What Is Happening In Egypt? Freedom? Democracy?

Its been a week now since it all started. In the beginning there was a peaceful gathering in the square. Then two days later some government thugs launched into the crowds after the police were withdrawn. Luckily the army has remained aloof to the situation and are helping to keep it calm.

Then yesterday the crowds became calm and the opposing protesters stayed away from each other. This is a good sign. Prior to that it looked like it might degenerate into a civil war and there was no guessing how that might turn out. There would have been a 50/50 chance that it could go either way.

But the people in the streets don't want a more repressive government, they want a less repressive government and sanity is prevailing. The word is out that total anarchy is NOT the way to Freedom. Note, I said Freedom, not Democracy. The reason I said Freedom is that a democracy does not guarantee Freedom. Nor does a dictatorship guarantee repression. Those of us that are Christians, after all, believe in a coming benevolent Dictatorship of God. Our United States Republic...note, again I did not say Democracy...is not a perfect guarantee of Freedom, but its better than a pure Democracy.

But it looks like clearer heads are prevailing, at least for the time being. I hope it stays that way.

I was appalled at the comments from the media that they were surprised to find that Freedom of the Press was not being upheld. Just who do they think they are to go into a foreign country and expect the Freedoms that they enjoy in our Republic to be upheld? They are sounding like the Muslims that want their Sharia Law to be the law of the land here, in Michigan. The press will rail against this but they then go to a Muslim country and decry the loss of THEIR freedoms there. The press seems to have a double standard!

But then so does our present administration that refuses to abide by court decisions saying, "Its only a few judges" What would have happened to G W Bush if he had said of a court decision, "Its only a few judges" and then went on to be in contempt of court, as the Obama administration has done in regard to the offshore drilling ban. Bush would have been tarred and feathered.

So there is no reason to believe the media and their darling Obama would be any different. One set of rules for the Leaders and another for the serfs. One set of rules for the US and another for other foreign countries. Its their true face, two faced.

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$99 To Listen To Someone Tell You That They Are Screwing You

I had a very depressing conversation with a lady representing the "Growing Green Conference" that they are touting to be here in Aransas Pass on the 24th and 25th of Feb. I asked, "Is this a participatory gathering or do we just listen to someone blow smoke up our collective skirts?" The answer was, we just listen. Then I asked would there be a charge? I was told "$99." To which I replied, "Just for the big business types, huh?" No average citizen has $99 to blow on listening to a bunch of Bloviating.

Since I am into wind and solar energy production I thought this might be something very useful, but it appears it is not for us little guys, its just a conference financed by our tax money to allow various municipal, county, state officials to spend MORE of our tax money on junkets to the coast. Maybe we could call that "Stimulus"?

I recently saw the effects of the new wind farm north of corpus, at least I suspect that is what sparked the change in the law. It used to be that small wind generation plants could dump their excess into the grid and be ASSURED that they would be paid for it. The law changed, now you may not get paid for it. Yes, you can still dump it in there but they dont have to pay you for it anymore.

The little guy, the tax payer, is being cut out again and they dont make any bones about it when they charge $99 to attend a speech, and pick up some brochures. AND they are using OUR money to finance it. This is being financed by grant money (more of our taxes) just to propagandize the population.

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Is Obama Trying To Hand Egypt Over To The Muslim Brotherhood?

Obamas attempts to walk a fine line between the protesters and the legitimate (if not the best) government of Egypt is a bit disconcerting. He keeps slipping of to the side of supporting the protesters while saying he supports no one over any other. I find it odd that he didn't step in and support the opposition in Iran a short while back when the Green movement was asking for his support.

But this article at Newsmax.com may hold a clue to what he is up to.

Newsmax.com reports,
Most observers fear that the U.S. efforts to encourage the protest movement will lead to a behind-the-scenes takeover by the Muslim Brotherhood, the long-outlawed Islamist movement responsible for the assassination of Mubarak’s predecessor, Anwar Sadat, and that spawned Ayman al-Zawahri, No. 2 of al-Qaida.

Maybe that is just exactly what he wants!! Maybe a take over by an outlaw Islamist movement is what the administration is rooting for??

It would not be a surprise to me as I am not too sure that the administration is rooting for me, an American Citizen. The recent comments by administration lackys that indicate they want to shut down natural gas production in Texas show me they dont have my interests at heart. Texas is still one of the states that is above water in this economic mass drowning, Texas is furnishing energy that may be cut off by a war in the middle east, and Obama wants to shut down our energy production. Where is he getting the Kool Aid?

