THE BIG LIE - AMERICAN STYLE!

JOHN B. WANTS TO KNOW:

"DID THE 'GEN-XERS' SOMEHOW MISS MEIN KAMPF   DURING THEIR PRICEY COLLEGE EDUCATIONS?"

MULTIETHNIC
BARHAMS BEHIND
THE WALLS OF
BARHAM ABBEY

Anyone who has been exposed to Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf   knows that the Nazi monster made no bones about where he wished to take Germany. He was most explicit about his aims and his strategy, indicating that he would achieve his goals through "the big lie."

In other words, Hitler knew that even the most fallacious of statements could become believable, if constantly repeated.  Thus, around-the-clock repetition of anti-Jewish propaganda did the trick and allowed the mad man to become master of Germany.  Yes, it was repeated again and again, Germany was stabbed in the back, causing her to lose World War I.  Yes, it was the dirty Jewish money-grubbers who betrayed Germany and sold out to the international Jewish conspiracy.  Yes, the Jews were an inferior race and must be eliminated.  Yes, it was the Jews who controlled the governments of the Democratic West, which wanted to keep Germany in a position of     weakness.

A VERY SAD SIGN OF THE TIMES!

Lately, listening to the cacophony of D.C. leftist verbiage, I am constantly reminded of the big lie. For example, this morning, I heard a clip from the words of Senator Harry Reid, when his convoluted logic somehow led him to compare senators opposed to Obamacare to senators of more than a half-century ago who opposed civil rights legislation.  His implication was, of course, that 21st century senators in opposition to the Affordable Care Act are just as racist as those who had opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.  I, for one, am so very tired of a constant mantra of race, race race!  And, virtually in all instances, the issue of race doesn't really have anything to do with what is being discussed.  Let it not be forgotten, as well, that in Texas we have a notorious black Congresswoman who constantly peppers her tortured pronouncements with reminders that Republicans and Tea-Partiers alike are "demons" and "devils."  

WILL THIS GROUP KEEP GROWING?

A hoped for result for the D.C. socialists leading the Democratic Party is that the big lie strategy now dominating their  propaganda machine in Washington will lead to a great mass of Americans who, because of one factor or another, will identify with big government.  After all, third-generation welfare recipients, new immigrants entering the benefit rolls, Obamaphoners, Medicaiders and food-stampers will be reluctant to bite the hand that feeds them.  Not only will they be totally imbued with racial-identity politics, their psyches will be surfeited with class-envy, which is predicated on the fiction that it is somehow patently unfair that the "rich," whomever they might be, have accumulated wealth, while they have not.

Despite my reluctance to burst that big old Marxist balloon, the truth must be told.  If, somehow, all of the wealth of the richest people in America were to be expropriated, it would not - I repeat - it would NOT be enough to keep our present government running for one month!  Yet, a major part of the mantra of the big leftist lie is that the poor and and minorities are victims of the rich, whose hoarding of wealth has caused unprecedented misery and suffering.

Wealth in America has always been in the hands of the country's very large middle class.  That's why, dear readers, the middle class pays the bills.  Just think about it.  Rich people can afford top-notch tax attorneys, accountants and advisers.  Middle class people cannot afford such luxury. Consequently, middle class people - predominantly white but also including some educated minority folks - make up the majority of responsible people who pay the bills, provide for their families and, heck yes! - they even cover their family members with medical insurance!  And that's why Obamacare will end up soaking the middle class.

WILL THIS GROUP DISCOVER THAT THEY'VE BEEN ROYALLY "HAD?"

I can just see it now, those generation-x,young professionals who might have voted for Obama in places like New York, California, Ohio and Virginia and have paid for insurance costing perhaps 3,000-thousand dollars annually; and - big surprise- examining their insurance statements under the provisions of Obamacare, finding out that they are not only NOT going to be saving 2,500-dollars as was promised, but instead are going to be paying 100% more than was previously the case.  Hopefully, that will be a wake-up call for young, middle class professional people; and, hopefully, they will assist in the effort to rescue their country from the socialist siren-song of Obama's "Hope & Change," which has brought in its wake only destructive change and absolutely no hope.

