Why Does a British Paper To Get it?

Here is a link to a British paper. They get it. The ones here are so owned by the DEMs that they won't even consider thinking that this could be true.

U.K. TELEGRAPH

Lazio-Faire Politics 101

Having a winning political strategy is important to any candidate. Rick Lazio has taken the strategy that I call lazio-faire - If you ignore it (Carl Paladino), it (Paladino) will go away. Carl asks for a debate. Rick ignores it. Carl says something and the press wants a response. Rick ignores it. Rick gets invited to a Tea Party/Reform group convention. Rick ignores it. Have a scheduled event with a Tea Party group. Rick ignores it.

There seems to be a pattern here. I wonder what a Lazio Administration would do. Raising unemployment, ignore it. Raising crime, ignore it. No budget, ignore it. Declining state population, ignore it....etc, etc, etc. You get the idea.

September 14th will tell if the Lazio-faire strategy will work. My guess and my hope is that it won’t.

New Movie Coming

I can't wait to see this new movie: I Want Your Money

Here is the link to the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wty7974IKg

Freedom of Religion

Freedom of Religion. One of the most important of our unalienable rights. The right to worship or not to worship according to the dictates of our conscience. A free society must have this freedom if it is to be truly free.

Now the mosque. Do the Muslims have a right put a mosque in the shadow of ground zero? Yes, they do. Like it or not. However, people do also have the right to object to it and try to convince the Muslims to not put it there. Just like someone would have the right to put a barbecue place right next store to it. This would be my dream - a barbecue place on one side, an evangelical, fundamentalist Baptist church on the other side. Uuuhhhmmm, that would smell like freedom me.

I Quess We Can't Handle The Truth

After all the hoopla last week about the last combat troops leaving Iraq, what I find out is that what they said wasn't exactly true. Here is a copy of an article from The Army Times:

Combat brigades in Iraq under different name

7 Advise and Assist Brigades, made up of troops from BCTs, still in Iraq

By Kate Brannen - Staff writer

Posted : Saturday Aug 21, 2010 16:10:59 EDT

As the final convoy of the Army’s 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, based at Fort Lewis, Wash., entered Kuwait early Thursday, a different Stryker brigade remained in Iraq.

Soldiers from the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division are deployed in Iraq as members of an Advise and Assist Brigade, the Army’s designation for brigades selected to conduct security force assistance.

So while the “last full U.S. combat brigade” have left Iraq, just under 50,000 soldiers from specially trained heavy, infantry and Stryker brigades will stay, as well as two combat aviation brigades.

Compared with the 49,000 soldiers in Iraq, there are close to 67,000 in Afghanistan and another 9,700 in Kuwait, according to the latest Army chart on global commitments dated Aug. 17. Under an agreement with the Iraqi government, all U.S. troops must be out of Iraq by Dec. 31, 2011.

There are seven Advise and Assist Brigades in Iraq, as well as two additional National Guard infantry brigades “for security,” said Army spokesman Lt. Col. Craig Ratcliff.

Last year, the Army decided that rather than devote permanent force structure to the growing security force assistance mission, it would modify and augment existing brigades.

The Army has three different standard brigade combat teams: infantry, Stryker and heavy. To build an Advise and Assist Brigade, the Army selects one of these three and puts it through special training before deploying.

The Army selected brigade combat teams as the unit upon which to build advisory brigades partly because they would be able to retain their inherent capability to conduct offensive and defensive operations, according to the Army’s security force assistance field manual, which came out in May 2009. This way, the brigade can shift the bulk of its operational focus from security force assistance to combat operations if necessary.

To prepare for their mission in Iraq, heavy, infantry and Stryker brigades receive specialized training that can include city management courses, civil affairs training and border patrol classes.

As far as equipment goes, the brigades either brought their gear with them or used equipment left behind that is typical to their type of brigade, said Ratcliff.

