity" as his front argument to disguise his true intentions.  We also have an administration that is closely tied to GE which also happens to own 3 major news networks and funding them indirectly for their "loyalty to the crown".  Also, the Obama administration wants to tax "health-care" benefits to pay for the government health-care system.  Of course as time goes on the government can increase the taxes to make their competition look worse and worse and force more and more of us onto the government plan (Sounds like King Georges Tea Tax to me).  Today,  we are paying tax money to groups like ACORN who are none other than "foot soldiers" who are loyal to Obama whom he can summon at a moments notice to put down any and all discenting voices.

    But the similarities are not all negative either.  In 1776,  56 men challenged the government and signed the Declaration of Indpendence.   These small colonists took on the BIG machinery of King George and won!   How did the do this?

Importance of Media
    They realized the importance of the media and winning the hearts and minds of the colonists.   Even back then 1/3 supported the movement (revolutionists), 1/3 were opposed (loyalists) and 1/3 could go either way (opportunists).  Today we have the same situation I believe.  We have 1/3 who want their government to be limited and founded on the Constitution.  1/3 don't care about the Constitution and want to "transform it" and 1/3 can go either way.   We need to win the hearts and minds of those caught in the middle.   We need to show a reasoned and rational approach to our protests.  We need to show that this has NOTHING to do with political parties (they are meaningless now).  We have seen how the town hall meetings have all but destroyed the "public option" and have shown people that they are not alone in their fears about government health-care.  For that is how the mainstream-media wants us to feel.  By only showing people who are FOR the public option they can make those who are against it feel along and out-numbered.   We need to see that this is NOT the case and that we are actually in the majority.  I find it funny that even Obama is distancing himself from the public-option saying that he made the mistake of letting Congress write the health-care bill and not taking a more active role in it.  Paraphase:  "Don't blame me!  I didn't write the bill!" 

Size does not matter
    The revolutionists decided that they were going to defeat the British on THEIR OWN ground-rules.  If that meant taking pot-shots from behind trees and rock walls then so be it even if the other side called them "cowards".   We too now see this working in our favor as well.  We have seen the videos of those 2 brave people who have trapped ACORN in their own corruption.  By posing as a prostitute looking for a loan to run a brothel, they used ACORN's own corruption against them.  They may have single handidly brought down one of the largest political organizations in history armed only with a hidden camera.  We need MORE of this.  We need people inside ACORN willing to expose the wickedness that has infested this group and is using black and other minority groups as 21st century slaves.   YouTube video was used to catch the "Green Czar" Van Jones and other radical czars and hang them with their own words.   We can't wait for a "60 Minutes" or a "20/20" to catch these guys (they have become meaningless zombies for the Obama administration anyway).  We have to do it ourselves.   We all need to become journalists and commentators.  This puts the other side at a disadvantage.   If all they have to do is watch Fox News to see what the other side is saying then they can put a head-on assault.  But if ALL of us are reporting and commentating and investigating, there are too many "fronts" to manage at once (no matter how many of us get "flagged" by the administration).


Passion DOES matter
    The revolutionists also knew that God was on their side and their cause was just.  This fueled the passion needed to endure the long and difficult war (we forget that the war lasted over 5 years).   That passion would eventually overtake the "paid army of soldiers" sent from England to put down the fires of revolution.  We need to see that OUR passion is REAL and theirs is not.   We protest this government for honor and for truth and to return our country to its founding principles of freedom and the pursuit of happiness, while they do it for $8 an hour.  You can't manufacture that passion.  You can't bottle it and sell it.  It's either there or its not.   We stand with hand-made-signs made with feeling and concern.  They stand with pre-stamped-manufactured signs that all say the same thing because they don't know why they are there.   The other side will try to paint us as "astroturf" and as paid hacks for the GOP but we know who were are.
   
   We need to take notes from the 1776 Revolution and apply them to our problems today as very, very little has changed.   Elitists have taken over our government and view us with disdain and apathy.  They see us as sheep that need to be "nudged" (in reference to Cass Susteins book) to behave in ways they want us to rather than as a free people who can look out for thier own self and collective interests without the need of a nanny-state.
  

TRIGGER!

Who here thinks for 1 second that this "trigger" is never going to be pulled?   We all know that when it comes to spending billions of dollars, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid both have "itchy fingers" on the "trigger" and will pull it if one insurance company "gets out of line".  We all know the bar will be set very low that will cause this trigger to go off and once it does, like a nuclear bomb, there is no going back and what's done is done forever.

