The American Dream
And What We Must Do to Secure Our Children’s Dreams

“Standby hack, let’s hack now.” Russ Quinn had just given me my 32-second warning, and I counted to myself, one, two, and then I pressed my stopwatch and watched the second hand begin to sweep. I pushed the throttle on my beautiful red, white, and blue F- 16 forward slightly and lowered the nose gently while pulling her into a slow left arc. I had done this hundreds of times in practice, and now it was showtime. “Ninety to the line,” came Russ’s next command. I breathed deeply on my oxygen mask and checked my stopwatch and my orientation to the show line. I was exactly 10 seconds into the maneuver and precisely 90 degrees to the line (meaning my jet was perpendicular to the show line just as we had practiced). That gave me 20 seconds to get to my next checkpoint. I pushed the throttle forward a bit further, felt the acceleration, and continued to pull my fighter through her left turn; now the adrenaline began to pulse. My breathing quickened ever so slightly as I searched for my references on the ground, watched my airspeed build, and waited for Russ’s next call. I was now at 125 feet above the ground, 425 knots, accelerating. “Knife-edge,” came the radio call from Russ.

“Knife-edge,” I yelled into my oxygen mask, indicating that I was on time and exactly two miles away from show center. I pushed the throttle to full military power, accelerated to 475 knots, and looked for Russ.

Objects to be Manipulated Into Serfdom

ROC Editorial
[Appears in Newsletter ROC Issue #14-2011]


Objects. That's us, the American people. The people can be manipulated by words. Those engaged in the perpetual game of acting as Santa Claus, for anyone that has their hands out, in order to retain power for themselves, have shown this to be their attitude to the citizens of this nation. So after decades of this style of governing, our country is in real trouble. Too many people have been partners in this tango of deceit.

It would be one thing if those dispersing all the goodies were the actual owners of the treasures in the first place, and they wished to have them redistributed among themselves, but of course this is not, and has never been, the case. They need productive makers and innovators to loot from. They need the power to force others to comply.

What is happening here now is what has happened around the world by people who were gullible and susceptible to the words of manipulators who hide behind a paper thin veneer of legitimacy based upon their ability to exploit the hardships of the truly needy.

It is sickening to watch so many of our fellow countrymen either enable or participate in this despicable behavior that is so immoral, and so destructive to our society. It is disgraceful to think of all the efforts devoted to the basic tenet of lying your way through life to protect a power sharing racket, based on creating alliances for the purpose of enabling legalized theft and redistributing stolen goods. Yet we see so much evidence of this everyday. From voter fraud, hidden government records, judges ignoring objectivity, outright fabrications like global warming, backroom deals of bribery and extortion, all of it meant to consolidate power over other people. Even those we used to hold in high esteem seem to have no problem with lying their way through life, as we recently witnessed in Wisconsin with doctors writing false sick notes to the unionized teachers that actively sought them out.

This week has given us some hope however. We see real leaders stepping forward and offering a just, compassionate and logical path that ends the perpetual looting game, and restores accountable and responsible government that the good people are finally demanding. The Tea Party movement is comprised of these people that we traditionally think of when we think of America. Honest, hardworking, with a strong sense of family and moral principles who want to preserve the heritage of a great country that lives in freedom and looks out for their fellow man.

Paul Ryan's budget plan is exactly the type of reform that we need to set this country back on course.  The Democrats are trying to lie to the people, Paul Ryan is giving us the truth! The course lain by Pelosi, Reid, and Obama ends as a smashed wreck on the rocks, with America broken, and its people subservient, and no longer with a say in their own government, while also deprived of any individual liberty. It ends this way only if we allow ourselves to be treated as objects, who were easily manipulated into supporting the dishonest, who are always consumed by the need for power.

However, under the Ryan plan, America regathers both its moral compass, and its strength. A Santa Claus method of favoritism in exchange for power requires an endless supply of other people's money, taken by force, that is unsustainable. This gangster system needs to be thwarted for good now, no matter how much temporary sacrifice this requires, because when it violently expires eventually and inevitably, after all the money is gone, and our country is in its death throes, the pain will be far, far greater.

The Democrats did not pass a budget because they decided it would be easier to deceive the public by attacking any Republican plan.  The President's proposal for a budget was a continuation of the irresponsibility and dishonesty he wishes to perpetuate.

So what will happen? Will we become a nation which succumbed to lying words, from liars, who would have us believe they are helping the weak, or will we follow a true path to reform our broken and exploited system to restore the real America?

Via WSJ Paul Ryan: The GOP Path to Prosperity

In a related article on deceit, please read Thomas Sowell's piece at Creators Syndicate on Political Statistics.  Politicians use of assumptions allow them to mold just about any report to read the way they want it to read. If their assumptions are garbage, their report will be too!

Senator Graham Gets It Handed to Him

This is Part 1 of a two part video posted on YouTube. In Part 2 this woman reads passages directly from the Koran, and freely expresses her opinions about what the Islam instruction book preaches about subjugation. The posting is without a doubt going to be very controversial, and will most likely not stay up long on Youtube due to the use of "political correctness" and its complement of appeasement, and use of censuring material which does not comply, that has now become normal practice on this subject in the western nations.