The first Advise and Assist Brigade — the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Armored Division from Fort Bliss, Texas — deployed last spring to Iraq, serving as a “proof of principle” for the advisory brigade concept.

Of the seven Advise and Assist Brigades still in Iraq, four are from the 3rd Infantry Division, based at Fort Stewart, Ga. The 1st Heavy Brigade of the 1st Armored Division, based at Fort Bliss, and the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division, based at Fort Carson, Colo., are also serving as Advise and Assist Brigades.

The 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division is based at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. A combat medic from that unit was killed Aug. 15 when his Stryker combat vehicle was hit with grenades, according to press reports.

Two combat aviation brigades also remain in Iraq, according to Dan O’Boyle, Redstone Arsenal spokesman. Three more are deployed in Afghanistan, where there are currently no Advise and Assist Brigades.

I think I can handle the truth if someone in government or the press would just try me.

Not Hope and Change But A Hopeless Chain

It's time for us to get over the flash, dazzle, and spin that we get from the media. It's time we demand substance from people running for public office. Here 's a link to an articale from the British Telegragh online. This guy understands. I think that many Americans are getting the idea now.

Here's a link: Nile Gardiner

Equity or Redefinition?

There has been a lot of talk, fighting, name calling, court cases and rulings about same-sex marriage. Its been looked at from many different angles but I don't think that anyone has looked at it for what it really is - the redefining of what marriage has been historically.

Most of the pro-same-sex marriage arguments will call it a rights issue or will attack the "Christian" slant of most of their opponents. However, marriage didn't start in 30 A.D. It didn't start with Moses. Cultures never having any association with the Judeo-Christian traditions have had marriage and those marriages have had one thing in common - they have been between a man and a woman. The Chinese, the Japanese, Southeast Asia, Northern Europe, the Western Hemisphere - where do you see same-sex marriage? Even in cultures that gave approval to homosexuality, the Greeks among others, "marriage" was between a man and a woman.

I believe that the same-sex marriage crowd fall into 2 camps. One is for tax advantages. The second is just anti-christian. For the tax camp, it just shows more problems with the income based tax system. For the anti-christian camp, they have always been angling to minimize the power of the christian faith and always will. But we have been here for 2000 years and will until the Lord comes to take us out (rapture).

I could go on but must stop for now. So for same-sex marriage to be legitimate we would have to redefine what marriage is.

Another Reform/Primary Challenge Win!

Today 30,000 signatures on petitions to have a Taxpayer line on the November ballot have been taken to the New York State Board of Elections. This combined with the 28,000 Republican signatures means that 58,000 New Yorkers have taken a real step forward for change.

Some people didn't think that Carl would be able to get the 15,000 necessary to force a Republican primary but he did and so did the many volunteers across New York. They did that and more! Many of these volunteers were Primary Challenge people.

Here 's a word of warning to the liberal elite, do not underestimate us. Don't underestimate the anger and resentment that we have for being ignored for so many years.

On second thought, go ahead and underestimate us. But we will not underestimate you!

State stands up to the Federal Government!!

Let's hear it for Mo. They voted overwhelmingly to reject the Federal mandate to purchase health insurance.

Link to Missouri vote Right here!

Hot Waters or Just Trying to Brew Up A Storm?

This fall California Congresswoman Maxine Waters will face an ethics investigation by the House. Are members of the House starting to take ethics seriously or, as I'm guessing, is this a ploy to stir up blacks for the fall elections? How sleazy and manipulative, but I don't expect much better. I guess I don't have high standards anymore when it comes to judging the behavior of politicians.

Constitution Invalid: Congress can do anything it wants?

Here's a link to very disturbing video. Why do people like this get elected to Congress? I blame the electorate, the people who voted for him.




http://www.breitbart.tv/congressman-at-town-hall-the-federal-government-can-do-most-anything-in-this-country/

Shocking News!!!!

Two days ago, Liberal Democrat Steve Levy has endorsed Liberal Republican Rick Lazio for New York state governor!!!! I can't believe it!!