As for the big lie, it continues ad infinitum, clogging most of the media and sabotaging meaningful discussion of the real problems facing our country.  The bottom line:  we simply cannot afford unworkable, pie-in-the-sky socialist pipe-dreams, which drive up costs, rob the economy of jobs and create debt, which results in more taxes tomorrow.  Isn't it high time, dear readers, that we all realized this and took meaningful steps to end this farce in Washington?

Texans will never, never, never compromise with socialism!

Deo vindice!

Good bless Texas, and may the Lone Star State remain forever red!

CALDERONI'S CORNER: HOW OTHERS SEE US

           A  PLAY ON LETTERMAN: 
         A CANADIAN VIEW

BEN CALDERONI

Recently, while rummaging through the wonderful world of Cyberspace, a top 10 list of American stupidity caught my eye.  Apparently contrived by an astute Canadian observer of the American scene, it succinctly captures the essence of the bizarre world of American culture and politics.  As such, it  is shared with our readers, with the hope that both the humor and tragedy of it all will touch a chord.

1. Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a 35,000-dollar-a plate-fund-raiser.

2. Only in America could people claim that the government discriminates against black Americans, when that group  boasts a black president and even a black attorney general.  At the same time, 20% of the federal workforce is black, while the black population amounts to 14% of America's  population overall. Furthermore, 40% of all federal entitlements go to blacks, three times the rate of outlays to whites and 5 times that going to Hispanics.

3.  Only in America could two people of great responsibility for the tax code, Tim Geithner, who headed the Treasury Department, and Charles Rangel, who formerly led the House Ways and Means Committee, both turn out to be individuals who fudged on their tax returns.  Both of these fellows were in favor of raising taxes!

4. Only in America do terrorists kill people in the name of Allah, while the various media react by fretting that there might be a backlash against Muslims.

5. Only in America would they make people who want to legally become citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while debating whether or not those who came illegally should attain citizenship.

6. Only in America are people who believe in their Constitution and wish to maintain a balanced budget thought of as "extremists."

7. Only in America would you need a drivers license to cash a check or buy a six-pack - BUT NOT TO VOTE.

8. Only in America would people demand that the government investigate oil companies for price-gouging because of the price of gas going up, when the return on capital invested in major oil companies is less than half that of money invested in major manufacturers of tennis shoes.

9. Only in America could the government collect more taxes from the people than any nation in recorded history and still spend a trillion dollars more than it has for a year and complain that it does not have enough revenue.

10. Only in America could rich people, who pay 86% of all income taxes, be accused of not paying their fair share by people who do not pay any taxes at all.

It makes one wonder just what is going on in our country.  No wonder many in the world believe that Americans are idiots.  Come to think of it, maybe we are!

Semper Fidelis!

God bless America!

IS THIS NOT REMINISCENT OF A BROKEN RECORD?

PRESIDENT OBAMA, WHY DO YOU NOT SPEAK OUT AGAINST VIOLENCE BY BLACK YOUTH AGAINST WHITE SENIOR CITIZENS?

THE VICTIM SHOWING PHOTO OF HIMSELF & BRIDE

On October 18, an 87-year-old World War II veteran, Lawrence E. "Shine" Thornton, was accosted, robbed and knocked down in his driveway in Greenville, Mississippi. Thornton died as a result of the injuries he sustained, after being transferred to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

THOSE CHARGED

Four black teenagers, Edward Johnson, Leslie Litt, Geblonski Murray, and Terrance Morgan, have been charged with the crime.


Lawrence Thornton was a highly respected senior citizen in Greenville. A local celebrity famed for his"hand-crafted" tamales, Thornton was an oft-honored guest at various Greenville festivals.

Meanwhile, President Obama, who has a quick tongue when any violent episode might be construed as white on black, remains silent.  And savage attacks by black youth against easy targets such as the aged and infirm will likely continue.