When You're Holding A Hammer Video

We the People

Aaron Lewis- "Country Boy"

We do not need government in charge of how we live, and never have.
Another great expression of our "can do" American attitude and resolve.
H/T David Nance

Hermain Cain's reveals Left's SIN pattern

Hermain Cain demonstrates how liberals use the SIN tactic.
Whatever the issue, the left loses in head to head debate based on facts.  So they generally resort to this basic tactic in their arguments.

•  S    Shift the the subject
•  I      Ignore the facts
•  N    Name call

Herman shows us how he calls them out on what they are trying:

The Power of Pop

ROC friend~Big Dawg Music Mafia

Mario Borgatti creates these awesome graphic images for Big Dawg Music Mafia
 

This week we check in with our conservative cultural warrior friends at

Big Dawg Music Mafia.

Everyone that is in this fight for our country will find something to enjoy here. The artists here are fighting with us, and doing so one song at a time.
Lisa Mei Norton who co-founded the website with her music partner, "Big Dawg," wrote in a recent article for Big Hollywood, describing the purpose behind Big Dawg Music Mafia while speaking at CPAC:

I explained how, in the past two years, having written and performed several original political/protest songs for local, state and national conservative events, I had met many great, conservative, grassroots artists doing the same exact thing, traveling around the country on their own dime to share their conservative messages through their music, books, comedy, etc.
We believe the TEA Party movement underestimates the power pop culture has on influencing the hearts and minds of folks who don’t normally engage in political debate.  The left uses this very successfully to promote their agenda.  Why shouldn’t we?

ROC is more than happy to spread the word about this site, and encourages others to join them in this important effort, or even just to enjoy the talent on display and help spread the word too.

From Toots Sweet's tribute to the WWII veteran who inspired him in "Soldier Boy," to Coleen Gray's relaxing and beautiful "Rain," to the collaboration of several artists for the music video "I Will Not Submit," Chris Ross's "Liberty," or Lisa's own tribute to her special "Lighthouse In the Storm," and multitudes of others, you will surely find something inspirational and informative. Besides great music, you will find conservative blogs, chats, and other creative activities like conservatives breaking through in Hollywood with a people funded movie, and Kansas City talk radio personality Darla Jaye's radio show.

Lisa also tells us "We will have a booth and a bunch of our members performing at the National TEA Party Convention in Memphis next month...as well as Freedom Jamboree 2011 in Kansas City in October." So anyone planning on attending these events, please stop by and say "hello" to Big Dawg Music Mafia!

Introducing the Traditional American Movement

Talented people are contributing to the effort to construct a grassroots website with numerous tools not found elsewhere, to help others in the fight to save the American way of life from those who wish to fundamentally change us into a much different society... where they rule us all.

The site is geared to the idea that we can find common ground in our various organizations, groups, and as individuals to achieve more if we work together.

Tom, a TradAm member, just recently finished making this new video for the patriots who are members at the TraditionalAmericanMovement.com  We really enjoyed it, and hope you do as well.

Feeding Trough War of 2011

 

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Staving Off the Entitlement Flu

Woe be it to the poor governor of any state that tries the new elixir being called "Fiscal Responsibility to the Taxpayers" without preparing for the ensuing pathogenic consequences!
Just when we thought that flu season was about to end for the year, an outbreak of Wi-Madison flu has struck with a wholly illogical vengeance!

Though the evidence is not official, it seems that the influenza strain is a direct result of having to swallow a bitter pill of reality. This medicine causes all sorts of side effects previously undiscovered in recent years... due to the unavailability of this prescription!

Here is just a partial list of severe symptoms and immediate reactions:

• Widespread sickness sets in on certain select overcompensated professions
• Shuts down all public schools, leaving the children unfed
• The infected will mass together at non infected homes and state capitols
• Causes aggravated, heated, angry, and uncivil rhetoric, complete with cross-hair signs and Nazi symbols
• Causes the president to comment, and subliminally empathize with the stricken
• Causes hostage negotiators to fly in and offer to broker a cure
• Causes certain legislators to flee their jobs for "undisclosed" locations
• Causes the media to use the words "undisclosed" and "unfair" repeatedly

Fiscal healers are cautioned to take the following precautions if planning to dispense this same treatment option:

• Call out the National Guard and have them move all state owned buses to flooded areas where they cannot be used
• Tow any new high end Mercedes or Corvettes parked about town, as they belong to the union leaders spreading the flu
• Call the undisclosed location, and offer money to owners to house legislative refugees there until new special elections are held to replace them
• Tell the media that someone coordinated the whole thing from Wasilla,Alaska and give them plane tickets
• Pass out free Obama T-shirts to crowds so they know protests are over
• Schedule and announce Lady Gaga will appear immediately in a neighboring town and there will be more T-shirts
• Set up a training day for teachers so they will understand their pink slips
• Tell students that they will need to make up two days for every day their teachers are out... and provide them picket signs that say "Get back to work!"

This advice meets the new Obama guidelines for preventative care, and if the kids aren't in school how the heck is Michelle going to be able to direct what they eat?

