Saturday, June 27, 2009
CAP AND TRADE PROTEST
Does anyone know if there is going to be a protest in Kansas City today over this POS legislation the House passed yesterday?
Monday, April 20, 2009
FALLOUT AT F4
I joined the F4 blogsite a couple of months ago. Not too long after I joined I was asked by F4 to "audition" to be a featured political blogger on the site. I did audition and I was accepted. F4 wanted to promote their new site and asked me if I would like to do a promotional interview. I said yes and on March 31, 2009 Tess Koppelmann and her cameraman John (both extremely outgoing and personable people) came to my home and interviewed me for nearly half an hour. The interview aired that night and the next day.
Suddenly last week, without any advance notice, my blogs stopped showing up on www.KansasCitysBestBlogs.com. I contacted Webmaster Rebecca Sapakie at F4 and asked her why. I received an explanation which involved an RSS feed that wasn't working properly. They have taken several days now and still have not restored my blogs - oh, they still show up on the site but no longer in the featured blogs section.
I believe that a webmaster shouldbe able to restore an RSS feed pretty handily. I have tried a couple of times to contact the webmaster to see what progress they were making with restoration of the RSS feed but have not had a reply.
I can only conclude that someone probably complained about the content of my Conservative blog and because of that I have been cut off without any explanation.
That, folks, is CENSORSHIP!
Suddenly last week, without any advance notice, my blogs stopped showing up on www.KansasCitysBestBlogs.com. I contacted Webmaster Rebecca Sapakie at F4 and asked her why. I received an explanation which involved an RSS feed that wasn't working properly. They have taken several days now and still have not restored my blogs - oh, they still show up on the site but no longer in the featured blogs section.
I believe that a webmaster shouldbe able to restore an RSS feed pretty handily. I have tried a couple of times to contact the webmaster to see what progress they were making with restoration of the RSS feed but have not had a reply.
I can only conclude that someone probably complained about the content of my Conservative blog and because of that I have been cut off without any explanation.
That, folks, is CENSORSHIP!
Sunday, April 19, 2009
A NEW COALITION
Much has been said and written about the Tea Parties which took place in this country on April 15, 2009.
Liberals have denounced us as a bunch of government hating Neanderthals who could not put a paragraph together if our lives depended on it.
Republicans have speculated that we might help breathe new life into the GOP.
The media have written us off as a bunch of gun toting rednecks.
I attended two of these events on that day and I say we are not necessarily any of the above.
We are, first and foremost, Americans who love our country. Most of us were tired of government bailouts, profligate spending, an unresponsive Congress, and ILLEGAL immigration before George Bush ever left office. Most of us were already tired of our government's inability to corner and catch Osama bin Laden.
I don't think any of us really want to be co-opted by the Democrat or Republican party. We would like to point out the direction this country needs go in.
We need lower taxes and less spending. We also need more freedom. We need for our borders and ILLEGAL immigration to be controlled.
The Republican party needs to drop it's policies of exclusion. I could be a Republican but I am pro-choice so I don't fit in. I could be a Democrat but I believe in property rights, American exceptionalism and pulling your own load so I don't fit in there either. There are many ways that I don't fit into either party so I am an Independant and have no party.
At the Tea Parties I saw many people who are like me. We are patriots, we are Americans, we love freedom, we want a government but only so much of it. We want to be able to enjoy the fruits of our labors but we don't mind sharing with our fellow man as long as he is willing to do his part.
At the Tea Parties I saw young and old, rich and poor, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Independant and Conservative, black, white, red, brown and yellow but most of all I saw Americans who were ready for some real change.
That's who we were and that's who we are!
Liberals have denounced us as a bunch of government hating Neanderthals who could not put a paragraph together if our lives depended on it.
Republicans have speculated that we might help breathe new life into the GOP.
The media have written us off as a bunch of gun toting rednecks.
I attended two of these events on that day and I say we are not necessarily any of the above.
We are, first and foremost, Americans who love our country. Most of us were tired of government bailouts, profligate spending, an unresponsive Congress, and ILLEGAL immigration before George Bush ever left office. Most of us were already tired of our government's inability to corner and catch Osama bin Laden.
I don't think any of us really want to be co-opted by the Democrat or Republican party. We would like to point out the direction this country needs go in.
