If you don't have anything nice to say, then . . .

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The Central Oregon Coast weather has been at it's best for the past 6 weeks.  Temps in the high sixties, and mostly clear skies.  Don't get much better than that.

So yesterday, I took advantage of the blue skies and did some yard work.  I really don't like it but it has to get done and I prefer to do it when it is not raining.   And so it began with pulling the Dastardly Dandelion weeds.  Aside from pruning Blackberry bushes they are the pits.  I'm sure most every one has had at least some at some time or another, so you might know what I mean.  Or, perhaps you don't...  So, I'll tell you...

When Dandelions are small, they are quite easily removed with a slight tug if the soil is moist.  But as they get bigger, their roots get deeper and deeper to they point you can't even pry them out, or the roots break off and hide only to return even larger in a few short weeks.

Now, as I was Struggling though this chore, I had a flashback.  It was the shaky, shivering voice of Grandma, just as if she were hovering over today.  I could hear her clear as a bell.  Obviously she was quite certain how mad I was getting with that pesty weed.  It was then I heard her once again, "Now, if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all!"

I must have been about five at the time when I first heard those words, and there have been countless times I've heard them over and over ever since.  My mother said it.  I said it.  And now my kids and their kids are saying it.  I'm quite sure you have even said it yourself!

But, you know now that I'm older and wiser, I don't ever want to hear them again.  Why?  Because it's hogwash.

That's when it seems it all started.  50+ years ago.  You know.  That Touchy-Feely attitude that has grown in America ever since. Political Correctness is what they call it now.  Love your neighbor.  Be kinder and gentler. Have you hugged your kids today?  Make Love not War.  Peace to you Brother.  Accept other's views.  Save the Whales, Hug Trees and respect everyone's views.

Hogwash.... That's the very reason why we are in this position today.  Gay marriages, immoral sex, single parenting, rampant abortion, and a profound loss of ethics for most everyone around.  And it is all because of Granny; the one that me to do nothing to confront or offend anyone.

And so it began.  Sex education placed in schools has led first to condoms in schools and now the Morning After being distributed without parental notification. Drug education has led to more addicts than ever, and now legal marijuana everywhere today.

Equal rights has transformed into Gay marriages, artificial insemination to allow Gays and single parents to raise children, liberal juries have allowed many thugs to walk our streets to prey upon us again.  Hugging our enemies while excepting everything.  No smoking laws, seat belts and calories counting cops has eroded our personal choices in our everyday lives.  And it is all because the words my Grandma passed on to all of us.  Never say anything about anything.

We have ignored those Dandelions for too long.  They should have been suppressed long ago.  Now they are rooted deeply into America and will fight dearly for their grasp in the soil.  Like a weed gone unattended, it is next to impossible to turn things around at this stage.  Who knows what's in store for us now?  Is it too late?  I think so, but I'll never stop confronting the evil I see.

If you are not prepared to stand and fight, then you had better run for your life.
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11 Years to Greece

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Not too long ago, Greece was a thriving, majestic, beautiful, romantic, peaceful and vibrant country.  It was a leader in Europe following the end of the war.  And it was the newest socialist government to come to power.  A country the world looked to for prosperity.

Not so any more.  Now it is a place where 20 percent of it's population is unemployed.  A place where 70 percent of it's working class is employed by the government, and the rest of it's people are hungry and receive some sort of government assistance.  Every day there seems to be riots in the streets by people demanding government entitlements.  Free food, college education, housing and income.  Greece has changed.

President Obama announced he will "Fundamentally transform America" in his 2008 campaign.  And that has been his only kept promise during his first term in office. But he is not finished yet!

Today America has nearly 9% unemployment, nearly double what it was in 2008.  47 percent of us don't pay any taxes, up significantly from the Bush era.  55% of our workforce in employed by the government in some way, and growing daily  Welfare and Disability are out of control.  People are rioting in our cities. Squatters occupying vacant buildings and parks while crying for more benefits of a socialistic government.  Illegals consuming our resources, Gays rushing from their closets to marry,  Killing unborn children while some parents also murder their young.  More meth heads, more pot smokers (some even carrying G-cards), no driver licence enforcement, run-a-way health care, and amnesty programs while we embrace the Muslim world.  Just as Greece was the moment it crumble into chaos.