They have tried CO-OPS to appease us, but we all know that is slang for "government takeover" (see what happened with AmTrak, Fannie-Mae, Freddy-Mac .... boy that sure went well!).   Now they will only do a government option if certain changes in healthcare don't meet their objectives and standards.  Of course we won't be privy to that information until after they pass the bill, for you can better your bottom dollar that there won't be anymore town hall meetings to get feedback from us either.  After all, many of our congressmen today view the town halls as THEIR meetings and not OUR meetings.

Congress!  Stop trying to re-package CRAP!  Crap is crap no matter how you sell it.   The American people don't trust you with their health or their money and this case, you want to control BOTH.  You need to stop listening to marketing pundits who will give you the "magic words" that will open the doors to our bank accounts and start listening to us the American people. 

   As a Christian I am tired of non-Christians ( and yes, I include our President in this group ) using this tag line as an argument for why I should take out my wallet and give them more money to waste.  Do I know what Jesus would do?  Frankly, I don't think Jesus would give it more than 10 seconds of his time as his purpose here on earth was to take care of a MUCH more pressing issue:  our eternal health.  His perspective on our lives is very different from our puny view for what is 80 or 90 years when compared to eternity? 

  One good example of Jesus lack of concern about THIS life is shown in Luke 12:13-15

"13 Someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me." 14 Jesus replied, "Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?" 15 Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

     The man had no legal right to the inheritance for it was the father's decision on how his possessions would  be handled after his death. Often it was decided to leave all of it to the oldest son so that it would not be divided down over years and years until nothing was left.  The man in the crowd obviously sees this as an injustice and demands Jesus "change the system".   But what does Jesus point out instead?  He points out the problem of greed (ie coveting) and that your abundance of possessions (I guess we would add in health care into this).   Jesus always was pointing people to what lay beyond this life and to not get caught up into this one too much. 

   But didn't Jesus care you the health of his followers?  After all, he did HEAL a lot of people.   Yes that is true, but again his purpose was to not just take care of a persons current medical needs, but instead was to show who he REALLY was and that he was not just another rabbi but was the actual Son of God. 

    But don't you as a Christian have a moral imperative to take care of others?   Yes I do.  But this is as ME a person.  It is not my responsibility to take YOUR money however (no matter how "moral" the need is) and use it for MY needs.   I, as a person, can only respond to another persons needs.  And this is really what is missing in this whole argument.  You see, Jesus wanted us a people to help meet each others needs on a one on one basis and not as some nameless-faceless-you-are-a-government-number-system.  Jesus set us an example, as he met with each and every person to hear their needs and to fill them with his love and power.   That is the main point of his ministry.  He never (although he could have) waved his hand and healed everyone in the world at once. 

   Also, people often miss the reason why Jesus engaged with people on their physical needs.  When all is well , we don't see a need for God in our lives.  But when our bodies betray us and we see how truly weak and fragile we are, we run crying to God to help us.  God then can use this time to reach us and show us that MORE than our bodies need healing and that our very souls need forgiveness that only HE can provide.  Jesus never meant for HIS mission to be used as a political ping-pong-ball to be slapped from one end of the political table-top to the other (and I mean that by BOTH the LEFT AND THE RIGHT).  

   Finally, if the left is going to push God out of our schools, courts and laws. Then they have no business peddling God as a reason to pass on of the biggest power grabs in our nations history.   President Bush would have been lampooned on every late-night talk-show and ever cable news channel (except Fox) for using this angle, yet since it's Obama and it's desperation time we let him off the hook.   Frankly this makes me want to puke my guts out. 

   I think that Obama should be asking us "What would George Soros do" rather than  "What Jesus would do", as I believe he spends more time talking to him rather than to Jesus.

   Just when 1 czar goes down in flames, Obama has already proposed yet another czar by nominating Ron Bloom to be the Manufacturing Czar.  These czars are populating the White House faster than rats (they have many other similarities as well).   What upsets me the most about this latest czar is that he has nothing to do with actual manufacturing of products but instead has worked as a union negotiator and so has more knowledge on how to DESTROY manufacturing in this country and not how to improve it. 
 
   Congress needs to bring this un-constitutional program under control and vet all of these czars because apparently the White House is not doing its job.  Both the democrats and republicans need to come together and stop this madness for it affects both parties equally for when a republican gets back into the White House they will follow the shoes of their former leaders and use this loop hole even more to work around congress.   We need to return balance to the 3 branches of government because right now the executive branch is acting more like the ONLY branch of government. 