What else would he do?

An Award-Winning Performance!

I would like to nominate NY Congressman Anthony Weiner for an Emmy award for the most over dramatized, insincere public outburst by a public official. If Mr. Weiner and the DEM’s really felt that this bill (the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act) was soooo important they would have done everything to make it easy for the GOP to vote for it. But they didn’t. Where is the trade off? Where is something that you are willing to give up to get this?

Congressman, you are a phony. Your theatrics only fools the simple, like people in the media. The rest of us can see right through it.

“And the winner is......”, not the American people. Again.

Time to fish or cut bait, Mr. Obama

from The Washington Post

News Alert: Judge blocks the most controversial sections of Arizona's immigration law from taking effect
01:15 PM EDT Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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PHOENIX -- A judge has blocked the most controversial sections of Arizona's new immigration law from taking effect Thursday, handing a major legal victory to opponents of the crackdown.

The law will still take effect Thursday, but without many of the provisions that angered opponents - including sections that required officers to check a person's immigration status while enforcing other laws. The judge also put on hold a part of the law that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and made it illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employment in public places.

With the blocking of this section of Arizona's law the entire responsibility fail to the Federal Government (it was there already, they just weren't doing it.).

In light of Article IV, section 4 of the Constitution of the United States of America, if the federal government a.k.a. the President doesn't protect Arizona from foreign invasion than he is guilty of violating his oath of office and therefore should be impeached and removed from office.

I don't expect this will happen but it should.

Mr. Obama, If you don't want to or are afraid to do the job you swore to do, then quit. We will understand.

(In case the N.S.A. gets this. Just to make sure you know -This is not a threat to any one, just a frustrated American.)

How To Deal With Fools

Two of the most difficult passages of scripture to figure out are Proverbs 26: 4 and 5. It takes a wise man to know when to apply the one and not the other. This is especially true when it comes to political discourse.

Political Marathoners Wanted!

Here’s something to think about. Many have called this election the most important election in our life time. The tea parties are going strong. Politicians are afraid. People are getting involved. You may have walked petitions for yourself and others. You feel energized.

What if things don’t go as well as we hope this year? What if the bottom drops out? What if your petition is rejected by the board of elections? What if your candidate doesn’t win? What if we don’t even take back one house in either the state house or Congress?

I don’t expect these all to happen, but you never know. I think we need to look at what we are doing as a process and not an event. Some people might say that if we don’t taken control of a county party or even any town party in this election that we have failed. They will be wrong! I want to refocus everyone’s attention to what the task really is and how it will probably go.

I expect that this year we will gain some positions on our town boards. This will not give us much power. We may not be informed as to when the meetings will take place. We may not be looked at as good soldiers but this is O.K. We will have a foothold. In 2 years we will understand what we have to do better and will get more people on boards. We may even be able to elect a chairman in a few towns. In 2 more years we will have more people on the committees and will be in position to fight for seats on the executive committee and maybe even the Chairmanship itself. If not, we make ourselves stronger for the election in 2016.

This is a struggle for the long haul, a marathon not a sprint. I don’t want to see people become discouraged by what doesn’t go our way. When quitters may say, ”What’s the use?” When the impatient say, “See, we told you it wouldn’t work. You should have done it our way.” Our goal is to reclaim our republic and state. We didn’t lose it over night. We will not reclaim it over night But if we do not lose sight of our goal, if we do not become discouraged and quit, we will come out of this having claimed the prize that we seek - A Republic that looks a lot like the one our founding fathers had hoped for

Google Adsense

I have a complaint about Google Adsense. This maybe the only way to Contact Google. There is not way to get help from Google. I was unable to remove my account from an old webpage because I pulled the page. Now because I didn't do that( or something?) right, my Adsense account has been deactivated.

If anyone from Google looks at this, maybe you can help me.

Notes to politcians and nitwits who need help!

