Wake Up America !!

“(If) you are dumb enough to walk around and identify yourself with that Party (Democrats), you are not only a chump but you are a traitor to your race.”

If I told you that Dr. Benjamin Carson made this statement last week, how quickly do you think it would take the main stream media or the liberal elites to utterly decimate him?

It seems that he has become the most recent target of the left. Every word he says seems to be turned against him. If he said “Good Morning” he would be vilified as being “anti Night”.

He has been demonized in the press and by avante garde celebrities. He has been called an "Oreo," a "Token,"  a white man's "Negro," an "Uncle Tom,"  a "Negro du jour," and “Nigger”, among other things.

Recently he made the statement:

"Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn't matter what they are. They don't get to change the definition."

The resulting backlash was equally swift. Everyone was just looking for something to say against him in order to marginalize him.

Yet, during the recent Supreme Court testimony on marriage equality, where was the same outcry when Justice Sotomayor said the following:

“Mr. Olson, the bottom line that you're being asked, and it is one that I'm interested in the answer: If you say that marriage is a fundamental right, what State restrictions could ever exist? Meaning, what State restrictions with respect to the number of people, with respect to, that could get married, the incest laws, the mother and the child, assuming they are of age, I can accept that the State has probably an overbearing interest on protecting the child until they're of age to marry, but what's left?”

So what is the difference? Is the incest contingent a more acceptable group to go after?

The problem as I see it is that the left is engaging in a game of smoke and mirrors.

It got me thinking when Dr. Carson said "They’re (Liberals) the most racist people there are because, you know, they put you in a little category, a little box. You have to think this way. How could you dare come off the plantation?"

For those of you who may learn left in their political thinking I want you to consider this for a moment. Name one black conservative who has not been publicly attacked by the left. I’m not saying you have to agree with their politics, but why are they attacked? Dr. Carson, former Representative Allen West, for Presidential candidate Herman Cain, Niger Innis, Thomas Sowell, former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. It seems the left cannot get enough of bashing them simply because they have the audacity to be conservatives.

I love when the hip folks like Touré attack Dr. Carson. Hmmmm let me get this straight, a college dropout who’s greatest contribution to the world is that he is host of a Hip Hop show and wrote a biography of Prince, and yet somehow he has been ordained to cast aspersions on a man who graduated from Yale and University of Michigan Medical School and is the Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital; as well as a Professor of Neurosurgery, Oncology, and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Oh, now it makes perfect sense to me.

Honestly, do you see the irony in this?

For a moment, let’s get back to the original quote I started this post off with. If Dr. Carson said that would it be appropriate for the left to rip him apart?

What if I told you that comment was made back in the 60’s by Malcolm X…… I’d like to hear someone rip him apart as a “token black”……anyone? Chris Matthews? Touré?

Here is the exact transcript:

“This government has failed us. The government itself has failed us, and the White Liberals who have been posing as our friends have failed us. Once we see that all these other sources to which we have turned have failed, we stop turning to them and start turning to ourselves.

You are the one who sent Kennedy to Washington. You’re the one who put the present Democratic administration in Washington, D.C. The Whites were evenly divided. It was the fact that you threw 80% of your votes behind the Democrats that put the Democrats in the White House. When you see this, you can see that the Negro vote is the key factor. And despite the fact that you are in a position to be the determining factor, what do you get out of it?

Democrats have been in Washington, D.C. only because of the Negro vote. They’ve been down there 4 years and all the legislation they wanted to bring up the brought up and got it out of the way, and now they bring up you. You put them first and they put you last, cause you are chumps (applause). A political chump.

In Washington, D.C. in the House of Representatives there are 257 who are Democrats. Only 177 are Republicans. In the Senate there are 67 Democrats, only 33 are Republicans. The Party that you backed, controls two-thirds of the House of Representatives and the Senate and still they can’t keep their promise to you, cause you’re a chump.

Anytime you throw your political weight behind a political Party that controls two-thirds of the government and that Party can’t keep the promises made to you during election time, and you are dumb enough to walk around and identify yourself with that Party, you are not only a chump but you are a traitor to your race [applause].” ~ Malcolm X

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Passed with 80% Republican Support and 60% Democrat Support. The Act was opposed by most southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists; one of them being Al Gore Sr. Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson relied on Illinois Senator Everett Dirkson, the Republican minority leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.

Recently the left vilified Senator Rand for his filibuster of John Brennan’s nomination for the CIA over the issue of Drones being used on United States soil.

What you didn’t hear was who had the longest filibuster on record. That dubious distinction goes to the 14-hour filibuster by U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV), who served in the senate till his death in 2010. The filibuster was against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

For the record, future President John F. Kennedy also voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Segue to the 2012 Election. This was on the Democrat Party Website: “For more than 200 years our party has led the fight for civil rights…”

Really?