In such an instance, it should be asked, "Just who, for goodness sakes, are the racists?"  For almost 5 years, this nation has been subjected to race-baiting on a scale not seen in a half-century.  But, when the clouds of obfuscation and cover-up are lifted, the overwhelming evidence remains that whites are ever so much more likely to be attacked by blacks than vice versa.  But nary a word addressing this disproportionate rate of violence is heard from the White House.   Is this not another instance of presidential hypocrisy?

RIP - AD ASTRA:  Lawrence E. Thornton

Deo vindice!

God bless Texas, and may the Lone Star State be forever red!

ONCE AGAIN, IT'S THE FAULT OF THOSE DAMNED OLD REPUBLICANS!

JOHN B. AT THE LECTERN

JOHN B. WONDERS, "HAS THAT TRAIN WRECK PULLED INTO THE STATION?"

That cold-looking, bureaucrat, who last spring could not bring herself to assist in cutting red tape to make a lung-transplant possible for a 10-year-old dying Pennsylvania girl, just can't seem to accept responsibility for anything going on at the Department of Health and Human Services. Words amounting to "I'm sorry" or "Mea culpa"   have somehow not made it into Secretary Kathleen Sebelius's vocabulary.  

KATHLEEN "ICE QUEEN KATY" SEBELIUS

If making it clear to her interlocutors on Thursday that she really was not responsible to the American people didn't raise some eyebrows, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen "Ice Queen Katy" Sebelius took another dubious step in revealing her true self by denouncing Republican members of Congress as the culprits responsible for her department's failed Obamacare website.

Yes, Republicans may be blamed for attempting to point out that neither the website nor the entire support apparatus were ready to be rolled out on October 1, and that the better part of valor would have been to postpone the implementation of the legislation for a year.  Yes, Republicans questioned the fairness of the act and insisted that its provisions should apply to ALL Americans, across the board, and no slack should be cut for anyone, not members of Congress, labor unions, big business or the president's political cronies.  Despite the warnings, Katy Sebelius and her Obamiac colleagues insisted on steamrolling the opposition and plunging dead ahead into Obamacare infamy.  

THOSE PANTS DO APPEAR TO BE ON FIRE! 

And, yes, the long-predicted train wreck has begun.  If the website is ever up and running, Americans will come face to face with all the lies that were told in selling Obamacare.  No, the average family is not going to be saving $2,500 in annual health insurance costs. No, not everybody gets to keep their doctor.  No, not everybody will get to keep their original insurance.  And, yes, yes, yes, insurance costs are going to go up, up,up!

Doctrinaire socialists will do it every time.  The world is full of failed socialist systems.  One need only  look as far as Canada & Europe to see the folly of national health care. Ever wonder why Canadians who require immediate medical treatment flock to the U.S.? And Socialist systems of one color or another have only abject failure to show for their efforts throughout the Third World, wrecking economies and spreading misery.  

Thus, dear readers, do we allow to continue the socialist sacking and pillaging of America, a country which was once a beacon of hope to the world for freedom, self-responsibility and opportunity; or, will we unite and call a halt to the inept, incompetent and subversive elements that are now posing as this nation's leaders?  Real leaders lead from the front, not from the top. Authoritarians strut and preen as "leaders," but their leadership style merely consists of the imposing of impossible schemes on non-consenting populations.  It is time to draw the line.  This is America, and we must stand up for her!  Not only our own freedom, but the freedom of future generations is also at stake.

Deo vindice!

God bless Texas, and may the Lone Star State be forever red!

CALDERONI'S CORNER: More thoughts from Ben!

BEN CALDERONI

WILL AMERICANS ALLOW THESE GOALS TO BECOME REALITY?

  








During the 1960's, Congressman Albert Herlong of Florida read into the Congressional Record (App, pp. A 34-A 35, January 10, 1963) the stated goals of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).   In an effort to draw attention to certain ideas that are current on the political scene today and to, perhaps, encourage our readers to compare and contrast, I am listing below 17 of the goals, as they were cited by Congressman Herlong:

1. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

2. Develop the illusion that total disarmament {by} the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

3. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind.