   The next czar we should be concentrating on is none other than Mark Lloyd, the FCC diversity czar.  This man is the next most scary individual in the Obama administration.  As the FCC diversity czar he wants to fine all radio stations 100% of the operating budget that don't meet his definition of "local diversity" and give that money to NPR.  He too has ties to Marxism and is on record praising none other than Hugo Chavez for his ability to take over the media in his country.  Lloyd has also proposed controlling the Internet as well and sees nothing wrong with limiting peoples 1st amendment rights. 

   Wake up America!  They are taking a flame-thrower to our Constitution in the name of "diversity of thought". 

   I used to wonder why a super-rich person like George Soros would want to support liberal candidates and causes when most likely those candidates would cause taxes to be increased and therefore take more money from people like Soros.  Maybe I was naive and never realized that the super-rich never have to concern themselves with paying taxes as they can easily shelter their money abroad in Swiss-banks and other locations.

    But then I later read an article on how Soros used his influence to affect other countries economies as well and is become a multi-nationally-hated-person as well.  So what's in it for him?  I used to think Soros was a capitalist but now I see his is NOT a capatalist, but instead is an OPPORTUNIST.  Capitalists believe in owning companies, growing capital ( land, resources, buildings, equipment, patents etc..).  But people like Soros are merely opportunists and look to make money when and wherever possible. 

   To help illustrate my point on how Soros makes his money, imagine you go to a 3 horse race where the odds on the horses are:

             A) 2 to 1
             B) 3 to 1
             C) 20 to 1

   Clearly horse A or B is favored to win and most people are going to put their money on them.  Soros however comes in and puts his money on C.  Now that looks crazy!  That horse has hardly ANY chance to win.  Why would he do that?  That is because unlike you and me who place our bets and then go sit in the stands to await the race results, Soros is so rich he can payoff the barn manager to let him into the barn.  He then goes in and takes a 2-by-4 and wacks horses A and B right in the legs and maybe even in the balls. He then goes out and watches his horse go on to win the race.  We play by the rules .... Soros does NOT.

    Now how does he do this in the real world?  Soros places legal "bets" on Wall-Street called "hedge funds".  In Great Britain he bet that the british pound would go down in value. He then used his billions to support the Labor Party (our democratic party) candidates and got them elected.  Once elected he made them ratchet up their government spending to unbelievable amounts.  This of course caused GB to print more money to cover their spending and WHALA!  The British pound when down in value and Soros ending up making BILLIONS of dollars.  He also did the same to the Japanese dollar and now he wants to do the same here in the U.S. 

    We need to wake up and see that it's NOT Obama who is in control here, but instead Soros who is pulling the strings behind the scenes waiting to collect his billions when our dollar tanks from all of our spending.  We need to reform Wall Street and prevent this kind of "betting" from being done that in the end hurts us the American people and making people like Soros even more rich.

Obama is now considering another prime-time address to the American people.  He has now had so mush prime-time hours he should really get a regular slot on NBC.  While people are tiring of these constant "Infomercials" that are trying to sell Obamacare as the next best thing since the George Forman Grill,  there may be a call for a new drama/sitcom that NBC may want to explore.

Title - "The Obamas"  (a small takeoff on an HBO drama you all may be familiar with)

Cast of Characters

Obama - the patriarch of this family.  He will have to constantly take on radical ghosts of his past who will come into play on a regular basis.  Some will be given high-level czar positions and have billions of stimulus dollars at their feet with little or NO oversight. Obama will be torn as he must appear to be "moderate" when down deep he is as left as left can get.  He will struggle with tele-prompters that will fail in the middle of critical speeches and low level support staff will "pay" for their stupidity.  He will of course be followed by a large group of lap-dog reporters constantly asking for his autograph and a chance to have a photo with him (and maybe even an interview).  He will tire of these idiots from time to time as they are such suck ups (See Joe Gibbs later on)

Michele - the matriarch of the family.  She will struggle trying to keep the strong yet feminine view in front of the public.  She will need to have constant workout regimens to keep her arms in great shape.  She will be torn between being the mother she knows down deep she needs to be but yet be the inner-city power broker she also sees as her higher calling.  She must also be constantly channeling her inner-Jackie at all times and be forced to wear overpriced clothes from French fashion designers (even if she's handing out secondhand clothes at the local Salvation Army).  She will lament that it, "It's a tough life, but someone's got to do it".

The Children - they will give lighthearted situational comedy as they throw sleep-overs with the Jonas Brothers and have food fights with the White House staff.  They can also provide "teach-able moments" to the viewers as they struggle to understand the history they are being taught at school with the radical history their parents had long taught them back in Chicago.

