June 25, 2009. The day Michael Jackson’s heart stopped. It’s a day to remember in that one of the world’s most famous people leaves this world. He will be talked about more in his death than in his life. Here is a case in point.
President Obama says we will get overhauled health care this year. He also plans on cramming cap and trade down our throats before the year turns as well. These two policies, if enacted, will change our nation into one in which none of us will recognize in less than a decade. However I digress.
Today was Obama’s unlucky day. For a while now both cap and trade and single player health have been running into resistance. Both people and politicians have started to wise up to the implications to themselves, their future and their children’s future if these programs are put into affect. The Obama administration needed help. So what did they do? They did what they know best. They enlisted the media, namely ABC this time, to host from the white house a town hall meeting on their major national news program with their major national news talking heads. They hand picked the audience, omitted any descending commercials and opposition, ignored republicans in the audience, and filibustered the time allotments with unintelligible answers. Thankfully the whole thing was a bust. None-the-less it can be said that Obama got lucky before this day with the ‘discovery’ of the cheating republicans governor Mark Sanford and Senator John Ensign. The media was set for another never-ending republican busting feast and orgy devoid of and sense of balance or responsibility creating a distraction from the issues and lessening the pressure on our politicians. I’m sure in one way or another tea-bagging would have been introduced into stories and Sarah Palin will get trashed non-stop even though there is nothing other than party affiliation and job titles in common with the cheating males. Think this is over the top? Take a look at what John Kerry had to say about this. So why is June 25, 2009 Obama’s unlucky day. This is the day Michael Jackson died. This is the day that the media’s only love greater than vilifying republicans, celebrity, had a new story too irresistible to ignore leaving the republican bashing fall to the wayside. We will hear for the next week nothing other than stories about Michael Jackson and stories of stories about Michael Jackson. We will get to witness and analyze his funeral, the dissolution of his estate, and everything that goes between. It will be so intense I seriously doubt that Obama will be able to settle it down even with the announcement of another prime-time news conference full of platitudes that remind us that he still thinks he’s running for the Office.
It’s still not the best scenario I know. Ideally the news should be so slow that the media would be forced to cover the issues being taken up on capital hill however now the media has a dilemma. They can choose to ignore the death of an icon and cover the broken personal lives of politicians, or they can choose to rehash the life of one of the greatest entertainers to ever walk the earth. They will cover Jackson’s stories, and the moral personal issues of the republican politicians will become old news, unless of course it is learned that somehow these personal emails were leaked to the press by Sanford’s opposition. Pardon me, as I should know better. It simply doesn’t work that way anymore.
I sit back and think about the peril our nation is in and have to wonder if this man’s death was actually a divine intervention. If Obama’s disastrous agenda is busted up and unable to be deployed, will we be looking back at the events of today and come to the conclusion that Michael Jackson did more for his country in his moment of death than all the happiness and intrigue he brought us during his living years? A miracle perhaps?
After reading this story found at the Tampa Bay Online I have to wonder if the tax money brought in from the sales of these cigars was more than the tax brought in by the taking of income from the company and that of its former employees. Will the government be short tax income because of the new tax increase on tobacco causing the decline in its use and the failing of the tobacco market? I wonder if we will ever know for sure.
“We can’t afford to make these cigars in the U.S. anymore,”
We all know however that tax income isn’t really what the government was after. This is an example of government tyranny accomplishing exactly what it set out to do. It has successfully trampled on the personal liberty of those who wished to be in the business of making cigars and those who wished to smoke and sell them all in the name of public health. This is the government preparing for single payer health care. They need to ensure that you don’t do anything that might lead to a health condition that will add cost to the system in such a way that they deem unacceptable.
We now have another 500 people potentially claiming unemployment money from the federally stimulated state government of Florida where there are only slim prospects for these people finding jobs and a company forced to operate outside of the US. The federal government continues to make policy that adds tax at the same time the unemployment rate continues to climb at small but rapid steps inching us ever closer to the soup lines. Single payer health care and cap and trade should guarantee I meet you in line.
Speaking of single payer health care, I hope you boycotted ABC tonight.