Maybe Malcolm X was right, maybe we are all chumps. I have said this time and time again, if you vote by party and not by person you are part of the problem.

People need to wake up and stop repeating the spoon fed pabulum of sound bites that come at us from every direction. Both sides are part of the problem and I have written about this before. Remember that the swamp was supposed to be cleaned up after Pelosi took over. How'd that work out ? 

Or maybe this is just the end.

Maybe you will just continue to believe the bullshit they feed you that the democrats became republicans and then republicans became democrats. Maybe you are okay with it. I’ve looked at it, and its insulting to my intelligence.

If you want to hurl that little brick fine, but before you do, write me and explain that little anomaly of Robert Byrd and why he didn’t have a “miraculous” transformation from Democrat to Republican. While you are at it, then explain Edward Kennedy, or maybe John Dingell. So why were they “democrats” in the bad old days, but stayed “democrats” in the good old days? And why would you be associated with a group that had such bad memories? It’s like saying you were for something before you were against it….

Honestly, if just reading that doesn’t make you think twice about that idiotic bullshit, then don’t bother, you’ve already drank too much kool-aid.

I’m sorry; a leopard doesn’t change its spots.

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A Man of Integrity

C.S. Lewis once wrote that "Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching." 

Today something happened to me that makes me question the veracity of that quote. I am not inferring that the quote is wrong, but I wonder if it is completely accurate.

So I pose this question to you.

“What is more difficult, doing the right thing when you are alone or doing the right thing when those actions might be used against you?”

As the matter I speak of is still ongoing I will not go into any details. In fact I have purposely kept myself at a distance from my former peers so as not to put them in the position of choosing sides in the matter.

For months I had felt like a voice in the wilderness. Suffice it to say that the actions of this person confirmed what I had been saying all along. It is difficult when you know something in your heart and yet you realize that truth can sometimes be replaced by political expediency.

This morning truth won out.

However, my vindication seems bitter sweet. I am now left more concerned for this person then I ever was for myself. I wonder what ramifications there will be against them for being honest.

Irregardless of the final outcome I have won. I have been blessed by God to have a friend who would speak honestly on my behalf while exposing themselves to risk for doing so.

It is a very humbling thing and to speak about it any further would only cheapen the magnitude of what they have done.

Easter - He Has Risen

In this day and age, it seems that a growing portion of our society wants to either minimize or completely eradicate God from each of our daily lives. He is being removed from work, home, school, business and politics. All around us we watch as the moral fabric of our society is being torn apart and yet we cannot understand why.

Matthew 10: "Everyone who acknowledges me publicly here on earth, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. But everyone who denies me here on earth, I will also deny before my Father in heaven.”

As Christians around the world celebrate this most blessed day I am proud to proclaim my faith and take comfort in knowing that he has risen and conquered death.

Luke 24:  “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ”

Happy Easter and God Bless.

Good Friday, Don’t Eat Red Meat.

Today, Christians around the world celebrate Good Friday, the day Jesus Christ willingly went to the cross to pay for the sins of man.

It is an incredible story. But have we lost the message?

I’m often reminded of how little effort some Christians are willing to put in. We often get caught up too much in the theological dogma, and then fail to see what God has tried desperately to teach us. I honestly don’t think he cares whether we are abstaining from red meat, if after our fish filet sandwich we go out and screw someone over.

The other day I was reading a religious twitter war and someone made the comment accusing religion of “killing more people than………”  Well, to be honest I forgot the point because I was too caught up in the poster’s initial statement.

The topic has been on my mind a lot lately. In fact I was astounded at how much God was vilified during the recent election of the newest Catholic Pope. I am in the initial stages of writing a book titled “Where was God?”  At the heart of the story is man’s penchant for blaming God for all the things that man does wrong.

As I thought about the twitter post I again asked myself the question, why is it that God continues to be blamed for the actions of mankind? It’s not like he hasn’t tried to guide us.

Ten Commandments? Our answer, nah, too restrictive.

Seven Deadly Sins? Nope, I don’t think so Lord. Everyone likes to splurge every once in awhile.

Man has systematically thwarted God’s attempts to have us become a moral people.

I mean let’s face it, poor Moses hadn’t even come down from the mount with the commandments before the good old Israelites were out pounding their gold into new idols to worship. We as a people simply suck at following any kind of laws.

In fact, as a society we continue to manipulate and even makeup new laws in order to minimize our culpability. We take no responsibility for our actions. How long has this been going on? Oh I don’t know…….. How about thirty seconds after Adam and Eve ate from the tree.

The first official blaming of God comes in Genesis 3: “The man said, "The woman you put here with me--she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it."

Geez, what a guy that Adam was.