"Crazy" Uncle Joe Biden - Crazy Uncle Joe will spend most of his time strapped to a chair with a sock stuffed in his mouth. When allowed to, he will provide additional comedy relief as he speaks moments of "liberal truth" that will ultimately end with the sock being shoved quickly back into his mouth and his chair rolled back into the closet.  From there, muffled cries of "I'm sorry!" will emanate throughout the White House.  Note: its is not certain if Uncle Joe's role (contract) will be continued for a 2nd term or not.  But for now he is of little threat (or use for that matter) to the current administration.  We will just have to wait and see...

"Clueless" Joe Gibbs - Joe's character will mostly be based on Mr Burn's assistant "Smithers" from "The Simpson's" as every sit-com needs a stupid, gutless, suck-up to follow them around.  Joe's favorite line will be:   "What do I say?  What do I say?  I can't handle logic!" which will get rounds of laughs from the fake audience.   He will of course get no respect from either his boss or his suck-up counterparts in the media (who know they can do his job better than he does it).  He will be mostly used as a "tool" for the administration and will be constantly in fear of being terminated only to be saved by the public's short attention span and a constant barrage of FAKE crisis situations. 

Side Characters

Rahm Emmanuel - Rahm will play the foul-mouthed "business" associate.  Known for his long tirade of 4 letter words (he once said that "the Republicans can go F--- themselves")  he will act as the White House bulldog and beat down any person who threatens the president's agenda.   He will make calls to "educate" a variety of governors who receive stimulus money as to what their role is in this country (he actually did this).  He and Obama will have quiet moments in the "O"val office reminiscing about the good old days back in Chicago when all you needed to get things done was a pre-stuffed ballot box and a baseball bat. 

Nancy Pelosi - no sit-com would be complete  without the nosey neighbor who is constantly coming around uninvited and wasting their time with long drawn out stories of having to sit on a lear-jet for hours making trips back to the left-coast to see her "constituents"  (some times referred to as "astroturf").   She could fly in on a broom or appear in a puff of smoke (we won't even need special effects either), but that would come too close to the Bewitched show of the 60's.  She will constantly get into fights with Rahm and will remind the president that she is just 1 heart beat and a declaration of insanity (see Uncle Joe Biden) from the presidency.  Of course these will always be said "in jest" so as to not require the help of the Secret Service.  She will also remind Obama that while he is "currently" limited to two 4 year terms, she has NO SUCH LIMITS and that given the culture of her district she is essentially QUEEN-FOR-LIFE .... Ha Ha Ha Ha... and POOOF!  She's gone!

Andy Stern (head of SEUI) - what Mob drama would be complete without the "union boss" to kick around from time to time.  Andy's lines however will be limited to: 

    - How much money?
    - How many people do you want to show up at ______?
    - Who do you want educated?
    - YES SIR!  YES SIR! YES SIR!

Reverend Wright - as another "crazy uncle", Rev Wriight will show up from time to time just to say HI to the family and will inquire why he hasn't seen them in church recently (or EVER for that matter).  There will be muffled, low-tone discussions between him and Obama about that "M-thing" and certain service videos that may be damaging.  But the two will remain friends and each of their meetings will end with "handshakes" and winks of their eyes to each other.

Mark Lloyd (FCC diversity czar)- Mark will call in most of his dialogue from Venezuela as he receives his training from the Jedi-Master of communication control, Hugo Chavez.  When he has mastered the art of "community mind control"  he will return to implement "the Plan" to control the evil Talk-Radio system that has been a thorn in the side of liberals for decades.  (sorry if this is decaying into a Star Wars theme, I just could not resist).

The Czars  - Obama could be shown preciding over meetings at a large round table with all of his czars in full attendence.   He can give speeches to them reminding them of who they owe their allegiance to and how they answer to no one BUT him!   He can talk about how the other "secretaries" are nothing more than window dressing and that THEY are the real wheelers and dealers.   Occasionally one of these czars could get into trouble by being too "greedy" or "too loud" and be replaced at the will of the president.  

Hilary Clinton - Hilary plays the constant competing democratic "boss" whose real goal is to ultimately replace Obama.  Obama, in his wisdom, follows the Mob's cardinal rule:  Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer.   By giving her a position as Secretary of State he accomplishes that goal at the same time having reasons to send her away to places like Zimbabway or Nigeria and too busy to re-ignite her political base here at home.  She will on occasion be seen trying out "the chair" in the Oval office pretending to be the president and gaining great satisfaction from it  (could make for some very funny "dream sequences").  Her husband, Bill, will make occasional appearances and will be seen hitting on various staff members (maybe even Michele?  We don't know yet) and searching the White House for hidden playboy magazines.  Obama will also have to endure long drawn out "speeches" from Bill on what he did during "similar situations" when he was president.  For comedic relief the president could call on the Secret Service to remove Bill from the office.