Last week I got an e-mail about the Erie County Conservative party acting like the Erie County Conservative party always acts - spineless, deceitful, and cowardly. Why is anyone surprised? A couple of points about this.

1. Calling for the chairman of a party to be removed from that party when you don’t belong to and you have no control over it is useless. If it’s that important join that party.

2. Dealing with them or not dealing with them will not affect the way that they do business.

3. Here is a word of wisdom for those who call others “arrogant” - candidates need these parties, these parties don’t need these candidates. This leads to something that “Tea Party” groups need to understand, until you have something that the parties want and can control it they will do what they want. What is that something? Money or power (control over a strong voting block). With out these we will just be on the outside holding witty signs but always on the outside.

On point 3, groups like Primary Challenge or Tea New York have began to gain that necessary power. That doesn’t mean the we have arrived but the work so many did to organize across the state and to get the 28,000 signatures to get Carl Paladino on the ballot shows that these groups have some power. Lenny, Rus, and sooo many others are to be commended. I‘m proud to be a part of these groups. Now we must use this power. Let people know that we were the ones that got this done, against the odds.

(I’m almost embarrassed to include myself since I didn’t do as much as others, but I did do a lot of the preparation - making videos, putting them on disks, getting walking lists ready, getting some signatures( a few sheets),... Maybe I did more than I thought?)

I only hope that we don’t squander this on infighting and quests for personal glory.

Note to nitwits who may read this - This is how to get things done!

Primary Challenge WIN!!!

This is to congratulate those who have worked so hard to collect signatures for Carl Paladino. Earlier, I think last week, someone (Alan Bedenko) from WNY media network seemed to think that Carl would not have enough signatures to get on the ballot. He called it a Primary Challenge FAIL. Now having collected 28,000 signatures, almost twice the number necessary to get on, I wonder if he will concede that it is a win for P. C.?

Also to all those who have doubted Primary Challenge, will you concede that it is becoming a formidable organization. I know it is not there yet but it is becoming one.

I am glad to be just a small part, a very small part of it but still a part.

Savings for the cash strapped.

With so many States, Counties, and Cities across this country having problems with being cash strapped, maybe they should realize that they are spending too much. And when they cut, they should not look at the usual suspects, the services that people need, but they should look at the over-inflated bureaucracy, with its over-compensated patronage jobs! If they start there they might be surprised how much money they could save.

Getting Better

I’m not sure how much time I am going to have to write over the next 11 months. I am beginning a course of study in Information Technology, specifically in Networks.

One of the things that I was lacking when I tried to start a communications business was a lack of understanding of computer networks. It was a case of not knowing enough to know what I didn’t know. Over the last 2 years I have learned more and now I think I know what I am lacking. These classes should fill that gap and give me the skills I need to become very effective in an area that I believe that reform groups are lacking - media.

Most people still get their news from the corporate-controlled, left-leaning, financially-obsessed media with its ego-driven personalities who are more concerned with ratings and markets than NEWS.

Everyone in the reform movement knows that we need better, fairer, and more honest coverage than what we have gotten. Too often the media slants the public’s perceptions of us by finding our lunatic fringe and trying to present them as the norm for our groups. Certainly we can help this by first being more educated. Check your sources. Verify your e-mailed information. You might be surprised how much of the “urgent - you must pass this to 10 people” stuff that you get is bogus. Get a better understanding of history, economics, and religion. Yes, religion. You would be surprised how much of a part it plays in our current political situation. I’m not telling you what to believe (although I would like to) but you need to understand it better. I got tired of people telling me what the Bible said. One person said this. Another said that. It was very confusing. I went out and got the tools so that I could find out for myself.

Secondly, we need to try to be more articulate. I know that for some of us this is very hard. But, how good is it if you know something but can’t express it? Take some courses in public speaking. There are places to get those skills that are cheap, if not free. Maybe within our own groups we should give members things to study and present to the group. It will be scary at first but you will get better. Believe me. I am a very good example. The first time I tried to speak in public I froze up, couldn’t say a word. I have gotten better.