4. Gain control of the schools and use them to promote socialist and Communist propaganda.

5. Infiltrate the press, obtain control of editorial writing.  Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures.

6. Continue discrediting American culture.

7. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and a free press.

8. Break down standards of morality in books, magazines,  motion pictures, radio and TV.

9. Present homosexuality, promiscuity , and degeneracy as "normal, natural, healthy."

10. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social religion."

11. Discredit the American Constitution {as} inadequate, old-fashioned out of step with modern needs.

12. Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

13. Belittle and discourage the teaching of American history.

14. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture, education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

15. Infiltrate and gain control of unions.

16. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

17. Discredit the family as an institution.

Herlong eventually left the Democratic Party, feeling that its steady drift to the left had led to its evolving into a socialist movement, destined to undermine America's traditions, freedoms and strength.

A cursory reading of  these goals, followed by a consideration of the objectives of the Obama administration, should be sufficient to send chill-bumps throughout one's body.  Let us not assume that this is mere coincidence!

Semper Fidelis!

God bless America!

JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN: COULD WE BE WITNESSING THE PREMATURE DEATH OF OBAMACARE?

SECRETARY SEBELIUS, AKA "ICE QUEEN KATY"
MUST ANSWER FOR MAJOR HHS FOUL-UP!

With some Democrats in Congress abandoning ship and dreadful prospects in store for the website, the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act seems destined for pipe -dream cemetery.  Certainly, if a like project had come off the drawing boards in such fashion in the private sector, there would be hell to pay.  But, with Obama's poorly thought out health plan, the government will probably continue to throw taxpayer money at a program and a website that were destined from the get-go for serious shortcomings.

In testimony before Congress, website developers criticized Health and Human Services planning and preparations, stating that testing of the site was an HHS responsibility.  Somehow, the testing never got done, and Obama's administration charged ahead full- bore, paying no heed to sentiment in the House of Representatives that  maintained that a delay in the act's roll-out was necessary.

NEW BANNER FOR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

The website developers, however,  have a checkered past and a reputation for dropping the ball in their undertakings in both Canada and the U.S.  In developing a health registry for the government of Ontario, there were so many delays that eventually C.G.I.'s work became obsolete, and the project was for naught.  More than 24 million Canadian dollars were spent with C.G.I. before it was determined that their work was inappropriate for the task at hand.

In Vermont, C.G.I. has had so many delays in performing work that the state government is considering invoking penalties against the company.  But the big question remains that, in taking bids for a key project, how could the federal government's bidding process end up with a contractor with a spotty record of non-performance?

 Nancy Pelosi , as Speaker of the House, stated more than three years ago that Congress needed to pass the act in order for us to know what was in it.  Well, we are getting more and more familiar with Obamacare, and it is turning out to be quite scary.  So, just in time for Halloween, perhaps special Congressional death panels need to be summoned to consider if Obamacare is worthy of life-saving treatment.

With a growing chorus of demands for the resignation of "Ice Queen Katy" Sebelius, the beleaguered HHS secretary has responded by stating unequivocally that she does not work for those calling for her to step down.  That leaves Two for Texas wondering just who our "public servants" are working for these days.  There was a time when they were thought to work for the American people.  But, when you are an lifetime inside- the-beltway elitist like Katy, her statement fits her experience.

To the Democratic manor born, Mrs. Sibelius had as her father Democratic Governor John Gilligan of Ohio.  She served as a lobbyist for the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association before being elected to the Kansas legislature.  Eventually, she won the governorship of Kansas, and that position propelled her to the heights of the Obama cabinet as secretary of the Health and Human Services Department.  Her husband, Gary, is a federal magistrate and the son of a former congressman.  In effect, Mrs. Sibelius and her family have had a long history of slopping at the public trough.  In meeting hard-fast deadlines in the private sector, this lady would probably be at a total loss.