Why would he put his boot on the neck of Texas? Because the administration hates Texas. Texas is the home of George Bush and its all Bushes fault. Texas is bucking the trend and staying an economically viable state without his help making his economic policies look bad. So Obama has to control Texas by any way he can even if it means shutting down the energy production that the rest of the nation needs.

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Why Does Obama Want A Key To Shut Off The Internet?

Recently Obama has been clamoring for the legislation that would allow him to shut down the Internet when ever he felt it was needed. The clamor will probably go underground now. They will want to hide the effort for a while. We must take this to our legislators and tell them why Obama should not have that power.

If you don't know why it is important that he doesn't have that ability, just look at what happened Friday when the demonstrations broke out in Egypt. What was the first thing the government did? Why did they do it? They freely admitted that they shut down the Internet so that the demonstrators, that were calling for democratic elections and the ouster of the dictator, would not be able to organize and communicate with each other.

Obama wants that power. He wants the power to quell an uprising. If King George had been able to shut down communication among the colonist there might not have been a United States. Paul Revere and other riders were able to communicate so that the colonists were able to put together an insurrection to throw the Red Coats out of the country. Obamas call for the power to shut down the Internet is equivalent to King George calling for the confiscation of all horses in the colonies.

We must not let Obama get that power. If he gets that first, by stealth, the next power he will be after is the ability to squelch the "right to keep and bear arms". If he had both of those the country would be in deep S**t!

The first and second amendments are under attack as they have never been since the forming of this nation.

There is a reason the first and second amendments are the first and second. Its is because they are the very foundation of the system of "checks and balances". With a population that is able to communicate and a population that is armed, there is a check on the excesses of a corrupt government. The founding fathers knew this. After all, it was because they had a free press and were armed that they were able to throw out the Dictator, King George, and found this wonderful country that we call home.

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Radical Imam prefers US to Mexico......Sneaks In!!

Well, the cat is out of the bag now. The radical Imam, Said Jaziri, was caught being smuggled into San Diego CA from Tiajuana, Mexico.

But I was told by Mr Obama that I had nothing to fear from radical Islamics coming into the country by our southern border? It turns out, once again, the administration hasn't a clue. They want to avoid the problem so the plan is to minimize the problem so we don't get worried. Its easier to propagandize the population than to act on correcting the problem. This is another lesson gleaned from the novel, "1984". It was easier to change the news to portray the enemy as the one you were currently fighting and ignore the fact that the enemy was your friend last week. I am beginning to think Obama was a ghost writer for H.G. Wells and actually was the brains behind that novel!! Every time I turn around I see Obamas face on TV....just like Big Brother in "1984".

But back to Jaziri. He was thrown out of France and Canada. If he was too radical for France then there is no hope that he might moderate. When returned to Tunisia he complained that Canadian officials had mishandled him. Canada doesn't mishandle ANYONE. If they actually did, then there might be hope for Canada after all.

But why would he prefer the US to Mexico after he was safe there...or was he?

It seems that the Mexican rules on illegal immigrants...yes, they use that term, even though the President of Mexico thinks we in the US should not use it, are much harsher than ours. In a recent article by Michelle Malkin she highlights Mexican immigration law.

In particular the racist and intolerant views of the Mexican law toward "illegal aliens". Michelle reports that, "The Mexican government will bar foreigners if they upset 'the equilibrium of the national demographics.' How’s that for racial and ethnic profiling?" And if immigrants don't improve “economic or national interests” they are not welcome in Mexico.

Somehow I don't think Said Jaziri would have passed either of those tests. So what would the Mexican government have done with him if they had discovered him lurking in Mexico without the proper papers? Well, again Michelle reports, "Illegal entry into the country is equivalent to a felony punishable by two years’ imprisonment. Document fraud is subject to fine and imprisonment; so is alien marriage fraud. Evading deportation is a serious crime; illegal re-entry after deportation is punishable by ten years’ imprisonment. Foreigners may be kicked out of the country without due process and the endless bites at the litigation apple that illegal aliens are afforded in our country (see, for example, President Obama’s illegal alien aunt — a fugitive from deportation for eight years who is awaiting a second decision on her previously rejected asylum claim)."