That maybe the theme of this blog today getting better. I’m going to try to do my part. I have a long way to go. I have learned that I have a few personal shortcomings but I know that I am am a work in progress. The best is yet to come. God isn’t through with me yet. By His grace I will get better. How about you?

Not a "birther", but...

I am not a "birther". I don't want to see Barak Obama's real birth certificate.

I already know that he is NOT eligible for the office he now holds. A law book from the 18th century gives us a picture of what their view of a citizen was:

"The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the

society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their

tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born. I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country."

That fromThe Law of Nations by Emmerich de Vattel, Chap XIX, 212: Citizens and natives.

"This 1758 work by Swiss legal philosopher Emmerich de Vattel is of special importance to scholars of constitutional history and law, for it was read by many of the Founders of the United States of America, and informed their understanding of the principles of law which became established in the Constitution of 1787."

This was copied from one of the several sources that I read to make sure it wasn't just from someone making it up. My failure was that I didn't record the source. Good thing this isn't a term paper. I will say that people back then were a lot smarter than we are today.

By this standard I don't need a certificate of live birth or anything else. By all admissions Mr. Obama's father was from Kenya. At the time it was a colony of Britain, making Mr. Obama, Sr. a British citizen, making Mr. Obama, Jr. INELIGIBLE. I wish we had judges who had some guts and brains.

Our Failure

We have let our Founding Fathers down. I was reading The Federalist Papers yesterday while having my car inspected. While reading No. 68, The Mode of Electing the President, by Alexander Hamilton, I came across these words:

"The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States. It will not be too strong to say, that there will be a constant probability of seeing the station filled by characters pre-eminent for ability and virtue."

They had had extremely high expectations of the process that they had devised for the election of the chief magistrate of the united States of America - the President. They also had high expectations for us.

I confess the we have failed. We have not held those who represent us to the standards our founders expected. We have become easy victims of highly skilled P. R. firms. We get little

useful information from candidates. Even in debates, it doesn't matter what the questions is; they only tell us what they want us to hear, and we and the press let them off.

We have a responsibility to our founders, to ourselves, and to those who will follow us to do a better job. We need to live up to the expectations of those great men. They deserve nothing less.

more to follow...

Bitter apology

I have always felt that a personal apology for an public insult was a good first step. Then a more formal, public one should follow. I did need a good place to put it. Here it is. This is my public one.

The course of political debate can easily slip away from practices and principles, and deteriorate into the interjection of personal opinions about people. I am guilty of that. I had written a letter that explained how I saw the collapse of the “Tea Party Coalition”. In my explanation I did let my emotions get the better of me.

Jim, I apologize now in public as I did in private. As I stated I had high hopes for the “Coalition” and when things started to fall apart I took it very hard.

Thank you for your totally classless response. I had hoped for better. Silly me.

You intimated in your blog that I didn’t understand what’s important as you tried to clarify it for me.

Now let me try to understand this. The nation that I had known is disappearing before my eyes. Rights that our founding fathers correctly called unalienable are being eroded at an alarming rate. Those who hold to the right to estate (being able to enjoy the fruits of your labor) are now called selfish and greedy. Now there is “social justice”, which is just another way of saying that it is noble to take one person’s money to give to another person. The rights that the Bill of Rights were to insure are being egregiously ignored. I now can not say anything that will offend someone, or else fines and imprisonment will be coming. So much for free speech or the freedom of religion. It won’t be long before personal rights will consist only of being able to have sex with anyone I want. For now I can have a gun if they let me. State governments are so addicted to Federal money that they won’t speak up. I had taken an oath in 1972 to defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. I don’t remember there being an expiration date on that. So it is still valid.

