Are we doing the right Thing?

I often ask myself that when working on my next event for the TEA Party. If you don't ask yourself that then you are not thinking about what you are doing. The conservative movement needs thinking individuals, not mindless automatons like the great majority of Democrats and many Republicans that just keep trying things that failed in other countries. They keep thinking, "Maybe it was because we just did this one thing wrong." Proof of this mentality is showing up already from the mouths of the President and VP. He is already down playing the losses he is expecting by suggesting that its not the failed program, but rather, "We didn't explain it enough." Or maybe its because he is black, which couldn't be further from the truth, but he clings to that as an excuse. Or maybe the electorate just isn't smart enough to understand what he is doing. They are just a bunch of dummies....according to the VP. But they just cant see that what they are doing is the WRONG thing and "we the people" have caught them at it.

But the other night as I sat at the computer writing I realized I was doing just exactly the right thing. It was late at night, well past midnight and I was sitting in a dark room with only the light of the monitor as I typed. As I thought about what I was writing I realized that in some countries this would be considered high treason and I could be arrested for it. A cold chill ran down my spine as I recalled a visit I made to Guatemala some years back, shortly after the new Constitution was adopted and it became a safer place to visit.

People were still afraid and the doors were always locked and bared after 9PM. My wife and I went out to see a "movie" and forgot about the curfew that our host had presented us with. We were innocent gringos and young. A "movie" at that time and maybe still is, a trip to a nearby home where someone had a stack of VHS tapes and a large screen TV. There were perhaps 15 folding chairs in front of the TV and for 15 cents you could see any movie in the library as long as that is what everyone else wanted to see. That evening the movie was a documentary about "Romero", the priest that was executed by a right wing death squad. As we sat there I was thinking, "This would not be allowed a few years ago." "Maybe its not allowed now!" Again, a cold chill ran up my spine and I imagined a group of guerrillas with AK47s bursting through the door and spraying bullets everywhere. It was real and a chilling experience. As we walked home in the dark on cobble stone streets under a full moon and arrived at our hosts home to a bared door, we realized the fear that existed, still then, in this country. We were allowed back in and admonished never to stay out that late again.

As I was writing my blog I had felt that same chill. I suddenly realized that I was probably on some list somewhere as an "enemy". The chill got colder. That was when I knew I was doing the right thing.

If you don't feel a chill when you become active in politics, then maybe you are not active enough, or maybe not touching the edge of the envelope.

If you have never felt that chill, you can start by going to the polls Tuesday, November 2nd, and voting for the conservatives. If you don't have time between now and then to sort them all out, then just pull the lever for Republican and then we can sort them out later. I don't like a single lever vote and have never done it before this year, but the risk is to great this time to do anything else.

If that doesn't give you the chill then you need to get involved with the TEA Party until it does. I certainly hope I am on somebodies list, because if I am not, I am not trying hard enough.

Jim Isbell
=================================================
=================================================

Obama Wants Your Retirement To Fund His Spending Spree

He cant find the money so he wants your retirement.

Under the guise of "Protecting You" Obama wants to take all 401Ks and IRAs and merge them into the Social Security system. We already know that it is on the verge of bankruptcy. So why will it protect our retirement programs if he merges them into a program known to be on its last legs??

It wont. The reason for the siezing of your assets is so that Congress can barrow against them to fund still more spending, and even more quickly bankrupt the country and your IRA with it.

Rep. George Miller (D-CA) has already held hearings on merging 401(k)s, IRAs, and other tax-advantaged private savings programs into the failed Social Security program.

This is not a new thing, but it is a sure thing if we dont get off the sofa and do something about it.

Don't wait until your retirement is gone and its too late for the fiscal conservatives to rescue it.

VOTE conservative on November 2nd. If you don't know what that means, it means vote a straight ticket for republicans for now and we can sort them out after the plaster stops falling.

NO DEMOCRATS ARE TRUSTWORTHY this time around. I suspect all republicans as well, but at least they did try to co-opt the TEA Party movement so it tells me they are leaning in the right direction.

Now we just have to get the trees planted and then push them to the right till the roots take hold.

Jim Isbell
===========================================================
===========================================================

"But for me we would be in a world wide depression"

Its hard for me to believe that Harry Reid actually said that, but I have listened to the tape several times. He actually proclaimed himself the savior of the world. On October 21st he told MSNBC that he had saved the world from a world wide depression and its all on tape. He doesnt even acknowledge that the "supreme savior" Barak had anything to do with it. He did it all by himself, not even "The Great Nancy" helped.

This is the audacity that makes this administration so offensive to the voters. This is the audacity that will put this administration out on its ear.

This is a short post, but I just cant think of a thing to add to it!!!

Jim Isbell
====================================================
====================================================

Lets Make Wiretapping Easier?

It seems that the transparency that Obama was talking about, we misunderstood.