With Americans becoming more and more concerned about "glitches," flaws and non-functioning Obamacare call-centers, the ill-conceived Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act may be rapidly spiraling toward collapsing under its own weight of ignorance and incompetence.  And, dear readers, such an eventuality cannot come too soon.  If there is a lesson to be learned from this fiasco, it would be that the big government types who imbibed the potent leftist libations served in such abundance in Ivy League settings are badly out of touch with reality, and, even worse, are all to prone to undertake government schemes not in keeping with the desires of the American people.

Deo vindice!

UNDAUNTED INCOMPETENCE AND IGNORANCE: HOW MUCH MORE CAN THIS POOR COUNTRY ENDURE?

FOR SHAME, FOR SHAME: A NEW LOW IN
LEFTIST NASTINESS!

The title of the late historian Stephen Ambrose's best seller was "Undaunted Courage."  Courage as a political virtue, seems to be more and more in short supply these days in the Obama White House. Instead, those who are calling the shots in the administration appear to be so consumed with their power-complexes that they are out of touch and unaware of their own ignorance and incompetence, which have led the country to a new low point of failure.

Barely three weeks ago, Obama sycophants in Congress, in an effort to deflect public attention from the many failures and shortcomings of Obamacare, were shrilly branding their opponents as "jihadists, arsonists and extortionists."  And this week, Democratic Representative Allen Grayson hit a new low in emailing (probably at taxpayer expense) a nasty diatribe featuring a burning cross in which the Tea Party and its supporters in Congress were likened to the Ku Klux Klan. Well, dear Representative Grayson, more than one can play that game, as the stench of Nazi race-baiting wafts very strongly from your recent transmission in cyberspace.

When public policy begins to cause disruption, eventually citizens take notice.  When legislation results in inconvenience, stress and strain, legislators will hear about it.  And what can the offending "public servants" do?  Why, of course, they can divert attention to extraneous matters.  There's always the old standby of this government - racism!  It seems to work almost every time.

With revelations of flawed planning and execution having to do with Obamacare surfacing by the hour, those who voted for and supported this incomprehensible law are seeking cover.  But, to Mr. & Mrs. America, who pay their taxes and consider themselves law-abiding, this law and the website which touts it are boondoggles of incompetence and ignorance.  If we can't expect our government, in 3 and 1/2 years to get a new program up and running, what, by golly, can we expect it to do in a professional and efficient manner?

Three weeks ago, Republicans in the House were suggesting that, considering its many problems, at the least Obamacare should be delayed for a year.  His Almighty Arrogance, the president of the United States, would not even consider negotiating the matter.  And, now, it appears that, out of desperation, the  Republican suggestion for delay will become the administration's fallback position for Obamacare.

On another front, owing to the Syrian morass and the infamous "red-line" of the Obama administration's strategy of supporting real jihadists and terrorists, the U.S. has lost power and prestige throughout the world.  Combined with ill-considered pro-Muslim Brotherhood policies and the subsequent fall of the Morsi government in Egypt, President Obama has presided over what is perhaps the most egregious foreign policy failure in the last half-century.  And then, of course, there is still Benghazi, smoldering with the taint of incompetence in the background.

Hard- to-
believe and shocking revelations continue to shake our traditional alliances.  Is it possible that the NSA could tap the communications of the presidents of France and Mexico, the prime minister of Germany, the royal family of Saudi Arabia, the monarch of Jordan  and the sheikhs of  the UAE and Kuwait?  But, wait a minute.  What is that shuffling sound?  It could, perhaps, be those who were thought to be our allies taking leave of their respect for the government that currently prevails in the United States of America!

Yes, dear readers, hard times are facing us, and all because of the reelection of the current occupant of the White House.  Are there still enough of us who value our American traditions of  strength, liberty and freedom, or have our numbers in our country been so swelled by the medicaiders, food-stampers and Obamaphoners, not to mention the legions of faux political refugees, that the electorate will now respond only to the prospect of more bread and circuses?  We can only pray that the recent travesties of incompetence characterizing the present administration will serve as a gigantic wake-up call.

Deo vindice!