For a moment, consider this. How bad do you have to be to go from ten commandments, to seven deadly sins, until God finally throws his hands up and says ok folks, here you go two, really simple laws.

Love God, Love One Another.

I just get this mental image of a well intentioned parent staring down at their little incorrigible two year old who looks up at them with their adorable baby blues and simply goes “No.”

But the worst thing is that when the child goes on the latest rampage, ripping up the house, toppling over plants, and washing the cat, some how good old God gets slapped with the blame.

Think of that one moment in Matthew 5, when Jesus says” Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.”

Most of us would risk our lives for a spouse or child. Maybe we would even consider it for someone we love. Contrast that with Christ going to the cross for those who did not even like him.

There are a lot of people who flat out reject religion. I’m really not sure why. Sometimes I think it’s just an in-thing to do. Someone once asked me why I believed in God, inferring that religion was for the weak minded. Funny I had never thought of myself as being weak minded.

I thought a moment and asked them if science had the answer to every question. They said no. 

This was my reply:

“I believe in God, because I truly believe he loves me unconditionally. It didn’t matter what I did, but when I did act outside of the life he called me to live I felt bad and wanted his forgiveness which I knew he gave me. Like a parent and a child. By feeling this way I believed that I earnestly tried to live my life in a better way and to share that with others. My faith was not based on what I could see, but what I could feel in my heart.”

“On the other hand, you believe in science. The world was not and then it was. Given that there is no God, you live your life and then die. The only ramifications to breaking the law are whether you will get caught and punished, but in the end whether you lived a good or bad life nothing changes. You simply die.”

“If I am wrong, I join you in the blackness of death. But what if you’re wrong?”

In 2008 renowned atheist Richard Dawkins took part in an advertising campaign in the United Kingdom which put atheist advertising on buses. I remember an image of him standing with an attractive young woman with a bus behind him and the slogan “There’s Probably No God. Now Stop Worrying And Enjoy Your Life.”

The first thought that crossed my mind was, you’re betting an awful lot on “Probably” my friend.

Galatians 6: “Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.”

For Christians, Good Friday should represent God’s loving pact with us. It’s a gift we don’t deserve and requires nothing more on our part than to accept it.

So how about this, let’s stop trying to blame God and run around like a bunch of hypocritical jerks and just try to follow those two simply tenants: Love God, Love One Another.

You have nothing to lose, and eternity to gain.

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NYS Gun Law - Revisited

I previously wrote about the newly enacted gun control measure in New York State.

At the time I told you that NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo was wrong and that it amounted to nothing more than political grandstanding on the heels of a tragedy.

Now comes this little gem from the dear governor.

"There is no such thing as a seven bullet magazine. That doesn't exist. So you really have no practical option."

WOW, you think maybe this would have been something they thought of "before" they rushed in to enact legislation?

Of course the answer is no, simply because this isn't about addressing a problem as much as it is about pushing an agenda.

It's tantamount to bringing your car into the mechanic because the engine is making a funny noise and him turning up the volume on your car radio because it would be to hard to figure out how to solve the problem.

Cuomo has no interest in fixing things. He along with others like NYC "Nanny" Mike Bloomberg, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, and a host of gun haters in D.C. simply abhor firearms and want them gone. This isn't about addressing crime, this is about their personal agenda of getting rid of guns.

They sell their story under the guise of protecting our children, but the one question they will not answer is how they think that implementing this law will actually stop a criminal.

Call me crazy, but I think that someone who has made up his mind to kill someone is not going to let something like a magazine ban slow him down. I don't envision this conversation occuring anytime in the near future: "Ya know, I was going to wipe out that classroom, but there are ten kids and my magazine only holds seven rounds. So I went out and volunteered my time in a soup kitchen instead."

What happens when they take away the guns and crime doesn't go away? Ask Australia and England how their grand plan worked out. But I promise you this, once they are gone you will never get them back.

And in case you missed the point, that is exactly what they want.

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Bloody Fookin Irish

Well, with St. Patrick’s Day 2013 fading into memories I thought I would mention something that gnaws at me.

“Irish” Restaurants, Bars, Pubs, etc…………..

Simply slapping Irish into your name doesn’t make it so. It’s a pet peeve that I am willing to let it go so long as the beer is cold and the food is reasonably good. But fer fook’s sake, try not to be ignorant will you.

Being Irish will drive you damn near mad, politics in Northern Ireland will provide you the car and the chauffer for your trip. My maternal side comes from county Fermanagh. I have learned enough about the history and politics to know that it makes the U.S. House of Representatives look like it is staffed by geniuses.

So imagine by chagrin when I walked into the local establishment that claims the “Irish” moniker for itself and found the following drink on the menu:

“Black and Tan”

Are you for real?