The administration is now going to try to get legislation through congress that will make it easier for them to wiretap into your life. They were not talking about transparency in both ways, but a one way mirror!!!

The argument is that its too hard to wiretap cell phones so we need more legislation to force AT&T and Verizon, etc, etc to make it easier for the government to listen in to your conversations. If they want to listen in to us, I don't think we should be told to make it easy. I think that is a violation of the protection that we have not to be forced to testify against ourselves.

So when touting transparency leading up to the election, they were not talking about letting you know what they were doing, they were talking about wanting it to be easier for them to look into your bedroom window to see what you were doing. Now I understand.

Next they will want me to video tape it and send them the tapes...so they can leak them to NPR...maybe...

Jim Isbell
==================================================
==================================================

Endowed by their Creator

Obama apparently is NOT a Christian. I have been giving him the benefit of the doubt until now. But three strikes and you are out. Now for the third time he has left God out of our Declaration of Independence. The first time, it might have been a mistake, even the second time, but three times and it is intentional.

Back on September 15 while speaking to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute he quoted the Declaration of Independence and left out the phrase "They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights".

On the 23rd of September, just 8 days later, after his deletion of the phrase had been commented on in the news and, surely, brought to his attention, he did it again at a fund raiser in NY city.

Then he did it again a third time on Monday night at in Rockville, Md.

It is now obvious that this is a deliberate attempt to remove God from our nations founding. It can no longer be excused.

Mr. Obama is deliberately removing our Christian heritage from us.

If our rights come to us from God then they are unalienable. But, if they come to us from government then what government gives, government can take away.

We do not want to go down this road!!!!


Jim Isbell

==========================================================

==========================================================

Most Advertising Sucks

When I was in high school we were taught that the best advertising was the ad that made you want to identify with the person in the ad that was buying the product. That makes a lot of sense. If you identify with someone you want to act similarly. If they buy a product, you will be so inclined.

Today they seem to think that just isn't the way to do it. An ad for yogurt shows a man and his wife approaching a vendor with free yogurt. The man is an idiot and decides he isn't interested in the product because it might be good for him. But he is cajoled into trying it. Then with a mouth full of yogurt (that for some reason he cant swallow before talking) he says that he likes it. But yogurt is a soft easy to swallow product. Why couldn't the idiot swallow before talking? Personally, I will never buy that product. I couldn't identify with the idiot.

Another ad that is particularly offensive is the ad for a new kind of blood sugar tester. In the ad the woman that is trying it is so stupid that the announcer has to finish all her sentences for her. This is a new trend in advertising, having the announcer finish the sentences of the speaker. Am I going to identify with a person that cannot finish their own sentences? Of course not!

Then there is another recent development in advertising, "make the guy look like an idiot in front of his wife". While it may not be the PC thing to say, the money in most households is managed by the male. Maybe it shouldn't be that way, but that happens to be the reality. Now does it make any sense to ridicule the guy that is in control of the purse strings? I don't think so.

Maybe I am in the minority, but if they want my dollar, they should use ads like the Dos XX ad with the "most admired man in the world" The guy that "once had an awkward moment just to see what it felt like." There is a guy I can identify with, and I don't even like beer! But I might try Dos XX if I keep seeing that ad.

Jim Isbell
============================================
============================================

Rats and Cannibalism

Recently we are hearing more and more about strange actions by supposedly crazed people. The recent beating to two gay men for no other reason than that they were gay. The ferocity of the attacks was animal like. Humans are supposed to be better than animals because they can think and make moral decisions. But more and more we are seeing people make decisions that can only be described as primal, without conscience.

A while back I was turning left and the person behind me, for some reason, felt that my slowing down was inconveniencing him. After turning the corner I pulled to the side to park. The irritated person followed me and got out of his car in a furry. He walked up to my car and kicked the rear fender so hard he actually dented it. As I drove away to avoid further confrontation I saw him in the rear view mirror hopping on one foot and holding his other foot that he apparently injured in the attack on my car.

Why are we seeing these aberrations of human conduct? Is the human race degenerating? Are we reversing the normal upward trend of evolution? Are we getting away from morals because we are getting away from God?

I think that the answer is probably none of the above. While I think that a reverence for God can help toward making moral decisions, and while I think my God will give me eternal life. I realize that there are other paths to moral decision making. There are beliefs in other gods than mine, which, while I believe they wont ensure eternal life, I accept that they also espouse moral lifestyles. So I don't think it is a move away from God that is causing the primitive behavior.

Many years ago a study was done with rats. The experiment was to study the effects of crowding on animals. They found that putting too many rats in a cage, even when they had adequate food for all, caused them to turn to cannibalism...apparently to cut down on the crowding.

Maybe we have too many people on this planet. Maybe we should once again explore space to find other habitable worlds, so we can spread this madness throughout the universe.

Jim Isbell
====================================================
====================================================