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America's parallel universe… a slippery slope

There was once a science fiction show on television called “Sliders.” The basic theme of this 1990’s show was the escapades of four scientists who had a device that would allow them to “slide” into parallel universes.

In one episode the sliders found themselves in a world where the Declaration of Independence was invalid and personal liberties and freedoms were non-existent. The episode ends with the sliders uploading a copy of the Declaration of Independence to computers via the Internet and citizens gathering around computers to be inspired by the Declaration of Independence.

It’s as if we’re living in an alternate universe of our own, and the nation that was borne through the ideas that sparked such a declaration, and later the US Constitution, has disappeared and a parallel universe without these constraints on government is morphing from a slippery slope of government regulations aimed at protecting us from ourselves.

It’s not difficult to see how we’ve got here and how such radical opinions can be propagated.

In a 2001 NPR interview that went basically unnoticed until the election last year of Barrack Hussein Obama as President of the United States, Obama, then an Illinois state senator, told NPR that the constitution is “a charter of negative liberties.” He went on to tell the interviewer that the US Constitution “says what the states can’t do to you; says what the federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.”

California Senator Dianne Feinstein made a similar statement in a separate statement where she also used a similar phrase in the context of the US Constitution.

Obama has further stated, and arguably believes within the core of his being, that his role is to bring “major redistributive change” in terms of personal wealth in America because the courts are simply not radical enough to do this — in BHO’s opinion.

The question isn’t so much how we got into the parallel universe we’re in, where protecting and defending the Constitution is anathema to the views of our political leaders, but how are we going to reverse this slide before it’s too late and we have to take the extreme position of abolishing our government from power by force and starting over, much like our founders were forced to when they openly declared their independence from King George.

We must never forget

We are dangerously close to repeating the horrors of some of this world's most famous periods of history.

Our holidays to mark the triumphs over tyranny have become too watered down; we're too complacent about what the men and women who died for liberty's cause did to preserve it. The very freedom and liberty that dwells within the souls of all human beings has become tarnished by a contentment that is both dangerous and evil.

We must never forget the sacrifices that countless Americans made for freedom around the globe. We must never forget the principles for which they stood when they carried the flag of freedom into enemy territory and liberated nations from tyranny. We must always carry their memories and what they stood for as the standard for future generations.

Silent No More

This video by Joe Dan Gorman is well worth the time to view. It's a great primer for conversations, and should be a call to action by all those who fear the loss of their liberty and freedom in America.

Committing econnomic suicide

While I've not really followed the whole Glenn Beck fiasco — apparently some advertisers have pulled their ads from his national talk radio program for something he apparently said — the idea that businesses in this age of economic recession are reducing ANY of their advertising is economic suicide!

During the Great Depression the two biggest cereal companies, Post and Kellogg's, competed for market share. Post severely cut back its advertising while Kellogg's pressed on. Years later when America's economy picked up, Kellogg's was positioned to succeed by beating out Post for market share. This market share superiority continues today.
In today's marketplace, pulling advertising from national Conservative talk radio shows is especially detrimental because of the large listener base that Conservative talk radio provides.
People today are smart enough to know why certain companies are doing this. While this news might provide a bit of free advertising for some of these companies, consumers will ultimately vote with their wallets and find other companies to spend their money on.
If I were a company competing against those that have made it known that they're pulling their advertising from some of these programs I'd be jumping for joy and would be lining up to fill the space they vacated. The chance to promote my goods and services on Conservative talk radio would be most welcome, particularly if my competition is electing to spend their money on less-effective media.

White House tells an unemployed America with a trashed credit score to buy more cars

Let just do the math… the White House wants us to all go out and buy new cars and trade in our clunkers at the same time.
With over 10 percent of the nation unemployed right now and those who aren't still hanging on by the skin of their teeth, and, with a growing number of people with trashed credit scores because they had their homes foreclosed upon after walking away from their mortgages, how is it all those people, Mr. White House Spokesman, are going to even QUALIFY for an automobile loan? Or do you not know that the banks aren't lending right now, even though they've been given billions in taxpayer bailout dollars?

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/07/gibbs-to-the-public-go-buy-a-car.html

Sewage sludge issue reaches White House garden with discovery of toxic levels of lead

I had to chuckle when I read the story, but the news isn’t funny.
It seems for years during the Clinton Administration that officials poured industrial waste, euphemistically called “sewage sludge,” onto the White House lawn and other areas around the White House in an attempt by the EPA to show that sewage sludge — “biosolids” as the industry likes to call it — is a safe soil amendment for the home gardener and the commercial farmer who feeds this nation and the world.
Fast-forward through two administrations and now it appears that the sludge that was poured onto the grounds of the White House is now responsible for the contamination of Michelle Obama’s “organic” garden. Well… it’s not “organic” anymore.
According to stories published by Mother Jones — http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2009/07/more-thoughts-sludge-and-white-house-garden — and — http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2009/06/did-sludge-lace-obamas-veggie-garden-lead — sewage sludge has poisoned the First Lady’s garden with toxic levels of lead well in excess of government standards, based on soil sample studies performed by the National Park Service. According to one story published by Mother Jones: “Starting in the late 1980s and continuing for at least a decade, the South Lawn was fertilized by ComPRO, a compost made from a nearby wastewater plant’s solid effluent.”
The danger with sludge is that it contains traces of almost anything that gets poured down sewer drains.
This was one of the arguments used against EPA officials who were regularly ferried at taxpayer expense to California in the late 1990s when the Stanislaus County Farm Bureau, based in Modesto, was pushing for an all-out ban on the application of sewage sludge on farmland in Stanislaus County. Stanislaus County is one of the top-10 ag-producing counties in the United States, with ag receipts in excess of $2 billion.
The issue not only pitted Farm Bureau against the government, a common occurrence, but it pitted farmers from various regions of California against the other as farmers in Kern County, California were regularly accepting loads of sewage sludge from Orange County, California. Not all farmers in Kern County were happy to see the stuff come into their county; vegetable farmers were rightfully concerned of the public relations nightmare that would ensue if people across the United States got wind that their vegetables might be tainted with the toxic substance. Even if it could be proved safe, the perception of sludge was enough to frighten farmers and keep them from wanting this stuff anywhere near their lands.
While this is not one of those hot-button topics of discussion around the water cooler or on the evening news, a story published online at http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92869 reminded me of just why this issue is so important; our government spent untold millions of dollars trying to convince people in California that the land-application of sewage sludge was safe, while out of the other side of their mouth, stating with certainty that the ocean-dumping of sewage sludge, which was previously practiced, was now too dangerous to aquatic life. This point was not lost on those pushing for the sludge ban in Stanislaus County, as it was argued in testimony before the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors in Modesto, CA during the sludge debate, if sewage sludge is too dangerous to dump in the oceans, it’s certainly too dangerous to dump on the nations farmland, where it can’t be diluted like it would be in the ocean.
I’m not necessarily arguing that we go back to ocean-dumping of sewage sludge, but we need to come up with a solution of safely disposing of this toxic stuff, rather than dumping it onto farmlands and pouring it into bags of composted materials that are sold at local home improvement stores and then dumped into backyard gardens and flower pots.