When you were slappin’ those Dublin road signs on the wall alongside the Guinness advertisements and the tri-color did you think it might be a good idea to open a damn history book and make sure you weren’t insulting half the damn population?

Ignorance, it’s what makes the world livable for fools.

Oh wait, the barmaid just made a pretty shamrock in my pint……… all is forgiven.

Political Parties Explained

As I look around at what is becoming of the United States I am saddened and dismayed. I think everyone should feel this way to be honest, if you don’t I question whether or not you are able to see things clearly.

To be honest, it doesn’t come as a big surprise. The issues plaguing our country have not come over the last four years or the last forty. The problem is more insidious than that. It is that politics have gone from a “service to ones country” to being “serviced by one country.”

I’ve often cited sports when trying to explain politics, especially the party system. Basically it goes something like this:

The republicans and democrats are like two old school baseball rivalries, think Yankees / Red Sox. The constituents are the fans. We like to root for them, we like to bash them, but at the end of the day we still follow them. The extremes of the party are like the resident bleacher creatures. Now the individual politicians are like the star players and somehow the fans thing that these players are like kindred spirits to them. They honestly believe that they feel the same way they do. Now the team owners foster this spirit, because honestly without the fans, they’d be broke with a miserable team and they do not want this.

But what happens when the fans start really believing the hype and lose sight of reality? When do you wake up and think to yourself “my team sucks and I seem more stressed about it then they do.” 

I remember back in the early 2000’s when Johnny Damon played for the Red Sox. If you showed up for ones of the games with the Yankees you’d think he was the anti Christ by the way the fans hated him. Likewise, he was adored in Boston. In 2004 when he hit a grand slam to beat the Yankees I thought they’d elevate him to Pope. But what happened in 2005 when he………..signed with the Yankees?

Surprisingly, Armageddon DID NOT take place, although it was close. Let’s just say that the fans in Boston were less than thrilled, and the Yankee fans seemed to have all been issued a pair of rose colored glasses by which to view the new crowned prince of the Bronx.

You see, despite what the “fans” believed, Damon did what was best for him. That amounted to a four year deal worth fifty-two million dollars. You see what the fans don’t want to believe is that money is really the foundation of everything.

I don’t begrudge Damon, I laugh at the fools that don’t see the truth when it is standing before them.

Enter politics.

Both sides have convinced the “fans” that it is the other sides fault. Sadly, they buy into it because they don’t want to have to face the fact that they are being hosed. If they did, they might have to actually begin to take a long hard look at the candidates and make a choice based on where they stand as opposed to what letter is after their name. 

But sadly, most bury their heads and think like……..“fans”

We are having elections here for a number of city and township positions.  In my local paper they just ran a listing showing all the people running for office, what shocked me is the incredible number of people that are running as “independent”. It seems as if a lot of people are worried about getting affiliated with a particular party, so they are choosing to move away. It appears to be a trend that affects both the D’s and the R’s.

Now I don’t think it affects their world view, but I’m all for anything that makes individual voters “think” as it seems to be an ability we surrendered a very long time ago.

No matter what side you are on, I want you to ask yourself this fundamental question: “Why when my party does (fill in the blank) is it okay, and when the other side does (fill in the blank) it is an aberration?”

The answer is, it’s not. 

Until you are honest with yourself about that, nothing is going to change in this country because you will not have the moral courage to confront your “elected” representative and call them out.

If you are honest, you might realize that you have a lot more in common with those fans from the other team then you think. You also might begin to understand that you are just being taken to the bank to fund the salaries and perks of those two “teams” you send to Washington DC.

You and I will never agree about things 100% of the time. That’s not how God designed us.

For my friends in the scientific community:  that’s not how nothing exploded, and made something, that crawled from the ocean, and evolved into us, do things.

Come on, that was funny………….

If you are not willing to take a long hard look at your politician, don’t spend a moment talking about mine. It’s disingenuous.

Be passionate about the things that are important to YOU, and be willing to judge candidates, not by the party, but by which one more closely relates to the issues that matter to you.

Don’t make every discussion about the “talking points” supplied to you by the party. Most of the time they are filled with minutia, data and statistics for the sole purpose of turning otherwise well meaning individuals into talking zombie-eyed drones.

In fact, statistics have shown that in 99.9% of the time, statistics are just another form of lying……. (That’s another joke).

Seriously, think about it for a moment. If I tell you that 100% of the time the sun comes out, that doesn’t mean that it stays out 100% of the time!! They are only giving you one side of a coin.

Political parties and the media tell you what they want you to hear, they don’t tell you everything you need to know. That’s where doing your own thinking and research comes in.

There is a growing problem in Washington, D.C., and if you are voting by party alone, you are a big part of that problem.

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