Wow, now I understand why Jaziri wanted into the US so badly. If he got caught here he would be subjected to a couple of months freedom to walk around until his hearing came up....spawning homicide bombers in his trail..then at the hearing they would find that he might be deported...if they can find transportation, if his lawyer agrees, and if it would enhance Obamas re-election bid.

But the President of Mexico thinks that the Arizona law is too restrictive and profiling. Wonder where he gets that Cool Aid he is drinking?

Dwelling on the Mexican law, however, is not the point of this article. The point is that a radical Imam snuck into the country by our "open" southern border, under the watch of Janet Napalitano and Barrack Husein Obama. We caught this one, but how many have we missed? Where are they hiding? Are they living in your town getting ready to bomb your favorite marketplace?

We need to close that border NOW, not tomorrow.


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Why Is Theft Legal?

Government is just like a dieter. It promises you it will loose weight and then just keeps on eating.

Everyone, on both sides is saying in 10...or in 20....or in 30 years Social Security will be bankrupt. Some even say it is already bankrupt. But no one wants to stop eating.

Government keeps stealing from the trust fund and replacing the money with IOU's The IOU's will be paid in the future with inflated money and without interest. Now, tell me, would you loan money to someone without insuring that what you got back had the same value? If you would please post back to me, I need some of that free money.

Even though everyone is fully aware of the theft that is going on, no one wants to stop the robber. Why? Because the robber is a voter. His/Her vote will help keep the politicians in office. The Democrats don't want to stop the theft and will sit on their hands until there is a rioting populace burning down the Government. And the Republicans are exactly identical. Whoever jumps first on the robber will loose the next election because all the robbers friends will vote against that party! Sure, they are a minority, but they are the "Balance" that will tip the scales in the favor of the robber.

I will be 75 years old this year and I receive a Social Security check each month. BUT.....I would gladly give it up if the government would be able to assure me that I would see DEflation and not INflation for the rest of my days on this earth. But they cannot offer me that because deflation would make their debts increase. They would have to pay back all their borrowing with money that was worth MORE than it was when they borrowed it. Government cannot afford that as they have no real income except what they can extract from you and there is a limit to that.

The government has a vested interest in inflation. The government tells us that 2 or 3% inflation is normal and is good. It isn't normal or good. It is just the way government pays for their diet of spending. When a business spends it produces a product that is sold for income to support that spending. When the government spends it produces NO PRODUCT that it can sell so it must stoop to theft to get the money it needs to continue producing nothing and robbing the people.



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Moving To The Center, Thats Good?

I have refrained from posting for a few days because all there is on the news is discussion of how discourse caused murder and how to keep guns out of the hands of the population in general. Neither of which I agree with. Besides, there is no reason to argue with idiots. And, as has been said before, "If you have nothing to say it is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

However in two days we will be hearing some drivel from our President that needs to be countered before it happens.

In two days Pres. Obama will say that we need to spend more money to bring the economy back. Back to what? Back to where it was before the collapse? Isn't that where we DON'T want to go? They have already spent nearly 1 trillion dollars on several programs that were supposed to keep the unemployment rate below 8% and it has been near 10% the whole time. Two years and nothing has changed. So do we want to try what hasn't worked for two years? Why? Is there evidence that the world has changed and that now it will work? Of course not.

The solution to getting the ball rolling again is Taxes. Yes, I said Taxes. Can you imagine what would happen if we instantly dropped the corporate income tax to 15%? That would be below the Canadian corporate income tax. Thousands of businesses and jobs would pull back to the US like a huge vacuum cleaner, like a black hole. And like the collapse of a star into a black hole there would shortly be a huge explosion into a Nova. In just a few months there would be full employment AND the return of taxpayer jobs and the influx of businesses trying to escape the higher taxes in the rest of the world would create an explosion of US business like the world has never seen and the increased taxes from the volume instead of the excessive taxes on a few would level the national debit in just a couple of years!!

Some say Obama is moving to the center. But only with his talk. He is not actually moving to the center, he is only stretching his neck so that his head looks like its in the center but his body is still far left. Has he stopped pushing the national health care debacle that will eliminate thousands of jobs? Has he stopped pushing Cap and Trade which will eliminate thousands of jobs?

No, he is still far to the left and the position of his rhetoric makes no change in his policies.

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