But you say these are not important. The only thing that is important is beat the machine, that collection of corrupt local political bosses who control everything. It is the evil above all evils. It’s us verses them. There can be no compromise, no negotiation, no prisoners, no touching the unclean thing. I must ignore the fact that it has sought our endorsement. I must ignore the reality that they need our popularity and people,as much as we need their money and people. I should not concern myself with anything but destroying the machine.

I sorry but I seem to remember that your main concern was winning. How will you win if no one will work with you? Getting a major party endorsement is critical. Without it a candidate will lose 95% of the time. Some of us are willing to work with the machine for now because the cost of not working with them is too high.

This compromise that you despise so much is demonstrated in early American History. Our founding father compromised principles when they sought and got the help of the King of France. Hadn’t they just espoused that they had unalienable rights given to them by their creator and that government rules by the consent of the governed? I don’t think that the French king was too big on those ideas. However, the cost of failure for them was too high to not compromise. I believe this year is also important. We need reform minded people in our Congress and State House. No, no one should sell his soul to the devil or the machine to gain office but to demand the purity that the “Coalition” is demanding will leave you pounding the halls of some middle school looking for candidates that are pure enough to receive your endorsement.

I am sure you are saying,” that’s not much of an apology.” Well, I apologize for anything that was about you personally, not for my opinion of your actions relating to the collapse of the “Coalition” that I described, or my opinion of your failure to understand the implications of national events and the inadequacies of your strategies.

At the end of my life I want to hand over to my children and grandchildren a United States of America that they will enjoy, and be able to prosper in, so that they will be proud to say they are Americans. I have a choice: do I fight against those who are working to take that away from me, working with people who are not perfect but have the same goals, knowing that it is a difficult and dangerous path; or do I follow you down the sanctimonious path of purity that leads to irrelevance and impotence? Hmmm. An easy choice for a thinking man. I choose the first.

By the way, I know that I don’t warrant much thought with you, but next time you might dress up your cliched similes. Use something like,”your apology is a useless as A Tea Party Coalition Endorsement!” That would really hurt.

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Who am I and what is a political grunt. Anyone who has been in the military knows what a grunt is. It is a foot soldier, a ground pounder, a guy who does the dirty work and gets little glory. Now coming from a U.S. Air Force Vietnam-era veteran this term is a little humbling to accept but I guess that is what I am.

I live in Western New York, an area known for political dysfunction. I am not from this area. I'm a transplant but I love this area, even the snow. I think I would rather live here than anywhere else in the world. I do have to confess that even though I love it here I still have a little attachment to the Pittsburgh area. You know what they say, "you can take the boy out of Pittsburgh, you can't take Pittsburgh out of the boy," at least not completely. I still cheer passionately for both the Steelers and the Penguins. (It's too bad the Pirates became a major league farm team.) Now, I like the Bills and the Sabres but they aren't my teams.

O.K. Enough about me. Why am I writing this. I, with about everyone else who lives here, have one major complaint with New York - THE GOVERNMENT. Talk about a bunch of nincompoops. After watching these people since 1988, when I moved to New York, I finally had enough complaining from others and me. Something had to be done! Through "Providence" I met Lenny Roberto of Primary Challenge. After talking for a couple times a week over a few months he invited me to become a part of Primary Challenge. So here I am. I am the guy who does the video for major events. You will see me off on the side recording the history of the reform movement here in the Buffalo area.

And it is a movement. We have some people out in front who get the bulk of the attention but it is filled with people like me, grunts, who don't seek glory but struggle for one goal - RECLAIM OUR GOVERNMENT. We have seen the American ideals that were taught to us, that we came to love quickly eroding under a "European - idolizing" bureaucracy that is increasingly expanding and it scares us. We are not all scholars but we are well read. We are not all geniuses but we are not the dumbiesthat the media makes us out to be. There may be a racist or two there; but, when we know who they are, they are not tolerated. This is not about one man - Obama. This is not about one issue - taxes. It is about a forgetten concept - FREEDOM and the God-given right to govern ourselves. More to follow....