I’m a pick your plan iPhone user without the official data plan from AT&T. I do not unlock (technically cannot) my phone however in order to keep from racking up ungodly fees for accessing the data services at 1 cent per kilobyte I jailbreak my phone so I can disable both the 3G and Edge services. This leaves me with plain vanilla digital cell access and SMS. fine for me. I save a ton of cash and WiFi is everywhere. I’m at a Krispy-Kreme now as I write this.
I decided to upgrade my phone to 3.0 yesterday and what I have discovered, aside from the 3.5 hour process, is now it seems that I must keep 3G enabled and Edge disabled less my battery drains overnight. With 3G disabled and Edge disbled I hear an almost constant cell network acces if I put the phone close to a speaker. The other way around and all is clear and I get battery life.
So far, in day 1 with a go-phone sim and a jailbroken iPhone OS 3, I can report that things are working well. I’m no longer able to disable 3G which will require me to charge the phone more often than I would have on 2.2.1, however no data traverses the 3G network so I’m not having to worry about chewing throught my prepaid money.
Dennis Prager makes his case for his claim that your happiness is a moral obligation to those around you. He explains how your happiness is related to clean breath and talks about the importance of behaving as if you are happy even when you are not.
If you found this topic on happiness of interest, this as well as a much larger range of topics related to happiness is discussed in detail in a short book I highly recommend reading titled “Happiness is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual“. I gain nothing in recommending this book other than the knowledge that someone might have learned something they might not have ever considered otherwise.
We have not as Americans had to endure a political and geopolitical climate as complicated and daunting as what we are enduring today for at least a generation. Being happy or at least expressing happiness whenever humanly possible is needed now more than ever.
It’s epidemic. Big and plumpy that is. Round and funky is the new norm and in the spirit of celebrating it, turn up your audio and prepare to smile.
Lady’s and gentlemen, I present you the new anthem for all those that are big and plumpy. So grab the snacks, much on some trans fats, sip on some high fructose corn syrup, press play, and enjoy this short and healthy clip.
The zen message of the day. Okay, not necessarily “of the day” since “of the day” is as about as relevant as the “Question of the Day” category to your right that has been neglected for many a moon. None-the-less, I thought that as long as the media is available I would link to it here so that anyone not familiar with this man can get a quick glimpse into his mind and possibly venture further into the rabbit hole known as Michael Savage on your own.
It is now official. What everyone not permanently attached to the tit of the mainstream media already knows, it is now confirmed directly from the White House.
The White House loves who?
Would someone kindly explain to me what exactly was meant by Kareem Dale’s love comment?
As well as a beautiful rendition of Amazing Grace that brought everyone who was unfortunate enough to not make it inside the service to a complete standstill. I don’t think I took one breath through the whole performance:
I think democracy sucks. It’s here where I share a commonality with the Leftist Statist Democrats. Yes, they also believe democracy sucks and in their quest for power they are doing all they can to destroy any resemblance of the republic our framers died to create by using it as a tool. A government the Leftist Statists must “change” because it is designed specifically to take power away from government and protect as much as possible the liberties and rights of individual people. However where I differ from the leftists is I think democracy sucks for the same reason our framers did. Our nation was not created as a democracy. It was created as a constitutional republic with elements of democracy. However walk down any street in America and ask anyone on the street what form of government identifies the U.S. and I would bet that the majority would say democracy. Before you read any further, please watch this quick ten minute video which highlights clearly and gracefully our intended form of government and then let me put something into perspective that I hope will be eye opening.
California is the one state in the union comprised of the most people who view our form of government purely as a democracy and is run by a government with seats of power filled with the most statists. I believe the reason for this is due to a massive improperly educated population and people who are not Americans. It is also a state with the longest constitution of any state or country in the world with over 500 amendments and as this Associated Press article points out many do not take into consideration the meaning or purpose of previous amendments. Therefore the California state constitution can be more accurately named the California State Contradiction.
The system is broken because the constitution is outdated and has been amended more than 500 times, and each new amendment pays no attention to last year’s amendment,” – John Grubb; Bay Area Council
California today is a complete political and financial wreck. It is so bad that there are now serious consideration being given to the idea of tossing out the current constitution, holding a constitutional convention, and adopting a new one presuming that in some magical way the people chosen to attend the convention can come to some sort of agreement on anything. The problem as I see it in adopting a new constitution today is that the state is filled with people who have deviated so far ideologically from the American idea of a constitutional republic that drafting a new document to frame a new government is a foreign idea and counter-cultured. Additionally the state is currently governed by Leftist Statist Democrats that believe in supremacy of the state and a more restrictive document restricting the power of the state is counter-productive to their goal.