As you can clearly see, the plot lines would almost write themselves and given the crappy writers at NBC these days, I think they should look good and hard into this to help them boost their ratings.

oh but wait.... they may get a visit from Rahm ..... just forget it!

Vote Out The Elitists!!!

     I am tired of seeing politician after politician on BOTH sides of the aisle that seem to think THEY know better than US.   I know that many republicans are rubbing their hands together in glee as they see the town hall attendees shouting down their democratic "tax-masters" and they think that 2010 is "in the bag for them".   But let us not forget that we gave them 8 years to "do the right thing" and what did THEY give us?   They gave us:

   - NO change on immigration
   - TONS of pork-barrel spending
   - NO Legal reform (this is needed 100 times more than health-care reform)

    We need to be as vigilant with them as we are with the democrats for they very are difficult to tell apart these days.  We need to look beyond petty single issues such as abortion, gay marriage and school prayer.   Many will vote WHOEVER will sign up for these issues but not look beyond to more pressing issues such as:

   - Taxes (when are were going to simplify our tax code?  ITS A BLOODY MESS!!)
            - why don't we go to a Federal Sales Tax instead and get government out our pay checks?
   - Government spending
              - Just how much are we in debt anyway???
   - Immigration
              - All I will say here is:  BUILD FENCE
   - Federal Reserve Reform
             - Why can't we audit their books?
   - Legal Reform
             - We need "LOSER PAYS" and caps on "Pain and Suffering"
   - Energy Reform
             - We need NUCLEAR energy NOW!

     It's not the RICH that are screwing us, it is the ELITISTS.  The ones who have gone to "Harvard" or "Yale" and think that their breading and education make them superior to everyone else.   They dictate which candidates (on both sides) we are going to choose from and who is going to be nominated.   I am reminded of an interview with Karl Rove on Glenn Beck a few weeks ago.  When the name "Sarah Palin" came up in the discussion you could see the blood leave Karl's face as he tried mention that the Republican party has "many good up and coming candidates for the future".  It was almost as if Karl was saying "No! No!  Not Sarah Palin!   She's not polished enough!  She's too simple!"  Well sorry Karl, you had your turn (8 years if I remember well) and all you could give us was George Bush.  

     Let us not forget that one of the best Presidents we ever had did not have a law degree or attend an ivy-league college but instead went to a simple state school by the name of Eureka College where he majored in economics and sociology.   That president was none other than Ronald Reagan.  While Reagan was often chastized as looking at the world too simply, he gaves us the strongest economy and took down one of the most tyrannical countries this world had ever seen, the Soviet Union.

We don't need ELITISTS we need people with "COMMON SENSE"

   We need to all write our beloved president and thank him for what he has been able to accomplish in his first 6 months of office.  Here we were (me included) in America slowly being boiled alive like the proverbial frogs in a pot of hot water.  Both parties were slowly ratcheting up the spending and growing the federal governments powers while we were completely  unaware.  We were (at least we thought we were) happy to just do our "civic thing" and go an press a button for his senator or congressman every 4 or 6 years and then go on living our own lives unaware as to what was REALLY happening in DC.  We may have complained from time to time and written a letter to the editor or to our congressman, but as long as it didn't cause us to take action our government didn't have to worry about what we thought of them.

   Then came along President Obama who in his own arrogance and impatience decides now is the time to turn the heat from medium to high as his assessment was that the American people were "ready for change"  (I think that is code word for "dead").   But we were not "dead" but were lying motionless on the bottom of the pot and doing nothing.  Now we have realized that someone is trying to kill us and we are desperately trying to jump out to save ourselves.   If it had not been for Obama, we may have never realized.   Had he taken the patient route that all the other previous presidents had taken nothing would have changed and the water temperature could have been raised by a couple of degrees.

    Now there is nothing he can do.  Turning down the heat will not change our view of our predicament.   We have been allerted now and we are not going back into that pot again.   Obama's views and friends which were ignored during the election are being more thoroughly examined and studied.   The mainstream media may still be his friend (probably always will be), but their influence on our country is waining quickly (who cares how many stations GE controls if nobody watches them).  People are confronting their "tax masters" and demanding answers in town halls ( I am going to my first one tomorrow at Granite Bay High School).  People are gathering for tea parties across America and forming 912 groups to "organize" (yes TWO can play that THAT game Mr. Obama).     