We need lower taxes and less spending. We also need more freedom. We need for our borders and ILLEGAL immigration to be controlled.
The Republican party needs to drop it's policies of exclusion. I could be a Republican but I am pro-choice so I don't fit in. I could be a Democrat but I believe in property rights, American exceptionalism and pulling your own load so I don't fit in there either. There are many ways that I don't fit into either party so I am an Independant and have no party.
At the Tea Parties I saw many people who are like me. We are patriots, we are Americans, we love freedom, we want a government but only so much of it. We want to be able to enjoy the fruits of our labors but we don't mind sharing with our fellow man as long as he is willing to do his part.
At the Tea Parties I saw young and old, rich and poor, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Independant and Conservative, black, white, red, brown and yellow but most of all I saw Americans who were ready for some real change.
That's who we were and that's who we are!
Friday, April 17, 2009
TEA PARTIES
We held "Tea Parties" all across the nation on April 15, 2009. Look for more, many more! This movement is far from over. We are going to continue to hold tea parties and rallies until this nation comes back to it's senses!
Certain people have to get the message and begone from the national scene such as Janet Napolitano, Tim Geithner, Jeaneane Garofalo. These folks are victims of a Liberal Indoctrination in our school system and have no place in American Politics.
I haven't blogged on this site in several months but you are going to hear more and more and more from me as we count down to the 2010 elections and then to the 2012 election.
I will be blogging on this site until we rid this land of Infectious Liberalism - until our children can get a decent education in our public schools and small business has an excellent opportunity to flourish in this country!
Certain people have to get the message and begone from the national scene such as Janet Napolitano, Tim Geithner, Jeaneane Garofalo. These folks are victims of a Liberal Indoctrination in our school system and have no place in American Politics.
I haven't blogged on this site in several months but you are going to hear more and more and more from me as we count down to the 2010 elections and then to the 2012 election.
I will be blogging on this site until we rid this land of Infectious Liberalism - until our children can get a decent education in our public schools and small business has an excellent opportunity to flourish in this country!
Sunday, August 3, 2008
PROMISE LOST!
I'm writing this because I remember America as it once was. We were a proud nation! We were made up of people who came here from all over the seeking freedom, a good life and the chance to be the best that they could be. We worked long hard hours in mines , factories and whereever our jobs happened to be. We had schools that actually taught our children how to excel and prepare themselves for college. We were going to beat those Soviet communists by turning out better rocket scientists and physicists and we did it!
We were going to turn out doctors and engineers and researchers and scientists of all kinds and we were going to have a standard of living that was equaled nowhere else in the world and we did! We were the envy of the world!
This country played a major role in defeating the axis powers during WWII. We beat the Soviets. We bankrupted them in Afghanistan. We put men on the moon. We made the Berlin wall crumble. We made the Soviets dismantle their missile bases in Cuba.
What happened to us?
I remember that, as a young solidier in Turkey, I observed cab drivers shutting their engine off at stoplights to conserve gas and in Norway I observed that people were paying about $2.00 per gallon for gas in 1967 (gas in the U.S. was about 25 cents a gallon at that time). I remember thinking that I was glad to be an American because I didn't have to shut my engine off at stoplights to conserve fuel. Today I practice hypermiling and I do shut my engine off at stoplights to conserve fuel. Today I am paying $4.00 per gallon for gas as are all Americans.
What happened to us?
Forget the global economy. Let Europe and Asia, Africa and all of the others deal with their own problems in their own way. This is America. This is the land of unlimited promise! If we don't have enough domestic oil we drill for more, we find a way to manufacture alternatives to oil, gas and diesel. We lead the world. We don't let the world lead us. We don't allow the Europeans to show us the way and we don't accept fuel prices which bankrupt us and threaten our standard of living just because the Old World, which our forefathers escaped, accepts them. We got away from the Old World and its corrupt ways long ago. Why would we want to wallow in the same hopelessness that they wallow in?
We are Americans. We show the world how it is done. We don't learn from the washed up tired nations of the Old World. We dont't accept a flood of ILLEGAL immigrants coming accross our southern border who offer nothing but a drain on our economy and who know how to do nothing but mow lawns and who send their earnings back to their countries of origin while using our money to birth their "anchor babies".