I lay a pretty heavy charge against the people of California however let me point out what should be obvious. More than 500 amendments to a constitution with Proposition 8 defining marriage between one man and one woman being the most recent. Ignoring the argument that Prop 8 is either a revision or amendment, the point is that this change in the constitution occurred by majority vote of the people. This dangerous section of the California constitution; Article 18, Section 4 of the California State Constitution states the following:
A proposed amendment or revision shall be submitted to the
electors and if approved by a majority of votes thereon takes effect the day after the election unless the measure provides otherwise.
Majority vote, majority rule, it does not matter how you name it this section of the constitution removes any resemblance of a constitutional republic and leaves the state vulnerable to mob rule threatening individual liberty and individual rights. As you should already know, our nation’s founding documents do not contain the word “democracy” anywhere within them. Neither does the California state constitution as it is currently written. However majority vote of the electors mean the exact same thing. By contrast, this nation’s constitution does not have a provision allowing for the majority vote of the electors to amended the document. Mark Levin writes in Liberty and Tyranny:
[T]hey {The framers} provided two methods for proposing amendments, only one of which has been used in adopting all current amendments. It requires a supermajority of two-thirds of the members of both Houses of Congress to propose an amendment to the states for ratification, and three-fourths of the states to successfully ratify the proposed amendment.
Ah but this is a democratic solution! I agree however this is the element of democracy I pointed out above. While it takes a supermajority vote to amend the US constitution, this supermajority must comprise of elected officials that have sworn to uphold the constitution as the supreme law. Usurping the boundaries imposed by the document is much more difficult to accomplish than simply relying on majority rule of the electors.
California is indeed in crisis and the people there are in real danger of losing more of their freedoms at an accelerated rate at the hands of mob rule. Fortunately it is still possible for the people of that state to leave it relocating to other states better suited to protecting their freedoms however I fear that intellectually it is too late. I believe there is a political event horizon that has been crossed where the only possible way to reverse it will come through revolution. In the meantime the political atmosphere will inevitably trend towards an oligarchy and possibly even secession from the union. What’s worse however is that if California can successfully abolish their existing constitution and write another, the question then becomes can the same thing occur at the federal level? After all, what power does a document have if it can simply be tossed and rewritten? All it takes for this to occur is a change in the mindset of the population, through community organization and miseducation, to believe that the founding documents are outdated and irrelevant therefore opening the door to the idea of tossing out the old for the new without revolution. Change that can be believed in.
Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before. -Rob Emanuel
Perez Hilton - “Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage, do you think every state should follow suit, why or why not.”
Carrie Prejean – “I think it’s great Americans are able to choose one or the other, we live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And you know what in my country; in my family I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody there, but that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think it should be, between a man and a woman.”
Carrie Prejean
I never have watched a Miss USA pageant nor did I watch this one however now I wish I had. I have a hard time refusing any opportunity to voice an opinion on one topic or another and here is no exception. Apparently conservatives need not apply any longer for the Miss USA pageant and for that matter Christians. Carrie Prejean was asked a question and she provided an honest answer straight from the heart. There was no beating around the bush, no stuttering. She gave a forthright answer to a controversial question in such a way that should have landed her the crown no matter what the controversy was. It was an impossible question that she handled with grace. If only politicians has this much fortitude. However this was not to be the case. Instead she was given the cold shoulder and even Carrie was astonished to have been named first runner up.
A flattering Perez Hiton
So who is Perez Hilton? He’s a blogger and TV personality with a former website domain registered to him, pagesixsixsix.com. His real name is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. and previously wrote freelance articles for gay publications and is clearly a supporter of gay “rights” He’s a gay man himself and is open about it. More can be learned of him HERE. One only has to take a single look at www.perezhilton.com and any Christian would immediately acknowledge that he is not a Christ loving and God fearing man. So this begs the question. Did Perez know that Carrie is or considers herself a Christian and did this influence his questioning in any way? It’s hard to believe he did not know about her faith being that Carrie is currently a student enrolled at San Diego Christian College. This information I have no doubt was disclosed in one way or another to the judges. It’s also hard to believe that Perez asking this question of her was completely coincidence. No, I believe that he prepared this question just for her, and she feared it would be asked. “God Was Testing My Faith, had a gut feeling. I knew he was controversial, and so was the question. Out of all the topics I studied up on, I dreaded that one, I prayed I would not be asked about gay marriage. If I had any other question, I know I would have won”.