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Stand Up America

Excellent piece by General Paul Valley from the Stand Up America blog:

Leadership in the White House, State Department and National Director of Intelligence and CIA is an Embarrassment to this Great Nation.

Chessboard Series V – Leadership Embarrassment

Published on 02/12/11

By Paul Vallely

The Obama Makeovers

Obama Makeovers

ROC Editorial 2-11-2011

Perpetuating a stagnant economy, and plowing out a subterranean cavern by excavating and then discarding (shoveling) trillions of rocks, formerly known as "US dollars," while creating an historic debt shouldn't tarnish an idol's grand image, and it certainly shouldn't derail ones high speed railroad of destiny! While it may be true that there are now a "few" less independents that are willing to bank on the "change" they once hoped for and expected, there is always those renewable and green resources out there for exploiting... aka "the young people!" So what if a few have disembarked from the Obama Express! The show must go on, as always, and Act II has only just begun!
Now that the president has firmly established that he is indeed way too comfortable as a Washington insider that believes in nationalizing his government to direct your life, and secure his power, lecturing everyone from CEO's to everyday working Americans, and now that he has demonstrated by his actions, that there are no limits in his world of redistribution of taxpayers funds to reward the benefactors of his choosing, he must offer even more... change.  After all, he has always promised "change."  He may have gotten his brethren in Congress slaughtered in the last election, due to their faithfulness to his failed policies, but, "hey," he is still standing, and isn't that what's really important here?
The media will provide most of the cover for the terrible job economically, and the very deep financial hole he furiously directed to be dug, but he is savvy enough to realize the old campaign against doing things differently in D.C. is just not going to be holding as much water.  "The Chosen One" may not know much about running a country successfully, but he sure knows when a political makeover is overdue. No use trying to reverse the Nile, when it's really a matter of the right sail for the winds to navigate those waters.  The "Honest Abe" Lincoln masquerade really didn't fit as well as hoped, and since growing a beard is really out of the question, especially with half the electorate somewhat unsure if he might really be a Muslim hiding the fact. There are some limits to the Islam outreach policy after all.
Pretending to be a great president is the next best thing to actually being one.  How can mediocre, at best, be polished up to look valuable again? Maybe having Oprah on speed dial could help? Oprah knows makeovers! When one is going about reinventing one's routine, it is helpful to make a wardrobe change too. Consequently, the American people were treated to the new Barack trying on the Ronald Reagan cowboy hat and boots for the last month.  This had an unintended consequence for the fawning audience that usually applauds for his brilliant performances, and all the other lackluster performances as well. They started booing from all sides... left, right, and center. The leftists in particular didn't seem to like this comparison much.  Their man, acting like one of the worse villains the Left universally hated!  Not Reagan, the great oppressor to the Welfare State! Of course thinking people just laughed at how ridiculous it all looked.
Enter the JFK suit, and the new capitalist... Mr. Obama, America's latest rising business CEO!
Wink, wink, nod, wink!
A quick speech (lecturing held to minimum) to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (temporarily suspend free enterprise demon talk), and some stand-alone, "unbiased" consensus conclusions (agreed upon in advance) by the old media, and... PRESTO! This JFK suit seems to fit better, because the knowledge gap is harder to bridge, and the smoke and mirror perceptions will be easier to maintain.  John F. Kennedy was a Democrat with a (D) after all.  He inspired his nation to unite behind great causes, and like Obama was ready to spend the country into oblivion....but wait, that isn't quite true.
When JFK faced the economic realities present in the American economic engine (that never was unbolted or thrown overboard) he called for reducing expenditures, and making real, prolonged, top to bottom tax rate cuts, so as to allow Americans to regenerate growth and prosperity again.  Of course it worked.  The fact is, as president JFK acted just like a fiscal conservative would have!  The "new JFK" counts on many not knowing this trivial and most inconvenient fact.
So, now, wink, nod, the "new" Obama of Camelot will soon be turning to capitalism for his reelection hope salvation (whispers to Left, "Don't worry, head fake").

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It's Your Fault

Like-minded blog post :

"I guess you do realize it’s your fault that Congresswoman Gabby Gifford was shot in Arizona.  Add in Glenn Beck, Savage, Levine, Sean, Rush and all the others who stand for liberty. Their hate speeches made that nut-job go buy a Glock with an extended clip, walk up and start shooting.  I know you have heard Rush, Glenn and all the other conservative radio people telling us to go get guns and start killing the Democrats. Even the true Blue Dog Democrats who voted against Pelosi as their leader.  I’m saying this with tongue in cheek..."

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Mark Dean's MADHOUSE Cartoons

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 ARTIST MARK DEAN

The Deck of Royal Fools ^TM is the first installment by renowned political cartoonist Mark Dean,

Author of The Popular Strip,

"MADHOUSE BY MARK DEAN".

 

Mark Dean has captured the essence of the personality behind the caricature in a hilarious manner.
 

Each of the playing cards in The Deck of Royal Fools ^TM is an original work of art.

When we needed someone with awesome artistic ability, with experience at poking fun at people through caricature, Mark Dean was our natural choice!

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