   Thank you Mr President for waking us up!   Keep up the good work you are doing!
 

   My son and daughter both love the "Transformers" movies.  I am not from that generation, but I can appreciate the movie magic used to make simple cars transform into large robots with personalities. 

   Somehow I feel our country is like these movies.   In the movies, these cars and other forms of machinery are sitting around being used by us humans.  They are docile and mostly devoid of any threat to us here on earth.  Then, one day, without any warning, these machines come to life and begin to threaten our very existence.  

   Now today, seemingly harmless legislation and policies and political groups put into place  (and being added to by the minute) are "coming to life" and are threatening our very way of life as Americans.   Czars (interesting name since most of his czars are open communists to start) which "shadow" other department secretaries, who have MORE POWER and LESS OVERSIGHT are added to the Obama administration.  Millions and billions of dollars from the stimulus plan are being funneled to these czars for their own use and no one is saying a word.    Obama, who was against the wire-tapping program of the Bush administration is EXPANDING its scope and is calling for his followers to inform on "fishy" emails.   Also, Obama now wants to build a "youth army" to do his bidding and make them as well funded as our regular military.  

    Are you ready to be "transformed"??   I'm not.  We need to link arms and hold the line on this administration and say "THIS FAR YOU SHALL GO AND NO FURTHER!!!!".   

    1) Write your congressman and senators on a regular basis (don't wait for another crisis to hit).  Even if they are democrat, they need to hear from you.  Tell them you will stand out on street corner and call for their removal during the next election. 

    2) Write your newspaper or write a blog like this one

    3) Attend a Town Hall even if you don't get inside.  Make your voices heard (just like in "Horton hears a Who") 

    4) Attend a Tea Party even if its just for a few minutes or an hour.  Make a sign.  Make yourself visible.
             - if you can, take vacation time and go to the Sept 12th Tea Party in Washington

    5) Use bumper stickers to get your message across.

    6) Talk "politics" with your neighbors and friends.  I know we don't like to, but WE HAVE TO.

    7) Fund the opposition.   Give money to another campaign.  Even if you "like" your congressman.  If they ahve been there for more than 2 terms, its time to get them out  (especially if they are a lawyer by trade).

    8) Call into a talk radio show

Now is not the time to sit and let someone else do it!

    There seems to be more at play here than what meets the eye.  On the surface it looks like Obama is in charge as President of the United States.  But below the surface there seems to be other people who are pulling the strings.

    First let's look at Obama's over use of the teleprompters.  He seems to rely on them as if he has no idea what he is supposed to say until the prompter turns on.  He hardly ever gives a speech without them being by his sides.   One must wonder,  is he being told what to say?   For when he is "off-prompter" he fumbles and misspeaks as he is not fully aware as to what his handlers want him to say. 

    Next, let's look at how Obama is not in "sync" with other people in the administration.  He says, AARP is "endorsing his healthcare plan" yet AARP has done no such thing.   His Health-and-Human-Services Secretary, Kathleen Reuters, says in an interview that the "public option" is "optional" and doesn't need to be part of the health-care bill.  But the next day, Obama makes the press statement that nothing has changed and that its is a MUST-have for the bill to pass his desk.  Another example, Obama says he is not going to prosecute people of the previous administration for any "war crimes" or "torture crimes", yet his own AG William Holder comes out and says he is going to assemble panels to investigate wrongful torture used by the CIA.   Are these people not communicating to each other (boss to employee) or are they not getting the same memos from "on high" ( BIG-boss to employees).   Maybe there is some disagreement between Obama and his "bosses" on this issue.  Maybe he doesn't want to prosecute, but "they" do.

   Also, there is the question of the people who he has assembled around him in his administration.  People like his Green-Jobs czar, Van Jones, who is openly espousing COMMUNIST.   There is also, Mark Lloyd his "diversity officer" in the FCC who also espouses communism (he especially praises Hugo Chavez and his revolution in Venezuela) and wants to "fine" radio companies that are not "diverse enough"  100% of their operating costs for the year (essentially put them out of business).   There is also his science czar, John Holdren, who thinks what China has done with force sterilization and 1-child-per-family is a "good thing".    So why would the first black president want to smear his image with people like this?   Wouldn't Obama want to go the route of Jackie Robinson and set a good example for those who follow him?   Unless of course, he had no choice in the matter and other people are telling him who will be in his administration.  He may be like a football quarterback with a microphone in his helmet, he may be given the "game plan in the locker room, but is not being allowed to "call the plays on the field".