America is in a Democratic era.  Democrats support everything that led Greece to it's grave and so we will follow.  With a re-election of Obama, it will more even more toward what Greece is.  With a Democratic leadership elected to continues Obama's transformation efforts, we will be there in 11 years from today.

O God help us.
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A foreign perspective of President Obama

reprinted in part from the Jerusalem Post:

As he suffocated to death at the US consulate in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the US, did ambassador Christopher Stevens understand why he and his fellow Americans were being murdered?

Chris Stevens arrived in Benghazi at just as Muammar Gaddafi was ousted.  It was apparent then as the rebels with whom he worked included jihadist fighters associated with al-Qa'ida. Their significance became obvious when the rebel forces hoisted the flag of al-Qa'ida over the courthouse in Benghazi to celebrate their victory.

Did Stevens understand what this meant? Perhaps. But his boss, Hillary Clinton, certainly didn't. Following Tuesday's attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Clinton said, "Today, many Americans are asking - indeed, I asked myself - how could this happen? How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction? This question reflects just how complicated and, at times, how confounding the world can be."

Clinton then proclaimed with utter certainty there was nothing to be concerned about. "We must be clear-eyed, even in our grief. This was an attack by a small and savage group, not the people or government of Libya," she said.  Of course, what she failed to mention was that after the rebels felled Gaddafi's regime - with US support - they began imposing Islamic law over the country.

  

And Clinton was not the only senior US official who didn't understand.  The day after the murders, General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called pastor Terry Jones in Florida and asked him to withdraw his support for the film he believed Mohammed negatively. Dempsey's belief that a third-rate riff on Mohammed supported by a marginal figure in Florida is the cause of the terrorist attacks on US embassies is not simply shocking. It is devastating.

It means that this senior military officwr is of the opinion that the party to blame for the embassy assaults was an American pastor. That film apparently was released about a year ago and received little notice until last month when a Egyptian television station broadcast it.  If the film had never been created, they would have found another - equally ridiculous - pretext.

And here we come to the nature of the attacks against America that occurred on the 11th anniversary of the September 11 Jihadist attacks.  It is obvious that the rioting that is still taking place makes clear these were not acts of spontaneous rage about an amateur internet movie. They were premeditated.  

And in Egypt, the mob was led by Muhammad al-Zawahiri, the brother of al-Qa'ida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri.  The day before the attacks, al-Qa'ida released a video of Ayman al-Zawahiri in which he called for his followers to attack the US in retribution for the killing in June of his second-in-command Abu Al Yahya al-Libi by a US drone in Pakistan. Zawahiri asked for the strongest act of retribution to be carried out in Libya.

The US's first official response to the assault on its embassy in Cairo came in the form of an embassy Twitter feed apologizing to Muslims for the film.

As for the attack in Libya, it apparently came as no surprise to some US officials on the ground. In an online posting the night before he was killed, US Foreign Service information officer Sean Smith warned of the impending strike. Smith wrote, "Assuming we don't die tonight. We saw one of our 'police' that guard the compound taking pictures."

The co-ordinated, premeditated nature of the attack was self-evident. The assailants were armed with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns. They knew the location of the secret safe house to which the US consular officials fled. They laid ambush to a marine force sent to rescue the 37 Americans hiding at the safe house. 

Yet Clinton and Dempsey could not fathom why the attack occurred.  Like Dempsey, the US media was swift to focus the blame for the attacks on the film.

By Wednesday afternoon the media shifted the focus of discussion on the still ongoing attacks from the film to an all-out assault on Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for his temerity in attacking as "disgraceful" the administration's initial apologetic response to the attacks on the embassies.

With President Barack Obama's inauguration, American foreign policy shifted.  Obama and his advisers agree that jihadist Islam is the predominant force in the Muslim world. But in their imaginary world, jihadist Islam is a good thing for America.

Hence Obama believes that Israel - the first target of jihadist Islam's bid for global supremacy - is a strategic burden rather than an ally to the US.  Obama abandoned its most stalwart ally in the Arab world, then supported the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood to power in the most strategically vital state in the Arab world.

And Obama supported a Libyan rebel force penetrated by al-Qa'ida which is setting the stage for the re-institution of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

It is impossible to know the thoughts that crossed Stevens's mind as he lay dying in Benghazi. But what is clear enough is that as long as imagination reigns supreme, freedom will be imperiled.

Then you must be a Democrat. . .

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If you believe some one else built it for you;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . . 

If you believe that abortion is simply birth control;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist . . .

If you believe in protesting without offering a solution
or occupying some one else's property;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist . . .

If you refuse to work and don't pay taxes;
or if you believe that paying higher taxes is patriotic;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist . . .

If you think water-boarding is wrong or
mandating voter identification is cruel;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you equate securing our borders to the Berlin Wall;
or favor de-militarizing America;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you believe in spending without a budget;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you think to encourage conservation, gasoline prices in America should rise to the European level;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist.

If you believe that oral sex is not really sex;
or if you support a mosque being built atop Ground Zero;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you look like Hillary Clinton;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you promise something but do another;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you think adding corn ethanol to gasoline is a solution;
or if you believe global warming is real and man-made;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you lie before a Congressional hearing;
or deny that the Fort Hood massacre was a terrorist incident;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you believe in amnesty for Illegal Aliens;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you drive a Toyota Prius or a Volkswagen Bus ;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you believe that hugging Muslims the a way to world peace;
or if you believe in prosecuting CIA agents for torturing terrorists;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you support the union Fat Cats;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you support Gay marriage;
then you are probably a Democrat extremist. . .

If you believe B-O deserves another term;
then you are a Democrat extremist. . .

If you know me;
you know where I stand.
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What Foreign Policy?

Bow wow wow, yippie yo B-O.

America, while in a deep debt crisis herself, continues to dump trillions of dollars into countries that despise us.  Countries of the middle east, with the exception of Israel, that have no regard for Democracy, and the tributes it provides.  And, due to their Islamic fundamentals, have no desire to elect their government or encourage the freedoms we know in the Western cultures.

President B-O's foreign policy, as the initials he places on his informal notes imply, quite frankly stink.  The moment he took office he began bowing before the Muslim kings of the Middle East and apologized for American intrusions into their world as he vowed to make amends.

B-O was caught on a "live mike" making a secret deal to a Russian official that would have had no Congressional approval.  And few (Democrats) seemed to think anything of it.

In his own books, B-O stated he would support the Muslim world over any other in a time of crisis.  That was never more evident by his refusal to have an emergency meeting with the President of Israel recently, all the while seemingly knowing about the planned imminent threats to our citizens and embassies abroad commemorating the 911 attack, and doing absolutely nothing to prevent it.

B-O stated publicly yesterday that Egypt was not considered a U.S. ally, which was promptly reversed by the State Department.  Neither B-O or Hillary Clinton denounced the killings of our Ambassador and several guards abroad, but condemned the film that they believed incited the rioting.  And the beauty Nancy Pelosi expressed a "Wait 'n' See" attitude as to what America should do about it.

America needs to stop foreign aid to countries that hate us now!  Countries like Egypt, Libya, Pakistan, Indonesia, Iraq, and Afghanistan to name a few.  Pull out and focus on securing our own borders before this country implodes from within as the Islamic culture grows in our own cities.

B-O and all of his chromies must go in November.  And include any other long-term politician, Democrat or not, that refuses to act.

There is no bigger threat to our way of life in America than Islam!

Hoe Ignorant They Are!

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Who am I calling ignorant?  They Ignorants are those that voted for Obama (B.O), the first time, and those stupid enough to vote for him again.

The Ignorants are mostly females, most of the 18-25 year olds, most of those on Welfare, most of Gays, most of Hispanics, most of union workers, most of those that have medical marijuana prescriptions, most of those that to use abortion as a means of birth control, most of those that either live on the Left coasts, most of unwed mothers and the unidentified fathers of their children, most Hippies and others who don't bathe regularly, most of the ones that prevent off shore oil drilling and cutting trees for lumber, most of those that drive Toyota Priuses or ride bicycles to work every day, most artists and actors (except Clint Eastwood), Green Peace members, most Volkswagon drivers, and communists.

You know all these people were aware that President B.O. (now, I don't mean Bad Odor) had a youth mentor named Frank Marshall Davis who was an outspoken, card carrying Communists, and they knew that President B.O. was good friends with William (Bill) Ayers, who was convicted and imprisoned for bombing various American government buildings, and they knew that Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who condemmed America and blamed us for the 911 terrorist attack.  And they knew that President B.O.'s citizenship was in question.

But most importantly, these Ignorants knew that President B.O. was a Half-Black.  And that was the most underlining reason they voted him into office.  Just to prove to their own minds that they were not prejudiced.

And these same Ignorants will do it again!
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