We are supposed to be a beacon to the world. Other countries should take their cues from us. We can't have a better America by turning back to what our forefathers escaped from!
We need to fix our schools and force them to teach our young people and to discharge those students that don't want to learn so those who do want to learn can. We need to "smart them up" instead of "dumbing them down" and if the current crop of school administrators and teachers can't do the job then we need to bring in a fresh crop!
We need to get a grip on our energy situation and produce more than we use instead of using more than we produce. We need to get our immigration under control. America is way past the point where it can absorb limitless numbers of immigrants especially immigrants who enter ILLEGALLY and who have no intention of assimilating and who don't even care enough about this country to learn our language and who expect us to adapt to a two language society.
We can't continue down the path we have been on lately. If we do we will be no better than France or Camaroon, Nigeria or Indonesia. We will be a "melted pot" instead of a melting pot!
America needs to turn inward. We need to spend a lot of time fixing our problems. We need to rebuild our economy and our confidence. We need to stop saying "we can't" and "we shouldn't" and we need to show the world that we can do things faster, better, cheaper,and more efficiently than those old tired countries in Europe and the rest of the world. When we do that we will, once again, be a beacon of hope to the world.
We were going to turn out doctors and engineers and researchers and scientists of all kinds and we were going to have a standard of living that was equaled nowhere else in the world and we did! We were the envy of the world!
This country played a major role in defeating the axis powers during WWII. We beat the Soviets. We bankrupted them in Afghanistan. We put men on the moon. We made the Berlin wall crumble. We made the Soviets dismantle their missile bases in Cuba.
What happened to us?
I remember that, as a young solidier in Turkey, I observed cab drivers shutting their engine off at stoplights to conserve gas and in Norway I observed that people were paying about $2.00 per gallon for gas in 1967 (gas in the U.S. was about 25 cents a gallon at that time). I remember thinking that I was glad to be an American because I didn't have to shut my engine off at stoplights to conserve fuel. Today I practice hypermiling and I do shut my engine off at stoplights to conserve fuel. Today I am paying $4.00 per gallon for gas as are all Americans.
What happened to us?
Forget the global economy. Let Europe and Asia, Africa and all of the others deal with their own problems in their own way. This is America. This is the land of unlimited promise! If we don't have enough domestic oil we drill for more, we find a way to manufacture alternatives to oil, gas and diesel. We lead the world. We don't let the world lead us. We don't allow the Europeans to show us the way and we don't accept fuel prices which bankrupt us and threaten our standard of living just because the Old World, which our forefathers escaped, accepts them. We got away from the Old World and its corrupt ways long ago. Why would we want to wallow in the same hopelessness that they wallow in?
We are Americans. We show the world how it is done. We don't learn from the washed up tired nations of the Old World. We dont't accept a flood of ILLEGAL immigrants coming accross our southern border who offer nothing but a drain on our economy and who know how to do nothing but mow lawns and who send their earnings back to their countries of origin while using our money to birth their "anchor babies".
We are supposed to be a beacon to the world. Other countries should take their cues from us. We can't have a better America by turning back to what our forefathers escaped from!
We need to fix our schools and force them to teach our young people and to discharge those students that don't want to learn so those who do want to learn can. We need to "smart them up" instead of "dumbing them down" and if the current crop of school administrators and teachers can't do the job then we need to bring in a fresh crop!
We need to get a grip on our energy situation and produce more than we use instead of using more than we produce. We need to get our immigration under control. America is way past the point where it can absorb limitless numbers of immigrants especially immigrants who enter ILLEGALLY and who have no intention of assimilating and who don't even care enough about this country to learn our language and who expect us to adapt to a two language society.
We can't continue down the path we have been on lately. If we do we will be no better than France or Camaroon, Nigeria or Indonesia. We will be a "melted pot" instead of a melting pot!
America needs to turn inward. We need to spend a lot of time fixing our problems. We need to rebuild our economy and our confidence. We need to stop saying "we can't" and "we shouldn't" and we need to show the world that we can do things faster, better, cheaper,and more efficiently than those old tired countries in Europe and the rest of the world. When we do that we will, once again, be a beacon of hope to the world.
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