   Finally, are these very LARGE bills that appear out of thin air that most on the democrat side have no interest in reading as if they "know who wrote them and therefore trust their direction".   Here we are just 6 months into the Obama administration and we have had 1073 page bill for the stimulus bill,  1200 page Cap-and-Trade bill and 1300 page Health-Care bill.   Where did these come from?   Who wrote them?  They certainly did not write themselves!    Do the democrats have magic little elves running around whipping these up for them?  I seriously doubt that.   No!  Instead these were written up by groups like ACORN and the SEIU and communist groups like "The Apollo Project".    And who is funding these groups?   Is George Soros?   Probably.   Also, one has to wonder when the President has his weekly meeting with the head of the SEIU, who is talking and who is listening?

We need to ask these questions and need to find out ....

WHO IS IN CHARGE HERE?

   Marie Antionette's famous last words were... "LET them eat cake".   These words showed the arrogance of the ruling class in France and she paid dearly for it later on by literally losing her head.   Of course the "ruling class" has never learned its lesson.   By the early 1900's in America a new ruling class called "Progressives" had come on the scene.  These elitists thought themselves to be better educated and and also better "bread" than their working class rivals.  They made inroads into politics with the likes of Teddy Rosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and later FDR.  These elites pushed secular programs such as forced-sterilizations, birth-control and alcohol-prohibition thinking they could stem the tide of uneducated ill-reputes with poor genetic backgrounds.  They thought themselves to be of higher standards than the rest and felt they needed to "guide" these poor souls as "parents". 

   Today these progressives are still alive and well.  They still see themselves as better than the average American who are too stupid to care for their own needs.   Out of their own benevolence they decide what freedoms we will enjoy and not enjoy.   If they see a freedom as potentially harmful to us as their subjects they are sure to swoop down as a "helicopter parent" and remove it from us for our own good .  

   Recently, Obama made the statement at a town hall meeting that government is "going to LET you keep your insurance and your doctor".     Isn't that amazing?   The all-knowing, all-powerful, ever-benevolent Obama is going to LET us keep our freedom of choice of our health-care.   They have decided for now to LET us decide for ourselves what is good for us.   Can you hear the arrogance in that message?   For how long will they LET us keep this freedom?    Until they think we are not fit to make that choice anymore?  Where do you get the POWER to take that freedom from us?  It is NOWHERE in the Constitution Mr Obama!   You have no power in any of the articles and YOU KNOW IT!   But you have pushed your limits as far as they can go, hoping no one every calls you on it.  But now we are wising up and we are re-learning our rights under the Constitution and we are going to hold you and all your ilk to the oaths (which you must have had a terrible time keeping a straight face while you were reciting) you made when you took office.

   It's not health-care that needs reforming.  It's our whole government that needs to be thrown out.   We needs leaders who don't look down their noses at us and treat us with disdain and click their tongues on the roof of their mouths as they wag their heads back and forth like disappointed parents.   We need leaders who will leave us alone.  Who will allow us to be free once again from their rules and their taxes and who think that we "need to be saved".     We don't need saving Washington!   We are more than capable of taking care of ourselves.

   LET them be voted out of office!

    So now Obama is trying to channel Jesus Christ into the healthcare debate.  Arguing that opponents are "bearing false witness" and that "we are our brothers keeper" and therefiore making opposing his bill a "sin".   Wow!  Ca you imagine George W Bush trying to pull the same argument for the Iraq War or his failed Immigration Bill ??    The media would be having a field day and the late night talk shows wouldn't need to have guests appear on their shows as they could fill an entire hour with "W" religious jokes. 

   Maybe Obama should review the commandments first, especially the 2nd commandment which says:  Thou Shalt Not Take The Name Of The Lord Thy God In Vain".   Often this is mistakenly seen as thou shalt not use vulgure language such as damn or other 4 letter words.  But in its truest sense of the word it means to not use God as your witness or your way to influence others.   You see, God's name invokes a sense of "fear" in all of us.  That can be a good thing.  But when used as a form of "persuasion" then it can become a tool.   Imagine you are in ancient Israel and a prophet has just told you that God will destroy your city unless you give so much of your wealth to him or to the temple.   The city leaders would be scared into following the "prophets" demands as no one would want to take the chance of  upsetting God.  That would be using God's name in vain.  