Here we have yet another example of Christian persecution via ridicule clear and obvious. Had Carrie compromised her principles and not been open about her faith or had it not been disclosed in some other way that she was Christian, then the likelihood that she would have been asked this question by an ungodly man for the purpose of hurting her or furthering his agenda would have been much more unlikely. However since Perez is clearly living life to do nothing more than draw attention to himself and destroy or otherwise wreck the lives of others; for the most part mission accomplished. I doubt however he will have much impact on the everlasting life of Carrie. I have a feeling that in the long run she will look back at this with a smile thanking the Lord for this moment if she has not already.
This brings to the forefront however another obvious fact. As I wrote above, conservatives need not apply. I’ll quote here in full the words of Shanna Moakler, a former Miss USA and head of the CA Pageant. Emphasis added by me:
“First, I want to be clear on the fact, that I have NOT and will not abandon our reigning Miss California, thou I have a STRONG difference of opinion, I do NOT hate her, nor do I have any issue with her stating her opinion, she is not the first conservative Christian titleholder to be in pageants. I agree with the majority that this IS what makes our country great and that is of course freedom of speech. She was asked a questioned and she answered it.
But I want to explain to the masses, what the TITLE of Miss USA stands for to me, and being a former Miss USA, I feel I have a pretty good sense of it. Miss USA travels the world and she competes at the Miss UNIVERSE pageant as a representation of her country. She is a ambassador, a role model and needs to be able to show diplomacy on all issues. Sadly for California THIS is where we lost the crown. Not for her answer or even her beliefs, because again, sadly IN California her beliefs at this point in time are the majority. But she lost the crown because she wasn’t able to convey compassion for ALL the people that as MISS USA she would be representing. And if YOU like it or not, gays and lesbians make up this country as well. THIS is why we have judges so they can find the RIGHT woman who obtains these qualities. They are crucial in my eyes when holding a honor and title as big as being Miss USA. The panel of judges was qualified and did their job, they represented all of us, men, woman, black, white, gay and straight.”
Look, this isn’t about compassion as it is impossible to represent all people. Carrie was compassionate in her response, yet she remained firm in her principles. What Shanna is saying is that women of principle and conviction need not apply for these pageants because they will be required to compromise their principles in order to appease the populace, appeasement being a common trait of the left wing of which this pageant now clearly and undoubtedly conforms. The irony in all this as that the applause that Carrie received for her answer was very strong and showing of a well-received answer as opposed to the cheers received by the questioner prior to the answer.
There is more however. Keith Lewis, the Executive Director of Miss California USA/Teen USA is on record of saying:
“As co-executive director of Miss CA USA and one of the leaders of the Miss CA family, I am personally saddened and hurt that Miss CA USA 2009 believes marriage rights belong only to a man and a woman. Although I believe all religions should be able to ordain what unions they see fit, I do not believe our government should be able to discriminate against anyone. Religious beliefs have no place in politics in the Miss CA family.”
So here we have an Executive Director saying that there is no place for religion or politics in the Miss California family, however the very politically charged question by Perez was allowed to be asked even though there is a direct link between marriage and religion. Am I the only person who see’s the double standard and direct attack being charged here? Since when is the Miss USA pageant a political affair? I see admission by Keith in his statement as well as Shanna’s that her loss was directly related to her mainstream views on marriage and her faith.
This event is without a doubt a shining example of where the decline of our society is today. It highlights the stranglehold the left wing has on American media and it highlights the reality distortion that exists between the people and those in the media. It highlights the fact that you can hold a mainstream ideal and yet be punished and persecuted successfully by those in the minority who believe that behavior is equal to and no different from race, confuses love with marriage, and do not understand that marriage as it is now is already civil and applies equally. It exposes in a clear and obvious manner the agenda of those Carrie was beholden to and the power they possess over her.
America must wake up and protect with vigilance the values held dear and close to its heart or they will be lost altogether. It is time to make a stand.