    Today, leaders are doing the same thing.  Using God's name to conger up fealings of sympathy or fear to make us "give them our gold".  What angers mean even more is that this president (who I have yet to hear anything about him going to church since he has moved to Washington DC) is so desparate now thay he is willing to go this route.   Had he been making this argument all along, it might be a different thing.  But he is pulling this out of his bag of tricks only as a last ditch effort. 

    As a Lutheran, I have learned that we as Christians live in 2 kingdoms.  As Marthin Luther once said, we have one foot in God's kingdom on the right and one foot in the world's kingdom on the left.   The problem has always been when we try to mix the 2 kingdoms together and that is why our 1st ammendment prohibits Govermnent from getting involved in religious affairs (government cannot tell me what to believe or not believe).   To me, Obama is violating this 1st ammendment by his pronouncement that opposing his healthcare bill is a "sin".   Is he telling me what to believe as a Christian?   Did God speak to him in a dream?  Does he see himself as a new Messiah?   Even Bush didn't take his faith that far!  

   I am sorry Mr President,  you are not my Pastor-In-Chief.  I think you spent too much time in your Chicago church listening to Rev. Wright and so you think you can manipulate the masses the same way Rev Wright manipulates the people of his church.  We are not so easily fooled by this thinly valed lie you are putting forth.  While, yes, I am my brother's keeper.  That is my responsibility as a person to take care of his needs.  But it does not give YOU the right to take from others who may not want to be their brother's keeper and give it as you wish.  

While we are at it, let's review some other other commandments YOU may be violating as well

1st commandments:  Thou shalt have no other gods before me

• As in your own word's Mr President when inverviewed on TV you said unwittingly: ".... my Muslim faith"

2nd commandment:   Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain

• already covered earlier

3rd commandment:  Thou shalt honor the Sabbath day and keep it Holy

• Like I said earlier, I have yet to see a media-op on you going to church with the family.

4th commandment:  Thou shalt honor your father and your mother 

• How does allowing 13 year old girls to get an abortion without their parents consent keep this commandment?
• How does making abortion only a "mothers" decision but leave out the "fathers" will?
  

5th commandment:  Thou shalt not kill

• How does allowing a baby of a botched abortion to die in a hospital linen closet not MURDER?  
  

• How does allowing a 9 month pregnancy to be terminated using "partial-birth-abortion" not MURDER!

6th commandment:  Thou shalt not commit adultery

• Why cannot the goverment do anything about the rise in internet pornography?  Why cannot our own libraries prevent this from being viewed?

7th commandment:  Thou shalt not steal.

•  I could write a whole book on how government violates this commandment.  You steal from the taxpayers and give to your chronies in ACORN and the SEIU to do your dirty work for you. You play favorites with companies as to who gets TARP money and who doesn't (I say LET THEM ALL FAIL).   Now you are stealing money from those who work hard and risk it all to give to those who are lazy and risk nothing.   You let people in your own staff get away without paying their taxes that they owe saying they are too important to not hired. You stole from the secured bond-holders of Chrysler by giving them 20 cents on the dollar for their investments when by LAW they are guarranteed 100 cents on the dollar. 
  

8th commandment: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor

• You used this as a an argument against those who oppose your bill.  But lying has seem to become a way of life in DC.  You lied when you said AARP was "endorsing your bill" when in fact they are not.   You say you have no idea how people are getting emails from the WH when in fact you do know why.  You say you want "competition in healthcare" but you have been caught saying "you are a proponent of a single-payer system".  You lied about how your parents met saying they met on a bridge in Selma Alabama during a Civil Rights march which occured in 1965 but you were born in 1961.   You lied about being a moderate during the campaign, but you are nothing of the kind.  
  

9th and 10th commandments:  Thou shalt not covet.

• Goverment is promoting covetous behavior in our country whenever you pit the rich against the poor. You say, "Look at what THEY have and look at what you DON"T HAVE.  You deserve to have the same things they have.  It's not fair!!  We should take what they have (breaking the 7th commandment) and give it to you".  Our country was built on individual responsibilty.   You want what they have, then go work for it. 
  

   Now, how do you look Mr Obama?   Is government on God's side?   God doesn't need you to get things done for him.  As Jesus said to Pilate,  "My kingdom is NOT of this world.  If it were my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place".   Jesus also said, "The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, nor will be people say 'Here it is' or 'There it is' because the kingdom of God is with YOU".   So it won't be with trumpets and fanfare or with a full-on media campaign blitz and a photo-op with the president.  No, God's kingdom advances in the hearts of men and women without your seeing it and there is nothing you can do to stop it.